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As virtuous men pass mildly away, / And whisper to their souls to go, / Whilst some of their sad friends do say, / "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." / So let us melt, and make no noise, / No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; / 'Twere profanation of our joys / To tell the laity our love. / Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ; / Men reckon what it did, and meant ; / But trepidation of the spheres, / Mad fucks to be gotten cheap / Dull sublunary lovers' love / —Whose soul is sense—cannot admit / Of absence, 'cause it doth remove / The thing which elemented it. / But we by a love so much refined, / That ourselves know not what it is, / Inter-assurèd of the mind, / Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. / Our two souls therefore, which are one, / It's mad emo and I'm kinda sad / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to aery thinness beat. / If they be two, they are two so / As stiff twin compasses are two ; / Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show / To move, but doth, if th' other do. / And though it in the centre sit, / Yet, when the other far doth roam, / A constant lean and emo sad shit goes, / And grows erect, as that comes home. / Such wilt thou be to me, who must, / Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; / Fuck dude it all sucks and shit whatnot, / And makes me end where I begun.Following
Says Mr. Weston “Farmers’ markets are great…one day they’re going to kill some people though.” Yes, Mr. Weston, I’m certain it will be the food from my farmer’s market that will kill me. Not the chemical laden food with which you stock your store. Not the produce covered in lethal pesticides. Oh nooooo. That’s all perfectly safe!
Need he be reminded of the 20 people who died from the 2008 listeriosis outbreak? Guess where that meat was sold?! WASN’T AT A FARMER’S MARKET.
Doesn’t matter that they had the wrong guy - he “roughly fit” the description of the person for whom they were looking. Doesn’t matter that he couldn’t respond to their attempts to communicate because of mental and physical disabilities - why ascertain important information like that before tackling a man to the ground? Doesn’t matter that his elderly mother, out for a walk with him that day, TOLD THEM he couldn’t speak because of mental disabilities - no, no. They needed her to shut up so they could hold an innocent man on the ground, stomach down, while he lay dying. But of course the police are cleared. Of course! The police in Toronto aren’t held accountable for their actions, no matter how illogical, no matter how brutal. No matter if they kill innocent people who “roughly fit the description” of a suspect - Toronto police are never, ever in the wrong.
Charles McGillivary was 45. He was out for a summer walk with his mother. They were going to get a slice of pizza. He couldn’t speak, so he used sign language to communicate. He was tackled by police and forcibly held to the ground, despite his mother begging police to stop, telling them he couldn’t speak because of his disabilities. He turned blue, and then he died. His crime? Once again, he “roughly fit the description” of a suspect for whom they were looking.
When his mother begged to go along with him in the ambulance, the police refused and told her to take a cab.
I’d really, really love to know what exactly a police officer would have to do before the SIU calls it wrongdoing. FTP.
Today the Toronto Star is running a picture of a man who sexually assaulted a woman on the subway. A little over a month ago a similar story ran on the Star, that case dealing with an incident of sexual assault on a streetcar.
Almost a year ago, I was assaulted (for the second time, it should be noted) while riding the subway with my boyfriend. Months later I came across an almost buried article on CBC’s news website, featuring the picture of a man suspected in numerous sexual assaults on the TTC, the description of the man’s assault patterns matching my first incident.
Women deserve to not be sexually assaulted while taking public transit. They also deserve to have as much information to protect themselves as possible. If the man pictured in the link is assaulting women, we deserve to see and know his face so we can further protect ourselves. That the TTC is not alerting those who use it daily to possible predators is appalling, and absolutely makes them complicit in any further attacks by this man.
When I called to report my incident the first time, the woman I spoke to from the TTC did not give any indication that there was a history of such assaults, despite the fact that what I reported was down to the littlest detail exactly the same as what had been reported by dozens of other women.
Further, the TTC does not warn or seek to inform women about current incidences of sexual assault on its vehicles. Check out their website - no mention of the story the Star is currently reporting. You won’t see this man’s picture on any of the in station screens, either. No, no - far more important to bring you advertisements than to warn you of potential sexual predators.
The TTC has an obligation to its riders to warn them when they know there is a sexual predator wandering around assaulting women. Until they start routinely making reports and pictures public, we have no option but to believe the TTC just doesn’t care about sexual assault that occurs on TTC property.
Your move, TTC.
