This
blog, in support of him asks; "Should Rosa Parks have obeyed the law and given her seat to the white man? Should those who hid Anne Frank and her family have turned them in to the Nazis?"
Anne Frank? Anne Frank? Anne Frank? This is serious delusion on these people's part.
Airport rally crosses line between lawful protest and mob rule
The Province
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Protesters who blocked the deportation of failed refugee claimant Labair Singh from Vancouver on Monday claimed "a big victory for all of us."
Who is it, we wonder, that they have in mind?
Not the general public, that's for sure.
The estimated 1,500 demonstrators succeeded in seriously inconveniencing travellers at the international airport. No victory there. But there are broader issues.
Mob rule is anathema to Canadian society. Yet that is essentially the tactic that was used to subvert the course of justice.
A placard-waving throng was allowed to form a barricade blocking the progress of the taxi in which Singh was riding.
Protesters were seen leaping on to the vehicle itself.
Perhaps the strategy of the Canadian Border Services Agency should be questioned. Surely, the relevant officials could have anticipated such scenes and organized themselves differently.
We have said before, and repeat now, that a case can be made on humanitarian grounds for the wheelchair-confined Singh to stay in Canada.
The B.C. Sikh community has pledged to provide the resources for his future care. But whatever the perceived rights and wrongs of the decision to send Singh home, the law must prevail.
Singh's supporters threaten that any further attempt to deport him will result in an even larger demo. This, in a free society, is their right.
But, there is huge difference between peaceful protest and open defiance of society's rules.
© The Vancouver Province 2007