You gotta love Canadians

Hairy Homer

Seems like a little Canadian town wants to honour the US draft dodgers who fled there rather than serve in the Vietnam war.

Naturally the 'lock and load, let's kill a few gooks for God' crew are outraged.

Watch the video on the link above.

ChipZilla

Meh. A Fox News report? Big deal.

Hobbes

The US laws have been changed recently in preperation of a possible draft being introduced. Americans might be in for a shock if they try to head to Canada to draft dodge.

ChipZilla

There's an interesting article here on the draft process:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/draftrefusevolunteer17apr04.shtml

Although these days they'd probably claim you were an enemy combatant for refusing, and send you to Cuba for an extended holiday...

ApeXaviour

ChipZilla wrote:

Meh. A Fox News report? Big deal.

Shhh! Foz news is quality... I don't think I've ever laughed at "impartial" americans so much.
You know they don't even get that channel in Canada.

Canadians are great

ChipZilla

I'm surprised the news report didn't go something along the lines of:
"In other news, the freedom-hating Canadian pig-dogs were today condemned by Overlord Bush, for their seduction of tens of thousands of God-fearing US soldiers into their socialist cheese-eating way of life 30 years ago. Invasion of Canada is imminent, and all citizens over the age of 16 are required to report to their local draft station."

Fox? Gimme a break... :eek:

Hairy Homer

ApeXaviour wrote:

Canadians are great

Actually I've just remembered that Mark Steyn is Canadian. And he's been known to boast that quite a few of the neocon 'thought leaders' are originally Canadian too.

Well. Nobody's perfect.

RuggieBear

ChipZilla wrote:

"In other news, the freedom-hating Canadian pig-dogs were today condemned by Overlord Bush, for their seduction of tens of thousands of God-fearing US soldiers into their socialist cheese-eating way of life 30 years ago. Invasion of Canada is imminent, and all citizens over the age of 16 are required to report to their local draft station."

lol.....oh hold on it's not that far from the truth :eek:

Hobbes

ChipZilla wrote:

Fox? Gimme a break... :eek:

ROFL.. Amazing. You could work for them. More fox fun at..

http://mediamatters.org/items/200405210006

ChipZilla

Good site there Hobbes. Pity I got Ann Coulter's ugly mug staring me in the face when I clicked on the link...

Some lovely stuff there - just goes to show how warped Coulter and Co. really are.

RuggieBear

http://mediamatters.org/items/200405210006

Jaysas, there is some scary stuff there.... :eek:

Hobbes

Appears a large number of reservists aren't turning up either.

http://www.charleston.net/stories/091104/sta_11reserve.shtml

Hairy Homer

RuggieBear wrote:

Jaysas, there is some scary stuff there.... :eek:

I particularly like the one when it was pointed out to her that it was outrageous to accuse somebody of a crime they hadn't been conviced of, and she replied:
"I think it's outrageous for people to act as if you can only speak the way our criminal justice system works."

Back in the 1970s-80s in England, the Anti Nazi League used to taunt marchers at National Front (forerunners of the British National Party) demos with the exhortation: 'Come and march in Brixton'

For those who don't know, Brixton is a predominantly black area of London, or at least it was then, in which NF/BNP marchers would have been made decidedly unwelcome.

So, mutatis mutandis: Come and say that in Ireland, Anne. You'll be in the libel courts before your highlights fade.

RuggieBear

Hairy Homer wrote:

I particularly like the one when it was pointed out to her that it was outrageous to accuse somebody of a crime they hadn't been conviced of, and she replied:
"I think it's outrageous for people to act as if you can only speak the way our criminal justice system works."

Back in the 1970s-80s in England, the Anti Nazi League used to taunt marchers at National Front (forerunners of the British National Party) demos with the exhortation: 'Come and march in Brixton'

For those who don't know, Brixton is a predominantly black area of London, or at least it was then, in which NF/BNP marchers would have been made decidedly unwelcome.

So, mutatis mutandis: Come and say that in Ireland, Anne. You'll be in the libel courts before your highlights fade.

lol... despite their free speech Amendment and all that, i always thought the US had pretty stong libel/slander laws...how can she asay stuff like that and get away with it. The mind boggles :rolleyes:

Hairy Homer

RuggieBear wrote:

lol... despite their free speech Amendment and all that, i always thought the US had pretty stong libel/slander laws...how can she asay stuff like that and get away with it. The mind boggles :rolleyes:

Their concept of free speech is a bit different to ours. You can get away with a lot more there than you can here.

And some, of course, abuse the privelege.