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We require judges to become most familiar with the criminal code; why wouldn't we require independent investigators who are members of a team that investigates police? Police codes of conduct are spelled out. Anyone who can read, can understand what is required response by an officer from that which is not.

What the petition calls for is professional independent investigators along with members of the jury pool to conduct investigations into police wrong doings. Do you, alone, not trust our jurors to be impartial, even if they ARE little old ladies?

Another police department is still police. Online petitions can be copied into a word processor and printed out, then it can do something.

How safe do you feel about police investigation themselves? And I am talking to police. How do you feel when you witness a fellow officer break the law and you are being asked to testify? Are you certain you want to tell the truth? Have you been on the force long enough to tell the truth? Are you still learning the ropes and are you afraid what you say may cost you your job or at least a lot of grief? It IS a Conflict of Interest for police to investigate themselves, by anyone's standards. When police investigate themselves, our officers are challenged in 'telling the truth' for fear of retribution from fellow officers, even chiefs (Stanley Park Six trail). We need to change this and make it as safe as we possibly can for our strong, brave men & women of Canada to be good, honest officers when they are asked to uphold the law. Let's give them that and outlaw police self-investigations. http://www.gopetition.com/online/35135.html

1-200 plants yields 6 months in prison = tax payers fork out more than $6,000 just in room & board; + court costs; + police costs; + upkeep of evidence costs = too much money$ $pent CONTROLLING the growing, $elling and u$ing a medicinal/recreational plant? When what we could be doing is: 1-200 plant% = $1000-$200,000 into our economy instead what we spend to house prisoners. The ONLY thing dangerous about marijuana is the gang activity that leaving it unregulated brings about. Politicians are always going on about the economy, well what sense does it make to spend what we spend housing prisoners, instead of allowing an industry to flourish into the public purse? It makes no common sense what so ever to make pot a crime. The ONLY sense it makes is for those who profit from G.O.D (Gold Oil Drugs) money. Criminalizing drugs 0nly makes $en$e for a wealthy few, while doing little for the public good. We have spent countless dollars on the Drug War over the decades, yet our prisons continue to get cram packed with people who are guilty of marijuana related charges. The public foots this bill, naively believing it is for the their own good. When in reality, all it is doing is perpetuating a problem (prisoners rarely come out reformed), turning a blind eye to the drugs that do flow through our borders anyway allowing bad drugs to cause untold health costs and providing a very few with a big fat paycheck. It isn't John Q Public whose name is on the check either.

Well it would HONESTLY unnerve me to NOT be able to see who is driving so recklessly or who miscounted my money at the bank or who I am putting into office. I bet in reality it would unnerve you too, to be hit by someone whose face you cannot see.

just what is my argument? What ‘comparisons and judgments’ do you interpret? What beastly reactions do you speak of? Who is your ANYONE? how have I setup western women for abuse? What belittling do you interpret? What is my fashion logic, antiquated, twisted or otherwise? You have GOT to be kidding. Read over your statements Waldo. You make suggestive comments about the morality of Western women and their choice dress, suggesting Western women dress to please men, that is is men's reaction women are after, not that they dress to express their natures. You seem to believe there is something WRONG with expressing one's natural born nature, that it is something to be hidden. This kind of talk leads to the "Well the woman asked for it; look how she was dressed" attitude and I hope we are well passed that stage of human evolution.

I never said he did. If we are supposed to accept face veils in this society, what if we all walked around with them on? Would you like it... I mean outside of Halloween? If you do, I'm wearing one. If it is acceptable, then I'm gonna do it. I think of it as a novelty, exotically sensual. What if the fashion style catches on? How easy would it make you to see a line of cars, not one of them with faces exposed? Or every teller at the bank behind a veil? I'll bet that even if only half the women of Canada wore face veils, it would unnerve you. It would of course lead to some men wanting to do the same thing. Kinda changes the pictures doesn't it? If you wanna convince me that it is okay to walk around with a face veil on, then I AM DOING IT. Let's be fair, if it is okay for some, then let's all do it. How would you feel then? I think most Western women don't wear face veils because it IS a security risk. It DOES cause public scrutiny. It IS anti-social; that's just the way our society is. You run around wearing veils and you ARE GOING to be unpopular, unless people who think like you & Waldo win and it becomes a fashion statement. Let's truly not be naive.

