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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Alright, well lets see - would there have been as much outrage on this board from the Greenpeace 'hippies' who hung the poster from the Calgary tower last year if instead it was an oil industry fan club and their poster said "Hurray for Oil"?
I'm going to think probably not, outside of the expected watered-down responses of the dangers inherit in such a stunt.
10 years on CP has shown me that if there is an unpopular message in a public stunt, the vitriol flows thicker than water. Just sayin'.
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I brought up that exact same thoughts at the time we were posting about the tower protest.
Most of the responses were concerns that this jepordizes the safety of the people who had to get them down. I do think that is a fair arguement and I agree.
But I can only think that forcefully removing the Occupy Calgary group would also increase the risk of personal safety. I would think that if you are concerned about the risk at the tower shouldn't concern be equal at Occupy Calgary.