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Who says that? I don't think it's even a term in use. What is Italian Canada? (??) And why is this a "Moral & ethical issue?

You don't have to go there. They're here, in our universities, for example. They're always glad to talk to us about it. That's why they're out demonstrating, etc., to talk to us.

Gladly. Which arm?

I remember reading, back when this first blew up, that an organizer said there were already many tickets sold and people coming from Britain. Get the visual ... brits in hats with handkerchiefs, sweating and celebrating Britains great victory in 'the colonies'. I can understand how that would make Quebecers' skin crawl. It makes me wince too.

Why are western conservatives so knee-jerk impulsive they would cut off their nose to spite their face? So paranoid that everyone is 'out to get them', incapable of complex thought, they see no solutions but immediate violence against someone ... ANYONE ... doesn't matter who or why, as long as we DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW!!!! So attention-deficit hyperactive and impulse-driven are the right wing that their brains are only used to keep their heads from collapsing! Their thinking never evolved past two-year-old temper tantrums! What assholes ... oops! I mean conservatives ... call "self-loathing apologist" is actually the process of using one's brain to think, to consider all sides of an issue, all possible actions, and taking the action that is possible to bring about improvement, instead of disaster. I know the process of using one's brain for thinking is foreign to the right wing, who prefer to bash their brains against brick walls instead. So ... leave the thinking to us and we'll call you when we need someone to bash their own brains out. k?

Well, that's one side. Doesn't appear to have much 'law' on his side though, just a bunch of hot air rhetoric and catastrophizing. That's not law. Soon it will be time for Six Nations to explain the laws to the court, the fact that no development can legally proceed until the Crown (province) CONSULTS with them AND ACCOMMODATES their Aboriginal Rights on the land. Pretty straightforward, really: - Constitution: 35. (1) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed. - Supreme Court upheld Ontario Court of Appeal Case Law: [48]Where a requested injunction is intended to create “a protest-free zone” for contentious private activity that affects asserted aboriginal or treaty rights, the court must be very careful to ensure that, in the context of the dispute before it, the Crown has fully and faithfully discharged its duty to consult with the affected First Nations: see Julia E. Lawn, “The John Doe Injunction in Mass Protest Cases” (1998) 56 U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 101. The court must further be satisfied that every effort has been exhausted to obtain a negotiated or legislated solution to the dispute before it. Good faith on both sides is required in this process: Haida Nation, p. 532. Ontario Court of Appeal

kimmy said: If you can't afford to be hit back, quit provoking them. It's really that simple. No, Gaza has been devastated, people massacred. They are no in a position to hit back anymore. Also, the worldwide outrage seems to have affected Israel. They are still starving the people of Gaza, but not overtly attacking them anymore. Now they are attacking the people of the West Bank instead: The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank Israel's targeting of civilian resistance to the separation wall proves the two-state solution is now just a meaningless slogan o Ben White o guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 February 2009 14.00 GMT It is quite likely that you have not heard of the most important developments this week in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, while it has been "occupation as normal", there have been some events that together should be overshadowing Gaza, Gilad Shalit and Avigdor Lieberman. First, there have been a large number of Israeli raids on Palestinian villages, with dozens of Palestinians abducted. These kinds of raids are, of course, commonplace for the occupied West Bank, but in recent days it appears the Israeli military has targeted sites of particularly strong Palestinian civil resistance to the separation wall. For three consecutive days this week, Israeli forces invaded Jayyous, a village battling for survival as their agricultural land is lost to the wall and neighbouring Jewish colony. The soldiers occupied homes, detained residents, blocked off access roads, vandalised property, beat protestors, and raised the Israeli flag at the top of several buildings. The real Israel-Palestine story is in the West Bank Israel doesn't want peace. With the new administration in the US, and the hardening of the right in Israel, it appears to me that the Israeli people are about to eat crow big time!

The rockets aren't doing any damage. The blockades are. The first step is for Israel to end its act of war - the blockades - and pull back and allow international troops to monitor the borders. Starving children is a war crime, and it continues. I think it should be obvious by now that the only "proportionate response" that applies to this situation is this: you mess with the bull, you get the horns. No, you cannot commit war crimes. By the time you finish your death squads, most of the people would have died of starvation. I repeat: Israel's starvation blockades are war crimes and must end. Israel must pull back and allow international policing of borders.

But she does not propose any viable solutions. A continued state of war with Israel blockading the borders of Gaza is not a solution.

The Corporation of Canada was created by the British Parliament: the Canada Act 1982 was proclaimed in force by the Queen. Constitution repatriation However, 'Canada' is not a land mass, but a nation of people. Treaties between Indigenous Nations and the Crown give us our rights to live on Indigenous land "to a plough's depth". So-called 'Crown land' is in fact Indigenous land held in trust for them by the Crown. There is nothing that gives Canada outright ownership of the land. Without a land mass, Canada is not a sovereign country. Our sovereignty is through the Crown and the treaties.

Some interesting stuff in your post, but to this part I just have to go ... Hunh?? driven into the ground by a combination of lawyers - social workers and feminist eccentric judges ???

