Here's a quote from a government employee who witnessed a recent
interaction
between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a Vancouver Skytrain
station.
There were protesters on the subway platform handing out pamphlets on
the evils of Canada. I politely declined taking one.
An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young
(20-ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely
declined.
The young protester put her hand on the old woman's shoulder as a
gesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said, "Lady, don't you care
about the children of Iraq ?"
The old woman looked up at her and said, "Honey, my father died in France
during World War II, I lost my husband an RCMP officer in a violent
shootout in Alberta, and now a grandson in Afghanistan.
All three died so you could have the right to stand here and bad
mouth our country. If you touch me again, I'll stick this umbrella up your
ass
and open it."
From My Wife,
