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"You don't speak for me."
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One has to wonder about the motives of censoring free speech, as well as how the Residential Schools narrative is being framed.
The overwhelming cases and severity of abuses happened under schools run by the Roman Catholic Church. And yet this blatant fact is downplayed to the extreme.
And as usual “we” are supposed to feel shame and bear any financial cost over what the Roman Catholic Church did.
“……..by the Roman Catholic Church.”
And whichever political party was in power for most of that time frame. Well, we all know WHICH party that was, eh?
The churches where working for the government the prime contractor. The same government education that’s advising children today to have their tits and balls cut off.
Who would deny that there were residential schools? However, if you want to have me believe hundreds of children are buried out back, prove it. Habeas Corpus.
Exactly! Nobody denies the schools existed, but prove to me there are children in graves out back that were killed in and by the residential schools directly, with malice and forethought.
Also, though the schools may have been run by the churches, the funding was supposed to be provided by the federal government and in many cases sufficient funding was not being regularly provided. To use the fact that the Liberals are the “Natural Governing Party”, the blame for said atrocities should fall squarely on their shoulders.
Denialist!!!
Maybe you’ll share your cell with Jean Chretien.
Haha, I’ve been called a lot worse, by a lot better people!
1) they are deliberately using the language to equate their enemies with Holocaust deniers
2) the precedent was set when they call us “climate deniers”
3) it shows their basic illiteracy because they really mean “Anthropogenic Global Warming”…
4) see #1
Well said. The only addition I would make is that it shows just how shallow of thinkers that they are that they need to call names instead of answering pertinent and seemingly obvious questions. When factual questions are reacted to as though they are heretical then you know you’re not dealing with rocket surgeons.
Golly, using language to obscure things, who’d a thunk it.
If you can criminalize denialism…the world is your oyster and nothing is off the table.
Arif Virani knows this all too well.
… which is why the commies are considering it.
They are testing the waters. Next one will be to criminalize climate change denialism.
Yup!
I think you’re being too limiting. They want to criminalize disagreement with them. It doesn’t matter the topic. You will obey. Big Brother is watching (both the Apple and Android version). And government (seemingly regardless of party) can’t wait to get their hands on all of the controls available.
Also will criminalise denying there are umpteen thousand genders.
Doukabor residential schools in British Columbia, so what does that mean, reconciliation for another culture !
Doukhobors or Dukhobors
My dad was in the RCMP and dealt with some of the nutters burning all their belongings …. he had some tales to tell 😉
Doukhobor, my bad !
Let’s be clear. GOVERNMENT is the greatest evil ever created by man.
Come now, government is the best idea ever, its just never been properly implemented. 😉
Nice sarcasm.
This reinforces my conviction that the residential school narrative is a mass formation. Once the claims get as absurd as they are and the state begins to deem criticism a criminal act, there’s no other conclusion that one can reach.
Ernst Zundel.
Yes. True free speech advocates said this would happen if they weaponized this stuff.
And here we are.
I was never a fan of Pierre Trudeau, but he did bring in a Charter of Rights and Freedoms before it became impossible to do so. And even though there are exceptions in it that I disagree with, and the courts love to punch even more holes in it, it’s better than no charter.
Which makes it weird that his son seems to have no respect or understanding for individual rights whatsoever. For him they are simply a nuisance that stands in the way of governance.
“it’s better than no charter.”
No. You are one of the deluded many who believe Trudeau gave free citizens something they didn’t have before. It gave us nothing,but enshrined a method of stopping anything a liberal judge disagreees with.
Seriously, dude, that’s some silly ass shit.
You are wrong. Before Trudeau brought in his so called Charter our system of Governance was such that everyone was free to do whatever they felt like doing, unless there was a specific law proscribing that action. Laws were specific , carefully written, not subject to “interpretation” by some politically appointed magistrate or government entity depending on the prevailing winds. It used to be known as the Letter of the Law. Judges were compelled by the letter of the law, nothing more nothing less. If a Law became outdated, redundant, by the passage of time or societal changes the law could be changed by Elected bodies.
The supremely arrogant Trudeau turned this on it`s head and decided he could compose a document so all encompassing, so all knowing, so far sighted, covering all and every situation, for now until the end of time that would be superior to what had served so well for so many years.
And where are we today. The have been any number of agregious decisions by those ruling over us but none can compare with the actions of the Librano Syndicate under the leadership of Trudeau 2.
the empty hair has no respect or understanding of anything period as dumb as the come
Well. I’ve had my doubts about you, Killer, but this confirms that you really are stupid. The Charter denies all rights. It insists on the absolute authority of the Crown in its judicial capacity. We were much better off with no charter.
That charter does nothing to limit the states power.
You need to read more, starting with the “British North America Act” under which we had more fundamental rights and freedoms than under that worthless LPC piece of shït.
Of what value is a “charter of rights and freedoms” that doesn’t protect property rights and free speech? About as much as the party that brought it in: utterly worthless.
mhb23re
Diefenbaker legislated a much better and effective Canadian Bill of Rights before TurdHole Sr. brought in the useless ass wipe known as the Charter.
The “charter”, of lawyers, by lawyers, for lawyers. A worthless piece of paper because everything is subject to dismissal at the whim of the government or the courts, nothing is valid as nothing is permanent.
“The Liberal government included an amendment to the Criminal Code in the 2022 budget implementation bill to outlaw statements that “wilfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust,” except in private conversation.”
I’m sure the liberals will stick it in another unrelated bill
This is what Liberal government MPs think of individual rights:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1729190128462229837
Pierre Trudeau was PM for almost 15 years, for about 13% of the residential schools’ existence. How many kids died under his watch? We need to pull down any monuments to this monster, and rename any schools, streets, and airports named after this criminal. And if I’m responsible for the slavery that happened 300 years ago, then Justin is certainly responsible for the atrocities his father committed in Justin’s own lifetime. And Justin’s children, too – they too are responsible for their grandfather’s crimes against humanity.
As they say, we didn’t make the new rules, but these are the new rules.
It does fit the Progressive mindset.
Words are hurtful and truthful words are even more hurtful.
What’s the saying, Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.
Perhaps the #Libranos will take a lesson from what the Irish have done to their “free speech” ?
I especially like the state having access to private conversations between spouses, and whatever we’ve posted on the various social medias.
Perhaps it will be against the law to even ask how many bodies have been found or dug up?
When will AB/Sask. separate and be done with the idiocy of tier 2 Canada?
Let’s face facts. Lots of kids and adults died in those days from communicable diseases, indigenous and not. My aunt died from diphtheria at age 33.
Schools were put in place for good reasons, i.e., lots of people thought that ALL children should be well-educated. It is likely true that lots of the faith-based residential schools were underfunded.
All schools in Canada were fairly rough. My mom talked about her early school experience in a good area of Calgary in the 1920s, with rote memorization, straps and very severe discipline. Even in the 50’s, in a public school, I got hand smackings with a ruler in grade two for talking; unruly boys had it even worse.
Over 60% of my relatives are in now unmarked graves. They likely had a wooden cross, just like the kids in Kamloops. The Truth and Reconciliation document is pretty much an NDP manifesto, and is invalid. They only interviewed whiners, so there is no truth.
No truth=no reconciliation
“…or are claiming these schools were not as abusive as many of its former students and their supporters have claimed…”
That’s the kicker. Funny though, in Winnipeg natives are blockading a road to a dump to force an excavation to find bodies of murdered natives. But elsewhere, hell no, we won’t even try to excavate the radar anomalies that might be children to give them a proper burial…
Show me the bodies or bugger off.
It’s not a open conversation or even a crime investigation.. Either way.. A poorly run government program that didn’t matter until it did.. IMO the dead children are a metaphor of their dead culture.. They grieve and this political movement is a outlet for that..
I’m much more afraid of NAZI’s like Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh than I am of the Ernst Zundel types. Never allow them to criminalize any opinion, no matter how noxious. It’s a slippery slope.
The right to free speech is absolute and fundamental,
100% agreed. As disgusting as Zundel or Keegstra were, they had the right to be as disgusting as they want. I’m staggered that people in Canada have no idea what free speech means.
Another disgusting Canadian law I will cheerfully, publicly break.
While I highly doubt that this will come to pass, part of me wishes that it would.
“Your Honor, the defense calls Thompson Highway to the stand as a witness…”
So, this Ugandan Muslim immigrant who has been elevated to the highest levels of our government, wants to criminalize people who question the Indian Graves hoax. Start with me, you meddling bastard.
Let us think this farce through.
Government wants to criminalize,questioning their narrative.
Using the full force of government to punish those who ask for evidence ..
OK.
So what is a proper response to government lies?.
These fools and bandits claim the right to punish we who doubt them..
And then expect they can lie without consequence..demanding a goldplated pension for their “service”..
Yet insisting they can punish the current citizen for the imaginary sins of those long past.
The Retribution Party insists..We shall use their new rules..on them.
Hanging first .
Trial later.
Given how foul our “representatives” have become,no one in their right mind would voluntarily seek to mix with them.
So none can currently be in their right minds..
Politicians make the best tree ornaments.
“Don’t even think about it.”
With unlimited funding, government expands to fill the space available.
Close on the heels of a ban on free speech is a ban on free thought.