Liberal supporters targetted: Saboteurs cut brake lines on cars; one victim narrowly escapes tragedy

All parties should denounce these terrible attacks immediately; the Conservative Party of Canada has a special obligation to go beyond simple cooperation with the police and actively hunt down these criminals within its own midst.

There are two child seats in the back of my car. To cut the brake line on a car like that is just evil. Awful. You have to crawl under someone's car and cut the brake line, knowing that it could kill someone, or their whole family. Andrew Lane, CFO for incumbent Liberal Dr. Carolyn Bennett's campaign

The headline reads "vandalism" but its in fact sabotage and attempted murder :

Toronto police patrolled a midtown area overnight, after vandals cut brake lines on at least 10 cars parked at homes with Liberal election signs on their lawns.

"We're investigating. Officers are paying special attention to the designated area and we take this very seriously," Staff-Sgt. Shawn Meloche, from 53 Division, said last night. "This is a danger to life as well as to property. Regardless of the motivation – and there appears to be a connection (to the [Liberal campaign] signs) – this is a public safety issue."

Affected residents live in the riding of St. Paul's, in a swath of the city around Eglinton Ave. between Bathurst St. and Mount Pleasant Rd., and had Carolyn Bennett signs on their property. Although Meloche confirmed 10 cases of vandalism last night, Liberal riding headquarters said the number was going up, reporting 14 by 9 p.m. The Toronto Star, 5 Oct. 2008

No blame is being assigned in the news reports to date but I shall, unfairly some may say, assume that Conservative Party supporters are behind these evil attacks.

Why? I've witnessed first hand virulent anti-Liberal hatred spewing from Conservative party supporters in the past. After David Emerson shocked constituents by switching parties to the Conservatives the day after he was elected, a citizen-led non-partisan campaign arose to protest and fight Emerson and Stephen Harper.

As one of the leaders of that campaign I witnessed on many occasions Conservative party activists and supporters taking aggressive and often times illegal action. They continually stole or destroyed our campaign's lawn signs, impersonated city officials to intimidate supporters, shouted racially based insults at supporters and in other ways not reported they regularly intimidated and threatened De-Elect David Emerson Campaign activists.