Portrait of terrorist leader Vellupilai Prabhakaran carried by Tamil protesters on University Avenue[Update: It's been suggested this post needs a better headline. Fine. Here it is: If you support the Tamil Tigers, you support an evil cause]
[Update: The National Post's Jonathan Kay has an article describing how the Tamil Tigers murdered a moderate Tamil politician by the name of Neelan Tiruchelvam. Read it here.]
I'm too busy to post as much as I would like about the Tamil protests that first blocked University Avenue and more recently the Gardiner expressway. However, I would like to make a short comment.
I hear a lot of people saying they sympathize with the Tamil protesters but they object to the methods used. I hear civic leaders saying blockading roads and highways is counterproductive. That may well be, but the methods used by the protesters aren't the only problem. The Tamil cause itself is evil.
I work downtown and every day I go by the protesters who were on University and are now at Queen's Park. I've heard the organizers lead people in chants of "Tamil Tigers Freedom Fighters" and "Our Glorious Leader Prabhakaran." I've seen the terrorist flags the protesters are waving and as well as the portraits of Velupillai Prabhakaran.
These are demonstrations in favour of terrorism and they should be unequivocably condemned even if the protesters were law-abiding, which they are not.
