http://trashysworld.ca/2008/08/02/231/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=231 Scribbling some perspective on Canada, Ottawa and whatever else crosses my mind... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:15:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://trashysworld.ca/2008/08/02/231/comment-page-1/#comment-63 trashee Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:13:16 +0000 http://trashysworld.wordpress.com/?p=231#comment-63 Well put Doug. But I'm not sure that this is the typical "hunker-down" crowd that is calling for increased security / less personal freedom. Sure, they represent a portion, but I'm increasingly sensing that the paranoia and cynicism that has permeated those most vulnerable to such feelings (e.g., those who have lower educations, or are disadvantaged or members of the Conservative Party) has extended to another social stratum. That REALLY worries me. No empirical evidence - just a hunch. Oh - and in a civilised society there cannot be ANY justification for the killing of children. Ever. Well put Doug. But I’m not sure that this is the typical “hunker-down” crowd that is calling for increased security / less personal freedom. Sure, they represent a portion, but I’m increasingly sensing that the paranoia and cynicism that has permeated those most vulnerable to such feelings (e.g., those who have lower educations, or are disadvantaged or members of the Conservative Party) has extended to another social stratum.
That REALLY worries me.
No empirical evidence – just a hunch.
Oh – and in a civilised society there cannot be ANY justification for the killing of children. Ever.

]]> http://trashysworld.ca/2008/08/02/231/comment-page-1/#comment-62 doug winspear Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:00:06 +0000 http://trashysworld.wordpress.com/?p=231#comment-62 I'll have to agree that all the calls for increased security measures would just help make the country more of a police state than it already is. The odds of you getting on a Greyhound bus in the prairies and ending up with you head cut off are pretty slim. As for the usual comments, I've been told that they don't really represent the "average" person, but tend to represent the crowd of survivalists, and so forth, with fortified basements and a hundred year supply of canned food. I do know that I was pretty turned off last week when I read the comments after a Canadian soldier murdered a two and four year old child in Afghanistan. The fact that people can firstly rationalize occupying a country thousands of miles away, and then rationalize slaughtering its civilians, and then think that this will have no repercussions here... there was world-wide shock at the murder of the Polish immigrant by the RCMP who'd spent ten hours standing in an airport without a soul lifting a finger to help him. I'm from the States, so I've seen all this before, as a country becomes an armed military camp, at war with the world and its own population. Murder is murder, whether committed legally by men in uniform, or by some psychotic loner. Let's just say that the chickens are coming home to roost. I’ll have to agree that all the calls for increased security measures would just help make the country more of a police state than it already is. The odds of you getting on a Greyhound bus in the prairies and ending up with you head cut off are pretty slim. As for the usual comments, I’ve been told that they don’t really represent the “average” person, but tend to represent the crowd of survivalists, and so forth, with fortified basements and a hundred year supply of canned food. I do know that I was pretty turned off last week when I read the comments after a Canadian soldier murdered a two and four year old child in Afghanistan. The fact that people can firstly rationalize occupying a country thousands of miles away, and then rationalize slaughtering its civilians, and then think that this will have no repercussions here… there was world-wide shock at the murder of the Polish immigrant by the RCMP who’d spent ten hours standing in an airport without a soul lifting a finger to help him. I’m from the States, so I’ve seen all this before, as a country becomes an armed military camp, at war with the world and its own population. Murder is murder, whether committed legally by men in uniform, or by some psychotic loner. Let’s just say that the chickens are coming home to roost.

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