p2pnet - rss feed: Vandals slash Liberal car brake lines
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Liberal incumbent Carolyn Bennett says she’ll understand if people in her riding of 973 households stop displaying campaign signs supporting her.
Her remarks follow a frightening new criminal element in the 2008 Canadian elections.
Brake lines on cars parked outside homes in Bennett’s Toronto riding of St Paul’s were cut, it came to light over the weekend
“We of course understand if supporters choose to take down their signs,” she says on her blog, “But we would very much like to catch the people doing these vile acts.”
On Saturday, “I was sickened to hear today about several acts of vandalism involving cutting the brake lines on the cars of Liberal supporters in my riding,” she posted.
“Graffiti, phone lines cut and cars keyed with a large L.
“The Official Agent for my campaign went through a stop sign and nearly hit a bus because he did not know that his brake lines had been cut.”
The clip from René Johnston’s Toronto Star photo on the right has Bennett talking to reporters, “outside a Leaside house defaced with graffiti”. The owner’s car was also vandalized, “one of 12 cases of cut car brake lines, severed cables and graffiti in Parkdale-High Park,” says the story.
“It is almost like a hate crime,” the National Post had Bennett stating yesterday at a home spray painted with graffiti.
Its phone and cable lines had been cut, along with a vehicle’s brake line.
“Two weeks ago, a pale grey pickup truck went to the bottom of her street, picked up all the signs from her supporters’ lawns and moved them to houses that had not asked for signs, ’so they can then phone, outraged’,” she says, according to the National Post.
“What is most upsetting is that this has happened only at homes with a Carolyn Bennett sign on their lawn,” Bennett says in a Liberal party statement, which also points out Toronto Liberals weren’t the only ones to be targeted.Supporters of Liberal candidates in the riding of Guelph during the August byelection and in the riding of Willowdale during the March byelection were also singled out.
“For example, the Guelph Mercury News reported attacks on at least 10 homes calling Liberal supporters ’scum’,” it says.
“In addition, brake lines were cut in at least four cars, and other vehicles were damaged.”
Bennett says she hopes people in the area will keep cameras handy to photograph anyone approaching there homes and try to get shots of a license plate.
“Please call Toronto Police (416-808-2222) if you see anything,” she asks.
Toronto Star - , October 6, 2008
National Post - MP’s backers defiant as vandals hit homes, cars, October 6, 2008
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