Apparently, without an in-depth investigation, the Board of Education
has decided to permit the facilities of Harbord Collegiate to be used by
a radical leftist organization calling itself "Anti-Racist-Action."
A quick check with the Intelligence Bureau of the Metropolitan Toronto
Police (808-3500, Detective Constable Sean Blackmore) would have verified
some rather disturbing facts:
In June 1993, ARA terrorists, their faces covered with ski masks, attacked
the home of a political opponent, smashing windows, throwing paint, cherry
bombs, human extrement and even a child's tricycle through a broken window.
In January 1995, hundreds of these leftists, their faces covered with
ski masks, attacked police and their horses, pelting them with eggs, rocks
and wooden sticks.
ARA members have repeatedly attacked the home of publisher Ernst Zündel,
again, with paint bombs eggs and human excrement.
In December 1995, about two dozen ARA members broke into a private meeting
at the Europe Restaurant on Bloor Street, throwing milk on items on a book
table and assaulting an elderly woman. They ignored the owner's request
to leave and only vacated the premises when police were called.
ARA posters advocating arson and violence and threatening death to their
opposition are visible throughout the city, plastered on newspaper boxes,
bus shelters and mailboxes. If not already responsible for the arson attack
on Ernst Zündel's premises, ARA posters have at least definitely advocated
the making and use of Molotov cocktains.
When Metro Police Constable Todd Baylis was murdered two summers ago,
ARA activists on their "Upper Cut" radio show on CIUT wildly
applauded his murder, clapping and cheering this "victory" over
"social injustice and oppression." And to underscore their enthusiasm,
they immediately played the rap song "Cop Killer".
ARA activists have repeatedly harassed, intimidated and attacked their
perceived opponents on the transit system, often attacking lone individuals
because they were wearing the wrong color shoelaces.
The activities of this violent neo-Marxist gang of hooligans have been
widely documented in numerous newspaper accounts in both the Toronto Sun
and the Toronto Star. Their antics have been the subject of the lead item
featured on newscasts of every television station in the Metro Toronto
area.
