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By the time irrefutable evidence comes out the debate will have moved on.
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The Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe involved countless war crimes but of course Nuremberg had nothing to say about them.
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1 hour ago, Canadian_Cavalier said:
As an Eastern European Canadian this is where I draw the line. Finland unfortunately had to be on the same "side" as Germany for most of the war but it was fighting independently with its own army. Finland later fought against Germany in the Lapland War with very little Soviet support.
When you have someone who was part of the Waffen SS and not an independent army, that's where you must consider things. Especially since this guy spoke on the eve of Yom Kippur, lol.
I’d be slow to condemn anybody facing the Soviet threat but why does having your own army make you less complicit? Finland chose to fight alongside Germany in Operation Barbarossa and only changed sides when it was clear the Germans were heading for defeat.
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People in wartime Eastern Europe faced ghastly moral dilemmas we have been spared.
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People get so excited about this topic. Is one of the fears here that kids are going to be ‘turned gay’ or something? That’s unlikely.
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On 9/22/2023 at 12:28 PM, I am Groot said:
The Liberals have no morality when it comes to votes. So sure, they could be giving them their backdoor support for votes. Why wouldn't they? This is the party that refused to outlaw or condemn the Tamil Tigers during their savage attacks in Sri Lanka because of a few Toronto ridings that had high Tamil voter numbers they wanted. Plus, they're led by a man whose every waking minute is spent trying to figure out how to make himself more popular.
I don’t think any mention of Tamil Tiger savagery is fair without including the decades of injustice faced by Tamils in Sri Lanka. Quite apart from the war, there’s another reason so many left. They were punished relentlessly for their success in business and academics.
What is utterly disgraceful but not surprising is the fact that Canada treated such migrants far better than India, their ancestral home:
https://jrs.net/en/story/after-40-years-sri-lankan-tamil-refugees-in-india-need-durable-solutions/
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We’re focused on our issues here, what we did wrong, but an emerging superpower will change that. Modi’s illiberal regime targets Christians, Muslims, Dalits and secular Hindus, both at home and abroad. The campaign is not as centrally directed as the one from our friends in Beijing but there’s no doubt the government approves.
QuoteJangam is one of several Canadian academics whose work relates to India who say they are being harassed and threatened by diaspora groups for being critical of both the country's politics under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva, the right-wing political ideology it espouses.
"There is a growing violence against Muslims and Dalits," said Jangam, who is Dalit — the lowest strata of the Hindu caste system. It's a group previously called "untouchables" because their low status meant they weren't even touched by others.
"I come from that background. I have a social responsibility and also moral responsibility to speak out."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/academics-harassed-criticism-india-politics-1.6402486
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While you certainly don’t have to agree with him, Ujjal Dosanjh should always be listened to on issues relating to the Indian subcontinent. He paid a serious personal price, almost his life, for criticizing Sikh extremism in Canada and has just written a novel that features India’s original sin, casteism, in England.
https://thewire.in/books/the-obstinacy-of-caste-followed-sikh-immigrants-to-britain-too
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17 hours ago, betsy said:
Why?
Where's your evidence that Modi did.
Suddenly, we’ve all those Hindutva Modi fans about the place. Just because a foreign thug doesn’t like JT, that doesn’t make him a good guy.
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There’s our own failure to curb violent Sikh extremism over the years (which, thankfully, is much less serious in India than it was) and then there’s a bigger issue - an emerging superpower lurching towards an institutionalized form of hysterical Hindu bigotry. The second threatens any South Asian critic of Modi in our country: Christian, Muslim, Dalit, secular Hindu, you name it. Like our chubby friend in China, this boy sees dissent anywhere as something he must stamp out. Let’s at least be clear about that.
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5 hours ago, taxesanddeath said:
My fd, you already posted a few sources already. They all reported a similar "stuff." I believe no one cares (at least me) who gave some info to whom. It is because I think no one gave a smoking gun to Canada yet. So, we all want to know how JT or his minions came up with the conclusion that India was behind the slaying of the Sikh leader in Surrey,
I’m not sure how concrete you expect the evidence to be if we didn’t apprehend the assassins themselves. The Indian govt isn’t really making the noises of a horribly defamed party at this stage. Why not give Canada, our country, the benefit of the doubt and forget JT is at the helm for a second?
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At this stage many Canadians are denying Indian involvement more indignantly than the Indian government itself is managing which says something. The signals from New Delhi are ambiguous, along the lines of ‘prove we did it and if you do we don’t care’ that we’ve often heard from other countries over the years. As regards evidence, I hope everybody knows we are not going to get a signed and notarized confession from the assassins any time soon.
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Corruption isn’t a particular vice of the MAGA movement. They have just as much as any other faction. It’s their approach to America’s problems that pose the difficulty. That level of tribalism, paranoia and irrationality are incompatible with a modern pluralistic state.
BTW the person at the centre of last corruption trial Menendez went through, Dr. Salomon Melgen, was pardoned by Trump.
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I get the impression that Sikh extremism ain’t what it was in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Punjab,_India
The country has more serious problems elsewhere.
