The small town of Montbello will be a war zone during the next three days.
By the ignorance of Stephen Harper and George Bush? All hell will breal loose in Quebec.
I pray that I'm wrong on this one but I predict at least one death!!!!
Go to blog search and write protest in Quebec. Bloggers will tell the rest of the world the going ons in the small town of Montebello.
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Small town braces for protest (Canada-US-Mexico summit)
Sun Media ^ | 2007-08-19 | Alan Findlay
Posted on 08/19/2007 6:02:08 AM PDT by Clive
Small town braces for protest
Montebello businesses make plans to weather storm of demonstrations
By ALAN FINDLAY, NATIONAL BUREAU
MONTEBELLO, QUE. -- This small, southwestern Quebec village of 1,110 people is bracing itself for a storm of police, protesters and television cameras for the next three days.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon will be huddling behind the fenced-in Chateau Montebello tomorrow and Tuesday for an annual summit that has drawn the ire of protesters across the continent.
Across Notre Dame St. from the meeting, merchants and residents are prepared for the worst as police and demonstrators pour into town.
Dominique Joly plans to close up his hunting and fishing shop for a few days, but he'll be sleeping inside with a gas mask and bulletproof vest nearby in case some protests turn violent.
"For a few days, the world stops when Mr. Bush is around," said Joly, with a shrug of the shoulders. "This is my life, I put my life into it."
He's already stinging from the cost of protesters slapping up anti-summit stickers along the street, including one on his new, $1,500 La Cabane a Jo sign.
Other shopkeepers are following suit by closing up shop, while several are taking a wait-and-see approach.
Boutique owner Estelle Lavoie is one of them. Truth be told, Lavoie said, she's sympathetic to the issues of the people arriving by the busload to denounce the North American Leaders' Summit as an undemocratic, closed-door meeting.
"It's not what's happening in the village that bothers me," said Lavoie. "It's what's on the other side of the fence that bothers me."
Guy St. Jean will have a front-row seat to all the action. His home's front step overlooks the Chateau Montebello's front gates and his chair is already in place.
"I'll be watching," he said.
Looking at the upside of the brewing excitement, St. Jean hopes the media attention will boost the village's tourism.
"It's free publicity for the town."
I predict as usual real protesters will effectively have their voices silenced by the rock throwing masked "activists". This glorious crowd of clowns hide their faces and destroy other peoples property then spend the next several months patting themselves on the back and reminiscing about the great job they did defending the poor and the needy. Sadly the very people their half baked antics hurt the most.
I predict that sooner or later all protesters will resort to rocks. Because they will realize that their protests are meaningless and a joke: Harper made a snide remark about the protests earlier today: "Only a few hundred [people]?, that's sad".
Protesters need to recognize the ongoing battle that they are in. This is not a battle over kindness, it is a ruthless war -- they have guns, we have rocks and bananas.
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"By the ignorance of Stephen Harper and George Bush? All hell will breal loose in Quebec" There is no ignorance here,they know exactly what there doing and want violence and all hell to break loose and if there is not enough they will plant some to cause a reaction! These people have an agenda and its us! They want our property,freedom,labour,minds and especially our very souls, and will try anything to get this including creating the terror and fear that grips the world!!
Do you believe your own crap?
The protestors need to do everyone a favour and get a job and give something back.
Anon 1:03 Do You believe your Crap,you got a short memory or are not very old? Remember how Free Trade was gonna be a big benefit to Canada?? Wheres all our factorys gone eh? Get a job Ya right and support a family at slave wages! They want to lower Canada and the US to one big sweat shop to keep up with 3rd world !Free trade made a sucking sound which was all those great Canadian jobs and the machinery to make and produce things of value that then went to the US then on to Mexico! Our Goverment is supposed to protect the country not sell it to the highest bidder along with its resources,But these People in Power dont represent the people of Canada they represent the big Corporations and Our Lives dont matter JUST PROFITS! Ya Stupid Fool,Put your head back in its hole in the ground!
If ever there was a reason to incite rock throwing it's that snide remark from the PM. Surely calling those poor folk and their actions "sad" will come back to haunt him. Well that is if any protesters had bothered to show up today. I guess it must have been a heck of a good party last night. It seems they all slept in and missed it. Or maybe they just didn't get that media coverage they so often desire. You have to really screw things up big time to make even Harper look good.
Theres a 18 km security perimeter around the conference,very few are getting in for pictures or news!Talk about freedom,its one clue that something sinister is going on when it has to be done behind a cordoned off area of Canada so King George wont see the protesters!
Almost reminds you of Chretien with the pepper spray except they are stopping the voice of the people completley!
Fencing doesn't mean you can't still protest, nor does it mean your being silenced. Maybe it's just that in the case of some what they have to say just isn't all that important. What an absurd idea that a fence is some kind of proof of a sinister plot. It is there for a reason and it has more to do with crazies out side of the fence than sinister politicians on the inside. On the subject of Charles and his original posting....not much of a war zone and it seems no deaths...best stay out of the prediction business Charles, it isn't as easy as it looks.
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