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- From: sbo@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Stephane Boucher)
- Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
- Subject: Re: FLQ (was Re: French/English status after independence)
- Message-ID: <SBO.92Jul29142426@froh.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 19:24:26 GMT
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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- In-Reply-To: peterd@cc.mcgill.ca's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:25:26 GMT
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- >>>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:25:26 GMT, peterd@cc.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) said:
- > Nntp-Posting-Host: expresso.cc.mcgill.ca
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- > There were also at least a few people injured by those
- > bombs that we have also forgotten. I remember a column in
- > the Gazette a while back (by Nick auf de Mar) in which he
- > talked about one bomb squad member who was so badly
- > injured that he is still in a chronic care hospital today.
-
- > We should also remember that when bombs were going off no
- > one had any idea how many people were behind the violence.
- > I would venture to say that even today there are few
- > separatists who would be willing to break windows or
- > spraypaint English signs. Still, it is also true that it
- > is probably unsafe for a merchant in many areas of
- > Montreal to willingly violate the sign laws and not expect
- > violence in the form of graffiti or broken windows.
-
- Note also that, for example, a small company making weird
- T-Shirt got their windows smashed. They where displaying a
- shirt with "Quebec's sovereign money where the head of the
- qUEEN was replaced by something else (I don't remember
- what)".
-
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- Stephane Boucher, ing. jr. | Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
- sbo@vlsi.polymtl.ca | Tel: (514)340-5950
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