Posted on Mar 10, 2023
Canada rules that flipping the middle finger is a 'God-given' right
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The gesture is considered rude, offensive and inappropriate but one thing it is not — at least under Canadian law — is illegal.
A Canadian judge ruled last month that giving someone the finger is protected under the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"It is not a crime to give someone the finger. Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian," Judge Dennis Galiatsatos wrote in the Feb. 24 ruling.
The gesture is considered rude, offensive and inappropriate but one thing it is not — at least under Canadian law — is illegal.
A Canadian judge ruled last month that giving someone the finger is protected under the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"It is not a crime to give someone the finger. Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian," Judge Dennis Galiatsatos wrote in the Feb. 24 ruling.
Canada rules that flipping the middle finger is a 'God-given' right
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My favorite quote from the movie "Top Gun."
And --> "...communicating... keeping up foreign relations..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYAqLN3lTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYAqLN3lTs
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This sums it up a appropriately - ""The complainants are free to clutch their pearls in the face of such an insult".
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel who on RP hasn't done it... no... it's not appropriate & I don't make it a habit... but I return "in-kind.
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