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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Well . . . . among that small group of people at the barricade relative to the overall population of 13,000 tensions are high.
The High River people I've talked to over the last few days are chilling pretty easy, making plans for renting or buying trailers as temporary shelters, setting up quarters elsewhere, setting up alternative business arrangements. They'd like to see what happened, of course, but they're not harassing cops at barricades.
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I suspect the majority of people you've talked to weren't aware that the RCMP were seizing personal property while they were ostensibly searching houses for *people* to rescue. If it were the
right thing to do, would they have been attempting to keep it quiet, or would they have been bragging about it? "Saving lives! Saving pets! Keeping your guns safe!" The RCs didn't pull out a *spike belt*, either, until just today. Another sign that they don't see us, the unwashed masses, as people to be helped, but rather as a "problem" to be managed. (Or a problem to be
avoided, in the case of the people who refused to leave town).
100 people angry enough to make the trip from their shelters to the barricades is a pretty big number. For every one of them, there are probably many others who have chosen to contain their anger, for whatever reason. But every container has a limit.
Let me just say that if tomorrow's re-entry plan announcement doesn't happen as promised, or contains timelines any longer than "Sunday" for the start of re-entry in some form or another, I think we're going to start seeing violence and arrests at the barricades within 24 hours.
Just my opinion, of course.