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After watching more news footage of the riot events in Vancouver, I came up with a few ideas. Hopefully this is what will end up being done. Regardless, I'm just going to sit here and offer criticism on the whole riot from the vantage point here in Shanghai.
After perusing dozens of web sites on this topic, a comment came up that sums things up rather well: In other countries of the world, people riot over injustice, oppression, and in order to have freedom from dictators. In rat, rich Canada, they riot over a hockey game. In fact, that same person confused the footage on the news for the ongoing riots in Libya and Syria as it looked so similar. How despicable and how sad that indeed, a HOCKEY GAME is what sparked these riots.
The mob mentality may have inspired these people to get wasted and go smashing cars and looting stores, under the so-called 'safety' of anonymity. But how would these individuals feel if they were singled out as individuals and then had their private information posted on facebook or the news media, displaying in detail what actions they had done, and their own personal background? I say screw their rights and their privacy and let's make public what these assholes did, including those present downtown who stayed in the crowd to watch and egg on the rioters.
We could start by using facebook to get users online to identify photos of those involved in the rioting. An online community can be quickly generated to analyze pictures from the news media, and do facebook matches based on friends knowing friends in the network, etc. The police can also help by using the CCTV surveillance cameras and match this with the information from facebook. In other words, live feeds from the facebook site can go directly to the Vancouver police who can assist in the identification of the criminals.
Meanwhile, start increasing the number of surveillance cameras downtown right away.
Once the criminals are identified, I say the next thing is to have a public news broadcast for 60 mintues at a time during a prime-time slot, each day every day, detailing who exactly these guys were. We should include their names, their jobs, their income, where they live, where their parents live, their activity in the riot, and details of what they did. The more information, the better. For example, if they looted merchandise from the Bay and we have evidence of what it was they looted, that should be listed. This can go on and on, and would probably take months to list all the criminals, but it would be worth it.
After that, these guys should be severely fined and then forced to do community service. In addition to that, those involved in the riot should have the following actions taken
1. Those convicted of looting are banned from applying for a credit card and their credit ratings are toasted
2. They are not allowed to apply for a passport, and I doubt any of these losers even have one for starters.
3. They can not renew their drivers license
4. They are banned from renting apartments in the downtown area
Any other actions like this would be welcomed. Maybe this is too draconian but I'm just extremely angry right now. Combined that with all my experience living in communist countries, it has got to be worthwhile for a few ideas on how to deal with public unrest like this.
Heavy rain
After watching more news footage of the riot events in Vancouver, I came up with a few ideas. Hopefully this is what will end up being done. Regardless, I'm just going to sit here and offer criticism on the whole riot from the vantage point here in Shanghai.
After perusing dozens of web sites on this topic, a comment came up that sums things up rather well: In other countries of the world, people riot over injustice, oppression, and in order to have freedom from dictators. In rat, rich Canada, they riot over a hockey game. In fact, that same person confused the footage on the news for the ongoing riots in Libya and Syria as it looked so similar. How despicable and how sad that indeed, a HOCKEY GAME is what sparked these riots.
The mob mentality may have inspired these people to get wasted and go smashing cars and looting stores, under the so-called 'safety' of anonymity. But how would these individuals feel if they were singled out as individuals and then had their private information posted on facebook or the news media, displaying in detail what actions they had done, and their own personal background? I say screw their rights and their privacy and let's make public what these assholes did, including those present downtown who stayed in the crowd to watch and egg on the rioters.
We could start by using facebook to get users online to identify photos of those involved in the rioting. An online community can be quickly generated to analyze pictures from the news media, and do facebook matches based on friends knowing friends in the network, etc. The police can also help by using the CCTV surveillance cameras and match this with the information from facebook. In other words, live feeds from the facebook site can go directly to the Vancouver police who can assist in the identification of the criminals.
Meanwhile, start increasing the number of surveillance cameras downtown right away.
Once the criminals are identified, I say the next thing is to have a public news broadcast for 60 mintues at a time during a prime-time slot, each day every day, detailing who exactly these guys were. We should include their names, their jobs, their income, where they live, where their parents live, their activity in the riot, and details of what they did. The more information, the better. For example, if they looted merchandise from the Bay and we have evidence of what it was they looted, that should be listed. This can go on and on, and would probably take months to list all the criminals, but it would be worth it.
After that, these guys should be severely fined and then forced to do community service. In addition to that, those involved in the riot should have the following actions taken
1. Those convicted of looting are banned from applying for a credit card and their credit ratings are toasted
2. They are not allowed to apply for a passport, and I doubt any of these losers even have one for starters.
3. They can not renew their drivers license
4. They are banned from renting apartments in the downtown area
Any other actions like this would be welcomed. Maybe this is too draconian but I'm just extremely angry right now. Combined that with all my experience living in communist countries, it has got to be worthwhile for a few ideas on how to deal with public unrest like this.
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