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Paul Copeland: The referendum is a joke

Wednesday February 20th, 2008

Paul Copeland, Lawyer, has been a Bencher (director) of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1990, is Co-President of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, a member of the Law Union of Ontario and was a member of the International Commission of Jurists.

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[Polytical]

They must have learned that from the west.

[Polytical]

True. Just don't unconditionally accept the tradition of "warlike tribes" like Goths, which comes from Rome. Romans looked down to these people and saw them as brutes, while often being most brutal themselves.

It's frequently the most advanced nations who are the most warlike regarding the less developed. Alexander, Caesar and G. (W.) Bush have, surprisingly, something in common in this matter.

[aputchar]

WHY CHINESE LOVE MYANMAR GOVERMENT,,,,,,,,,

[Vikingason]

Why hack on Burma. 75 % of the seats to the parlament can the Burmese people choose. Communist Vietnam have no election. Why not critism of Vietnam ? Hypocrite are what they are. Colonialism are speaking here.

[oldhacks]

China ,Japan ,viet nam and Korea have been at each others throats for centuries. come off it people. damn neo-liberals always calling everyone a racist. Like that even Means Anything. Yea America is a racist country that just happens to be the most diverse nation in the history of man. So f-ing what? "racist"...pshh

[Polytical]

Man, why should his view be racist? First of all, "Asians" doesn't describe any race. Russians are Asians, Arabs are Asians, Armens are Asians.

Secondly, isn't it true that "those Asians are always fighting each other"? Well, it is not true literally, but every other day you hear about some conflict in Asia.

There is no mention of other continents and surely no praise of their peacefulness.

Peace.

[Polytical]

Eh... what? :)

I didn't say Europeans are "the most brutal". I said that frequently the most advanced (technologically, not culturally) nations act as brutes while calling others "savage".

Goths: I wrote "don't accept the tradition" (the tradition is that they were killers).

Alleged racism: It was only a couple of proveable examples. Not that there weren't others I could use.

I'm a white guy from Czech Republic, so no, I'm not racially inclined to attack Europeans ;)

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Sorry, Polytical, you too are racist by trying to say the Europeans are the "most brutal" No matter how brutal a people can be there is always someone more brutal coming along. Do you really think the Goths were more brutal than the Aztecs who made mountains of hearts freshly cut from slaves, or more brutal than Ghengis Khan who made mountains of skulls from killing every man, woman, and child in any city that defied his rule? Come on. No race of people can be called the most brutal.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Hey, Oldhacks, what's with your racism? I guess you never heard of the wars in Europe, Africa, of even among the Native Americans before Columbus? By defining it as "those asians" you only tell us your view of the world is racist.

[happosai21]

read some books about it or google it and dont ask stupid questions ;)

[mrmike123456a]

Precicely Polytical. The most warlike pepole in history were the gothic tribes,the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Jutes, Angles, Saxons,

Normans, Vandals, Franks etc. In other words, Europeans. Then they invaded a new land, formed a new tribe, and are poised to conquer the world!