Sometime this spring or summer, the Canada Border Services Agency will decide whether to refer Jaskirat Sidhu to an immigration hearing that would result in his automatic deportation, with no right of appeal. Sidhu drove the tractor trailer that collided in 2018 with a bus carrying the Humboldt junior hockey team, killing 16 and injuring 13.

Sidhu received an eight-year sentence for dangerous driving — far and away the longest prison term ever imposed in Canada for a dangerous driving conviction that didn’t involve alcohol, drugs or purposeful misbehaviour.

He and his wife would like to remain in Canada. Should we punish him further by sending him back to India?

Until the crash, Sidhu had a spotless record. Despite shockingly inadequate training, he was legally licensed to drive one of the most challenging rigs on Canadian highways, a tractor-trailer with an added pup trailer. He was not drunk, speeding or texting when the collision occurred. After only a week of instruction and two weeks of solo driving, he became distracted by a flapping tarp on his pup trailer and missed a stop sign at an intersection so poorly designed that it had already killed six people.

aFrom the moment of the crash, Sidhu was overwhelmed with remorse over his mistake. He co-operated with police at the scene. He directed his lawyers to plead guilty to all charges at the earliest opportunity, in order to spare family members the trauma of a trial.

Many actors played a role in this catastrophe: among them the company owner who put Sidhu behind the wheel of such a complex truck, highway officials who failed to fix the deadly intersection, and legislators who failed to tighten slack licensing requirements. But Sidhu insisted on shouldering all the blame.

Provincial Court Judge Inez Cardinal, a former prosecutor, failed to distinguish between the low level of Sidhu’s offence and the horrific scale of its consequences. After immersing herself in four days of gut-wrenching victim impact testimony, she rendered a decision based less on facts and law than on grief-porn.

By contrast, according to a brief Sidhu’s Calgary lawyer, Michael Greene, filed with CBSA, a Saskatchewan driver who had previously dodged charges of drunk driving and fleeing the scene of a crash, drove through a stop sign in 1997, killing a 39-year-old woman and injuring her young son before fleeing the scene without rendering assistance. He was not charged with leaving the scene, but received a traffic ticket for driving without due care and paid a small fine. That driver, Scott Moe, is now premier of Saskatchewan.

A higher court might well have reduced Cardinal’s shamefully harsh sentence, but Sidhu directed his lawyers not to appeal.

“Contrary to almost all of the many people I have acted for, (Sidhu’s) remorse and empathy for the victims was foremost, and his concern for his personal consequences was secondary,” wrote Mark Brayford, the defence lawyer at Sidhu’s sentencing hearing. “As a criminal barrister for 40 years, I can tell you that this type of selflessness is unusual. Throughout the proceedings, his instructions were to attempt to minimize the collateral grief to the families that necessarily flowed from the criminal proceedings.”

At Prince Albert Penitentiary, Sidhu’s case management team cited his exemplary behaviour and “significant level of remorse and victim empathy” in recommending his transfer to a minimum-security facility. The warden, fearful of upsetting family members, vetoed the move.

This may happen again. Even if cold facts persuade the front-line officer to recommend that Sidhu be allowed to stay in Canada, timorous bureaucrats with moistened fingers to the winds of public opinion may overrule him. Canada’s criminal justice system isn’t supposed to be an instrument of personal revenge, but too often in the age of victim impact statements, that’s how it operates.

It’s far from clear that Canadians want Sidhu deported. When I criticized Cardinal’s vengeful sentence in these pages in 2019, I received more than 300 emails supporting him. The handful who disagreed focused on Sidhu’s South Asian origins.

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Several relatives of the crash victims share my view. In a letter opposing his deportation, Scott and Laurie Thomas, parents of 18-year-old Evan Thomas, who died in the crash, wrote:

“Deportation of Mr. Sidhu back to India only serves to cause more suffering to him, his wife, and his family. We have exchanged several emails with Mr. Sidhu and his wife Tanvir, and it is clear to us that Jaskirat is indeed a broken and suffering soul. There has been enough suffering for everyone involved in this tragedy. We do not need any more.”

Christina Haugan, widow of Broncos’ head coach Darcy Haugan, who died in the accident, likewise wrote in opposition to his deportation:

“I believe it would be extremely unfortunate to now not allow a man who made a mistake and owned up to it and accepted his consequences the opportunity to continue his life here in Canada. I spent every day of the trial watching a man cry and be utterly devastated by the results of a mistake he made…. I believe in forgiveness and I believe in second chances. A man who took the harshest sentence for a crime of this nature without appealing or defending himself in an attempt to ease even a small amount of pain for those he hurt is someone I believe deserves a second chance.”

These gracious pleas for forgiveness honour Canada’s commitment to moderation, fair-mindedness and the chance for redemption. So how has justice, in this case, turned into a runaway freight, barrelling down a track toward vengeance? Why must we seek the most vindictive common denominator in administering punishment?

Deporting Sidhu — an obviously decent, honourable man, whose actions were never malicious despite their terrible consequences — won’t make Canada a better country. Sidhu is better off in Canada, and Canada is a better country with him here.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the process by which CBSA and the Immigration Division will decide whether to deport Jaskirit Sidhu.

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Last Friday, Nova Scotia Chief Medical Officer of Health Robert Strang reconfirmed his refusal to release Covid-19 data by county, rather than by health region. He had earlier promised to revisit this decision once numbers rose, but apparently thought better of it.

Nova Scotia has 18 counties, but only four health regions. County-by-county data would help citizens better assess their specific health risks. It would help researchers study the pandemic, now and in the future. Releasing data by Census Canada districts would be even more helpful.

As usual, Nova Scotia officials cite “privacy” as the reason for withholding useful data.

There’s a barnyard epithet that covers this. The refusal to provide granular data has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with retaining the power that exclusive access to critical information assures.

The province showed no qualms about releasing far more detailed data about possible covid exposure on a July 12 Westjet flight from Toronto to Halifax.

While anyone on the flight could have been exposed, based on Public Health’s investigation to date, passengers in rows 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 seats A-C are more likely to have had close contact.

I happen to live in Nova Scotia’s tiniest county, Victoria, with a population of just 7,089 souls. The Boeing 737-800 jet used on WestJet’s July 12 Flight 254 has a maximum of 37 souls in rows 16-20 plus 21A & 21C. So a one-in-37 chance of identifying an affected person is OK, but a one-in-7,000 chance is verboten.

In fact, based on the provincial announcement, the affected part(ies) were probably in Row 18, which has seven seats, and most probably in Seat 18A or 18C. So there’s likely a one-in-seven or a one-in two chance of identifying the unfortunate Westjet passenger(s).

To be sure, there is a legitimate difference between the two datasets. The WestJet disclosure alerts people to a specific threat of exposure; the Victoria County data merely helps citizens and researchers assess the Covid problem generally, a process Strang and Premier Stephen McNeil prefer to keep to themselves and their close advisors.

Citizens (and medical researchers) denied data are ill-equipped to question or challenge provincial policies. Privacy doesn’t enter into it.

Example 28,319 of how Canada’s privacy panic harms Canada’s democracy.

[Update:]

A reader in Coconino County AZ (population 143,476) points to her county’s Covid-019 Data Dashboard, which shows data by age, gender, Zip Code, ethnicity, underlying condition, case rate per population, and rate of positive tests. Wouldn’t you like to know some of those data points for your community? Partial screenshot at right. Click the link for the Full Monty.

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A statement issued in the names of panel chair and retired Chief Justice Michael MacDonald, retired Fredericton police chief Leanne Fitch, and former federal Justice Minister and longtime Liberal Party fixer Anne McLellan was distributed by Communications Nova Scotia, the public relations arm of the Nova Scotia government. It listed as its media contact a provincial government flak. It closely followed political talking points developed in response to the furor that greeted the hamstrung inquiry.

We believe the scope and mandate of the review announced today, July 23, will provide us what we need to do this work effectively and comprehensively. Our approach will be trauma-informed as we undertake this work with care and compassion for those who have been most deeply affected. We are committed to examining the contexts that played a role in these acts of violence, including gender-based and intimate partner violence.

The core purpose of this inquiry ought to be a searching evaluation of the RCMP, including the recent history of successive, catastrophic, deadly failures leading up to the Portapique horror. The panel needs to probe RCMP policies, practices, training methods, discipline, and change management (or mismanagement).

As lawyers, MacDonald and McLellan understand that witnesses are more diligent and more forthcoming when responding to subpoenas and speaking in public under penalty of perjury. They know that, without subpoena power, tribunals such as theirs never know what they’re not getting. Worse still, their panel is explicitly forbidden to release any evidence it does collect.

Chief Justice MacDonald never should have agreed to these straited terms. Having done so, it was unseemly to leap to the defense of the very governments whose policies and actions he must investigate.

Far from shoring up public trust in the inquiry, this lapse in judgment erodes confidence that the panel, as established, is up to the task.

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McNeil obviously expected to be asked about the panel fiasco. He didn’t bat the questions away, as he sometimes does when reporters raise non-Covid matters. He had scripted talking points at the ready, and he struggled, with only partial success, to suppress his penchant for anger when challenged.

CBC reporter Yvonne Colbert cut through the bumpf with this question:

On June 4^th you were asked about an inquiry into the April mass murders. At the time you said you had made it very clear to Ottawa what you were looking for, and you said, “The process needs to be able to compel witnesses to come forward and it needs to have binding recommendations.” The review your government announced yesterday does neither. So how can you support a review which doesn’t do what you said just last month?

McNeil responded by pointing to the Desmond inquiry, which is being conducted under the Nova Scotia Fatalities Act.

We cannot compel federal witnesses; we cannot compel the federal government to implement any recommendations that are coming from that inquiry even [with the] Canadian armed forces and other federal agencies.

Because the Desmond Inquiry was called under a provincial law, the province believes it can’t subpoena federal documents or federal witnesses who have probative information. This is a serious deficiency (and a surprising hint from the premier that the Desmond Inquiry may be ineffective). The review panel, he noted, is a joint, federal-provincial project. He argued that this arrangement would oblige the feds to pony up all relevant information.

