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I took a course 20 years ago called "Defensive Writing".

You shouldn't have to but you have to be aware of what you write will look like out of context, or 10 years in the future.

If he would have wrote it in French, it would have been ok.

Or, you could just not get your panties in a twist over every innocuous text. Your call.

/*sigh* You're right, in this day and age it's going to be easier for a Muslim guy to just not say anything, ever.

Dad knew I've been planning this for months, it's not like a dropped a bomb on it. If he thinks this is suicide for me, so be it. This is Allah's plan for me. (new window)

Gimli_Gloin: I took a course 20 years ago called "Defensive Writing".

You shouldn't have to but you have to be aware of what you write will look like out of context, or 10 years in the future.

It's not the same thing. People would only react this way to a Muslim person, or person with a 'Muslim sounding name' writing it, making it prejudice.

Norm: You can't say 'Bomb' on an airplane!

Greg Focker: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. You gonna arrest me? Bomb bomb bomb bomb! During the war I was a BOMBadier!

Seems like they've been watching too many movies about them terrorists up there in Canada, eh?

I read "If...you are in Quebec....don't"

Suq Madiq is going to have some serious problems sending texts.

Flab: Broktun: If he would have wrote it in French, it would have been ok.

As a matter of fact, he did.

Je ne sais pas

Advice: If you're a white person and any brown person regardless of social standing freaks you out this much just don't bother to leave your house. Build your bunker. Stay in it. Legitimately scary brown people are a lot more terrifying than a middle-aged Moroccan salesman and I don't think you can handle that.

/ffs

I think he's mistaken.
This problem has nothing to do with the content of the text message.... they're just pissed that he's communicating in English.

You really matched his meat!

When the horse trots upon the moor, the squirrel will gather its nuts for winter.

Jingo Ate Your Baby: Advice: If you're a white person and any brown person regardless of social standing freaks you out this much just don't bother to leave your house. Build your bunker. Stay in it. Legitimately scary brown people are a lot more terrifying than a middle-aged Moroccan salesman and I don't think you can handle that.

/ffs

That works if your bunker's name is "Alabama" or "Arizona," I guess.

Jesus Christ. This is pathetic. We should all be ashamed of where society has gone, rather than saying "Well, it's best never to say things like that, even though....."

No. fark that. This is downright childish and stupid.

Surprised as Montreal is one of the more tolerant places I've been.

Police in Laval, Que

Ah. Figures.

What seems missing is how the police found out about the text message.
Did one of the recipients report it ?
Or was it intercepted by the government , with an Eschalon type thing ?

The content wasn't the problem. He was charged for texting in English without first texting in French with letters twice as large.

This is disgusting and stupid, and I really wonder what it says about the state of intelligence-gathering in this country.

Also, I'm surprised he's seeking so little money. They must be anticipating a quick settlement.

After 9/11 I have no idea why anyone would be suspicious of someone with a moslem sounding name texting someone telling them to blow away someone else.

LarryDan43: The content wasn't the problem. He was charged for texting in English without first texting in French with letters twice as large.

Remember: Quebec is the Texas of Canada.


...except Quebec wants to be 'Little France', whereas Texas wants to be even more inbred, what with Governor "BrokebackMountain" running the show.

Gimli_Gloin: I took a course 20 years ago called "Defensive Writing".

You shouldn't have to but you have to be aware of what you write will look like out of context, or 10 years in the future.

I regularly see car sales adds on TV where they vow on the Memorial Day (or whatever) sales they will blow away the competition, some even showing a cheesey graphic of their rival car company's building being blown up.

I demand that all these terrorists be arrested.

PaLarkin: After 9/11 I have no idea why anyone would be suspicious of someone with a moslem sounding name texting someone telling them to blow away someone else.

One terrorist act alleged to have been carried out by Muslim people, while every other terrorist act on US soil was carried out by US citizens.

/WHAR sense WHAR!

White, Christian, US citizens, that should read.

Say "the movie was da bomb" on a airplane and try and apply your argument Quebecer.

okay so how did the police find out about the text message, did some angry employee forward it to them?

S.allami?

Unfortunate name for a Muslim.

Alcohol was involved? Algebra? Anyone? Buehler? Beuhler?

Okie_Gunslinger: okay so how did the police find out about the text message, did some angry employee forward it to them?

this

/should I still be talking in code when I text my drug dealer!?

Quebec seems to be taking their french heritage way to far, and starting to act like the French when it comes to Muslims.

You know, with all this crap about spying on email and cell phone texts and internet use, why the bloody hell does snail mail remain unopened and parcels too?

Because we have laws guaranteeing the privacy of snail mail or what?

TFA: During his detention, a team of police officers allegedly conducted an "intrusive" four-hour search.

That's one hell of a cavity search.

lucksi: You know, with all this crap about spying on email and cell phone texts and internet use, why the bloody hell does snail mail remain unopened and parcels too?

Because we have laws guaranteeing the privacy of snail mail or what?

No, I've had mail searched. They may or may not put a note. Need a warrant or reasonable cause, though.

Wonder if they'd react in a similar way if a Christian or someone with a Christian sounding name said they were "going on a crusade."

jamspoon: TFA: During his detention, a team of police officers allegedly conducted an "intrusive" four-hour search.

That's one hell of a cavity search.

Spelunking?

I love Quebec but it is home to some fookin' serious racists... and they REALLY dislike moozlims. Even the punks will rail on about them.

Obscure?

whereisian: Surprised as Montreal is one of the more tolerant places I've been.

Police in Laval, Que

Ah. Figures.

According to the article, the cops who arrested him were from the SQ, the provincial police.

safetycap:

Remember: Quebec is the Texas of Canada.

No love for Alberta?

Did anyone else have to double check this article to make sure it wasn't The Onion?

Robert Earl Keen lyrics... that's all it was... why is everyone yelling???!!!

You take off from work a bit early
The boss doesn't care if you stay
The guard with the key has to check your I.D.
But he'd just as soon blow you away

The cops have stopped 10 miles of traffic
They're sorry for all the delay
No need for alarm as they're waving their arms
But they'd just as soon blow you away

And two pretty blondes in a Porsche
Their bumper says 'We Love L.A.'
They're crazy out there but they're crazy out there
And they'd just as soon blow you away

And you got in some trouble in high school
But you feel like a new man today
You keep to yourself 'cause anyone else
Would just as soon blow you away

You're standing in from of the teller
And she's counting out all of your pay
There's twenties and ones
And there's guards with their guns
And they'd just as soon blow you away

And one old ex-con in station
Fixes flats at the back of the bay
He winks and he jokes, then he borrows a smoke
But he'd just as soon blow you away

You like the new girl at the hotel
She drops your room key in the tray
No words will pass through the bullet-proof glass
'Cause she'd just as soon blow you away

When you climb up the stairs every evening
To your room right above the cafe
There ain't much mystique but you pay every week
'Cause they'd just as soon blow you away

And you turn out the light that you read by
And you pray that you're one of the few
When you're in with the Lord there's just one reward
And they'd just as soon make it come true

The mattress is mildewed and lumpy
But you fall fast asleep where you lay
Under the lump there's a .20 gauge pump
'Cause they'd just as soon blow you away

tirob:
According to the article, the cops who arrested him were from the SQ, the provincial police.

Ie. the festering anal fissure of Canadian law enforcement. He's lucky he didn't fall down a flight of stairs onto a bag of hammers while resisting arrest.

Mumbler: What seems missing is how the police found out about the text message.
Did one of the recipients report it ?
Or was it intercepted by the government , with an Eschalon type thing ?

The latter, I guess. I have trouble imagining his sales rep. colleague saw the text and thought "OMG I'd better report this!"

No Such Agency: tirob:
According to the article, the cops who arrested him were from the SQ, the provincial police.

Ie. the festering anal fissure of Canadian law enforcement. He's lucky he didn't fall down a flight of stairs onto a bag of hammers while resisting arrest.

Some of those local police departments out west have a pretty fearsome reputation, too, at least if you happen to be an Indian.

Isildur: The latter, I guess. I have trouble imagining his sales rep. colleague saw the text and thought "OMG I'd better report this!"

Could have been a sneaky way to get rid of him, either because they didn't like him or viewed him as competition.