Excuse me, what are you trying to talk about? I understand your Canadian and probably never read the Constitution, but the 1st Amendment prevents CONGRESS from preventing Free Speech. This reprisals nonsense is Judicial Activism at best, purposeful misrepresentation at worst. The 1st Amendment actively protects our right to critisize governments and foreign people. The only hypocracy there is foreigners trying to use said Amendment to guilt us into silence.
You guys are practicing hatred against ALL people from a countries who didn't do anything to you guys. Some of these people (like me) even supported the war effort and hated our government's stance.
You want a cookie? Seriously, I'm pleased you saw the logic in going to war despite the CBC and BBC's best efforts to brainwash you, but that does not excuse the duplicitous actions of your ELECTED government. In fact, in a democracy there is more responsiblity of the leaders actions by the people than less.
In my mind what you some of you people are doing is not right and needs to stop if you truly believe in what American "freedom" is all about.
Diagram this sentence... It is you who do not understand what Freedom is all about. In America we have the right to not only criticize our government, but YOUR'S and your people TOO if we deem it desirable. I notice a logical arguement made against the French here, not hate. I realize you are smarting because you think Americans are turning on all countries, including your's, that tried to stop us from protecting ourselves. Do I hate the Germans? Only the Left. Do I hate the Russians? No, I don't trust them. Canadians? Only the Left. I hate America's Left too, it isn't nationalism, its a lack of respect for your voters ability to restrain these radicals if nothing else. You must comprehend that France is a very seperate animal in this, its not left or right issue. Finally America has woken up to their De Gaulist active desire to damage America and her citizens by any means necessary. They are a threat, we are dealing with it.
Vive le French Boycott!
Criticizing is one thing and believe me, you and I have that right. Boycotting is no problem too.
But what is going on here on this board in some cases by some posters (maybe not you) is outright "hate" and discrimination of entire populations. I don't like it and its not what your country is about.
Its just like what happened with the PeeWee hockey team up here. That was hate and it wasn't right. As far as I and an overwhelming majority of Canadians believe the people who did it near Montreal should be thrown in jail.
And its just like my 15 friends who have gone over to Watertown, New York in the past three weeks who have had their cars vandalized, been spit at and threatened. Again its not right to practice this type of hate on both sides of the border and I would assume that most Americans would agree.
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