04-15-2018, 08:03 AM
(04-15-2018, 12:28 AM)MacBerry Wrote:(04-06-2018, 05:04 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: All of the things you describe are acts committed by individuals. They do not make a crowds act's illegal. You cannot ascribe the crimes of one person to a group of people, no matter how geographically colocated those people are.
What is beyond ridiculous is the disregard of fundamental freedoms we have guaranteed, and the treating of students as less deserving of basic services like EMS.
Then why is it all of a sudden so different when the region pays for instead of the cities.
What "fundamental freedoms we have guaranteed" are we being denied during the "illegal" March 17th gathering?
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The March 17th gathering is not illegal. We aren't the type of country which has "illegal" gatherings. China has illegal gatherings. North Korea probably has illegal gatherings. We don't. Because gathering in a public place (or private place for that matter) is a guaranteed right under the charter.
You can find it in section 2, freedom of assembly. You can also find it in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 20), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (Article 21) and the American Convention on Human Rights (Article 15).
This right is protected whether you are gathering to protest a war, to protest not going to war, to protest another group who is protesting, or just to hang out with your friends. All protected. And frankly, Canada does not have a great track record of protecting this right, even as recently as the G20.