Moonlight Graham

Ok then it's just you wanting to destroy this country.

A fifth column can only act on behalf of a foreign country. Republicans wouldn't qualify. You swore an oath to the Queen and her heirs and successors. You didn't swear an oath to a person per say, you're swearing an oath to a title, the monarch, the bearer of the Crown. The person, Charles or Elizabeth, have no lawmaking power, and they're supposed to remain apolitical. They're the head of state, it is for ceremony and tradition now. The Brits took the rest of the power away from the monarch centuries ago before Canada was even a country. But all power of the state vests in the Crown, for tradition and symbolism's sake. All laws are the King's laws, but none of them are decided by them. The monarch is the personification of the state itself, as a symbol. King Charles represents Canada in flesh and blood.

Not any more, unfortunately.

There's no "Canadian oath of allegiance to the British Crown". It literally doesn't exist except in your imagination. The Canadian Crown reigns in our constitution. Long live the King! But start a new religion and believe whatever fables you wish you convince yourself of.

The only thing I said it was is that it's not called "the British Commonwealth". They share or shared the same monarch, that is all. There is no British monarch in Canada. British citizenship has no title here. They can't vote in federal elections here. Only Canadians. If you don't want to be a Canadian anymore then do the honorable thing and give up your citizenship and leave, instead of trying to break up the country on behalf of a foreign nation. You're a fifth column.

There is no "British Crown" in North American. It died in America in 1776, and Canada in 1953. https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/crown-canada/monarch.html You don't even seem to know what the commonwealth is. I can assure you it's not called "The British Commonwealth", as no such entity exists. I laugh at all the Brits I talk to who think we're still a British colony. The Brit imperialists are so smug and class-based, "Canadians" being of a lower class to them of course.

So you're a republican and a monarchist? 😂 You have no loyalty to the monarch of Canada if you seek to break up their country. A Canadian by convenience it sounds like.

I think it's increasingly clear that any UN body controlled by the General Assembly is apt to be corrupt due to the GA being made up of mostly dictatorship countries. Harper was criticized for wanting to defund and leave parts of the UN. Looks like he was right. We owe him an apology on that. John McCain wanted to create a League of Democracies. I still agree with this.

Harper had some scandals, like proroguing Parliament to silence debate and accountability. He had increasing issues with heavy handed control on his party. A reason he had to go. Martin inherited Chretiens scandals, those Liberals had to go. Trudeau had to go a couple of elections ago. With 24/7 news and social media it usually seems to take a true narcissist to want to be leader now. Who else would want all that attention? Some people want to be rock stars.

You don't reward a terrorist massacre and ongoing hostage crisis with calls for statehood. This only incentivizes that activity. Nor do you ever give statehood to a government bent on Israel's destruction. Has nothing been learned from Israel's deoccupation and elections in Gaza in 2005? Calls for restraint in Rafah are fine.

People who switch from Liberals to CPC, especially these days, I see as questionable, since they are so opposite ideologically and policy-wise. What could have changed within his mind since 2021 to want to be a CPC member instead of wanting to join the NDP? The guy is probably just looking for power and wants to sit with a winner, no different than in 2021. Given the sexual assault thing also AND failing to report it, the guy sounds like a POS. In conclusion, he would make a fine Member of Parliament.

Oh lookie-loo! While way down in the polls, a Liberal-appointed Ontario judge has suddenly found a whole bunch more votes for the Liberals ahead of next year's election. Astonished! But i'm kidding, the Liberals would never do something so...cynical and self-serving.

He has the vibe of a guy who is dejected and checked out. Pretty clear they won't run him in the election next year, they may be timing his resignation closer to the election so the new leader doesn't get blamed for any of the mess in his wake. Maybe a Fall or even Spring 2025 Liberal leadership race. If I were a Liberal I definitely wouldn't put my hat in if I had any serious ambitions.

What do you mean?

This assumes the Palestinians and their leadership want peace. History just doesn;t back this up, going back a century. Peace for most of the them means Zionism and the Israeli state is eradicated from the reigion and 100% of the land is back in control of Muslims. They will never, ever accept a 2-state solution longterm. These are children playing in the sandbox and unable to share.

