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I'm surprised how much effort they put into the whole thing. Seems like it was a pretty elaborate LARP event.
I've heard of fundraisers where members of the community are "arrested" and taken to actual jail by actual police until a certain amount of dollars are raised in that person's name. This sounds a lot like that, just scaled up.
My dad's stepbrother participated in one once. We knew ahead of time what was going on, so when he called to say he was "in jail" and needed help, my dad told him that he hoped my step-uncle would rot in jail and hung up. (He then called the official donation line and donated in his stepbrother's name.)
If you are bored there's a similar article about the October Crisis when the military got involved in Quebec. It was the first time the War Measures Act was used during peace time.
I remember watching news of when they found Pierre LaPorte dead.
That was a crazy time.
That was an interesting read thanks
I remember doing an essay in highschool and decided to do it on the FLQ crisis
i'm really SOREy but the most Canadian thing about it is the toast injury
I wish it would have worked better to rout out future neo-nazis from Manitoba.
we just don't get together enough to do crazy ass shit like this.. think of all the committees they needed, and all the catering those committees needed and so on.. what a damn adventure that whole thing must have been..
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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