You know, with all the attention this blog has started to get thanks to AUPE's going after our supporters, I was all prepared to write a post today about how things in the last while have NOT been as bad as before. Aside from the political rallies and hoo-rah visits and photo opps with AUPE executives, things have actually improved.
Yes, they are still picketing our private homes, but they aren't blocking people's cars anymore.
Yes, they still target some people more than others for verbal harassment, but it's not as excessive as it was.
Yes, some of our members have to use the back door to the high rise to get in and out of their homes to avoid the picketers, but that has more to do with the residual effects of previous behaviour than current actions.
I was actually going to defend the picketers, because as bad as they can still get, we don't want them to be accused of doing things they aren't anymore. I was even going to give them some credit for their improvements.
Then a member sent in some images.
First, some background.
Trespassing has long been an issue, even taking the 4 ft easement into account. We've put private property signs all over the place. Some of them came down due to weather damage, and yesterday, a few of them got replaced.
Another issue we've found disturbing is that a couple of the picketers keep bringing their kids to the picket line. One in particular has two little ones she'd let run around all over the place, including down the hill and into where the below-street-level townhouse doors are.
Now we have this. These are screen captures from some video we don't have a copy of, yet.
Yup.
Today, while the picketers were here, they allowed the kids to not only run around up and down the hill and into the townhouse area (because of the 4 ft easement rule, the picketers can't go down there, which means the kids are completely unsupervised, as well as being allowed to trespass on private property), but allowed them to wreck one of the replaced private property signs.
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