I just don't recognize this country anymore. Really. Sure it's been ugly. Just ask any First Nations person. Ask the Japanese from the internment camps in World War II. Ask the unemployed young men beaten with clubs on their "On to Ottawa" trek. Ask all the victims of inequality, sexism and racism.
But there used to be a facade. Since 1900, the Liberals took pains to paint themselves as forward-thinking, pragmatic crafters of social justice and Canadian conservatism pointed to its "red tory" traditions of social responsibility. And both parties at least paid lip-service to the rule of law.
No more.
And Canada's media, like those of other liberal democracies, took pride in differentiating our society from the totalitarian nightmares of fascism and Stalinism with their torture regimes, their show-trials, their crude propaganda masquerading as truth.
No more.
How low we have sunk. How low. How low. A boy, born into a family headed by an Islamic terrorist, and caught up in the midst of his father's activities in Afghanistan from the age of 10, finds himself in a fire-fight between his father's men and the US and Afghan military. During the combat, a grenade is thrown and ... ah hell. I said it all before, here.
What's changed is that in return for not getting tortured forever, Khadr has copped a plea. In a kangaroo court designed purely to obtain convictions (like something out Stalin or Mao), where testimony obtained through torture is permissable, along with tampered evidence, Khadr has admitted being guilty to "murder" and to planting IEDs.
And Canada's media laps it up. They show themselves no better than the Stalinist propaganda rag PRAVDA. This is disgusting and I don't recognize this country.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
It gets worse. Not satisfied with the railroad job, some of the blood-thirsty lunatics that lurk in the comments section of every media outlet are passing around a photo of a young Taliban male holding amputated hands and feet - fabricating a story that it's 11 year old Omar and the victim is a US soldier.
http://ofgodsandothermonsters.blogspot.com/2010/11/wingnuts-making-shit-up-about-omar.html
These sick f*cks won't be satisfied until they convince everyone that Omar Khadr is the brown equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer.
What stupidity. There's plenty of monster-making to be had looking at the actions of US troops and their allies in the region, but no matter what,the Christo-fascists are always the "good guys."
Pathetic.
Re Canada unrecognizable:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/sarah-hampson/romo-dallaire-rages-against-canada/article1784505/
Re Monsters:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/10/real-monsters-among-us-republicans-get.html
OB,
I just got a chance to read those links. Thanks for letting me know about them.
its not just the major media outlets either. How's this for the "liberal media"?
Belated reply to the stoneycreeknews link: What a display of unvarnished stupidity.
The dunce clearly fails to understand.
Post a Comment