{"id":26458,"date":"2023-03-09T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26458"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:17:13","slug":"giving-the-middle-finger-is-a-god-given-right-says-quebec-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26458","title":{"rendered":"Giving the middle finger is a &#8216;God-given right,&#8217; says Quebec judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A Quebec court judge says Canadians have a &#8216;God-given,&#8217; constitutionally protected right to flip off obnoxious neighbours. Judge Dennis Galiatsatos made comments in a February ruling acquitting a Montreal-area man of criminal harassment, adding that the fact the man was arrested and prosecuted at all was a bewildering injustice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/giving-the-middle-finger-is-a-god-given-right-says-quebec-judge-1.6304485\">Giving the middle finger is a &#8216;God-given right,&#8217; says Quebec judge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger,&#8221; the judge wrote in his Feb. 24 ruling. &#8220;Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian. It may not be civil, it may not be polite, it may not be gentlemanly. Nevertheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quebec court judge says Canadians have a &#8216;God-given,&#8217; constitutionally protected right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[442,1692],"class_list":["post-26458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-quebec","tag-the-bird","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}