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Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions (theglobeandmail.com)
Canada has arrested Huawei's chief financial officer on suspicion of violating U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. "Wanzhou Meng, who is also the deputy chair of Huawei's board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities," reports The Globe and Mail. From the report: "Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on December 1. She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday," Justice department spokesperson Ian McLeod said in a statement to The Globe and Mail. "As there is a publication ban in effect, we cannot provide any further detail at this time. The ban was sought by Ms. Meng.
A Canadian source with knowledge of the arrest said U.S. law enforcement authorities are alleging that Ms. Meng tried to evade the U.S. trade embargo against Iran but provided no further details. Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei's alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws.
A Canadian source with knowledge of the arrest said U.S. law enforcement authorities are alleging that Ms. Meng tried to evade the U.S. trade embargo against Iran but provided no further details. Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been reviewing Huawei's alleged shipping of U.S.-origin products to Iran and other countries in violation of U.S. export and sanctions laws.
First sign someone does not know what they are talking about is when they call America a Democracy.
There is nothing democratic about America.
Hillary lost the presidential election because Trump won the electoral college. She got more votes than Trump, because the president of American is NOT elected democratically, where is the "democracy" in that?
When congress creates a law the President can VETO the law. There is NOTHING democratic about a single person being able to veto a law, a super majority is required to overturn a veto... is this a Super Democracy? If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!
In every case in the operation of the American government a Majority can be defeated by a very small minority... there is ZERO democracy in that, not a single freaking speck!
Democracy in ANY form requires a "majority" of some kind and since a minority can destroy the majority puts into place we are not a democracy. We are not even democratically voting in our representatives... representatives can lose to a minority vote anyways, and this problem is even made worse by gerrymandering issues where elections are stacked against certain voters. where is the freaking democracy in that? If you are voting in a democracy then you don't need an executive branch being able to affect any laws. Heck if "democracy" was even possible you would not even need a government because people would enforce what is right or wrong through majority activity anyways. And everyone already knows that would not work... because far too many people actually do not support what is right and far too many people are not just ignorant of things, they are grossly ignorant, easy to buy off and corrupt when it suits their interests... and why the founders specifically set America up to NOT be a democracy and to additionally put in stop gaps to prevent a Democracy as much as possible.
Everyone calling America a Democracy are the same people that falsely mislabel things to socially engineer things to perpetuate a lie. If you are okay with that... then you have no right when people call you how for perpetuating that lie.
America is NOT a democracy and neither is anything Democratically done here. Not even in vaunted California where "democratically elected laws" can be overturned by a single Judge.
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One thing I can tell you for certain is that anyone that espouses "democracy" actually do not support democracy because if they did... they would for starters stop trying to challenge laws in courts to have them overturned. They would instead encourage voters to change the law the way a democracy should change laws... through voter turn out and yet... they don't! The only do one thing... tell people to vote only for those parroting the party lines... they do not vote in candidates that actually run on a platform of actually turning America into a Democracy. Instead they have focused their energy on convincing people of a massive lie, and don't say that is not possible. There are multiple examples throughout history that you CAN fool most of the people most of the time. In fact we are in the information age and misinformation is a problem so serious that problem is in the news labeled as fake news, alt-facts, and people that will seriously debate the simple fact that A is not the first letter of the English alphabet and that science is wrong when it bumps up against their political religion.