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Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group

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CBC News - British Columbia - Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group

CBC said:
A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice, civil libertarians say.

Violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Friday.

The proposed law was introduced Thursday as a bill to amend the Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act.

The government said in a statement that the changes will "provide the municipalities of Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler with temporary enforcement powers to enable them to swiftly remove illegal signs and graffiti during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games."
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I'm mostly posting this to show the people of the U.S. the bullet they dodged when Chicago didn't get the Olympics. Everywhere the Olympics go, tyranny follows. The Vancouver municipal government will basically be instituting martial law during the events, and laws like the above are being signed into effect without the consent of third party rights groups.

The rich elites behind the Olympics have more sway over government than even the Constitutions of countries. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being willfully ignored while anti-free speech laws are signed into temporary effect for the games.

Supreme Court challenges have been made but who knows if they'll have any effect.
 
Things like this were tried in Salt Lake City. Didn't take.

Particularly when the Chinese government demanded that Taiwanese flags be removed from display at local people's homes.
 
What!? That is messed up !
Hope the Supreme Court challenges are successful.


BTW, unrelated, but I was interested reading last week about a Supreme Court challenge to prostitution laws, resting on a violation of the right to life in the Charter. I wonder how that one will turn out!
 
What's Anti-Olympic? :confused:
That's like anti-football.
 
Orius said:
CBC News - British Columbia - Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group



I'm mostly posting this to show the people of the U.S. the bullet they dodged when Chicago didn't get the Olympics. Everywhere the Olympics go, tyranny follows. The Vancouver municipal government will basically be instituting martial law during the events, and laws like the above are being signed into effect without the consent of third party rights groups.

The rich elites behind the Olympics have more sway over government than even the Constitutions of countries. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being willfully ignored while anti-free speech laws are signed into temporary effect for the games.

Supreme Court challenges have been made but who knows if they'll have any effect.
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That would never work in America.
 
And it makes you just love how Canadians trash talk the US.
 
Why is this a surprise Canada can jail preachers who say homosexuality is a sin. Pretty soon there speaking out against the government or having anti-war protest could be illegal because the government there could probably declare themselves and the military a class of citizens/subjects that need special protections from evil hate mongers.
 
jamesrage said:
Why is this a surprise Canada can jail preachers who say homosexuality is a sin. Pretty soon there speaking out against the government or having anti-war protest could be illegal because the government there could probably declare themselves and the military a class of citizens/subjects that need special protections from evil hate mongers.
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WTF??? That is news to me. Please show me a link.
 
Harshaw said:
Which "regular Americans" are being "tapped"?
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Who knows, the retardicans started it.. and the libtards are continuing it.

I guess... those that are being warrantless wiretapped are "security threats"... to something or someone.
 
It's illegal not to pre-pay your gas in BC, so what can we expect?
 
Why is this thread becoming an America vs. Canada thing? I posted the article to show how bad the Olympics in general are. Wherever they go, the upper crust gets so anxious to see the dollars flow that they start curtailing rights. It happens everywhere, and it would happen in Chicago too.

People need to stop seeing the Olympics as a good thing. It's not.
 
Orius said:
Why is this thread becoming an America vs. Canada thing? I posted the article to show how bad the Olympics in general are. Wherever they go, the upper crust gets so anxious to see the dollars flow that they start curtailing rights. It happens everywhere, and it would happen in Chicago too.

People need to stop seeing the Olympics as a good thing. It's not.
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I see the Olympics as a globalist event and and I oppose globalism. But other than that what other reasons could the Olympics be a bad thing?
 
Catz Part Deux said:
Canada doesn't really have free speech anymore.
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There are alotta rights that Candians don't have that we do. That's what makes me afraid for our country, what with the Libbos taking over like they are. Anytime you see Libbos get their hooks into a country's government, civil rights are the first thing to go.
 
jamesrage said:
Free speech on trial in preacher's appeal

?HATE CRIMES? LAWS USED AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN CANADA | Persecution | Way of Life Literature
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I'm not going to bother addressing the second article because it's a piece of crap. But the first one is legit. From the article:

Of course, all Canadians are guaranteed the right to freedom of expression by Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, another intervener in the case, will be arguing that Alberta's law is unconstitutional because it unjustifiably violates this Charter guarantee.

Voila.
 
It's no-ones desire to curtail rights. Its that the people who often cite these rights after saying something are generally saying something that is either mad or a direct threat to the representative state. The right to speech is a human right, there is no right to be mad or incite false hatred against groups of people.

Free speech on trial in preacher's appeal

having expressed in fire-and-brimstone language his opposition to what he considered homosexual "brainwashing" in school curricula.
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Thats is mad, and a threat to the people and state. It is a threat because it is a bold faced lie, and a danger if others begin to believe in it. It implies that there is a homosexual conspiracy that has permeated the government down to the level of public schools.

I could start a conspiracy that Jews are responsible for the economic downturn because of presence in the government, and prestigious financial bodies.

?HATE CRIMES? LAWS USED AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN CANADA | Persecution | Way of Life Literature

Many Americans have a warm, fuzzy view of Canada, and have no idea that a totalitarian nation is taking shape, instigated by gay activists and Muslim pressure groups in the name of ‘tolerance.’ They do not know because America’s mainstream media are refusing to cover it
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This is no better than an anti-semetic plot and it must be stopped.

have a nice day.:2wave:

If you wanna know my real opinion, Im actually a minority here to take away the rights of white males.
 
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SE102 said:
It's no-ones desire to curtail rights. Its that the people who often cite these rights after saying something are generally saying something that is either mad or a direct threat to the representative state. The right to speech is a human right, there is no right to be mad or incite false hatred against groups of people.
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I don't disagree with the last sentence, but the problem is: who gets to say what is, or isn't inciting false hatred?
 
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