Ezra Levant is REALLY Stupid

And that's why the stupid portion of the Canadian bell curve likes him so much! Well, truth be told, most really stupid Canadians don't watch the news, read books or newspapers, or anything. So Ezra's fans are a small portion of the stupid population. The part that strains itself mightily trying to figure out and control their world, but who do so in a stupid fashion. A stupid minority of the stupid minority.

In a better world, a guy like me shouldn't have to even acknowledge the existence of a turd like Ezra Levant. If Canada was a genuine meritocracy, Ezra Levant would be getting wedgies in the kitchen during the night shift at Taco Bell from his teenaged work colleagues who have grown sick of his bizarre, ego-maniacal outbursts.

But capitalism is a sick system and, occasionally, the capitalists will find an obnoxious sicko like Ezra Levant, to shill for them. It's called "wingnut welfare" and Ezra's latest busy-project has been to scribble a diatribe about the "whitewash" of Omar Khadr. I wrote about it a few days back. Today I did a google search to see if anyone had actually read it and reviewed it. I didn't find much, but I did find Ezra's own stream-of-consciousness ranting on the subject:

So, what can we expect to happen with Omar Khadr when he inevitably returns to Canada?

Unfortunately, it's not hard to guess. When Maher Arar came back to Canada after he was released from a prison in Syria, he was hailed as a hero and celebrity. Every anti-war, anti-Western activist with an axe to grind--which includes a large swath of Canada's mainstream media--turned his homecoming into a triumph. If only they treated our wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan so warmly.

So I read the whole entry. But I'll admit to skimming towards the end as the cliches and whining started to get to much for me. But Levant's whole shpiel seems to be that some people believe that as a 15-year old, Omar Khadr was a child soldier. Also, they don't see how shooting a soldier during a gun-fight could be considered a war crime. (There's evidence that Khadr might not have shot anyone, but regardless.) Also, they ask how Omar Khadr could have avoided his father's indoctrination of him and then gone on to actively resist him. Also, they ask why the Canadian government aided and abetted in the torture of one of its own citizens. Also they ask how a confession obtained through torture and indefinite detention can be considered genuine.

All of these sensible considerations are too sane and humane for Ezra to process. Ezra Levant masturbates himself to visions of young Arab males being tortured and he'll be damned if he'll tolerate anyone seeking to deny him his fodder. I think that's it anyway. I mean, it makes no sense otherwise does it? Go through that whole rant and see if you can find anything Levant says about Omar Khadr that demonstrates that his advocates are dupes:

[Khadr'll] have a career waiting for him here in Canada as a top speaker on the anti-American lecture circuit. Every pro-Islamist campus club, every unreformed mosque, as well as conferences for the reflexively anti-American New Democratic Party and the Canadian Bar Association, the national lawyers' group that for years churned out reams of press releases calling for Khadr's release and return to Canada, all are sure to hound the freed terrorist to come speak to them, paying him thousands of dollars an hour for the pleasure.

The Canadian Islamic Congress and Canadian Arab Federation have been vocal supporters of Khadr's defence and will surely welcome him with open arms onto their staff: Who better to fundraise among their Israel-hating, America-hating supporters? Perhaps Judy Rebick--the founding publisher of the left-wing webzine rabble.ca,

It just goes on and on like that. Khadr was raised by an Al-Qaeda father. He's accused of firing a gun in a gun-fight. He was 15. He was imprisoned by a government that practices torture and oversees a military tribunal system that has been condemned by US military lawyers. His rights were violated. The Canadian Supreme Court said so. But anyone who therefore thinks that Khadr should enjoy his rights and should perhaps be compensated for having had his most basic human rights violated is self-evidently moronic in Levant's eyes.

I read that entry for his book and I thought that besides being unspeakably tedious it was also evidence of how REALLY stupid Levant is. He's got limited space to push his book. To prove his book's argument. And what does he do? Posts a load of empty, meaningless, preaching to the choir drivel.

What a stupid fuck-head.