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Post by Clint Johnston on Oct 24, 2014 6:45:28 GMT 1
Nice. Are you sure you wouldn't rather live here in bumpkinville? A drive by shooting at a goat farm made the paper.
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Post by jklinders on Oct 24, 2014 10:05:35 GMT 1
There are three sizable military bases in Halifax. If this thing is related then it's inevitable that this malarkey will happen. More likely it's the same kind of nut we had last year in the commerce district. Either way, he was contained pretty quick.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 25, 2014 1:29:31 GMT 1
I just really hope nothing happens regarding any attacks in Halifax targeting our military personnel - I have four cousins in the military: three who are in the navy and one who's just gone to boot camp; and one who is former military (he's the one who was hurt in Afghanistan years ago), and I'd hate for anything shitty to happen to them or anyone else in our military.
This is kind of scary, thinking that Canada might be being targeted now...
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Post by jklinders on Oct 25, 2014 4:23:30 GMT 1
Honestly, we need to look after our own citizens better than we are. Most of these punks are folks who were marginalized in some way or another. they feel the world owes them something and then they fall victim to a religious fanatic that turns them into someone that hates the "system" that deprived them of their toys or whatever. I have very little more than contempt for people who grew up in the bounty we experience here in North America but somehow feel they are owed more. Still, someone is taking advantage of them and I find that very sad. I feel sad for rabid dogs too, but they need to be put down.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 25, 2014 5:36:27 GMT 1
Well if it's any consolation, we just flipped ISIS the bird in a big way. www.businessinsider.com/coalition-bombs-isis-flag-on-kobane-hill-2014-10I saw the video. Not 30 seconds between the flag being raised and the bombs exploding. What can I say? I like big bombs and I cannot lie, You other brothers can't deny, When a B-1 rolls in with a itty bitty laser and a JDAM in your face you get sprung..... (Sorry for the black humour, but that one just came to me and had to be typed up)
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Post by Cali on Oct 25, 2014 6:17:47 GMT 1
Iron, you miserable fucking asshole.
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Post by jklinders on Oct 25, 2014 11:52:00 GMT 1
OK, what?
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 25, 2014 13:14:10 GMT 1
Why was ISIS putting the flag there in the first place? Was it a significant location or something?
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 25, 2014 14:04:39 GMT 1
Basically, they were raising their flag on a big hill as a way of saying "we're taking over". Those dropped bombs show we disagree, plus the timing was awesome.
ETA: that hill is in Kurdish territory where ISIS has been attacking and killing every Kurd they come across so I'm going to say those bobs were well-timed karma.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 25, 2014 18:21:14 GMT 1
I see...
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Post by Cali on Oct 25, 2014 20:46:40 GMT 1
I was joking, Linders. Also, the use of flags in contemporary warfare is incredibly impractical, and always kind of was impractical. This Revolutionary War Era jingoistic formation tactic got ditched for a reason. Sure, it may have been terrifying as a Wermacht soldier to see a bunch of red soviet flags waving toward you at Kursk, but the Reds could have really, you know, gave those banner carriers a rifle? I'm pretty sure nobody in the Red Army needed to carry a bunch of flags to remember who they were in case they forgot.
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Post by jklinders on Oct 25, 2014 20:58:04 GMT 1
Just gently checking. I never know in this part of the site.
No real sign at least that the attack was an organized. the attacker (there was only one after all) was pissed that he was being denied a passport to fly to Syria (presumably to fight for ISIS)got one of the very worst types of rifles for a modern gunfight (a Remington 30.30) and went apeshit in our nation's capital until he was put down. No big plan, no big agenda, no sense and no expectation of survival.
Sadly a soldier died. Just as bad, it looks like this will be used as an excuse to degrade our privacy rights even further in Canada. There is little enough here stopping them from monitoring us, now there will be less. Heil Harper.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 25, 2014 21:03:55 GMT 1
I really wish the shooter could have been stopped before the soldier lost his life... Just as bad, it looks like this will be used as an excuse to degrade our privacy rights even further in Canada. There is little enough here stopping them from monitoring us, now there will be less. Heil Harper. That's scary in itself...
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Oct 26, 2014 21:40:26 GMT 1
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Oct 26, 2014 21:57:00 GMT 1
I might be misunderstanding the article - but I think MPs in this case refers to Members of Parliament. Here in Canada our Members of Parliament are referred to by the initials MPs - and whenever I hear the initials MPs my first thought is always of government figures, rather than military police. Unless the context is referring to the military specifically. It was the MPs (Members of Parliament) in the caucus room with Prime Minister Harper, and it was the Members of Parliament who made spears out of flagpoles... Quoting from the article here: So I think if the Military Police were in the caucus room they'd have had their proper weapons.
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