**********RELATED: This is Toronto, 2009
When the cops told us it was too dangerous for us to stay, I grabbed the flag from the barricade, not wanting to leave it to the tender mercies of the city's furious cab drivers, terrorist supporters and welfare cheats (the Khadr family was there) assembled only a few feet away.*
As we left, a gang of very young masked dudes with foreign accents screamed at us second- and third- generation Canadian taxpayers, "Go home! Go home!"
One of them was holding up a Hezbollah flag and the other, a Canadian flag.