Not so. The panel mandate commits the two governments only to “participate fully.” It’s not participation that’s needed. It’s testimony under oath on penalty of perjury, and production of documents under subpoena on penalty of contempt. Lawyers and judges know that oaths and subpoenas serve a purpose: they focus the mind. An official who is merely “participating” might overlook documents that could prove embarrassing, whereas a witness responding to a subpoena will think twice before exercising such discretion.

Under questioning from Colbert and Canadian Press reporter Michael Tutton, McNeil repeatedly asserted that the panel’s three members — Chair Michael MacDonald and panelists Anne McLellan and Leanne Fitch — are “distinguished Canadians,” each experienced in either policing or the judicial system.

This is reassuring only to a point. MacDonald does enjoy a good reputation as a former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, and Fitch is the recently retired chief of the Fredericton police force. But McLellan is a former Alberta Liberal MP who now advises Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on political matters. A savvy Liberal fixer, she will never do anything to embarrass the current federal government. Far from being proof of independence, her presence on the panel fuels suspicion the feds are determined to keep it on a short leash.

The panel mandate is larded with touchy-feely commentary about its “restorative,” “trauma-focused” approach. McNeil cited this as a reason not to hold public hearings that might re-traumatize family members of victims. Inconveniently for this argument, family members continue to insist on a full public inquiry, with open hearings and the powers of a court. Even if they hadn’t, the criminal justice system is supposed to be an instrument of public policy and the rule of law, not private revenge or restoration.

McNeil pointed out that the mandate includes a litany of questions everyone wants answers to. That’s true, but it omits broad policy questions that need to be addressed after repeated RCMP failures across Canada. Should Nova Scotia continue to use the RCMP as its rural police force? Should the Mounties suffer the fate of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, replacement by a new organization? The panel will find it hard to probe those matters.

Senior RCMP officials doubtless lobbied hard to exclude consideration of existential issues. They likely met a receptive audience in senior Liberals who see no political upside, and much potential downside, in taking on this hoary Canadian symbol. Senior officials soured on public inquiries after the Gomrey and Somalia affairs. Real reform may have to await another horrific policing failure in a province Ottawa politicos care about more than Nova Scotia.

So I’m inclined to accept McNeil’s implication that Ottawa refused to have a real public inquiry. But he must shoulder part of the blame. He could have stood up to Trudeau by publicly challenging him to do the right thing. That’s not how small provinces usually deal with Ottawa, but in this special case, the moral pressure would have been hard to withstand.

In his seven years as premier, McNeil has done some tough things that needed to be done. In this case, he’s done a weak thing he didn’t have to.

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The flimsy review announced Thursday into the Nova Scotia mass shooting, with none of the powers of an actual inquiry, abdicates responsibility and accountability

RCMP officers killed gunman Gabriel Wortman at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield, N.S. on April 19, 2020. Photo: Tim Krochak/CP

By Parker Donham

The federal-provincial review of the worst mass shooting in Canadian history will have no power to subpoena evidence or compel testimony. Announced Thursday in Halifax, it is required to hold no public hearings, but will conduct its work in camera. It is explicitly ordered to keep secret “all documents and information collected, received and/or considered … during its work.”

It is not mandated to consider whether Nova Scotia, where the faith of many in the Mounties was shaken by the April rampage, should continue using the RCMP as its rural and small-town police force.

This adds up to a disgusting abdication of accountability and responsibility.

The Portapique calamity left 23 people dead, including 21 civilians, one RCMP officer, and the lone gunman. For 13 hours, police fetishist Gabriel Wortman ranged across a wide swath of Nova Scotia, shooting acquaintances and strangers at will.
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The RCMP response was slow, chaotic, and ineffective. The Mounties failed to use a provincial alert system designed to protect citizens from this sort of event. They failed to set up a secondary perimeter around the original crime scene. They failed to enlist nearby municipal police to block highways the gunman used. The officers who did respond were ill-equipped, inexperienced, and ill-trained.

The rampage ended only when a group of RCMP officers bumped into the killer at a gas pump in suburban Halifax.

In the wake of this catastrophic failure, RCMP brass followed a playbook familiar from similar deadly fiascos at Spiritwood SK, Mayerthorpe AB, Vancouver International Airport, and Moncton NB. They bobbed, weaved, delayed, and deflected demands for answers with sentimental pablum about grieving families and a brave, fallen officer.
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Grilled by reporters over his government’s restrictions on the review, Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey sought refuge in the same tactic, pivoting gracelessly to his thoughts and prayers for families of the gunman’s victims.

Furey is a retired RCMP officer. His federal counterpart, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, is a former Toronto cop. If, as some say, it’s a conflict of interest for Justin Trudeau’s mother to have given paid speeches to the WE organization years ago, shouldn’t we be uneasy to have two former cops design a review into the worst policing failure in Canadian history?

Panel Chair Michael MacDonald, a worthy former chief justice of Nova Scotia, should never have agreed to participate in this hobbled excuse for an inquiry. Panel member Anne McLellan, a former Alberta Liberal MP who now serves as an advisor to Trudeau on matters like SNC Lavalin, is an experienced and reliable defender of Liberal governments.

To judge from a backgrounder that accompanied the announcement of the review, the two governments are more interested in questions of sociology than in competent policing and the RCMP’s history of repeated failures. It features a long discourse on the “restorative principles” that “will help guide the panel members to carry out their work in a manner sensitive to the needs of those most impacted.”

There follows an effusion of bulleted phrases from some PowerPoint deck of socio-babble catch phrases: “Comprehensive, holistic/integrative,” “working in integrated, not siloed or fragmented ways,” “inclusive and participatory,” “attentive to first voice,” “trauma-informed,” “culturally aware,” “needs-based,” “inclusive and participatory.” And of course, “proactive.”

Shouldn’t we be uneasy to have two former cops design a review into the worst policing failure in Canadian history?

The backgrounder does not explain how a review can be “inclusive and participatory” when public hearings are not contemplated and release of evidence is explicitly forbidden.

Furey and Blair, who took three months to come up with Thursday’s announcement, cited a need for haste as the reason for calling a “review.” A real inquiry would take too long to set up, Furey said. He also cited the “sensitivities” of the victims’ family members, 300 of whom marched on the Bible Hill, N.S., RCMP office Wednesday demanding ­a public inquiry.

A reporter asked the ministers whether, after taking three months to come up with a “timely” process, and ignoring the wishes of victims’ families, “you worry that you are bringing the general administration of justice in this country into disrepute?”

Blair responded with a paean of praise for the courage of the Mounties — a remarkable display of independence and open-mindedness on the part of the responsible minister.

There is no reason to expect this dentition-challenged review might recommend the RCMP meet the same fate as the ignominiously disbanded Canadian Airborne Regiment.

Furey says Nova Scotia will not be judged by the Portapique horror, but by the government’s response to it. He’s right. The flimsy review announced Thursday, with none of the powers of an actual inquiry, abdicates responsibility and accountability.

In a functioning democracy, it would lead to swift defeat for the government of Premier Stephen McNeil.

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As there is so much confusion, misinformation and denial on social media about the coronavirus we hope to explain, in plain language, why the experts see this as such an emergency. Many people are reading the claim online that this virus is a lot like the viruses that cause colds, and that if you get it, it will probably just seem like a bad cold and you are very unlikely to die. Depending on who you are, this may be true, but there is more to this story that is key to our outcome as a community.

This is a coronavirus that is new to the human population. Although it is related to the viruses that cause colds, and acts a lot like them in many ways, nobody has ever been exposed to this before, which means nobody has any immunity to it.

The virus is now moving explosively through the human population, spreading through respiratory secretions and 10 times more contagious that the flu or cold. Although many people will recover, about 20% will wind up with a serious pneumonia that will require hospitalization. Some will be so ill from the pneumonia that they will die. We estimate this may be 2-3%, but it is higher in Italy’s experience, partially because the healthcare system was overwhelmed so rapidly. In those over age 70, the death rate is 8-20%.

So if a child catches it on a playdate, they can easily transmit it to their grandmother as easily as touching the same doorknob or countertop.

Scientists measure the spread of an epidemic by a number called R0, or “R naught.” That number is calculated this way: for every person who develops the illness, how many other people do they give it to before they are cured (or dead) and no longer infectious? The R0 for coronavirus appears to be a number close to 3 – an extremely frightening number for such a deadly disease.

Suppose you catch the virus. You will give it to 3 other people, and they will each give it to three others, and so forth. Here is how the math works, where you, the “index case,” are the first line:

1
3
9
27
81
243
729
2,187
6,561
19,683
59,046
177,147
531,441
1,594,323
4,782,969
14,348,907

So, in just 15 steps of transmission, the virus has gone from just one index case to 14.3 million other people. Those 15 steps might take only a few weeks. With school out and lots of playdates, maybe less. The first person may be young and healthy Brookline child, but many of those 14 million people will be old and sick, and they will likely die because they got a virus that started in one person’s throat.

R0 is not fixed – it can be lowered by control measures. If we can get the number below 1, the epidemic will die out. This is the point of the quarantines and social distancing, but we are not doing it fast enough.

In the US, we have to slow down the virus. American hospitals, Boston hospitals, have limited resources. We have a fixed number of ventilators and an impending calamity on our hands. Our Italian critical care colleagues have shared with us that they simply do not have enough resources (ventilators, physicians and nurse, critical care beds), and are forced to choose who lives and dies based on old tenets of wartime triage.

Older patients do not even get a ventilator and die of their pneumonia. These are decisions nobody should have to face, and we are only 11 days behind Italy’s fate. Their hospitals are quite advanced, and we are no better in Boston. As doctors, we are desperately trying to prepare for the onslaught of patients in the coming weeks. It is already beginning. This is an opportunity for you as the district leadership the time to be aggressive and help us fight this by “Flattening the Curve”.

We implore you, as a group of Boston’s doctors preparing to fight this, to help us. Please send a new email to ALL the Brookline school district families. Social distancing is painful. We know that kids have cabin fever, they are pleading to see their friends, they may have birthday parties coming up or special events they have been looking forward to. All of us need to work and childcare is a big worry. But we need to overcome these issues and boredom for the coming weeks so that we can survive this with as few deaths as possible. What does that mean?

