Recent content by dtjohnst

It's a slippery slope because it opens up legal spiderwebs. "I didn't murder my aunt, I simply helped her die. That's legal." "Can you prove that?" "Well, I'd say ask her, but...it's a little late." I know I know I know, we can make contracts, we could legislate it, we could do all kinds of...

I don't think you can back that statement up. Most estimates are that took about 6 years to get 100,000 casualties in Iraq (most... there are some exceptions like the Lancet surveys - though they are likely the most reliable they also used the methods of estimation the least like the ones that...

Saudi Arabia is the largest Western supporter in the Middle East after Israel, plus it has oil and ever since the 1980's has routinely bent to western pressure to maintain or increase oil supplies even when OPEC tries to do the opposite. The problem with Saudi Arabia is that while the majority...

Yes, but I don't live in 1720. Neither do the people who commission or build roads today. Neither do the courts. Can we restrict the discussion to the realm of +/- 50 years of the current time, please? If you're zipping around time without saying you are, people will have problems following the...

Well, no not really. Roads are built for driving on and I can't really go around you through the sidewalk, mall, park or other avenue. Meanwhile, you have plenty of places you can protest that don't interfere with my use of the road. Do you think you have the right to protest across an airport...

Oh, I speed, I admit it. And as a former officer, I have strings I can pull. But I don't. If you do the crime, pay the fine. No one is claiming to be a saint. But you got caught, you know it was wrong. But up and pay.

These men are well protected, and surgical strikes rarely are. Remember the last major snatch-and-grab the US military tried? You can watch the movie about it. It's called black hawk down. They captured none of their objectives, spent a lot of money, killed a lot of people, lost a lot of lives...

You can't sit your right down on top of my freedom and claim the charter protects you. I have freedom of mobility, freedom of security of the person, freedom of liberty... Your right to protest can't take that away from me. Your rights aren't limitless and the Charter, the Supreme Court and the...

Paul Pillar, CIA officer: "The atmosphere in which they were working, in which a policy decision clearly had already been made, in which intelligence was being looked to to support that decision rather to inform decisions yet to be made, was a very important part of the atmosphere." Or you can...

You're missing the point I think. The judicial system lets people do it, but it's not "legal". You can walk around openly with weed on 420 if you're in a large protesting crowd, does that make it legal? Nope. The courts have upheld the rights to limit protests, even peaceful protests. See...

So... You don't believe section 430 of the Criminal Code exists?

I agree with you fully, but it's interesting to read it here. If only more people advocated this same treatment in the Forcillo thread, or any other report of alleged police misconduct. But I guess it's always different when it's a "dirty, corrupt, violent pig", right?

Doesn't void the ticket. Some of the advice here involves borderline perjury, follow it at your own discretion. You can say you weren't around on the date in question, but at some point someone will ask you what date the officer handed you the ticket. Suddenly all your posturing and semantic...

What I don't get is how everyone is surprised the NSA is doing this. When the story broke, my first reaction was, "Wow, Snowden gave up everything for this? What's next, is someone going to leave their loved ones behind and flee the country to whistleblow that civilian collateral damage is...

Why is it funny that it's mischief? http://metronews.ca/news/canada/715113/eight-protesters-arrested-for-blocking-road/ I suspect that's due to section 430c of the Criminal Code. Every one commits mischief who wilfully (c) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use, enjoyment or...