It’s odd. All four years I lived in the United States, I never witnessed a single gun crime. Within a week of being back in Canada, however, I was doing a late night Dairy Queen run with my buddy when these two hooligans (I won’t mention the ethnic background of the perpetrators since in Canada it’s a hate crime that could see me jailed longer than them) walked in with a shotgun. Of course, our strict gun control laws insured that they were the only two people armed throughout the holdup.
I later discovered from a police officer friend of mine (who told me off the record I should have stayed in the US) that armed robberies have become quite common in my hometown during the four years I was away. He felt a lot of it had to do with high taxes, high immigration and a sluggish economy. For those who don’t wanna stay on welfare, it’s easier to turn to crime than to find honest employment and keep enough of your paycheck after taxes. Additionally, with the police underfunded and their hands tied in many ways, most criminals are in and out of the system in no time.
The same has happened with gang violence in schools. Here’s a pretty nasty story that demonstrates why Michael “Bowling for Columbine” Moore, who claims that Canada is such a violence free society that we don’t lock our doors in major cities, should stick to his fairy tales about America and not try and invent them about the Mediocre White North as well: Attackers hacked at teen with machete
Author: Pete Vere
CAIR and CAIR-Canada named as defendent in 9/11 lawsuit
Since quoting Daniel Pipes is a potential a hate crime in Canada (if you don’t believe me, please follow this link), I’ll just quote the relevant paragraphs from the second amended class action complaint and let you read Dr. Pipes’ brief commentary yourself:
“86. Council on American Islamic Relations and CAIR Canada (collectively, CAIR), have aided, abetted, and materially sponsored and al Qaeda and international terrorism. CAIR is an outgrowth of the Hamas front group the Islamic Association of Palestine. The FBI’s former associate director in charge of Investigative and Counter-Intelligence Operations described the Islamic Association of Palestine as an organization that has directly supported Hamas military goals and is a front organization for Hamas that engages in propaganda for Islamic militants. It has produced videotapes that are very hate-filled, full of vehement propaganda. It is an organization that has supported direct confrontation.
“87. CAIR and CAIR-Canada have, since their inception, been part of the criminal conspiracy of radical Islamic terrorism. These organizations play a unique role in the terrorist network. They emanate from the notorious HAMAS terrorist organization and like so many of the terrorism facilitating charities named and indicted by the United States government they are engaged in fund raising under the guise of assisting humanitarian causes they are, in reality, a key player in international terrorism. The unique role played by CAIR and CAIR-Canada is to manipulate the legal systems of the United States and Canada in a manner that allows them to silence critics, analysts, commentators, media organizations, and government officials by leveling false charges of discrimination, libel, slander and defamation. In addition, both organizations have actively sought to hamper governmental anti-terrorism efforts by direct propaganda activities aimed at police, first-responders, and intelligence agencies through so-called sensitivity training. Their goal is to create as much self-doubt, hesitation, fear of name-calling, and litigation within police departments and intelligence agencies as possible so as to render such authorities ineffective in pursuing international and domestic terrorist entities.
“88. The role of CAIR and CAIR-Canada is to wage PSYOPS (psychological warfare) and disinformation activities on behalf of Whabbi-based [Wahhabi-based, DP] Islamic terrorists throughout North America. They are the intellectual “shock troops” of Islamic terrorism. In the years and months leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 these organizations were very effective in helping to ensure that North American law enforcement and intelligence officials were sufficiently deaf, dumb, and blind to help pave the way for the attacks on the United States. The role played by these entities is an absolutely essential part of the mix of forces arrayed against the United States as they help soften-up targeted countries so as to facilitate and enhance the likelihood for a successful attack.”
In addition to the American Revolution, you lost four straight elections.
Responding to one of my posts over at Canadian Republic, some constitutional monarchist and Canadian loyalist (who sounds an aweful lot like a self-proclaimed “proud member of the Orange Lodge” I had been debating at Free Dominion) left the following love-letter in my comments box:
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Yes, get him [me] a green card, INS!
