Traitors Aren't Welcome in Canada

You're my long lost Cousin? LOL

Ooooh! Do tell!


I believe that the court was correct in saying that this man did not qualify as a refugee, if he had been drafted it would be a different matter but he signed up of his own free will and as such has a responsibility to forfill his contract (don't get me started on the American military violating it's contracts with its stop-loss policy though). If after signing he decided that he did not agree with this particular war he could have chosen to express his comittment to that by going to jail. If his punishment for deserting had been death or what the Canadian court decided was 'cruel and unusual' then he certainly would have been accepted as a refugee. The question that was not addressed in the trial however was if the Iraq war is in fact illegal and if this man was in a situation of having to choose between obeying international law or military law. I'm not sure if a Canadian court is allowed to address such issues but it would be interesting if it came up in an appeal.

What I've heard of the aggressive recruiting tactics of the American military really bothers me, recruiting that apparently often starts before kids even leave high school. It seems that the approach is to sell the military as a happy shiny career with tons of opportunity that wouldn't otherwise be avaliable to kids without the funds or grades to pursue post-secondary education, but to leave out the bit where they also might very well have the opportunity to have bits of them blown off.

Oh, and Alby, if the order to launch comes down the person who refuses to push the button may very well be the person who saves the world.

Thanks Akuma. Because of the possibility that hippies might infiltrate nuclear missile silos, posing as Air Force Missle Key Turners, the United States Government has decided to remove all human intervention and install a Weapon Systems that obey's its master.
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"War Operation Plan Response"

The WOPR



McKittrick: These computers give us instant access to the state of the world. Troop movements, Soviet missle tests, shifting weather patterns. It all flows into this room and then into what we call the WOPR computer.

White House Aide: WOPR? What is that?

McKittrick: The War Operations Plan and Response. This is, uh, Mr. Richter. Paul, would you like to tell these gentlemen about the WOPR?

Richter: Well, the WOPR spends all its time thinking about WWIII. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games, using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought WWIII as a game, time and time again. It estimates Soviet responses to our responses to their responses and so on. Estimates damage, counts the dead, then it looks for ways to improve its score...

McKittrick: But the point is, is that the key decisions of every conceivable nuclear crisis have already been made by the WOPR.

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Just for you Paris

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Freeze! rock!
(rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! rock!
(rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Freeze! rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang

Aaaah... aaaah... aaaah... aaaahh
White! ooh-white!
White! ooh-white!
White! ooh-white!
White! ooh-white!

(white lines) vision dreams of passion
(going through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(pipeline) a very strange reaction
(yours to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
Something of a phenomenon, telling your body to come along
Cause white lines - blow away..

Blow! rock! blow!

Ticket to ride a white-line highway,
Tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul,
Pound for pound it costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay,
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or to your vein -
With nothing to gain except killing your brain.

Freeze! (say rock, come on y’all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on y’all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (put ’em up, put ’em up, put ’em up!)

Aaaaah... higher baby, aaaaah... get higher baby,
Aaaaahh... get higher baby, aaaahhh!
And don’t ever come down... free base!

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Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang

Pipeline (pure as the driven snow) connected to my mind
(and now I’m having fun, baby!)
Highrise (it’s getting kind of low) ’cause it makes you feel so nice.
(I need some one on one, baby!)
Tell me it’ll blow your mind away, (baby)
Going to your little hideaway
’cause white lines (what do white lines do? )
Blow away..

Blow! rock! blow!

A million magic crystals painted pure and white,
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked baby, it’s nobody else’s fault -
So don’t do it!

(chorus)

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(don’t you get too high) don’t you get too high, baby
(it turns you on) you really turn me on and on
(can’t you ever come down) my temperature is rising,
(’til the thrill is gone) no! I don’t want you to go.

A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time,
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime.
A businessman is caught with twenty four kilos,
He’s out on bail, and out of jail, and that’s the way it goes!

(rock!)
Cane! sugar! (suger)
Cane! (cane) sugar! (suger)
Cane!

Athletes reject it, governor’s correct it
Gangsters, punks, and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided, the women get excited
Now I’m broke and it’s no joke,
It’s hard as hell to fight it - don’t buy it!

(chorus) (chorus)

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