Agreed.
Just take a look at her ten years down the road (she's holding the sign, just like in the House of Commons):
Posted on 06/05/2011 11:17:36 AM PDT by Clive
A new star, it would appear, has appeared in the firmament of Canadian political activism. Brigette DePape, just 21 and cute as a button, has arrived.
Ms. DePape is the young lady who smuggled a sign into the throne speech reading “Stop Harper.” It livened up an otherwise dull ceremony, got her picture in all the papers and got here fired from her job.
No matter about the job — the point was to ensure the world was aware of Ms. DePape’s political views, and that mission was accomplished big time. It was a master stroke of activist stuntery, in one fell swoop taking an unheralded university student from the humdrum halls of obscurity to the front page of the Toronto Star. Somewhere, Naomi Klein is hearing footsteps.
What next for Ms. DePape? Bungee-jumping from the CN Tower in support of more bike lanes? Careening from floe to floe as she personally rescues baby seals? Single-handedly storming the shores of Gaza carrying bullets footstuffs for the freedom fighters of Hamas? Anything is possible when you’re young, opinionated and inventive.
Ms. DePape is a recent graduate of the University of Ottawa, that bastion of free speech, where they shout down speakers who hold views they don’t like. She took classes in “international development and globalization,” where they teach you about the West’s cruel failure to adequately support less fortunate nations while plotting ways to exploit their labour. Fair trade coffee is free at the door.
They must not have reached the part of the course where they learn about democracy. Or perhaps Ms DePape missed that day, skipping classes to strap herself to the stack of a coal-fired power plant. [...]
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Rules, Rules, we don’t need no stinking rules.
However, I would have cheered wildly if someone would have sneaked a sign like that into ‘09 SOTU speech.
“Cute as a button”?
Maybe to a blind 80-year old. Just goes to show the ugly left is when elections have consequences.
Agreed.
Just take a look at her ten years down the road (she's holding the sign, just like in the House of Commons):
When I was Ms. DePape age I too disrupted a political meeting by holding up a sign.
Now, 40 years later, I still cringe when recalling my foolishness.
People will forget Brigette,
but she will carry the memory of her immaturity for the rest of her life.
Ms. DePape seems to be of the same kind as our “Code Pink” aren’t they so cute (when they’re young)??
Good think she has 0% chance to be successful at her campaign. J.S.
She was probably taken away because she violated the rule that all signs be in both English and French.
“Cute as a button”?
Whew... I wouldn’t hit that with your thing.
By the way, the comments are as funny as the column.
Or....?
What?
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