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On Sunday, a group of 250 Iranian legislators introduced a motion that requires the administration to designate the Canadian Army and federal police forces as terrorist organizations.
Historically speaking, from an indigenous perspective, the characterization of the RCMP as terrorist is not too far off the mark.
I mean, we're kind of known for war crimes too. Was anyone in WW1 worse than the Canadians?
I'm not familiar with this. Can you give a "for example?"
Lots of good articles on Canadian brutality in WW1 if you do a search. As for war crimes in particular, here's one of many articles mentioning how Canadians killed prisoners of war:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war
Oh jeez, what did we do, what did we do...
Just a little of this, you know war time stuff
Edit: Don't mess with the Cannuks
Fair turnaround.
It's a stupid political label as long as our nastiest friends are worse than our nicest enemies. Nobody's about to declare Saudi anything terroristic regardless of how many get chopped up, for example.
Not to mention Saudi Arabia’s massive attack on the World Trade Center, pentagon, and attempted attack on White House
I mean, they didn't have zero role in it.
Wherever they go, Tim Horton's Beiber-bites eventually follow. So yeah...in this case I'd agree with that assessment.
On Sunday, a group of 250 Iranian legislators introduced a motion that requires the administration to designate the Canadian Army and federal police forces as terrorist organizations.
The Mounties too, I see.
Anyone who's seen Lore Lodge says that they probably should be called a terrorist organization
What's a lore lodge?
A YouTube channel that discusses Missing 411 style content: people disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
A running theme in their show is that overwhelmingly the RCMP are criminally negligent in their duties, are very quick to write off missing persons as runaways, do absolute garbage tier investigation, and that's where my comment came from.
Not necessarily a topical episode but I like this one: https://youtu.be/f7389EXjdBg
Thanks!
"I know you are but what am I"
Lol butthurt Iran. I'll make sure to let boys know in Angus 🤣
Um, sorry. We'll be more polite.