Canadian Gun Control policies get a little extreme

[BeBMan]

Even we pacifist Germans allow our ISAF soldiers to carry weapons there....

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Sava
why would the canadian government do that? sounds stupid to me!

The question contains the answer.

[Kuciwalker]

The Canadian's have guns??? What's the world coming to?

[DinoDoc]

bump.

[notyoueither]

Seems like a good place for it...

http://www.satirewire.com/news/feb02/warship.shtml

"Canada Warship Seizes Tanker in Arabian Sea" -- Reuters, Feb. 8, 2002

CANADIAN WARSHIP SEIZES TANKER IN... WAIT...
CANADA HAS A WARSHIP?
Oh Right, and Switzerland Has Nuclear Weapons

Arabian Sea (SatireWire.com) — Canadian television reported Friday that a Canadian warship in the Arabian Sea had seized a tanker suspected of smuggling oil from Iraq, leading many to suspect that the report was a hoax.


The Halifax Class frigate Vancouver.
Honest.
"You're kidding, right? Canada has a warship?" asked U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Like for war?

"Does Canada know?" he added.

"Nobody was more stunned than we were," said Kali Omari, first mate of the seized vessel. "We saw this frigate steaming toward us, and we were worried, but then we saw the maple leaf on the flag, and we thought, 'Oh, Canadians. What the hell do they want?'"

When an officer of the HMCS Vancouver announced that the tanker was about to be boarded, the crew of the detained ship was confused, said Omari, but their confusion quickly turned to anger when they saw what the Canadians sailors were carrying.

"They were armed. With guns," said Omari. "Canadians. With guns. And a warship. What is this world coming to?"

"They were pretty rude, too," Omari added. "They started asking us all sorts of questions, like 'Where did that oil come from?' But first we wanted to know who gave them the damn warship."


According to Canadian defense officials, the Vancouver is one of four frigates deployed in the region to assist in the U.S.-led Afghanistan conflict. The tanker was stopped, officials said, because its cargo of crude oil violated United Nations sanctions, which prohibit Iraq from selling oil unless in exchange for food and medicine.

The U.N. said the incident is already under investigation, and promised swift action against those found responsible for giving the Canadians guns. Initial findings indicate that the Vancouver crew may have been watching too many American television shows.

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[St Leo]

Oh Right, and Switzerland Has Nuclear Weapons

Don't make me nuke Alberta.

'We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itself of nuclear weapons.''

Pierre Trudeau,
United Nations,
26 May 1978

[DinoDoc]

Does anyone agree with the Liberal minister that sending soldiers to a war zone without the means to protect themselves is a good idea?

[Willem]

Originally posted by Sava
why would a left wing rag attack gun control policies?

It's not a left wing rag, it's a middle of the road rag. Big difference. And it has nothing to do with gun control issues, it's just some stupid decision by a government bureaucrat dealing with a military protocal. I guess someone figured that a team not involved in an offensive capacity doesn't have any need to protect themselves, simply waving a Canadian flag would be sufficient.

There are idiots in every government.

[Willem]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Does anyone agree with the Liberal minister that sending soldiers to a war zone without the means to protect themselves is a good idea?

I suspect only other Liberal ministers.

[gsmoove23]

He seems to think they were sent for a largely admistrative purpose, without knowing exactly what their mission was I'd have to say I really don't care.

[Lancer]

If the Canadian military doesn't have the right to bear arms, this may be the moment to strike...


Canadians, this is pretty bad. Very funny though.

[Dinner]

I feel sorry for those poor guys who have to risk their lives because some assinine politician doesn't want to offend a P.A.C..


The politicians should get .

[Lancer]

It's a good thing. Highlights the idiocy of the left. Not that it needs much more highlighting...

[MichaeltheGreat]

"Recon mission" is the wrong way to describe this group.

The description of what they're doing points to this being surveyors, loggies, quartermaster types, etc., looking to figure out the requirements to base the 1800 troops coming later.

In other words, they're not combat types, and they're not going for combat ops. If the area where they plan to build their base is so unsecured that existing forces in the area aren't adequate, then that's going to make it awful tough to build the base.

Seems more like it's on the non-issue side of the scale than the big issue side.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
In other words, they're not combat types, and they're not going for combat ops.

Don't we let our noncombat units carry weapons? I remember one noncombat unit getting into a firefight before being captured in Iraq.