1. No playdates, not even 1:1.
2. No small gatherings, no meetings between a couple families, even for birthday parties.
3. Avoid trampoline parks, climbing gyms, restaurants, movie theaters, anything in an enclosed area. Many of these places are advertising increased cleaning and hygiene. This is not sufficient! Do not go.
4. Cancel planned vacations for the next month. Avoid airline travel that is not an emergency. Many airlines and rental agencies are offering penalty free cancellations.
5. Stay at home as much as possible. Work from home if you possibly can. You may have to go buy groceries and medicine, of course, but make the trips quick and purposeful.
6. Wash your hands thoroughly after you have been in public places, for a full 20 seconds, soaping up thoroughly and being sure to get between the fingers.
7. Please avoid disseminating social media claims that the situation is not serious or is being exaggerated. This is a national crisis and conveying misinformation to your friends and family may put their lives in danger.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and stay safe and healthy in the coming weeks.”

Respectfully,
Erika Rangel, MD, Director of Surgical Critical Care, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
Shawn Rangel, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston
Asaf Bitton, MD, Executive Director Ariadne Labs and Internal Medicine, BWH
Daniel O’connor, MD, Pediatrics, Longwood Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital Boston
Beth O’connor, MD, Pediatrics, Roslindale Pediatrics Vandana Madhavan, MD, Clinical Director of Pediatric  Infectious Disease, MGH
Parag Amin, MD, Pediatrics, Centre Pediatrics Christy Cummings, MD, Neonatology, Children’s Hospital Boston
Eric Bluman, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, BWH
Trimble Augur, MD, Internal Medicine, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
Dasha Weir, MD, Pediatric gastroenterology
Amy Evenson Warren, Transplant Surgery, BIDMC
William Oldham, MD, PhD, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, BWH
James Kryzanski, MD, Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center
Ben Zendejas-Mummert, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston
Johanna Iturrino Moreda, MD, Gastroenterology, BIDMC
David Berg, MD, Cardiology and Cardiac Critical Care, BWH
Jennifer Crombie, MD, Hematology Oncology, BWH
Jenifer Lightdale, MD, Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology, U Mass Memorial Hospital
Wayne Tworetzky, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston
Elaine Yu, MD, Endocrinology
Jonathan Li, Infectious Disease
Nancy Cho, MD, Surgical Oncology, BWH
Eric Sheu, MD, Minimally Invasive Surgery, BWH
Reza Askari, MD, Director, Surgical Critical Care, BWH
Cindy Lien, MD, Internal Medicine and Palliative Care, BIDMC
Hannah Parker, MD, OB/GYN
Alysa E. Doyle, PhD, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH
Christopher Smith, MD, Internal Medicine, Charles River Medical Associates, Wellesley, MA
Maya Greer, NP, Children’s Hospital Boston
Rusty Jennings, MD, Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston
Emily Oken, MD, Professor of Population Medicine, BWH
Chinwe Ukomadu, MD, Head of Clinical Hepatology, Novartis
Jennifer Kaufman, MD, Internal Medicine, BWH
Ann Poduri, MD, MPH, Pediatric Neurology
Susan Yehle Ritter, MD, Rheumatology
Diego Martinucci, MD Psychiatry, Atrius Health
Shih-Ning Liaw, MD, Pediatric Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital
Wolfram Goessling, MD, Gastroenterology and Oncology, MGH
Paola Daza, Pediatrics, MGH
Juan Matute, Neonatology, MGH
John Ross, MD, Internal Medicine, BWH
Megan Sandel, MD, Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center
Kathy Calvillo, MD, Surgery, BWH
Christine Greco, MD, Anesthesia, Children’s Hospital Boston
Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine, BWH and Harvard T.H. Chand School of Public Health
Chandru Krishnan, MD, Ophthalmology, Tufts Medical Center
Amy Ship, MD, Internal Medicine, Associate Director of Medical Education, Atrius Health
Yen-Lin Evelyn Chen, MD, Radiation Oncology, MGH
Daihung Do, MD, Dermatology, BIDMC
Chloe Zera, MD, MPH, Maternal Fetal Medicine, BIDMC
Alejandra Barrero-Castillero, MD, MPH, Neonatology, Children’s Hospital Boston
Jesse Esch, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital Boston
Alison Packard, MD, OB/GYN, MGH
Vik Khurana, MD PhD, Chief Division of Movement Disorders, BWH
Tu-Mai Tran, MD, MSc, Family Medicine, BMC
Yu Liu, MD PhD, Internal Medicine, Bristol Myers Squibb
Yih-Chieh Chen, MD
Lily Li, MD, Allergy and Immunology, BWH

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I drove down from Cape Breton for the event, sponsored by the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, which is housed at Dalhousie. I wanted to see first hand what 10 years of imprisonment and torture by the U.S. Government, encouraged by a sinister Canadian Prime Minister, had done to Khadr.

Omar Khadr

Both Khadr and Beah were forced to become child soldiers at age 13, but their experiences ended very differently. Beah was rescued by UNICEF and treated as a victim of war who needed counseling and treatment. Khadr, a Canadian citizen raised in Toronto, was locked up as a dangerous terrorist at the US military’s notorious Guantanamo prison camp, where he endured many rounds of torture while Stephen Harper’s government refused to seek his release or repatriation.

Under sensitive questioning by Shelly Whitman, the Dallaire Initiatives Executive Director, the Khadr and Beah talked openly about their emotional responses to their very different experiences. Beah projected confidence and joi de vive about his work to eradicate the use of child soldiers as weapons of war. Khadr came across as shy and fragile, but possessing a quiet sense of humor, and unfathomable compassion for those who treated him so wretchedly.

The ill-treatment continues. Khadr is a favorite target of the Canadian right. Before the event, one campaigner, an Afghan war veteran, stood outside the Cohn, berating arriving audience members with lies about Khadr’s time as a child soldier.

Asked what he would say to this man, a veteran of the Afghan War, Khadr said, “I would try to see him as a human being and see his pain.”

Asked the hardest thing about adjusting to civilian life in Canada, Khadr paused, and said, “I’ve been treated as a bad person for so long, so I feel I have to prove I’m not a bad person. Everything I do, I have to be aware of being proper, not making a mistake.”

I hope the Dallaire Initiative recorded the evening and will make it available online.

There was one jarring note. The conversation so captivated the audience, it could easily have continued for two hours. Alas, the organizers allowed an assortment of Dalhousie officials to chew up more than half the program with interminable institutional infomercials, paeans to academic colleagues, and own-horn tooting. Fully 55 minutes passed before Khadr and Beah were led on stage, and at the end, their conversation was cut short for a final 10+ minutes of logrolling.

The run-up also included a 15-minutes talk by Gen. Romeo Dallaire, the celebrated humanitarian who has raised awareness of genocide, the plight of child soldiers, and veterans with PTSD. No objection there. But the academic folderol was insulting to audience and guests alike.

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Thirty years ago, Lorne Grabher bought a plate that reads “GRABHER” as a gift for his father, whose Austro-German family immigrated to Canada in the early 20th century. After the elder Grabher’s death, his son took the plate and used it until 2017, when a single anonymous busybody complained that it was offensive. Janice Harland, then the province’s registrar of motor vehicles, responded by yanking the plate.

“While I recognize this plate was issued as your last name,” Harland wrote Grabher, “the public cannot be expected to know this, and can misinterpret it as a socially unacceptable slogan.”

This infuriated Grabher, who pleaded with Harland to reverse her decision, then filed a charter challenge when she declined. The Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), which opposes efforts by the left to limit charter protections, underwrote his suit.

Let me pause here to say I wish the left-leaning Canadian Civil Liberties Association (of which I was once a director) had taken up Grabher’s cause, just as I wish the right-leaning JCCF had stuck up for Masuma Khan, a student union official that Dalhousie University tried to discipline for an intemperate Facebook post. Devotion to free expression should not depend on the ideological bent of the speaker.

Some dismiss the Grabher flap as trivial, but can’t explain why the citizen, rather than the government, should back down. Others condemn Grabher as an old white man who’s clinging to undeserved privilege. A soupçon of class bias accompanies this perspective, since Grabher, a retired corrections officer, doesn’t naturally attract sympathy from progressives.

At the core of the conflict lies the deep-seated aversion many Canadians have to speech that might offend others. We’re polite, we recoil from verbal conflict. But that’s the thing about free expression: bland, inoffensive speech rarely needs judicial intervention; offensive speech is precisely what needs protecting. What counts, as American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote, is “freedom for the thought that we hate.”

To conclude that a plate reading “GRABHER” warrants exclusion from the charter’s umbrella, one must first embrace a farcical theory of the case that sees “GRABHER” as a two-word taunt (grab her), followed by a pearl-clutching escalation of this misreading to a sexual threat. It isn’t “grab her, she’s falling,” “grab her some lunch” or “grab her for the meeting.” Critics see only the most sinister imputation: “grab her by the pussy!”

That’s the logic endorsed by the province’s expert witness, Carrie Rentschler, an associate professor of art history and communication studies and a William Dawson scholar of feminist media studies at McGill University.

Rentschler wrote: ” ‘Grabher’ — read as ‘grab her’ — is a speech act that causes offence, ‘crossing over from expressive activity to threat.’ As an injunction, the phrase encourages its recipients to grab or grope female individuals with or without their consent. ‘Grab her,’ then, is a command that targets a particular class of people: girls and women.” Those who disagree, she added, “condone violence against women.”

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Darlene Jamieson’s decision begins with a respectful nod to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has directed courts to “take a generous and purposive approach to the interpretation of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the charter.”

Jamieson then sets off in search of abstruse technical excuses to ignore the charter. In this quest, she leans heavily on the fact that licence plates are, technically, government property. This alone, she opines, disqualifies Grabher’s surname from charter protection, since the government is free to decide what can and cannot be written on its own “private property.”

That’s not what the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority v. Canadian Federation of Students, in which a student group challenged a transit authority ban on political ads on the side of government-owned buses.

“Having chosen to make the sides of buses available for expression on such a wide variety of matters, the transit authorities cannot, without infringing Sec. 2(b) of the charter, arbitrarily exclude a particular kind or category of expression that is otherwise permitted by law,” wrote Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

But Jamieson rejects the comparison with municipal bus advertisements on the grounds that, unlike the sides of buses, “government licence plates are not ‘public places’ with a history of free expression. They have not been used traditionally as forums for public expression or debate.”

