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  1. 6 hours ago, bcsapper said:

    That's how they know it's biased.  It doesn't agree with the sites they go to to be told how right they are.

    An article says "In 1989 the UN said, “Entire nations will be wiped out by the year 2000 if sea level rises are not stopped.” Did this happen? No! Tuvalu, a Pacific Ocean nation of atoll islands, is a favourite poster child for this claim. However, Tuvalu has increased 3% in land area over the last 40 years."  the statement comes from an article on climate change at the website creation.com

    A different source says 

    "United Nations “Climate Refugees”

    In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that imminent sea-level rises, increased hurricanes, and desertification caused by “man-made global warming” would lead to massive population disruptions. In a handy map, the organization highlighted areas that were supposed to be particularly vulnerable in terms of producing “climate refugees.” Especially at risk were regions such as the Caribbean and low-lying Pacific islands, along with coastal areas.

    The 2005 UNEP predictions claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be frantically fleeing from those regions of the globe. However, not only did the areas in question fail to produce a single “climate refugee,” by 2010, population levels for those regions were actually still soaring. In many cases, the areas that were supposed to be producing waves of “climate refugees” and becoming uninhabitable turned out to be some of the fastest-growing places on Earth."

    Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry - The New American

    Since there are various websites that show predictions by the U.N. and other organizations were false, how do you deal with it?  Since the U.N. is the central and biggest proponent of man-made climate change and is religiously followed by our Liberal and NDP government as the last word on the subject, how do they reconcile the big lies from the U.N. in the past with their claims today?  Or do you cherry pick which claims you will believe based on whether the Liberals support it or not?  Or do you look at the hot weather lately and say yea it must be man-made?

  2. 5 hours ago, Zeitgeist said:

    Multiculturalism is a way to wipe out ethnonationalism, but it can also bring cultural conflict when certain cultures see the world very differently.  It also of course gradually erases the founding cultures, which in Canada are French, English, and Indigenous.  By protecting some ethnic groups with special status and benefits, i.e. Indigenous and Québécois, we are permanently privileging some ethnicities over others. Interestingly, from a systemic and policy standpoint, those with ethnically English background are the least privileged of the aforementioned groups.  They have no more privileges than any recent immigrant.  The colonial privilege argument no longer holds for the power that once controlled British North America.  

    You are correct.  Nobody gets into any high position in the federal government unless they can speak English and French, which means people from Quebec or French speaking enclaves in N.B. or Ontario get those choice jobs.  Also, the equalization gravy train mainly flows toward Quebec which means they receive subsidized government services that the rest of Canada does not receive.

  3. 2 hours ago, cougar said:

    You are bizarre - I still hope you realize what you post above proves nothing.  I have told you before, don't come up with your armchair knowledge and expect people who have based their convictions on scientific data (in addition to the very obvious to the naked eye)  to get converted.

    Obviously you don't listen to facts.  The fact is the UN made ridiculous predictions before that have proven false.  OK so anything they say you believe.  We are on two different schools of thought.  You accept fake claims.  I accept scientific facts if it can be proven, not false claims by people that have no facts or science to back it up and have proven to be liars in the past.

  4. On the question of fear mongering bias of the media, a good example is their use of emotional arguments and fear-mongering to con people into believing their narrative that man is the cause of climate change.  They would destroy people's livelihood and the economy of the country to further their objectives.  Their belief that man is the cause so what's wrong with punishing him is their thinking.  The media practically never allow experts with a counter view to speak or make presentations.  The media seldom just presents views and counter views.  They simply make no attempt to be unbiased and fair.  It is always strongly biased with only a certain narrative.  This is why many refer to them as "fake news".

    The use of a young girl, Greta Thornburg, is a good example also.

    "Polar bear numbers, it was predicted, would decline, and were even threatened with extinction due to a shrinking area of Arctic sea ice. Such dire predictions were used by Al Gore, Michael Mann, and others to play on the emotions of the public to support radical action on climate change. Mann even published a children’s book in 2018 using polar bears to capture the imaginations of children. Since 2005, the global polar bear population has been stable or likely risen.19 Even so, we wonder why a typical evolutionist would be at all concerned. If polar bears go extinct, so what? Something else will evolve to fill their place, or not, but it does not matter either way if life on earth is nothing more than a cosmic accident. The fact that they are trying to make emotional moral arguments when they have no basis for doing so only shows that this is more about manipulation of public opinion than about science."

