Quebec Anti-Anglos At It

We interrupt this solid month of rememberances of Gerry Ford to bring this other recollection from the 70s:

The Quebec Sovereigntist group, the FLQ, which carried out a string of bombings in the 60s and 70s in Quebec, is threatening to kill English-speakers in Montreal, for the month between February 15th-March 15th.
> They're targeting West-Island locales where people gather -- shopping malls, highways, and specifically businesses with signage which is not French-first, that sort of thing. It's not really clear what's bringing this out now. In the last election, the Sovereigntists did poorly -- following a scandal which brought down the ruling Liberal party, most Quebeqers changed their vote rightward -- to the Conservatives, who now rule Canada -- instead of leftward (ie., toward the sovereigntists, in the form of the Parti Quebecois).

So, other than this being horrendous, I'm not horribly worried. I live downtown, not on the West-Island (although, strictly speaking, by French Montrealers standards, downtown is the West Island). Sure, I work at the prime English language university downtown, so, maybe that's a target. Even so, the police don't believe the group is necessarily capable of carrying out the attacks; and I'm sure publishing that in the paper just discouraged the FLQ, and they'll probably just give up.

yikes.