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Enhanced 911 Services (rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:


: Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:

: >I am not anti-Canada, nor even anti-Canadian law. I am anti-ban.


: Maybe you haven't clued in yet.  Maybe a *lot* of foreigners haven't
: clued in yet.  Let me clear up a few things:

:    o  The vast majority of us Canadians, as in *people*, agree 
:       with this idea of banning evidence to protect the accused.
:       You are "helping" to thwart the democratic desires of the
:       Canadian people.
:   
:    o  We're having a big debate over whether or not this principle
:       should have been applied the way it was in this case.  There
:       are lots of sticky issues, and we're dealing with them.  A
:       slight majority thinks it was proper, but a sizable minority
:       thinks it wasn't.

:    o  We have lots of ways of dealing with this.  We have our own
:       courts, our own media, our own legislatures -- that are lots
:       of Canadian things that a concerned Canadian can do about it.
:       Thanks for the offer, foreigner, but we don't need your help.


: Finally for all you foreigners who seem to know so little about Canadian
: democracy, and yet are so concerned for its future, here is a history 
: lesson for you -- 

: Do you know what happened the last time a Canadian government pissed off 
: the Canadian people?  That's right -- we smashed them out of existence,
: down from a vast majority of some hundreds of seats to TWO SEATS. That's
: right, TWO.  They're not even an official party anymore.  When was the 
: last time something like this happened in America?  Not recently?  I'm
: not surprised.

: If I were you I'd be worried about the stranglehold a small group of
: people in two parties have on your political system.  I can tell you
: that right now Canadian governments are paying a lot of attention to
: the Canadian people and what they want -- there's a big dead Tory
: corpse on the ground to remind them what might happen if they don't.

: Democracy is alive and very, very well in Canada, thank you very much.


: Justin
:    who isn't so anti-america, but really, some of you
:    have been asking for it lately.

Don't you know the americans know better the Canadian what is good for 
Canada!!

Which american cares that judges in the states also put gag orders on the 
lawyer etc. That the only reason that most americans what the ban lifted 
is that they can get more juicy delatials on the subject ( tonya harding 
where are you??????)

The accused has a right for a FAIR trail period. if you cann't get that 
through your red, white and blue eyes well sorry. YOU don't have more 
rights then the accused and even though information is on the net I hope 
most potential jurors haven't heard any of the dealails, otherwise our 
system of judgtice will become like the American trail by the media!!! --

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