The Aftermath

This is what people are saying about the Vancouver Riots almost a week later.  I found some of these statements by regular people very very profound:

"Let's not forget the culpability of the city govn't of Mayor Gregor Robertson in all of this.

It takes minimal common sense to recognize that putting up multiple massive tv screens at free venues, and then inviting tens of thousands of people into the downtown core, with NO ATTENDANCE RESTRICTIONS and little control, is a recipe for disaster...especially for the last game of the Stanley Cup series. In Vancouver. And given our experience in 1994.

And then Chief Constable Chu says he was "surprised" at the riots, and that they "didn't expect" it to happen. WHAT?! If that's not an admission of incompetence, I don't know what is...

And, stop with this fiction of the small group of anarchists and criminals being responsible for the riot. Does Mayor Robertson and Chief Chu really think that the thousands of rioters in Canucks jerseys were "anarchists" in disguise? Clearly, ordinary Canucks fans, mainly kids from the suburbs, were the majority of rioters" - MacStephens from CBC.ca

"Thought experiment:

If someone went to the Kotylak home to break all of the windows, trash the place, steal everything of value and torch the family car... would the good surgeon and his son accept a "public apology" and let the entire matter slide?

I suspect not." - BC2011 from CBC.ca

"I chuckle at all the hand-wringers protesting that this riot doesn't represent the "real" Vancouver. Sure it does. The riot was the symptom, not the disease.

Let's face it, everyone in town knew a riot was likely to happen, win or lose. A general attitude of permissiveness - and our Mayor's refusal to anticipate reality - allowed this to happen. And it'll happen again.

But at least we have chicken coops in our backyards, and are willing to shut down half of a busy, downtown bridge to allow a few cyclists some elbow room. Progress!

There's some good analogies in there, somewhere." - BC2011 from CBC.ca

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After reading multiple stories on CBC.ca today, I've realized that normal hardworking Canadian folks who live in BC want justice from these riots.  We are tired of the abuse of the political system by idealists and the far left in Vancouver we are tired of the focus on the trivial in this city and we are tired of treating our city that it is somehow a utopia, "different" from all other cities in the world.  These riots proved that Vancouver is not different.  Vancouver is worse.  In Boston the riot police was prepared and game 7 wasn't even held there. 

Love,

Marty

@martyzylstra