Booing U.S. kids was disgraceful

""The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday that fans booed during the Canadian national anthem before the Thrashers' NHL game against the Ottawa Senators.""

It was actually a DIRECT retaliatory action taken against a team from Canada's capital (symbolic) by theses people in REACTION to...DIRECTE REACTION to Montreal booing New York players, our flag, AND our national anthem as it was played. Not just once either. THEN, afterwards a FEW Amercicans retaliated. They were also reminded by others who outnumbered them in the AMERICAN arenas that their booing was not appreciated. In Montreal it was virtually everyone. In the American arenas (particularly in Atlanta) it was a small handfull of people who the crowd promptly shut down (self policing peer pressure) as Americans are much more polite and tolerant than that. But Americans never say that they are "the most polite, tolerant" people on the planet...but their actions are typically quite remarkably absent the hatefulness/rudeness found in Canada. But for some odd reason Canadians CONSTANTLY bray on, and on, and on about how "polite", "peaceful", "tolerant", "kind hearted", and "compassionate" they are to anyone who they can somehow corner long enough to force them to listen to it. I had a neck full of it when I lived in Canada. It was like non-freakin' stop!!! Oddly enough though I have NEVER heard these things being said about Canadians by anyone BUT a CANADIAN!!!! Go figure. So a few Americans retaliated. Too bad a few Americans didn't retaliate against the flag burnings and bigoted *anti-people of American national origin* hate parades (Hitleresque/Nazi style)held in Ottawa, ON November 2004, and VanHoover, B.C. Ju 2005 too, "eh"...the ones led by Canada's national political leaders...state sponsored bigotry/demagoguery (again Hitleresque/Nazi style)...institutionalized racism and bigotry against people of American national origin. "Polite", "tolerant", "peaceful", "compassionate" Canada. Eh. Canada has always had a way of targeting Americans in fairly helpless situations. Children predominantly. I remember how terrified some little American kids were at being subjected to the hate parades in their home town of Ottawa (their home at the time)...they left Canada never to return. Ever. And rest assured that word of Canadian "politeness" made the rounds back home in the states (eh)...

it was like this one here that started off the anthem booing back and forth (eh)???<br />
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<a href="http://espn.go.com/nhl/news/2003/0320/1527086.html">http://espn.go.com/nhl/news/2003/0320/1527086.html</a>

To: "Anonymous on Saturday, January 07 2006 @ 12:15 PM MST "

You are SO right!!! They have spun themselves so fast and so hard that we can now see BOTH sides of their faces at once, lol...two-faced lefist/radical/extremists...spinning oh SO hard to somehow make that annoying thing called TRUTH (the Canadian Lefist/Communist/Socialist/Radical/Extremist/Liberal/Supremacist/Racist/Bigot conglomerate's KRYTONITE) "go away"...but it just WON'T somehow (eh)....

"We don't hate *the AMERICAN PEOPLE* (eh)...just their government...and George Bush (eh)...cough, cough...uhhh...duuuude...pass it on, man...cough/gag"

Duh...yeah...CAN - A - DUH !!!

Ah, I see where you are confused. You are equating this website with liberals in general, and equating both of those with some unruly hockey fans. You will be able to keep up a lot more if you accept that Canada contains many different groups; some of whom boo at hockey games, some of whom post on this site, and some of whom do neither of those things. Please attempt to keep this distinction clear in future.

Not all hockey fans are liberals. Not all people who boo the other team care where the other team is from. I've seen people boo their friends (on both sides of the border). Sweeping generalisations are meaningless, and don't accomplish anything.

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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation.

>>The "bitch slap" defined as the mother of all censorship.<<<

You have a bit of a fixation with the word "bitch" don't you?

>>>Show me the proof that my beliefs on the absolute wrongness of US policy (if war crimes can be so lightly termed as "policy") <<<

It must be nice to be able to condemn others for having to face problems that you haven’t needed to because they are facing them for you. Better to do absolutely nothing, year after inglorious year so that there are no mistakes for others to criticize. I guess it is even better to benefit from the actions that you criticize others for yet claim that your own hands are clean.

“War crimes”? Naaah, no irrational resentment here.

>>>directly translates into real acts of anti-americanism, like directing my displeasure, at an innocent target.<<<

I can’t prove that you “do” anything. I suspect that you don’t. Just another little ball of resentment waddling around the tundra wrapped up in your own little victim trip. I have little doubt though, if the opportunity presented itself for you to take a petty little pot shot for you to make yourself feel better about yourself or “Canada” at the expense of some kids on a hockey team that you too would be making a public ass out of yourself with a big grin on your face.
What I can and have proven is your history of caustic remarks against the USA, not just “Bush” but the USA in general. Sure, you are probably just another blowhard, but your remarks and resentment contribute to the atmosphere where this bullshit is seen as acceptable.

