Peter Hopperton, 31, is charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence after an incident in which masked mob threw rocks at cars and businesses and set off fireworks.
On March 3, a masked mob of about 30 people in black clothing marched down Locke Street throwing rocks at cars and businesses, breaking windows and lighting fireworks. They caused about $100,000 damage.
Late Friday morning, Hamilton police announced they had arrested Peter Hopperton, 31, at a residence near Cannon and Hess streets — a place they were also searching for evidence that morning.
He is charged with conspiracy to commit an indictable offence.
Police said information from the public as well as other electronic evidence led to Hopperton’s arrest.
Hamilton police say Hopperton is the operator of The Tower — an anarchist gathering space and collective on Cannon Street East.
In the wake of the vandalism spree, an anonymous poster on a Facebook account linked with The Tower previously denied that group was behind the vandalism, but expressed support for the tactics.
Stalinist fools.
They are Anarchists not Stalinists. Stalin did not approve of anarchy. According to an uncle of mine who lived through the Bolshevik Rebellion and fled the country just after the Great War, Josef Stalin was a man who liked things well ordered. No surprises was good.
Later, when Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union he made it a point to eliminate thoroughly any and all forms of anarchy.
The Communist Justin Trudeau should be arrested too.
Gospodin Yepiskop Show me a picture of PM Beiber’s Communist Party Membership Card.
Only a true believing Red Communist SOB would express an admiration for the Chinese Communist slave state.
There is no Chinese Communist slave state. The last true Chinese Communist was Mao Zedong. Since then the country has marched to a capitalist beat and under Xi Jinping it’s becoming more Imperialist than Communist.
And if the Chinese are slaves to the state then they are rather rich slaves. They descend upon Tokyo, New York, Paris, London, Vancouver, Milan and the other big, world famous tourist traps in droves, spend lots of money buying expensive junk like electronics, designer fashions, designer perfumes and big ticket items like cars, jewelry, yachts and other miscellaneous nouveau riche junk. Currently there are over 400 billionaires on Forbes list of richest people in the world with the oldest being in his 80’s and the youngest in her 20’s. In 2016 there were over 1.6 million millionaires in the country and those numbers are growing as the Chinese middle class- defined as people with over $200, 000 in personal assets is also growing.
If all the money in China was divvied up evenly China would be poorer than Botswana. They steal technology. They abort their female children. They cut the organs out of political prisoners. They really deserve to be nuked in a massive first strike. Hopefully while Justin and his cabinet are on a state visit.
Things are never equal in life… Divy up the wealth of all the US billionaires and millionaires amongst the American people and they’d be poorer than the poorest Chinaman. The difference is the poor Chinaman would take that money and use it to make himself and his family richer. The poor Yank would just use it to buy drugs, booze and hookers.
Yeah, the Chinese cut up all their nastiest prisoners and turn them into black market organ donors. It sucks! But, that’s what they call the Death Penalty over there. Lots of people don’t like it. Possibly the people who hate it the most are the criminals who get sentenced to die in this manner. In fact some of them never die as they become black market test subjects for experimental medical implants.
The stupidist thing the Chinese ever did was pass the One Child Law. At that time it was the only way they could think of to cut down on China’s fast growing population. So, after decades of Mao Zedong’s pushing for big families so he’d have lots of cannon fodder for his planned wars with Russia and China’s neighbouring countries, the Chinese Politburo decided to cut back on population growth and shelve their plans for military domination.
I remember a co-worker of mine back in the 70’s making a joke about how there was going to be a lot of gayboys in China after news of this policy hit the Canadian news services. I don’t know if he was ever proven right about the dramatic increase of gays in Chinese society but the real downside is the elderly. 44% of China’s population are over the age of 60 and peak aging is expected to top out in 2050. After that there is going to be a huge population crash mirroring what Japan is experiencing now.
So, the PRC is the elephant in the room? What are you going to do about it? Push the Big Red Button? Remember the Chinese have more nukes than the combined arsenals of the US, France, the UK and Russia. They’ve also got a Big Red Button.
What’s your next brilliant plan look like? Is it as stupidly suicidal as this one was?
That’s why I support a massive first strike.
You do know the retaliation is automatic and immediate and would be far in excess of whatever was sent towards the Chinese.
You do know that several millions of Chinese would survive the attack in safe bunkers with sufficient supplies to recover. But, that wouldn’t matter to you as you’d just be an interesting shadow on a wall.
I do not know that it’s automatic or immediate. If their missiles are like some of the other crap they produce I’d be surprised if they made it across the Pacific. If they did launch a massive strike the Indians might take their chance on hitting them from behind.
The Chinese missiles work.
Given the opportunity the Indians would rather take out the Pakistanis. Personal grudges are a wonderful thing.
Some of those POS were born around when the communism vanished . They have no idea what is that, but they are demanding it. I would like to see them in a former communist prison for a few days. Would be a lifetime experience if they would survive it.
Idiots… The Gulag would eat them alive.
This is the same yappy asswhipe that was raising shit a couple of weekends ago