This is just wrong. For decades, the provincial government has sold Nova Scotians the right to use the seven most prominent characters on their government-owned licence plates for a wide variety of expressive purposes: puns, jokes, rebuses — even surnames.

Perhaps suspecting she may be off base in rejecting the analogy with bus advertising, Jamieson adds a backup rationale for banning the plate. She adopts Rentschler’s argument that, absent any indication it’s a surname, “GRABHER” can “reasonably” be read as an invitation to sexual assault. Preventing the harm that could result constitutes a “pressing and substantial objective,” warranting an exception to the charter guarantee of free expression.

The harm to Grabher doesn’t factor in, nor does the pressing and substantial value he places on his good name.

“Every single work day, my last name was prominently displayed on my uniform with the Department of Corrections,” he told the court. “The province never once informed me … that my last name was a socially unacceptable slogan. I was never told to cover my name up because it might offend someone.”

Freedom of speech if necessary, but not necessarily freedom of speech.

Someday, Canadians will look back at this era and roll their eyes at the convoluted, illogical cant we talked ourselves into, because people of a certain viewpoint insisted on the right to shut down any expression that offended them.

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It’s no surprise that multiple variations of the the F-word, C-word, and N-word are banned, together with an exhaustive litany of words about, or hinting at the existence of, sex. The variety and ingenuity of sex-hinting words is a testament to the dogged persistence of would-be sex-platers.

Body parts (BUST, HIP, WOMB) are verboten, as bodily functions (TAMPON, TOILET, URIN), religion (ATHEIST, BUDDHA, WITCH), public office (PREMIER, SENATE), police officers (COP, OFFICER, MSFUZZ, SHERRIF), criminal records (CON, EXCON), political parties (TORY, IRA, FLQ, GRIT, NDPER, WEH8NDP), brand names (BENGAY, BUDLITE, BVD), drugs (COCANE, SPLIFF, HEROIN), intoxication (DRUNK, IMPAIRD, LOADED), regurgitation (VOMIT, BARF), sexually transmitted diseases (SYFILIS, HERPEES), ethnic identity (NEWFIE, FROG, WOP, BOHUNK, MIKMAW, HONKY, ARAB, INJUN), sexual orientation (AQUEER, IQUEER, DYKE) and gender identity (TRANSV).

Switching languages won’t get you past the eagle-eyed, polyglot censors, at least not switching to French (MERDE, PETARD), Yiddish (SCHLONG, SCHMOCK, YAWEH, GOYIM), or Spanish (PUTA, CHINGA). Then there are words whose potential to offend are obscure or quixotic (AXEMAN, DJANGO, SKINNY, BUGOFF, COWDUNG, BEGOT, USED, FAT, PSYCHO, MAFIA).

Here, then, is the canonical* list of words you can’t say on a Nova Scotia license plate:

A1PUSS, A26ER, A5K4IT, A5SI, A5TUD, AAS, ABBOT, ABM, ABOMB, ABUSE, ACDC, ACEMAN, ACID, ACIDO, AD0SE4U, ADDICT, AFC8, AGDEPT, AHEAD, AIFAM, AJDL5D, AK, AKAPIG, ALE, ALFHAQ2, ALLAH, ALLAHI, ALLBS, ALLCOCK, ALYORS, ALYR5, AMENA, AMENE, AMYL, ANAL, ANGELO, ANGPOT, ANNA69, ANNC69, ANNU69, ANO, ANOOKIE, ANTIJEW, ANTINOP, ANTIWCC, ANTIWOP, ANUS, ANUS69, ANY1469, AOPGA, APA, APC69, APE, APOA, APPARAT, APU, APUGA, AQUEER, AR5, ARAB, ARSENIC, ASHOLE, ASID, ASIDI, ASOB, ASOBI, ASOUL, ASS, ASS4HIR, ASSA9, ASSACHE, ASSHOL, ASSHOLE, ASSKISS, ASSMA, ASSONI, ASSOUL, ASSOUT, ASSSOLE, ASSSOUL, ATHEIST, ATHOL, ATSTUD, AUSFRT, AWCHIT, AWOOOOO, AWTHIT, AXEMAN, AZZKIKR.

B88B8BB, BABINE, BADAS, BADASI, BADASS, BADBOX, BADGAY, BADSOB, BAGBAH, BAGGIE, BAGGY, BAGMAN, BAILHI, BAISE, BAISER, BAKAIS, BAKAIZ, BAL2AK, BALLER, BALLME, BALLRM, BALLS, BALLZ, BALME, BALME2, BALMY, BALS, BAMBY, BANDER, BANGME, BAREIT, BARF, BARPH, BARPHH, BASTARD, BAT, BATEME, BAWANA, BBVER, BC, BC4POT, BCFPOT, BCNNNN, BCOS6, BCUM, BCWINE, BCXXXX, BDEVIL, BDINK, BEATBOX, BEATCOX, BEATER, BEATOFF, BECOSE, BED, BEDMAN, BEENGAY, BEER, BEERGIN, BEERTCH, BEG, BEGAT, BEGOT, BEKOS, BEKOSE, BENGAY, BENNIE, BENNYS, BET, BETRNSX, BFCPOT, BIBIMF, BIBISX, BICHEN, BICHIN, BIGCANS, BIGCOCK, BIGDICK, BIGDINK, BIGDONG, BIGNUT5, BIGOT, BIGPIG, BIGPRC, BIGWANG,. BIGWGH, BIGWHG, BIKOUT, BILPRC, BIROUT, BIRUT, BISEX, BISEXE, BITCH, BITCHIN, BITCHN, BITCHY, BITEME, BITTE, BIUBY, BLA, BLACK1, BLACKY, BLAZE1, BLEW, BLKASS, BLKATAC, BLKBTY, BLKBUT, BLKFCE, BLKFCR, BLKMGK, BLKOUT1, BLO, BLOJOB, BLOW, BLOWJB, BLOWJOB, BlTCHEN, BLUAS5, BLUBIU, BLUE, BLUEDVL, BLWBYU, BMCOP, BOB69, BOHUNK, BOM, BOMB, BOMBI, BONER, BOO88, BOOB, BOOBIE, BOOBS, BOOKIE, BOOKY, BOOR, BOOR69, BOOSBU5, BOOZIE, BORDELO, BORDLO, BOROEL, BOWHONK, BOX, BOXBJZ, BOZHOG, BQUER, BRA, BRA34E, BRA34G, BRDPOO, BRDSHT, BRICKS, BRP, BRU, BRWNBOY, BS, BSHBNY, BSI, BSSB8SB, BU4DINR, BUCKU2, BUDA, BUDDAH, BUDDGA, BUDDHA, BUDLITE, BUDYZR, BUECHSE, BUGOFF, BUGOFF7, BUGR, BULL, BULSHT, BULSIT, BUM, BUMBUM, BUMBUOY, BUMCHUM, BUMMSER, BUN, BUNS, BUNSUP, BUNZUP, BURNERS, BUST, BUT, BUTOK, BUTOX, BUTSCH, BUTT, BUYME, BUYSEX, BUYTAIL, BUZZED, BVD, BVERH, BWANA, BYBYMF, BYBYSX, BYECOP, BYECOX, BYESEX, BYSEX, BYTE1T.

C0TU5, C2AI, C2ME, C685UX, CA7SAZ, CA8EU, CA8U, CACHME, CAIMAN, CALGRL, CALLGAL, CALLGL, CALLME, CAN, CANABUS, CANCOM, CANDU, CARNAL, CARONE, CARSAZ, CASTER8, CATCHME, CATCHSE, CATHSE, CATSAS, CBBOMB, CBIOOO, CDNNAVY, CDUCE, CDUCEME, CDUCER, CEDUCE, CFOOD, CH8EU, CHANGU, CHARGX, CHERRY, CHICE, CHICKN, CHIER, CHIKEN, CHINC, CHINGA, CHINK, CHINNEY, CHINOI, CHINTO, CHIOTT, CHIPIE, CHIPPE, CHIPPY, CHIPY, CHNGME, CHP, CHPEP, CHPER, CHPRD, CHRGEX, CHRGX, CHRIST, CHULO, CHURCH, CHVD3, CIA, CID454, CINNNN, CIXH05T, CLAP, CLIMAX, CLT, CLXXXX, CMAN, CME46T9, CMUKY, COC, COCAIN, COCANE, COCK, COCKCA, COCKPIT, COCKPIT, COCKR, COCKYB, COCPIT, COCSUCK, COCSUCR, COCSUKR, CODAW, COFCKR, COG, COIL, COIT, COITION, COITUS, COK, COK5UCK, COKEY, COKPIT, COKSUCR, COKSUKR, COLPRT, COM, COM2ME, COMALE, COMIE, COMM, COMMI, COMMIE, COMMY, COMPLO, CON, CONARD, CONASE, CONASS, CONCHI, CONDOM, CONNE, CONNER, CONRI, CONSLR, COON, COONCAT, COORS9, COP, COPBAIT, COPCHR, COPFCK, COPFCR, COPFKR, COPFKR, COPINN, COPIT, COPJKP, COPOUT, COPPER, COPRET, COPUL, COPUL8, COPULE, COQ, COQUE, CORKIT, COT, COTES, COTEX, COUCME, COUILA, COUILE, COUILL, COW, COWDUNG, COY, CPJC, CQC, CQK, CQN, CRABS, CRACK, CRACK2, CRAK, CRAKTWO, CRAM1T, CRAP, CRAP7, CRAPI, CRCKHD, CRD, CRIPLE, CRIPPL, CRIPPLE, CRUEL, CUCU, CUCUL, CUL, CULARD, CUM, CUM2ME, CUMTO, CUN, CUNHELL, CUNT, CUR, CYCHO.