My general stance on the 2020 indigenous railroad blockades, trucker convoy, anti-Israel protests, and all other protests are consistent: illegal actions during protests should not be tolerated and the laws should be enforced, including fines/arrests if they won't stop. My level of personal support for their causes is irrelevant to their breaking the law. The reason why i'm the harshest on these anti-Israel protestors is because there's quite a number of them all over the US and Canada on video chanting and cheering support for genocide, mass murder/rape/hostage-taking, and ethnic cleansing as well as engaging in ethnic discrimination. This is not comparable to being illegally parked and honking horns to annoy people.

1. Why do you keep misconstruing my arguments in all of your replies and creating strawmen? Please stop this. I'm talking about the protests too. 3. Since virtually none of the convoy folks were chanting Nazi slogans or brandishing Nazi symbols etc then generally no. Were a few of them Nazis? Probably. I think I saw one or 2 people with Confederate flags, though they were in a pickup truck, not a big-rig, so probably outside agitators. Were there some far-right folks among the convoy? Yes i'm sure there was. That one guy sounded like a nut, and they stopped some guns at the border. 4. I'm objectively against pro-genocide pro-terrorism supporters and racial harassment/discrimination. Are you against those things? Or would you prefer to stay silent about them? You seem to have a strong opinion on my comments, but no opinion of protestors supporting and calling for more Oct 7 events and ethnic genocide. But go ahead, sit on the fence and claim "objectively". Would you have done that during the civil rights movement in the 60's too or during the WWII holocaust?

I just specifically explained to you how I don't see this issue in a binary way and never have and then you completely ignored it and accused me of classifying politics in a binary way, which is absolutely ridiculous and based on no evidence. Do you see me on Team Biden or Team Trump? Do you see me on team Trudeau or Team Poilievre (who I have always despised as a slimy weasel)? Did you see me on Team Convoy or Team Anti-convoy? Absolutely not. I already explained that I agreed with the mandates the convoy were protesting but disagreed with their illegal protest methods and always maintained that the truckers should have been fined and/or arrested. But you have ignored all of this. The same thing should happen to the anti-Israel protestors. Protesting the alleged genocide (which could very well be happening, but a legal investigation needed IMO) is fine, and wanting divestment? Ok sure protest for that if you want, but their methods are against school regulations and the law, including Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which makes illegal racial/religious discrimination on campuses. They don't own the campus, can't block people from classes, aren't allowed to pitch tents unauthorized, can't put up barricades and physically block people to keep out those with the wrong views or wrong ethnicity, just like the truckers don't own the streets of downtown Ottawa. If Nazis marched down the streets of this country shouting and cheering genocidal antisemitic violence like some of these anti-Israel protestors are, would you accuse someone of being "black and white" for being revolted by it? Disliking Nazis doesn't mean you dislike all Germans. If there were recent German immigrants in Canada in the 1930's and a lot of them were Nazis then yes I would also want all of them who were chanting threatening genocidal Nazi chants deported There is no difference here. None. You want to pin me down as a characture in your own mind, leaving you as "objective". You're the one who is biased here, not me. One thing offends your politically correct sensibilities and the same thing happening by a different group doesn't. That's a you problem, not a me problem. I have consistent ethics regardless of the race, religion, ethnicity, but you don't, and I can say the same about a lot of progressives these days who have double-standards for everyone based on some victim hierarchy.

Well no it means we can deport the nutjob.

So genuine in their loving peaceful hearts that they won't allow Jews to walk across their own campus, which they have illegally occupied and set up barricades to keep the Jews and other "unwanteds" out. Ironic. So much peace and love happening right now. It's the 60's all over again really. Yeah I know they are genuinely upset at what's happening in Gaza. They just need to obey the law and respect people's human rights while they protest, which is what I said the convoy truckers should have done too, and I also called for the truckers' arrests due to their illegal actions too even though I support their anti-mandate cause 110%.

