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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (538)	9/3/2002 5:45:12 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

My 'attack of leftwing Newspeak' offends you? - well i'm sooo sorry, i promise i'll attack the rightwing version asap -ggg- ... which reminds me, i've been meaning to compliment Gulo on this most excellent post regarding the accuracy of descriptive appellations - #reply-17870619 ... but really, let's progress beyond schoolyard labelling </hint> No we're not enemies, Canada and the US, haven't been active enemies since 1814, the last time US troops were operational here trying to take our land from us ..... could be a lesson in that eh - you keep your troops out, and we have no need to defend ourselves from them ... remember that this country was founded in large part by refugees from your civil incivilities of the 1770s, it was confederated in response to threat from the south during the 1860s Calling the RCAF personnel at NORAD 'troops' is a bit of a stretch, they're officers and technicians co-operating in mutual defense of the continent ... there are US personnel stationed up north here as well, have been for many years ... that's a separate question, only distantly related imho to the current issue, as none of them are likely to point a weapon at the locals while on foreign soil Which would not be true of US regiments stationed at, for instance, canadian airports ... which has been suggested .... this is intolerable, the thin edge of a wedge that would cause guaranteed friction, no matter if for some time early on they stayed 'under canadian command', we have absolutely no idea what sort of regime is going to be in power down there from one four-year period to another, nor whose daddy's supreme court justices will appoint them, nor which doofus du jour will see us as a Nicaragua in which to play with his war toys And it's something that no responsible party in the US would or should want, imho ... Canada must defend herself, supply the manpower and the funding herself, produce as much as practical of her own weaponry, involve as many as possible of her own citizens in so doing ... this will make us a far better ally than would an occupied subject territory 'You trying to turn a longtime alliance into a spitting contest?' The spitting started years ago, from a bunch currently represented by that Ragosta individual and in control of your federal Commerzwaffe ... we just collect it in buckets, and heave it back .... good stout wooden buckets, made from quality straight fine-grained british columbian lumber