Sir Bandelot

No, we blame our leaders for being "pro-American".

Ditto that. Its quite clear. I don't believe its fair to place guilt on all the people of a nation, so that if we were to say "Canada is also to blame for the death of millions", it does not mean that all Canadians are to blame.

Only the rich ones

Churchill reminds us of the ugly truth of what is called "necessary evil". But Tony Blair needs to know there is a special place in hell for people like him. No doubt, that's why he converted to catholicism...

Right and besides, "Everyone makes mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers." -Joseph Stalin

Oh yes, itwould go there. How about a streetfight show, in which dudes wearing cool looking clothes kick each other in the throat, pull switchblades and leave permanent scars. While women get raped in the stands. Now, that's entertainment...

It is symbolic of the barbarous age we are descending into. The cheering of crowds demanding to see more blood, real blood.

Oh, left left left. Bzzzz That's ok Tommy Hilfinger Boy, you keep snuglling up to the ones who will come get your ass, when the time comes. At least the other whores got paid!

I'm no expert in these matters, unlike many hear who clame to be experts in all subjest. I just want our cops to have the best tools available for them to feel safe and good. Now it seems to me, as indicated in the article I posted that the RCMP are in support of the registry, and it has helped them before so I think it should countinue. If it's too expensive, that's another problem and it should be fixed. They should find out where the money is going and why. Follow the money, you'll find corrupt politicians I'm sure. On the other hand if money is what we want to save, pretty sure we can find lots of things that are a huge waste of Canadian tax dollers, and provide far less benefit that said gin registrey

In 2003, Iraq was already 16 countries from the bottom of an annual ranking on perceived corruption. It's only gotten worse, being listed in 2009 as the fourth most corrupt country along with Sudan, and ahead only of Sudan, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Somalia. Source: Transparency International Richard Engel: Iraqi corruption is insidious and appears to be getting worse. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38948947/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/ "It's time to turn the page..." "We won! We won!...."

Political meddling triggered gun confusion: report OTTAWA - The Conservative government's decision to introduce amnesty provisions for long-gun owners has "contributed to confusion" over firearms control in Canada, says an internal RCMP evaluation that strongly backs universal registration. Employees of Canada's firearms program told evaluators that licensing compliance "has been affected by political messages," says the report, officially released Tuesday by the Mounties after being leaked Monday. In March the Conservatives extended an amnesty that effectively gives owners of unregistered, non-restricted firearms including many rifles and shotguns more time to sign them up, and no incentive to do so. Overall, the long-awaited evaluation found the federal gun registry is a useful tool for police. The report concludes the registry prepares officers for potentially violent situations, helps them trace recovered weapons and assists in seizure of weapons from the mentally unstable. Wow, I must be a genius

Boxing is the sweet science. MMA is too crude for me. I heard it was being banned in Canada, too many fighters getting their brains beat out. Gee that's not surprising. See the problem is, wherever ther's alot of money involved there's pressure to perform. But someone needs to protect the fighters from permanent injury.

Clearly there are extremists who do not want a successful peace process and that's exactly why it is so important for this process to take place. The problem is, there are people who oppose peace, on both sides of the fence, both palistinian and israeli as well as third parties, and violent attacks of this nature benefit them all. It is vital to identify them as extremists, and not let down the people who are ordinary law abiding citizens of both countries, who deserve the right to live in peace and security, and depend on their governments to do this.

Not going to bother finding polls about police opinions. Common sense dictates that poice want as much information about a house before they enter it as possible. Like, if there's known to be guns in the house. If I were a cop, would I want tools like gun registry information available to me, that may save my life before going in, or just want nothing at all? How does nothing at all benefit me more than having some information. See, that's a little thing we call common sense. So what, show me anything that is. There's nothing wrong with having to register guns. But there are powerful lobby groups who are bent on having an unregulated market, and they would see this effort and its inevitable benefit as a threat to their ideology.

If true, it must be coming from higher up. Someone in power and with a political objective to eliminate the gun registry. Real cops certainly don't want it to go away.

In 2002, there were 30,242 firearm-related deaths in the United States, including 17,108 (57%) suicides, 12,129 (40%) homicides (including 300 deaths due to legal intervention/war), and 1,005 (3%) undetermined/unintentional firearm deaths. CDC/National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 5, October 12, 2004, p.77. In the United States in 2002, 67% of all homicides and 54% of all suicides resulted from the use of a firearm. CDC/National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 5, October 12, 2004, p. 32. Firearm injuries are the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, and have killed more than 28,000 Americans every year since 1972. CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, 2004. Does that answer you question

The judge ruled that the confessions would be admissable despite the fact he was threatened with torture. "The judge declined to suppress statements Mr. Khadr made after an Army interrogator sought to frighten him with a fabricated story about an Afghan youth who disappointed interrogators and was sent to an American prison where he died after a gang rape. In a pretrial hearing, the interrogator confirmed making that implicit threat, but the judge ruled it did not taint Mr. Khadr’s later confessions." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38890128/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/ And the it continues: "Prosecutors disqualified an officer from the jury because he said he agreed with President Obama that Guantánamo had compromised America’s values and international reputation." Sounds like a sham to me. If Khadr knew they were going to accept the confessions anyway, despite recognizing that the threats were made, there's no point in giving his own testimony in the trial.

