Via Twitter, a lovely 1964 antidote to the week’s Diamond Jubilee gushfest.

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Quebec Students Heckle The Queen

QUEBEC CITY (UPI) — Queen Elizabeth was booed by student hecklers Saturday as she began her controversial two-day visit to this bastion of French Canada.

The booing was heard at least twice as the royal motorcade pulled up in front of the Provincial Legislature. It was the first real incident of the royal visit.

Some 50 policemen — part of the most extensive security force in Canadian history — moved in swiftly to disperse the hecklers. Some minor scuffling took place, but police succeeded in herding the demonstrators away from the main entrance to the Legislature.

Four or five of the hecklers, including Reggie Chartrand, a former Montreal boxer and well-known separatist leader, were taken into custody by members of the special riot squad.

The Queen’s first moments on French Canadian soil — at historic Wolfes Cove where British troops rowed ashore at night two centuries ago to win this province and country from France — were graphic evidence of the mammoth security measures taken to ensure her safety.

The traditional arrival routine — 21-gun salute, royal salute and honor guard inspection, took place inside a shed closed completely to the public and cut off.

On these bluffs, soldiers with rifles kept up a steady patrol. A fair number of of mounted police were inside the shed itself and soldiers lined the route from it almost on a shoulder-to-shoulder basis.

About 4,000 soldiers and police were on duty here in advance of the queen’s arrival. As added security precautions Navy frogmen conducted an underwater search of the cold, murky St. Lawrence where the royal yacht was to berth.

Poot: “Man, every year, everybody’s like, ‘Yeah, these kids out here, they’re a new breed! I ain’t never seen anything like this before! This the end of the world now!'”

Carver: “Look around you, fuckhead. This seem like the dawn of a new day to you?”

Poot: “Can I go now, or you want to slap me up some more first?”

If the voters of Wisconsin throw governor Scott Walker out of office in Tuesday’s recall election, it will be in large part the work of the state’s activist students, who have been organizing against Walker since the day he took office in 2011. For Walker, this is merely the latest chapter in a fight that goes back to before most of today’s undergrads were born.

Scott Walker’s career in electoral politics goes back to the spring of 1988, when he ran for the student body presidency of Marquette University. A 20-year-old sophomore, Walker initially won qualified praise from the campus newspaper, but its editorial board reversed itself after seeing what they called a “pouty” pamphlet put out by his campaign.

In the pamphlet, Walker described opponent John Quigley as a campus radical who was “constantly shout[ing] about fighting the administration” and threatening it with “silly” lawsuits. “Student protests and sit-ins,” he wrote, “are poor substitutes for effective leadership.”

That campaign was also clouded by accusations of campaign violations, including an incident in which Walker campaign staffers stole bulk copies of the campus paper’s endorsement issue.

Walker went on to lose that election by a 57-43 margin. He left Marquette two years later without graduating.

Revolution is in the air:

The student association at CEGEP du Vieux Montréal has come up with a rather unique response to the government’s controversial Bill 78 – and it involves purchasing assault rifles.

At a general assembly on Tuesday, the Association générale étudiante du CEGEP du Vieux Montréal expressed its unhappiness with the “intimidation” and “state violence” in the Liberal government’s “anti-democratic” Law 78, and then proceeded to authorize the purchase of 47 AK-47 assault rifles.

This was a joke, of course, or rather an act of political theater. The student association has no plans to actually buy any assault rifles, which are illegal in Canada anyway.

In case you were worried.

The British Supreme Court ruled moments ago that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest warrant is valid, and that he may be extradited to Sweden to face official questioning on allegations of rape.

It’s important to note that today’s ruling did not concern itself with the specifics of the allegations against him. Those issues were addressed by a lower court, which found that the acts Assange is alleged to have committed would be illegal, and would in some cases be considered rape, under British law.

Today’s ruling addressed the narrow question of whether the Swedish prosecutors who have requested Assange’s extradition constitute a legitimate “judicial authority,” and the court ruled that it did. Assange’s lawyers have been given two weeks to file any further appeals they may wish to lodge.