Let me be specific: When I say my support for him, I mean with the whole occupy thing in Olympic park. He's been the loudest voice against what is going on down there.
I only recently found him on Twitter, and agreed with a lot of what he had to say about what was going on there.
2) Cory proved today these things can be resolved through discussion and without violence. He may have even shown that those who break bylaws should be dealt with quickly rather than letting things fester over time.
Not sure what you mean by this. Was Cory prepared to resort to violence and mow people down with his truck if the by-law officers and Calgary police approached him in a different way?
I think all he did was further the notion that the Occupy Calgary protesters are a special case. He was going to be treated differently because his situation is different.
I think his 'counter protest' was lame. Tomorrow, I'm going to get up and still remember / think about the Occupy movements more than some dude illegally parking his truck to prove a point. To me, this is equivalent to a streaker just trying to get attention running naked on the field for his 15 minutes of fame. I don't agree with the Occupy Calgary thing either, but this stunt was even lamer.
There is some Occupy Palm Beach County thing going on here, with people camping out in the Esplanade in Palm Beach, which is quite the ritzy camping spot.
Why don't these people do something, like pick up trash off the side of the road or something. A hundred people wandering around with garbage bags would probably make a better statement, at least around here.
I can't believe all the bottles and other crap all over the place. I hope Canadians aren't the big slobs we are.
That's the thing - almost anyone who cares or is paying attention wants the protesters gone. This absolutely includes the Mayor, Council, and The City. The Sun and several political opponents have tried to paint the Mayor as somehow being aligned with the protesters ignoring that the Mayor has been extremely critical not only of the protesters tactics, but messages as well. He's stated repeatedly he wants them gone.
Oops, did you contradict yourself?
As soon as you quoted the Sun I was going to jump on you, but you seem to disagree with it. So is the mayor right in his position? He is in a tough place. (which by the way, is the whole point of a protest)
(Copy and pasted from the 'don't give up thread'. Yes, this is me.)
I feel very bad for what you have gone though.
I could use some of this good mojo.
I am a 32 year old male.
I have had 3 heart attacks and 2 strokes in my life. I guess they call them mini strokes when you catch them early enough to prevent permanent damage, but all the same. 3 separate conditions I was born with. Not lifestyle.
I graduated top of my high school, I had a bright future. I was a hard worker considering I had surgery since the time I was 5 with no anesthetic. They couldn't risk stopping my heart. I know what pain is. And by that, I know how to put in a hard days work. My body just doesn't work they way a healthy persons would.
I had my first mini stroke at 16, I had my first full on heart attack at 20.
Because I can walk, because I refuse not to stay lying down, I have been called healthy enough not to qualify for benefits, yet I'm too sick to get hired by many places now.
I look at Occupy Wall Street, I look at Occupy Calgary, and I say, yeah I get that.
There are people that truly want to. But simply cannot.
We are not lazy. We are not stupid. In fact, the sheer fact of being here makes us more hard working than most of you.
I love it. Hey, let your 250 idle for a while longer, soaking up prescious fuels and lifestyle which is exactly the point of the protest.
You really need (250) that for the city. Which if your parking downtown I'm assumming you live.
Love it! LOVE IT!!!
Didn't see any work decals on that truck. Go back to your cushy home buddy. Let the real protest happen.
Funny... a lot of people have been saying the exact same thing about the Occupy Calgary group, unfocused, incoherent... "not real".
Agree with him or not, and question his motivation, but he was protesting an inequality he saw, it just happened to be an inequality with our laws VS economics.
The irony here is that it took Cory Morgan just a couple hours on a Sunday to accomplish more than the Olympic Plaza people have in what? four weeks now?
-He had a message
-He had a plan to deliver the message
-He now has both major papers, the TV news and several radio stations talking about his message.
I think the counter protest was no less silly than the Olympic Plaza crowd has been, but like it or not, one man trumped your precious "movement" in a single afternoon.
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The irony here is that it took Cory Morgan just a couple hours on a Sunday to accomplish more than the Olympic Plaza people have in what? four weeks now?
-He had a message
-He had a plan to deliver the message
-He now has both major papers, the TV news and several radio stations talking about his message.
I think the counter protest was no less silly than the Olympic Plaza crowd has been, but like it or not, one man trumped your precious "movement" in a single afternoon.
Public stunts typically get that kind of attention, although I think to most the fact that he was issued a ticket and got his truck towed was more memorable than any message he had. This is, IMO, comparable to Greenpeace's stunt last year for public stupidity. No one remembers their message as much as their scaling of the Calgary tower.
Public stunts typically get that kind of attention, although I think to most the fact that he was issued a ticket and got his truck towed was more memorable than any message he had. This is, IMO, comparable to Greenpeace's stunt last year for public stupidity. No one remembers their message as much as their scaling of the Calgary tower.
The newspaper articles and what they were saying on the radio suggests you are wrong. Naturally, people are talking about the stunt itself, but the double standard at city hall has been front and centre.
Plus, it does highlight why the Olympic Plaza crowd is taking such a beating in public perception. Cory Morgan might have been an idiot with a message, but at least he had a message. The Olympic Plaza group remain nothing more than a small crowd of squatters protesting... stuff. They are the equivalent to Greenpeace scaling the Calgary Tower only to realize the forgot to make a banner. Their numbers aren't growing, and neither is their support. As a protest movement, the Olympic Plaza crowd is a complete and utter fail.
At some time in the future, someone will ask "hey, remember in 2011 when those idiots pulled that camping stunt at Olympic Plaza? What were they about, anyway?" And the response will be "damned if I know."
And he's been towed, while I agree with the message behind his actions "The bylaws need to be enforced on everybody equally" I think he failed on the optics of it by using his pick up truck & silly signs. Unfortunately he'll get dismissed as a loud mouth truck lovin red neck.
The guy is a member of the Seprate Alberta movement. He is a loud mouth truck loving red neck.
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