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It’s hard to believe in Bob Menendez. His story is so garish. Look at the gold bars this time and the exporter of halal meat (really) who wasn’t even a Muslim. For a politician, he showed little skill at the vital game of brown envelopes and should have been deselected by his own party after the last brush with justice:
QuoteIn 2013, reports surfaced that a federal grand jury in Miami was investigating Menendez's role in advocating for the business interests of Florida ophthalmologistSalomon Melgen, a close friend and major donor.[182][183] On April 1, 2015, the United States Department of Justice indicted Menendez and Melgen in United States v. Menendez (3d Cir. 2016). The charges against Menendez included bribery, fraud, and making false statements.[184] According to the indictment, Menendez asked top State Department officials to pressure the Dominican Republic's government into enforcing a port-security contract that would benefit Melgen's company while at the same time Melgen was promising to give $60,000 to Menendez's campaign.[185] Prosecutors also charged that Menendez acted as Melgen's "personal senator", helping obtain visas for several of Melgen's girlfriends.[186][187] In return, Menendez was accused of accepting a range of perks from Melgen, including trips on Melgen's private jet, three nights at a five-star Paris hotel, a round of golf at a private club in West Palm Beach and access to an exclusive Dominican resort—some of which Menendez allegedly failed to report on financial disclosure forms.[184] Melgen also donated a substantial amount of money to Menendez's political campaigns, and prosecutors claim that $750,000 of those contributions were tied to personal benefits Menendez accepted.[188][189]
Another mystery: how such an ugly mutt fathered easy-on-the-eye MSNBC star Alicia Menendez. The first wife must have been a looker:https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/09/06/shut-up-judge-tells-menendez-lawyer-114317
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No question Sikhs are on the macho side of the ledger, if I may generalize more than a little bit. It’s a martial faith like Islam. My wife’s people were Biharis, also quick to anger. I think I’m more comfortable with Southern Indians, an easier-going crowd.
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For forty years we’ve had a problem with Sikh extremism. Now we’re in a tough spot. If we jump on it pronto what sort of message does that send to other governments unhappy with the activities of diaspora Canadians here? That they have to shoot a few on Canadian streets to get our attention?
The world is shifting. Authoritarian regimes are bringing their brand of justice to our door. The dismemberment of a US resident in Istanbul had no serious consequences for Saudi psychopath MBS and you can bet your bottom dollar that many leaders accustomed to killing their own at home took note of that.
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The govt should ensure it doesn’t help Modi and other adversaries in the details released. We don’t want them back doing a better job any time soon.
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2 hours ago, blackbird said:
That's not how it works with Sikhs.
And that’s not a good way to start, is it? The Khalistan movement has many critics within Canada’s Sikh community and some have paid a price for speaking out.
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Just now, blackbird said:
That is not how things work in many countries. There are many places where separatists are only interested in violence. They are not peaceful and not interested in democracy. Like the Taliban in Afghanistan. They want to impose their own radical ideology on everyone. I tried to explain that but you can't seem to understand that groups that want things by violence cannot be given any leeway. A so-called Khalistan would be a Sikh religious theocracy.
What you think about how things should be or how things are peacefully done in Canada is not how it works in the rest of the world.
Your comments also apply to governments in these other countries. Modi’s government is imposing its extreme version of Hinduism on the country and doesn’t hesitate to use violence against peaceful critics.
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8 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:
Sorry, I thought you had said that Sikh separatists, whom use and condone terrorism, and praise terrorists as martyrs, deserve to be recognized by Canada. Like Aristedes said.
How is it not like Quebec separatism?
Advocating for new countries on this planet should not be a crime in and of itself. It’s certainly not a crime in Canada. Holding ‘referendums’ to support such claims should not be a crime either and certainly not a capital crime. Only the maniacs of the PRC and their fellow travellers get outraged by that kind of thing. However, as I have already explained, once people start testing bombs in forests, as Sikh terrorists did before Air India, a definite line has been crossed. That should have been nipped in the bud.
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36 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:
A huge reason that India won't let it go. Food is becoming more and more valuable as the population goes up, and India needs a lot of food.
So how are we to change borders peacefully in this world? Say it became the settled wish of Punjabis to leave, what then? Must they stay in India until the country disappears under an asteroid or what? And does that apply everywhere? I think the Scottish referendum offers the way forward: a clear question and a simple vote. Borders should not become eternal prison walls obstructing the march of a nation.
36 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:Borders are good imo. If we didn't have countries we'd have city states, earldoms, etc and we'd probably all be fighting like dogs again.
Yes, borders are good but they are not good for the next million years. They have to be adjusted as people change and that shouldn’t require a war every time. This isn’t the 19’th century.
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18 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:
Glad I could help you to remember. Does it make you want to reframe your position on the Sikh separatists?
Or do you, and Aristides, still insist on welcoming the terrorists into our homes with open arms?
If you gathered that from what I have said, then I have not said it clearly enough. I deplore unreservedly any violence in Canada in the furtherance of terrorist movements abroad and I have already criticized the pusillanimity of successive Canadian governments in tackling violent Sikh extremism. I reminisce merely to point out that I’ve been following this story most of my adult life and even before I immigrated to Canada. We were ready to do some of those cases.
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2 minutes ago, OftenWrong said:
"The remnants of the aircraft fell into the sea approximately 190 kilometres (120 miles) off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people aboard, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens, and 24 Indian citizens.[3] The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182
Oh well hey. Trudeau shrugs?
I remember that day. As far as I know the Cork pathologists did all the subsequent autopsies.
Waffen SS Veteran Gets Standing Ovation In House Of Commons
in Federal Politics in Canada
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I guess what I’m saying is that drawing a line and saying those on one side were good and those on the other were evil when they were assisting the same country sounds highly arbitrary.
And if we’re going to give the Finns a pass then I presume we will not dream of ever criticizing a country that was merely neutral in that conflict?