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It takes quite an entitled, spoiled, and ungrateful attitude to say that. The only reason you can sit comfortably and type that is because Army Guy and his brothers and sisters protect you from the people that want to kill you and take your stuff. I don't agree with everything he says but holy crap man. I certainly don't agree with everything we did in the Afghanistan War, but it was a just and necessary war, unlike Iraq. If not for Army Guy and co. al Qaeda would still be in Afghanistan protected by the Taliban and plotting to kill you and I. But I'm sure you feel bad for bin Laden et al. It's always our fault, we're the bad guys. There's tyrants and blood on both sides. It's war.

Pacifists think they're honorable because they don't want to fight or hurt anyone. I used to be a pacifist. But there's no such thing as pacificism when others are wanting and trying to kill you or take your land and resources etc, which has been the case since the beginning of history and has never ceased to this day. All it means is you're happy to not fight while you allow others to fight for you to protect you. It means you're naive and hypocritical, whether you know it or not. If we didn't have a military and the US/NATO didn't protect us, China or Russia or whomever else would invade us and take our land. If you think that if we're just nice enough and try to make peace with the people that want to kill us & take our stuff and that we'll all be friends you're wrong. Sometimes it can work, but many other times not. Chamberlain tried to make peace with Hitler and appease him, it didn't work and nothing the UK did would changed Hitler's ambitions. Obama tried to hit the "reset button" with Putin, it didn't work. Sometimes there's just people with bad intentions out there. Your grandparents didn't defeat tyranny with hugs & handshakes. I think you're a kind-hearted person, but you have a very naive and unrealistic view of how the world and human beings work, as is the case for many leftists. Look at Jimmy Carter, a very nice man, but too nice. America's enemies took advantage of his kindness and ate him alive. Happened with Obama to an extent too. Being nice all the time doesn't work, some people will take advantage. Being mean and aggressive all the time doesn't work either, everyone will hate you & never trust you. That's why you need to be somewhere in the middle, which is assertive, in other words you can be nice as long as others are too but you also need to stand up for yourself when people try to push you around. This is as true in life as it is in politics.

To some of us, this is just another footnote in history, but to my darling wife, it is a sad reminder of what one of her beloved aunts survived. She also suffered serious health problems directly as a result of her time there, as no doubt many others did. Sometimes I worry that the constant and consistent rehash of the Holocaust risks fomenting the anger of the skinhead types, and that is no doubt true. But, if you have EVER heard first hand accounts of the Nazi death camps or for that matter the Japanese occupation of China (as I have), then you know that these stories really MUST be told.

Canada will be following U.S. "lead" on Wuhan because Trudeau is brain dead. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/coronavirus-canada-china-consular-1.5444188

I have a Jewish aunt by marriage that was aboard the MS St Louis. She ended-up in France and apparently got aboard the final ship out to the USA before Case Yellow started. She made it to NYC and still lives their to this day. There are many video recordings of her telling her experiences, already. Plus she does things for local schools in that regard. But, she's getting very old. A notable thing she did...other than survive...was act as a consultant for the movie Voyage of the Damned. But, the Voyage of the St Louis is nothing compared to what happened later. Then, there's my erstwhile German uncle who was in the SS (Obersturmführer...or Lieutenant) and knee deep in the Holocaust in the Balkans/Hungary. He was captured by the British while trying to get to Switzerland (after ditching the uniform), but cheated a death sentence by knowing several languages including English. This allowed him to be a trial translator in turn for a POW sentence in Canada at a place called Seebe, Alberta. There the POWs...mainly officers...were put to logging until released. He never left Canada. He died in the 1980s, but I'm sure they'd have made a fuss about him being here these days seeing how they go after ancient camp guards and such still. I still have the medals he managed to keep. I was also surprised to find looking on Yad Vashem...that I had lost over a dozen German relatives to the Holocaust despite not being Jewish. However, marrying Jewish girls was enough to get you hauled away as problematic by the Gestapo. Germany & Austria...perhaps a few others...mark all these citizens....Jewish and non-Jewish...that were victims of the SS with brass tiles known as Stolperstein...stumbling stones. All the ones I found were sent to the Minsk ghetto where they were apparently liquidated in several 'aktions'...where SS men came into the ghetto and just shot everyone.

Every wolf suffers fleas. Tis easy enough to scratch...

Leftist idiocy has turned England into a divided country with a thriving welfare community. Just look at Brexit, they can't get their shit together because everyone is so at odds on major issues. They suck, and we are following their "lead".

