The Doom That Came to Cowtown

Here's a lighter story to ever-so-slightly contrast the rampaging reduction in Woman's Reproductive Rights that's underway in the United States:

Here in Calgary the Kensington Clinic is beside a playground. That and assorted ordinances means that protesters must stay a certain distance away from the premises and they can't have more then four people protesting at one time. IANAL, so take my description of the legal rules with a grain of salt.

Anyway, there's a nation-wide anti-abortion protest going on right now (coinciding with Lent I think - and isn't sacrificing other people's rights for Lent kind of missing the point) so they've had protesters out in force. Seven protesters (four adults, three children) were out, which violates the rules.

So the clinic manager goes out to tell them to knock it off. The lead protester objects, saying "the children don't count, they're not people".



Anyway, just a story I heard third-hand that made me chuckle.

Council would have been smooth and short and uneventful, except the troll decided to show up and wave his dick around. And that's all it was really - an exercise in getting everyone worked up for no other reason then he could. If it wasn't the perfectly reasonable pet policy, then it would have been something else.

Unfortunately it's now exploded into a barrage of policy suggestions designed to reign in a fractured, possibly hostile council meeting. All completely unnecessary of course because the only person causing council to be fractured and hostile is him.

Oh well. I'm confident that the forces of good will prevail, because trolls have short attention spans and bullies eventually go after easier targets.