ScottSA

Well, it's not symbolic if you live in Canada and get paid in USD, let me tell you. $10,000USD back in the day would buy around $15,000CND worth of goodies, but now it buys about $10,001. It doesn't seem like a few pennies to me...

With respect, this is nonsense. You can call it a cumquat if you want, but it's most certainly race based, and dragging a semantic herring across the path doesn't change the fact. If you want to call it "collective right," feel free, but just remember that the key to get into said "collective" is genetic. It's as race based as the Aryan Brotherhood. Painting the pig with legal jargon does mean you can't get pork chops out of it.

I wonder whatever happened to the "brutal civil war" that Iraq has been "spinning into" for, oh, about 5 years now?

Right. I'll ask the Belgian police to come over to your house and hang one of these on your genitals, since as you say, it's all sweetness and light and there's nothing unduly "brutal" about it. Oh, and remember, the guy didn't fight in any way. He didn't do anything to actually deserve it. Do that to a Musselman and you'd have riots across Europe. http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2441 Guyser, you just don't have the neural capacity to fight battles of the mind. You need to forget about these kinds of things and go back to rushing like a lemming off the cliff of "it can't happen here," but doing it without wasting other people's time. It's not just that you're wrong; it's that you don't even get what the argument is about.

Sounds just like Vietnam alright. Look out, the NVA are acomin'!: RAMADI, IRAQ – In early 2007 Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar Province, was one of the most violent war-torn cities on Earth. By late spring it was the safest major city in Iraq outside Kurdistan. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq had seized control with the tacit blessing of many local civilians and leaders because they promised to fight the Americans. But Al Qaeda’s rule of Ramadi was vicious and cruel. They turned out not to be liberators at all, but the Taliban of Mesopotamia. Al Qaeda met resistance, after a time, from the Iraqis and responded with a horrific murder and intimidation campaign against even children. The Sunni Arabs of Ramadi then rejected Al Qaeda so utterly they forged an alliance with the previously detested United States Army and Marine Corps and purged the terrorists from their lands. Combat operations are finished in Ramadi. The American military now acts as a peacekeeping force to protect the city from those who recently lost it and wish to return. http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001517.html

It would be impossible to confuse you with Argus, but by the above characterization, you've proved quite clearly that what he said was far above your head, so there's no point in continuing...

That makes no sense, and you're digging yourself deeper into an indefensible point. You have retreated from claiming that the hallmark of legitimate repression is the legal status of the repressed, to the questionable redoubt that it is characterized instead by the ability of the repressed to appeal. Appeal they did, to a higher court, which...listen carefully...said it could not constitutionally overrule the mayor in a civic matter. There is no mechanism in this case for direct appeal, which means for all intents and purposes that there is no appeal, which means that the permit...one of 6 denied in a slate of 3500 previously allowed by this same mayor...was denied by fiat. According to your new position then, that's totalitariansm. I would tend to agree. As events transpired, the people arrested were brutally attacked for no reason. The only disturbance of the peace was undertaken by the police, apparently illegally arresting three members of the EU parliament, one of which (Italy) has been apologized to and the others (Flemish) are taking the city to court. Face it...this is indefensible behavior in a state which claims to be ruled by the demos. Europe has always tended toward autocracy and totalitarianism, and has been uneasy beside democracy. Apparently the shift is in progress again through the unholy alliance between the left and Islam.

Sorry Jerry. The term 'fascism' refers to a lock step mentality of repression, the spirit of which is taken from the 20th century fascist movements around the world in the last century. The repression of a peaceful demonstration in Brussels is in keeping with that mentality.

The woman Momo was going out with at the time kept snapping her heels and shouting "Vive el Franco!" Momo didn't understand at the time, since he was busy feeding her beer, and thought it was some kind of good socialist slogan, so he didn't mind. Only later did he find out that Franco was not another Spanish nickname for Che.

Oh, believe me, I haven't "swallowed" anything. It's just that I'm smarter than you are and know more about it. Sucks to be you, but life isn't fair, after all. Israel is a civilzed nation in a sea of Islamic barbarism. I'm sorry that you lack the basic sense of right and wrong, and the basic historical knowledge to see the difference between the two.

What "certain parts" of society would those be Higgly? Little rat faced people covered in lice that they used to make posters about in Germany a few years back? Why not say what you mean?

I suppose that's about the shiniest lipstick you can put on the Liberal pig today alright....

The only "blinders" around here are on the folks so mired in relativism that they think there's no difference between a totalitarian state harboring a widespread death cult, and a western nation seeking not to be driven into the sea. Just because it's "fair" for Syria to have a bomb because Israel does doesn't make it a swimmingly good idea, eh wot?

I would care much less on a personal level, that's true. But part of the problem is that it wouldn't happen. Have you missed the elephant squatting on the table? Have you missed the riots, the car burnings, and the general uproar everytime someone does something that mildly annoys Islamic Rage Boy, and the grovelling apology and appeasement from European politicians that follows? Where are the police when the cars burn? Where are the arrests? Where's the outrage? Apparently the police prefer to muster their forces to prevent duly elected politicians from peacefully saying they've had enough. How long do you think the Eurocrats can keep a lid on the ever widening discontent at the incremental destruction of European civilization?