The USS Liberty was a spy ship...spying on both the Israelis and the Arabs. The US and Israel weren't allied yet. Try sending your spy ship into a hot conflict zone...do some spying...then get back to us with the results...providing you still have a ship.

To put what I said in context, Shady had stated and I quote: "Imagine if it had originated from a white country. It would probably be deemed racist! " I then responded: "It depends if they are ZOGS oh hell no. Now me, I would not touch the hands of white people. If you touch them, you develop a horrible disorder where you want to boil meat. wear checkered pants, play golf and put mayonnaise on everything not to mention drive Cheverolet Impalas and drink Molson Export Ale and think Shania Twain is exotic." You now above state" "Quote: "Now me, I would not touch the hands of white people". I think that your anti-white people racism is starting to show by the looks of those words you mentioned? Deplorable words indeed." You remove the comment out of its actual context and hey now-tee-hee, pose you did not know it was said in sacrcasm in response to trying to make the Corona Virus outbreak a race issue while in the same sentence utter this effluence: " I wonder what Canada would be like today if we the conservative people of Canada could wash our hands of "ZOGS" and China? Canada could possibly become a great and wealthy nation that it once was once again." You never fail to exhibit your only reason to come on any thread is to exploit the issue being discussed as an opportunity to spew hatred. Oh look a Taxme a mask you can wear and say is to prevent the Corona virus. Its custom made for your head. Do note the point at the top.

Harper brought in 40,000 refugees and they were all privately sponsored and have not cost the country a penny. In regards to the Syrian refugees that have not been privately sponsored some of them are doing miserably and others so-so but still better then what they came from and others have a life far better than what they came from. Why you single them out from all other refugees is interesting. You clearly are concerned for them. Given you have admitted on this forum you only want Caucasians of English descent and "Christian" your comments on this issue are tainted. The statistics as to how refugees are doing is public domain and Taxme could talk to a refugee to find out how they are doing-right. For others, if they do want to investigate the issue of refugees coming to Canada there are many sources: https://www.statista.com/topics/2897/refugees-in-canada/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/syrian-refugees-in-canada-by-the-numbers/article33120934/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/syrian-refugees-struggling-social-assistance-language-barrier-1.4368833 https://globalnews.ca/news/6223499/canada-refugee-policy/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/syrian-refugees-struggle-financially-but-are-happy-in-canada-1.3912906 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35447113 https://theconversation.com/syrian-refugees-in-canada-four-years-after-the-welcome-126312 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231588712_How_Are_New_Refugees_Doing_in_Canada_Comparison_of_the_Health_and_Settlement_of_the_Kosovars_and_Czech_Roma The media of course is not necessarily accurate but it is a starting point. It shows resettling has many problems but nobody claims otherwise. In regards to the cost of refugees it is public domain and no one says government run refugee programs do not cost. We also know the moment the government gets involved there are bound to be deficiencies leading to unnecessary costs..... however does that automatically mean refugees should not come here? Well I would argue it may mean when the government runs a refugee program it might be mismanaging funds but I would argue mismanagement of funds is a separate issue because we know that qhen refugees are privately sponsored they do not cost Canada a damn penny. So given that fact it's not taking in refugees that is necessarily the problem with costs, it's the government's involvement in the process that may be generating inefficiency and unnecessary cost and this is why I argue maybe its time for the government to get out of its current process and let private sponsorship take over and re-route money to actual support of refugees in refugee camps for education, shelter, water, medical services. Here is some stuff on the cost: https://ccrweb.ca/en/pensioners-myth https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/fact-check-do-refugees-get-more-financial-help-than-canadian-pensioners-1.2670735 https://torontosun.com/2017/03/14/the-high-cost-of-illegal-migrants/wcm/a2cdce17-4808-48df-9569-1247cba8bcf0 https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/11/22/bringing-25000-syrian-refugees-to-canada-cost-385m/ https://ccrweb.ca/en/refugee-healthcare-costs https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/irregular-migrants-on-track-to-cost-canada-almost-400-million-watchdog-says-1.4197552 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syrian-refugees-billion-six-years-1.3327780 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/19/cost-of-syrian-refugee-plan-pegged-at-12b-over-six-years.html https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/immigrants-cost-23b-a-year-fraser-institute-report https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/this-is-how-much-money-syrian-refugees-will-cost-taxpayers https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/refugees-give-more-money-to-the-government-than-the-government-gives-to-them-study-says/

Is this topics real of just this poster is Pro Trump.

McConnell tells GOP senators he doesn't have votes to block witnesses Heeeeeeeres Johnny!

