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I'd like to hear more about how he feels about torture, too. Should be a great listen. I'd like to hear more about his explanation about what "Shoulder to Shoulder" in Iraq. Seriously. Why isn't he talking?

They're sliding.

I suppose then we should detain people without charge. And then humiliate them with repeated strip searches. deprive them of sleep for 48 hours. All with no charge and no lawyer. Oh yah, that's a great. And then, after we're done, we can send them to a prison and attack them with dogs, and sodomize them with lightbulbs, and hey, even smother them with shit. That will be the way Canada works in a country run by Stephen Harper, with even the most fundamental rights and freedoms in the Charter violated.

Not enough credit. But nice try. It was a hedge. And you are backtracking. I'm wondering how far back you'll track. The Conservative vote is crumbling in the urban areas. Divorced women also live in the suburbs, so we're going to see a delayed response to the curve there.

The tories are being painted for what they are. That's all that's happening. People are learning the truth.

lol Hedging your position all of a sudden eh? You were wrong on the first count, without the hedge. You shouldn't try to justify your position. The fact that you're hedging suggests that you already know your initial statement was wrong. Don't make it worse.

How democratic. Seriously. Let's hear about their extreme views. It's pretty clear they're anti-gay and anti-woman. I want to hear about their anti-aboriginal, anti-Maritime, and anti-immigrant policies too. I also want to hear their position on eugenics and priest abuse. I'd also like to get their take on religious activism. Seriously! Let's hear it!

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Journalism school ethics seem to have deteriorated over the years. Moreover, journalists no longer seem content to merely do their job and report the news, but seem to want to make the news too. There's a bias. I think it runs in a number of ways. They're human, but that's no excuse for the laxity in their approach.

What's wrong with being deaf?

There are areas of co-responsibility. So rural Alberta should be able to trounce Canadian values. Pass me another Gettymander please.

^ ^ ^ | | | | | Mysoginist Statement.

Alberta Conservatives are worse for pork and media censorship than any other province. Harper is like Klein. If you like Klein, you'll love Harper.

I see the contradiction. Very few others do. It requires intelligence and critical thinking skills. Of course, by admitting that you see such a contradiction, you'll be attacked instantly.

Strategic voting cost the PC's 1 percent and the NDP 1 percent nationally in the 2000 election. Source: Blais et. al., Anatomy of a Liberal Victory. Strategic voting really doesn't come into play in Canada. Why? Because partisans are over confident, and non-partisans often lack the local (or even national) knowledge that is required to pull off a strategic vote.

Keep on deflecting the thrust of the arguement. It just confirms my point of view.

Nope. It's only when it gets extended to homosexuals that it becomes an issue. I wonder why that is? Although, I do find it quite disconcerning when people believe the Alliance about the contents of bill C-250. As somebody who knows the section of the criminal code to be modified, bill C-250, and who watched the debates, I can safely say that religious freedom is in fact preserved.

Great work Maple.

Wow. So quite low. I can't make any good assumptions about how the undecided feel. So I won't. The debates might actually make a difference.

I'm wondering about how many undecideds there are.

I love the fact that some people call others, who believe in respect, PC'ers, as though it's somekind of derogatory term. Funny. Let's take a closer look: I may have implied that you're a holocaust denier, I certainly never outright called you one. I made quite a few implications though. Those who desire the freedom though, often want to use it. You've said that you don't desire to use the freedom, but you're worried about the slipperly slope. I showed to you that arguement by inductive reasoning does not work because it is checked by reason. In conclusion, in spite of your false belief in the said inductive reasonsing, I don't believe you want the freedom to use it. I believe that all of your statements, including the ones about French assimilation, constitute accute Francophobia. Don't be ashamed though. It's a malignant condition that affects hundreds of thousands across this country. Thankfully there is a cure. You said it. If you don't want homosexuals to enjoy human rights...if not homophobe, than what? You make it easy. Alright, if you beat up and murder gays, I'm pretty sure that makes you a homophobe. Depends on the gay joke, and the crowd. It's almost like the jokes that homosexual women themselves make when men arn't around. Light humour stuff. Same applies to straight men when they think homosexuals arn't around. It depends on intent. I've heard some pretty nasty anti-semetic 'jokes' that were deliberately anti-semetic, just as I've heard anti-gay jokes that were deliberately so. There's a difference, but true, not much. If you're implying that because you merely oppose human rights for homosexuals, but don't beat them in the streets, it doesn't mean that you're not a homophobe. It's almost like murder. Murder is murder, but there are degrees of murder.

This is an incorrect interp. of bill C-250. Bill C-250, as the current section of the Criminal Code, protects hate speech if it is religious hate speech. Check out the Criminal Code sometime.

Seven: the lines between far left and far right are really, really blurred. Some people are so authoritarian far right that they end up being a member of the religious fundamentalist left (and it does exist!) Again, with the personal attacks. I've already stated which way I'm leaning in my riding. This statement has a lot in common with what a Taliban fighter said during a a Frontline interview. (Frontline, PBS, September 3, 2001) [i remember it well, sadly, because of what happened 8 days later. ] I'm not implying anybody here is Taliban, I'm merely saying that the statement has a lot in common with the Taliban thesis. Some people believe that 'political correctness' means 'respect'. I believe that several people who are anti-Politically correct might be anti-respect (towards several specific groups). One pattern has become obvious: there exists people who believe that prop up their belief that they don't have to respect certain minorities. (Hence, potentialy, the opposition to hate crime legislation.) I'm expecting a personal attack, because it's always easier to attack the person and not the arguement, which frequently happens when I make a devastating blow. The fact remains, when it comes to aboriginals, francophones, homosexuals and a woman's right to chose, Harper is very much out of touch with the Canadian mainstream.

They've had a taste of what Conservatives are all about with Gordon Campbell maybe?

That's why I've been saying all along that the Conservatives, just like the Liberals and NDP, are mainly composed of liars. Always hedging. Always talking in code. Rarely clear.