What Stops ICE from Snatching People Off Canadian Streets? Very Little

https://thewalrus.ca/what-stops-ice-from-crossing-into-canada-to-snatch-people-very-little/

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MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 204d (19 replies)

I believe I, and any Canadian, have every right to kill a person who represents a foreign (hostile)government, and tries to abduct me, or those I care about in my country. As they do not represent my government, I believe I’m free and clear.

No authority?

No process?

It is then an act of war, and we should respond accordingly with deadly force.

Just sayin.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 204d (5 replies)

This is one of the first times I’ve heard a Canadian threatening without saying sorry first.

Shit must be gettin’ tough

Luci@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 204d (2 replies)

We’re done with sorry.

Ash@piefed.social · 15 pts · 204d

It's aboot time. (sorry)

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 204d

Sohry, not sohry, eh!

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 204d

We are polite…..until we aren’t. That’s how the Geneva Convention was created.

usernamefactory@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 204d

The most polite people I know are also the most willing to stand up against wrong doing when the time comes. They are they way they are because they value good prosocial behaviour, they're willing to sacrifice their own convenience for it, and they're willing to defend it.

shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 204d

Fuckin eh

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 204d (1 reply)

Well. I mean, attempt armed arrest anyway and hope they don't start shooting. That's just polite.

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 204d

As they are not empowered by a Canadian government, they may not carry firearms unless they have an express act to do so. This may in fact be the case under a blanket act for border agents. We should review that…

CarolusRex@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 203d

I agree, foreign agents seeking to subvert Canadian sovereignty, their life is forfeit as long as they are operating on Canadian soil. They shouldn't have any legal protections either if their objective is to destabilize the country or attack our sovereignty.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -7 pts · 204d (8 replies)

And a whole new array of gun laws will be passed after the fact to ensure no more peasant revolts occur.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 204d (4 replies)

A nail in a board works just fine.

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -7 pts · 204d (3 replies)

Good luck with that.

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 204d (1 reply)

One man with a nail in a board is how it starts... Soon enough it's hundreds with boards and nails.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 204d

"That board with a nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!"

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 204d

Don't be

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 204d (2 replies)

The only peasant revolt in Canada is a bunch of privileged right-wing traitors who want to join the weak minded drones that follow Trump. Losers, every last one of them. I should know.

They should be executed (tolerance except for the intolerant).

DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 203d
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FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 204d

That’s certainly a take.

pixxelkick@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 204d (17 replies)

Canadians are chomping at the bit here to get a reason to go burn down the Whitehouse again.

locotx@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 204d (12 replies)

It's "champing" at the bit.

glibg@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 204d (3 replies)

You're a true chompion of the English language.

Gerblat@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 204d (2 replies)

I’ll drink to that

gulps down a mouthful of chompagne

ryanpdg1@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 204d (1 reply)

It's only chompagne if it comes from the chompagne region of Fronce

NebulaNymph@programming.dev · 15 pts · 204d

True, otherwise it's just sporkling wine

nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 204d (6 replies)

They're generally both considered correct. "Chomping at the bit" has been in use for over 100 years.

tempest@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 204d (5 replies)

Language, where you just have to be wrong long enough that your version becomes a dialect.

nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 204d

It's literally the worst.

AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 204d (3 replies)

Champing at the bit sounds dumb af tbh and I've never heard it before IRL compared to chomping.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 203d (2 replies)

It's chomping, referring to the bit that goes in a horses mouth. If it chomps, it means it's eager. Hence, chomping at the bit means someone is eager.

Triasha@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d (1 reply)

Forty white horses on a red hill, first they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.

Tolkien thought it was champ.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 202d

Teef!

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d

After a LOT of rabbit holes, …it’s both.

MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 204d (2 replies)

From a grizzled, old, Scottish WWII veteran: “Young Man, I’ll tell ya something I learned in the war, never, ever underestimate those Canadians! They are the toughest soldiers I encountered in the war.”

FTR: he also said he thought Germans were pansies, lol.

Dead now, but he was a tough SOB, himself (I mean, he WAS Scottish, so that’s a pedigree right there).

