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This deserves at least one comment before it leaves the front page. I don't think I'm the best person to write it. I only met Matt a few times. We were not friends. Maybe we could have been, if I had ever lived in Ottawa, but I didn't and we weren't. I don't know very much about him at all; in fact, I learned a great deal from reading this obituary, and then from talking to people who knew him better, who could speak as well to at least some of the reasons he might have been alienated from others in the anarchist scene.

It is clear enough that his death is a fucking tragedy and should have us all enraged. He deserved better. He was also dedicated to his ideas and to a movement that was larger than he was, and while that doesn't excuse anything shitty he may have done (I am sure there is a lot to discuss there, as there would be with literally just about any white man in North America), it is something I respect a lot. I am glad people are thinking about him these days, and I hope they will continue to do so.

RIP and fuck the police, in Ottawa particularly.