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22 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
I've often heard that said but honestly it simply doesn't appear to be true. There are tonnes of people in htis country who are caught for crimes 5, 10 , 100 times and stil commit them, often on the same day they get out for the last one.
The punishment element MUST be an influencing factor - and has been said before a finger in jail cna't pull the trigger of a gun.
Having said that all the documents i've seen indicate that capital punishment doesn't significantly raise the deterrence over such options as life in prison.
We are talking very serious crimes of violence on this thread, not the century-beating offender who has been stealing etc. And if we don’t catch offenders we can’t punish them.
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The biggest deterrent to crime is catching offenders and successfully prosecuting them. I think that happens to most of these people.
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It was a bit ridiculous that Soviet judges were present at Nuremberg given the vast canvas of atrocities, certainly war crimes, their army had just committed right across Europe. Because so few were held to account we tend to forget all that. We also have a non-zero number of Soviet war veterans in Canada.
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Toronto is much bigger than the other Canadian cities so comparisons may not be entirely fair.
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8 hours ago, Nationalist said:
Toronto is outback? Bye.
No, sorry, I live in the outback. Cycle lanes are great innovations and I would love to enjoy them in the countryside near big cities. Where I live we don’t have them at all which makes longer trips tough. I don’t think fast cars and bicycles mix well.
8 hours ago, TreeBeard said:If you think Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at #92 is a better place to live than Toronto, go enjoy the sunshine, I guess.
I don’t think that at all but I also don’t think Toronto can be compared to Vienna, say, a truly beautiful city where housing is still affordable for ordinary people. In a Canadian context, I’d rather live in Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary or Victoria than Toronto and they are all ranked higher.
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On 5/2/2023 at 7:36 AM, Nationalist said:
And when I retire, I'll take it all and move somewhere nice. A place where normal folks can still manage to ride bikes without the need for special lanes.
You know what? I admire those cycle lanes and trails, esp. outside the big city. A friend of mine has really taken to them in Burlington. Ontario and Quebec seem to have done a great job there. By contrast you take your life in your hands cycling in outback Canada.
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On this list Toronto at 95’th just about beats Cape Town and is lower than many Canadian cities:
https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings.jsp
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The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) sounds like something in a university rather than India’s external intelligence agency.
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On September 20, 2023, a second patient received a genetically altered pig heart transplant. Additional efforts were made this time to suppress rejection of the heart and screen for the virus that may have helped to kill the first patient.
Some info on a drug used in this second case that should reduce the risk of rejection.
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24 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
well truth be told there are actually a few other sikh groups he was in some pretty intense fights with apparently. He may or may not have been a terrorist, but he was definitely a provocative dick
So i suppose it's possible one of them might have but i think the indian gov't had the biggest beef. He was causing political issues for them
An attack by other Sikhs would have to be kept in a very small circle to avoid detection. As for a criminal cause, no offence to the local hit-man community but 34 shots reaching their target doesn’t sound like them.
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If India didn’t do it what’s the alternative theory? The only half-sensible ones would be local Sikhs involved in some sort of feud or a row with criminals like this seems to have been.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ripudaman-singh-malik-killing-charges-1.6533769
If you were gamblers, sorry, ‘gamers’, which theory would you put your own money on?
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One small blessing for the rest of us - the targets are usually distinctively dressed. Those killed will probably be Sikhs. Of course, the odd bullet may go astray, esp. if you’re firing, like, 50 of them.
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The FBI is obliged to inform US citizens of any credible threat to their lives and that is what it is doing at the moment:
QuotePritpal Singh, a 69-year-old US citizen who serves as a coordinator for the American Sikh Caucus Committee, confirmed to the Guardian that he and two other associates were called by the FBI just days after the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Canadian citizen who was ambushed on 18 June just outside his place of worship in Surrey, British Columbia.
QuoteIn an interview in which he publicly revealed details of the threat for the first time, Amarjit Singh said the initial call from the FBI was followed up a few weeks later by a longer in-person meeting, at which point he said it was obvious that authorities were warning against a possible threat on his life by India.
“It was a warning. They said no travel, just keep yourself safe,” he said. Amarjit Singh said he only decided to go public with his account after Trudeau revealed Canada’s conclusion about Nijjar’s murder.
Some more details on the killing. Given the number of people involved and shots fired, this doesn’t sound like a feud between Sikhs.
QuoteNew details emerged on Monday about the killing of Nijjar. Citing a security video that captured the murder, the Washington Post reported that at least six men and two vehicles were involved in Nijjar’s killing, in what the newspaper said was a larger and more organised assassination plot than has previously been reported. The assailants fired about 50 bullets, and 34 hit Nijjar.
