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U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties
A cheeky writer at Canada's Ottawa Citizen newspaper has written a story about the U.S. State Department's 2002 Patterns of Global Terrorism.
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Yeah ! Bomb cars!
Car bombs! Yeah!
So I'm a pervert. Welcome to the Internet.
Always good to know where your priorities are.
It's because of the Canadian government bending over for a minority that is smaller now than other minorities because the English handed the French their ass on a platter over a hundred years ago and felt bad about it.
Mod me if you have to but it is true
http://www.galun.com/misc/seasonal/2002/12/17-Moor e.html - Michael Moore is one of the sleaziest documentary makers/authors around. Almost nothing he says is true. I have to revise this article (that's my next project) because more falsehoods in the movie have been discovered since I wrote it.
Are you really so naive as to believe that the fascism that Ashcroft and Bush are bringing us would prevent a terrorist from nuking an American city?
7 November 2006: The day Americans realized corruption and incompetence weren't addressing 11 September 2001
So, maybe instead of trying to get the damned Canadians to cooperate with us, we should simply launch an advertising campaign in the Islamic world explaining that Canada is the more logical target for their anti-western fringe element.
They haven't been brainwashed for the past 40 years into hating Canadians, so your propaganda will have a lot of catching up to do. The irony, of course, is that they don't really hate Americans; they actually hate their own repressive governments. That hatred has merely been redirected by their state media in the self-interests of their governments. The U.S. has tolerated this practice far too long, to the point that it has put other western nations in danger.
Would the nuking of say, Washington DC, be such a bad thing? If you ask around (I mean OUTSIDE the USA), you'll probably find a majority of people thinking it would, actually, be a positive thing.
You see, you americans have played the world game so stupidly recently with your imperialist manners you've managed to make about 5.5 Billion ennemies, not even counting the ones from within your country. The USA seem to enjoy being the thug and pimp of the planet, and they're going to pay a very, very high price for pissing on everybody else's doorstep.
When your people will be begging for food and jobs (I mean, more than you actually got) after the collapse of your debt-ridden economy, you won't find many friends around to help you, not anymore. And we'll all be looking down at you, as you lie in the graves you're digging now.
so long, yankees. Hope you guys get your act together soon, for it may all blow up in your face sooner than you can expect.
Cheers,
max
-- It's always darker before it goes pitch black.
Germany only had to have democracy and freedom beaten into it. They are surely a great paragon of freedom.
Hahaha.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Well, resisting the temptation to make the usual slew of Candian jokes ... :)
If Canada allowed people to own actual firearms, didn't have even higher tax rates than the US, and didn't force you into crappy socialized medicine, I might consider moving there to avoid the War on Drugs (80s), Save The Children (90s), and The War on Terrorism (00s).
Until then, I'll keep voting Libertarian and writting my congress critters.
I assume all of you bitching about the US don't vote republican or democrat, and thus aren't part of the problem, riiiiight ?
PS: Since I know some Canucks will respond:
1) Your total average tax rates are higher than ours, although it appears that by 2005, that might change.
2) It's about being FORCED into your medical program. That's not freedom.
3) We like guns. You guys used to.
Fact #1
Germany has always been a savage nation. No one is disillusioned about this.
Fact #2
The U.S. used France during the revolutionary war and we continue to pimp slap them. We have no desire to emulate the French ideals that took place in Algeria.
God bless those hundreds of thousands of innocent Algerians who were killed and tortured.
-- You see, there would be these conclusions that you could jump to
Canada is the US's number one oil source, followed distantly by Saudi Arabia. It's also a OPEC nation.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
Why don't you leave? If you distrust the government that much, get out. Trust me we won't miss you, nobody will miss you. Because despite all of the points you just listed, more people flock to the US then any other country in the world. We shell out more money/supplies in a day for foreign aid then most do in a year. I am not saying that we do not have our faults, no country/government is perfect. But all you people who see fit to point the finger at our government, and bitch about a policy you don't agree with, need to think about this - How did your ELECTED officials get into office? Where were you when the PATRIOT act was being written? Did you get involved in some way? Write your congressman, get other of similar thinking to write / email / phone / IM (j/k) anything to get the word out that if you agree with this bill, you will not get re-elected. I can hear your bullsh*t excuses now "Most people do not know what the Patriot Act is all about, or the DMCA or....." Guess what? Rome wasn't built in a day, and REAL change won't either. How about getting off the /. forums and start getting the word out. You love to bitch, but $10 says all you did was sign an electronic petition against the PATRIOT Act if you even did that. Put up or shut up, all of you.
You all know the sayings:
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Bush is President...
Damn right. Any nation where people are raised to speak French SHOULD get the Rome-and-Carthage treatment.
(Speaking of which...anybody notice France is a third-world hole with nuclear weapons? We need to do something about Chirac. If the man were any more of a menace to civilization, he'd be a Green, Democrat, or ChiCom.)
Not true.
It was then when loyalist for England moved north into Canada while freedom loving rebels stayed in the states or moved south from Canada.
About 1/3 of the colonist were loyalist. I am not sure what % moved to canda, england, or elsewhere.
How is it that today Canada is more free then the US?
That is not really true. It is not true that they are less free. It helps that Canada seems to be going for a free ride (WTO, US Defense of the West and North America). Creeping socialism in Canada is starting to have a negative effect.
Americans love freedom and credit the revolution but support the president and look at anyone non conformist as unpatrotic.
This is a very simplistic statement. It is simply not true.
Guess what? Bush is the one who is unpatrotic.
In what sense is he un-patriotic?
Many Americans are becoming wary of not only his economic record but his horrendous foreign policy.
The poll number they show on National Security issues on the news do not back this up.
The anti-American left and the supporter of militant Islamic dictators feel this way. To them stability means, dictators stay in power, and terrorism against the West continues. To them stability also means the US does nothing .
He really could overreact and create a nuclear war if he is not careful.
In what sense has overreacted? What scenario are you considering here? China Russia? North Korea?
I think Powell definitely acted inappropriately in Syria yesterday.
In what sense? If anything, the US is taking a soft line to Syria. Are you upset that they were asked to expel Iraqi leaders they may have given sanctuary too? Are you upset that Syria was asked to stop supporting multiple terrorist groups?
I think what you meant to say was:
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Your shepherd might tell you he is working for your interests - but you are still on a sheep farm my friend.
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