Toronto Star: Occupy moves us into a new era

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By Linda McQuaig
Columnist


When thousands of Egyptian protesters took over Tahrir Square in events widely celebrated as the Arab Spring, I don’t recall anyone being concerned that they were violating local bylaws.

Of course, Egypt was a dictatorship and the only way to protest the lack of democracy was by breaking laws.

Canada isn’t a dictatorship, and so protesters — like the group now ordered evicted from St. James Park — don’t have the same clear moral licence to ignore bylaws that their Egyptian counterparts had.

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Of course, Occupiers should join political parties and try to change them. But part of the Occupiers’ point is that democracy has become a hollow shell. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1090458--mcquaig-occupy-moves-us-into-a-new-era

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1. We are in a plutocracy...not as bad as Mubarak, but it hasn't run its full course.

Unless we stop it, so #Occupy has the extreme moral high ground.