The olympics are violent, capitalism is violent!

since the CBC has moderated my comment regarding their poor coverage of the Heart Attack 2010 demonstration at the 2010 anti-olympics convergence, and restricted this free speech from the website that the public purse pays for, i decided i would post my comments anyway, and take the opportunity to expand on the ideas.

smashing inanimate objects, such as windows is not violent. no person or other living thing was harmed or killed. the destruction of communities, lives, and ecosystems in the name of a transnational corporate 'sporting' event is violent.

canada's war in the indigenous regions in the Pashtun area of Afghanistan and Pakistan is violent.

destroying ancient trees and habitats of grizzly bears and eagles, that predate white man's arrival on turtle island for a nordic centre that will be soon be obsolete due to climate change caused by our industrial system is violent.

the hudson bay company (HBC) and our british crown is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. that is violent, shit, that was attempted genocide.

police clubbing unarmed demonstrators is violent, and as i have come to understand it, quite painful. bringing in their guns to our communities to intimidate us into submission is violent.

the 'criminal' elements claimed by the CBC's piece of poorly written, sensationalistic journalism, are students, workers, doctors, lawyers, migrants, street folk, unionists, and indigenous peoples. if these small acts of property destruction are to be criminal, then what will we do with those killing thousands of civilians in overseas wars (especially the men who sent them there to kill, or those who profit of of the killing); or those canadians responsible for murdering activists who oppose socially and ecologically devastating mining in south america; or the CEO's of RBC, Petro-Canada, or any other corporation that is toxifying the lands and waters of the indigenous downstream of the tar sands?

what do we do to VANOC and the IOC and the Kiewit construction company for the death of Harriette Nahanee?

if we are to come to a peaceful world, it will be through the disruption of the narrative that the major power holders propagate on us everyday. by taking action directly against these corporations they will come to know that it is not in their best interests to continue on in a "business as usual" manner. while this will for now continue to elicit violent police response and the further imposition of the police state, we will overcome, unite and overthrow the destructive system that has proven itself to be unsustainable... or we will perish in our apathy.

people over profits, green over greed, community over corporations!