    A biblical and scientific approach to climate change - creation.com

    School children in public schools are constantly being brainwashed too.  That's why we sometimes have seen thousands of them demonstrating on the streets.  They have obviously been given or heard only one side of the issue.

     

  5. 1 hour ago, cougar said:

    Your understanding of the. situation is so limited that any dialogue becomes pointless.

    Quote:

    Failed predictions are a major fruit of climate activism, justifying skepticism.

    • Anyone who remembers the 1970s will recall that we were all going to freeze in another ice age. Of course, ‘we’ could do nothing about that, so some of the same ‘experts’ who were running with that switched to ‘global warming’ and then, when the temperature data did not match the models that gave the dire predictions, it morphed into ‘climate change’. Also popular were ‘acid rain’ and the ‘ozone hole’.
    • In 1989 the UN said, “Entire nations will be wiped out by the year 2000 if sea level rises are not stopped.” Did this happen? No! Tuvalu, a Pacific Ocean nation of atoll islands, is a favourite poster child for this claim. However, Tuvalu has increased 3% in land area over the last 40 years.18 A survey published in 2018 of 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls, including 709 islands, revealed that no atoll had lost land area in recent decades.  Unquote  A biblical and scientific approach to climate change - creation.com

    So the UN, the central brain for the man-made climate change claim said entire nations would be wiped out by the year 2000.  What happened to your trusted UN source of knowledge?   Why should the UN IPCC now be believed?  Please tell us so that we can all know.

  6. 1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

    It’s not that simple.  Various Indigenous groups moved in and out of much of the country.  In Ontario the Ottawas pushed out the southern tribes.  What are now Six Nations pushed out the Hurons.  Anishnabe and Six Nations moved in and out of each other’s farming areas, though the farms lasted maybe six years before the soil was stripped of nutrients and the clans packed up and moved elsewhere.  For a long time settlers came without infringing on the traditional Indigenous lifestyles, and the exchanges helped both sides: guns for pelts, for example.  The colonial confrontation that you’re describing is a bit of a Hollywood charicature.   That’s not to say that there weren’t conflicts and disagreements over land, poor treaties or lack thereof, but it’s complicated.  There weren’t a lot of shoot-outs in Canada.  The settlers thought that they were offering all of the benefits of modern western civilization, including education, health, farming and manufacturing technology, etc.  The wide open unsettled territory gradually shrank with immigration, which is accelerating today.  The Indigenous lost and gained.  To pretend that the Indigenous of today are living as they did before contact serves no one.  Pretending that education and technology were destructive overall is disingenuous.  Yes the settlers educated according to their values, but having an education was considered far more progressive than the alternative, including for Indigenous.  Now, how it was done was another issue.  Much should have been better.  Again, this is a fairly recent critique about colonialism that people didn’t make more than about a half century ago.

    Bringing China into this doesn’t help.  They do not treat those who don’t fall in line with mainstream society as well as we do.  Indigenous in Canada receive more money and benefits than any ethnic groups, considering that property, income, HST, and other taxes aren’t collected from status Indians or those who who claim status and work on the reserve.  Health, education, and much utility infrastructure are provided free by the federal government.

    The Indian Act, the reserve system, and the idea of special status should all be revisited and reformed, but doing so would be highly contentious.  As long as it’s revenue neutral, Indigenous should decide on the reforms, but if more taxpayer money is asked, then the non-Indigenous must be involved in the changes.  That’s why economic self-reliance is so critical to self-government.  You can’t have one without the other.  Without paying taxes or making an economic contribution to the services on and servicing of their land, it’s hard to justify having Indigenous at the centre of decision making.  

    Well said!  Strong evidence that it is far more complicated than most people realize.

  7. 20 minutes ago, cougar said:

    Wait till China takes over your province and your home and tells you to learn Cantonese as this is now the official language of the province.  If you disagree, they take your kids and put them in a Chinese Residential school to properly learn the Chinese culture.

    The bottom line is you and me came here from another continent.  Someone was already living on these lands.

