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There is a diffrence between assuming that politicians will use personal tragedy to advance their goals and this:

How do you dare speaking this way to such a defender of the truth. Remember (or not), he is the One who revealed that First Nations did not have languages because they didn't have alphabets, that this was proved in the Bible because Jacques Cartier was Catholic, and that English is not a true language because it uses the Latin alphabet. Repent, unbeliever, repent.

I'll wish Layton the same thing I wished Allan Rock when he had cancer, the same thing I wished Preston manning when he had cancer. GOOD FIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. Too bad that some people's sense of decency is so atrophied that they would use such personal tragedy as an opportunity to for cheap shots.

FICTION: FACT: What happens in Quebec is the curtailing of the rights of people to use the Canadian language they want. What happens in Ontario is recognition of the rights of Canadians to use the Canadian FICTION FACT; The Official Languages Act gives the exact same status to English and French in federal institution and services. OTHER FACT: that you fail to see that Quebec's languages act are in total contradiction with the very spirit of the OLA proves how clueless you are. FICTION FACT: Why would I consider myself a victim when my rights as a Canadian are acknowledged? YOU are the one with the delusional belief that you are victimized because there is French on cereal boxes. FICTIONS (7 in 1 sentence) FACT: English-speaking Canadians in Ontario are not discriminated against FACT: English-speaking Canadians in Ontario are not treat like second-class citizens FACT; English-speaking Canadians are not forced to speak French FACT: There is nothing corrupt in the French Language Services Act FACT: The presence of French language in Ontario is wanted by far more people that you think FACT: Each and every Ontario is capable to decide by themselves what Canadian language they want or need, and none has to account for it to you or any other clueless whiner FACT: The French language is not foreign to Canada FICTION; FACT: My support of dictatorship and Nazi-like legislation is exactly equal to your support of the tooth fairy. The difference is that I know both do not exist.

As he should. And if found guilty, he should be sentenced accordingly. Not different from most people who commit crimes. What we are basically saying, and that you don't seem to have the intellectual capacity to comprehend, is that upbringing is not an excuse for crimes - a reason perhaps, but not an excuse. If you think that holding 15 year old who commit crimes accountable for their acts is acting like our enemies, buy some glasses.

The only thing utterly depraved here is the assumption that anyone should be spared having to face the consequences of his/her acts just by saying "it's my upbringing". It is one thing to say that Khadr should be treated according to international conventions and fundamental justice. It's another thing to say that he should not assume and face responsibility for what he did.

The US government announced a few years back it would not be seeking the death penalty.

I wonder what is more funny. Your insistance on making a fool of yourself again and again and again, on your misguided belief that you are logical. For the benefit of those who will get it: - American armies invaded the Province of Quebec in 1775 in the hope of getting the local population to join them, despite misgivings by many in the Congress. When Benjamin Franklin passed that winter in Montreal, he wasn't preparing for a French reconquest of Quebec, but trying to persuade the local population to join the 13 Colonies. - LaFayette proposed a second invasion of Quebec was initially supported by Congress, then plans were cancelled due to lack of resources - the French-American treaty of alliance was clear on the French itend NOT to claim Canada back - the French Court saw far more advantage in having the Americans and British facing each others in North America than in getting back territory that would be costly to defend and would likely be lost again before long - the Americans tossed the French aside the moment it served their interests - hardly the act of someone who wanted them as their new neighbours. That's the FACTS.

You blame federal legislation for something that exists only in your imagination (Nazi-type legislation), that results in something that does not happen (violations of rights) - at least does not happen in Ontario. And you are unaware of the fact that Quebec language laws do not apply outside Quebec. Clueless. Here we go again with your incapacity to see the difference between French and Canadian. Your incapacity to see the difference between French and Canadian aside, you are the one who claim English-speakers are discriminated against in Ontario yet is unable to prove it. Correction, let's see what occurs when the linguistic rights of Ontarians are upheld. Provincial government services offered in French as well as in English in part of the Province. A goof thing. The Liberal government and Ottawa City Council doing the right thing by deciding that municipal services will be offered in French is well as in English. Quick, let's have a law preventing Francophones or anybody who can speak more than two words in French banned for seeking election on Ottawa City Council - it causes some people to have delusions of Nazi-type legislation and by-laws,

