Just one of 266 reasons not to live in the UK
Newsbot @ Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:36 pm
<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=28316" target="_blank">Just one of 266 reasons not to live in the UK</a> (click to view)
<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/18-law--order" target="_blank">Law & Order</a>
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<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-12-17 08:05:09
BartSimpson @ Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:36 pm
People in the UK do not have the right to be safe and secure in their homes so this is no surprise.
martin14 @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:39 am
true..
Arctic_Menace @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:06 am
$1:
People in the UK do not have the right to be safe and secure in their homes
Whuh?
Ripcat @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:15 am
George Orwell was English.
paisley_cross @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:30 am
$1:
One of Britain's biggest electricity companies mistakenly broke into a woman's home to change her meter even though she was not a customer.
Anybody can make mistakes, even here. Like the innocent people we have put in prison.
$1:
The electricity company has now apologised
And we apologize too when we let them out.
BartSimpson @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:40 am
Arctic_Menace Arctic_Menace:
$1:
People in the UK do not have the right to be safe and secure in their homes
Whuh?
First off, my comment is self evident. I'm stating something that the article makes abundantly obvious. Second, in the UK you don't even have the right to defend yourself in your own home against violent home invaders, so why should you have a right to keep anyone else out?
The English essentially have no rights and, thanks to the notwithstanding clause, neither do you.
paisley_cross @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:43 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The English essentially have no rights and, thanks to the notwithstanding clause, neither do you.
Canadians have certainly lost the right to free speech as can be seen from various human rights tribunal decisions.
BartSimpson @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:51 am
paisley_cross paisley_cross:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The English essentially have no rights and, thanks to the notwithstanding clause, neither do you.
Canadians have certainly lost the right to free speech as can be seen from various human rights tribunal decisions.
The notwithstanding clause allows to government to void your civil rights when it suits them to do so. Effectively, that renders those rights into privileges that can be denied arbitrarily.
And you are quite correct that the actions of the HRC make 'free speech' a misnomer in Canada. Another fact of that is the thread about the school board trying to muzzle a protest web site in Whitby.
paisley_cross @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:54 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The notwithstanding clause allows to government to void your civil rights when it suits them to do so. Effectively, that renders those rights into privileges that can be denied arbitrarily.
I voted against the Charlottetown Accord because it retained the N/W clause. You can't have a legitimate constitutional "Charter of Rights" when those rights can be overturned by political whim. It's the biggest shortcoming in the constitution and that fact that it was put in shows just how little commitment the political classes in Canada have for human rights.
Robair @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:52 pm
Pretty sure I'd be a dog owner if I lived in the UK...
EyeBrock @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:01 pm
Be like me, leave. Come to Canada, it's well good here.
BartSimpson @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:30 pm
Robair Robair:
Pretty sure I'd be a dog owner if I lived in the UK...
At least until the muslims get dog ownership banned because it offends them.
EyeBrock @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:46 pm
Dogs are not welcomed in Islam.
But I quite like them, and so do all the other Catholics I know.
Now why is that?
BartSimpson @ Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:53 pm
EyeBrock EyeBrock:
Dogs are not welcomed in Islam.
But I quite like them, and so do all the other Catholics I know.
Now why is that?
But I quite like them, and so do all the other Catholics I know.
Now why is that?
Because Rottweilers and German Shepherds love to chase muslims.
