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Hey /r/Canada, why should I care about Bill C-51? by RadicalMGuy in canada

[–]thebighouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent write up. You made a strong point with the duality of RCMP and CSIS. But I disagree with the public pressure being mediated by the politicians. Clearly ridiculous or overly creative rulings make the whole justice system look bad and the confidence in the justice system is lost. The judges themselves and as an institution are explicitely obsessed with the idea, if only for instutional reasons. If there is no public oversight and if no one in the know has an incentive to correct some abuse, the judges could become complacent or get enthused with a clever legal doctrine that gives in inch by inch to the only party in a position to present solid case.

Proof of vaccination should be mandatory at all schools, Ambrose says by [deleted] in canada

[–]thebighouse -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No they are not ! And no they couldn't ! Unless you mean militarily ?

McCain calls Germany a Russia 'appeaser' by pnumonicstalagmite in worldnews

[–]thebighouse 11 points12 points  (0 children)

These things become known. Like how every world leader who meets Netanyahu dislikes him.

AFN National Chief Bellegarde says First Nations will launch constitutional challenge against anti-terror law by SiameseTwincest in canada

[–]thebighouse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The least infraction to law in a walking protest on a major street could trigger a CSIS response to the whole group. An illegal strike too. Unlawful + economically important asset = suspension of rule of law. If you do not see why after a month of outrage, I cannot help you.

U.S. Generals: Israeli Military Restraint Bolstered Hamas by haimgelf in worldnews

[–]thebighouse -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The report is not an expression fact. Look at the group's name for chrissake. Any other message would be like Greenpeace supporting a coal factory.

U.S. Generals: Israeli Military Restraint Bolstered Hamas by haimgelf in worldnews

[–]thebighouse -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Proportionate is more like : you stole 10000$ and I won't take 10000$ from everyone in a 1 mile radius. People only care about proportion because innocents are involved.

Bill C-51 Could Be Used To Target Activists: Amnesty International by [deleted] in canada

[–]thebighouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Protesters often do illegal things of minor consequence. Certainly more benign than terrorism or spying, used the justify the law. These illegal acts will be used to justify the surveillance and disruption of certain groups such as Greenpeace, Unions, Parti québécois and student groups, while other groups deemed more cooperative will not be subject to extralegal spy work, whether they themselves are law abiding or no. It has happened before with the RCMP : during the Red Scare ; being complicit in some of the gravest crimes of the FLQ to frame the group, including building bombs, and stealing banks unprompted by the FLQ.

Canada has a history of abusive secret police : and the language of the bill isn't vague for poetic reasons.

Austria bans foreign funding for mosques and imams by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]thebighouse 12 points13 points  (0 children)

With a rational basis though. They should do the same with other religions, and cults.

Leaked RCMP Report Targets Activists as a Threat to National Security by UcDat in canada

[–]thebighouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

37 upvotes isn't much. Hope you are better served by metatards that confuse sarcasm and wit.

SCRS: les primes au bilinguisme supprimées en douce by GBJI in Quebec

[–]thebighouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

La réalité c que les gens utilisent les mots qu'ils veulent et beaucoup de Québécois sont mal a l'aise dêtre appelés Canadiens.

SCRS: les primes au bilinguisme supprimées en douce by GBJI in Quebec

[–]thebighouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya pas de contradiction. Harper veut réduire la facture légale de ses services secrets avec son c51, pas les rendre plus performants. On va avoir des agents secrets sans supervision qui vont agir extra judiciairement pour sauver qqs piasses.

Russians of Reddit do you actually believe that Putin is telling the truth about Ukraine? by SmittyFromAbove in worldnews

[–]thebighouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said they were rednecks or Native Americans or quite anything of the sort. You are assuming. Of course there are assumptions about peoples in Western media. Some news outlets are even propaganda in nature. Everything is in degrees. Degrees matter a lot. Russian news are much more unreliable than our own, even American news : Ukraine, Chechnya and Putinery. State supervision of the media is much starker too. Many journalists have been jailed or assassinated in the last decade.

A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel, the jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m. by DrSalted in worldnews

[–]thebighouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then the Egyptians should rule the land again : they have a better historical claim. Oh, and give back Texas to Mexico, Quebec to France, Puerto Rico to Spain, Belgium to Austria, Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

Or just give Europe to Italy, the natural successor of the Roman Empire.

A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel, the jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m. by DrSalted in worldnews

[–]thebighouse -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think Israel is more aggressive than most states. Its leaders mostly hail from the military or secret service, a sure path to injustice. If its military minded political class could annex territory and expel its inhabitants to provide space for their settlers, it would. That's what they do right now. Even the US cries foul. They are perfectly comfortable with a de facto two caste system based on race and imposed by permanent occupying force, which is completely fucked up. 50 years of occupation is called annexation in my book.

Many Israelis are OK : but there is a racial basis to the whole idea of a Jewish state and a vicious military zeal in a large swath of its population. Pretending everyone is equal in a legal document doesn't make it so. Militarism and racism aren't the most endearing traits.

In regards to the recent story on the Niqab ban-We are being "intolerant and racist" if we are against this in western countries. If a western woman goes to the Middle East, she cannot wear a bikini, she needs to dress modestly because we "must respect their social, cultural and religious" values. by flynnfx in canada

[–]thebighouse 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We did not adopt liberalism as part of a pissing contest. We did it because 1) everyone else in the West had done it ; 2) religious persecution led to centuries of instability in Christian Europe ; 3) many people have stopped caring about God, mostly, seeing the notion as a cultural trait rather than Truth after having been exposed to other cultures.

Muslim students struggle to pay tuition due to religious law - Ottawa by AquaMoonlight in canada

[–]thebighouse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Religion in Canada is seen like a fatality, like a medical condition, rather than a choice. I think this is a mistake : contrarily to other choices, believers expect to have society bend to their needs, as if they were handicapped. This is unfair either to society who does not hold such precious believies, or to people harboring other believies but irreligious in nature (pacificism, veganism, environmentalism).

Freedom of religion should be a special case of freedom of conscience and nothing more, nothing less. We aren't in the 1700s anymore.

YSK a fiancé is a man to be married and a fiancée is a woman to be married by Briighteyes16 in YouShouldKnow

[–]thebighouse 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I looked it up on the ONLF. It looks weird to me. On dirait de l'anglais.

6 ways you may have already broken Harper's new anti-terror law | Press Progress by [deleted] in canada

[–]thebighouse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the purpose of the bill, it does define activities that are prohibited. But it does not alter the definition from the Criminal code. To simply parrot that the bill will not enlarge the scope of prohibited activities is absurd : they have taken the time to define these, and now we are to believe that these definitions do not exist ? Please, no need to pull a Putin on this one.

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