G Huxley

Yet they still live in a peaceful society. OK that would be option #4 I hadn't added. Have a peaceful society where most people have a gun. (Switzerland sole example). Arming the UK would still be option #1 Orwellian Society with guns.

"Drivel." Ignorance. Again you display your ignorance, you ignore the fact that their governments were often forced on them by the west. The west destroyed Democracy in Iran by taking out the Democratically elected leader Mohammad Mossadegh, and replacing him with the Shah. The west destroyed Afghanistan first by the Soviets taking over and trying to 'modernize it,' then the US doing exactly the same. Iraq was invented by Britain in the 20th century in order for Britain to gain rich access to the oil in the Mosul region in order to feed its empire. The chief Architect Gertrude Bell comitted suicide, when Iraq failed to materialize. The Hashemite kingdom of Jordan was invented by Britain in the 20th century. The House of Saud took power in Saudi Arabia enabled by the actions of Britain and the States. Qassim the leader of Iraq was taken out most likely in a CIA backed coup, and the Baathists took power. When Saddam took control the west backed him for years to fight Iran. The Israel/Palestine and that mess was created by Britain, then was backed by the Soviets, then and now is backed by America. The west raped Libya in the 1st half of the 20th century, then Gadaffi came into power and was initially supported by the US, then he was supported by the Soviets. Nasser was initially supported by the US, and then was backed by the Soviets. Ben Ali was the corrupt friend of the west. The Islamist AK Party in Turkey was backed by the Americans as their Islamic NATO ally in the MIdeast. The Kuwaiti Monarchy was established by the British and defended by the US. Modern Pakistan is the fallout of British Imperialism and then US backing of Pakistan during the Cold War. Syria was backed by the Soviet Union and is still backed by Russia as the west funnels weapons to Islamists and turns the country into the another Iraq. The list continues to go on. The West has simply ruined a huge region by its deep ignorance and addiction to imperialism and oil. "By a pair of NIGERIANS born in the UK who converted to an Islamist cult. And yet you seem to think this is because of "imperialist" interference in the middle east... somehow." Islam is a universalist, rather than a nationalist belief. In Islam if Islamics are attacked somewhere it is the duty of Islamists anywhere to defend those attacked. I'm an atheist. As an atheist its pretty obvious how religions work.

Having been through Switzerland extensively, I never once saw an armed police officer. The attacker didn't use a gun here.

BCsapper again you don't even want to contemplate living in a peaceful society like other peaceful societies on earth, it is anathema to your fear, belief/faith in and love of war. Hell if Switzerland could maintain a peaceful society in the 1940s Canada can maintain a peaceful society in the 20th century.

And can you point to when the US or west did this on purpose? When it chose to use clusterbombs and fire them from 30,000 feet on a country that never attacked it. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realise the murderous savageness of such an attack.

Check out Switzerland, Costa Rica (no military), Iceland (also no standing army) etc. etc. That you can't even fathom living in a peaceful society like in so many other countries is pretty sad.

The choice live in an armed Orwellian society where police gun down people in the streets, or live an an unarmed Orwellian society where people are hacked to bits in the streets. Or live in a peaceful society. Tough choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes Here's what happens when you lived in an armed Orwellian Society.

The Buildings were called Blowback from years of western imperial intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia that has left millions dead and millions displaced. Your 'we're going to kick their ass,' knee jerk reaction is the typical braindead response that has led to the perpetuation of violence between east and west. As I said if you're going to brag about kicking their ass, then don't whine like a little baby when some guy gets hacked to death in response.

Wow you really haven't been paying attention. The whole Middle East and Central Asia have been consistently raped by western imperial intervention at the point of a gun, and then its done its best to funnel as many weapons as possible into the fray in order to encourage divide and conquer tactics.

I don't see hacking a soldier to death any more barbaric than wiping a bunch of little kids out with clusterbombs in Iraq.

And what weapons do those Muslims use? The weapons pumped to them through the U.S., Russia, Israel, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, China etc, all using divide and conquer amongst the Muslims to try and get their resources out the back door, and making a fortune for the arms manufacturers. Leaving outsiders in charge of the Islamic peoples' future is like leaving the pedophiles in charge of the daycare.

Why play Britain is the innocent victim routine? Britain has been a driving force for imperial wars waged on Islamic peoples around the world. This is getting off light compared to what happened in the Khyber pass in the 19th century. Don't get me wrong I'm an atheist, but I simply can't feel sorry for a bunch of people whining when one British person gets killed in a unilateral conflict that it started that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced now millions of people, and while the British government fuels weapons into the Syrian meat grinder.

If you declare war on people don't be surprised when they fight back. A two year old can figure that out. And don't complain when it gets nasty either.

No more barbaric than the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the Islamic world by imperial intervention.

Pretty sick watching Canada being sold off for scrap with utter contempt for the very living systems being trashed in the process. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/canadian-government-doubles-advertising-spend-tar-sands

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/study+finds+fish+species+shifting+north+climate+change/8390002/story.html That's been fairly obvious by the anomalies like massive amounts of humboldt squid washing up on the shore off B.C., but this study confirms it.

Let's be real everyone knows this was probably set up by the liberals and the cons just didn't think to cancel it yet.

I wouldn't call losing her riding vindicated. There was simply little change since last election. Voting habits are tough to break. The big loser is B.C.'s environment which is going to be raped as per campaign promise. To many here that's not a big deal. It would be nice if they would just go to Mars where they can all circle over the resources there without actually irrevocably harming life on earth.

The Conservatives still have time to completely soil that reputation.

I don't see why really. Voter identification will probably correllate BC Liberals with Federal Liberals, because that's as shallow as most voters in BC go.

The last part sucks. If you have any liking for B.C.'s nature at all. If not feel free to go to Mars and exploit it for inanimate minerals instead.

Andrew Weaver world renowned Climatologist has just been elected B.C.'s first Provincial Green MLA. In my riding too http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/14/andrew-weaver-green-party_n_3276101.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-politics The riding next to mine is still pretty close about 150 votes apart, so its almost 2 green MLAs. That riding elected Canada's first Green Federal Member of Parliament Elizabeth May last election despite the corporations who control the Federal Debates banning her from the debates, despite her previously getting into the debates because of public outrage the time before when she had been banned from them. Soon after May was elected, her fellow parliamentarians voted her Parliamentarian of the Year. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/22/parliamentarians-of-the-year-elizabeth-may-macleans_n_2176256.html For all the naysayers who said voting for a third party like the greens was a waste of a vote, and would never get anyone elected. This ones for you. Your vote counts, and you do have a choice no matter how many billions are spent to convince you otherwise. What has begun on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, the first to elect Greens Federally and Provincially could be the start of a real third party progressive movement in North America.

I don't usually agree with Putin, but this time he's right on.

Neonicotinoids are an insectiside which wipes out bees, and has been causing colony collapse disorder. Europe has recently moved to ban them. Canada should too. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/30-9 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22335520