2001-04-06 || 12:03 a.m.

Qu�bec City again.

The people who are on their way to Qu�bec City to protest the Summit of the Americas have an interest in what gets said, decided, or pondered behind all those stone walls and chain-link fences they've constructed. They are concerned citizens of American nations, trying to make sure that private citizens still mean something this time next year, or ten years from now. They are participating in the democratic process.

They are being turned away at the border. When did a nation's corporate citizens get more rights than its private ones? What the hell is going on here, and what happened to the democratic rights that Ottawa has traditionally promoted? Where has simple human dignity gone? Kept out by a stone wall and a chain-link fence, that's where.

I will not be victimised in the name of globalisation. If the authorities feel they cannot allow peaceful protest, then maybe Qu�bec City should burn.

I am becoming increasingly discouraged in my beliefs that peaceful processes can change the world. When we have a government that is so dedicated to blocking people's rights, even when decisions are being made that will reverberate throughout the New World, maybe it's too late for a non-confidence vote. Maybe the Prime Minister has to be pulled off of his horse and placed under arrest for crimes against dignity and citizenship.

Maybe there's still hope for democracy to pull itself out from under the thumb of the Chr�tien governmnet and its analogues in the US and the rest of America, but I feel a very desolate place inside right now. I have very little hope.



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