I didn't expect that a simple quote from Amnesty International about torture would lead to all this. Oh well... Is Amnesty International always right? No. nobody is. I do not agree with their call that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay bw juat released. Humane treatment according to the rules of law is one thng, but it doesn't need extend and shouldn't extend to people not having to face the legal consequences of crimes they may have committed. Also, AI's legetimate need to be neutral sometimes lands them in the prcarious position of drawing moral equivalencies where none exist. Yet, there can be little doubt as to the overall credibility of organizations such as AI, Human Rights Watch of Médecins sans frontières, to name three. Anyone who claims that these organizations "side with the enemies of the West" are ignorant of reality. And of the fact that for each accusation that AI"sides with the enemies of the West", there has been in the past accusation of it being biased in favour of Western countries, being an instrument of US or UK foreign policy, being alllie with enemies o f regimes like those of the old Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, etc. Now, anyone have something new to bring to the table about the SCC decision?

Tge security certificate is based on suspicion or evidence that a person poses a danger, not the other way around.

I'm not fan of sarah Palin, but she has every right to be angry. I doubt that any other parent of a child with Down's Syndrome would feel otherwise unless they're very thick=skinned.

The legality or legitimacy of the security certificates has nothing to do with the man's guilt or innocence. If he is guilty, he is guilty. As for the gambling defence... His lawyer is welcome to use it, but I doubt seriously it will be considered seriously.

Let's forget for a second that the treaty of aliiance between France and the United states clearly stated that France was renouncing to any territorial claim in North America, including land that had been ceded by it to Great Britain. Posted the link last time you made a fool of yourself on that one, Corrction: most everyone knows that finding logic in your postings is a problem.

Frankly, I expected better from you. BTW, found this through Google )http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/detainees-used-bargaining-chips-both-sides-israelgaza-conflict-2). Could have been a bit less diplomatic in tone. And I am sure that it will no satisfy people who believes that humane treatment should apply to some people only, but people who reads it and conclude it's anti-semitic needs a visit to the eye doctor, pronto.

I am talking Quebec provincial or municipal services not a level of federal services. Yet, you blame FEDERAL legislation for the shortcoming of provincial legislation. Clueless again. That is totally irrelevant as the English language is the de facto language of Ontario. Let's see here. You are the one who whines that English-speaking Ontarians are discriminated again because because services delivered by or for governments are available in French as well as English. Unless you can prove that there are services available only in French, you are wrong... as usual. So, how many government services can be obtained in French, but not in English, in Ontario?

And there would be no French language services in Gravelbourg, Saint-Boniface, Windsor, Caraquet if there were no French-speaking people there You'll notice, btw, that I mentioned towns where you cannot claim the French-speaking population comes from Quebec and would not be rhere if it wasn't for Trudeau. Why, because I can see nonsense when I see it?

Now it's Arar too? Why? Because this INNOCENT man had the audacity to not shut his mouth after what had been done to it?

If he ever gets any cent out of it, it should be seized to pay the sum awarded to the families of his victims by a U.S. Court.

Unlike you, I do not feel the need to shriek constantly. TAnd if I decide not to waste my postings on thread where everyone except complete lunitics are or at least should be in agreement - like the evil of the Chinese or North Korean regimes, for example, it's my business, not yours. Only whine "leftist!" about every time somebody mentions it.

I very well know that the federal government provides a level of federal services in English in Quebec equivalent to the level of federal services offered in French elsewhere in this great country of ours. You actually COUNT services? Tell me. Does providing a form in French counts as a distinct service as giving the envelope that goes with it? More seriously, how many of those services are not available in English in Ontario?

Thanks for reminding us that there were no French-speaking settler there already. Political unrest my eye... As for political nonsense, you are a net contributor to that.

Still posting that nonsense about how France attempting to gain back Canada during the American Revolution even after it has been debunked time and time again? You and leafless belong together. I still have to figure which of the two is the msot clueless.

Freedom pollutors? I'd ask for an English translation, but I will not. Better to keep laughing as such a ridiculous phrase, especially coming from somebody deluded enough to believe that some government forms in French is depriving him of anything, let alone his freedom.

If you are deluded enough to think there is more than a semantic difference here, I guess that's what the ignore button is for. But first. From a report by Amnesty International USA (2005) Just one example. The shipping of detainees to "ghost camps" and to foreign countries Mahar Arar anyone?), the documented abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and Bagram, the training in torture methods provided for years to Latin America military at the infamous "School of the Americas" should put to rest any delusion that U.S administrations have never ever engaged in torture. Nobody in their right mind would say that the U.S. is a giant prison, or that they rank to the same level of depravity as China, North Korea or Syria, for example. But there is a difference between that and wilful naiveté.