Posted on 11/24/2006 10:28:38 AM PST by chemical_boy
MONTREAL - A letter claiming to be from a new cell of the Front de liberation du Quebec and threatening to take action for what it describes as ''Anglo-Saxon imperialism'' in the West Island and west-end Montreal is being investigated by police.
The letter, from a group or someone identifying themselves as the ''Camille Laurin Cell'' of the FLQ, was sent last week to media outlets and city halls in the western part of Montreal Island.
The letter, dated Nov. 15, threatens ''the hits will begin very exactly in three months,'' an apparent reference to Feb. 15, the anniversary of the day when five members of the Patriotes rebellion against British colonial authority were hanged in 1839.
The author claims French-speaking Quebecers are ''systematically ridiculed by a local anglophone majority who scorn the French language and the rights of francophones.''
In 1970, members of the FLQ kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross and kidnapped and murdered Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, setting off the October Crisis.
''All these types of threats are taken seriously and are investigated,'' RCMP Cpl. Sylvain L'Heureux said.
''It's an ongoing investigation and at this point there is no indication they are going to go forward with those threats.''
Letters like the one sent out last week emerge every six months or so, L'Heureux said. But he added that even if their author has no intention to carry out the threat, he or she can still be charged with a Criminal Code offence.
A RCMP investigator who is a member of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), is in charge of the probe. INSET is a partnership among the RCMP, the Quebec provincial police, Montreal police, and federal agencies, who share information on possible terrorist threats.
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I am but a mere American, but I seem to recall that the October Crisis did not end well for the FLQ, and was the only time in history that Pierre Trudeau discovered his inner Rambo.
Ooooh. They are throwing soft smelly cheese at us. Run!
What are they going to do, "fart in our general direction?"
I'd like to dismiss this as either a crank letter or an over-zealous/angry Francophone. But you never know...
If there are any actual FLQ members alive, they're either in jail (still) or are in their late 50's or early 60's.
All these "FLQ" members are in wheelchairs now. What are they going to do, throw their medications in the water reservoir?
Yes, and for a group of 14 or so, so-called "terrorists" Trudeau delclared the Emergency War Measures Act, spent millions of dollars transporting troops via air to gurad power lines and seize Montreal and Quebec City.
This was not Trdeau discovering his inner Rambo, but INDEED was Trudeau creating a mountain out of a mole hill for his own personal political ends: scare Canadians out of their wits, justify it by propaganda, then win the Spring election in a land slide. And Canadians bought it hook, lone and sinker.
Look where itr got them.
40 years of miserable liberal rule, social engineering, and a commie Trudeau pulling the wool, and a disarmed nation which has no identity except that created by the CBC.
So much for Trudeaus inner Rambo, which has dis -stink parallels to a necessary post liberal political enema.
Now Harper? He has an inner Rambo, and Canadians like what they see.
God Bless The True North Strong and Free!
Harper made a good manuver the other day, declaring Q-bec a nation within a nation. He made liberals look stupid and probably picked up a few seats in Quebec in the process.
Despite Canadian media's constant attacks, he seems to be holding up quite well.
I think Liberals are going to take a bad fall next election, and Harper will get a good majority. Harper is liked, and he's smart as well. People notice that.
It may be that these boys were moved to outrage by the current CBC serial production "October 1970", which portrays the moronic, pretend revolutionaries involved as, well, moronic pretend revolutionaries.
Such honesty offends their amour-propre.
Quebec has always been chock-a-block with Tartufferie of the worst kind.
Quebecois dorks!
I wonder if Governor General Jean will be helping them out this time?
They have already done that. It's called national bilingualism: french coast to coast; no English in Quebec
I agree Nate. I am thinking of moving back to Canada from the USA, but will await the results of the next election. If Canada goes genuinely conservative, I will retire to Canada.<p.
So what you're saying is, if Canada was a hockey team we'd have a good road record but stink out the joint at home.
Sounds about right, eh! ;^)
Que?
The Quebecers were a tag team in the World Wrestling Federation from mid-1993 to mid-1994 and again in 1998. Veteran wrestler Jacques Rougeau teamed with Carl Ouellet to create a team that was quickly pushed to the top of the WWF.
So we now have radical militant wrestlers threatening terrorism in Canada?
Give them a toe-hold, and next they have Howard in a headlock?
Or do they really mean Quebecois?
They might send in Samurai Lapin.
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