>>>I'll wait for video of me booing<<<<

Ill get the NSA on that right away.

>>>It is my absolute belief that everyone takes responsibility for their own actions,<<<<

If the day comes when Canadian kids are threatened and booed and have their flag burned at an American hockey game you will know that our idiots are holding your idiots (You included) responsible. I hope that doesn’t come because, and I think that even you will acknowledge this DL, our idiots will eat yours for breakfast. That is what I fear all of this will be coming to.

Not to answer for Don, but did you even read the articles you cited? 2 clearly state that this was as a direct result of previous Canadian “unacceptable behaviour”..
Did you even read these:

>>It might have been a response to events from Thursday night, when Montreal fans booed during the U.S. national anthem before the Canadiens' game against the New York Islanders.<<<

The last article was my favorite:

>>>Wearing Senator and Canadian team jerseys with one even draped in the Canadian flag, 18 year olds Lee Piazza, Ted Mirsky, Brian Herman and Mike Prior all found out just how endearing Canada has made itself recently to the USA. Thanks to all the anti-US temper tantrums thrown by Canadians in the weeks prior to and during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Canada has built up what they call in metaphysical circles, bad karma.<<<

>>So although I wouldn’t call this a full blown international incident because 4 Canadians ran up against rough edged, grudge-bearing New Jersey hockey fans with long memories, let’s see what prompted the New Jersey hockey fans to act like that shall we?

In March at the Montreal Canadiens-New York Islanders game at the Montreal Bell Center the US anthem was booed by the same bunch of big burly Canadians who saw fit to target the busload of 12 and 13 year old visiting American hockey players. Those poor kids were subjected to verbal harassment, obscenities, and seeing their nation’s flag dragged through the streets only to be set on fire.

Those pre-teens didn’t come up to Canada to discuss foreign relations either but that didn’t seem to stop Canadians from venting at them. Even the kids’ Canadian counterparts on the ice stooped to calling them “sh*ts” and “Down with the USA” to their faces with the referee agreeing with that assessment!<<<

-Look, it is unacceptable down here as well as up there, but you are talking about TINY example of >retaliation.< Really, this is in a nutshell what I have been >trying to warn you about.< If you want us to play these shitty little games with you, you are going to lose like you can’t comprehend. If you want Canadian resentment to take off here to a degree approaching American resentment up there, as your words and actions indicate this will be like Bamby versus Godzilla. I think I said that on my second or 3rd post. -

>>>Memo to Canada: If you want us to be good neighbors then act like one too. We’ve been there for you and we’d like it if we could count on you too. Don't call our President names or us bastards, don't boo our national anthem, don't burn our flag, and don't harass American children participating in hockey tournaments.<<<<

Are you listening?

>>Sweeping generalisations are meaningless, and don't accomplish anything.<<<

Follow your own lofty advice when you whine on about the USA Mr. “Why do Americans hate us…”

Such hypocrisy… hypocrisy and rationalization seem to be your personal philosophy.

>>> they are not delicate flowers, too true, thanks for reminding me of that.<<<<

Gee, I am shocked to see that you don’t have the class or commonsense to be embarrassed here… quelle surprise.

>> All Canadians are not at all accountable for the actions of a few hockey fans.<<<

No, not all certainly, the ones that contribute to the atmosphere that makes this sort of thing acceptable… That is debatable.

>>I don't remember an official apology when they hung our flag upside down at the world series years ago, then it was 'just a joke' and 'an unfortunate mistake'.<<<

That was an accident, not a deliberate attack on your country and people and yes, there was a letter of regret delivered to your ambassador.

It really shows how deep you have to dig to find a complaint and how lame it is when you finally get there. It also shows that you too are a classless boob for trying to write it off.

", but did you even read the articles you cited?"

No, I just post links randomly. Did you read my comments further? "No ones' nose is clean here. It happens on both sides of the 49th. And it's never been appropriate."

I didn't say, nor care who started it. These Peewee players had to take the brunt of it. Just remember next time everyone jumps on the 'anti-american' bandwagon; how anti-american Montrealers and Hongcouverians can be, and how pro-children (regardless of nationality) New Brunswickers can be.

And I almost agree with Doc on this:

"I hope that doesn’t come because, and I think that even you will acknowledge this DL, our idiots will eat yours for breakfast. That is what I fear all of this will be coming to."

No, I don't think they can. The only difference is your idiots are more heavily armed.

But I think that is what it's coming to.

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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill

As always, you are putting words in my mouth. I don't think that all americans hate me, even though *you* clearly do. See how that works? I can make the distinction between different groups within a country, and that is exactly what I'm telling the above anon to do.

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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation.