This was an age in Canada when many of the young and disillusioned of the liberal left became enchanted with communist revolution and the infamous characters that brought it about.  It became a fashion statement, to wear maoist agrarian clothing, having a copy or having read his pocket sized red book, Che, the Cultural Revolution, Fidel, Gadaffi, Israel, Arafat, Mugabe, Vietnam, Angela Davis, et al. It was also the origins of overlooking collateral damage as it was a means to achieve the end.

The FLQ consisted of people who knew better than anyone else.  When democracy became a setback, they chose a marxist path of violence aimed at the federal government, the provincial government, English speaking Quebecers, business, and industry, in their quest to be recognized as harbingers of revolution.  The FLQ severely injured a postman who never recovered, kidnapped a good man playing football with his son, and slowly strangling this man to death with an article of his Christian faith.