How Immigration Policy has Created a "Cultureless" Canada

[DogOnPorch]

That was a great debate, fun to watch. To tell the truth I was not impressed at all by the law students. Watching them it appears they were basing all their arguments on an emotional basis. That shit just don't fly. It actually looked like they were going to cry more than once, that would have been great, no, really great.

I wonder if that's how they'll approach the law when they're done school? "Your honour, please decide in my favour or I'll be tremendously upset" that should win cases for them, the hell with logic and facts, just introduce hurt feelings.

Apparently, most of the 'complaints' were based on the comment section of certain ultra-right wing websites. Not to mention members of the HRC were apparently joining said websites during Ezra Levant's (and others??) ordeal and fishing for 'racist remarks'. Pretty scary...but not to everyone, I'm guessing.

Part 1 of 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbYX94WrPuU

It's a fun one...the HRC guy is creepy.

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Ah,I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

---Theo Van Gogh: murdered by a religious idiot.

Edited September 4, 2008 by DogOnPorch

[jbg]

Do they even know who Xenophon was?

Honestly I don't but I'm prepared to be educated.

[DogOnPorch]

Honestly I don't but I'm prepared to be educated.

Athenian general and historian. Most famous for his book 'Anabasis' which detailed The March of the 10,000. Hired (along with his 10,000 strong army) by Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince who wished to depose his brother Artaxerxes II. All went well until Cyrus was killed in the Battle of Cunaxa (401 BC) leaving the Greeks stranded deep inside a hostile Persia. The famous march back to their homes in Greece ensued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

---Aesop

Edited September 4, 2008 by DogOnPorch

[M.Dancer]

Athenian general and historian. Most famous for his book 'Anabasis' which detailed The March of the 10,000. Hired (along with his 10,000 strong army) by Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince who wished to depose his brother Artaxerxes II. All went well until Cyrus was killed in the Battle of Cunaxa (401 BC) leaving the Greeks stranded deep inside a hostile Persia. The famous march back to their homes in Greece ensued.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

---Aesop

The polis on the March...

[DogOnPorch]

The polis on the March...

Indeed. Xenophon had to invent a system that kept a strong rear guard while denying the high ground to the Persian cavalry, et al. lining his route back. The whole mess would then have to leap-frog over each other as the army advanced towards the Black Sea for transport back to Greece. Tricky...but they made it. Studied to this day at places like West Point and VMI.

'Anabasis' is available online. As is his other great work, 'Hellenica'.

The Battle of Cunaxa 401 BC

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And now the Athenians at Sestos, hearing that Mindarus was

meditating an attack upon them with a squadron of sixty sail, gave

him the slip, and under cover of night escaped to Cardia.

---Xenophon: Hellenica

[DogOnPorch]

As a footnote...you can see we've been at this Middle-East stuff a lot longer than since 1948. On can go back to the Ionian Revolt and, of course, Marathon to see the origins of East vs West.

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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

---Alexander the Great

[jbg]

As a footnote...you can see we've been at this Middle-East stuff a lot longer than since 1948. On can go back to the Ionian Revolt and, of course, Marathon to see the origins of East vs West.

Or back to the Old Testament to see examples of the almost limitless savagery of many of the ME tribes.

[JB Globe]

For crying out loud, my "claim" was to have received an e-mail quoting an anonymous post, and I said I agreed with much of it. "Much ado about nothing".

So let me get this straight - you got a chain email that was itself a plagiarism of a fake letter to the editor, you didn't bother to verify if any of the claims it was making were true, then you decided to agree with the opinion of the email and present it here as a document that supports your xenophobic worldview.

In addition to that, you've dodged discussing any of the content of the email, and your own personal myth you initially posted.

Let's flip this, brother - someone posts an antisemitic chain email complete with unsubstantiated negative claims about Jews, then someone posts it here agreeing with it - is it still "much ado about nothing?" - or should that poster be held accountable and at least be told that those claims are baseless in lieu of factual information?

Looking forward to your one-sentence response.

[Hcheh]

Putting other countries before Canada is a thing I see very commonly here, around Toronto.. I was hoping that it was just because I lived around Toronto, the "multiculturalism" is inevitable. However, is this happening all around Canada? If so, I really fear for the future of Canadian identity..

You are Canadian before you are anything else!!

"I am the first prime minister of this country of neither altogether English or French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin -- and they are all Canadians." -- John Diefenbaker, March 29, 1958

It is this kind of multiculturalism that would make me proud.

God save Canada..

[jbg]

So let me get this straight - you got a chain email that was itself a plagiarism of a fake letter to the editor, you didn't bother to verify if any of the claims it was making were true, then you decided to agree with the opinion of the email and present it here as a document that supports your xenophobic worldview.

For Christ's sake, I'm supposed to "know" the origin of a chain e-mail? Get a life.

[Brunopolis]

Putting other countries before Canada is a thing I see very commonly here, around Toronto.. I was hoping that it was just because I lived around Toronto, the "multiculturalism" is inevitable. However, is this happening all around Canada? If so, I really fear for the future of Canadian identity..

You are Canadian before you are anything else!!

"I am the first prime minister of this country of neither altogether English or French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin -- and they are all Canadians." -- John Diefenbaker, March 29, 1958

It is this kind of multiculturalism that would make me proud.

God save Canada..

Why would someone be Canadian before they are anything else? I have my Uruguayan citizenship(I nor anyone in my family was born in Canada) AND I have my Canadian citizenship. I am Canadian AND Uruguayan before anything else. The fact that Canada allows dual citizenship's accepts this very fact. I don't understand why people get so upset over this.

My only problem with Canada is the political correctness that seems to permeate Canadian politics and policies. I'm absolutely tired of seeing on applications for benefits or jobs questions about skin colour(The famous "Are you a visible minority?" question). You don't solve racism with reverse-racism(I'm being generous calling it racism when in reality it's more about skin colour than anything else).

[Jerry J. Fortin]

Affirmative action is discrimination, period.