Only cowards use kids as shields

By JOE WARMINGTON
Last Updated: 12th May 2009

"It's an extremely dangerous situation to put children on the front line of a protest in that way" Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair

It takes a special kind of gutlessness to use children and their mothers to do your dirty work for you.

Somebody out there knows exactly who it is, ordering women and children to be at the forefront of Tamil protests and putting children in so much danger.

"I think it puts them at tremendous risk," Chief Bill Blair said Sunday night of the children on the Gardiner Expressway. "We are trying to ensure that our response is proportional to the threat that currently exists ... we are trying to find ways to solve this as peacefully as we can, using a minimal amount of force."

The translation should have been "we are handcuffed because of all the kids up there and we can't be hurting kids."
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Tamil protest on Gardiner was criminal
By SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 12th May 200

It's hard to imagine anything more irresponsible than the actions of thousands of Tamil protesters who rushed onto the Gardiner Expressway Sunday under the apparent delusion this would influence Canada's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka.

They endangered themselves -- including the children they unbelievably conscripted into this criminally reckless action -- along with innocent motorists and police officers, who had to restore order.

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Mayor slams Tamil protest

'What they did ... was wrong'

By BRYN WEESE AND ANTONELLA ARTUSO, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 12th May 200

Tamil protesters who shut down the Gardiner Expressway Sunday night incurred the wrath of politicians yesterday who decried their actions as "unlawful" and "unacceptable."

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