They are at it again

[Bowlcut]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/01/15/sidhu-kirpan.html

If you have a problem with our laws... leave!
Your "Charter Rights" do not have precedent above safety.

[Mr.Freeze]

get this they are allowed to go to school with the kirpan but not in a airplain? those that mean people in the airplain are more important then the kids in school????

[Gib]

I always wonder why people come here from shitty third world contries for a better life - then fight to make this country more like the one they just left....???

[Bowlcut]

get this they are allowed to go to school with the kirpan but not in a airplain? those that mean people in the airplain are more important then the kids in school????

At least in Quebec they are banned from schools.

Many devout Sikhs will sew a patch that represents a Kirpan because they realize that it is not acceptable for students to carry knives around school, or in courts. It seems this idiot can't do the same.

Note to the Sikh, there is no God.

[guest1]

So he was denied his " basic right of civil duty " I got an idea . He can exercise his civic duty by getting on an airplane and going back to whatever shit hole he came from . If he chooses to stay then I volunteer to do my civic duty and carve him a new asshole with his little dagger . Everyone wins .

[Demonwolf]

I always wonder why people come here from shitty third world contries for a better life - then fight to make this country more like the one they just left....???


Well put.

[dainbramaged]

"Stephen Jenuth, president of the Alberta Civil Liberties Association, said the rule is absurd and smacks of intolerance.

"If you have a small object of this sort, which really has no utility as a weapon, to try and prohibit it is no different than trying to prohibit a crucifix," he said."

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Intolerance is not letting someone into a place with a knife? From wikipedia, "Some regulations allow the kirpan under certain restrictions; for example, rules in some California schools require that the kirpan be blunted and riveted into a sheath." How about that? Apparently, in Quebec, they simply sow a patch similar to the shape into their clothing? How about that?

It's history appears to be that it is indeed a defensive weapon, to be used as a last resort in aid of someone else, but a weapon nonetheless [courtesy of wikipedia]. Otherwise, unless one's peeling oranges with it or using it to open letters, I can't see any other practical application? I suppose you could liken it to a crucifix, if that crucifix was like 3 feet long and could possibly be used as a defensive cudgel (club) that would only be used as a last resort weapon when all other options have failed?

I may be completely off on this, so anyone feel free to correct me.

Average length is 3-3.5 inches but the student from Quebec had one that was 20cm (8 inches) long. Why not make it like an inch? Or make it out of a softer material?

[Sean Summers]

I seem to remember box cutters being used to hijack an airplane. Who would of thought???
SS

[guest1]

I seem to remember box cutters being used to hijack an airplane. Who would of thought???
SS

Good point . Makes comparing this to discrimination even more ridiculous .

[Bowlcut]

Good point . Makes comparing this to discrimination even more ridiculous .

Anytime they do not get their way it is discrimination. Hmmm like making women wear veils?

[guest1]

Anytime they do not get their way it is discrimination. Hmmm like making women wear veils?

According to most Muslim men they prefer wearing the veil thingy ;) It hides the swollen cheeks and black eyes from the infidels .