Posted on 11/15/2019 5:34:59 PM PST by simpson96
Police have arrested a Toronto man for allegedly vandalizing the Old City Hall cenotaph with spray paint hours after it was the site of a downtown Remembrance Day ceremony.
The cenotaph, which honours those who died in both World Wars and the Korean War, was vandalized with dark blue spray-painted letters sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Tuesday(snip)
The words "ye broke faith" could be seen written in capital letters across the bottom of the monument on Tuesday morning, behind wreaths that had been placed at the base for the previous day's service. The words "with us" could be seen on the backside of the monument.
The vandalism was removed a few hours later after City spokesperson Bob Langmaid said the city arranged for cleaners.
In a Friday news release, Toronto police said Thomas Christian Zaugg, 33, of Toronto, had been arrested on charges of mischief under $5,000 and mischief interfering with lawful enjoyment of property.
He appeared in a courtroom at Old City Hall on Friday morning.
On Wednesday, he posted a long, rambling statement to Facebook that claimed he spray-painted the memorial in support of veterans, saying the message "honours their memory."
In the statement, Zaugg said he was "compelled to do this act" following Don Cherry's firing over a Coach's Corner segment in which the hockey icon complained immigrants — whom he referred to as "you people" — weren't wearing poppies honouring veterans.(snip)
National monuments are "fair targets in the cultural war," Zaugg wrote in his Facebook note.
In a later video message also posted to Facebook, Zaugg claims he had delivered the statement to the city and Crown attorneys.
Zaugg was interviewed by the Star in 2011, when he was a participant in an Occupy Toronto protest in St. James Park.
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Wonder how many news outlets will mention that little part of his life?
Not a lot of right wingers in Toronto to start, much less protesting with antifa.
Canadian Antifa.
Public floggings should be brought back for this sort of behavior.
I’d like to slap this fool up-side-the-head with a 2X4, in honor of my Great Uncle John Stanley Holmes, who served with the C.E.F., and was killed two months before the Armistice in France.
If ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep. Though poppies grow. In Flanders Fields.
I cannot get the drift of where he thought the treatment of Don Cherry was breaking the faith. Giving me second thoughts though. Still, the act was vandalism pure and simple.
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