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What is so right about hiding your face Waldo? What about women walking around looking like banshees, while the men walk around like they on a night-out in Paris, is sane? You still haven't convinced me that hiding a woman's face is in any way something THIS society should adopt as a norm. The thought is scary. What if all women walked around covered head to toe? Would you feel safe Waldo, especially if one of them had trouble driving with the damn thing on? If those women truly love their husbands, then they would help their backward thinking husbands learn to adjust to their new country and their NEW CULTURE. Maybe it is that these women do not really love their husbands. Many were forced into marriage they did not choose, so maybe that is why they continue to walk around not fitting in, to make their husbands look foolish for being so backward; letting him think that his got it going on when really they are pleased to see his rules so scoffed at by everyone. Maybe it pleases some women who were Burkas to have this reaction. It's the only form of revenge they have. Let's not be naive.

In North America, as in most other countries in the Europe & world, there are always places women can go topless, bottomless too in some cases. Like in Constanza by the Sea, Romania at the mouth of the Danube, women go top/bottomless, and so do the men. Can you imagine the women being allowed to run around in birthday suits while men had to wrap head to toe? It would be unheard of in this world. But back to your question, yes there are many places in Canada I personally know of (Meech Lake, Wreck Beach, Martinique Beach and tons of others) women walk around perfectly topless, and as I mentioned, bottomless if they so choose. As do men. However I would not want to walk around downtown naked. That is where I am free to wear a mini skirt with leggings if I so choose. That does not mean anyone has the right to do with me as THEY so choose. Men need to get a grip of their own emotions more than women need to hide themselves from men. I wouldn't WANT to live around such men, or women, who thought the way I dressed was reason enough for their lack of control, reason to abuse me. Especially with your suggestive comments, Waldo. You seem to have some sort of 'mother' hang-up. Don't get me wrong. I think it is good for restrictive men to come from their former countries to this one; it gives them a chance to mature and learn to control them selves instead of trying to control everyone else around them. But that is what I expect them to do in THIS country; control themselves and stay within OUR laws, not use how a woman dresses as an excuse to take the law into their own hands. As for "their women", if they would like the opportunity to live without a Burka and make new friends, it is one they shouldn't miss. We may seem like 'softies', 'lazy people' who have had it too good for too long, but we are not about to let OUR way of life be changed into something that is foreign, by people who do not want to join us as a common community. This is Canada. Here, we like to see who hit us while traveling, if we can. We like to see who is serving us food. We want to know who is in our class room. We need to know who is at the till in a bank. Who is coming through our airports, in our libraries & malls. We need to have the security of knowing the answers to these questions. Showing our faces is a proud Canadian tradition stating we are glad to be here. I understand women who wear Burkas come from another culture; here they are in ours. That they must accept too. No, I do NOT feel I HAVE to accept EVERYTHING about every culture that we welcome into ours. I do NOT accept the part of a culture that says women must dress with faces covered. NO sir, I don't like that one little bit. NO culture is worth my security. This is how it is in this culture. Accept it.

Hey wait a minute, I have heard this kind of talk before. Isn't this the kind of thing someone says to justify their evil notions about women? I mean Waldo your argument is ladened with 'comparisons' and 'judgments'. Chill dude, we are not in the foothills of the Himalayas. Nothing about the way "western" women dress is just cause for any beastly reactions from ANYONE. So stop setting western women up for abuse by belittling them with your antiquated twisted fashion logic; you're off the wall.

Waldo, you're not a Catholic priest are you?

There you go Waldo, sneaking your perverted sense of style into my closet. GET OUT!

Any culture that would want me to cover my head (just because I am a woman) can't possibly stand for anything I believe in. I don't want that kind of thinking sneaking its way into my wardrobe. And it makes everyone uncomfortable to see someone who is covered head to toe. Dressing like that only states, "I am separate from you and not part of your culture and I don't want to even try to be part of your culture. Who are you with no cover on your head?" How effing arrogant of these women. Don't they realize we don't WANT to HAVE to hide our heads in shame for being born women; it's not OUR culture and in fact it intrinsically stands AGAINST our culture with its meaning. Those who engage in this form of dress don't mix well with Canadians and stay off to themselves, sending an air of not wanting to BE a part of OUR culture. Which only leaves one to wonder, with all their wife-in-laws and the one husband with their many, many children, are they remaining separate so that their kids will also NOT be a part of Canadian culture? Are they raising their kids to one day replace our culture with theirs? Why are we being so generous? Didn't Omar Khadr's mother publicly state that she was PROUD to have raised a martyr?