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Titolo: Ecco perche' il Canada mi piace

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/09/08/draft_dogers040908.html
Draft-dodger memorial to be built in B.C.
NELSON, B.C. - B.C. activists plan to erect a bronze sculpture
honouring
draft dodgers, four decades after Americans opposed to the Vietnam War
sought refuge in Canada.
The memorial, created by artists in Nelson, B.C., ties into a two-day
celebration planned for July 2006 that pays tribute to as many as
125,000
Americans who fled to Canada between 1964 and 1977.
"This will mark the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the
Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that
tumultuous
era," Isaac Romano, the director of the Our Way Home festival told a
news
conference in Nelson Tuesday.
The event will honour people who came to Canada and resisted war
efforts,
from burning their draft cards during the Vietnam War to leaving the
army to
protest the war in Iraq, Romano said.
Musicians - many of who participated in the anti-war movement will
play at
- the festival, scheduled for July 8-9, 2006. Historians and
critics of U.S. foreign policy will speak and a documentary about
American
war resisters by director Michelle Mason will be screened.
Estimates of the number of Americans who came to Canada because they
opposed
the Vietnam War range from 50,000 to 125,000.
They sought refuge in Canada between 1964 and 1977 in one of the
biggest
political exoduses in U.S. history.
The first wave of Vietnam era immigrants, called "draft dodgers," was
largely middle class and educated. Deserters from the army came later,
mostly with little education or money.
Many of the war resisters settled in British Columbia, especially in
the
Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast and the West Kootenay, the B.C.
Interior
region where Nelson is located.
Thousands returned south after President Jimmy Carter granted them
amnesty
in 1977, but the 1986 census indicated that half stayed in Canada.
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Ovviamente, gli elementi piu' fascisti del paese immediatamente piu' a
sud non digeriscono il fatto che il rifiuto di obbedire a ordini
ingiusti sia qualcosa
da celebrare
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A small Canadian town best known for its
welcoming ski slopes and artsy tourist trade has drawn sharp criticism
for a proposed memorial to the Vietnam draft dodgers who fled to the
area three decades ago.
After threats of boycotts by people in the Spokane area to the south,
and a call by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for President Bush and
Congress to pressure Canada to stop the project, civic leaders in the
British Columbia town of Nelson have distanced themselves from the
idea. Even the man who organized the project said he was
reconsidering.
"To honor draft-dodgers, deserters, people who brought grief to the
families they left behind and anguish to those American men who took
their place, is an abomination," said John Furgess, the national
commander of the 2.4-million-member VFW.
....
''If you think a monument to yellow belly cowards is going to somehow
give a
sense of respectfulness to these shameful Americans, who turned their
backs
on their country, you are sadly mistaken,'' one angry American wrote
in an
e-mail to city hall. ''I for one will never visit your town and spend
a thin
dime ever again, if this thing is built.''
That was among the milder comments the city received.
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Il bello e che tutto questo casino per una guerra di 30 anni fa sta
riaffiorando
al momento giusto.   Si stima che i soldati che sono scappati in
Canada per
non andare in Irak si contano a centinaia.   Questi, si sommano ai
"Cannabis refugees" che sono andati a vivere vicino Vancouver a causa
del fatto
che li' la Marijuana e' decriminalizzata.

 Draft-dodger memorial to be built in B.C.
Quello dei canadesi che in Vietnam ci sono andati volontari - stimati da
un minimo di 10.000 ad un massimo di 30/40.000 - invece, c'e' gia':
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/IDC-0-9-1122-6134/guerres_conflits/canada_vietnam/clip6
Gente democratica i canadesi: ad ognuno il suo memorial.
Ciao
Ale (che non riesce ad accedere a Newsland con l'attuale nick)
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 Draft-dodger memorial to be built in B.C.
OT: bentornato!
Ancora a fare fisica nucleare in USA?

 Ancora a fare fisica nucleare in USA?
No.  In Canada :-)
Posso guardare i dibattiti presidenziali ridendo.
GT

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beato te. Io no.

 beato te. Io no.
Anche io fino a un certo punto:  A quando un'invasione del Canada?
(Parlano francese, hanno assistenza sanitaria gratuita e la Marijuana
legalizzata, non partecipano in Iraq, si rifiutano di estradare
sospetti terroristi senza
evidenza giuridica, offrono asilo a Americani che rifiutano il
servizio di leva.
Non vedi che sono dei terroristi?  :-/   )

degli iracheni non ci sarà più bisogno di mantenere le truppe in quel paese
Ma ci crede veramente a questa barzelletta, oppure apre la bocca solo 
per dare aria ai denti ?
Dico, ma chi crede che "magicamente" dopo le elezioni, sara' tutto a 
posto, e potremo tutti ritornare a casa ?
Cose da pazzi !
Dimenticavo ... :
E arrivato il momento della ... suppostina .... :
H.R.163 Universal National Service Act of 2003
http://www.house.gov/stark/documents/108th/univdraftstate.html
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.R.163
:
H.R.163
Title: To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young 
persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of 
military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the 
national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.
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