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Oh, Canada. . .

Postby professorpan » Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:54 am

Youth delegates dragged from convention centre<br><br>Last updated Jun 22 2006 06:54 PM PDT<br><br>CBC News<br><br>Three youth delegates to the World Urban Forum complain they were dragged out of the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre on Wednesday night by security officers.<br><br>A weeping Nathalie Lozano, 19, told CBC News the incident began when the three women lined up at a security checkpoint in the building, on their way to the washroom.<br><br>Lozano says officials searched their bags and confiscated T-shirts with a political slogan on them.<br><br>"We had the shirts that say, 'Don't be a war toy.' We had them in our bags, we didn't have them on. When they saw us in the backpacks with them, they took it from us and they say we couldn't get them."<br><br>But she says she decided to back one of her friends who refused to leave without the T-shirts.<br><br>"I was a little bit hesitant, I didn't know what to do, 'cause I got a little bit scared, but she said she wasn't going to move at all, and so I decided to stay with them."<br><br>Lozano says she was then dragged out of the convention centre by her hair. "They started pulling us, they pulled my hair, they pulled a lot of hair of me."<br><br>Micheal Vonn of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says free speech is compromised when a T-shirt is considered a security threat.<br><br>"You do have to ask yourself what country is this when T-shirts are being confiscated. I think that's deeply shocking. It's obviously because of what was written on the T-shirts that was the problem. But why it would be a security problem, it's deeply troubling, obviously.<br><br>"And then the allegation of the excessive force, again deeply troubling. You know, whenever we have a scenario like this, we want to know that there's accountability," she told CBC Radio.<br><br>The conference is being run by the UN, which means the convention centre in downtown Vancouver is not part of Canada during the session and comes under UN control, says spokesman Sharad Shankardass.<br>He said it is being policed by security forces from New York and Nairobi.<br><br>Shankardass says the T-shirts are considered "objectionable material" by the UN because they directly attack a UN member state. However, he didn't clarify which one.<br><br>Nevertheless, he says the UN is taking the incident seriously and will prepare a report. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Oh, Canada. . .

Postby * » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:07 am

<br><br> I guess these are the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Universal Human Rights"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> which supercede Canada's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Charter of Rights and Freedoms"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, eh?<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Interesting

Postby chillin » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:18 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The conference is being run by the UN, which means the convention centre in downtown Vancouver is not part of Canada during the session and comes under UN control, says spokesman Sharad Shankardass.<br>He said it is being policed by security forces from New York and Nairobi.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I didn't know that... guess it's similar to the way the law works with regards to embassies and foreign diplomats. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Oh, Canada. . .

Postby StarmanSkye » Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:52 pm

--quote--<br><br>Shankardass says the T-shirts are considered "objectionable material" by the UN because they directly attack a UN member state. However, he didn't clarify which one.<br><br>Nevertheless, he says the UN is taking the incident seriously and will prepare a report. <br><br>--unquote--<br><br><br>??????<br><br>"Don't be a war toy" is an "attack" on a UN-member?<br><br>Holy F--- !!!!<br><br>Can the foul stench of intellectual Fascism be any more rude and in-your-face blatant?<br><br>And look how the whole concept of Human Rights has been totally turned on its head -- an abstract, extremely tenuous 'principle' is now more important than the rights and dignity of a real person, becoming the auhorizing premise for the use of violent, physical man-handling force -- when there's NO evidence such force was either appropriate or necessary.<br><br>The UN has become so subverted by powerful special interests it's scarcely recognizeable anymore as a global organization for conflict resolution, securing and preserving peace, maintaining International Law, guaranteeing Human Rights and representing the interests of sovereign nations -- especially now with the travesty of Bolton's recess-appointment as US Ambassador to the UN;<br><br><br>****<br>Oh, but I guess everything is gonna be OK because 'a report will be prepared'.<br><br>I'm SO relieved ...<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>So, I guess then the CORRECT, acceptable message should be: "BE a War Toy."<br><br>Kinda like: "Whatever's good for Halliburton and McDonnel Douglas, is good for America!"<br><br>That kinda underscores my notion of a political protest strategy that takes an ideal rightwing pro-war, Rah-Rah Bush, Killing is a Divine Duty, Fry-a-Terrorist-for-Jesus attitude and turns it into a Colton-type over-the-top barely-restrained parody that makes a statement by illuminating the reckless knee-jerk bombast at the core of unthinking rightwing Globalist 'War on Terror' etc. dogma.<br><br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Oh, Canada. . .

Postby havanagilla » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:39 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Micheal Vonn of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says free speech is compromised when a T-shirt is considered a security threat.<br><br>"You do have to ask yourself what country is this when T-shirts are being confiscated. I think that's deeply shocking. It's obviously because of what was written on the T-shirts that was the problem. But why it would be a security problem, it's deeply troubling, obviously.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br>not surprising at all, with a previous decision that a personal computer - physically - is a <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>security risk</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> that can be confiscated for eternity and without compensation. <br>since it was MY computer, taken for good, under some anti terror whatever in canada, I am not at all surprised to read this. The only difference bn the cases, is that when the victim is an Israeli, you won't see so many "civil liberties lawyers and activists" running in canada to the local TV. They have kids too, and who wants to mess with the bad guys ? Problem is that when you agree to bending the law (out of fear from the PTB's) it stays bent. I will not quote the banale you didn't protest when they took the communists..jews what not. I won't. <br>---<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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quiet as a mill pond

Postby blanc » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:45 am

these are just the ripples across the surface of our peacuful existence, all that's left when the monster reaches up and pulls someone under. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: quiet as a mill pond

Postby Pah » Sat Jun 24, 2006 9:51 am

"That kinda underscores my notion of a political protest strategy that takes an ideal rightwing pro-war, Rah-Rah Bush, Killing is a Divine Duty, Fry-a-Terrorist-for-Jesus attitude and turns it into a Colton-type over-the-top barely-restrained parody that makes a statement by illuminating the reckless knee-jerk bombast at the core of unthinking rightwing Globalist 'War on Terror' etc. dogma.<br><br>Starman"<br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :smokin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: quiet as a mill pond

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:16 am

You mean T shirts that might say:<br><br>"Kill em all let God sort em out."<br><br>I thiunk someones beaten you to it. Tho they were not exactly parody. <p></p><i></i>
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