charter.rights

And for the same reasons judges are reluctant to throw the book at drunk drivers on their first or second offence - they too have found themselves driving while intoxicated at some time or another. The current laws don't work. I know a guy who lost his license for life but still drives (and many times while drunk). There is no follow-up and if there was they would be able to get the drunk off the road. He owns his own vehicle. Can't get insurance so he drives without. The problem with the law is that it assumes that the offender will comply with the penalty of his own volition. It assumes that society will enforce the ban for the courts by refusing insurance or refusing the sale of vehicles without a license. They miss the point that alcoholics are not rational thinkers or law-abiding citizens. It never crosses their minds. Instead they just do what they want and if they get caught, or something happens it just supports their crazy reasons for drinking in the first place. Jail doesn't work. Forced treatment doesn't work. Street racers are not racing because they fear being caught. They get their rush from the speed and the performance of their vehicles. A law that targets ordinary people making simple mistakes in their everyday life just diverts from the real problem. The goverment wants us to believe that they are doing something about it. The reality is that street racing has not even slowed down since the law was enacted.

While I do think that Harper models his policies after many Republican policies I don't believe we need to fear that. What we do need to fear is what will happen if he gets a majority and all those extreme right bible-thumpers he silences during the campaign start to think out loud. The ONLY reason Harper keeps them quiet is because he knows that he has to play the middle road in order to get a majority. Once he has a majority, Harper and the CPC will make George W. Bush look like kindergartners. If he get a minority be prepared for a couple of temper tantrums from him. Personally, I would like to see where a Dion minority propped up by Layton would take us. And personally I think the future of Canadian politics is exactly the position that the Bloc has taken. We should be developing regional parties which represent each provincial constituency in parliament and then use coalitions to form the government and elect the Prime Minister. After all this is what a federation is all about. It would be successful IMO, if not for national bullies dictating what the provinces can and cannot do.

And where is the head of the Church founded by Christians toady? Wot? Romans are Christians today? Nevertheless it is still ritualized Cannibalism: Matthew 26:26-28 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Nice try at spinning. It was the Christians that murdered, tortured and condemned people they identified as witches to death. And the fact is that abhorrent behaviors such as pedophilia, alcoholism and homosexuality is not only prevalent in the Church but it is protected by the Vatican in this day and age. There are still many priests who were known to have these problems still working in some capacity in North America. Murder and mutilation by armed conflicts does not account for our free speech today. Nor does it protect our peace. The only things wars succeed at doing is to lower the populations and make rich arms suppliers richer. However, the point is not lost on your red herring, being that when one is conditioned to kill, conditioned to identify the enemy and conditioned to react, then their entire outlook in the future will be influenced by that conditioning. The only way to get rid of that type of murderous conditioning is to be deprogrammed. And of course the armed forces doesn't waste their time or money on that preferring to release programmed killers into society.

Of course they knew the science. That is why they moved every 20 to 30 years. If they stayed they would have had to put something more harmful into the ground to replenish the nitrogen... Today our farmers just throw chemical fertilizers at the ground with little care where the run-off will go. And of course all that nutrient rich water in our creeks and rivers has nothing to do with the algae blooms that contaminate our drinking water and choke out smaller lakes and rivers....now does it....

Of course, the Iroquois Constitution is an oral tradition. It was read out every five years since the inception of the Confederacy and is well known among most Iroquois children as it is passed on through family through generations. Written evidences isn't the end-all by the way, since the SCoC suggested that it is prone to the bias and prejudice of the writers. Oral hisotry on the other hand is recorded by many and the SCoC accepts oral history as equal in weight to many British written documents. The only stories being made up are the bedtime stories about the savage Indians your sixth grade teacher told you. The reality is that not only all Iroquois people in general had specific rights under the Great Law of Peace, but also women and children specifically. That knowledge flabbergasted the Church because at contact, European women and children were not considered human beings and were thought only to be the property of their husbands and fathers, like horses and cattle. Yup now that pre-contact European system sure sounds "civilized" [/sARCASM]

Wrong again my pithy friend. The Iroquois had an extensive understanding of the land, conservation practices and relationships between weather and soil productivity. Even the "no-till" method of farming was used by them and only today have scientists and farmers found the tremendous benefit. They were also the ones to introduce companion planting to the settlers and the use of organic fertilizers (such as carp) were common place long before the first poor cabbage farmers arrived. Check out "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World", Jack Weatherford. Different communities spent generations between two primary village sites, letting the land rest for 20 or 30 years between sowings of corn. Anyone who understands farming also understands how much nutrient corn takes from the soil. Even though the Iroquois did compost and enrich the soils on a regular basis, the corn crops become less productive over time. As far as the fishing and hunting goes, no the Iroquois did not deplete the animals or fish. Rather, deer and other small game were semi domesticated (by clearing large tracts for occupation, the understorey was allowed to grow up and this attracted game to an area to feed). Hunting was mostly going out to the back 40 and picking off what you felt like eating. As well fish and meat only made up about 15% of the Iroquois diets with the rest of the food coming from a broad array of cultivated vegetables and fruit, beyond your wildest imagination. Corn was not only a staple but it was a valuable trade item. Pre-contact populations of Iroquois (based on anthropological calculation derived from first contact records) suggest in excess of 5 million people, extending as far north as the Ottawa River and as far south as Florida. After 100 years these populations were reduced nearly 80% by succumbing to diseases that were brought by the filthy Europeans. Native people had little resistance to things like cholera, black plague and small pox.

Iroquois Constitution -over 1000 years old. This was a very ordered and civil society despite your wild west imaginings. What is abhorrent is your constant denial of the facts.

The "street racing" law is unconstitutional. It deprives the right of the defendant to cross-examine the police that laid the charges and imposes a penalty before the officer's opinion can be challenged. A provincial law cannot over-ride the accused right to be tried before a court. Charter Legal Rights: 8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure. 9. Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. Giving a police officer the authority to determine that the law has been broken, even in an emergency situation is beyond their legal capabilities. Their only determination can be that of a "reasonable belief" that the law has been broken and it does not give the authority to assert the accused guilt. The ONLY way that the car could be impounded and the person detained under speeding conditions, would be if they obtained confirmation by a Judge that the seizure was immediately warranted (that there was potential for the accused to repeat the offense if the vehicle was not seized). On the other hand stranding someone the middle of the 401 (or dropping them off at a highway exit) could be construed as unreasonable detainment.

The truth spoils his ideological fantasies.

It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it. . . The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it ... In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it. Albert Einstein.

O contrare. He rejected Judaism and its power and ultimately that is why he was murdered.

It is characterized by an eclectic and individual approach to spirituality with a general rejection of mainstream dogma and religion. Alternative terms are also used to describe the movement: Self Spirituality, New Spirituality, Mind-Body-Spirit,[1][2] Cultural Creative, Everyone Is Equal, New Paradigm, and All Is One. DAMN! Jesus was a New Ager!

Setting your simplistic trolling comments aside..... Your perceptions can be changed and you reality changes with them.

That's why he has Troll Status. When you cross a bridge that he thinks he owns, he tries make you pay his toll.

Nope. I don't read new age. I observe people like you......

I agree. Why did you post THAT?

The premise behind our taking responsibility for our actions comes from this: The ego is in control of our reality. The ego is insane and cannot understand its own insanity. Not being able to know who we are, we have forgotten our connection to the Is and instead replaced our belief with mortality and fantasy. In a dream we can do everything we want. Our separation is a dream in which we believe that we have the power of God exclusive from anyone else. In God, or the Is we are those we think we hold power over. When we find out Who we really are, there is no need to seek power, or material possession. Our every need is taken care of.

And once again AnusThermopyles shows why he has troll status.

Criss Mindfreak can....... Perhaps if you really knew what reality was you wouldn't be so flippant.

It IS English. Must be too complicated for YOU to understand.

It all still begs the question: Are we The Dreamer or are we being dreamed?

"The Crown" is not some fictitious figure head. Lawyers judges and officers swear to uphold the sovereignty of the Crown. Every act of parliament must received "Royal Assent" before it is enacted in law. The government plays a little part in that they administer the people on behalf of the Crown. We are not independent or able to make decisions without the Queen's blessing.

First of all I heard an interesting tidbit on CBC this morning. Seems Harper has commanded the canadidates around the Haldmand NOT to speak to the media about local issues such as lands claims. Another gag order, no doubt. Secondly, the Green Patry is mostly right wing on most issues (even more right than the centrist minority PCofC party). The only thing that is moderately left leaning is their environmental policies. Other than that they are pretty conservative. Lastly, a Doctor who might have participated in the Doctors without Programs might have a good handle in the area of agriculture since most of the world's health problems - especially in thrid world countries - is due to poor diet and contaminated water. They have a good understanding of the basics of farming and would be an advocate for the Farmers Feed Cities campaign.

Ha ha ha ha ha. That's the most ignorant piece of tripe in this thread so far. You even beat out AngieThermous for the Blockhead Award! You just have to look....how about you start looking at reality and get off of that 6th grade history text you have been referencing? Medicines come from plants or minerals. Native peoples were doing that long before Europeans realized that if they cut themselves they would bleed. Many if not most of the modern medicines come from either Native or Chinese knowledge base. Hell, the guys that first floated over here on their boats from Great Britain didn't even know how to cure scurvy and if the natives here hadn't given them the cure, they would have all perished before their first winter. Aspirin was offer to the settlers as was a plethora of other herbal reme3dies still in use today. What a frigging joke. "Gun powder was not just important in terms of war...." Ha ha ha ha ha ha another bonehead assertion. Wot it was important in terms of blowing up mountains (and poor China men as well), or do you think that the early settlers marveled in 4th of July fireworks? What an ultra maroon.... YOUR narrow view makes you a religious conservative zealot by default. Only a self-exiled, dogmatic putz would hold such pedantic views. Oh! Look who just entered the discussion again...... . | . . | . . | . \ . / .V.

You missed a salient point. As the sovereign, head of state and Commander in Chief the Queen has the Armed forces, the justice system and the government at here disposal. If there was a move to break away, we would be left with nothing. She controls all the shots. You did notice that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is not a constitution of the people? It was given to us (signed by) the Queen and requires her permission to amend or disregard. Its sole purpose is to define the rights and freedoms we have under Her rule. It does not give us the authority to go it alone.