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Originally Posted by rubecube
You do see that you're expecting them to define their sovereignty within the very same framework they've been colonized and dominated, right? Regardless of what you or I think, many of these communities do view themselves as sovereigns who've been dicked around for 250 years by French and British colonialists.
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So they get a pass on violence? At what point do we move pass the dicking of the past (yes I know it is easy for me to say, I didn't get dicked). There will be no reconciliation until both parties are interested. I can't believe they believe they would be better if suddenly they were free and clear their own nations.
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So if you consider yourself a sovereign community, and the police from a neighbouring country show up at your border, in military fatigues, and guns drawn, you just let them walk right in and do as they please?
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It would appear they were correct to have their weapons drawn:
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Officers who shut down a shale gas protest in New Brunswick on Thursday found bombs containing shrapnel, firearms with a large amount of ammunition, knives and bear spray among the protesters, a top RCMP official says.
“The weapons and explosives we seized show that this was no longer a peaceful protest and there was a serious threat to public safety,” Assistant commissioner Roger Brown said on Friday.
Brown says the Mounties were concerned lives could be in danger if they had not responded Thursday at the site near Rexton.
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