Sometime in the future the government will probably pay for everyone's toilet paper and for robots to wipe our a$$es

Bloomberg is dumping so much ad money that we see all his ads in Canada. No wonder the other candidates are miffed at him for showing-up.

Armchair sofa warrior talk. Its easy to sound like a warrior. Before you brag about going to war to an actual soldier, at least wear a uniform. Next you want to go to war, I suggest you understand joining up with the people Kadr did to fight who you consider dictators and warlords is not the act of a hero. Stop romanticizing what Kadr did. He was no hero. Is it just me. The very same people who portray Kadr as a hero against injustice also will quickly flip when its convenient and say he was brainwashed and had no idea what he was doing...so which is it. Oh wait a brainwashed terrorist is a hero. Got it.

“The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can fight Russia over there so we don’t have to fight Russia here.” ---Adam Schiff

You did remove it from its context and I explained why. It was not a stand alone document. It was written to extend the previous one I explained to you. It was not drafted in isolation of it to change it. You and others have chosen to use the term "soldier" to describe "terrorists". You are equating them to be one and the same because they both have weapons. Terrorists are not soldiers. Soldiers are members of armed forces designated by state governments. Terrorists are self empowered criminals who do not recognize any laws. The conventions we have did not and do not contemplate child terrorists only child soldiers. In fact we have no international conventions providing principles as to how to treat terrorists and until we do there is a vacuum in leadership as to how to deal with them leaving each nation on their own to decide how to deal with terrorists within their domestic laws. Again I would state your replies ignore that we can try minors in Canada as adults when the seriousness of their crime can be argued to warrant such a designation. As well your contention there was no evidence he throw a grenade is not true. You are in fact confusing his lawyer's argument that any thing he said was not inadmissible and therefore his confession he threw a grenade was inadmissible with eye witness statements that corroborated what he threw a grenade as well as independent forensic evidence he threw the grenade. They are not the same. More to the point the person he killed did not have his stomach blown out because of an act of God.. They found shrapnel from the grenade throughout his body and they determined the proximity and direction of the grenade being thrown before contact to cause the damage it did which precluded anyone but Kadr from having thrown it. So his confession was not necessary and the issue wasn't whether he threw the grenade but under which law he was held culpable and whether the law could find him culpable. I can tell you under Afghanistan criminal law, there is no diminished capacity argument for brainwashing or differentiation between minors and adults and so he would have been charged and convicted of crimes on Afghani soil including murder. It was because he was removed from Afghanistan and tried under US laws his defence was triggered as it came under US constitutional laws requiring full disclosure of his charges which was never provided him. There is no convention on treating child terrorists that the US agreed to follow, none exist. The US had two choices. Hold him as a prisoner of war in a US miltar prison until hostilities between his terrorist group and Afghan ended, but then he would have had to be released with no criminal record. The US was not obliged to do this as he was not a soldier and therefore covered under the Geneva convention as to treating war prisoners. The US chose instead to create a hybrid mix of domestic criminal and military tribunal procedures to try him but the glaring deficiency was that this hybrid system did not allow him full disclosure of the evidence from which he was charged which four times the US Supreme Court said was unconstitutional and made his trial meaningless under US law. George Bush Jr. tried to amend the law 3 times after the initial US Supreme Court rejection and each time it was struck out. In regards toKadr minor I showed you the assumption he could not be tried as an adult Is not true. You ignored that. Now in regards to your brainwashing defence you confuse it providing a legal defence to criminal guilt with Kadr being innocent . One allows him to be set free and not be found guilty of the crime but his actual innocence remains questionable. An analogy to that would be OJ Simpson. He certainly was found not guilty wasn't he. If you think OJ is innocent good for you. As a lawyer I do appreciate the argument he was/is entitled to a defence of diminished capacity to obtain a lesser sentence but the concept he did not require any conviction from out state at all I question and I will try explain why. The concept of brainwashing absolutely taking control of every part of a person's mind to prevent them from knowing right from wrong is a simplistic fallacy. The degree of diminishment of capacity and therefore the ability to discern right from wrong its not automatically 100% because you say so. That is what has to be questioned through psychiatric exams and cross examination at a criminal trial. What we do know from the studies done on mind control is that the degree of control varies with each individual. More to the point if we accepted Kadr was brainwashed by your simplistic absolute definition that turned him into a mindless zombie we must then accept he still is. and did not end when he was removed from his captors and manipulators which negates everything we know about mind control. As well we know his brother who suffered under the same conditions has renounced the very beliefs, values and behaviour Kadr refuses to and Kadr avoids his brother like the plague. Why? I say that because Kadr to this day will not apologize for what he did, or show remorse or regret for what he did. He has never conceded what he did might be wrong or that violence as a method to impose or express political opinion is a crime, just the exact opposite. In fact in the few public demonstrations allowed of him that were, he showed very clear evidence if anything of a sociopath, someone with a fixed flat expression and no emotion and someone who showed contempt with his face and body when asked certain questions or any question that asked him about what he did and why. Furthermore if Mr. Kadr is noit responsible for his actions, then necessarily his parents are culpable. His father is dead. So why is his mother not in jail for her role if for nothing else than endangering a child and abusing a child? His mother travels to many mosques in Toronto and Canada preaching that terrorism is acceptable and she preaches an Islamic version of Islam that depicts Canadians, our system of laws and government and all non Muslims as infidel and that a war against us is a religious obligation. Her daughter, Kadr's sister also preaches the same message. Both live in a large house on social welfare while describing Canada as an infidel nation not worthy of respect. Kadr has sought contact with them repeatedly while his brother has openly questioned their beliefs he avoids. Why? Next while I can understand as a lawyer the argument that claiming Kadr was a brain washed child tmay warrant a conviction concentrating on rehabilitation not punishment, or even a lower sentence it can not ignore he had some degree of culpability. If it does as you argue, this does NOT mean automatically he was entitled to financial compensation let alone in the amount he was given. He could be totally hard done by in your mind as a victim, but anyone who engages in a crime however innocent he may be in law, under common law is not entitled to PROFIT from that crime which he did. Can and should we argue the $10 million was compensation for being wrongfully placed in prison? How? Even if he was brainwashed as you say he had to be institutionalized. You don't take a terrorist and simply drop him back into the society he left and condemned as an enemy to his religious values. He would have had to have been institutionalized prior to any release. That is not the same situation as a non terrorist wrongfully convicted of a crime he never did. More to the point people who commit violent acts even if they are found not guilty are still subject to detention for psychiatric assessment or treatment. If anything we have released violent people too quickly for fear of detaining them when they are not legally defined as criminals. The $10 million payment I think was an arbitrary amount Trudeau came up with. I think an entitlement to any amount, let alone the appropriate amount should have come from a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada not from Lord Justin of Trudeau. By the way Canadian courts have precluded the spouse of the person he killed to any standing which leads me to this final point. Can please explain as a supporter of Kadr, if he is a good Muslim as he claims has not taken the money he received or even some if it and given it to the spouse and her family. Islam preaches he should have done that. See some of us have read the Koran even though we are not Muslim. We know Islam says in such a situation he should acknowledge the pain and suffering he caused the wife and the deceased's children with an apology and all or some if the money he received as an act of humility and remorse not just to the family but with him before Allah. He has in fact displayed contempt to them both. You can romanticize him, I do not.

