Vancouver riot: stupid young men
Posted: Jun 16th, 2011
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Let's not blame the game of hockey and its fans for the riot that followed the Vancouver loss in the Stanley Cup Final. Or make the predictable mumbo-jumbo excuses of socioeconomic factors at work.
Who did we see fighting, vandalizing and looting in the flood of images stream last night on TV and the internet?
Let's be clear and forget about being politically correct. Well-fed, well clothed and well lubricated with alcohol, drugs and testosterone ... stupid, young men.
We all knew, regardless of who would win or lose the Cup, that game 7 was going to be a siren call for every stupid, young man across B.C. (and further abroad) to gather and wait for the moment that gave them the opportunity to riot.
Some blame has to be laid at the feet of the organizers who thought that concentrating huge crowds that contained large masses of young males around big screen TVs in a downtown venue right by an arena with 19,000 fans that would spill out on the streets after the game was over was a good idea. In the days, week and months to come there will be a lot of recriminations, excuses and soul search but stupid, young men have always been with us in every society and every age of history just waiting for a chance act out.
The riot was the mindless but predictable tantrum of stupid, young men that should not be a stain on the city and citizens of Vancouver but sadly will.
Lest other Canadian cities think smugly that the riot was a unique, West Coast phenomena, you are all one Stanley Cup final series away from the same events unfolding.
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Evan Hu
Evan Hu has more than 20 years' experience in creating and leading successful Canadian technology and media businesses. He presently divides his time between family and friends, his businesses,...
Aren't the majority of hockey fans young males? So I think it's quite fair to blame hockey fans for this.
Sore loosing idiots!
Why don't we add racial profiling, so beloved by Vancouver media and law enforcement? They were well-fed, well-dressed young WHITE men. So where do we send them? What immigration laws do we call upon/amend? This is the conversation I want to hear about.
Why don't we add racial profiling, so beloved by Vancouver media and law enforcement? They were well-fed, well-dressed young WHITE men. So where do we send them? What immigration laws do we call upon/amend? This is the conversation I want to hear about.
Look again at the footage; nearly every racial group is well represented.
Honestly, I'm tired of the "it's not the fans involved here" line. C'mon, enough already. Since when did watching hockey or being a follower of the NHL grant you a "wholesome and honest" license? I don't think that these idiots were smart enough to disguise themselves in Canucks jerseys - which were in plain site from almost every angle of this mess - with the intention of covertly reeking destruction. I attend hockey games and it's been my personal experience that for every civilized, respectful individual in attendance, there are two more "fans" being loud and obnoxious to the extreme. There are times when I wonder how these "fans' function in the real world, outside the artificial arena environment that they apparently flourish in. And then you see crap like this, and it all makes senses.
It's a shame that Canada will now be remembered as the country who riots over losing a hockey game. What's worse, is that everyone stood and watched as a bunch of hooligans with single digit IQ's destroyed a great citys reputation. I highly doubt Vancouver will keep its title as the number one city in the world in 2012.
Every racial group was rioting, but everyone (who was not white) was talking about how taunting police and rioting seemed to be a white boy's sport. The brown guys I heard they said they envied them for doing it (!!!!) but were afraid that if they did they would get beat up way worse by police. Sad but probably true....
Nice try. Hockey is a "sport" where the number of hits (violently slamming an opponent into the boards, often head first) are tabulated and analyzed as part of why a team won or lost. Hockey fight websites get more traffic than sites focused on the scores. Even Miami - a city bordering on lawlessness at the best of times - managed to keep it's cool after losing the NBA finals, which is a far bigger deal than the Stanley Cup. You don't see riots after a marathon or the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Canucks fans are sad. It's sadder still that the city puts up with them. The best outcome would be for the Canucks to leave Vancouver
BC Leaders deserves this legacy. They worked for it with their actions over decades. They gave their minds to a corrupt Judiciary and Bevy of Drug Lawyers, who have protected the Crowns Heroin Trade. Their Police have looked the other way as tons of heroin have been imported into the Port of Vancouverover decades. Societal Decay is the result. There is no disconnect between the Vancouver/Royal Heroin Trade ( London is the oldest World Center of Opium and Heroin Profits for several centuries) and the social behaviour decay seen in the youth (Boys and Girls) of Vancouver.
Deep down, any culture that tolerates a corrupt Judiciary and the Hell's Angels as BC does, has got to expect their social fabric to decay eventually.
It all adds up and works on the mind. Even if the youth are not able to ferret out and articulate in words their disgust at..BC Status Quo Society, they can act it out.
This is not fomented by petty criminals, they just anticipated and took advantage..no this is the work of real criminals... The Independent Judiciary, The Law Society of BC, the RCMP, and their bretheren, the Hell's Angels...all working to keep London fat.
Oh and you, they could not have done it with out your proud Canadian complacency.
Ottawa went six games into the Stanley Cup and got crushed by Anaheim....no riot.
Calgary v Tampa Bay...riot?
I think the question is not in sport or in mob. Have you seen how quickly people turn to an angry gang. It means that there are a lot of anger suppressed inside of them. I think even though they all well fed and well dressed they are not farm animals just when their physical necessities are well satisfied. The problem is much bigger. Who listen to them? Bunch of 60-70+ politicians, their parents-baby boomers who worries about loosing their savings. There is simply no place for the young in aging Canadian society. You either play by the riles or else. And here your are the result. Their way or showing to everyone that they exists. Not a best way but effective. May be now their parents and politicians would start consider their existence. Otherwise I’m afraid we will see many more riots like this.