Tuesday, December 05, 2023

This Is Canada

If one had told me when I was a child that these sorts of things would happen, I would have never believed you.

But now:

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"It's not THAT embarrassing!" says spongy publicly-funded mouthpiece that keeps its CEOs rich and that blares out propaganda:

"I haven't seen anything quite like [the Hunka incident] but I've certainly seen equally embarrassing incidents happen," Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, said in an interview with CBC's The House.

"There are a number of incidents. Some just count as boo-boos and some ... are perhaps more serious in terms of policy," said historian Robert Bothwell.

Stein, who has observed Canadian politics for decades, said one incident that comes to mind is the 1997 controversy involving two Israeli spies who — following a failed assassination attempt — were caught with fake Canadian passports.

 

Typical Canadian governmental incompetence aside, how low do things have to be before something like this takes seventy years to live down?

Applauding TWO Nazis?

Canada has beclowned itself first by electing the biggest packs of idiots and thieves and allowing them run over Canada, then by applauding a Nazi in the very building where we as a nation declared war on people such as Hunka, and now by pretending that the matter is trivial.

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The correct response would be to have the menorah up, Jew-haters be damned.

But, you know, Canada ... :

Moncton, N.B., has ignited a firestorm of criticism for cancelling its annual menorah display, with at least one prominent critic suggesting the decision is related to tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.

Francis Weil, president of the Moncton Jewish Community, said Mayor Dawn Arnold gave Jewish leaders the news this week, blaming a 2015 Supreme Court of Canada ruling that council meetings should not open with prayer.

Weil told the National Post on Saturday the argument made makes no sense, noting Christmas symbols remain on city hall grounds, which he supports. The menorah had been a 20-year tradition at city hall.

“We are not talking about prayer. In the place where the menorah goes, there are a couple Christmas trees and a few angels,” he said.

Arnold and the city’s media spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Post on Saturday. The CBC reported they did not reply to earlier requests from the national broadcaster.

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Imagine having to justify one's existence.

Simply don't do that.

One should not have to to, nor would it do any good for a group of people who believe that going back to the Stone Age is actually good for civilisation:

I’m not the one shooting up schools, firebombing community centres, vandalizing bookstores, phoning in death threats, painting Swastikas on people’s homes, intimidating patrons coming out of restaurants and political events, or trying to block rail lines in Canada.

Of course, by your “logic,” and I use the term loosely, since you’re doing all of these things because you hate Jews – let’s stop pretending this is about “Zionists” or Israel bombing Gaza – I would be justified in doing all of these things aimed at Canadians of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim origin in Canada, because of Hamas’ terrorism in Israel.

 But I don’t do any of those things because I’m not insane and because I condemn acts of hatred against Canadians of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim origin, which are also happening here, because once you let the genie of hatred that you worship out of the bottle, as you have, it never stops with the Jews.

 

Europe is not that far off.

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Do note the audience:

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The victim, I'm sure the court agrees, had it coming:

Ali pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder at the start of the trial in April.

McCullough said the only evidence the Crown had against Ali was his semen found inside the girl's body.

The Crown had come up with a “crazy theory” where no one saw or heard anything connecting Ali to the murder, he told the jury.

Crown attorney Daniel Porte finished closing arguments Thursday saying it had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Ali dragged the girl into a wooded area of the park, sexually assaulted her, then killed her.

“When you strangle someone for a minimum of two minutes and for most of that time, the person is unconscious, it can only be for one reason: to kill them or cause bodily harm you know is likely to kill them,” he said of Ali.

Porte spent about two hours summarizing evidence from more than four dozen Crown witnesses during the almost nine-month trial. He referred to the crime scene and how the girl's body was found as well as testimony from Christine Crossman, an RCMP forensic biologist, who said Ali's DNA was found inside the body of the girl.

McCullough called the Crown's theory “overtly speculative,” saying there was no evidence to prove that sequence of events.

“It is a garbage theory and it's all they've got,” he told the jury.

McCullough said there were no “drag marks” from the path into the forest and a “lack of witnesses.”

He said it is unlikely that no one would have heard or seen the struggle. He said the trial heard about how about 10 to 12 officers had gone to canvass for witnesses in the park a week later, during the same time they believe the girl died, but could not keep up with the crowds.

“One thing after another doesn't add up,” McCullough said.

