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[Enzo]

There is either some hilarious repressed rage or some hilarious trollin' going on from Eugenitor in this thread.

Well, on the plus side, at least it's an entertaining trainwreck.

[Muz]

The freedom of speech argument is weak. Under that logic, you can say that graffiti violates freedom of speech.

This is not graffiti, this is a sheet of paper, making a simple request and obeying the school code of conduct.

And you put that sheet of paper where it wasn't supposed to go. No different than taking a crayon and writing on some wall without permission.

Freedom of speech (in the first amendment sense) only applies to the government, though. Not anywhere else. A world with true freedom of speech would be like /b/. The "freedom of speech" card is always a low blow, and gets you scorn from a lot of neutral people.

[Eagleon]

In a sense, this could be considered the government, as it's a public school. The US at least considers it government enough to apply separation of church and state to its practices. What this means for posting bulletins, I have no idea, especially not for Canada, where the first amendment isn't even a consideration.

[Cthulhu]

America was cool and decided it wasn't fun to have lots of extraneous letters and syllables on everything.  "ugh" as "ff" is so two hundred years ago.

What, so you spell it tuff?

No.  Webster wanted us to say "laf," "tuf," etc. but they didn't let him go that far.  Most words like that are still there, but we say pronounce "draught" with an F and for the longest time I thought "draught" was pronounced "drot"

[Jackrabbit]

Oh, I thought drought and draft were two different things, pronounced drawt and drafft respectively.

[Grakelin]

I have no idea, especially not for Canada, where the first amendment isn't even a consideration.

We don't actually have guaranteed Freedom of Speech or Freedom of Press, but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives us close to an equivalent (the government can mandate that something be 'blacked out', but it only ever happens when we're being attacked by rebels or someone notorious is going through a trial, the theory being that people will vote the ruling party out in the next election if they are too free with it).

[Jackrabbit]

The way you said "it only ever happens when we're attacked by rebels" seems to imply this is a regular thing.

[Zrk2]

It is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_Qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois

Blatant traitors we allow to sit in the equivalent of Congress.

[sonerohi]

Roughly every other week, the South secedes and we fight the Civil War all over again.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

the equivalent of Congress.

The word you're looking for is "parliament".


And while the notion of Quebec seceding is fucktarded, referring to the loons who somehow think increased division is a good thing as "traitors" who are inexplicably tolerated is rather ironic given your bitching about how unconscionable the horrendous censorship of not being allowed to act like a twat and plaster posters condemning National Act Like a Hobo Eve all over your school is.

[Zrk2]

By definition the Bloc Quebecois is a revoilutionary organization.

HOWEVER they have the right to try an secede and we have the right to tell them no, that they joined of their own free will and that they should stop bitching and try to make Canada better instead of trying to leave.

Libertarianism.

[Grakelin]

Zrk2 is just being a reactionary. The Bloc Quebecois is a non-violent movement which formed out of the FLQ, especially after francophones lost sympathy for using violence as a political tool following the October Crisis of 1970, when Pierre Trudeau announced martial law in a bid to defeat the Front de liberation du Quebec. The FLQ was a terrorist group who fought for the independence of Quebec. They kidnapped the Quebec Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte. A few days later, Pierre Trudeau uttered his famous line "Just watch me", and rolled in the tanks.

Laporte died, though. The FLQ claimed that it was an accident, and they had forgotten to put airholes in the trunk of their car.

The Bloc Quebecois is well within its rights to exist and have its beliefs, though. We are a Confederation, so any province is free to leave if it wants to. Quebec really has been getting the poor end of the stick for a long time. Us anglophones don't like to discuss it.

We've had other rebellions in our history, too, but we like to keep it hush hush.

[Zrk2]

Most other rebellions were bar fights in Toronto, except Louis Reil.

[Grakelin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonia_land_dispute

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipperwash_Crisis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_Church_Crisis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafsen_Lake_Standoff


Protip: There is an active conflict taking place in Canada over ethnic issues RIGHT NOW

[Zrk2]

So off track.