"Protesters also threw marbles at the feet of horses used by the Vancouver police mounted squad."
This is a lie. I was there when the marbles were released, at one of the intersections on Cook Street where we stopped for ten minutes or thereabouts. My friend and I commented on what a stupid thing that is, dropping marbles onto the street so that the horses, already enslaved and wishing they were in a warm barn somewhere, might slip on them. Others nearby expressed similar comments. We were at the back of the crowd, where I stayed for most of the route, and there were several police officers within earshot. It was clear that the officers were made aware of the marbles. The horses passed without incident.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the marbles were released by agents provocateurs, who have been proven (and those from Montebello may actually go to jail for inciting violence) to be planted into crowds for the purposes of disrupting otherwise peaceful acts of civil disobedience.
You may not agree with our message, Sandra McCulloch and Katie Derosa, and you're entitled to your own opinion. But please stop fabricating stories lest you wish to be charged with defamation of character. You'd be more credible journalists if you were to bust the provocateurs, as Paul Manley did during the Security and Prosperity Partnership protests in Quebec. At the very least, quit attempting to discredit us with stories that are simply untrue.
The Original Corporate Media Story
The Comments (they didn't print mine)
a note on the comments page says the marbles fell out of someone's pocket. who knows .... they were blue marbles, very new. i should have kept one. they were definitely not something an impoverished street urchin would normally carry. i'm very suspicious ....
and I also heard that the nothing's-new-around-here CHEK 6 showed the horses, and a hand full of marbles, and fabricated the same story. it just doesn't get much slimier than that. pass it on. tell the story at the christmas or hannukah table. whoever it was with the marbles, the corporate media are fucking lying.
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