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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
How is the occupy movement a special case in Calgary? I don't care about the ones in the States. And how can you say its at all fair that your enforcing bylaws to one protest and not another?
Are you saying that pickup trucks protests are less relevant then the irrelevant Occupy Calgary protest?
I don't care one way or the other, I feel like a point of debate, and I've always wanted to steal Devil Advocates user name.
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The City picks and chooses which bylaws to enforce all day long. Call them right now and tell them you spotted a cat on your property and see if they come. Or tell them your neighbour's dog won't stop barking and let us know if they send one officer or two.
Part of effectively enforcing bylaws is to pick and choose which ones are important to enforce. Barking dogs piss me off to no end but I can appreciate why they wouldn't send an officer if I called. I can also see it would unnecessarily open a can of worms to forcibly remove the occupy people that really aren't in anybody's way and will be gone soon enough. Then you have police, legal fees, maybe a riot, injuries, etc. What a risky, potentially expensive move that would be.
If the First Ladies and Corys of the world would just ignore this, it would go away. But of course they're not interested in making it go away...