Angry in the Great White North

You know that story about the police provocateurs trying to stir up trouble in Montebellow, Quebec, by encouraging protesters to act in a less-than-peaceful manner?

Apparently the proof that these guys were police was in that they were in good shape.

You see, according to Elizabeth May, the average tofu-chewing organic-fruit-munching Green/Anarchist protester is a blobby jiggly couch potato:

In case you missed it, here is the Youtube link showing the confrontation at Montebello between Union organizer Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, and three members of some security force (RCMP? Surete du Quebec?) disguised as protesters.

There is no real room for doubt here. The three are burly, well built guys (the protest crowd usually tends to the young and scrawny or over-weight and middle aged… not a lot of “pumping iron” folks in the anti-globalization movement.)

Oh right, I forgot the scrawny ones.

If I was a member of the Green Party, I might be offended by that statement. OK, not me, since I am a few pounds over my ideal weight. A very few pounds.

But really. Greens can't be healthy? I thought the whole point of the lifestyle enjoyed by the Greens and their fellow travellers in the progressive movement was healthy planet and healthy people. Scrawny? Over-weight? What's the point of that? I can be overweight and not bother with all the protests and such.

No wonder the the Greens can't break through in the polls. Who would want to belong to that party? I mean, a party whose leader figures if you're a member, you must be sickly and unattractive.

What Elizabeth May needs to do is inspire her troops to show that living Green means you can be ripped!

Watch out, Peter Mackay!!

Until that day arrives though, be careful. If you are one that rare breed -- the Green/socialist/anarchist/protestor who takes care of himself -- you'll be looked on with suspicion. Your friends probably think you're a cop or something.