1. Yes the university protests are largely about divestment, and while protesting they are occupying and blocking off parts of campus property (which they don't own) from Jewish students, and harassing Jewish students. A simple twitter search will reveal many examples. How many do you need, I can post them all day: 2. This is a strawman, do not mis-state my opinions because it helps your argument. I've never labelled one "side" as "correct". I have acknowledged and condemned all the bad things the IDF has done, like allegedly denying food aid, and building settlements in the West Bankand have said that all of the allegations of war crimes and genocide should be investigated by the ICF, and I have also made a specific point to not paint all the pro-Palestinians with the same brush, hence the language you don't like ("most", "a lot of..."). The only "sides" here are the ones who are for and against basic human rights. And there's a hell of a lot of pro-Palestine protestors singing "From the river to the sea..." and doing all sorts of other nonsense. I'm not saying "all Arabs/pro-Palestinians" are bad, I have Arab/Muslim friends, i'm saying all of the a-holes who are doing/saying a-hole things are bad. 3. There isn't just a few pro-Palestinian protestors here and there chanting "From the river to the sea...". This is their freaking slogan. You're not objective, you're either grossly uninformed on what's going on or you're another typical progressive with racist politically correct double-standards too trapped in your white shame/guilt to have the courage to call out people on their nonsense if they happen to have skin colour darker than yours. If a bunch of white Trumpsters were protesting/occupying campuses and harassing/blocking Muslims from classes and parts of campus and calling for the destruction of every Muslim country and glorifying & cheering the murder/rape of innocent Muslim civilians while marching in front of Parliament you'd be all over them calling them Nazi chuds etc, and you'd be right. So what about the Islamo-Nazis?

No I despise a big group of people marching in front of our Parliament buildings cheering Oct 7 when a guy glorifies it over a megaphone. Those are weasel words. I despise students on campuses harassing and discriminating against Jewish students. I roll my eyes at students setting up barricades, security checkpoints, blocking freedom of movement on land that doesn't belong to them, and discriminatory apartheid based on race and religion while protesting those exact same things they say are happening to them. I'm aware that not everyone protesting in support of the Palestinians supports Oct 7 or the destruction of Israel, which is why i was careful not label the whole. But a heck of a lot do. The evidence is overwhelming. There's video after video on Twitter showing their bigotry. Yes let's distinguish the good from the bad ones, but it gets hard when the good ones hang out with the Hitler Youth 2.0. You're not objective, you're in denial of what's happening here. These aren't just a few bad apples my friend. I would say let's call a spade a spade, but you'll think that's racist too

Oh FFS Michael open your eyes. I'm not basing my opinion on my tribal biases, I'm not Jewish or Arab and I have friends from born groups. I'm basing my opinion on the gazillions of videos we have of the protests. Did you even watch the footage of the protest in Ottawa? Yeah I'm sure there were some racists among that convoy folks, but the convoy didnt have crowds cheering the murder of any ethnicity. [Quote]There are points on both sides.[/quote] Ok Donald. Sure some legit grievances everywhere. Show me the big crowds of Canadian Jews cheering Israel denying Gaza food aid and wanting to murder and rape Palestinians and ethnically cleanse them from the region. Terrorist supporters are marching in our streets. Quite a few Hitler Youth 2.0 on our campuses. Not all of them, but not just a few. [Quote]Go to the principles of democratic engagement. A group of people are protesting what they see as an atrocity. [/quote] Yeah and a lot of them chanting 'From the river..." which is a call for the ethnic cleansing and the destructible of Israel. The recent crowd in Ottawa cheered on Oct 7. Nuff said. These types are not people looking for peace or a 2-state solution. They want the destruction of Israel. There's no compromise possible and history proves it.

Apparently the woman isn't a Canadian citizen, she's an American living here. Fine her then deport her and bar her entry forever. Your free speech ends at glorifying and calling for violence and genocide against civilians.

I'm sure there's some actual peace-loving protestors in there somewhere. But anyone who chants "From the river to the sea..." is a genocidal ethnic-cleansing sh!tbag, and that's a lot of them. These types have never wanted a 2-state solution. They want a 1-state solution free of Israel and free of Jews, just like every other Arab/Muslim country. Religion of peace my f*cking arse. Mohamed was a conquering warlord. Israel was conquered a few years after Mohammed died by the next conquering Muslim caliphate to spread Islam throughout the region. If you leave Islam they murder you. if the woman leaves the house without permission the husband beats you. The Palestinians had a chance to negotiate 2-states in 1947, but they wanted all the land for the Arabs. The UN disagreed. Israeli was then founded and the Arabs attacked and lost land because of it. They attacked again in 1967 and lost more land. The had another chance in 2000 during Camp David, but Arafat said he would never agree to "final borders" for any 2-state solution. He was just there to make gains, not peace. So the talks broke off and the Palestinians revolted. So Israel gave back Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005, and the people of Gaza elected Hamas. At least Israel has tried the olive branch a few times. The Arab leadership just wants ethnic cleansing and genocide. There is no compromise with them, there's no peace. because they don't want it.