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yeah but it's left to the officer's discretion. Sure they say it's "intended" for this or that, but it can be used for anything. For example, if I protest a gas
by it_learnses 11y ago
yeah but it's left to the officer's discretion. Sure they say it's "intended" for this or that, but it can be used for anything. For example, if I protest a gas pipeline, I can be deemed a terrorist and my citizenship taken away without due process.
- notThatBad 11y agoProtesting has a spectrum. Some of it is acceptable, some illegal (though not entirely unacceptable), some unacceptably illegal, and some forms of protest are terrorism. Protesting a pipeline by mailing thousands of letters to an office, each from a different person, signed, and forwarding a petition to the government? Great! That's how direct democracy works. Get out there and make noise. Protesting as in handcuffing themselves through a steel pipe, to the trees in the path of a new pipeline? Not terrorism, they'll just go to jail. Maybe they'll get a record, maybe not. Some people are OK with doing this, and it does send a strong message. I'll concede to you that I'm concerned that at some point, someone outside the law and government could convince (or coerce) someone into calling a few instances of this type of protest terrorism. Protesting as in bombing a pipeline? Well... the way the laws are now, they'll probably just go to jail, unless they're receiving explosives, instruction or funding from a known terrorist group. If they're self-radicalized, they're going to be made an example of. If they're tied to a group, that's when we'll see more of bill c51 used.