     

    So what?  Mankind migrating from one place to a better place is the history of mankind.  Nobody has an exclusive claim to a large uninhabited area which is what most of Canada was.  Someone having an ancestor who hunted and gathered over a hundred or thousand square kilometers does not give anyone the right today to claim ownership of that land.  It is ludicrous but is how many left wingers think today.  They need to get educated about how the history of world was and is.

    The history of the world is such that the strongest controls the land. That won't change.  An advanced civilization cannot hand control back to previous occupants.  That is not how the world works and never will.   There are bigger things in the world to worry about such as Russia, China,  and N. Korea who have nuclear weapons or are trying to get nuclear weapons (Iran).  The west better wake up because China has imperial ambitions to control much of world and they will if the west does not resist and keep them back.

  8. 15 minutes ago, cougar said:

    And who are those people?  The British Crown?

    Let me ask you this, if I came into your house with a gun and told you what you can and cannot do and how to live your life from this point on, and moved into your main room and bedroom but pushed you and your kids down in the basement, because you have knives, bows and nothing else, how happy were you going to be?

    Just saying....not that I am a First Nations person, or a great supporter of their habits, but now in our climate emergency caused by the same culture that invaded their lands, I am starting to think they would have been better off setting up their trap lines and fishing from their canoes than dying in the next forest fire or other climate related catastrophe.

    No, the colonizers didn't bring any particular climate or cause any climate to happen.  The early settlers actually traded with aboriginals.  The big industry was fur trade and white man sold them guns and various things that they never had before.  Unfortunately they also sold them some fire water that caused a lot of problems.

     Climate has nothing to do with mankind.  The temperatures are determined by the radiation from the sun and amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.  There have always been periods of warmer weather and periods of colder weather.  That is a historical fact. 

    The aboriginals benefited greatly from colonization.  Many of them drive pickup trucks, cars.  They own boats with gas engines and all the modern advances that white man gives them.  They own houses, drive snowmobiles, and ATVs.  They have medical care that they never had before.  They wear clothes bought in the stores.  They have televisions, computers, and smart phones.  I don't think they want to go back to living off the land and being hunter-gathers.

  9. 1 hour ago, Antichrist said:

    somehow eating an apple is way more serious than sticking priests peckers in little boys....

    Dedicated to the Eradication of Religion

     

    Get your mind out of the gutter.

    37 minutes ago, cougar said:

    The fact they were here first.  You should have assimilated to them; asked them for permission to come, learnt their language, swore allegiance to their hereditary chiefs, lived by their traditions and cultural habits, not the other way round.

    Sure.  Maybe learn how to do a little war dance and take a few scalps.

    So some people should be superior to everyone else and we should all bow and become their slaves.  You are the biggest racist around here.

  10. 7 minutes ago, Antichrist said:

     

     Eradication of Religion will come by the hands of science  when humans wont need to pray for healing as science can fix gods mistakes...with genetic engineering...correcting the dna sequences that cause parkinson's, , cancers, blindness, sickle cell, muscular dystrophy  

    It is science that is finding the answers through hard work...not some mighty creator Where is your almighty god when covid was reeking havoc   prayers did nothing....but science did

    Proving once again  god is fake 

    I may have already explained why the world has diseases, wars, crime, sickness, and sin.  It is because of the fall of man who rebelled against God in the garden of Eden. See Genesis re Adam and Eve.   Before the fall of man, it was a perfect world.  But man rebelled and brought it all on himself. That is why there is Covid, and other diseases.  This will all end when Christ returns to create a new earth and rule over the earth as per the book of Revelation.  In the meantime, the only way to be forgiven and receive a new nature is to believe in Jesus Christ and be born again.  Otherwise be condemned to hell for eternity as the Bible teaches.

  11. 11 minutes ago, Antichrist said:

    I agree that their are pedophiles that are not religious....but religion paints its self as the good and moral.....when in fact it is the opposite

    Dedicated to the Eradication of Religion

    You paint all religion the same as Romanism.  The fact is the RC religion is by far the biggest in the west with around a billion members, but it is not Biblical Christianity.  It does not believe the basic teachings of the Bible.  That is why we had the Reformation 500 years ago and a chunk broke away from the Roman church.  They have by far the largest number of pedophiles.  While there may be a lot of pedophiles within the celibate priesthood, I do not believe there are more pedophiles within the ordinary rank and file membership of the Catholic church than outside the church in mainstream society.  You are lying when you imply that there are a lot of pedophiles within all churches.  Bible believers are not involved in all those problems, but are a much smaller group in the world as a whole.  

