by David Eby
The Province has "broken" the story that former RCMP officer Tom Quiggin, who writes a rarely updated and poorly spell-checked blog has written a report that suggests Olympic protesters are planning violent protests around 2010.

Incidentally, you may recall that the the RCMP are sitting on the biggest political land mine we know of currently around the Games, which is that VANOC's budgeted amount for security for 2010 is estimated at about one third of what the actual cost of the security will be.

I'm sure the fact that the RCMP is now trying to justify an incredible security bill (which includes a cruise ship to house the officers in town for the Games) has nothing to do with Mr. Quiggin's alarmist report.

I don't wish to discount the suggestion that people shouldn't throw rocks through the front window of the Royal Bank to make a point about Olympic issues, but rather wish simply to suggest that we don't need a boatload of mounties to deal with that "violent" threat, or other violent threats like public drinking, or lost polish immigrants.

Correction: The original story was actually broken by the hard working reporters at CP, not by those slackers at the Province.