Tag Archive: right wing politics

on July 4, 2016 in World News

Lemonade stand shutdown sparks anger, criticism on social media

Ottawa, often dubbed the ‘city that fun forgot,’ hears the unwanted slogan once again The organization in charge of several pieces of land in the National Capital Region shut down a lemonade stand being operated by two young girls on Canada Day long weekend. They didn’t have permit. After making $52, the girls’ father said a cyclist told them they weren’t allowed to be there, and an official with the National Capital Commission (NCC) later followed with more detailed reasons. The girls were operating on NCC land, and needed a permit. The NCC then shut down the stand. ‘Relax a bit’: Kid-run… View Article

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on July 4, 2016 in World News

Arrogant government believes citizens should have no right to self-defense or need for self-reliance

 J. D. Heyes It never ceases to amaze me that political leaders can be so reliant on men and women with guns for protection, but so tone deaf and authoritarian when it comes to allowing ordinary citizens the right to self-protection. This may not be an issue for a majority of Americans, since, contrary to popular belief, most Americans don’t own even a single gun. But it should be, because there are larger issues at stake. Liberty, once gone, is historically difficult to get back, and the one constitutional amendment designed to ensure that Americans retain theirs, has been under… View Article

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on July 3, 2016 in World News

Anti-Free Speech Laws Force Right-wing Activists Into Hiding Abroad

by Virginia Hale Right wing activists are being forced into hiding abroad as a result of France’s oppressive laws against free speech. Le Monde reports that a number of right wingers have been pressured to flee France to avoid arrest for “hate” speech. The newspaper notes that many of these are administrators of websites in the “fachosphere”. ‘Facho’ is slang, in France, for ‘fascist’. It describes the “fachosphere” as a “cloud of very active websites, blogs and forums which do their best to preach the ‘patriotic’ word on the web”. Le Monde says such websites “are hosted abroad, with the… View Article

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