Which is, Mr. Vere? Do you want a green card, and the chance to move down there? Or do you want to turn us into a complete clone of America?
The first step to getting a green card, Mr. Vere, Ms. Shaidle, Albertadude, Adam Yoshida, and all the rest of you traitorous “conservative” (not really) Canadian bloggers, is to apply. Tell them how much you hate your homeland, tell them how much you idolize America, tell them how you’d be willing to take a bullet for Uncle Sam. Fight for Uncle Sam in a foreign war, then maybe, just maybe, you’ll be granted citizenship, if you come home not in a box. Or promise to be as talentless a hack as your fellow traitor Mark Steyn, and maybe they’ll let you in to write neocon agitprop! (Don’t worry; you’re more than half-way there already!)
BTW, you criticize the U.N. (which I don’t like either, incidentally) for being “basically a coalition of banana republics, terrorist states, and tinpot dictatorships” and then say “the reality is that the US (a Republic) did the right thing in taking charge”. But since you love republics so much, why is one republic and member of the U.N., the U.S., taking charge necessarily preferable to coalitions of various kinds of republics (banana, terrorist, tinpot dictatorship – almost none of these are monarchies, after all), including free republics such as the same nation you wish to be in charge, the U.S.? What does America’s being a republic have to do with anything, in this case?
And if the American revolution was a good thing, and one Canada should emulate, in your opinion, then why is it bad if some countries change governments continually through revolutions? You contradict yourself, when you support revolution as a legitimate means of changing forms of government, on the one hand, yet see political stability as a desirable goal, on the other!
BTW, should America’s “Coalition of the Willing” members Great Britain and Australia dump their monarchy, too, or just us Canucks? After all, their having the monarchy, just as we do, hasn’t stopped them from having the sort of foreign policy you like – whereas our government does differently – so is the problem really the monarchy, or is it just that you don’t like what Chretien and now Martin have done, foreign-policy-wise, since 9/11/01?
Get your green cards and get out, all of you! Frig, much as I loathe my nation being flooded with all manner of foreign subhumans, whether clit-removing ragheads or dog-eating coolies or crack-gang violent homeys, at least some of them actually like the country which has let them in, in contrast to you traitors – I’m tempted to vote Grit to continue completely unbridled immigration, just to offset your influence in Canada by importing a new populace, at least some of which will actually be grateful to their new home…
(And in case you read this, MWW, I said “my nation”, and meant it; your people lost a half millennium ago, deal with it.
You too, Mr. Levantine; not all of us are shabbos goyim…)
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Does this explain why Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party, until it merged with the Canadian Alliance just prior to the last election, had lost practically every election to the Liberal Party in the last fifty years?
Canada’s response is more incompetent than the UN’s.
Actually, I think in theory the UN is the right authority to coordinate the response to the recent natural disaster in South-East Asia, but practically speaking this presumes the UN is functioning reasonably close to how it is suppose to be functioning. It is not. And given how corrupt the UN has become — it is now a coalition of banana republics, terrorist states, and tinpot dictatorships — the reality is that the US has to take charge.
This way, the developed world knows: 1) the aid will get to where it is suppose to be going, and 2) the money doesn’t end up lining the pockets of some corrupt official in a country that changes government through revolution more often that the French go on vacation. So while the UN should be coordinating the effort in theory, realpolitik necessitates the US taking the lead.
That being said, Canada continues to prove its inneptitude by charging a surviving victim $100 to replace her passport so that she can go home, while our Prime Minister continues to enjoy his holiday, and Liberal legislators complain they don’t have the time or energy to get personally involved but then they slam America’s response. Get me a green card quickly.
The Canadian Art of Test Tube Sodomy
Believe it or not, this fellow won an award for “art” from our Governor General after sticking a vial of his own blood….well, read the entry at Canadian Republic. As the Governor General is the Queen’s highest representative in Canada, this is just another reason why we so badly need a republic north of the border. (Thanks to Kathy Shaidle for the tip off.)