Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, discusses Canada's 2012 conservative "spending slashing" federal budget with Redmond Weissenberger, President of Mises Canada, along with the desperate need for the general population to understand the bottomless predations and social destruction that arises from central banking and fiat currencies.-http://youtu.be/3dVi7TAfZ1k
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Government Libertarian Budget Lies!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Canada, Police State
20 people arrested at the G20 tell of ‘inhumane’ treatment at the hands of police
Lulu Maxwell, 17, Grade 12, Rosedale Heights
Maxwell and a friend were hanging around near Queen and Dufferin Sts. at a convergence centre for protesters on Sunday afternoon when police started making arrests. “My friend was blowing bubbles and I was scribbling peace signs on the sidewalk.”
Within minutes, her friend was grabbed and Lulu was put up against a wall. Her backpack was searched and Lulu says an officer said she could be charged with possession of dangerous weapons “because I had eyewash solution in my backpack.”
She was taken to the detention centre and almost 12 hours after her arrest was allowed to call her parents. She was released, without charges being laid, at 5 a.m.
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On Sunday, Breed and his girlfriend had stopped to watch the bike rally and were planning to get something to eat before going home to change for his shift as a security guard. “I was not involved in the protest,” he said. “I was standing on the sidewalk.”
Breed was wearing black. Police searched him and found a retractable screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. He was arrested and charged with having concealed weapons. He’d had the knife since he was 10.
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MacIsaac, an independent journalist in town for the G20, took out his video camera to document police search methods and says he was aggressively thrown to the ground. Police began kicking him in the ribs and stunning him with a stun gun. “I have a pacemaker!” he screamed repeatedly, but says they didn’t listen.
MacIsaac was eventually taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. He says officers harassed him; one repeatedly asked if his pacemaker battery was nuclear. He was later taken to the detention centre and left alone in the back of police cruiser. When police let him go seven hours later, they said they had no idea where his $6000 worth of equipment went. They told him to file a complaint.
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Amy Miller, Montreal
Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.
“I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons.” She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”
She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.
Read More: ‘I will not forget what they have done to me’
Lulu Maxwell, 17, Grade 12, Rosedale Heights
Maxwell and a friend were hanging around near Queen and Dufferin Sts. at a convergence centre for protesters on Sunday afternoon when police started making arrests. “My friend was blowing bubbles and I was scribbling peace signs on the sidewalk.”
Within minutes, her friend was grabbed and Lulu was put up against a wall. Her backpack was searched and Lulu says an officer said she could be charged with possession of dangerous weapons “because I had eyewash solution in my backpack.”
She was taken to the detention centre and almost 12 hours after her arrest was allowed to call her parents. She was released, without charges being laid, at 5 a.m.
...
On Sunday, Breed and his girlfriend had stopped to watch the bike rally and were planning to get something to eat before going home to change for his shift as a security guard. “I was not involved in the protest,” he said. “I was standing on the sidewalk.”
Breed was wearing black. Police searched him and found a retractable screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. He was arrested and charged with having concealed weapons. He’d had the knife since he was 10.
...
MacIsaac, an independent journalist in town for the G20, took out his video camera to document police search methods and says he was aggressively thrown to the ground. Police began kicking him in the ribs and stunning him with a stun gun. “I have a pacemaker!” he screamed repeatedly, but says they didn’t listen.
MacIsaac was eventually taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. He says officers harassed him; one repeatedly asked if his pacemaker battery was nuclear. He was later taken to the detention centre and left alone in the back of police cruiser. When police let him go seven hours later, they said they had no idea where his $6000 worth of equipment went. They told him to file a complaint.
...
Amy Miller, Montreal
Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.
“I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons.” She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”
She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.
Read More: ‘I will not forget what they have done to me’
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Canadian Contempt for Free Speech
John Stossel talks with Ezra Levant, author of "Shakedown." Levant explains how in Canada, political correctness is a value prized above basic individual liberties.
Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights
Friday, September 4, 2009
Possibly good news.
Some good news out of Canada. Apparently a portion of their notoriously oppressive hate speech laws has been ruled to be incompatible with the Charter which is similar to being found unconstitutional in the U.S
I am cautiously thrilled with this. I am happy to see restrictions on thought and expression defeated but I have doubts about it staying beaten. It looks as if it is not the "hate speech" restrictions themselves that the court had a problem with but rather problems with the enforcement and sanctions. I suspect a modified version will be back in place shortly. As a U.S. citizen what happens in Canada doesn't directly affect me but I still take an interest. Our lefties look to Canada as a role model and we are currently a leftist nation. (When the right wingers are back in charge I will start worrying about what happens in Iran and Saudi Arabia which is who I see them trying to copy.)
Don't get me wrong I find those people who make racist and homophobic remarks to be stupid, vulgar, dirt bags. However I believe that to have any dignity as free people we must allow even dirt bags to have a right to free expression. When we stifle the free exchange of ideas we end up with oppression, and suffering. Freedom to speak ones mind, publish and organize without fear of government reprisal is our best weapon against tyranny. Protecting that is worth having to listen to a bunch of bigoted idiots vomit out their stupidity.
I am cautiously thrilled with this. I am happy to see restrictions on thought and expression defeated but I have doubts about it staying beaten. It looks as if it is not the "hate speech" restrictions themselves that the court had a problem with but rather problems with the enforcement and sanctions. I suspect a modified version will be back in place shortly. As a U.S. citizen what happens in Canada doesn't directly affect me but I still take an interest. Our lefties look to Canada as a role model and we are currently a leftist nation. (When the right wingers are back in charge I will start worrying about what happens in Iran and Saudi Arabia which is who I see them trying to copy.)
Don't get me wrong I find those people who make racist and homophobic remarks to be stupid, vulgar, dirt bags. However I believe that to have any dignity as free people we must allow even dirt bags to have a right to free expression. When we stifle the free exchange of ideas we end up with oppression, and suffering. Freedom to speak ones mind, publish and organize without fear of government reprisal is our best weapon against tyranny. Protecting that is worth having to listen to a bunch of bigoted idiots vomit out their stupidity.
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