I'm sorry, but shoving a pie in someone's face is political protest, not terrorism.
I personally think that PETA is ridiculous, over the top, and annoying. But they do not constitute a terrorist organization in any meaningful sense of the world. Liberal MP Gerry Byrne needs to get his perspective back.
Our politicians have gotten far too thin-skinned of late. "Pieing" Premier Klein resulted in criminal charges a few years ago, and now we want to label a protest group "terrorist" for organizing a similar attack on a minister of the crown? Give me a break.
Let's quit taking ourselves so seriously, Mr. Byrne. We have enough problems with government politicians attempting to undermine our democracy and the valid political expression of the people - this is hardly the time for us to be getting all uppity about an over the top protest organization that is guilty of poor taste more than anything else.
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What if the pie was laced with cyannide? Maybe it's not terrorism, but it's blatent assault and people who do it should be sent to jail. Period.
I'm not sure I agree entirely with you here.
(1) Hypothetical: If the pie was laced with cyanide?
- That would be an aggravating factor in the charges and might move it from simple assault to aggravated assault. However, that is not the case here, and is at best a 'what if' that I don't think bears a lot of weight.
(2) "It's blatent [sic] assault and people who do it should be sent to jail"
Really? I hate to point this out, but assaults rarely result in jail time. They rarely result in anything more than a modest fine, actually. We already have a double standard in law bubbling around in this country because assaulting a politician has tended to result in jail time, where it would result in a simple fine in other circumstances - I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea that our politicians are deserving of a "higher standard" of justice simply because of their occupation.
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