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CBC News - British Columbia - Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group
I'm mostly posting this to show the people of the U.S. the bullet they dodged when Chicago didn't get the Olympics. Everywhere the Olympics go, tyranny follows. The Vancouver municipal government will basically be instituting martial law during the events, and laws like the above are being signed into effect without the consent of third party rights groups.
The rich elites behind the Olympics have more sway over government than even the Constitutions of countries. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being willfully ignored while anti-free speech laws are signed into temporary effect for the games.
Supreme Court challenges have been made but who knows if they'll have any effect.
CBC said:A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice, civil libertarians say.
Violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Friday.
The proposed law was introduced Thursday as a bill to amend the Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act.
The government said in a statement that the changes will "provide the municipalities of Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler with temporary enforcement powers to enable them to swiftly remove illegal signs and graffiti during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games."
I'm mostly posting this to show the people of the U.S. the bullet they dodged when Chicago didn't get the Olympics. Everywhere the Olympics go, tyranny follows. The Vancouver municipal government will basically be instituting martial law during the events, and laws like the above are being signed into effect without the consent of third party rights groups.
The rich elites behind the Olympics have more sway over government than even the Constitutions of countries. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being willfully ignored while anti-free speech laws are signed into temporary effect for the games.
Supreme Court challenges have been made but who knows if they'll have any effect.