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| Jason Payne/Postmedia News Service |
Journalists have described the disgrace in downtown Vancouver
following Game Seven of the Stanley Cup. They are unanimously at a loss to
explain why a segment of the large group of hockey fans broke down steel
fences, broke commercial windows, overturned and burned vehicles, taunted and
fought with police, posed for photos in the midst of the mayhem and disregarded
law and responsibility. But city officials and law enforcement must understand
and explain it in order to avert it in the future, since this is the second
time that such humiliation has smeared the city’s history. The last time
being the Seventh Game in 1994. Immediate explanations have been that criminals
and anarchists came intentionally to use the occasion to break the law and to
create a war zone.
But what kind of people are these? What has created the kind of person who
can parade such disregard for what is right and good? Religious people will
certainly have an explanation. Others do too.
