This quote was taken from Reddit Canada..and before anyone complains that the CBC is biased...yes they are.. they bend over backwards to support the left wing in Canada.
The Occupy Canada movement is embarrassing to watch. (
self.canada)
submitted 10 hours ago by
Ciserus
When I listened to the early coverage of these protests that painted them as directionless and without a cause, I held out for the possibility that the news organizations were cherry-picking their quotes ("Oh, I dunno, I'm protesting the issues. You know, general issues.") and mischaracterizing the movement, as the US media has done. That hope is now fading.
On CBC radio this morning, one of the Occupy Regina protesters was given an unedited five-minute phone interview: a perfect chance to clear everything up. It was absolutely cringeworthy. He was fine until they got to the question of
why he was protesting.
"Um..." (incredibly awkward five-second pause) "I don't really know."
She pressed him further. Surely there must be
some reason he's camping out in a tent for days in freezing October weather.
"Um, well..." (pause) "A lot of my friends are out here."
I'm someone with no involvement in the cause, and even I could probably come up with a five-minute off-the-cuff rant about regulatory capture, the incestuous trickle of high-ranking officials between regulatory organizations and corporations, US corporate control over Canadian policy, and other issues that fit at least vaguely into their "anti-corporate greed" mandate.
I don't know if any legitimate issues are being discredited by this embarrassing display, because they haven't really
associated themselves with any issues. But I feel like the effectiveness of protest itself is diminished when it's overrun with these phonies who attach themselves simply because they find the lifestyle appealing.
As bad as that is, they
certainly ought to be making sure that the people talking to the media have some idea of what the hell they believe in.
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