D01T2M1, D01T2ME, D01T2ME, D0U60, DABOMB, DAGO, DAGOS5, DAGOT, DAM, DAM5HT, DAMJAG, DAMMGB, DAMMIT, DAMN, DAMPIG, DAMTRD, DANC, DANDC, DANGO, DAPIG, DAPOOH, DAQRIE, DARAA, DARKIE, DARKY, DARPUD, DB69, DBLRYE, DBS, DCHBAG, DCHBG, DCHBOX, DCHBOY, DCHBX, DCLXVI, DDTI3, DEAD, DEADLY, DEADSLD, DEALER, DEAMON, DED, DEESI2, DEFLOUR, DEFLOWR, DEMON, DEMONI, DEVEL, DEVILI, DEWIT, DHC1, DHJAP, DIABLE, DIABLO, DIAFRAM, DIAFRM, DIC, DICKU, DIE, DIEU, DIFRAM, DIGSEX, DIK, DILDO, DINK, DINK2, DINKI, DINKIE, DIP, DJANGO, DK15, DMNTWX, DMPIG, DMSHIT, DMSHT, DMTIRD, DMTRD, DMTURD, DMV, DNC, DND, DNR, DO, DOCPROC, DOG, DOGFKR, DOGNUT, DOGSTYL, DOIT2MI, DOIT69, DOITWT, DOME, DOMN8R, DONTSIN, DOOBIE, DOOSH, DOP, DOPE, DORK, DOSE, DOU8IT, DOUB, DOUBAL, DOUCHE, DOUEAT, DOUET, DOUFCK, DOUFRT, DOUNCK, DOUNECK, DOUP, DOUPEE, DOUPOO, DOUSCK, DOUSCRU, DOUSHT, DOUSUCK, DOWNER, DOX, DP69ER, DPTHRT, DR2648, DRAGN, DRAUGHT, DRECK, DRLOVE, DRLUV, DRP, DRUGS, DRUNK, DRVENT, DRY, DSL, DT5, DTHCRU2, DUBALL, DUBBIE, DUBE, DUBLA, DUBLO, DUBLOW, DUC, DUD, DUDOIT, DUF, DUFCK, DUFUCK, DUMAS, DUMASS, DUMBAS, DUMBASS, DUMSHT, DUN, DUPA, DUPLAY, DUSCRU, DUTCHIE, DV, DV8, DWARF, DYK, DYKE.

E5SOL, EAK, EARGASM, EASYME, EASYU, EAT, EAT69, EATART, EATASS, EATCHP, EATCNT, EATCOC, EATCOCK, EATCOK, EATCOX, EATCUNT, EATEM, EATER, EATIT, EATME, EATOUT, EATPNS, EATSNO, EATUUP, EGLISE, EJACUL8, EJAKUL8, ELCACA, ELLAY, ELOHSSA, EM22B8, EMERD, EMERDE, ENCUL, ENCULE, END, ENDVD, ENEMA, ENO, ENOOKIE, EPOD, EROTIC, EROTIK, EROTIQ, ESEGAL, ESEGUY, ESOHBE, ESSOB, ESSOHBE, ESYPRO, ETA5S, ETDIK, ETTWAT, EUNUCH, EUNUQU, EVIL1, EX469, EXCITA, EXCON, EXFUZ2, EXLAX, EXODUSl, EXP086, EXTASEE, EZ469, EZBALL, EZELAY, EZLAY, EZLUVIN, EZMAKE, EZMT, EZP, EZYPRO.

F0URQ2, FA5TFK, FAAQ2, FAERIE, FAG, FAGGOT, FAHRT, FAIRY, FAJR, FANCUL, FAQ2, FART, FARTI, FARTS, FASCNT, FASFCK, FASJAK, FASTF, FAT, FATBOY, FATBYE, FBI, FCAR, FCK, FCKER, FCKNXN, FCKPIG, FCKU2, FD911NY, FDS, FE55ER, FEELIT, FEELME, FELLME, FEM, FEMM, FEMME, FEMMI, FENCE, FENSE, FERIE, FERRIE, FERRY, FES5, FESSE, FESSIE, FESSU, FESSUE, FEY, FFOSSIP, FHUCAT, FICACA, FICBC, FICKEN, FIL, FILLME, FILME, FIX, FIXER, FIZ, FJH1803, FKFROG, FKNWDR, FKNXN, FKOFF, FKU, FLAKE, FLASHBK, FLASHER, FLFDVR, FLOOZEE, FLOOZIE, FLQ, FLU, FLUFF, FLUFF44, FLYME, FLYNHI, FLYNHY, FMSB, FN99, FNXN, FOC, FOCK, FOCKMC, FOCKME, FOGOFFC, FOK, FOPIG, FOREQ, FORKU, FORN1C8, FORN1K8, FORNIC, FORNIC8, FORNIK8, FORNIQ, FORO, FORPLA, FORPLAY, FORQ2, FORQUE, FORSALE, FORSK1N, FORSK1N, FORTU, FOU, FOURQ, FOURRE, FOUTOI, FOUTRE, FOUTU, FQC, FQK, FQU, FQUAIL, FQUALL, FRECKU, FREESE, FRENEZ, FRGNGR8, FRIGID, FRIGIT, FROG, FROG2, FROGGY, FROGI, FROGS, FROGY, FRPLAY, FRUCK, FRUIT, FSRCHP, FSTFORD, FSTNIWD, FTWBIFU, FU, FU2, FUBIS, FUC, FUCK, FUCKEM, FUCKEN, FUCKER, FUCKIT, FUCKJN, FUCKM, FUCKOFF, FUCKU, FUCKYOU, FUCM, FUEAR, FUGIT, FUK, FUNK, FUNKME, FUNKU, FUNT, FUNTLY, FUQUER, FURBRGR, FURIOUS, FUTWIT, FUZYBUT, FXYLDY, FYOU, FZYBUT.

G02BED, G02HELL, G04ER, G04HER, G04HIM, G04ME, G069ER, G3TB3NT, G90K, GAB, GABOY, GAG, GAGA, GAGAL, GAL, GANGFCK, GANGSTR, GAR, GASSUX, GAY, GAYBRD, GAYGAL, GAYGUY, GAYLIB, GAYSEX, GAYSOK, GAYSUK, GBANG, GDFTHR, GDTAIL, GDTALE, GEEK, GELT, GET1T0N, GETHOT, GETITON, GETITUP, GETME, GETNHI, GFAIRY, GFC, GFK, GFUCK, GFY, GGRRRRR, GHANG, GIGALO, GIGLO, GIGLOO, GIGOLO, GIN, GINGER2, GINHQ2, GIP, GITSUMM, GIVEHED, GLESMA, GMEATR, GMHH2, GMKLLR, GNGBANG, GNGBNG, GOBEDE, GOD, GOD, GOD4U2, GODD, GODDAMN, GODGOD, GODMOM, GODOWN, GODSO, GODSPD, GOH, GOINDEF, GOLD, GONAD, GONADE, GONADS, GONO, GONURS, GOO, GOOAGO, GOODLDY, GOOHW, GOOK, GOPHER, GOPOOH, GORF, GORFS, GOS5E, GOT1TON, GOTITON, GOTWOOD, GOUROU, GOY, GOYIM, GPU, GQD, GR8FCKR, GR8M8IN, GR8TAIL, GRASS, GRATIS, GRI, GRIMRPR, GRINGO, GRIT, GRNNNN, GROWIT, GRXXXX, GSPOT, GSTAPO, GSTRNG, GSTSUKS, GSTSUX, GTAIL, GTFOMW, GTITON, GUCCI, GUDT1ME, GUDTAIL, GUDTALE, GULDZIR, GUNSHOP, GUT, GYMN, GYP.

H0M06UL, H0T2G0, H3LLCAT, HADANY, HALFCUT, HAMERD, HAMMSL, HANDJOB, HANJOB, HARDON, HASH, HAULA5S, HBA, HE54692, HEDEAD, HEDIE, HEINU, HEL, HELCAT, HELL, HELLCAT, HELLEN, HELLHND, HELLS, HEN, HEPUTME, HERHIM, HEROIN, HERPEES, HERPEEZ, HERPIES, HERPIEZ, HESHE, HEX, HEYGOD, HEYPUD, HIC, HICHP, HICOP, HIFUZZ, HIH8R, HIK, HIMHER, HINDOU, HINDU, HIOFCER, HIOFECR, HIP, HIPE, HIREAHO, HIREAHO, HIROLN, HIT, HIT1TS, HITMAN, HITS, HIVNEG, HNDJOB, HO, HO, HOIKA, HOK, HOLDON, HOMO, HONKIE, HONKRS, HONKY, HOOK, HOOKA, HOORIDE, HOOTCH, HOPHEAD, HOR, HORE, HORNY, HORNY4, HORSEM, HOSTIE, HOT2TRT, HOTBUN, HOTCOC, HOTCOK, HOTCOX, HOTDAMM, HOTFCK, HOTFLSH, HOTFU, HOTFUC, HOTFUK, HOTJUG, HOTRUB, HOTSHT, HOTWOP, HOWJIG, HOWNHEL, HOYKA, HQR, HQT5, HUGIT, HUJ, HUMINA, HUMPHER, HUMPING, HUMPIT, HUMPMEE, HUMPTY, HUMPTY1, HUN, HUNGLO, HUNGLOW, HUNKEY, HUNKY, HUNKYT, HUY, HYE, HYPE.

I5CREW, I69ER, I810IDU, I8IT, I8ITOO, I8TWAT, I8U2, IAM4HED, IAMBIG, IAMES, IAMESY, IAMEZ, IAMEZY, IAMGOD, IAMGOOD, IAMHUNG, IAMIRU, IAMLIMP, IAMTITE, IAND68, IANN69, IASTUD, IATEHER, IATER, IB6UB9, IBADAZ, IBG0D2, IBGOD, IBGOOD, IBLACK, IBLOWYU, IC08U, ICBC, ICDUCEU, ICIA, ICMP, ICNP, ICOM2, ICOME2, ICTWAT, ICU8I, ICUP, IDFWU, IDO, IDOIT, IDOIT2, IEPUS, IEXCHP, IF6WR9, IFUSEEK, IG04MEN, IGAVE, IGETHOT, IGIVE, IGOLD, IH8FAGS, IH8GAYS, IH8WOPS, IHADI2, IHAV2P, IHNGLO, IHOT69, IHUNLO, IJAPI, IJOUI, IJUT, IKYBKY, ILL, ILOVEIT, ILOVIT, ILUV269, ILUV5EX, IM1RU12, IM26E4U, IM2BIG, IM43X23, IM469RU, IM46T92, IM4HEAD, IM4LUV, IM4RENT, IM4SAIL, IM4SALE, IM4SEX, IM4TAIL, IMAQR, IMARAKE, IMARS, IMASTUD, IMBIG, IMEA2Y, IMEASY, IMEEZZ, IMEZ, IMEZRU, IMEZRU2, IMEZY, IMEZZY, IMFAIT, IMFIXD, IMGAY, IMGOD, IMHIGH, IMI, IMINNER, IMIRU, IMIRU2, IMIRUi, IMLOOSE, IMMORAL, IMP, IMPAID, IMPAIRD, IMPARED, IMPNXN, IMPXN, IMQU2, IMRU2, IMSEXY, IMSORE, IMTHOR, INCEST, INCULO, INDJUN, INFUSE, INHEAT, INHIM, INJUN, INLUST, INME, INNOUT, INOOKIE, INSEST, INTOIT, IOA5S, IOD, IOOEED, IOXYE, IOXYE, IP2, IPA, IPB4U, IPB4Y0U, IPB4YOO, IPE, IPETE, IPNITIY, IPNTLY, IPP, IPPB04, IPPBQ4, IPU, IPUE, IQUEER, IRA, IRAPEYU, IRFUS, IRFUZ, ISCRU, ISCRU2, ISCRWU, ISEEU, ISHACK, ISLAM, ITHOR, ITNUC, ITS4PLA, ITSLONG, IUD, IVARDON, IVD, IVNIC8, IVNJCKS, IVPLAY, IVQU2, IWANN1T, iWANTIT, IXOYE, IZAWOP.