I admire your idealism and commitment to peaceful tactics. It may yet work, but where to start? I believe the Palestinian people have been trying, but it hasn't worked yet November 20, 2006 edition Palestinian human shields give Israel pause By Joshua Mitnick | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor TEL AVIV – In perhaps the most effective act of nonviolent protest in the six-year Palestinian uprising, hundreds of Gazans forced Israel over the weekend to call off airstrikes on the residence of a militant leader by swarming the house as human shields. In recent months, Israeli security forces have used telephone calls to warn Palestinian militants and others near alleged militant safe houses and weapons caches, giving them up to a half hour to evacuate. When militia leader Mohammed Baroud got the call Saturday, he enlisted neighbors to protect his house from the Israeli military. They've now set up a system of shifts to protect the house around the clock. Palestinian leaders are hailing this as a moral victory that will be replicated. If so, it may herald a significant tactical shift from attacks by tiny secretive militant groups to nonviolent civilian protest, a change that will force Israel to adjust its strategy. It also underscores the difficulty of fighting militant groups embedded in a civilian population - whether it be in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Gaza. "The Palestinians are creative and this is something amazing," says Maher Miqqdad, a Fatah spokesman. "Maybe in the past six years of the intifada, the focus was on military resistance. But we shouldn't deny the importance of peaceful resistance. There is an importance in increasing the peaceful struggle." An Israeli army spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity said the attack was scrapped after the military realized that dozens of Palestinians were demonstrating on the roof of Mr. Baroud's home. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1120/p01s02-wome.html Now that takes some courage! But that was in 2006. It hasn't worked yet. In fact, in the recent 'engagement', Israel used the UN as a tool to amass men women and children in 'safe' houses, and then bombed them. The IDF shot men, women and childrenas they ran from the UN facilities that had been bombed. So ... how and where and with whom do you start the 'non-violence', kimmy? Anyone? Hamas is NOT the problem here, imo. Hamas is simply part of the picture, and we can't wish them out of existence. Hamas defends, and is defended by Palestinians at this time, one of several political parties, a balancing agent in an emerging democracy, preventing wholesale sellout represented by Fatah, as some of them see it. That's their choice, and it's democracy, and I think we should respect it until they decide otherwise. I would work ruthlessly to find any underground Palestinian groups who wished to continue violence, and I would end them, because they would only be undermining what I was trying to accomplish. "ruthlessly" "end them" ... how? This is called death squads, right? (Just checkin'.) I think Israel should pull back to the 1967 borders, and International forces should maintain FOOD access to Gaza and protect the Palestinian people. When you're starving and dying under conditions imposed punitively, collectively, desperation is the only strategy. And no, blockades that result in starvation of children are not justified by paltry, ineffective rockets, not under any law. The blockades are an act of war, in law. The only thing 'justified' is an international safe zone, and Israel must agree. Hamas is not causing the problem. The war of aggression by starvation is the ongoing problem that must stop. It simply isn't a sustainable solution. It is not a solution at all. It is war. imo.

Absolutely!

You GO pt! Did you get on the list? The federation received a $447,297 contribution from Kenney's department to operate a settlement program in Toronto for two years, teaching new immigrants language and job searching skills. Ok ... so Kenney is suggesting that these immigrants are somehow worthy of less settlement support, because somebody insulted Jason Kenney? I think he's just a little carried away with himself. All politicians are professional whores, ffs! What's the big deal?

That's just a verbal update.

You can't ignore the link between the Israeli blockade of the borders and the rockets. It's true, things can't get (much) worse for them, living in a concentration camp as they are without proper food and water supplies, children anemic from hunger. That was before the bombing started: Thursday, 6 March 2008, 09:15 GMT Gaza conditions 'at 40-year low' The groups say a battered, starved Gaza cannot be a peace partner Conditions in Gaza Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups. They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid. They criticise Israel's blockade on Gaza as illegal collective punishment which fails to deliver security. That's hilarious ... in a really sick way. (See above re children starving because of Israel's blockade.) Israel doesn't care if they go on hunger strikes. Israel is depriving them of food, medicine and water. At least the rockets let the world know they are still there. Without that, they'd just starve quietly. What would you do in their place? Conditions in Gaza ... Canadian Health Professionals statement of concern for public health in Gaza 2006

Update from court re injunction hearing: Judge appointed Amicus Curiae to research Six Nations claim to the Haldimand Tract. Amicus returned a report that the Haldimand Proclamation ans Simcoe Patents are "legally binding as treaties". This was accepted as evidence by the Judge. Court resumes Monday in Brantford, to determine whether the City of Brantford can have an injunction against Six Nations.

dorks will be dorks!

dorks will be dorks!

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If Hamas' actions brought about a "tough" Israeli parliament, the actions of Israel's IDF have likewise caused the rise to power of militant Hamas. It's a no win argument - works both ways. Just sayin ... it's a non-'point'.

Something like this perhaps? Vatican exposed

What he said!