Originally Posted by
anabolism
I know several people who were approved despite a history of pot smoking during their younger years.
Are you implying that there is an inappropriate and disproportionate reaction to Nazi-related issues? If so, I'd disagree. There are plenty of examples of people/governments not caring unless forced to. More to the point, I'd suspect that if they dropped any questions about Nazis or National Socialists, no one would notice, especially if this was more than, say, five years from now.
I think some people have missed the point that they ask for participation in the NSDAP or other Nazi-Germany organizations
before 1945. And that is quite rapidly becoming moot.
If they would rephrase to include Neo-Nazis of all nationalities, I would completely agree and understand.
[regarding GE denial for omitting a shop-lifting offense at age 12]
It does seem very unfair for omitting a pre-teen offense. I wouldn't think leaving that off would be intent to deceive.
I completely agree here. At that age I lived in Germany, where the age of criminal responsibility is 14. Anything before that would not have been recorded anywhere in the judicial system in the first place. There might have been a record in the youth welfare system, but that is erased once you are age 21.
So if I had commited any offense there before age 14, US or Canadian authorities could not even see it, even things much more sinister. So I believe they should draw a line age-wise.
I mean, what's next? Charging a 5-year-old girl that doesn't wear a bikini top at the pool with indecent exposure and denying her GE 10 years later?