Ratin' Trudeau...

[cinch]

Originally posted by notyoueither


How does that make sense?

T ordered the army to do just what they did. Round up everyone possibly connected to the FLQ and put a stop to the political violence.

Either it was moral to do that and he did the right thing, or it was immoral and he did the wrong thing. Either way he ordered the acts, did he not?

Well, it basically comes down to "possibly connected to the FLQ" and "just speaking French"... Now, I am going to back off a bit here, because granted, I don't know alot of individual case studies about what happened to certain folk... but I maintain that there is a difference between detaining people on suspicion of terrorism (if they had good reason) and just randomly arresting French people off the street (which is what KH implied).

Although, it should be noted that certain Arab-Canadians are being detained in Canada right now on "suspicion" of being terrorists, with as much, or less, evidence against them than anyone arrested in the FLQ Crisis. So this isn't a Trudeau/Martial-Law only phenomenon.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by cinch



Well, it basically comes down to "possibly connected to the FLQ" and "just speaking French"... Now, I am going to back off a bit here, because granted, I don't know alot of individual case studies about what happened to certain folk... but I maintain that there is a difference between detaining people on suspicion of terrorism (if they had good reason) and just randomly arresting French people off the street (which is what KH implied).

Although, it should be noted that certain Arab-Canadians are being detained in Canada right now on "suspicion" of being terrorists, with as much, or less, evidence against them than anyone arrested in the FLQ Crisis. So this isn't a Trudeau/Martial-Law only phenomenon.

Uhhhh... if speaking French in Quebec could have got you detained, there would not have been many outside of detention. That was an interesting thing for him to say, but think about it...

I suppose the arab Canadians being detained right now might have a case for wrong doing. Unfortunately for them, they are being detained after an investigation by CSIS and the RCMP. I highly doubt they were detained for simply being ethnically arab. If they were, that would be a shame on us.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


What I find funny is that people who live in states on the receiveing end seem to think they're the ones being drained by the Feds.

Which states are you refering to?