User talk:Kchishol1970

HIIII, HELLO Kchishol!!! IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO SEE YOU! BigCat


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Welcome, Kchishol. May I call you Kc for short?

I have a question for you about genocide in East Timor, which you compared to Cambodia. Would you please add some detail? Number of people killed, number of people in the country? This will enable the reader to compare percentages. Or you could even calculate these for the reader, and include them in the article. --Ed Poor

I'm afraid I don't know the exact numbers at present. My main knowledge of it comes from the film, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, where the focus is on the apparent media complicity with this atrocity. I thought it would be enough for me for now to enter the case and let those more knowledgable about it fill in the details. If you want, I can look it up.

Re Khan Noonien Singh: someone once told me I had my "NPOV meter turned up to eleven." I don't feel so alone now. Thanks for that. <g> - Hephaestos 03:39, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

You added the name Ken Taylor to the Medal of Honor page but there is no such person listed on the DOD website as having received that award. Who were you refering to? Rmhermen 17:24, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

  • Ken Taylor is a Canadian diplomat who sheltered a number of American Iranian Embassy personnel who escaped being captured by revolutionaries during the Iranian Revolution of 1979 by hiding him in the Canadian Embassey. He then cooperated with the CIA to smuggle them out posing as the mastermind behind the operation. Apparently, he was awarded the Medal of Honor as a reaction to that.
I checked -what he received was a Congressional Gold Medal.[1] Only Americans and foreign "Unknown Soldiers" recieve the Medal of Honor. Rmhermen 14:27, Oct 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hey, K. I see you deleted from Pierre Trudeau my observations about double jeopardy and the presumption of guilt in libel cases as "blatantly right-wing" POV"> As a blatantly left-wing person I am puzzled. I'm unaware of any debate over whether double jeopardy or the presumption of guilt are restrictions on civil rights, or of any right-wing agitation against them, but I'm open to argument if you'd care to explain your reasons for thinking that way. Trontonian 22:52, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I have restored the points, but in the second last paragraph, where their (unjustifiably) contentious nature is more apparent. As a socialist I believe in a mixed economy and individual civil rights. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms' glittering words have not removed the most serious impediments to Canadian civil rights -- as I said above, no one considers double jeopardy or the presumption of guilt in libel cases to promote individual Canadian civil rights. To point that out is fair comment. Many do believe the Charter has chiefly benefited corporations, so I included that observation -- now that's not right wing.
At any rate, these observations are now in a section of the article where it is clear that they may be interpreted differently by different people. I also attempted to balance the blatantly right-wing POV about the War Measures Act. In general, I think it's clear that Mr. Trudeau's reputation won't be settled for some time, and including criticisms of Mr. Trudeau is not necessarily POV. I'm sorry if my mention of the sad state of Canadian civil rights offended you, but it was not right-wing and it was not POV. Double jeopardy and the presumption of guilt survive unfettered by Mr. Trudeau's Charter. As do the notwithstanding clause and the Supreme Court decisions about the practice of a legal trade (prostitution) and mandatory retirement. The glowing statement about the CHarter in the last paragraph is clearly right-wing POV and needs to be balanced by some assessment of the actual success of the Charter. That is fair comment. Trontonian 14:58, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)

One thing we can probably agree on. That article really doesn't give much of a picture of Pierre Trudeau or his achievements. It didn't even mention the Foreign Investment Review Board. Nor did it mention the Just Society, an important them in Mr. Trudeau's first term. I've added something about those topics. And I found out that "right-wing spin about the War Measures Act" I mentioned was probably the most reasonable statement about it so I restored it. My left-wing interpretation was still right, of course. Trontonian 13:51, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hiya.

According to news reports, Robert Stanfield died on Tuesday (i.e. not on the 17th). I didn't spot this myself till I added the entry to Recent deaths only to find that it was already there! It was added by Wik, which may explain why he has reverted a previous attempt to add it to the front page: this is not Recent Deaths.

regards, chocolateboy 05:31, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)