    As for your claim of being dedicated to the eradication of religion,  religion is a basic human right that will never be eradicated.  It is part of the right to live and believe what one wishes.  Communists tried that and killed tens of millions of people.  China has been trying without a lot of success to eliminate religion (except worship of the Communist Party and it's leaders, which is the real religion of Communists).

  12. 7 minutes ago, Antichrist said:

     

    Remember to put your tooth under your pillow ....the tooth fairy will come

    Dedicated to the Eradication of Religion

    "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2  When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. {came…: Heb. approached against me} 3  Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. {the beauty: or, the delight} 5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6  And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD."   Psalm 27:1-6 KJB

    Doesn't matter what you say, Christians are God's elect and are protected by him.  Praise God.  Christians, though they may walk through the darkest valley, God will be faithful to them.  He loves them and died for them.  You are on a losing path.

  13. 10 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

    so do non-religious institutions

    whoop dee doo

    the problem is the institutionalization

    not the religion

    We should be aware someone who uses the pseudonymn Antichrist has serious problems.  There are Satan worshipers around or Satanists.   Karl Marx was in fact a Satanist.  I have a booklet called "Was Karl Marx a Satanist".  The answer in the book is yes.  The Bible teaches us the accuser of the brethren is Satan.  Someone who is dedicated to hating Christians and opposing Christianity has the marks of a Satan worshiper.  You cannot oppose them from a non-Biblical position because you are engaged in spiritual warfare.  You must have the Bible and have some knowledge of the Bible, biblical truth, and have God on your side.  Arguing with a Satanist from a secular position is a losing proposition.

  14. 2 minutes ago, Antichrist said:

    As a institution religion /cult have a very high propensity to preform immoral acts against chidren

    We understand your hate for Christianity.  That is a characteristic of a sinner who can't face the truth of God who will judge you.  The Devil is a real being.  Do you know you are just a tool of him?  Your title tells us you could be a Satan worshiper, which is a religion as well.  Will pray for you.  Reading God's word and believing in Jesus could deliver you.

  15. 51 minutes ago, Antichrist said:

    tunnel visioning on the bad and ignoring the good ....there is just to much bad to ignore

    all religions have pedophiles in them and there are non religious pedophiles as well....but religion has  perfected hide  the weenie

    Catholicism deeply condems pedophilia...Is the flock deaf

    the Catholics who happen to be pedophiles aren't pedophiles because they are Catholic...percentage of pedophilla in a group say otherwise

    Dedicated to the Eradication of Religion

     

    Think We Came to the Wrong Predator Convention | Meme on ME.ME

    The truth is Rome requires their priests to be celibate.  They take an oath of celibacy which means they have no wives.  They are far bigger than other churches. There are probably around the billion Catholics in the world.  Non-Catholic churches a tiny fraction of that.  You have had a lot of pedophiles among youth hockey in Canada.  Also the Boy Scouts which must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.   Protestant churches allow their ministers to marry and have a family.  That is part of the problem and why the Catholic church has so many paedophiles.  The Catholic church gives huge power to the priests such that the priest has the power to grant salvation to it's people through their sacraments.  That system does not exist in Protestant churches.  Ministers don't grant salvation.  So the people in Catholic churches have a special relationship with their priests and place a personal trust in them.   

     If you are trying to spread the blame around because you have Catholic roots it is understandable, but you are not facing the facts.  The Catholic churches in some dioceses have paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in sex abuse settlements in the U.S.  Sex abuse in Protestant or evangelical churches is likely relatively rare.  They do not hear confessions from people where people put their trust in a priest.  They do have priests or confessionals.   Everyone knows how badly you hate Christianity and will lie and say anything to smear them.  Your comments give you away easily.  So nobody should take a word you say as credible.

  16. On 7/7/2021 at 2:17 PM, cougar said:

    All the proof is in the media. See how some indigenous people were enticed to give up their heritage and aboriginal rights in exchange for keeping their kids with them, instead of the latter being sent to a Residential school.

