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From: ruthb@blic.BLI.COM (Ruth Bevan)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin,comp.misc
Subject: Re: HELP ME (*Oh, what a flame for JJ@Portal*)
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Date: 15 Jun 88 16:03:39 GMT
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In article <80@uisc1.UUCP>, adf@uisc1.UUCP (Andre Franklin) writes:
> In article <386@blic.BLI.COM>, ruthb@blic.BLI.COM (Ruth Bevan) writes:
> > In article <64@uisc1.UUCP>, root@uisc1.UUCP (Super user) writes:
> > 
> 
> Canada has a tremendous amount of government intervention, in comparison
> with the United States anyway. Remember no 7 day shopping?

I lived in Virginia where there was also a "blue law" and I think you'll
find this true of many parts of this country.


Remember their
> laws on guns?

Canada has way stricter gun control laws than this country, which is probably
a factor in being able to walk down Yonge St. in Toronto at 2:00 a.m.
alone, without being in fear of one's life... Is the same true of Detroit?

And (one of the biggies) remember how they handled the case
> where that Montreal cop shot and killed that black teenage suspect who
> was facing him, standing still, unarmed? That same cop had beaten a black
> Ghanaen (sp: from Ghana) university professor savagely 

I have no problem with accepting this as a horrible violation of civil rights;
however, you may also recall the public outrage over this incident, and how
it garnered national attention throughtout Canada. Is the same true for the
black father of 5 who was beaten to death in a Texas Jail before Christmas,
when he was arrested on a drunk driving charge? How about the deputy in 
North Carolina who shot an unarmed black teenager during a raid on a house
where gambling was going on? He was later exonerated by the county board
of supervisors who consisted of two uncles and his father!!! Racism and
police brutality are unfortunately endemic to all societys, I have to 
observe; however that in five years in Canada I observed less of it than
I did in 10 years in Virginia. The thing to keep in mind here is that I'm
not claiming Canada is such a superior country, simply that you picked an    
area to attack then on that is not substantiated by facts.... Now let's
talk about the near ostracization of american children in many of their
public schools and you'd have a captive audience!!