Mean-spirited vandalism in Toronto
A friend at the Toronto Police Service put my attention to this particularly nasty business. At Bloor and Dufferin, there is a mural dedicated to the victims of gun violence in Toronto. Well, guess what? Vandals have already defaced it, tagging it with their signatures and symbols, including obliterating the portion of the painting that listed the names of the young people in this city who have been killed. Victims like Jane Creba who were utterly innocent bystanders. To these people, Jane was like this mural, just something that got in the way of whatever pointless thing they decided to do at that moment.
A can of spray paint or a gun -- the same attitude drives these people to ignore everyone around them, regardless of the pain and misery that their behaviours might cause. I don't know if that attitude is because of organic damage to the brain, or because of poor upbringing by parents who probably aren't much better examples of humanity, but the result sure seems like a form of mental retardation in people who are old enough to know better.
Heck, maybe it's the rap and hip-hop that dulls their wits to the point that they operate at a level only slightly better than famyard animals.
In any case, the perpetrators of this particular crime have sullied a neighbourhood and the memories of the victims to which the painting was dedicated. Watch the video, and if by some wild chance you recognize anything that could help police track down those responsible, call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), locally at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or leave information at www.222tips.com.
If you want to see what the mural looked like before it was obliterated, you can see photos and read the explanation of the panels at www.notogangs.org.
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Posted by: neo at June 28, 2007 02:32 PM
And the Lie-beral's are against mandatory minimum sentences, as are the rest of those suffering from Leftist Mental Disorder.
Posted by: Bruce Randall at June 28, 2007 03:30 PM
Did I hear that correctly--they want to catch who did this so they can help clean it up? Why wouldn't these creeps be in jail? Or do they have rights to do damage like this. They have shown that nothing is sacred to them. These people were murdered and now they have been desecrated again. But that doesn't matter--criminals have rights and our Injustice System will protect them to the end. Disgusting but true.
Posted by: George at June 28, 2007 03:41 PM
Makes you wonder at what point will the people of Toronto wake up and realize they need to elect people who are serious about cleaning up that place and putting an end to people living on the streets.
They could look to New York for an example.
Not much hope, the Lefties are well entrenched.
Next time someone gets shot, Miller will be howling for gun registration, or some other airy fairy idea that has no bearing on the problem.
Posted by: Libby at June 28, 2007 03:54 PM
Socialists at City Hall recently passed a by-law requiring business owners to clean up grafitti on their property or be heavily fined for letting their neighbourhood go to pot.
By-law enforcement officers should be cracking down on whoever owns this mural property. If fines don't work on these law abiding citizens, surely Mayor Miller can threaten them with jail.
Posted by: philanthropist at June 28, 2007 04:20 PM
Che guevera on a mural for victims of gun violence? Defacement is wrong, but C'mon.
Posted by: Fergy at June 28, 2007 05:02 PM
This microcosym only reminds me the "painting over" of all the Dudley Georges in Qannaddian History.
Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at June 29, 2007 05:41 AM
I think you are projecting too much into this and credit the vandals too much forethought. Seems more like ignorant indifference to me--just another canvas to them.
Posted by: murray at June 29, 2007 07:26 AM
A few weeks back, some people in my church went into the neighbourhood to help clean up some of the graffiti tags infecting Ottawa's downtown.
While in the process, one group was approached by a graffiti "artist" who wanted to know why they were destroying something so "beautiful." The answer, of course, is that apart from the "artists" themselves, people regard tags as an eyesore, and nobody really thinks these jerks should have the right to use the world as a personal scratch pad for their illegible scribbling.
Posted by: Scott McClare at June 29, 2007 07:01 PM
Hey Feldwebel,
Here's an easy and interesting experiment for you:
Bring up a Google search page. Type in "Dudley George" and hit 'search'.
I just did, and got 67,700 entries.
Now type in "Marcel Lemay".
I got 1,890 hits for him.
Don't know who he is ? Don't feel bad -not too many people do.
He's the Quebec cop who was shot to death -by Indians- at Oka. We don't hear his name much (I had to dig to even find his name). But I'd be willing to bet he's every bit as dead as Mr. George.
Whaddaya figure there Mr. Feldwebel -does his family somehow grieve less than Mr. George's does ?
You see, we're going to hear all about Dudley George for the next hundred years. And pay for it.
Do you think we'll hear much about Corporal Lemay ?
Oh, by the way, of the first 10 entries on the "Marcel Lemay" page -only half of them were about the dead QPP officer. The rest were various American businessmen.
All 10 "Dudley George" entries were about the man shot by a "police sniper" (who was armed with a submachinegun -not a scoped rifle). Bah -just semantics, right ? I mean it's not like people watch movies and think of snipers as predatory people staring through rifle scopes at their quarry. Waiting for the kill. You know, as opposed to a man hiding in a bush in semi-darkness with a short-range weapon and bugger-all for information about who or what was in front of him. But all the media reports claim he was a sniper.
Semantics, I know...
Gotta hate that white-washing of Indian deaths in Canada though, eh ?
Posted by: up north at June 30, 2007 12:41 PM
...why do I get this insatiable feeling to take a shower each time I read about what is happening in Toronto?
Posted by: tomax7 at July 3, 2007 10:30 PM
 
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