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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (10552)	9/15/2006 10:57:14 AM
From: seventh_son	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37175

Al, I pretty much agree with you there. Good thing because I don't have time to get into long debates -- I'm off on a trip for the weekend soon. I don't embrace Arab or Muslim radicals, I just think that things are exaggerated and framed in a different way than they should be. Too much is made by a media and politicians who allow lobby-funded think tanks and lobby-funded bribes to set the agenda, that agenda being to create a perceived threat justifying continued enormous military expenditures for the weapons industry, with attacks on people who conveniently are enemies of Israel so that the lobbies can join forces. In Canada I don't think we should be bringing the fight to other parts of the world, because I think that history shows that rarely is this successful in doing anything other than encouraging radicalism. We should be focusing on making sure that we don't have radicals to contend with in our own country, and we will never get there if we can't go beyond singling out specific races or religions for attack because that will never fly, nor is it fair. We should be making sure that our immigration system is filtering out radicals, free-loaders, or people from countries whose statistics show a gun-happy culture, because we need more moderate, skilled, entrepreneurial immigrants who pay their way with taxes and love to live in a society that loves freedom and peace and rewards personal innitiative. With the US having a much more closed door to legal immigration and having a worse global image, we have a great opportunity here, and a walk through many immigrant neighbourhoods in Canada (take Scarborough for instance) reveals that we could and should be doing better.