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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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Blame canada! It's their fault
You mean I not only get to smoke pot, enjoy less crime, and get free healthcare, I get my civil liberties too!!!!
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Squirrel
Does Canada have any oil ressources?
Now government agencies have even stopped pretending that the U.S. is the paragon of freedom.
No the us have long ago 'liberated' alaska.
Jilles
Canada's weapons of mass destruction.
I agree. Canadians must answer their unleashing of Celine Dion on the free world.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
I think Bush put it thus:
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
-George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
imagine how trivial invading across an undefended border would be....
I dunno... General Hull tried this in 1812, and got his ass whipped.
You just don't understand. Dubya just wants to take our rights and keep them in a safe place for us. That way the terrorists can't get them, don't ya see? All our rights are still there. We may even get to take our kids to see them someday. They'll be preserved in pristine condition in hermetically sealed jars. We should thank Dubya for taking such good care of our rights!
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
It's called Diplomacy!
Linux is only free if your time has no value. Windows is only free if you threaten to use Linux.
Moreover, Celine Dion is from Quebec!! She's a secret weapon of the French to invade North America!!
Until the Bush administration goons shut down Slashdot for all the liberal anti-administration conversations going on here, I think you still have your liberties.
The propaganda machines are up and running to prepare for another liberation. Tomorrows headlines: Canadian bacon is people!
As a Finn, that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside... Beer..... Hockey.... More beer.....
ObSatireWire: Canadian warship seizes tanker in... wait... Canada has a warship?
just my $.02 CAD (or $.0170 US)
Isn't that a bit optimistic for an exchange rate?
I swear, this is a true story, and still cracks me up today. My wife and I took our honeymoon through the Canadian Rockies (hiking, 2-day train ride, whale watching, etc). It was really awesome, and everyone was really nice. As the train pulled out of Vancouver, there was graffiti on the overpasses. Just your normal tags, people's names and whatnot. As we started to get to the edge of Vancouver, there was a big graffiti mural on one of the overpasses. What did it say?
"Welcome to Vancouver"
Even the damn graffiti is polite! I still can't believe it, and it cracks me up every time I think of it. I wish I would have gotten a picture of it.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Thank you, Amber, what a delightful site. I'm looking forward to the movie, no doubt starring Leslie Neilsen.
The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. -- William Gibson
Jim Dandy...
How's tourism anywhere in the US since the War?
Never by hatred has hatred been appeased, only by kindness - the Buddha
Me Hulk, me smash puny humans. Me bend boom sticks, makes Hulk angry.
What? Oh, General Hull.
*cough* I better move on then...
Carbon based humanoid in training.
Yeah, because assault, homicide, and other violent crimes generally take place outside. And in Canada, it's too fucking cold to go outside 90% of the year.
> So please stop with the "Blame Canada" rhetoric.
Can we at least blame Manitoba?
I think this bumper sticker says it all: http://www.wellwhatthe.com
If the US wants to have any credibility whatsoever with the war-for-freedom rhetoric, they should at least stop supporting the worst dictators on the planet.
It should invade them instead.
I can understand the Dane's uneasiness over Denmark's support of the US invasion, but as a Canadian I must say that I thought sending a submarine to a desert war was a stroke of pure diplomatic genius. No fear of US reprisals for not 'supporting' their 'war on terrorism' and yet the actual support provided was essentially nil.
I am proud that Canada didn't support the invasion of Iraq, but part of me wishes we'd sent a few of our 50 year old SeaKing helicopters to 'help' the Americans so we don't have to worry about the economic fallout of not 'helping' the US invasion.
Personally I score 1 for the Danes.
(BTW, if Denmark sent ground troops as I read your post to suggest please excuse my ignorance, our news tends to focus on US, UK, and Australian troops)