"Pakistani American David Headley pleaded guilty this year to conducting surveillance in support of the 2008 Lashkar-i-Taiba attacks in Mumbai, which killed more than 160 people. The militant group facilitated his movement between the United States, Pakistan and India, the agency paper said. "In 1994, an American Jewish doctor who had emigrated from New York to Israel years earlier opened fire at a mosque at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers. The rampage by Baruch Goldstein, a member of the militant group Kach founded by the late Meir Kahane, helped trigger a wave of bus bombings by the extremist Palestinian group Hamas in 1995, the paper noted. WikiLeaks releases CIA paper on U.S. as 'exporter of terrorism' I'm not surprised. But it's useful to get a reminder of the level of intrigue and collusion that's taking place, by all parties, so that we know what's really going on.

I think this is not quite fair to say. Some years ago I studied the question and found considerable evidence that all countries in Europe were involved in the holocaust. Exterminations camps were largely built in Germany, but there were some in other countries as well. And the Jewish people were shipped out from those other countries by train to the concentration camps. There is considerable evidence that many countries cooperated willingly to arrest and send off the jewish people, taking advantage of the German extermination system to solve the "problem". I'm saying, many were NOT forced by the end of a gun barrel to cooperate. The list includes Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Ukraine, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, The Vatcan. Then there was passive complicity, abandonment of the Jews by Canada, Great Britain, The International Red Cross and the United States. "Prime Minister Mackenzie King refused to allow 4,000 Jewish school children to come to Canada just prior to Hitler's march into France. All of those children became Holocaust victims." http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20050125/holocaust_poll_050124/ http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/24372/romania-faces-facts-about-holocaust-complicity/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-German_cooperation_with_Nazis_during_World_War_II http://www.forward.com/articles/10385/ http://www.wake-up-america.net/Remembering%20Ukraine%27s%20Unknown%20Holocaust.htm http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/021906Freiberga.shtml#JP3 http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/legacy/chap-4b.asp#chap4-11 http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JMGA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060601555.html

He may see it as the only form of protest he has. But I think he's making a mistake in not participating. Despite the fact it might be a "sham trial", or a forgone conculsion, this could be the only chance he'll have to tell the world what happened.

The word does not have a singular meaning. Apparently its origin comes from the Roman "fascia", the leaves used as a sort of logo on some emblems and building structures. Fascia alludes to face, which again is the outward face. So it alludes to the use of a symbol to identify some sort of embodiment. That is why corporatism is sometimes thought of as fascism. Some people think of the word fascism as having a de-humanizing element. Corporate structures have some elements of person-hood, but are not persons. Fascism demands that all members conform to the mission and vision of the organization, whether it be a company or a country. There is no room for artistic freedom or for ndividuals to try out their own independant ideas. At least that's how I think of it.

Killing them all would be best in theory, but reality shows how difficult it is to do. And the costs involved, in money and lives makes it questionable whether it's really achieving anything positive. Example, one can kill Saddam and then cheer, hooray we've saved the Iraqi people from Saddam. If in the meanwhile, we killed or caused to be killed, 500,000 people, how would that be seen as "good"? Plus, our own troops, and many other factors in the cost. Finally in the end, what will have been accomplished. We can't accomplish what we ideally sought to do in Afghanistan, so we change the bar. Our definition of victory has to change. That's one way of hiding, defeat. The best thing that could happen would be if the people of Afghanistan themselves reject the Taliban. That won't be easily done if the Taliban are seen by them as the protectors of their country, against foreign infidel invaders. If we destroy a house full of women and children, it's a victory for the Taliban. They know this, they are not as dumb as some people think they are. They provide aid to the civilians in regions, where our troops cannot go. They are the same as the people who live there in more ways than we are, and so we're the bad guys invaders. Every time we attack and kill them with bombs, we create more Taliban.

And General Patreus agrees with you. Petraeus: Reconciliation With Taliban is Ultimate Goal for Afghanistan's Future Reconciliation with the Taliban. The implications of this statement gives us quite a bit to ponder over...

Or like the ones who supply the gas to Saddam, then fly around in their jets taking pictures of the whole thing, and doing nothing about it.