And jeeehadddd comes to Canada


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He was one of 90 on the CSIS watch list that had his passport cancelled before being able to leave in order to fight for IS in Syria.

Gee, let him go--to the killing fields to be killed. Instead . . .

These types used to flood into Iraq in the face of the major active US military presence. They were slaughtered.

--Brant

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My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

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This is insane...just like the imbecile American head of our embassy in Cairo, Egypt who had our Marines standing posts at the walls with the mobs roiling around and no FUCKING "access to ammunition."

Soldiers standing guard have weapons but no access to ammunition.[14]

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we are doomed lol

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It's a special day when boring Canada gets in the news. You guys can only imagine how much play the event gets up here.

A few things stood out. One was the contrast between NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX/CNN breaking coverage, and that of our state-funded CBC/Radio-Canada. I wasn't the only one marking the difference.

Another stand-out was the instant solidarity and revulsion across the spectrum. As expected, everybody and their dog condemned the attack, and everyone grasped the gravity of an attack on two national symbols. What united in revulsion was not only the murder of the Highlander, but the attack on Parliament, the national forum. That's where the whole country sits symbolically under one roof, deliberates its business ...

Official solidarity was also on display in small ways and large -- like emails sent to all Muslim organizations by police.

It's not the first time some whackjob has brought death into a Canadian legislature. Who remembers Denis Lortie? Who remembers Paul Joseph Chartier? Who remembers the other major event?

I take depressing note of comments to articles, to social bulletin boards like Twitter and stories related elsewhere, characterized by fear and anger and assorted calls for forceful action of some kind. These extend from things like "Impose the War Measures Act (martial law)!" and 'close all the mosques and deport all Muslims' to stuff smirking about Muslim's peaceability and the urgent necessity to uproot and destroy all Canadian Muslims.

This is the fringe, though, and surely those who call for mass deportations of enemy Muslims know there is not even the smallest chance that this would happen. Perhaps this is just how some people reason under emotional provocation.

More broadly, I sensed a shrinking-in of the body politic, a kind of tent-meeting revivalism, affirming of values, 'standing on guard' for the symbols, for each other, publicly testifying adherence to Canadian values. Every brown Canadian and non-brown Canadian rattled out the values that are expressed at a national scale, all those otherwise hokey acts of allegiance. Every Muslim I know was not only as revolted as me, but the Canadian Muslims took it just as 'personally' as me. They felt a cowardly hit on the Highlander at the Cenotaph was a hit on them as much as on 'Us'. They took a little punch to the gut. They are somewhat fearful that another nutter shooter will emerge to 'avenge' the murder by hacking off at Mr Visible Minority.

This makes them angrier at the shooter than me ...

Last greatly symbolic theatre from shooter's mother (an apparatchik in Canada's refugee apparat). She said she cried for the victims, not for her son. She and the shooter's father apologized for the fear, death and chaos their son brought to Ottawa.

Everybody gets to play a part in this morality play. It's been instructive, heartening and at times depressing to see how a free and democratic liberal society gets itself through the night, how it navigates attacks on national narratives by strongly affirming the narrative, reinforcing the narrative.

I am pretty proud of Canadian reaction on the whole. Fringe maniacs will always come out of the woodwork like bedbugs when blood is in the public square.

Here's one of those unfunny caricatures that captures a feeling quite well.

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-- note to Brant/Adam regarding the essentially unarmed soldiers. There did not used to be a ceremonial guard until some home-grown louts pissed on the memorial last decade. This created a ruckus, and the Highlanders were recruited for the job of standing on guard for Canada's war dead. No need for a gun to counter drunken louts. Until yesterday.

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However, none of these attacks on the symbols had a unifying religious cause which is the issue here.

1984: Three people were killed when Canadian army supply clerk Denis Lortie opened fire inside the National Assembly in Quebec City in a bid to "destroy" Premier Rene Levesque. Lortie was convicted of first-degree murder after his first trial in 1985 but a new trial was ordered because of errors by the judge. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder, allowing him to be eligible for parole after 10 years.

