XPost: can.general, can.politics, ab.general   
   From: C-O-A-L-I-T-I-O-N@cda.ca   
      
   "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
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   > It's a pity that the people who spit on veterans and urinate   
   > on tombs of the unknown soldier don't stop to think that,   
   > had the Germans and Japanese won Word War II or the Soviets   
   > had won the Cold War, they might not get off doing such   
   > things so easiy.   
   >   
   > One of the things we champion in the western democracy is   
   > the freedom of speech/expression.   
      
   Wow, now that's a concept with a stretch.  You still think that "western   
   democracy has   
   freedom of speech/expression"?  You haven't been watching the number of laws   
   that have   
   been creeping in qualifying what is or isn't allowed - by people who have   
   influenced our   
   governments into passing those laws.  And you think that someone 'pissing or   
   spitting on   
   military monuments' will go free if they're caught in the act?  Not in THIS   
   'free and   
   democratic' country, they won't.   
      
   Now the likes of Israel and the U.S. and of course, their flunky Harper, are   
   in the   
   process of stopping anyone from criticising the actions of Israel as an act of   
   "anti-semitism".  We're about to lose the right to say that Israel stealing   
   land from   
   Palestinians or tearing down Palestinian homes to build Israeli 'housing   
   units' - is wrong   
   and needs to be stopped.   
      
   We lost our freedom to speech/expression when we voted in rightwing   
   governments whose   
   basic tenet is:  'We know what's best for you and you will obey our will'.   
      
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