That pretty much covers it. I agree that as a "Canadian citizen" (a term subject to ever-looser definition these days), it's legitimate for Dion's political corpse to visit him, but I suspect it's one more nail in the casket of a guy who, beginning with stapling his platform to the ever-diminishing global warming fad, has mis-judged virtually every step since. He's clearly out of touch with the sentiments of Canadians.

It means Momo should have attended an accredited social studies class instead of wining and womening in Brussels.

This is something you think Syria was doubtful about before?

Yeah, vietnam is exactly the same. Same jungles, same VC, same rice paddies. Same North Vietnam, same Russia, same Ho Chi Minh Trail. The only thing we're missing is a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. Oy vey.

Speaking of not reading things carefully, not to mention crappy classes, the demonstration is illegal because the mayor refused to allow it. The Mayor. One person. The other 47 cannot overrule that decision in Brussels anymore than the city council can override the mayor of Toronto's witholding permission for a demonstration in TO. If the mayor of TO allowed 3500 demonstrations over 6 years, and witheld permission for only 6, even Torontonians would be able to connect the dots. The reason there were only 2-300 is because people were stopped on the way there, the German contingent cancelled over death threats, and most people didn't know about it until afterwards, due to a dearth of coverage in the MSM, which, as I'm finding out, is a whole lot different from our MSM. Here's an open letter from Vladimir Palko, one of Slovakia’s leading politicians, to the Brussel's Journal.: "...Police-force without any reason attacked legally elected politicians in free elections. Until today, I thought that something like this is possible only in Lukashenko’s Belarus, in today’s Europe. Moreover, I do not understand why it is forbidden in Brussels to demonstrate against islamization of Europe. Islamization of Europe is a serious problem. We can have various opinions and disagree about solutions needed, but it is highly important to freely discuss about them..." This is pretty serious stuff Momo. This is Europe we're talking about, and more than that it's the seat of the EU. We're not talking about beer and Spanish women, and trying to equate the two in some kind of lame attempt to get a laugh points to a profound failure to grasp the significance of the situation unfolding in Europe.

The only charges laid were against the two VB legislators, the ones who were handcuffed before they got on the bus, for supposedly assaulting the bus driver. The charges were laid after the two laid charges against the police for illegally arresting them in the first place. You think it's a coincidence that 10 of 17 of reps from the Mayor's party are Muslim, and that the mayor banned this demonstration while allowing 3500 other demonstrations to go forward? You think this is in some way simialr to you almost getting arrested for beer and senioritas?

It's hard to fathom how we ever arrived at this schizophrenic state of affairs, with our schools peddling the nonsense that we are all exactly the same, while at the same time practicing "affirmative action" for "visible minorities," and racial rights for "first nations." What it all appears to mean is that the people who built this country are the big losers, while the kids of the kids of the kids of the stone age savages who were here before the country was built, and the 3rd world beggars who arrived after it was built, get all sorts of kudos by virtue of racial justification. Even though we're all the same. Or something.

Lol...there's a cloud for every Tory silver lining eh? But actually, that's true...announcers always announce a relative rise in the Cnd dollar with a bright smile on their face, little realizing that the dark side often outweighs the bright side. Especially if you're me, since I live in canada and get paid in American dollars...grrrr. Oh well, I guess I'll just keep it in USD until the Libs make it back into power and we go to 62 cents again...

No, I'm afraid it isn't that simple. The new car I buy doesn't have a tire on the left front rim plotting to explode, while about 50% of the rest of the chassis secretly hopes I die in the wreck. My real beef is with "visible minority" floodgate immigration, because assimilation of minority groups at certain critical masses has proven impossible, and we are well past the critical mass stage in several ethnic groups. At critical mass what appears to happen is ghettoization and the rise of ethnic enclaves. Muslims are the threat of the moment, I'll agree, and much more a threat in Europe than here, because the vast bulk of European immigration is from Islamic countries. We may even avoid the Islamic problem entirely, save for the almost certain terrorist attacks TO or some other population center will suffer, whereupon the sweetness and light folks like guyser will howl at the government fopr not seeing it coming and saving them, but we have a nightmare brewing in Vancouver. What, for example, is going to happen when tensions with China arise, in a city in which English is now the first language of less than half the inhabitants? Guyser, you really aren't making much of a contribution here...you seem completely unaware of the suituation in Europe, and apparently couldn't care less, so why don't you trot off to your psychoanalyst and complain about all the tinfoil heads around you?

I don't sleep well, because I know the sheer numbers of fools in this country who seem to think it's not only ok, but an actual virtue to endorse the fascist tendencies of 3rd world barbarians.

Then you'll have no objection when canada utilizes the option of war as a viable and well recognized means of settling differences between sovereign entities? I cannot believe the sheer tomfoolery and outright lies being told here by some with an obvious tomahawk to grind. The Hurons were never massacred? A French preist just made it up to bolster English claims? The Huron don't exist anymore because of why, exactly? Oh, right, Whitey did that too...