[DrCaleb]

$1:

It's official: Harper sees Duffy's shadow, so it's 11 more weeks of election

Today, the writs were dropped. Stephen Harper asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament, kicking off an 11-week long campaign that actually started when that horrible actor told us Justin Trudeau had "nice hair though."

The dropping of the writs is a lot like Groundhog Day. Before the big event, the media rolls in. The satellite trucks are set up, reporters babble about what might happen and the TV cameras are pointed at something quite boring.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/it-s-of ... -1.3177372

[BRAH]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BRAH BRAH:

Harper Derangement Syndrome!

You should look into how many organizations are seeing bill C-51 as a direct violation of many human rights. Saying Harper is acting like a dictator isn't very far removed from the truth. The first thing a dictator does is makes it easy for people to be jailed, and to have those people labelled 'enemies of the state' so that the arrests are supported by the population.

C-51 reduces the requirements for arrest, and increase the conditions of detention for those arrested. All that has to be done is label them 'terrorist'. There is nothing wrong with arresting terrorists, is there?

The same folks whining about Bill C-51 would be the first to call for Harper's head if he did nothing and something worse than the Parliment Terrorist Attack happened.

Harper is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't so let be damned as he does but start drinking the dictator kool-aid.

andyt andyt:

1/Count Lothian.

Only in your World sport.

[andyt]

BRAH BRAH:

andyt andyt:

1/Count Lothian.

Only in your World sport.

And then you go and spoil it all by posting Conservative ads.

[DrCaleb]

BRAH BRAH:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BRAH BRAH:

Harper Derangement Syndrome!

You should look into how many organizations are seeing bill C-51 as a direct violation of many human rights. Saying Harper is acting like a dictator isn't very far removed from the truth. The first thing a dictator does is makes it easy for people to be jailed, and to have those people labelled 'enemies of the state' so that the arrests are supported by the population.

C-51 reduces the requirements for arrest, and increase the conditions of detention for those arrested. All that has to be done is label them 'terrorist'. There is nothing wrong with arresting terrorists, is there?

The same folks whining about Bill C-51 would be the first to call for Harper's head if he did nothing and something worse than the Parliment Terrorist Attack happened.

Harper is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't so let be damned as he does but start drinking the dictator kool-aid.

No, most of us 'whiners' like to see Canada remain 'Strong and Free'. We also know that more people died this year after contracting the Flu than in Terror related incidents on Parliament Hill. But Harper didn't call for mandatory flu vaccinations, instead he let police decide what they are going to define to be 'terror related incidents' and the Constitution be damned.

We are also capable of telling the difference between 'acting' and 'being'.

[Thanos]

If he'd called for mandatory vaccinations he would have been accused of being a dictator as much as he was over C-51. As Prime Minister he has the right to introduce these kinds of laws and only the Supreme Court, not any of us here in the funny pages, has the final say over it's constitutional legality.

[andyt]

If he'd put more resources into investigating potential terrorists under our current laws, rather than just creating laws that than catch innocent citizens in their web, only the hardcore whiners would have continued doing so.

Also, what people were mostly asking for with C51 was better independent oversight. Seems like something worth whining about.