Re: Violent Canadian Police
Originally posted by KidRockHow could my home country police do that??cry
http://www.pulse24.com/In_The_Raw/Raw_Video/20050308-001/Video-5-2.asxPolice in Canada sure know how to get thier job done eh? They could have simply pepper sprayed or tazered the man but instead they decide to run him over with a car. What a violent country that is.
Originally posted by Ironman
and people wonder why i say canada can go suck a fat ass (sorry had a bad expirence in canada)
I've a few bad experiences in the States but I dont hate the country.
Did anybody read the The New York Times bashing Canada?
Here's the the Canadian article by the Ottawa Citizen.
"Canada is a "great white waste of time" whose "docile, Zamboni-driving" Molson-sucking citizens consume seal casseroles as they export terrorism, mad cow disease, "and even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums" to the United States, some American media reports suggested last week.
The unflattering composite portrait, only partly satirical, emerges from stories in influential U.S. media outlets this past week when Canuck-bashing arguably reached new lows before the summit last Wednesday of President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox in Crawford, Texas.
Most serious perhaps, was the New York Times editorial a week ago in which the newspaper repeated unproven, but persistent, allegations that terrorists in Canada routinely slip into the U.S. through a porous border.
"Suspected terrorists have long been entering the country from Canada," asserted the Times, calling it "shocking ... how little progress has been made in securing our borders."
Canada's ambassador to the U.S., Frank McKenna, fired off a strong letter to the editor that was published in the Times Saturday.
"The ambassador is very keen on having these sorts of issues ... responded to within the news cycle," Bernard Etzinger, a spokesman for Canada's Embassy in Washington said yesterday.
"He said we should answer the editorial and state the facts about the security relationship."
The New York Times also ran a story March 23 by its Canadian correspondent, Clifford Krauss, headlined "Canada May be a Close Neighbour, but it Proudly Keeps Its Distance." The story notes that "with the possible exception of France," a nation known for its anti-U.S. sentiment, "no traditional ally has been more consistently at odds with the United States than has Canada." The story recited a litany of Canada-U.S. disagreements since the Second World War.
They ran the gamut from Canada's refusal to fully back the late U.S. president John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis, to the welcome given U.S. draft dodgers during the Vietnam war, to the Liberals' present refusal to sign on to the U.S. ballistic-missile defence shield and Canada's push for the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto climate-control accord -- which are both opposed by the Bush administration.
Noting Canadian historian Jack Granatstein's observation that anti-Americanism is "Canada's state religion," the story states that, while Canadian and American leaders "always claim the greatest fondness for one another, more often than not they have not gotten along very well. When they have, Canadian leaders have sometimes had to pay a political price."
Then last Monday there was an eyebrow-raising cover story on Canada in the Weekly Standard, a Washington-based conservative magazine that is considered a must-read publication for those inside America's beltway.
The magazine's contributing editors include Canadian David Frum and U.S. political commentator and humourist P.J. O'Rourke. In "Welcome to Canada: The Great White Waste of Time," senior writer Matt Labash observes that most Americans -- when they think of Canada at all -- regard it "as North America's attic, a mildewy recess that adds little value to the house, but serves as an excellent dead space for stashing Nazi war criminals, drawing-room socialists, and hockey goons."
Canadians delude themselves that they are a "superior race," but Americans see them as "a docile, Zamboni-driving people who subsist on seal casserole and Molson," writes Mr. Labash. "Their hobbies include wearing flannel, obsessing over American hegemony, exporting deadly mad cow disease and even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums."
He adds: "You can tell a lot about a nation's mediocrity index by learning that they invented synchronized swimming. Even more so by the fact that they are proud of it."
Mr. Etzinger dismissed the Weekly Standard's story as "an ideological rant" that doesn't represent American mainstream views.
"I think we are great friends. What a few people say on the extremes of either side of the political spectrum don't represent what the vast majority of Americans have to say."
He acknowledged that the New York Times editorial was a serious matter for Canada.
"The bottom line is that it's important for us to dispel what myths may remain, and to reinforce Canada's image in the United States, not just as a security partner. Our message is that we are a country that is under threat. We are a country that has in fact responded to that threat, and we are partners in fighting that threat. And I think often times that doesn't immediately come to (the Americans'😉 mind." "
Thats the end of the article. It is quite funny on how some major media outlets can write about something that they have no proof but just thier opinion. This might be a reason why outsiders have a negative view on the States. Im not saying I dont, but to the general public.
I would be more concerned about terrorists coming from the Mexican border. I was watching CBC and they were talking about how some border agents check illegals crossing the border, and a few times they get people of the middle east.
Once someone is a Canadian landed immigrant all they need is a visa to go in to The US. When they are citizens then they are allowed in, no visa needed. So it's up to you guys at the border to let them or not or to give them visas. And lol i bet only 2% of the population has every driven a Zamboni or on a dog sled or lived in an igloo. Idiots. I can say more factual things about the US, because maybe i tired going there first before calling it things.
They ran the gamut from Canada's refusal to fully back the late U.S. president John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis, to the welcome given U.S. draft dodgers during the Vietnam war, to the Liberals' present refusal to sign on to the U.S. ballistic-missile defence shield and Canada's push for the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto climate-control accord -- which are both opposed by the Bush administration.
We are a sovereign nation, that is free to make its own decisions. Every country should be free, thats what bush said! I know Most Americans know we have the right to make our own decisions, as i have seen it. Very idiotic thing to say. Its okay to disagree with our views on issues, but to call us bad/evil people over that is stupid.
I know in times of need, we would support each other but not in times of self interests (Iraq war, missile defence, Vietnam war)