JACKASS, JACKCOX, JACKME, JACKOFF, JAKME, JAP, JAPCRAP, JAPIS, JAPKAP, JAPKIG, JAPPIS, JAPVAN, JAPZAP, JASPIS, JAZ, JAZ2PV, JBLACK, JBOMB, JDAWG, JEB, JEHOVAH, JERK, JERKCOX, JERKOFF, JESSZ, JESU15, JESUIT, JESUS, JEU, JEW, JIG, JIGALO, JIGGS, JIGLO, JIGNAN, JIN, JIP, JJPIGS, JOC, JOCDOK, JOE8I, JOEPOT, JOINT, JOINTS, JOK, JONWAD, JOO, JOUAL, JOUAtE, JOUI, JOUIR, JOUIS, JOVEI, JOYPOT, JOYRIDE, JST4FN, JSTRYME, JUCYD, JUDAH, JUE, JUG, JUGS, JUIF, JUIVE, JUMENT, JUMPHER, JUNKEY, JUNKIE, JUS, JUSFME, JUSTBS, JUU, JYP.

K1CKASS, K1SSASS, K1SSASS, K1SSMYS, K2SUS, K57096, K6SUB2, K6SUBI, K9CAR, K9E0D, K9EQD, K9ER, K9RV, KAIAY, KAIEYE, KARASS, KATCHME, KATSAS, KATZAZ, KAYA1E, KCUF, KCUFU, KCUMHS, KEEP, KEER, KEG, KEGGER, KGBCIA, KGBFBI, KIC, KICKASS, KICKBUT, KIFFEIJ, KIFFEIJ, KIK, KIKINER, KIL, KILL, KILLER, KINKY, KIS, KIS5US, KISOF, KISSIT, KISSMA, KISSMIS, KISSMY, KISSMYA, KISSMYS, KISSOF, KIX, KJSMYS, KKK, KNIF, KOC, KOK, KON, KONAR, KONARD, KONNE, KOO, KOP, KOPITE, KOPTZR, KOT, KOTEX, KOX, KRACK, KRAK, KRAK2, KRAKEN, KRAMIT, KRAUT, KRAUTI, KRG, KRIPLE, KRIPPL, KRUZME, KSMYAS, KUKEN, KUKU, KUKUL, KUL, KUM, KUN, KUNT

LALGOD, LAORG, LAORGY, LAPUSE, LAPUSS, LAPUTA, LAVASS, LAY, LAYENEM, LAYME, LAYTHEM, LAZYGD, LE08I, LECHE, LECHEC, LENINE, LEPOT, LESBIAN, LESBIAN, LESBIE, LETS5IN, LEV69, LEY, LEYME, LEZBIUN, LFSABCH, LIBERAL, LIC, LICIT, LICKIT, LICSEX, LIKCUNT, LIKIT, LIKSEX, LIKTWAT, LILNIP, LILPIG, LILTWT, LILUKE, LIMACE, LIMEY, LIP, LIPPU, LIPS, LIRWET, LITEMEUP, LITLEP, LIX, LLEH20G, LOADED, LOLO, LOOSE, LOOSE!, LOOSEE, LOOSIE, LOTITS, LOV, LOV69, LOVE69, LOVECOX, LOVEME, LOVSEX, LOW, LOWBIOW, LOX, LSBIAN, LSD, LSD25, LUBRIC, LUCIFER, LUCIFR, LUNAT1K, LUNE, LUPANA, LUSH, LUSH!, LUST, LUV4HIR, LUVBOOB, LUVCOK, LUVGOD, LUVME, LUVSEX, LUXURE, LVGANG, LVMYHOE, LXIX, LXIXER, LXIY, LXXLES1, LXXLESI, LYFSUX, LYNCH, LYNCHE, LZYGOD.

M3NAC3, M3NACE, M84RENT, M84SALE, MADAM, MADAM2, MADAME, MADUSA, MAF1A0, MAFEA, MAFIA, MAFIAS, MAFIAX, MAFtO, MAFU22, MAGICM, MAKEIT, MAKELUV, MAKEME, MAKLUV, MAKOUT, MAKRO, MALATO, MALE, MALIGN, MALITO, MAMMIE, MANIAQ, MANURE, MAO, MAOIST, MAQUE, MAQUER, MAQURO, MARDE, MARDEU, MARIJN, MARU, MARX, MARXIE, MARXIS, MARYJN, MASTRB8, MATRIC, MAUDIT, MAUMAU, MAZOI, MBI, MBNNNN, MBXXXX, MCFLUFF, MCNNNN, MCXXXX, MDA, MDJD, MEASY, MEAT, MEBEDU, MEC, MECOM2, MEDEAD, MEDED, MEE, MENAL, MENTAL, MERD, MERDE, MERDEU, MERDEV, MERDIE, MERLUZA, MEROOI, MES, MESORE, METHOR, METSE, MEX, MEXICAN, MF5B, MFCHR, MFHORN, MFPO, MIASUK, MIC, MICULO, MIERDA, MIFUKU, MIKMAW, MIMI96, MINIPD, MINPAD, MISTUR, MNOOKIE, MOB, MODESS, MODICE, MOFO, MOME, MOMER, MOMSER, MOMZAI, MONCUL, MOO, MOONER, MORALL, MOREASS, MORF, MORFIA, MORH55, MORMON, MOUNT1E, MOX, MPAIRD, MR5C0P, MRBATE, MRCONST, MRGNCOP, MRSPAZ, MSBHVN, MSFUZZ, MSGAY, MSPIG, MSPISS, MSTRB8, MTRMAID, MUC, MUFA5A, MUFDIVR, MUFF, MUFFUR, MUFOVR, MUG, MUGGER, MUK, MUMZA, MUMZER, MUNSMA, MURDER, MUT, MUTINY, MVD, MWAHAHA, MY69ER, MY8UNS, MYBTCH, MYCOCK, MYCUL, MYCUNT, MYD1CK, MYDRUG, MYGOLO, MYMOFO, MYMOTEL, MYPIG, MYPRIC, MYQUIF, MYRAG, MYS, MYSTUD, MYTAIL, MZ8HAVN

N00KIE6, NARC, NARCK, NARK, NAVE, NAVET, NAVOT, NAZI, NDEI, NDP, NDPER, NDPIER, NDPIR, NE1469, NE1469R, NE146T9, NEGRE, NEGRO, NEUFE2, NEUFEI, NEUTER, NEWBOX, NEWF, NEWF1ES, NEWFIE, NEWFS, NGR, NGYSOB, NIG, NIG6AR, NIGGER, NIGGIR, NIKA2, NIL, NIP, NIPLES, NIPONE, NIPPERS, NIPPLE, NIPTOY, NIS, NIT, NMBNTS, NMBNUT, NOBRA, NOBULL, NOBUNS, NOCHET, NOCKERS, NOHYPE, NOIFCK, NONE, NONLIC, NONNE, NONO, NONSEX, NOOFEE, NOOGIE, NOOKIE, NOOKIE1, NOOKIE2, NOOKIE3, NOOKIE4, NOOKIE5, NOOKIE7, NOOKIE8, NOOKIE9, NOOKIEE, NOOKIEO, NOOKIES, NOOKY, NOPLATE, NOPLATE, NOROM, NOSHIT, NOSHT, NOTTSC, NOUILL, NSMETIS, NSSPEC, NTCCOP, NU, NUB, NUBILE, NUBS, NUBUBIE, NUCHI, NUCKY, NUDE, NUE, NUFFYS, NUG, NUGGIE, NUKIE, NUMBER, NUMNTS, NUMNUT, NUMNUT5, NUN, NUNU, NUT, NUTER, NUTERD, NUTS, NUTS2U, NYG, NYMPH, NYMPHE, NYMPHO, NYP, NYS

O300VO, OAF, OALLA, OBARF, OBLIT, OBSCENE, OBUNS, OCON, OCU, OCUL, ODD, OFF, OFFICER, OFFNON, OFFOI, OFORT, OH, OHEL, OHELL, OHSHIT, OIDBOX, OIIIIIO, OINCHES, OINKPD, OKEFU, OKFU, OKFUCK, OKON, OKU, OKUFU, OKUKAE, OKUL, OLCOCKY, OLFART, OLPHART, OMERDA, OMERDE, OMG, OMGWTF, OMY60D, ONEBONE, ONLUDES, ONNOFF, ONOOKIE, ONPIL, ONPILL, OOBLOW, OOO, OOOJR, OOOOIE, OOOOS8, OOOROY, OOUBLO, OOUO, OPHUCK, OPIUM, OPLS69, OPOIL, OPU, OQQQQQO, ORGASM, ORGATE, ORGIE, ORGY, OROAVE, ORPXES, OSEX, OSEXE, OSHEET, OSHIT, OSOEOX, OTHER, OU81200, OU8HER2, OUPAH, OURASS, OUTHSE, OUX, OVA, OVAIRE, OVARI, OVARY, OVEREZ, OVERY, OVERZ, OXE.

