[Newsbot]

Title: Ottawa bank firebomber regrets protest
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Khar
Date: 2010-12-06 17:07:14
Canadian

[Arctic_Menace]

What this guy did was not a protest, but a wanton and unwarranted act of arson and vandalism.

[Freakinoldguy]

What a crock of shite.

The only time you see remorse from people like him are conviently, just before their sentencing hearings.

I hope they through the freakin book at him.

[Public_Domain]

Actually I'm quite sure this was a protest A_M.

Arson and Vandalism? Well of course, but that very much waters down the point and rational behind it. Simply suggesting that the politics was a cover for 'mindless' arson and vandalism (ie. hooliganism), is incorrect. It negates all the causes for such beliefs and instead considers all actions to be insidious against everyday people and random.

So it was a protest (because they made a specific point of it), and it wasn't done because they wanted to do unwarranted damage.

[ShepherdsDog]

He's sorry he got caught

[Thanos]

^
And he's also sorry that the mindless proles didn't rise up in support of his awesome act of, like, total courage. And he's sorry that the late 1960's ever had to end. And that the Soviet Union collapsed. And a few other things like that.

[Choban]

It's easy to regret after the fact and the looming criminal charges

[PublicAnimalNo9]

A 58 year old retired beaurocrat?? Fuck his lawyer's reasoning that it was "out of character" for him. He's WAY old enough to know better..period!

MrC. you said:

$1:

So it was a protest (because they made a specific point of it), and it wasn't done because they wanted to do unwarranted damage.

They brought gasoline and made molotov cocktails. Doing damage was the intent and NOTHING else.
Do you normally bring flammables and explosive devices to peaceful protests MrC?

[andyt]

He stepped up and admitted guilt. He got three years. Pretty fair considering nobody got hurt and people get parole for assault with a weapon and a woman who killed a little girl DUI got 2 years.

And, he's an idiot, there's no cure for that.

[EyeBrock]

Three years, he's lucky. He had no idea if anybody was in the building or not.