He said the Crown's case rests on the belief it would have been out of character for the teen to have sex with Ali.

“I don't think its outlandish to suggest that (she) may have found him attractive,” McCullough said.

“I emphasize, ladies and gentleman, how little you know about either of them and how little any of us can really know about personal lives.”

He pointed again to the lack of defensive wounds found on the girls body.

“No defensive wounds is consistent with consensual non-forced sex. Defensive wounds (are) consistent with a struggle,” McCullough said.

McCullough told the jury Thursday that the Crown had not proved its case and that the jury could not find Ali guilty of murder simply because he “had sex” with the girl.

 

So, he merely raped a thirteen year old girl.

Her name was Marrisa Shen, by the way

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Canada allows this:

Human trafficking in Canada largely goes unpunished, new data shows.

A Statistics Canada report, released Monday, shows only a small portion of trafficked people see their traffickers brought to justice, that police solve fewer than half of cases and that most incidents reported to police do not result in charges being laid.

“Hearing those statistics, it’s enough to bring tears to my eyes,” said Wyndolyn Brown, a trafficking survivor.

Survivors and a researcher who spoke with Global News say the system is stacked against survivors, and that the data shows there are few consequences for human traffickers.

“If [human traffickers are] not stopped, how many other girls do they traffic along the way?” another survivor, Sarah Dillon, asked.

The report shows that nearly 4,000 human trafficking incidents were reported to police from 2012 until 2022.

Nearly all were against women and girls, who were “overwhelmingly young” with almost 70 per cent younger than 25, the report states. One-quarter of women and girls affected were under the age of 18.

But of the nearly 4,000 incidents reported, only 40 per cent resulted in police laying charges or recommending charges be laid.

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When will he be released?:

Mounties investigating a Calgary terrorism suspect found handwritten instructions in his bedroom on how to make a bomb, court heard Friday.

Zakarya Rida Hussein, 20, pleaded guilty in Calgary Court of Justice to a charge of facilitating a terrorist activity.

Crown prosecutor Kent Brown, reading from a statement of agreed facts, told Justice Harry Van Harten that following Hussein’s arrest last June 15, police conducted a search of his home and vehicle.

Among the items seized, Brown said, was a “notebook containing handwritten notes with step-by-step instructions for making an improvised explosive device.”

Brown said investigators then consulted with the RCMP explosive disposal unit and the trace evidence chemistry group of RCMP National Forensic Laboratory Services.

That consultation “determined that the handwritten instructions located in the accused’s room appeared to be a viable and accurate means for the creation of a homemade explosive, as was the description in the instructions to fabricate a detonator,” Brown said.

The agreed facts, signed by Hussein and defence counsel Alain Hepner, also noted the offender “used his Telegram account to send an unknown user an ISIS video that explained how to make a bomb at home.

“The user responded asking about the size of the explosion and the accused said it was like a grenade. The instructions in the ISIS video matched the handwritten instructions that were seized from the accused’s bedroom.”

Brown also told Van Harten that on May 14, Hussein “knowingly facilitated terrorist activity by posting an ISIS recruitment video to TikTok.”

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We, too, can have our own October 7th attacks

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he is considering options to get the extended family members of Canadians out of the embattled Gaza Strip.

Most Canadians with extended family members in Gaza have been told their family doesn't qualify to come to Canada, leaving them helpless.

The NDP caucus wrote an open letter to the government asking for special immigration visas that would allow Canadians can get their parents, siblings and adult children to safety.

 

In time, everyone.

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We find ourselves surrounded by people no one wished would acclimate to a post-modern Western way of life.

It will not end well:

As someone who was born and raised in the Middle East, I am always baffled by the astounding cultural blindness exhibited by the likes of Justin Trudeau, a man-child void of worldly savoir-faire. Dancing in Indian dress as did Trudeau several years ago is further proof of cultural blindness. The ability to optimally converse with leaders originating from radically different societies is not rooted in donning their sartorial garb or in having language translators on hand, but in fully possessing a well-honed CToM, which regrettably few if any of our Western politicians possess.


You cannot wish that people whose instilled hatreds are antithetical to Western sensibilities would magically see that abject hatred and violence are wrong, no more than one hold that their culture is somehow praiseworthy or even better than cultures that practice tolerance.

Where is the evidence that this has happened in Canada?


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