Stop overreacting. The coronavirus is nothing more than a virus in the same family of the flu that may lead to complications in those who are afflicted with other chronic health conditions. The risk is to get a viral pneumonia as a result of the virus, and it is likely very rare to get to that point if healthy. For thousands of cases of infections, you get the sick and elderly that may die from it. For regular, healthy folks, no worries. Just like H1N1, just wash your hands more often and if you get it stay home to not contaminate vulnerable ones.

Confronting poorly articulated ideas which are stupid to begin with is rarely much effort.

I'm pretty leery of the way some threads are spun to make something sound ridiculous. This smells like that. Is this the resolution referred to? If so it says that the UK Germany and 162 others voted for it. If I'm wrong then ok but this seems to be the vote referred to. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191120-after-10-years-of-voting-for-israel-canada-supports-pro-palestine-un-resolution/

Just ask them . . . . but make sure you're politically, sexually, culturally correct. you don't want to offend anyone. No need to drop the facial veil. Ask if they would like some money.

it's ironic, and really pathognomonic for the wickedness of the vast majority of states today, that only such a pariah as north korea and zimbabwe condemn the terror poured by Israel on powerless and poor palestinians. With the help of western imperialists, the Jews once plundered (the better) half of the territory on which the palestinians lived. Now, the Jews want to plunder still more territory, and the international community says nothing. Wonderful ! And some clowns here want to shame us for canada being at least this time on the side of the more moral and principled position.

Personally I prefer women around my age. Younger women are just too irritating, vacuous, insufferable and down right stupid.

I feel precisely the same way you do about leaving my fellow human beings under the fists of the dictators and warlords that our side supports. So long as our country chooses that path I'll turn my back on you and your brothers and sisters.