    You wipe out the kids of one culturally diverse group and in a generation or two , the group is gone; this is what genocide is.   You do not need to shoot 'em in the head with a 22 gauge.

    Why do I have to explain the very obvious to you?? Aren't you a bit embarrassed?

    I guess you could say the same thing about every race or ethnic group in Canada.  Not sure how you figure an ethnic group is gone.  The Caucasian race is actually declining in North America and could become near extinct in the not too distant future.  Many different ethnic groups immigrated to Canada.  What makes aboriginals so special that they cannot assimilate into society like everyone else?  Every ethnic group in the world fluctuates with the changing demographics caused by various factors.  Furthermore many natives married French people and formed the Metis, another group that considers themselves special and demands to be recognized and receive special rights in Canada.  No matter how little aboriginal blood one has, they try to capitalize on that and claim special status.  Playing into that narrative and encouraging it is a sign of a sick country.  The Liberals and NDP really play into that and exploit it for all it's worth for votes.  In worrying about aboriginal heritage, you have also bought into that racial nonsense like a good little liberal puppet.  Nobody is stopping anybody from doing their cultural dances and singing if that's what they want to do.

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  17. On 7/7/2021 at 2:17 PM, cougar said:

    All the proof is in the media. See how some indigenous people were enticed to give up their heritage and aboriginal rights in exchange for keeping their kids with them, instead of the latter being sent to a Residential school.

    You wipe out the kids of one culturally diverse group and in a generation or two , the group is gone; this is what genocide is.   You do not need to shoot 'em in the head with a 22 gauge.

    Why do I have to explain the very obvious to you?? Aren't you a bit embarrassed?

    If we go by your definition of genocide, perhaps the white man, who is becoming extinct in Canada, could make the same kind of claim.  The aboriginal red power activists have figured out how to demand and claim everything for themselves.  Victimhood is the key tool.

    Quote  Nearly 1.7 million people identified as Aboriginal in the 2016 census, Statistics Canada says – a 4.9 per cent share of the total population and a breathtaking 42.5 per cent increase since 2006, a growth rate more than four times that of their non-Indigenous counterparts. Unquote   -  global news.ca

    The aboriginals will be in the driver's seat before too many years.  They have figured out massive population growth is the key to gaining more.  Their new AFN leader is demanding compensation for colonizing Canada.  Wow!  Canadians better expect to start paying big money to these privileged people many of whom think they own all the land and the rest of us are just invaders.  That will be a big problem in the future.  Many of us will not accept that claim.  I don't think they have a perpetual claim to land that their ancestors wandered on, a vast land that had very few people on it.  The whole world was settled by people migrating from somewhere else.  That is the history of mankind.  Nobody who had ancestors living in a given country previously receives compensation.  Only in Canada could such a thing be imagined by some people.

  18. 4 hours ago, myata said:

    The system of top-down management of public services, without any oversight to stop and prevent bad decisions is grossly outdated and not adequate to the current reality. In this fire and forget for two decades mode the only scenarios for the near future would be a serious failure like this epidemics could have been with different parameters; or slow deterioration of services, as seen with health and higher education. What's concerning is that yet again governments make important decisions as massive increase in immigration, with massive and multiple potential impacts on the society with the same unconcerned lightheartedness as "travel from Wuhan". It looks like a train accelerating down the track to an unknown destination and the passengers couldn't be bothered which one.

    Socialist type governments like the NDP in Victoria think if they push money out in every direction, everything will be fine.  They got caught with their pants down this past few weeks when the heat dome hit B.C.  People called the ambulance in metro Vancouver because they were dying of heat stroke and had to wait around four hours for an ambulance and many died.  Some were dead when the ambulance arrived. About 700 people died from the heat in B.C.  Many died in the Vancouver metro area. Yet the head of the Coastal ambulance service apparently said they didn't do a bad job.  The NDP didn't spend enough money on staff and ambulances and did not take action to prepare for the heat dome.  There should have been a huge number of extra ambulances and staff on the job.  They should have been prepared for a vast increase in emergency calls.  It is disgusting.  One of the causes is likely Socialist bureaucracy which means any changes requires a long, bureaucratic process to approve it.  Socialism is not flexible but hamstrings fast responsive action.  The NDP has increased the numbers of government employees by apparently tens or hundreds of thousands since they came into power a few years ago.  What were all these employees and the politicians doing when the heat dome was coming and warnings were given?

