Public mobilization does work, sometimes: NATO, pressed by Washington, intervened militarily in Serbia following the widespread ethnic cleansing of Muslim Kosovars; the economic boycott and global shunning of apartheid South Africa.
Sometimes, it doesn't work, to the international community's shame: Rwanda and Darfur.
Canada may not be able to do much but it can certainly do more in advocating a ceasefire in Sri Lanka that would allow humanitarian aid to reach thousands of trapped civilians.
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May-14-2009 20:26
E2EK1EL
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario
quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
lol.. pure Scarborough ghetto stylez..
They're all coming from Southern Scarb .... their fucking ghetto hood. I beat you they're gonna meet up at Kennedy Commons plaza. Only space big enough in that region to hold all of them before they start blocking the 401
May-14-2009 20:48
dEsidEL
Fu Man Choonz
Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Below the Belt
quote:
Originally posted by E2EK1EL
They're all coming from Southern Scarb .... their fucking ghetto hood. I beat you they're gonna meet up at Kennedy Commons plaza. Only space big enough in that region to hold all of them before they start blocking the 401
they should shut down the SRT and all stations east of Vic Park!
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May-14-2009 22:14
King_Mack
Professor of Pimpology
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by ********
I geuss I'll be the voice of dissent in this thread.
I think blocking a hiway to get notice for human rights abuses and warcrimes is a wake up call and not a desperate act. The police blocked off the road. I have the feeling this was a planned occurence.
I think people need to understand what the situation is like there, people arn't effected so they don't take notice, its just another part of the world that has a war going on.
It is very real to these people with the family being killed in this violence.
These people are not terrorists, those militants in the north are the remenants of a seperate state. The real terrorism is when they loose their land to an occupation, when subnational reality comes into being.
It is a civil war to a certain extent. If they would only have constructive peace talks, but it seems Colombo is intent on controlling the entire area. While this seems like a plausable outcome because the Tamils are outnumber 4 to 1 or greater. The resolution is a minority group in a country that has been traditionally treated like second class citizens.
This conflict is entering a new stage, but we should not abandon human rights or support war propaganda and lies to be spread. The truth, and human rights should be supported.
Why do soilders need to shell a hospital, why not just take it?
nicely done.
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May-14-2009 23:38
E2EK1EL
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Notice Kennedy Commons has a massive parking lot & it's right right on the highway? I just hope I'm wrong about this ...
May-15-2009 01:42
Vivid Boy
TA's GodFather
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: T.O
big enough parking lot to RIOT!!!
but only for like 1 hour i got soccer practice later that day
May-15-2009 02:34
Abercrombie
myspace.com/ashesband
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Aurora Borealis
a Future Shop or Best Buy is a good store to riot in
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May-15-2009 02:46
LKD
Omni-peasant
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Its June 18th, 2005, I'm at the Skybar
quote:
Originally posted by urban_legend
I am officailly putting a snow plow on my car.
but...theres no snow....might wanna get a massive grill instead....and using ur on dash cigarette lighter, heat it up so marks are left
Registered: May 2005
Location: underneath the blacklights.....
quote:
Originally posted by King_Mack
uh what? Genocide usually refers to deliberate extermination of a racial group within a country. The racial group being tamils and the country being Sri Lanka. In fact, to the south of the country where a majority of Sinhalese people live, they are completely unaffected by this and prior to BBC news making a huge deal about it--they were unaware of what was going on in the North.
AND, there are more tamils still in Sri lanka than abroad. There are roughly 2 million in the country, as opposed to around 600,000 abroad(the majority of them in Canada).
Genocide might be a harsh word to use in this situation, but in no way are the victims "casualties of war" when the government is deliberately bombing the so-called free-zones that contain hospitals and camps.
EDIT: spelling, fail at engrish
so my typing skills are not at par with those of you who sit in an office all day long switching back and forth between what ever it might be that you are working on, and Tranceaddict. Well EXCUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE me spelling nazi, im am humbled before a person as great as yourself. please please please FORGIVE the humble banquet chef.
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Morals of the story, in canada hooliganism works. Also that the left wing will do anything and say anything for a vote.
May-15-2009 04:12
King_Mack
Professor of Pimpology
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by Halycon
so my typing skills are not at par with those of you who sit in an office all day long switching back and forth between what ever it might be that you are working on, and Tranceaddict. Well EXCUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE me spelling nazi, im am humbled before a person as great as yourself. please please please FORGIVE the humble banquet chef.
lol dude, I wasn't criticizing your spelling mistakes. I was saying I made a few spelling mistakes and thats why I edited my post--it was directed to myself. Its a habit I formed because people would post later and be like "omgomg you edit ur potss lolz you suck argument"
you're in the clear buddy
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May-15-2009 05:33
infinity HiGH
groovin
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: west side T.O
quote:
Originally posted by Jayx1
Morals of the story, in canada [b]hooliganism[b/] works. Also that the left wing will do anything and say anything for a vote.
Stop it with your sensationalizing already. You're acting as if they burned and smashed cars, broken into stores and stole things. All they did was shut down a highway and inconvenienced a couple hundred people. Boo-fucking-hoo Soccer matches in Europe are more dangerous than this "riot".
You're right about the moral of the story though: this does work. Maybe if more people were this passionate about certain issues we wouldn't have to deal with a lot of the crap we have to around here (nightlife, corruption...and just general government incompetence)
Last edited by infinity HiGH on May-15-2009 at 08:23