The Stealing of a Flag....

The Stealing of a Flag....

Whilst not a major crime on the usual scale of things, depending on the flag, its location and the symbolism of such a gesture.

Last week the media, practically fell over itself with a focused attention on the corner of Cambie and 12th; for once not exactly at city hall over a faux pas, but at the theft of the Olympic flag.

Later in the week a group of native youths declared they had stolen the flag in the name of Harriet Nahanee. The media attention was not as hot to that story, as it was so for Harriet's death a few weeks back.

The audacity and bare faced cheek of stealing such a prominent symbol of the Olympic flag captured the attention. No Quake 3 puns intended, but capturing the flag could be a new olympic sport.

Now there will be more security - on the same day the Globe and Mail announced the 2010 Olympics will be the largest "security sic military" operation in Canadian history. Not since the NDP debacle at Gustafsen Lake will we have tanks, anti aircraft guns, even more helecopters [why does a helecopter fly over my house every night between 11 and 11.30pm anyway], military personnel, foreign advisors, FBI, CIA, MI5. Don't these people know we are home to some of the most savage and aggressive great grannies in the world ? The heightened security at Betty's sentencing on 5th was a shape of things to come.

So what to do with a stolen Olympic flag ? I suggest cutting it up in to 5000 pieces and sell each one for a dollar and send the money to Betty K in Alloutte Pen. If some kid can make a million selling pixels on his web site, surely this can work. Betty K needs your money, $2 for a simple phone call.

Although it is a rather tactless image, I see us standing on the edge of a toilet bowl looking in, down there at the bottom is the 2010 Olympics, beyond it is an endless vacuum of nothingness. It's not the vision I expected for my children, nor is it you expected for yours. Nonetheless, its all about I can see at the moment.

People tell us the Olympics are coming regardless. Whilst this is certainly true, it does not give the Liberals or their cronies free reign to exploit the people and land within the boundaries of this province. It does not give them the right to throw people in jail for protesting whilst ignoring the environmental consequences of their own actions. It does not give them the right to spend billions of dollars in our name when the vast majority of people fail to benefit directly from this "project".

We need to remember all of this on May 19th, 2009. The downfall of a government started with the theft of a flag....