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20 hours ago, taxesanddeath said:
C'mon, that is crazy talk. Now, the Khalistan movement leans forward to the Khalistan referendum which I believe China, Russia, the USA and other South Asian countries like, a move that put India in a very uncomfortable position, who knows, maybe Khalistan will turn into another Bangladesh. So, maybe Sikhs who are supporting the referendum and condemn the actions of KTF behind it.
The Khalistan movement is not even a major threat to Indian security any more. There are bigger insurgencies in that country at the moment.
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I’m a lot more interested in what he’s going to do to sort out homelessness, mental health care and housing in his state. If he ever runs for higher office, that sort of thing will come up.
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1 hour ago, I am Groot said:
If we can't fight back, who's responsibility is that?
Ours, no question.
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12 minutes ago, eyeball said:
The respectability that is provided so many butchers, dictators and monsters in our world is probably our global civilization's, such as it is, greatest Achilles Heel. I'd say the effects and consequences are on par with climate change and amongst the greatest impediments to action.
We're just about completely boxed in.
One of the problems is that we keep on trying to rationalize our military decisions and portray them as purely moral ones: Napoleon was the anti-Christ, no mention of the Tsar; Kaiser, the oppressor of little Belgium but French and Russian empires good; Hitler evil, therefore Stalin not nearly as evil. We should at least be conscious of this tendency.
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While we are criticizing each other the Indians who matter are united against us. They’ve found a juicy target, a wealthy country they resent that can’t fight back.
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6 hours ago, myata said:
And if Stalin, Putin any other murderous, brutal tyrant dictator, of the bunch? Western "pragmatism" may be creating future problems faster than fixing the immediate ones.
The Brits are currently great friends of many mass murderers, including the despot butchering Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. He has lovely houses in London.
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17 hours ago, myata said:
Stalin's gulags were probably more massive than Nazi's. He eliminated his countrymen and of those he occupied in countless droves. A true irony (and travesty) of history is that one of the thugs ended up on the winning side. And we're still trying to sort out the consequences.
How on earth do we expect people at the time in Ukraine who suffered through years of tyranny under Stalin to see the greater evil of Hitler? Obviously, the guy shouldn’t have been allowed in the HoC but let’s not go over the top here.
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18 hours ago, Aristides said:
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill
Easy for a Brit to say. For a Ukrainian the choice was fighting for tyrant A in your country right now or tyrant B who might be better. I’d go for B myself.
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1 hour ago, CdnFox said:
Capable doesn't mean shite.. Putin was capable of it, but i doubt he did it
Capable with motive does mean something. The suspect short list isn’t the whole world here. It’s either a dispute between Sikhs or Modi.
1 hour ago, CdnFox said:Is it to cover up how horribly Justin did on his trip? It's kind of feeling that way at this point.
I will give any Canadian government more benefit of the doubt than that when they speak on such a matter.
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53 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
It should be clear and convincing, if not beyond a reasonable doubt.
Put it this way - even if they can't share all the details with the public they should be able to share some, and they should be able to share them with the opposition AND with other allies, If the opposition says "we've seen the details and we're satisfied india did it" and/or the allies say basically that then great. If they don't , the evidence can't be all that convincing.
The way things are in the world, the UK and US may not wish to get too involved at the moment. Better evidence may take months to emerge, perhaps longer. Until then we’re left with many questions. However, I have no doubt in my own mind that Modi is fully capable of doing this and worse in Canada.
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27 minutes ago, Canadian_Cavalier said:
It's not about fighting on the same side, it's about ideology. The Germans believed everyone who weren't them were inferior. Finns were just fighting for an independent Finland and did not want to genocide anyone. Finland only "chose" to fight the Soviets in the Continuation War, mainly because they had land stolen from them prior. It was either they choose to do that, or the Germans potentially take over Finland themselves and do it anyway.
The USA and USSR fought on the same side in WWII. That didn't make America Communist, nor did it make the Soviets capitalist.
It is partly about ideology. The notion that other peoples were inferior was certainly not restricted to the Nazis at that time in Europe. Many Finns took a dim view of Slavs, for instance.
By fighting with the Soviets the US has to bear some responsibility for the catastrophe that was Eastern Europe after the war but it was a price that had to be paid to defeat Nazism.
Massive Die Off/ Extinction of Conservativism immanent..
in Federal Politics in the United States
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Is there too much oxygen in the atmosphere? Are conservatives anaerobic?