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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Professor inflitrates pro-Palestinian encampment; union
 leader calls for consequences
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 20:41:14 -0400
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On Mon, 06 May 2024 12:23:55 -0700
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

> In article <20240506101727.000055d2@example.com>,
>  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 05 May 2024 21:58:25 -0700
> > BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > In article <20240505232212.000020e2@example.com>,
> > >  Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Mon, 06 May 2024 02:02:26 +0000
> > > > BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > On May 5, 2024 at 5:44:12 PM PDT, "Rhino"
> > > > > <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > > > >     
> > > > > > On Sun, 05 May 2024 22:48:24 +0000
> > > > > > BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> > > > > >       
> > > > > >>  On May 5, 2024 at 2:29:58 PM PDT, "Rhino"
> > > > > >>  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > > > > >>        
> > > > > >>  > Students at the University of Toronto have a
> > > > > >>  > pro-Palestinian encampment like some of the American
> > > > > >>  > colleges and universities. Recently, a professor
> > > > > >>  > "infiltrated" the encampment - he basically just
> > > > > >>  > visited and talked to protestors - and described the
> > > > > >>  > experience in an article for the National Post:    
> > >   
> > > > > >>> https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/university-of-toronto-anti-isr
> > > > > >>> ael-
> > > > > >>> protest-encampment
> > > > > >>  > 
> > > > > >>  > The professor found that many of the protesters were not
> > > > > >>  > students, staff or faculty of the university at all, yet
> > > > > >>  > they were limited were actual fee-paying students could
> > > > > >>  > go. 
> > > > > >>  > 
> > > > > >>  > A former Antifa member who is now a "communications
> > > > > >>  > officer" in a major union has called for "street-level"
> > > > > >>  > consequences for people like the professor.         
> > > > > >>  
> > > > > >>  This union official-- Victoria Wojciechowska-- isn't even
> > > > > >> a Canadidian citizen. She's a Polish national.
> > > > > >>        
> > > > > > How did you determine that? That isn't in the article.
> > > > > > While the name is almost certainly Polish she could be
> > > > > > third or fourth generation Canadian for all I know.      
> > > > > 
> > > > > I looked her up. Her Facebook says she's Polish and lives in
> > > > > Warsaw a lot of the time.
> > > > >     
> > > > Or at least someone with the same name does....
> > > > 
> > > > Any time I look someone up online, even someone with a very
> > > > unique -seeming name, I find several exact duplicates.    
> > > 
> > > Her picture looked the same as the pictures of her in articles
> > > dealing with the union stuff.  
> > 
> > That's certainly more compelling than having the same name. They say
> > everyone has a double/doppelganger - I've actually seen mine a
> > couple of times - but the odds of the two having the same name are
> > astronomical. 
> > 
> > Here's hoping someone arrests this rabble rouser for threatening the
> > professor. I don't expect our soft-on-crime judiciary would actually
> > deport her but there's always a chance, I suppose. (There was a case
> > about 30 years ago where a foreigner had been convicted of attempted
> > murder and was sentenced to be deported. In order to complete the
> > deportation, his home country needed to issue him a passport which
> > required a photo. The convicted criminal refused to pose for the
> > picture - repeatedly - so the courts decided to simply let him go
> > right back to his life here in Canada!!  
> 
> Why didn't they just wait until he fell asleep and take a picture?
> 
I assume he had to be standing up, awake, properly lit and standing
still to get the picture. Maybe he just kept shaking his head or
something? Or the photographer just didn't try very hard.  

> > I have no idea what theory of jurisprudence they utilized to come to
> > that decision but I still remember it for its mind-boggling
> > stupidity.)  
> 
> Whoever made that decision should move to California. He's be
> governor here in no time.

I bet he would.

-- 
Rhino