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|    Dhu on Gate to Dave Smith    |
|    Re: OCtober 1970 Canada vs the FLQ    |
|    03 Oct 20 16:27:43    |
      XPost: can.politics, can.general, soc.culture.canada       From: campbell@neotext.ca              On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:51:10 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:              > On 2020-10-02 9:27 p.m., The Doctor wrote:       >> Any memories of 50 years ago?       >>       >       > I remember that there were a lot of bombs, ususlly just blowing up mail       > boxes, but then there was a sudden increase in the level of violence and       > the kidnapping and murder.       >       > We didn't have many problems with the FLQ terrorists after that. Some of       > the took off to Cuba but I guess it wasn't the socialist Utopia the       > expected it to be and they slunk pack to Canada.              I remember War Measures like we were goin' toe-to-toe with the NAZIs or       Soviets and it was a bunch of infantile borkers with a fixation on the       Plains of Abraham.              Dhu                     --       Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise.        C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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