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18 Jun, 7 tweets, 5 min read
MUCH HAS BEEN SAID about Sir John A. Macdonald and his place in Canada's history ... but, there's something (ugly) that hasn't been mentioned.

In 1763, Lord Jeffrey Amherst cold-bloodedly saw an opportunity in the gifting of smallpox-infected blankets to his

#cdnpoli #YGK
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 Native American adversaries.

THIS WEEK "Kingston [City] Council has decided to move the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald to his gravesite, pending Indigenous consultation." @PaulSoucyygk via @CKWS_TV @globalnews #YGK
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 THE HORRIFYINGLY RUTHLESS use by Amherst of this crude form of biological warfare was callous brutality and a crime against humanity.

AND YET Amherst Island, named in honour of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, and its
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 namesake, Amherstview, are situated immediately west of Kingston with their names intact.

"In 2008, Mi'kmaq spiritual leader John Joe Sark called the name of Fort Amherst Park of Prince Edward Island a terrible blotch on Canada", and said: "To have a
globalnews.ca/news/7957775/k…
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 place named after General Amherst would be like having a city in Jerusalem named after Adolf Hitler... it's disgusting." @Wikipedia

IF HIS STATUE is to be removed and his name also struck from a school, THEN these other names, too, must be changed.

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ONE SENTENCE (highlighted in Red) is troubling.

It stands out and is completely incongruous with the emerging fact pattern of this case.
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@OmarAlghabra calls it a "tragedy".

"Tragedy" is more great loss and misfortune, even calamity. It's benign and it minimizes.

FIRSTLY, it flies in the face of a recent Ontario Superior Court ruling: "The plaintiffs have established that the shooting down of Flight 752 by Image
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SAID IN OTHER WORDS, it has been now ruled that this was NOT an accident, but deliberate; NOT a tragedy, but an ATROCITY

It is literally, a 'mass murder'.

OUR CHOICE OF WORDS MATTER. Referring
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167 Passengers perished (55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and 53 others on their way to Canada)

AS A FORMER @rcmpgrcpolice #RCMP(Ret'd), I am utterly outraged by the shocking and indefensible position being taken by RCMP Commissioner Lucki.

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 This position adopted is untenable. And, I have every confidence that it cannot be sustained.

FIRSTLY, it flies in face of a recent Ontario Superior Court ruling by Justice Edward Belobaba [Zarei v Iran, 2021 ONSC 3377 | Court File No. CV-20-635078 (dated 20210520)]:
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SAID IN OTHER WORDS,this was not an accident or tragedy, but an ATROCITY [literally, a 'mass murder'].

AND YET, ...
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🚨 MOST REGRETTABLY, some Canadian politicians have chosen to affix the label of 'terrorism' before the investigation has made any such determination.

This is one example.

RESPECT FOR the administration of justice would properly wait for the police agency with jurisdiction ... ImageImage
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 @lpsmediaoffice (assisted by @rcmpgrcpolice) allowing the time necessary to gather and evaluate the evidence.

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MOST REGRETTABLY, such statements can carry the taint of political interference. The appropriate
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But, no matter.

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"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,...
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
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"FULL and HONEST" [emphasis added] -

“You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.” (Shakespeare)

Nothing betrays greater a naivete than these most feeble of words.

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