  19. 1 hour ago, cougar said:

    ?  We did not have an electric chair in my school either.  But then, we did not have a mass grave in the school yard too.

    What can I say - keep beating around the bush, maybe a rabbit will magically appear.

    It might disappoint you but there were no "mass graves".  That was fake news.  There were unmarked graves, which could have easily happened because wooden markers or crosses rot and disappear.  Mass graves are the kind found in the holocaust where a large hole is dug and a large number of bodies are dumped in the same hole.  That is not what occurred at residential schools.

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  20. Well it becomes obvious mainstream media has greatly mis-represented the residential school graves report.  It seems they were very quick to report and sensationalize the story without any background investigation or reporting.  They reported on it repeatedly in a way that caused hysteria among the Canadian population and did not present the true facts.  As a result many people reacted in a predictable way, with anger and hysteria.  Some went as far as pulling down and destroying statues.  Others defaced churches and others burned churches down to the ground.  Many politicians seemed to have accepted the media reports at face value and many did not strongly condemn the illegal acts and arson.  As a result of these inflammatory reports, many cities even went as far as to cancel Canada Day celebrations.

    This new report goes into the details of what the misinformation was.

    Six things the media got wrong about the graves found near Residential Schools | True North (tnc.news)

    Since mainstream media got this issue so wrong, can they really be trusted in anything they report?  Are they prone to automatically take the side of the left wing radical woke anarchists who seem bent on tearing down Canada?

    "A recent study by the consultancy firm Edelman found that 52% of Canadians believe most news outlets are more concerned with promoting their own ideology than telling the truth.

    Another 49% of Canadians surveyed believe journalists are “purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations.” 

    CBC restricts comments section to hide opposing voices | True North (tnc.news)

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  21. "

    Since this news came out, there has been a near universal assumption in the media that these graves are evidence of Canada’s Holocaust, as if the children had been deliberately killed.

    Genocide requires intent. It requires a concerted and systematic effort to conduct mass murder and eliminate an entire race of people.

    Canada’s residential schools, however misguided, had the intent of educating children, assimilating them into the broader Canadian population, and ultimately lifting them out of poverty. 

    The policy was wrong, clearly. It was flawed and much harm resulted. 

    But there are a few orders of magnitude that separate the misguided intent of Catholic priests, nuns and Canadian government officials versus those of Nazi firing squads and gas chambers. "

    Six things the media got wrong about the graves found near Residential Schools | True North (tnc.news)

    Let's face it;  the woke left hates Canada and are trying to lie about Canada's past as much as possible to generate as much against Canada as possible.  The media and many politicians are part of the problem.

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  22. On 7/8/2021 at 9:57 AM, cougar said:

    Eureka!

    Has nothing to do with it, but mentions electric chairs at the schools and kids being asked to swallow vomit.

    Now it makes sense you will find hundreds of graves by the schools if you looked for them!

    Never heard of an electric chair in a school.  If such a thing were done, it was probably very rare and only an isolated incident. Same with swallowing vomit.  If that were done, it would have been an extremely isolated incident.

    When I went to school I received some physical abuse in the public school from other students on several occasions.  But I don't think everyone in all public schools had the same thing happen to them.  They were isolated incidents  Just like the things you cherry pick and try to claim they were common in many schools.

    In one public school I attended, the principal was big man who used to give the strap severely to students.  He made them put their hands out and used a big strap about two feet long and several inches wide.  He really gave it.  I barely escaped it on one occasion when I played hooky one day.  I was hitchiking to town that morning about 9AM.  He lived out in the same area and guess what?  It was the principal who picked me up to give me a ride.  He asked why I wasn't at school and I said I was playing hooky that day.  He said in that case you have to have the strap. When we got to school, he told me to sit in the hall outside his office and wait.  Luckily for me the councilor came along and asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was waiting to get the strap because I played hooky.  He said oh, he said that eh. Just wait there.  The councilor went into his office and had what may have been a heated discussion.  Ten minutes later the councilor came out and said you won't be getting the strap.  You can go to your class now.   Physical punishment was the norm in the 1950s, and 60s in public schools.  It certainly was no incentive to stay in school if one could just drop out and get a job and earn a little money, which I did.

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