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Oh boy, this is a doozy... boycott Israel in Canada and get charged with a hate crime? Some of my favorite people are Jewish and even they question this absurdity in a free country.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/ottawa-cites-hate-crime-laws-when-asked-about-its-zero-tolerance-for-israel-boycotters-1.3067497 |
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Didn't they boycott Jews in Germany one time?
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Edited by
mightymoe
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Tue 05/12/15 01:18 PM
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Oh boy, this is a doozy... boycott Israel in Canada and get charged with a hate crime? Some of my favorite people are Jewish and even they question this absurdity in a free country. http://www.cbc.ca/news/ottawa-cites-hate-crime-laws-when-asked-about-its-zero-tolerance-for-israel-boycotters-1.3067497 thats what happens when you let democrats roam free to "help everyone" with all their PC stupidity... so your government is on a "just do as i say" policy like the US now, huh?... |
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Yes that's right... boycotting a religion
boycotting a country behaving badly is quite different, anyone has a right to boycott... it's the sole fiber of democracy. I'm not one to but I respect those who do. |
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Oh God! Fasten your seatbelts everyone, this is going to get ugly.
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Oh God! Fasten your seatbelts everyone, this is going to get ugly.
There's no reason for it to get ugly Sassy... It just goes directly against our Charter of rights and Freedoms, such draconian measures would be impossible in the US, for a reason. |
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Just a side note,
On the heels of a bitter objection by the Federal Canadian government to grant bail to Omar Khadr, you know, the 15 yr old kid who spent 13 years in jail, most of those in Guantanamo? tortured, isolated? In fact, the mighty Harper never once made a request to get him back here, it was the courts who got him here, the courts granting bail. So we let kids suffer in foreign torture chambers, restrict boycotts & free speech to Israel, encourage free speech against Muslims . I'm confused. This isn't the country I remember... 4 more months! |
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Well as a Canadian, let's see if we can straighten this out.
Ok, there is a political activist group run by PALESTINIANS who are working feverishly on getting Israeli products boycotted around the world. Apparently, they've had some success. The Canadian government considers the little band of merry activists to be anti-semitic. In Canada it is a crime to engage in behavior that would encourage violence for example against an identifiable group. So if I stand on a street corner saying "Kill black people!" I get to go to jail. The government in it's infinite wisdom (or lack of it) says that since an identifiable group (Jews) are being targeted, then that's a hate crime. Of course since this is an economic boycott, and NOT a call for violence, this is not going to fly. If it was allowed to stand then in theory people could not refuse to buy products from countries that torture women, or molest children. Ludicrous of course. It will fizzle out shortly when enough lawyers tell the government they will get their a$$ kicked in court should they actually try to lay a charge. |
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Didn't they boycott Jews in Germany one time?
Spain, in 1347, was actually one of the first European countries, to strip jews of their basic rights, property rights, etc... |
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Well as a Canadian, let's see if we can straighten this out. Ok, there is a political activist group run by PALESTINIANS who are working feverishly on getting Israeli products boycotted around the world. Apparently, they've had some success. The Canadian government considers the little band of merry activists to be anti-semitic. In Canada it is a crime to engage in behavior that would encourage violence for example against an identifiable group. So if I stand on a street corner saying "Kill black people!" I get to go to jail. The government in it's infinite wisdom (or lack of it) says that since an identifiable group (Jews) are being targeted, then that's a hate crime. Of course since this is an economic boycott, and NOT a call for violence, this is not going to fly. If it was allowed to stand then in theory people could not refuse to buy products from countries that torture women, or molest children. Ludicrous of course. It will fizzle out shortly when enough lawyers tell the government they will get their a$$ kicked in court should they actually try to lay a charge. Yes that's right, political terror, that's all this was United Church of Canada and the Canadian Quakers, McMasters students and labour unions. Are NOT Palestinian fueled, these are entities that refuse to encourage land grabs for profit, they've been calling for the labeling of products from occupied lands and boycotting those... hardly hatin IMO |
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Didn't they boycott Jews in Germany one time?
Spain, in 1347, was actually one of the first European countries, to strip jews of their basic rights, property rights, etc... After 549 years of occupation you would probably be pissed off too.. |
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Well as a Canadian, let's see if we can straighten this out. Ok, there is a political activist group run by PALESTINIANS who are working feverishly on getting Israeli products boycotted around the world. Apparently, they've had some success. The Canadian government considers the little band of merry activists to be anti-semitic. In Canada it is a crime to engage in behavior that would encourage violence for example against an identifiable group. So if I stand on a street corner saying "Kill black people!" I get to go to jail. The government in it's infinite wisdom (or lack of it) says that since an identifiable group (Jews) are being targeted, then that's a hate crime. Of course since this is an economic boycott, and NOT a call for violence, this is not going to fly. If it was allowed to stand then in theory people could not refuse to buy products from countries that torture women, or molest children. Ludicrous of course. It will fizzle out shortly when enough lawyers tell the government they will get their a$$ kicked in court should they actually try to lay a charge. Yes that's right, political terror, that's all this was United Church of Canada and the Canadian Quakers, McMasters students and labour unions. Are NOT Palestinian fueled, these are entities that refuse to encourage land grabs for profit, they've been calling for the labeling of products from occupied lands and boycotting those... hardly hatin IMO The Jews, brought pastrami to us. The quakers, brought oatmeal. I see no competition there. Pastrami wins. |
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Didn't they boycott Jews in Germany one time?
Spain, in 1347, was actually one of the first European countries, to strip jews of their basic rights, property rights, etc... After 549 years of occupation you would probably be pissed off too.. Yeah... Even Mexico got tired of Spain.
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boycott Israel in Canada and get charged with a hate crime? Some of my favorite people are Jewish and even they question this absurdity in a free country.
Politicians keep passing laws to pretend like they deserve their jobs, to show they are "doing something." A lot of the laws passed are extremely vague in how they can be interpreted. (obamacare tax or not a tax, subsidies for state run only, the tax code, provisions for "guilty mind," anti bullying laws). Pass enough vague laws and any government agency can use them to make anything you do illegal if they want to. And not to mention, with google, and facebook, and apple, and all sorts of social media, where people ejaculate everything they do on the internet, it makes evidence gathering that much easier. I don't think it's absurd for a government to do this. I think it's just business as usual. |
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Sanctions and boycotts
2 of our governments favorite tools against countries behaving badly. The irony of it all 
Israel gets a free pass, on everything, always?
http://www.international.gc.ca/sanctions/countries-pays/index.aspx?lang=eng |
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Just a side note, On the heels of a bitter objection by the Federal Canadian government to grant bail to Omar Khadr, you know, the 15 yr old kid who spent 13 years in jail, most of those in Guantanamo? tortured, isolated? In fact, the mighty Harper never once made a request to get him back here, it was the courts who got him here, the courts granting bail. So we let kids suffer in foreign torture chambers, restrict boycotts & free speech to Israel, encourage free speech against Muslims . I'm confused. This isn't the country I remember... 4 more months! Western leaders from Europe to the US and Canada are stupid to allow themselves to be pulled into the contentiousness of Islam. Or the rivalries of any religion. |
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