I routinely enter 90210 as my Zip code when one is required by some stupidly inflexible web form or payment process. Mostly because it is the only one I can come up with on the spot.
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More than in times past, about 19% visible minorities I think.
Thatâs the one Iâm using from now on!
Uhlans are lancers. Dragoons are mounted infantry.
Great big pointy stick is the give away.
This has gotten a touch off topic hasnât it?
Well, itâs a bit of a weird number because 19% (assuming you are getting that stat from the same place I am) doesnât include Aboriginal people. Iâm sure there is a rational political reason behind that exclusion but if you are looking for a âvisible minority for the purpose of US copsâ aboriginal people would largely fit the bill (plus they are almost surely the most oppressed and discriminated group in Canada, so itâs weird to count them with the white majority). Plus that number is from 2011 and the trend is massively upward so itâs probably quite a bit higher now.
Anyway, sometimes I forget how low this number is, since the 2011 number is around 50% when I live (never mind the mayor).
Donât blame the victims.
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I donât understand why people use credit cards; theyâre so insecure and rife for fraudulent activity and identity theft.
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If they arenât counted the Prime Minister can pretend they donât exist.
And winged Hussars are armoured heavy cavalry, and, yes, it has, but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth appreciates the attention (or it would if it still existed).
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It is less of an exclusion than it is a recognition. Not that it has benefitted them much at all. Lumping them in with all Canadians or among any identifiable group within all Canadians would be ignoring their status. They are tallied separately in many ways.
Britainâs 17th Regiment of Dragoons carried and used lances. The word âdragoonâ was already being used for all kinds of stuff before it apparently got hijacked by a video game! And âhussarâ has the same problem. The only thing you can really count on for either is a penchant for fancy uniforms. But youâre right, I should stop dragging things off topic, sorry⌠sorryâŚ
I basically understand why aboriginal people would be counted differently. Aboriginal people have a right to self-government, and it could be seen as offensive to represent them as a âvisible minority.â I can see why Aboriginal people are often tallied separately.
At the same time if you are counting âvisible minoritiesâ to figure out who is going to be discriminated against by the police, itâs pretty misleading to leave them out.
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Oh not to worry, the police tally them separately too, some sort of weird calculus that results in their being the largest group in the Canadian prison system. No, the police/courts/govt definitely doesnât leave them out in that respectâŚ
TBH, Iâd rather be a member of any other distinctly visible group than to be aboriginal/FN/Inuit in any interaction with police.
Yeah, every time Canadians are shocked by the rate at which young black men are incarcerated in America I like the point out that we do the same thing to aboriginal people here. The absolute numbers are a lot smaller (the US imprisons a truly incredible number of people) but the proportions are actually even more staggering (over 20% of the prison population and only 4% of the general population).
Iâm just glad Canadian cops arenât as trigger happy (although if we ever get the bottom of the large number of missing aboriginal women, itâs not like Iâd be blown out of my seat if we find out that many were killed by cops).
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You donât have standing to sue, because there was no criminal case against you. The criminal case was against your money itself, for being bad money suspected of being for drug purchases, just like a case about whether to kill a dog that bites people isnât against the owner, itâs against the dog. And yes, thatâs as absurd as it sounds.
But hey, if you havenât done anything wrong, you donât have anything to worry about. Even if the money you got from the cash machine smells a bit like cocaine, according to the policemanâs dog.
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Mostly Asian, not black. The percentage of minorities in Canada is extremely low for a western country. Iâve lived in Canada, and I once attended a Glenn Beck rally. They had roughly the same percentage of black people, which is to say that compared to the American population, their numbers were vanishingly small, or slightly higher than a Klan rally.
As a Canadian, Iâve been given a hard time when entering the US for only bringing a small (<$100) amount of cash with me. And shopping was not the reason for my trip. I donât know what the right amount of cash is, but the fact I didnât have more seemed to displease them. So I guess the lesson is: Have a large enough sum that you wonât get grief from the authorities AT the border, but a small enough sum that you wonât have it taken from you by the authorities after youâve crossed the border. As to what that sweet-spot sum is? Your guess is as good as mine.
They were probably just trying to goad you into (on your next trip) taking enough that they could justify seizing.
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As Iâve said many times, the key to skating through customs is to stop at the duty free shop and buy something so you have something to declare.
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As I understand it the courts have held that asset forfeiture is constitutional because it is legal action against a thing, not a person. You have constitutional rights but the money in your wallet does not. So if the cops seize the money, on the suspicion that it is drug-related, but donât charge you with anything, no violation of constitutional rights has occurred. At least I think thatâs how they rationalize it.
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So if I now steal money, can I claim it to be a citizen arrest?
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