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Toronto police lay 'unprecedented charge,' say man allegedly held 'terrorist flag' at protest
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| Jan 11, 2024
Posted on 01/11/2024 9:28:51 AM PST by jerod
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While I commend the Toronto police for charging these HAMAS loving protestors... I have reservations when it comes to charging people with 'hate crimes'... It's a bit too Orwellian for me.
Why not just arrest them for being the nuisances that they are.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:28:51 AM PST
by
jerod
To: jerod
I also get leery when the controlling authority is something with a wonky name like “Public Safety Canada”. That sounds too much like the folks implementing the Reigb of Terror during the French Revolution.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:34:55 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: jerod
You don’t know the flag… could be the Canadian flag for all we know
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:35:24 AM PST
by
Skywise
To: Skywise
could be the Canadian flag for all we know...
Or ours.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:38:17 AM PST
by
xkaydet65
To: Skywise
Or the Israeli flag, most likely.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:44:22 AM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: Eagles6
Israeli flag was my first guess.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:49:57 AM PST
by
READINABLUESTATE
(Make orwell fiction again)
To: jerod
Could be the Red Ensign, which was Canada's flag before the Maple Leaf was adopted in the 1960s. Some Canadian nationalists use the Red Ensign.
To: READINABLUESTATE; Eagles6
I don’t think either of you seriously believe it was the Israeli flag.
To: Angelino97
I wouldn't doubt, at all, that this was a counter protestor.
We shall see.
Justine Castreau is beyond woke and LEOs are completely subservient.
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posted on
01/11/2024 9:58:43 AM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: jerod
Not sure I believe Canuck Cops or “journalists” about anything they label “Hate Crimes”, I need to see the exact offending flag before even starting an investigation into the incident.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:08:14 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Celebrate Decivilization)
To: jerod
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:11:57 AM PST
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: Skywise
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:14:24 AM PST
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: jerod
To: lastchance
To: Angelino97
My father was a Sergeant in Cyprus during the 1964/65 UN intervention when the red ensign was lowered for the last time on February 15th, 1965... He refused to raise the new flag. He had fought and lost friends fighting under Canada’s original flag and he never did like the new one and always said... “A red maple leaf, is a ‘dead’ maple leaf”
Canadian’s have now fought and died under the ‘dead’ maple leaf in Afghanistan, so I guess we can accept it now.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:23:38 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: jerod
You would think the flag should be green leaf. A red maple leaf is a dead maple leaf.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:31:22 AM PST
by
Jumper
To: jerod
You know the drill, the go after a few creeps with the law at first and then apply it to thousands of regular citizens. All hate crime laws are nothing but thought crime laws.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:31:53 AM PST
by
wildcard_redneck
(He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
To: Jumper
Liberal means ‘red’ in Canada... The liberals love red. If the government was conservative, it would’ve likely been a blue or green maple leaf.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:38:26 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: Navy Patriot
"Not sure I believe Canuck Cops or “journalists” about anything they label “Hate Crimes”, I need to see the exact offending flag before even starting an investigation into the incident."
I agree. And that's also why I don't trust American "hate crime" statistics. Based on specific instances I've read about - over and over - there appears to be a significant bias in determining what is and is not a hate crime, and these decisions reflect the usual left-wing biases.
To: wildcard_redneck
"All hate crime laws are nothing but thought crime laws."
Example: It's not even a crime to burn an American flag, but it's a hate crime to burn a "Pride" flag.
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