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Posted on 12/31/2004 2:21:30 PM PST by Caipirabob
Comparing low wages with slavery, a very interesting comparsion.
Do you understand the misery du Bloc Québécois (leftist) has brought to the former duel English/French speaking city of Montréal?
Thanks to the bullying Bloc Québécois the city on the Saint Lawence now has 'language police'!
Quoting from a linked 2003 artical:
'Recently, the language police that enforce Bill 101, the Québec French-first law, served notice on the Sir Winston Churchill Pub in Montréal, the favourite hangout of the late Mordecai Richler. The pub argued it was bilingual. The Québec language police said it wasn't French enough. "Bonjour, not good day" was the right thing to say and, said the Québec language police, it was not being said at the Sir Winston Churchill Pub.'
Québec has ridiculously strict language laws that are enforced by "language police." Laws dictate that all road signs in Québec must be written in French, despite the fact that most Québécois speak English and that English is the dominant language of the rest of Canada. Commercial signs must also be in French. If a second language is used, the non-French lettering must be less than half the size of the French writing.If imported commercial signs/window displays are in English expect a fat fine if they are not removed.
Retaining French culture is fine & must be protected, even I will acknowledge the wrongs committed against the Québécois upon the British victory at the end of the French & Indian Wars, (The French did the same), however making the overall situation so miserable that English speakers evacuate to Toronto, Ottawa & beyond only hurts the economics of Montréal, and for that matter the entire Provence.
This is not 1763, but the countless regressive economic & societal actions of left-wing Bloc Québécois would have one think the French & Indian wars were still being fought, and in their eyes they are. I wonder who that sounds like?
Are the goals of the Parti Québécois a 'fine example' the Neo-Confederates hold up as a model? Good Lord, you people need to spend a solid month in Montréal trying to get by only speaking English and then you shall be singing a differant tune.
I love Montréal, but not the radicals of from the Parti Québécois.
In terms of Los Estados Unidos de Azatlan, the solution is construct a wall the entire length of the border and electify it.
"the new & GREATLY improved SOUTHRON REPUBLIC will vote with our collective feet." Pure foolishness happening only in the mindset of those deeply entrenched in the worst aspects of a defeated lost cause for die hard white supremacists, drenched in the evils of the failed past.
More importantly, what does God think of them. (Rom.13:10)
So true. Each one on earth shall have to answer for past deeds .
"Oh, and I'm not a "neo-Confederate", either. Let's get that straight, too, while we're at it."
Shades of Dr. Goebbels' argumentum ad nauseam?
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
President Abraham Lincoln
In here everyone is abundantly clear of the shaky ground on which you stagger. Now, you can return & "finish drinking your life away", since I do not drink another stronger then AJ Stephans' Root Beer, plus Boston's pubs are a 4 hour drive, just to view you pitifully sloshed---singing.. "I wish I were in the land of cotton...".. rum pot. I'll take a rain check..lol
Yeah, I owe him money.
Which are two more than you seem to have learned.
Ya think? The Federalist Party believed in Federal superiority.
I think that says enough of what most people thought of New England's attempts to secede.
Ixnay on the documentation?
Read it again. I refer to FREE blacks, not slaves.
Nope. Slavery did exist. From before our founding, before the Declaration of Independence, before the Articles and Constitution. It was even legal, with many a yankee forture built on the trade.
Maybe it was all a Yankee myth put forth to justify conquering the South?
Yep. Lincoln and Congress specifically stated that the war was not to free a single slave.
The deep South fought for slavery expansion.
Bravo Sierra. There were only a handful of blacks in all the territories, which had been open for decades. There was not going to be any 'Tara' West.
The border states that remained loyal to the Union would not even give up their slaves for compensation.
Slave states for Union, slave states for non-union. The seceded sates REFUSED to return to the union even when promised an Amendment guarateeing slavery FOREVER. Then the cause must have been something other than slavery, eh?
The South had developed a philosophy (supported by certain Christian churches) that slavery was a right that had to be defended like a property right.
That certainly never stopped the Yankee slave trade as long as it was legal.
If slavery was so unimportant to the 'noble freedom loving Southerners' why then was it written into their Constitution as a explicit right?
Because it was a state issue, not one for the federal government. States were free to abolish slavery whenever they desired.
The U.S. constitution never directly mentions slavery because the Founders expected it to eventually to end.
It doesn't mention women voters either, or abortion, or homosexual marriage - are they constitutional?
The Confederacy was intent on making sure that never happened.
Where is Emancipation enumeration in the US Constituion? Oh wait, I forgot - Lincoln et al offered to make slavery PERMANENT.
I don't drink either. Jon.
Demented murderers, the dregs of society. The same that murder today, regardless of race. Murder is murder.
The same kind of demoniacal criminals would slaughter women & little children during the Holocaust.
Ditto.
Now waht about the kind of people that would slaughter/starve women & little children during the War of Northern Aggression?
There was no rebellion.
You claim that you left the Union, in part because of what you saw as Constitutional violations of the Fugitive Slave acts, but Constitutional violations of your own were justified. Why am I not surprised that you would cook up some justification?
Says Mr. "All the Laws but One". Says Mr. "Ex Parte Milligan Was a Joke".
a Why am I not surprised? Don't bother answering -- that's a rhetorical question.
So they could gun the coolies down the night before payday, and the Chinese didn't have a big old navy they could send over to protect their nationals from these guys?
Yes there was.
Says Mr. "All the Laws but One". Says Mr. "Ex Parte Milligan Was a Joke".
So you would be Mr. "All the Laws I Feel Like Obeying"?
bump
Correctamundo. Besides, the coolies worked for slave wages, while free blacks would have required much higher wages.
Over 10,000 posts deleted in a few months. Purging history always was a solution to hiding the truth.
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