HOUSE of APC STARTING to CRUMBLE

Oldtown News
Vancouver, BC

HOUSE of APC STARTING to CRUMBLE

The APC gang who are newcomers to the Oldtown area and hail from out of province, do not have the support they think they do. In fact a number of close allies are beginning to distance themselves from the APC.

APC has made a name for itself not so much from assisting the improverished but through a propaganda platform which a duped media played into.

Recently, the APC, who are a bunch of really angry 20 year old somethings, stepped up their bizarre outbursts, which serves no useful purpose in assisting the poor. Their recent violent actions and manipulation of the media, obviously isn't sitting well with the public or even their own supporters.

In a column written by Brian Hutchinson in today's National Post, Conrad Schmidt, an anti-Olympics filmmaker who documented many of the APC actions, essentially has called the APC liars.

In an email exchange with this blogwriter, Mr. Schmidt, claims that the APC have gone too far and on a personal level was troubled in how the APC terrorized a couple of innocent female workers. Mr. Schmidt, a sympathizer of APC is not alone in his critcism.

David Eby, a prominent lawyer who has defended APC on numerous occassions is now claiming that individuals haven't been evicted from their SRO homes, as a result of the Olympics. Interestingly, this has been the primary propaganda of the APC. Shocking, here is their lawyer, stating on the May 24, 2007 CTV newscast that only one hotel closure in Oldtown could be considered as Olympic related. Further, as far as anyone knows, none of the residents of that Hotel were made homeless.

Former Councillor Jim Green whether you like him or not (I don't for good reason) , in 1986, was successfully bringing to the public's attention, how Expo was causing mistreatment and displacement of the poor. I was so proud of him in those days.

In that time period I worked alongside Mr. Green day and night, protesting at the Hotels who were evicting long-term residents in favor of Expo tourists. Mr. Green on the CTV telecast challenged the APC to produce the people who supposedly have been rendered homeless as a result of the Olympics.

CTV to its credit, took their cameras to the street, interviewing one man who appears homeless and high on drugs. This individual clearly stated he was homeless due to other reasons and not as a result of the Olympics.

The APC must be visibly shaken as their friends seem to be turning away from them.

I suspect we are beginning to see the start of the APC crumble.

Jamie Lee Hamilton
tricia_foxx@yahoo.com

SELLING of PROPAGANDA

Oldtown News
Vancouver, BC

SELLING of PROPAGANDA

Sadly, it now appears the media, instead of presenting us the public with factual reporting that adheres to journalistic principles of objectivity, fair and balanced reporting has made a decision to toss these values to the wind.

The trashing of government offices on Tuesday, where a couple of helpless female employees were terrorized and CTV consequently presenting us this footage, commissioned by the Anti Poverty group, demonstrates how media or at least CTV has crossed the line regarding journalistic integrity.

Conrad Schmidt, a local documentarist agreed to film APC destroying public property and acting in a wilful manner. The APC enticed Mr. Schmidt to document their violence. Sadly, it appears that Mr. Schmidt was duped and complicit in criminal activity (break and enter) as the APC used false pretenses to gain access to government offices.

Of course, APC knew that by using Mr. Schmidt to document their actions, they had in their view, something to present to a larger audience and hence needed this footage to be out there in the mainstream press.

Enter CTV who purchased Mr. Schmidt's film and in doing so, instead of presenting the public with balanced reporting actually instead presented us with Propaganda of the APC.

This is sad, considering the public desires to be presented with fair and balanced coverage which allows us to make informed responses.

I'm going to give the final word to Conrad Schmidt, who states this,

"I am worried however about this recent action of the APC. I think it is always important for the protestors not to become the thing that they are protesting.Smashing things and breaking things; they started to remind me of the VPD".


Jamie Lee Hamilton
tricia_foxx@yahoo.com