P0I50N8, P0IS0N7, P0TI3, P1EZ, P1SSOFF, P1SSONU, P2BAVI, PABSTI, PACKY56, PAKE, PAKI, PALGAY, PALITO, PAN2IE, PANGOD, PANSIE, PANSY, PANZY, PAP, PAPE, PAROLE, PASGAS, PASNGAS, PASSGAS, PB4ICU, PB4UGO, PC, PCG4S, PCKER, PCMP, PCOCK, PE8CGY, PEA, PEAONU, PECKER, PECKR, PEE, PEE2, PEE3, PEEI, PEJOC, PEK, PELADO, PELT8J, PENIEN, PENIS, PEOCUL, PEONU, PEOQ, PEPSI, PERVER, PERVERT, PERVRT, PETARD, PETEUX, PETOCU, PETOIR, PETSEC, PEU, PEW, PEYOT2, PEYOTE, PFO, PFOFF, PFU, PFUOFF, PFYOU, PG24I, PGNNNN, PGXXXX, PHALLUS, PHALUS, PHART, PHATBY, PHEOF, PHOCKT, PHOEF, PHORQ2, PHUCK, PHUCKE, PHUCUE, PHUKIT, PHUQ, PHUQ2, PHUQU2, PHUQUE, PHUX, PHYCO, PI55E, PI5EUX, PI5SER8, PICMEUP, PICUP, PIDGOD, PIF, PIG, PIGDOG, PIGI, PIGMEE, PIGMY, PIGRIG, PIKMEUP, PILL, PILPSHR, PIMP2, PIMPI, PINE, PINEAR, PINGA, PIPI, PIRO, PIS, PIS5ER7, PIS5IR4, PIS5IR7, PISANT, PISHER, PISSAT, PISSER, PISSER1, PISSER2, PISSER3, PISSER4, PISSER5, PISSER6, PISSER9, PISSIR1, PISSIR2, PISSIR3, PISSIR5, PISSIR6, PISSIR9, PISSIRS, PISSOFF, PISSOI, PISSONU, PISTA, PISTOF, PISTOL, PISTOLE, PIT, PIZ, PIZZTOF, PLANKED, PlL, PLMCRAZ, PLO, PLQ, PLUGIT, PLYBOY, PLYFUL, PLYGRL, PMP, PNONOIR, PNTANG, PNUKIE, POFTER, POGNON, POISON, POISON1, POISON2, POISON3, POISON4, POISON9, POISONS, POISONS, POKE, POLAC, POLACK, POLACK1, POLACKI, POLAK, POLAKI, POLI, POLICE, POLIZE, PONGO, PONTNG, PONU, POOF, POONER, POOP, POOPER, POOPOOP, POORNO, POOSIE, POOTA, POPCOP, POPERS, POPO, POPOT, POPPER, PORKER, PORNO, POT, POT4ME, POTENT, POTHED, POTOCU, POTOK, POTTI, POU, POULET, POUX, POX, PP, PPGAL, PPTWAT, PQ, PRAYS, PREMIER, PREMIER, PREPUC, PREPUS, PRICK, PRIEST, PRJCTD, PRNSTR, PRO, PROS, PROSS, PROSSI, PRUEGEL, PRVERT, PSANT, PSC, PSHR, PSSANT, PSSY, PSTOFF, PSY, PSYCHO, PSYOPS, PTHET, PTIME, PTYME, PUBERE, PUBERTY, PUBES, PUBES7, PUBIC, PUBIK, PUBRTY, PUCE, PUCEAU, PUCEL, PUCELE, PUCHKE, PUCHKI, PUCKU, PUCLE, PUD, PUDDAR, PUDDI, PUDS, PUDSY, PUDWOD, PUE, PUEPUG, PUER, PUES, PUFFS, PUFTER, PUKE, PUKEUP, PUKOFF, PULLCOX, PUMPIT, PUNJAB, PUNTANG, PUREBS, PUS, PUSANP, PUSEE, PUSEY, PUSHER, PUSI, PUSIE, PUSS, PUSS1E, PUSSAS, PUSSI, PUSSY, PUSSY, PUSSY3, PUT2, PUT5ZU, PUTA, PUTAIN, PUTCH, PUTE, PUTKE, PUTO, PUTRDWN, PUTSCH, PUTTANA, PUTUKE, PUTYKE, PUZ, PUZIE, PVERT, PY5, PYRO.

QIF, QIFF, QIKPHKR, QOOOOQ, QOOOQ, QOUNCE, QQQQ, QQQQ2, QU1KIE, QUEEN, QUEENS, QUEENY, QUEER, QUEER2, QUENEZ, QUER, QUEREZ, QUEUE, QUICKEE, QUICKEY, QUICKIE, QUICKIE, QUICKIE, QUICKY, QUIF, QUIFF, QUIK69, QUIM, QUL, QUQU, QUQUL, QUR, QVA, QWEER.

R810BUX, R820BUX, R85OBUX, RACF1, RACIAL, RACIST, RAGRUG, RAGSOFF, RAGTOP, RAIDUC, RAIDUQ., RAMER, RAMIT, RAPE, RAPEHER, RASS, RAT2A5S, RATBAG, RATNOW, RAWMET, RAWRAG, RAZ, RCAF, RCEME, RCHPHKR, RCMP, RD4U, REDDVL, REDNECK, REDNEK, REDROCK, REDWINE, REEF, REEFER, REEFR, REEM, REEME, REEPER, REFER, REGLE5, REME, RENTASS, REPO, RETARD, RETIREE, REV5LB, REVITUP, REXB52, RGASM, RIDEEM, RIDEME, RIDNHY, RIOT, RMB69, RMNOUT, ROACH, ROACHE, ROBINE, ROCKME, ROCKOF, ROCSOF, ROGAY, ROLLI, ROXOFF, ROXVET, RTRRACE, RU5ICK, RUABL, RUBBER, RUDE69, RUEZ, RUEZ2, RUG, RUGAY, RUGRDR, RUIIAM, RUIZ, RUM, RUMBUM, RUMNCOK, RUMNCOK, RUSEXY2, RUSIC, RUSIK, RUT, RUTO, RUTTING, RX4LAFS, RX4UCME, RYE7, RYE7UP, RYEH20, RYEN7, RYNCOKE, S1K, S1XNINE, S7BIRD, SAC, SACK, SAFE, SAG, SAHIB, SAK, SAM81, SAMACK, SAMPLE, SANDM, SANM, SAS69, SASAS, SASASS, SAT, SATAN, SATEN, SBPIS, SCEXY, SCHLONG, SCHMOCK, SCHMUC, SCHP, SCHWANZ, SCQK, SCREAMS, SCREW, SCREWU, SCREWY, SCRO, SCROTE, SCROTI, SCROTO, SCROTU, SCROTUM, SCRRUT, SCRU2, SCRUIT, SCRUOFF, SCUMBAG, SDPD, SEAMEN, SECE2, SEGREG8, SEGRIG8, SEINS, SEMAN, SEMENS, SEMIEN, SENATE1, SENSUAL, SEX, SEXBUS, SEXDV8, SEXE, SEXER, SEXHOG, SEXIE, SEXIEI, SEXIEL, SEXIER, SEXIST, SEXNEI, SEXNOI, SEXPAK, SEXPOT, SEXPRT, SEXSEA, SEXTOY, SEXTY7, SEXUEL, SEXY, SEXY2, SEXY6, SEXYI, SEXYUUP, SGORF, SH1TZ, SHACK, SHACUP, SHARTIN, SHECO, SHEECO, SHEENE, SHEGO, SHEHE, SHEOEVL, SHERIF, SHERIFF, SHERR1F, SHEYAT, SHEYIT, SHIEK, SHIEKO, SHIELD, SHIT, SHMOCK, SHOLE, SHOVEIT, SHP4LVN, SHT, SHTR, SHUTLP, SHUVIT, SHYSCOF, SIC, SICK, SICOI, SIESSE, SIFLES, SIFLUS, SIN, SINBIN, SINCHES, SINI5TR, SINNER, SIP, SIR9, SIX9, SIXNINE, SIXNINE, SIXTN9, SIXTY9, SJPD, SKI20I, SKICOP, SKIGOD, SKINDOC, SKINHD, SKINNY, SKNHEAD, SKRUIT, SKRUOFF, SKYJAC, SLA, SLAG, SLAYEM, SLB, SLEEZE, SLEEZY, SLEZEE, SLONG, SLOSHED, SLUT, SMAC, SMACK, SMAK, SMALLC, SMALLT, SMALOL, SMOCE, SMOCED, SMOCIT, SMOCOM, SMOCUM, SMOKEDU, SMOKEM, SMOKER, SMOKI3, SMOKIT, SMOKMN, SMOKOM, SMOKY, SMUCK, SNACH, SNAFU, SNAKIT, SNAPER, SNAPHER, SNATCH, SNIPER, SNM, SNOOKIE, SNORT, SNOTBBL, SNYPR, SOB, SOC, SOCRED, SODOMI, SODOMY, SOK, SOL, SOP, SORU, SOW, SPACED, SPADE, SPASTC, SPAYDE, SPAYED, SPEED4U, SPEEDUP, SPEW, SPIC, SPLIF, SPLIFF, SPOOK, SPRD, SPRDEM, SPRDIT, SPRDVD, SPRED, SPREDUM, SPREDVD, SPRTEM, SPSTIC, SPY, SQB, SQT, SQUAW, SSIP, SSMAN, SSRAT, SSS, SSSS, SSSSS, ST, STAGER1, STALIN, STERIL, STEROID, STIFF, STIKIT, STOLEIT, STONED, STOOL, STOPVD, STP, STROKE, STRTVD, STUD, STUD55, STUFIT, STY, SUC, SUCCOCK, SUCE, SUCER, SUCK, SUCKASS, SUCKCOK, SUCKCOX, SUCKI, SUCKJT, SUCKS, SUCKT1T, SUCKTIT, SUICIDE, SUK, SUNGOD, SUPRUKE, SUPSEX, SUX, SWAPM8S, SWATT, SWINE, SWOPM8S, SXBUS, SXI5FUN, SYFILIS.

