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Breaking: In #Canada, activism is now considered terrorism
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/man-charged-with-inciting-terrorism-during-que-student-protest-pleads-guilty-1.1202693
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MONTREAL -- A man arrested during a raucous student protest following an education summit pleaded guilty Tuesday to various charges, including inciting terrorism.
A judge accepted a joint Crown-defence suggestion that Denis-Marc Pelletier be sentenced to nine months in prison.
The 29-year-old Pelletier was facing at least seven charges, including possession of explosives, possession of an arson device and uttering threats.
He was also charged with inciting terrorism, stemming from online musings in the weekend before the Feb. 26 protest.
(A little bit more at the link.)
dtom67
(634 posts)I miss Free speech....
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)The use or threat of violence against a political group to change their political actions or position, is terrorism. And of course, they don't consider what wall street and the banksters have done and are still doing to be a threat to the country. HSBC laundered international drug cartel money and aren't being charged. !!!
Fuck Peter King and the $1 trillion DHS. The Occupation is not leaving!
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)'terrorism'?? I guess killing innocent children and others is not terrorism, but 'musing on the internet' is.
Hopefully when we return to being a normal society after this phony 'war on terror' has been thoroughly exposed along with the fear propaganda that results in ridiculous convictions like this, all these 'charges will be reversed and we will go after the real criminals.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)while POC are being called the problem, in comparison.
dtom67
(634 posts)and off of their backs.
But Racism does play a large part in our US culture.
Take , for example , the Movie " Red Dawn". I have not seen the new remake, but as a child of the 80's, I saw the original. The movie follows a group of high school kids who form an armed resistance to a Cuban-led and Soviet backed invasion of the United States.They named their group after the school mascot: The Wolverines. Most Americans would view the " Wolverines" as heroic freedom fighters. If you change the characters from white kids to Arabs, those same people would call them " terrorists ".
If you made a public assertion that this movie should be banned because it promoted terrorism, you would probably get lambasted by the Media, especially from the Right.
If you used the popularity of the theme of this movie as an apology for Arab groups that fight to repel invaders ( most of whom would be thought of as terrorists by Americans), you would get lynched.
Sure, it is due ( in part) to media inundation of the " American Patriot " model ( i.e. patriotism means "shut up and let the wealthy elites do what they want), but it all stems from racism.