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What a strange place Canada is
The Globe & Mail ^ | January 21, 2008 | EZRA LEVANT

Posted on 01/21/2008 6:42:22 PM PST by forkinsocket

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To: Grizzled Bear

I’m tired of hearing about government-enforced Islamist PC bullcrap.

Just let me know when it’s time to lock and load. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.

):^(


21 posted on 01/21/2008 7:16:43 PM PST by elcid1970
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To: forkinsocket
...Canadian government...introduce[d] laws limiting free speech. The targets of those laws were...neo-Nazi cranks and conspiracy theorists such as Ernst Zundel and Jim Keegstra — nobodies who were turned into international celebrities when they were prosecuted for their thought crimes

Hate crime legislation is wrong. Give the government the power to prosecute something and eventually they will prosecute to the limit of their budgets and ask for more.

22 posted on 01/21/2008 7:18:38 PM PST by Cruising Speed
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To: forkinsocket
We're only entitled to our opinions now if they don't offend some very easily offended people.

At this point I really wonder if this is much more about intimidation than it is "taking offense."

23 posted on 01/21/2008 7:21:40 PM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: BenLurkin

“Al Qanada”..


24 posted on 01/21/2008 7:22:51 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: forkinsocket
You must learn to love Big Sister.


25 posted on 01/21/2008 7:23:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: denydenydeny
At this point I really wonder if this is much more about intimidation than it is "taking offense."

No need to wonder. It is. & when these types of people demand apologies, what they're really demanding is a surrender.

26 posted on 01/21/2008 7:23:51 PM PST by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

God this scary!


27 posted on 01/21/2008 7:29:37 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Live free, or die chained.


28 posted on 01/21/2008 7:34:10 PM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“It may appear that way, but they are actually terrified of it. “

I think you are wrong on this. They are showing how much more open and accepting they are of muslims than their American neighbors. They aren’t terrified. They are PC sheep.


29 posted on 01/21/2008 7:34:42 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: BenLurkin

Seriously, BL? Hard to believe this is happening in our lifetime? This kind of stuff has always been going on, in most of the world, for most people. Used to be primarily religious in nature, burning heretics, Star Chamber inquisitions, witch trials, pogroms, and the like, but French liberty, equality and fraternity, enlightened skepticism, and Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao all got the bit in their teeth & bolted. Our House Un-American Activities Committee got its start under Roosevelt, before the war, and once war came, even the most open-minded among us clearly saw that all those Americans of Japanese descent just had to be camped up because we just couldn’t trust ‘em, hayna? This kind of stuff has always been going on; I’ve just mentioned a few examples that popped into my head. The beat goes on.


30 posted on 01/21/2008 7:42:01 PM PST by flowerplough (Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor: "We Minnesotans who aren't gay often wish we could be.")
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To: forkinsocket

Do you guys have a reset button on your constitution.

It might be labled as “The 2nd amendment”

I don’t know what you would call it up there.


31 posted on 01/21/2008 7:49:53 PM PST by kennyboy509 (Ha! I kill me!)
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To: forkinsocket; Saoirise

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This is my own personal version of the Mad Mo cartoon. Guess I’ll be getting my hearing soon.

“Ms. McGovern” is that her REAL name or do they give you a new one when you become part of the facist thought police?


32 posted on 01/21/2008 7:52:11 PM PST by 444Flyer (Sola scriptura)
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To: forkinsocket
It wasn't even a question about what we had published in the magazine.
It was a question about my private thoughts.


Canada: Where the thought police are real.
33 posted on 01/21/2008 7:57:20 PM PST by VOA
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To: 444Flyer

*<:(

Can’t decide which one is a better resemblance to the real guy.


34 posted on 01/21/2008 7:57:31 PM PST by 444Flyer (Sola scriptura)
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To: forkinsocket

I’d have thrown the bitch out on her ear. End of discussion.


35 posted on 01/21/2008 8:01:26 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: forkinsocket

Canada opens itself to being taunted as “McCarthyite”.


36 posted on 01/21/2008 8:03:59 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: 353FMG; purpleraine; Cindy; F15Eagle; nw_arizona_granny; Convert from ECUSA; American in Israel

Ping on free speech death in the West.


37 posted on 01/21/2008 8:17:08 PM PST by 444Flyer (Sola scriptura)
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To: forkinsocket

Ballets dont fix this kind of a problem only bullets will.


38 posted on 01/21/2008 8:22:29 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon
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To: 444Flyer

Thank you for the ping 444Flyer.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947527/posts?page=834#834

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html


39 posted on 01/21/2008 8:29:09 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Grizzled Bear
I would welcome Freedom Loving Canadian refugees as long as they entered openly and declared themselves.

Thank You. That is the only way it should be.

The good 'ol USA has always been dear to my heart, because:

1) It's one of the greatest countries on the planet.

2) My grand parents were American's.

3) My dad was born in America. 

4) My sibling(s) have worked or are still working in America. The has   worked sibling was transferred by Nortel from Calgary, AB., Canada to Dallas, TX., USA; the still working  is enjoying his twentieth year, along with his American better half, in the health care profession. Both siblings went through the arduous process of gaining their Green Card.

5) I have  a gazillion American relatives.

6) I worked for an American that had a company in Canada. (The trade show circuit in the USA was always a blast. Oh, the good old days!)

7)  I could go on, but I'll stop here.

You have a great country, but be ever so vigilant  not to loose all your freedoms, which, I'm afraid my beloved Canada has.

Cheers. Your are a great American. 

40 posted on 01/21/2008 8:31:54 PM PST by mirado ('...)
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