Niether , just someone who is fed-up with the one sided media reporting, where anyone who 'dares' to say anything about critical about the policies or actions of Israel is condemed as being anti-semetic, and being subjected to constant emotional blackmail over 'our' collective guilt for allowing the operation of death camps in the first half of the last century. (incidentally where is the universal condemnation about Israel having nuclear weapons ? surley they live in the same area which the Govts. in Washington and London want to make nuclear free zones)
Life is tough, the jews aren't the only people who suffered from ethnic cleansing, ask the folks who live around Hirosima and Nagasaki (oh I forgot, the were just slitty eyed Japs) or maybe the Armenians, (remember them ....they were force marched out into the desert .....and none came back). I don't see much being done except hand-wringing and crocodile tears for the folks in Darfur (a region of the Sudan in Africa) where thousands are dying every week thru starvation.
The movie "Bowling for Columbine" provides some interesting views of American attitudes to firearms. And it also shows that there is no unanimity in America on the question of firearms. It would be wrong to lump all US citizens in the guntoting redneck camp.
Bullseyebarb , this is especially for you , and would welcome your comments http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/27/ngun27.xml its a news story from the Daily Telegraph about women police officers in the UK complaining the guns they being issued are too big for their hands
I just happen to believe as strongly in my point of view as you do in yours. After all, that's what democracy is all about.
I suppose you are aware that Canada always refuses to deport anyone to the States if they are likely to face the death penalty. That point alone gives me immense pride in my country. Anyway I am rambling off topic.
Nothing personal eh
I remember that case ... and I believe I remember that there was some quirk about it. I would like to trust to my memory, but I might have to resort to google. Good point tho'. I think that it may have to do with his commiting crimes in Canada too.Eric , I think you are wrong on this point , a guy called Charles Ng was repatriated to California a few years back and is now waiting his turn along with over 600+ other killers on Californias death row ( an outrageous number since all have been found guilty under the Law , but sleazeball lawyers and lack of will by elected politicians keep finding ways to stop the sentances being carried out )
And now we have definitive stats ... what are those; nine out of ten doctors leaves one? And don't get the idea that Canadians don't have guns. We do; I own two shotguns and two hunting rifles, and I am presently restoring a WW1 vintage Lee-Enfield. The guns that are difficult to aquire are hand guns, and the kind of assault weapons that are available in Crackerjack boxes in many US states. And with the guns we have we do not usually shoot people. Check out the murder rate in Detroit and that of Windsor on the Canadian side. These stats are interesting, if not definative. When the City of Detroit has more murders in a year than the whole of the British Isles, something is rotten in the state of Michigan.
When people carry handguns in the glove compartments of their cars, it adds an interesting dimension to road rage. I have a bumper sticker a friend sent me from LA, it reads: "Cover me, I'm changing lanes." The murder rate in the US should suggest that something is wrong. And then there is the state murder rate; America is the only western first-world country that routinely executes murderers. I suppose you are aware that Canada always refuses to deport anyone to the States if they are likely to face the death penalty. That point alone gives me immense pride in my country. Anyway I am rambling off topic.
Nothing personal eh
I'm in favour of 'a womans right to choose' , but .....if the unborn was one of my own, how would I feel then ? seems a bit hypocritical to be in favour of one and against the other since the end result is essensially the same .
would welcome others views
Before I start to disagree with evrthg you say
I do hope that your relatives enjoy living in the great white north. I particularly envy your cousins in BC (we often call it British California). I hope that your aunt is happy in Ontario, where, if she should need medical care, she will get the best in the world at no cost. I had to get that one in.
is that a sly dig at California ? sounds a bit like those bumperstickers we often see on the cars in the State north of us " Don't Californicate Oregon"