Posted on 09/26/2023 8:41:49 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
I am not angry in the least. I am going away.
--- "There are no winners in a conversation such as this."
Yet in a previous comment, "I congratulate you for that but that does not do a great job of covering for your lawyerly virtue signaling wokeness." And "At this point you are just rolling along with whatever point of view is currently in vogue or meets some type of weird agenda."
Assertions and misrepresentations are not the stuff of a conversation.
I was congratulating you for your writing skills and ability to communicate your point of view. My assumption is that you are well educated and possibly some type of legal professional. I do not agree with you on this subject, but I am sure that we do agree in many other areas.
To repeat my opinion... I believe it is silly to spend massive amounts of government money to persecute a 98 year old man who would likely die in custody for “crimes” that he may or may not have been guilty of committing around 80 years ago. Was/is shooting down Russian planes considered a war crime?
And then your opinion that Germany should be required to pay more “reparations” to Poland is just plain silly... where does this all end? Half of Germany was under Eastern Block control for decades, should Russia who has a far smaller GDP than Germany pay them reparations?
I believe that you are a very intelligent person who has gone off on a strange tangent that leads you to strange conclusions whether or not you can provide links and references supporting your position. Where do you stand on “global warming” and the safety of experimental poorly tested “vaccines”?
Are there no more native English speakers in the press? Even NewsMax?
Poland can't extradite someone from Canada, they only can request their extradition. Canada (should it see fit) does the extraditing.
And "may" is the wrong auxiliary verb. The correct verb is "might." "May" expresses the state of opportunity or permission, not conjecture about possibility or probability. That is what "might" is for.
I provide links to support my positions. Strange? Nope.
I can provide you with a never-ending list of bogus global warming links. What do they prove? Nothing meaningful. Some links are meaningful others are not. What do yours prove in this situation?
You are correct, I long for well written articles.
Squirrel! Run into the weeds! Nice try.
The title of this thread is "Poland May Extradite 98-Year-Old Nazi Honored by Canada."
And I don't accept global warming, so your ploy of making an assumption and then killing your straw man is limp and silly. If you need more....
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4185323/posts?page=23#23
I like and agree with points in your post that you just provided a link to. It goes along with my assessment of your excellent writing skills and ability to express yourself which are superior to my own. You and I agree on almost everything and I was wrong to call you “woke” and make other dispersions against you and I sincerely apologize.
But I cannot condone harassing a 98-year-old man who joined an opposing force, who as a boy lived in an area who had just suffered the loss of several million people from idiotic, cruel and intentional government action. And especially considering that if he had chosen to not join them that he would have likely suffered the wrath of individuals who in many cases considered Slavic individuals to be subhuman and had no hesitation to kill those who gave them any resistance.
John Demjanjuk which you used as an example of precedence was accused of being a guard at a prison camp by holocaust survivors. The Israeli Supreme Court decided that there was insufficient evidence that he was the individual that he was accused of being. Demjanjuk was born in 1920 and was 21 when Ukraine was invaded by the Germans. He was accused in 1977 when he was 67 years of age. Witnesses who were later shown to be mistaken, were still alive and able to be questioned.
Yaroslav Hunka was born in 1925 and was 16 when Ukraine was invaded by Germans. He has not been accused of participating in atrocities by witnesses. He did not emigrate to Canada until 1954, 9 years after WWII had ended.
By that time much greater scrutiny was being applied to applications for citizenship for Canadian citizenship. If there was anything in his history that suggested that he was someone who had participated in atrocities his application for citizenship would likely have not been approved. In the nearly 70 years followed he conducted himself as a well-loved model Canadian citizen.
If you look through my posting history, you will find that I am someone who has been vehemently opposed to the idiocy of the United States ongoing participation in Ukraine. I have called out Zelensky for his own and his government's corruption repeatedly. I was delighted to hear that his reception in Canada was marred by having been associated with a Nazi which is nothing new for him. Ukraine likely has more Nazis and Nazi supporters than anywhere else in the world.
I will quote from one of my earlier posts in another thread, Biden, Pentagon Doubles Down on Support for Ukraine Despite Failing Counteroffensive
9/22/2023, 8:20:06 AM · 78 of 83
fireman15 to BeauBo
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4183771/posts?q=1&;page=51
“My wife and I live in an area with one of the largest concentrations of both Ukrainians and Russian expats in the country. A couple of weeks ago we were introduced to a group of boys from 15 to 17 who are being cared for and placed in homes by friends of ours who are members of a local Ukrainian Church. The families of the boys sent them abroad because other boys the same age had been kidnapped from school and off the streets and used as cannon fodder in the “Spring Counter-Offensive. Some of the boys in the group had friends who had already died or been horribly injured.”
“If these kids are caught, unlike the other approximately 35 or 45 million illegal aliens currently residing here... they will immediately be handed over to the Ukrainian government and those helping them will be punished or deported as well. None of the boys knew if they would ever see their families or their country again. We of course volunteered immediately to take a boy, but they are currently being placed with families who speak their language, and we do not.”
Meeting these boys changed my point of view a bit... They have the misfortune to be caught up in a situation where the United States government wants them to be used as cannon fodder in a Nato proxy army and will send them back into a situation where they would likely be killed or horribly maimed. Fortunately, these boys have family and friends who were able to send them to safety at least temporarily... At 16, Yaroslav Hunka did not have any similar options.
It simple comes to this. On this one point, we disagree. Be well.
Sounds good. Thank you for sharing your point of view.
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