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In article <Y61_N.97222$lwqa.45725@fx18.iad>,
 trotsky <gmsingh@email.com> wrote:

> On 5/5/24 9:02 PM, BTR1701 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:
> >>>   >
> >>>   > 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.

> What the flying fuck does that mean?  That name wasn't in the article. 
> Where did you get the motherfucking name from?

An investigation so basic and simple, my 5-year-old niece could do it. I 
understand that it's nevertheless beyond your abilities.
> 
> >>>   In any rational society, a foreign national making public threats of
> >>>   violence in the media against the citizenry would be instantly
> >>>   deported.
> >>>   
> >> I agree that the threat should definitely be subject to legal
> >> consequences for the person uttering them. I wouldn't be adverse to a
> >> deportation either if she really is a Polish citizen.
> >>
> >> I was rather appalled at the open threat of violence against the
> >> professor made in a public place - the newspaper - and certainly hope
> >> the police don't let that go by. I'd also like to see the professor get
> >> a protection order (Canadian equivalent of a restraining order) against
> >> the threatener, although I suppose the union has additional goons to
> >> break legs if it wants.