LeFantome@programming.dev · 3 pts · 204d (1 reply)

Many of us Canadians still have some Scottish blood. And I bet it works as well as it ever did.

Auli@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 204d

Hah I wish. Society is to soft abdicated to screens and comfort. As long as the masses are entertained almost anything can happen.

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 204d

I thought it was the brittish that did that during the war of 1812?

Drusas@fedia.io · 55 pts · 204d (4 replies)

You all need to be pressing your government to declare ICE a terrorist organization so that you can bar entry of any current or former member into the country.

Alloi@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 204d (3 replies)

we have ICE offices in canada, in a bunch if our major cities, including ottawa. our capital.

Drusas@fedia.io · 22 pts · 204d (2 replies)

Yeah. You might want to try to correct that.

Alloi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 204d (1 reply)

there are none in my city, but if one does end up here. the plan is to burn it.

L_N@piefed.ca · 44 pts · 204d (3 replies)

We must prepare for potential ICE agressive incursions into our territory.
We must be ruthless against fascism.

Dionysus@leminal.space · 20 pts · 204d (2 replies)

Karl Popper had it right.

Do not tolerate intolerance and the behavior seen from the south.

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 203d

Don't tolerate pro-MAGA Canadian Conservatives either. They're working against Canada.

ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 204d

Because if they did I'd have the right to kill them as an invading force. Fuck ice may they all die.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 204d (1 reply)

Aha, so baaically if you get snatched and dragged into the US for suspected violation of US law, the American legal system is okay with it and you have limited avenues to defend yourself. Canada would have to "convince" the US to let you go. In other words, exercise higher caution around ICE than our neighbours do.

LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 204d

There is no rule of law here. :( we have do much with to do :(

rozodru@piefed.world · 20 pts · 204d (2 replies)

I'd love to see them try. And I think many Canadians are also chomping at the bit to "see America try". Lets see how far they get up here.

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 203d

The furthest an American can get is those who go to help defend Canada

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 203d

unleashyour moose calvary.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 204d (1 reply)

We need to start protesting to get ICE out of Canada

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 204d

Here's an idea. If ICE walks across the border, shoot them. They're a hostile foreign invader.

F_State@midwest.social · 15 pts · 203d

"There will be a political and economic price if Canada followed member of Parliament Heather McPherson’s call for all ICE out of Canada"

There's no cost for standing up to bullies. On the contrary, the cost comes from backing down.

DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 204d (3 replies)

The question is: would a Canadian citizen witnessing an ICE kidnapping happen in Canada be allowed to use up to lethal force to stop it?

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 204d

No. But if there's no body there's no murder.

IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 204d

I don't care. I'm not an American gimp. I'll help a person being kidnapped or harassed in Canada. If it's a US MAGA Nazi fuck, they'll get a mother fucking double-double. I'll take the chance.

Fuck ICE.

TomatoPotato69@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 204d

It would be animal abuse at worst. So just make sure it's fast, clean, and humane. ;)

Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 204d

Fact of the matter is if ICE wanted to round up Canadians, most local police, at least in Alberta, would be helping to support ICE operations while making a canned statement on TV about the legality of their actions.

KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 203d

Give me an excuse. Please.

canuck666777@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 203d (1 reply)

Folks, unlock your gun cabinets. These MF-ers as much as make noise on our soil, Luigi them all!

rekabis@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 203d

Learn how to snipe at distance. We cannot beat them with force, but we can bleed them dry from a million separate cuts.

The only good fascist is a dead fascist.

Candid_Andy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 203d

Ice Breaker Baseball Bats™ now available at Canadian Tire.

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 202d

What a dumb fucking point. Clickbait article.

"Here’s a scenario: Minnesota shares a border with Canada. Let’s say a stream of undocumented people decided to make a run for Sprague, Manitoba. Let’s say they somehow end up on the other side. ICE isn’t happy about it, and, on this day, agents decide to ignore the fact there’s a border."

Ok... I could find a place and just cross the border illegally too. Maybe me and a whole bunch of people.

It doesn't mean it's okay and that there won't be any repercussions....