T1CUL, T1GHTI, T1RNDON, T1TEASS, TAKEME, TAMPIS, TAMPON, TANPIS, TANTE, TAPETE, TATOS, TB0NE2, TBONE, TE5TME, TEABAG, TEAT, TEQILA, TERIST, TERNDON, TESTIC, TETIN, TETJNE, TETON, TETTE, TETTER, TEXMEX, THAI4ME, THC, THEBAG, THEFIX, THEFUZ, THENEUF, THEPIG, THEPRO, THEUKE, THROUP, THRUST, TIFU, TIGHT, TIHS, TIHSON, TIKCUP, TIKU, TIKUL, TIMON, TIRNDON, TIT, TITANIC, TITEASS, TITT, TITT5, TITTY, TJMEX, TMPOON, TNUC, TOBIG, TOILET, TOKEI3, TOKEIT, TOKEN, TOKER, TOKEUP, TOKIN, TOPCOP, TOPLES, TOPLESS, TORCH10, TORY, TOYLIT, TPLSFUN, TR1M1M8, TR1MYM8, TRAMP, TRANSV, TRIMIM8, TRIMYM8, TRISEX, TROTSK, TROYSA5, TRSEX, TRUDUC, TRYMIM8, TRYMYM8, TRYPOD, TRYPOT, TRYSEX, TTI, TTPINK, TTTWAT, TTY, TUB, TUHIGH, TURNDON, TURNON, TV, TWAT, TWATEA, TWOFOR, TWOT, TWOTROT, TYION, TYT.

U469ME2, U81B4M, U81B4ME, UATEHER, UB6IB9, UBEDME, UBGAY, UBGOD, UBGOOD, UBLOWME, UC0ME2, UCHANG, UCHNG, UCMEP, UCOM, UCOM2, UCTWAT, UDDER, UDEAD, UDED, UDIE, UDP, UFEELME, UGAY, UGH, UHADI2, UHUGIT, UJAC, UJACOF, UJAK, UJE5US, UKBOZO, UKE, UKISIT, ULLLOSE, ULOOSE, ULOVEIT, UN1G9, UNIC, UNICK, UNIK, UNISEX, UNKN, UNKUKE, UNOME, UNOOK1E, UNSEX, UOINK, UOLOSE, UOX, UPAUES, UPAUS2, UPB4ME, UPBC, UPCHUC, UPCHUK, UPE, UPER, UPESI, UPESI2, UPHUCK, UPNIN, UPOOP, UPP, UPPERS, UPU, UPU5A, UPURASS, UPURKLT, UPURPV, UPURS, UPURZ2, UPYERS, UPYERZ, UPYORS, UPYOUR, UPYRS, UPYRS2, UPYRUZ, UPYURS, UQANGME, UQUEER, UR2BIG, UR2SLO, UR4HEAD, URAINUS, URANASS, URANEUS, URIN, URINATE, URINE, URINER, URINOI, URNEXT, URNZVAY, URS06C, URSIC, URSIC2, URSICK, URSIK, URSOL, USED, USEDBX, USEXED, USEXME, USORE, UTWAT, UU, UUMPYU, UUTE.

V0H20, VACHE, VAGIN, VAMP, VAT69, VE7, VE7PR, VEEGIRL, VEHICLE, VENNNN, VETT69, VEXXXX, VIERGE, VIIX, VINFIZ, VIPERI, VIPOOI, VIRGIN, VOEGELN, VOEGLER, VOMI, VOMIR, VOMIT, VOODOO, VOYER, VOYEUR, VOYUR.

WA5HIT, WAD, WAKE, WAMB, WANG, WANTT0, WAP, WARGD, WARICK, WARLOC, WARLOK, WARLORD, WC, WE869, WE88AL, WE8I, WEB2, WEBAL2, WEBALL, WECOM2, WECUM2, WED, WEDEWIT, WEDOIT, WEED, WEEDS, WEENER, WEENY, WEEWEE, WEH8DPS, WEH8NDP, WEH8PCS, WEH8WCC, WEJAK, WELHUNG, WEMATED, WENCH, WERGOD, WESONE, WET, WETDECK, WETORM, WEWEE, WGNBNR, WHIPPED, WHORE, WHRWGN, WILSEX, WISKE, WITCH, WOMB, WOMB69, WOMB99, WOOWOO, WOP.

XCELR8, XTASEE, XXCELR8, XXX, XXXR8D.

YAHWEH, YAVE, YAVEH, YAWEH, YNOOKIE, YOU81B4, YOU8HER, YOUDIE, YOUP, YOUPIN, YOUSEF, YPU, YPUE, YUKE, YULEBLO, YULEPEE, YULESHT, YUPU, YUPUTME.

ZBALLS, ZEATER, ZEWOP, ZEXEY, ZEZO, ZEZOX, ZOOMER, ZYGOTE

01CU812, 04Q2, 0812, 0EXP086, 0ICUS12, 0IRTYK8, 0U8I2.

100, 12INCHS, 169, 16ETHOT, 16T9R, 1812, 181269, 181DIDU, 18LIPS, 1966, 1AMHARD, 1AMHUNG, 1ATEHER, 1B1B4YU, 1BADCAT, 1BALL, 1CU8IZ, 1FASTMF, 1GINGER, 1H5, 1H8VVOPS, 1HOTWOP, 1HUNGL0, 1INCHES, 1INCOCK, 1LIKU2, 1M1RU12, 1M469RU, 1M4RENT, 1M4SAEI, 1M4SALE, 1M4TA1L, 1MCUMN, 1MEANMF, 1MEZRU2, 1ML005E, 1NOOKIE, 1POISON, 1SANJTE, 1TSLONG, 1WANT1T.

20B, 21NCOCK, 24BD, 24BED, 2BIG2P, 2BLACK, 2BUSY2P, 2BY2, 2BYTO, 2BYTOO, 2DAMFST, 2HUNGLO, 2INCHES, 2LAYZ2P, 2LAZ2P, 2NIGHT, 2NITE, 2NOOKIE, 2PCME, 2POISON, 2PSEME, 2PSYCO, 2QAND2Q, 2QBY2Q, 2QN2Q, 2REDS, 2RYEN7, 2SCREW, 2SCREWS.

36DCUP, 3BEVER, 3COQ, 3FINGR, 3INCHE5, 3INCOCK, 3MTA3, 3POISON, 3WOPS.

4500101, 4FER, 4FNINXS, 4GAYUB, 4HANGEN, 4HANGIN, 4HIGHER, 4INCHES, 4INCOCK, 4N1C8, 4NICATE, 4NIKATE, 4NOOKIE, 4PLAY, 4PLAYN, 4POISON, 4Q, 4SALE, 4X45UK, 4X4PLAY.

50B1, 5ATANS, 5CREW2, 5EIN, 5ENSUEL, 5EXS1, 5HEEKO, 5INCOCK, 5M0CEM, 5NAAC, 5NAACH, 5NOOKIE, 5PL564, 5POISON, 5PREDEM, 5QLES1Q, 5UCKCOC, 5UKROX, 5XYLDY, 5YPHII5.

60NINE, 666FU, 666JOE, 666LEO, 666VRN, 67PLS2, 68IOU1, 68PLUS1, 696A6, 69AG, 69AWG, 69CLUB, 69ER, 69GAG, 69PRIX, 69RS, 6BAG, 6INC0CK, 6INCHES, 6N00KIE, 6NINE, 6POISON, 6T9, 6TY9ERS, 6ULDV8.

70LESI, 70LESS1, 747PLT, 76HIGH, 7BNEWF, 7INCHE5, 7INCOCK, 7NOOKIE, 7POISON, 7THSIN.

812N1TE, 812NITE, 8888WZ, 8A69ER, 8BEVR, 8COQK, 8COQUE, 8CQC, 8CRD, 8CUN, 8CUNT, 8CURT, 8I2DEE, 8INCHES, 8INCOCK, 8NOOKIE, 8POISON, 8QUEER, 8SNAKE, 8TWAT, 8Y0URS.

999, 99999HL, 999AA33, 9BI6BU, 9INCHES, 9INCOCK, 9NOOKIE, 9PLS60, 9POISON.

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* NOTE: Publishing this list required converting an image-based PDF document that appears to have been a copy of a copy of a copy. This was taxing for my OCR software. I attempted to proofread for transcription errors, but I’m sure some slipped through.

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So sometime Friday, somewhere in the forecast area, a gust could approach “up to” 100 kph. A prudent resident of the red zone might wonder what actual sustained winds forecasters expect? The alert doesn’t say.

For the answer, we can turn to Norway’s excellent weather app (Android, iTunes, web browser) and learn that sustained wind speeds at Baddeck will peak at 36 kph Friday morning, and stay near that level most of the day.

A 36 kph wind is breezy, but nothing out of the ordinary in Cape Breton — certainly nothing warranting a shrill alert on a fiery red map. “Expect a windy day Friday,” would have sufficed.

This is one of the many ways Environment Canada exaggerates expected weather: by substituting “up to” maximum wind gusts for expected sustained winds (along with wind chill and humidex in place of real temperatures).

In the case of Friday’s storm, the headline number is three times the actual wind expected. That goes beyond exaggeration into outright misrepresentation.

Environment Canada does this routinely. It issues an array of escalating alerts, advisories, watches, warnings, and special weather statements about 23 distinct weather threats: arctic outflows, blizzards, blowing snow, dust storms, extreme cold, flash freeze, fog, freezing drizzle, freezing rain, frost, heat, hurricanes, rainfall, severe thunderstorms, snowfall, snow squalls, storm surges, tornadoes, tropical storms, tsunamis, weather, wind, and winter storms.

Some of these phenomena — hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis — obviously merit warnings. But fog, rainfall, freezing drizzle, snowfall? That’s what normal forecasts are for. No need to gin up a scary red alert. When you warn about everything, you may as well warn about nothing. EC forces discerning consumers to parse its dire warnings, and try to figure out whether they’re real or not. Either that, or they can skip Environment Canada altogether and go directly to NO.YR.

Environment Canada’s chronic exaggeration of ordinary weather dates from its failure to forecast Hurricane Juan, which devastated Nova Scotia in 2003 with little warning. Its misbegotten alerts are the first step in the chain of over-cautious decision making that has led to Nova Scotia’s dispiriting record of closing schools and government offices at the first hint of less-than-perfect weather. It’s a weather disservice that warps the public’s perception of risk, teaches schoolchildren defeatism, and costs the economy tens of millions every year.

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