FLQ wanted air time, not revolution

[CHIMO]

Almost 40 years after the October Crisis of 1970, a pair of Radio-Canada documentaries has revealed new details about events surrounding the kidnappings of former British trade commissioner James Cross and ex-Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte.

The ultimate aim of the Quebec terrorist group behind the abductions — the Front de Libération du Québec, or FLQ — was to hijack the country's airwaves, former members told CBC's French-language service in exclusive interviews.

"We made it clear to Cross that we would never kill him," said Jacques Lanctôt, who was only 24 at the time and leader of the FLQ faction known as the Liberation cell, which snatched Cross from his Westmount home on Oct. 5.

"We were just using him to get what we wanted."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/09/23/october-crisis-40th-anniversary.html


Canadian soldiers guard the streets of Montreal after the War Measures Act was invoked on Oct. 15, 1970. (Canadian Press/Montreal Star)

[Spazito]

1. Uh huh, they keep trying to whitewash their history...

I sure as hell am not buying it. I lived in Montreal at the time and they were domestic terrorists, plain and simple.

[HEyHEY]

2. Oh, we "accidentally" strangled the guy