“In Canada, once the Riot Act is read (and it was, last night), merely disobeying the order to disperse is a crime punishable with up to life in prison. Not that they’d actually sentence anyone for that long, but they do have their legal bases covered.
The wording of the Act is delightful, too:
Her Majesty the Queen charges and commands all persons being assembled immediately to disperse and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business on the pain of being guilty of an offence for which, on conviction, they may be sentenced to imprisonment for life. God Save the Queen.”
I woke up this morning, knowing that the Canucks lost. I was prepared for it. Then I saw the first image of the riot. Half asleep, I thought it was photoshopped. But a quick look on cbc.ca, showed me that I was wrong. This was the worst riot since the 1994 riot. In 94, we lost a hockey game too, and they did it then too. Watching videos, and looking at pictures made me sick. For the first time, I am embarrassed to be a Canadian. I lived in Vancouver for 6 years. I makes me embarrassed to have called myself a Vancouverite.
Then I see things like this: a Facebook page where people are coming together to clean up the city. Seeing the pictures of everyday normal people coming together to clean up is great. This picture sums everything up:
The other images in this post came from The National Post. There are more pictures there to see.
