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Have you noticed how they're 
talking about terrorism a lot?

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Yeah.

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I just find it confusing 
'cause I don't know what the word means.

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And I looked at the news to try to learn.

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And one of the journalists asked 
one of the Conservative ministers,

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this guy Peter MacKay, 
who used to be in charge of the army.

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They were like <i>"what is 
the governments definition of terrorism?"</i>

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And he said <i>"Look it up."</i>

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Uhhhhh... OK.

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So I did, and in the Oxford dictionary

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the definition of terrorism is

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the un-authorized or un-official use of violence
in pursuit of political aims.

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Un-official or un-authorized.

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I didn't realize that these terrorists, 
their real problem

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was that they're not doin' the right paperwork?

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But I actually wanted to know,

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so I found another document that was online,

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and it was released by CSIS, our spy agency,
that they're trying to give more powers to,

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and some journalists a couple years ago

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made them release this internal document

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where they listed all the terror threats in Canada,

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all the different kinds of people 
who might do terrorism.

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And I want to read you the actual excerpt 
from the document right now.

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The only group that didn't qualify 
as a terrorist threat

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was the neo-Nazi 
and white supremacist groups.

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Let's hear them out.

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Um, this is from the document, 
I didn't change any of this.

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<i>"The majority of individuals 
involved in this milieu in Canada"</i>

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Milieu.

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That's a bit generous.

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I guess... these are like Nazis...

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kinda like Impressionist painters,

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and they're hangin' out in a cafe, 
just talkin' about their ideas.

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<i>"The majority of individuals 
involved in this milieu in Canada"</i>

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<i>hold strong racist anti-immigration views, BUT!</i>

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<i>do not overly propose serious acts of violence."</i>

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I don't know what that means.

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<i>"For example, they may organize 
anti-immigration poster campaigns,</i>

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<i>or harass Aboriginals and visible minorities."</i>

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Um, just to be clear, when they say harass,

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they're not talking about, like, y'know, white 
supremacists drinkin' a lot of soda at a sleepover

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and then like prank calling some people of colour.

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Sayin' like <i>"hey, how's that uh makin' 81 cents 
for every dollar that white people make. mahahaa"</i>

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That's not what they were doing.

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This is a real incident that they considered 
when writing this report.

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And actually happened just a few blocks from here,

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I don't know if anyone remembers this.

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A couple years ago there were these two 
white supremacists at a house party.

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As they left the party, they saw 
a Filipino man sleeping on a couch.

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And they lit him on fire.

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OK there's some heads shaking, 
there's no laughter,

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that's good, you're passing a test right now.

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They lit him on fire.

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And as it said here they <i>"do not 
overly propose serious acts of violence."</i>

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I don't know how you more overly propose 
something than actually doing it.