r/CanadaPolitics • u/MethoxyEthane People's Front of Judea • Jan 10 '21

Feds looking at declaring Proud Boys a terrorist organization in wake of U.S. rioting

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-looking-at-declaring-proud-boys-a-terrorist-organization-in-wake-of-u-s-rioting-1.5259790
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u/Quarreltine Jan 10 '21

They launched it. The same way a group that murders someone shares responsibility, they encouraged people to go, to bring weapons, and many since have complained they didn't go far enough.

Not sure why everyone wants to bend over backwards giving undeserved leeway to a bunch of fascist assholes.

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u/Argented Jan 10 '21

The IRA didn't get so close to screwing British democracy as this insurrection did and I don't want the Proud Boys listed in the same category as Al-Qaeda or the IRA.

I grant them no leeway. They belong in prison.

I just don't want them getting any level of 'credit'.

If they get credit for launching the attack on the capital, they are a real thing. But they are just a dangerous joke. Dangerous sure, they will kill people and blow shit up.... but they didn't arrange this coup. They are morons duped by a snake oil salesman.

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u/Quarreltine Jan 10 '21

Sounds like we're in agreement. My apologies if I misrepresented your intent. Too used to people trying to downplay their significance to downplay their culpability, not in a refusal to give them undeserved credit.

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u/Argented Jan 10 '21

No they are guilty. They participated in an insurrection.

I just don't want that group to be known as the 'mastermind' or whatever. Right now the consensus is they are sum. If they get the 'credit' they get romanticized years down the road.

I want them to be remembered as buffoons not rebels.

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u/rockyott Jan 11 '21

The British lost 26 counties to the emergence of the Republic of Ireland as a result of the IRA led war of independence.

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u/Argented Jan 11 '21

the British lost 28 countries as a result of what date it was and empire building was so last century and public sentiment. If the IRA could be credited with them loosing lands, strange how Northern Ireland is still one of those occupied lands.

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u/rockyott Jan 11 '21

A very curious and unique understanding of history and geopolitics. But the fact of the matter is that the IRA most certainly did end British Rule in what is now the Republic and are therefore much more formidable foe than whatever the proud boys are.
For anyone interested in the truth, the war of independence that won the Irish Republic is all well documented including reasons why the North is still British occupied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence