The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129855 Message #3057576
Posted By: ollaimh
19-Dec-10 - 09:50 PM
Thread Name: Busking Editorial (Ottawa, Canada)
Subject: RE: Busking Editorial (Ottawa, Canada)
well its not the city of ottawa who were doing the gooning. it was the adminstrastion of the by ward market. they did con the police into helping them untill the court ruling i mentioned about how the city owns the market real estate and the by ward market adminstration have no authority to enforce rules.
after that the cops stopped doing the evil bidding of the market nazis.
by the by two different ones threatened to sue me for slander for writing on this topic on other lists years ago. i scoffed, yeah that's a good idea and i'll subpoena every busker and merchant to testify as to whether they are running the market as i described. and oddly i never heard from them again--real assholes--but they knew that most of those they administered hated the way they were running things.i was a lawyer for a few years before i went straigh--just the right guy to try to intimidate by such threats--i would have loved the opportunity to run such a trial, what a hoot!
now all this was a decade ago and i haven't looked ointo it recently--i just like to expose the anti busking fascist when i get the chance.
last time i played there they scowled at me but didn't say another word.
i really do wonder why admistrative bureaucrats get the idea that they are dictators and not public servants, but they seem to get that idea a lot?