Canada: Brigette DePape Protests Harper Government on Senate Floor

June 4th, 2011

I’m no fan of sign waving, but this was pretty good. Brigette DePape’s protest was different from the run-of-the-mill pink tutu and bozo wig nonsense that has no chance of ever causing the corporate state to change course. Seeing her in her official uniform, standing there in defiance in front of the Queen’s goon squad, should inspire anyone who is working directly for the enemy. Who knows what you might get up to, publicly or not?!

The article below states, “A stunned room full of dignitaries and invited guests stared in mute astonishment.”

HAHA, that’s beautiful. It sounds like there were some soiled union suits in there.

Brigette DePape

Brigette DePape

Brigette DePape

Brigette DePape

Everyone in that room will go to sleep wondering which other people inside the regime are sleepers.

Questions, questions…

Now, is this Resistance? I never put sign waving in Resistance. In this case, however, I think it is. She demonstrated how someone in the regime at a very low level can find themselves with access to something or someone that they would not otherwise ever have. While she didn’t use this access to cause grave harm to the regime, it is possible that her action may cause other government employees to resist in both overt and covert ways.

Via: The Canadian Press:

Paging all protesters!

A 21-year-old Senate page put her job on the line Friday in a silent call for Canadians to give some sober second thought to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s majority Conservative government.

Brigette DePape staged an unprecedented protest on the floor of the Senate chamber, walking out into the red-carpeted centre aisle carrying a red “Stop Harper” sign that she’d pulled from beneath her skirt as Gov. Gen. David Johnston read the new government’s speech from the throne.

The University of Ottawa graduate stood silently holding her hand-painted sign for at least 20 seconds — while the vice-regal made a barely perceptible hitch in his address and a stunned room full of dignitaries and invited guests stared in mute astonishment.

With Harper, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk — among others — looking on, the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons finally escorted DePape out of the Senate.

Six seated justices of the Supreme Court of Canada sat in their ermine robes with their backs to DePape, seemingly oblivious to the drama unfolding three paces behind them.

DePape was nearing the end of her year-long job as a page, and the Senate communications staff said her employment has been terminated.

The stunt was well planned, with a news release popping up in the emails of Parliament Hill reporters minutes after the event.

“Contrary to Harper’s rhetoric, Conservative values are not in fact Canadian values,” DePape, calling herself Brigette Marcelle, said in the release.

“How could they be when three out of four eligible voters didn’t even give their support to the Conservatives? But we will only be able to stop Harper’s agenda if people of all ages and from all walks of life engage in creative actions and civil disobedience.”

In an interview later, DePape said she was “extremely nervous.”

“But, I don’t know, there was something inside of me that said, ‘You have to do this.'”

One Response to “Canada: Brigette DePape Protests Harper Government on Senate Floor”

  1. sapphire says:

    That certainly took guts to do. Most people wouldn’t say or do anything if they were in her position. It is nice to see someone who isn’t a mindless sheep.

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