Good day (evening?) loyal "schoolyard" readers! In what some would call a "coup" I've managed to get Justice Minister Peter MacKay to sit down for an exclusive interview! Let's get right to it:
thwap: Thank's for agreeing to speak with me.
JMPM: How do I look?
thwap: This is just a blog. Words. Nobody can see you.
JMPM: Simple question, How. Do. I. Look?
thwap: Um, ... okay I guess. Normal. The usual.
JMPM: Good, right?
thwap: Personally, I wouldn't do that anti-abortion t-shirt with the suit and tie, but ...
JMPM: They're good people ...
thwap: Right. Anyway, I suppose the first thing that I'd like to ask you about is your controversial statement that the alleged plot of the neo-nazi teenagers to massacre people at a Halifax shopping mall wasn't "terrorism."
JMPM: (Sighs.) I don't see how it's controversial. They're just kids. Screwed-up kids sure. But they didn't kill anyone.
thwap: But Muslim teenagers -
JMPM: I'm going to cut you off right there; when some Muslim "teenagers" (as you put it) decide to join fundamentalist jihad, they're joining a larger movement that's already committing acts of terrorism all around the world.
thwap: But these teenagers in the Halifax plot were espousing Nazism. Certainly fascism, neo-Nazism ... that's a world movement with a history of violence?
JMPM: When was the last time Nazis flew a plane into a building?
thwap: Nothing comes to mind. But they're certainly violent. And just now they were plotting - allegedly plotting - actual terroristic violence.
JMPM: They weren't terrorists!
thwap: Mister MacKay, let me ask you something; If they had carried out a massacre, would they have been terrorists then?
JMPM: No. They would have been sick individuals.
thwap: They would have been "misfits" up until the moment they first killed someone?
JMPM: That's one way of putting it. Yes.
thwap: Would you care to elaborate?
JMPM: Um ...
thwap: Because I'm not sure how you reached your conclusion.
JMPM: Don't you remember being a teenager? Didn't you have violent fantasies that you kept to yourself?
thwap: I'll admit to fantasizing about fights against my most obnoxious enemies that all went my way. Maybe some vague action-movie daydreams against imaginary opponents.
JMPM: Didn't you ever think of blowing-up your entire highschool, or putting all the stuck-up bitches who turned you down into one room and raping all of them?
thwap: No ...
JMPM: Or burying all the adults who pissed you off up to their heads in the ground and then dousing their heads with gasoline and lighting them all on fire?
thwap: No actually.
JMPM: I don't believe you.
thwap: Sorry.
JMPM: Political-correctness has erased your lefty memory.
thwap: Whatever. What about Timothy McVeigh, the American white supremacist who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma, ... was he a terrorist?
JMPM: That's what some are calling him. So I guess that's what he is.
thwap: But what do YOU think?
JMPM: Next question.
thwap: You can't say whether you think Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist or not?
JMPM: Ahem! The question you're entering into deals with certain subluminous issues of jurisdiction and epistemology that percludes a verifiable definitive analysis. Certain legal, diplomatic and allegatory niceties percludes my being able to stance my official definitionorial judgments ...
thwap: What about that right-wing, libertarian gun-nut in New Brunswick who killed those police officers?
JMPM: As you said, a single, libertarian-extremist gun-owner.
thwap: Those weren't my exact words. But even still, you don't see him as representative of a broader social phenomenon?
JMPM: I think there were some particular circumstances in this individual's history that led him to take his otherwise admirable values to dangerously extreme levels.
[To be continued.]
thwap: Thank's for agreeing to speak with me.
JMPM: How do I look?
thwap: This is just a blog. Words. Nobody can see you.
JMPM: Simple question, How. Do. I. Look?
thwap: Um, ... okay I guess. Normal. The usual.
JMPM: Good, right?
thwap: Personally, I wouldn't do that anti-abortion t-shirt with the suit and tie, but ...
JMPM: They're good people ...
thwap: Right. Anyway, I suppose the first thing that I'd like to ask you about is your controversial statement that the alleged plot of the neo-nazi teenagers to massacre people at a Halifax shopping mall wasn't "terrorism."
JMPM: (Sighs.) I don't see how it's controversial. They're just kids. Screwed-up kids sure. But they didn't kill anyone.
thwap: But Muslim teenagers -
JMPM: I'm going to cut you off right there; when some Muslim "teenagers" (as you put it) decide to join fundamentalist jihad, they're joining a larger movement that's already committing acts of terrorism all around the world.
thwap: But these teenagers in the Halifax plot were espousing Nazism. Certainly fascism, neo-Nazism ... that's a world movement with a history of violence?
JMPM: When was the last time Nazis flew a plane into a building?
thwap: Nothing comes to mind. But they're certainly violent. And just now they were plotting - allegedly plotting - actual terroristic violence.
JMPM: They weren't terrorists!
thwap: Mister MacKay, let me ask you something; If they had carried out a massacre, would they have been terrorists then?
JMPM: No. They would have been sick individuals.
thwap: They would have been "misfits" up until the moment they first killed someone?
JMPM: That's one way of putting it. Yes.
thwap: Would you care to elaborate?
JMPM: Um ...
thwap: Because I'm not sure how you reached your conclusion.
JMPM: Don't you remember being a teenager? Didn't you have violent fantasies that you kept to yourself?
thwap: I'll admit to fantasizing about fights against my most obnoxious enemies that all went my way. Maybe some vague action-movie daydreams against imaginary opponents.
JMPM: Didn't you ever think of blowing-up your entire highschool, or putting all the stuck-up bitches who turned you down into one room and raping all of them?
thwap: No ...
JMPM: Or burying all the adults who pissed you off up to their heads in the ground and then dousing their heads with gasoline and lighting them all on fire?
thwap: No actually.
JMPM: I don't believe you.
thwap: Sorry.
JMPM: Political-correctness has erased your lefty memory.
thwap: Whatever. What about Timothy McVeigh, the American white supremacist who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma, ... was he a terrorist?
JMPM: That's what some are calling him. So I guess that's what he is.
thwap: But what do YOU think?
JMPM: Next question.
thwap: You can't say whether you think Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist or not?
JMPM: Ahem! The question you're entering into deals with certain subluminous issues of jurisdiction and epistemology that percludes a verifiable definitive analysis. Certain legal, diplomatic and allegatory niceties percludes my being able to stance my official definitionorial judgments ...
thwap: What about that right-wing, libertarian gun-nut in New Brunswick who killed those police officers?
JMPM: As you said, a single, libertarian-extremist gun-owner.
thwap: Those weren't my exact words. But even still, you don't see him as representative of a broader social phenomenon?
JMPM: I think there were some particular circumstances in this individual's history that led him to take his otherwise admirable values to dangerously extreme levels.
[To be continued.]
4 comments:
Thanks for that. Amazing job getting that interview.
They know who they got to talk to to reach the most amount of Canadians.
YOu are the master.
Andrew Coyne, who I think has criticised Harper on some things, commented that the 82 percent who support c-51 probably don't know thing one of what's in it. (I'm commenting on a post you did recently so I think this is on topic but two days behind.... and a little to the left. Ahhhh. Yeah,.. that's perfect. Right there.
Oh yeah! I see it!
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