1970: The October Crisis begins as the Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnaps British diplomat James Cross and, later, Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act, which allows government to temporarily suspend civil liberties. Cross is released 60 days later but Laporte is found dead.

And this just made me laugh out loud. There has to be a great story behind this one...I hope no one else was injured. There is a great comedy skit in there...paging Mr. Carlin ...

1966: Paul Joseph Chartier, an unemployed Toronto security guard with emotional problems, blew himself up with a bomb in a washroom down the hall from the public gallery of the House of Commons. His notes suggested he planned to throw his bomb onto the floor of the chamber.
- See more at: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/factbox-canada-s-past-includes-shooting-at-quebec-s-national-assembly-in-1984-1.1454850#sthash.UovwsPCK.dpuf

Thankfully, our own Michael of the Lavender Hill Mob is employed.

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Ceremonial guards do not carry ammunition--and perhaps their rifles are inoperable anyway--and it likely would do them no good if they did. The first shooter has the first and the major (but in such cases the only) advantage.

--Brant

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My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

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My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

A...

In other words he's a cockroach.

-J

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My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

A...

In other words he's a cockroach.

-J

Wow!

Joe!

Guilty of insect racism!

Oh, and you will be sentenced to attend one year of diversity training and community service wherein you will sweep out the Mosques toilets.

We also need an opera made to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera in NY City where we can understand why Canada and the West caused this poor soul to justifiably lash out from the horrible pain that we caused him.

A...

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My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

A...

In other words he's a cockroach.

-J

Wow!

Joe!

Guilty of insect racism!

Oh, and you will be sentenced to attend one year of diversity training and community service wherein you will sweep out the Mosques toilets.

We also need an opera made to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera in NY City where we can understand why Canada and the West caused this poor soul to justifiably lash out from the horrible pain that we caused him.

A...

My condolences to Canada.

Apparently, the drumbeat of the congenitally blind and stupid, e.g., American mainstream media are "spinning" that:

1) he has a long "rap" sheet;

2) he is a "recent" convert to Islam;

3 his father "noticed" (time unspecified as yet) that he began growing a beard and wearing a "tunic;" and

4) he apparently was posting on-line his hatred of Canada, the West, etc.

Apparently comes from a very well to do family.

A...

In other words he's a cockroach.

-J

Wow!

Joe!

Guilty of insect racism!

Oh, and you will be sentenced to attend one year of diversity training and community service wherein you will sweep out the Mosques toilets.

We also need an opera made to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera in NY City where we can understand why Canada and the West caused this poor soul to justifiably lash out from the horrible pain that we caused him.

A...

And don't forget PETA. They'll be all over me like white on rice. How dare I call out & squash the roaches.

-J

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Soldiers can be extremely dangerous. When I arrived at Special Forces HQ in Nha Trang from my A-Team I had to check my weapon. That same night the VC tried to penetrate the HQ's perimeter. Whenever I came in I even to a lower echelon, I checked in my M-16. Saigon, for instance. This left us troops free to hit the in house bar or go into town, but was hardly the only reason. When a medic I went through training with found out his best friend, another medic, had been killed at the DMZ, he took his automatic rifle and shot up his own dispensary.

Remember Kent State?

Now that the police are becoming more like the military they are becoming more dangerous.

--Brant

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Soldiers can be extremely dangerous. When I arrived at Special Forces HQ in Nha Trang from my A-Team I had to check my weapon. That same night the VC tried to penetrate the HQ's perimeter. Whenever I came in I even to a lower echelon, I checked in my M-16. Saigon, for instance. This left us troops free to hit the in house bar or go into town, but was hardly the only reason. When a medic I went through training with found out his best friend, another medic, had been killed at the DMZ, he took his automatic rifle and shot up his own dispensary.

Remember Kent State?

Now that the police are becoming more like the military they are becoming more dangerous.

--Brant

Correct.

Additionally, they have access to interesting pharmacological assistance.

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