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I recently read of another example of this in the grauniad as well. Apparently the Duchy of Cornwall is incorporated as a private estate and it has a constitutional right to veto any act of Cabinet which might damage its interests.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...hy-of-cornwall

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What makes frogs so special, any different from boiled rabbits or escargot?

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It's a figure of speach innit.

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Mayor ford is telling the occupy folks to take a LEAF from the Ottawa folks book, and move on

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The Occupy Vancouver protest decided to camp out in an Eastide park so they could engage with the 99%.

The 99% told them to **** off.

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As Occupy Vancouver is mostly homeless people from the DTES they could just go back and occupy some back alleys or shop door ways. Nobody would take out an injunction then as long as they stayed out of sight like all decent homeless people should.

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Quite.

Anyway, things are moving on. Google "Occupy Christmas" for next month's fun and games.

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I don't disagree that there is plenty to protest about. Just that I don't see how depriving kids from a relatively poor area the use of their local park sticks it to corporate elite.

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It doesn't. It's not meant to. Leaving aside the fact that anything that happens in Canada is irrelevant, I've posted earlier what I think to be the most useful operational description of the "movement" at this stage.

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I don't think occupy vancouver was achieving anything. It's just that most of these people are living on the streets anyway and so have nothing to lose by doing that very thing somewhere other than the DTES for a change.

A couple of days I saw back to back news stories, one was about there not being enough overnight places for homeless people this winter and the very next one about how the occupiers were being booted out. No dots were joined.

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Ditto Occupy Toronto. Someone on the radio this morning had chained himself to some railings in the park and thrown away the key and when asked what he would do when the police came with bolt croppers to free him (aka evict) he said that "he was not afraid of police brutality and aggression". Umm, how the **** else are you going to leave so that you can hunt/gather some more lentils to feed yourself, I did wonder?

Apart from the fact that it would be nice for locals to have their park back for Xmas, I did think that the city should leave these goons chained to the fence in the park until it becomes 20 below. Then I suspect the keys will be found.

Witness, protest, whatever the hell you want to call it this fizzled out some time ago. It takes a lot to make Bob Ford look virtuous but this movement is getting there.

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The real challenge for any movement seeking to change the financial & political landscape is to present their case to the mainstream without attracting and being overrun by the usual rent-a-crusty crowd.

I have real sympathy with some of their aims, but I'm afraid that if your spokesman has matted hair and a lip-ring, then, sorry, but "I'm out".

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Talk about verbal diarrhea.....judging people by their looks eh, am sure you are adonis or even better Michael Angelo's David

Wicked

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Until they organise themselves and present a creditable list of proposals the majority of us 99% will not take them seriously. And yes many people do not take to a poorly presented person as a spokesperson.

The occupy movement was a complete failure and perhaps some of those protesters will get a life and hopefully a job and start contributing to society.

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Many people.....love how you took it upon yourself to speak for all eh

You do realize this forum is not a representation of the Canadian society in general?