Posted on 02/23/2012 2:24:15 PM PST by Morgana
Yes, I lived there and am aware of that. But as far as I know long gun restrictions are not to onerous and the gun registry is history (supposedly). But, yes, I would miss my handguns!
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Troubling news, but not entirely unexpected coming out of Canada.
Canada: The country where the sister site Free Dominion received so much abuse for it views. Canada: The country where Laura Schlesinger could not air radio programs because of her belief that homosexuality was wrong. Canada: The country where individual Christians have been fined thousands of dollars for their beliefs and have faced hundreds of thousands of dollars in court fines for those beliefs; where courts have ruled that schoolteachers may not publicly express their disapproval of homosexuality either inside or outside of the classroom; where Christians have elected out of necessity to abandon their businesses instead of submitting to court rulings which go against their religious beliefs. Canada: The country whose actions in the culture war have served as templates for homosexual activitists within the United States, where even now we have people being fired, fined, not allowed to graduate from college, or even jailed simply for stating that they believe that homosexuality is wrong.
Yes, Canada seems hopeless. But remember also that Canada has a disproportionate share of some of the greatest heroes of the culture war. Read up on people like Chris Kempling, Scott Brockie, Stephen Boissoin, Hugh Owens, the Surrey School District in British Columbia, Dagmar and Arnost Cepica, Bill Whatcott, John DeCicco, the Knights of Columbus in Port Coquitlam, Fred Henry, Dianne Haskett, Ted and Link Byfield, Brad Woodside, Bob Morrow, and numerous others.
while the 60's hippies were all about free speech, no draft, free sex...in reality, all they wanted was to stop everyone else's free speech and to interfere with everybodys' life...
I don’t like the word “conservative” any more, haven’t for some time. It really is subjective. I prefer “constitutionalist”.
Libertarians would say there should be no government schools nor any government involvement in education. I don’t agree with libertarians on everything, but they do not think people should be forced to associate (remember freedom of association? I seem to recall that being important in this country at one time) with people if they don’t wish to do so.
That is an excuse to permit political correctness to dominate society.
I’m not sure I understand what you are saying. The libertarian view is that people ought to be able to think and say whatever they want, and that it is none of the government’s business.
My reading so far is the Alberta Provincial Conservative Party which has had a virtual lock on the government elected a new very lefty leader in the person of Alison Redford. Everything I have read about her so far indicates she the antithesis of a conservative. Unfortunately a lot of conservative parties around the world are being infiltrated IMHO. Just look at some of the RINOs to get an idea.
LOL.
How can you claim it’s not your problem because you don’t beleive in public schools that exist, make you pay for them and indoctrinate most Americans (voters) throughout their childhood to be amoral/immoral, dependent, globalist, socialists. They come out hostile to the ideology of constitutional freedom if all goes well.
That is like libertarians saying “We don’t believe in rain”, and going about life without an umbrella and rain coat. How about “we don’t believe in taxes”...
It would do the children good to know that they live in a society that seeks to indoctrinate them, rather than in some kind of worldwide beacon of freedom. A lot of today’s problems is that the grown up generation today does not realize that they live under a government that is out to oppress them. Hopefully, the next generation has no illusions in that regard.
I understand that we are saddled with government schools, although I think more and more people are turning away from them every day. What I did was state the libertarian view of the problem. They would solve the fighting over what is taught in schools by doing away with governmet schools. As long as there is public education, there will be constant battles for control over them.
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