A Message From The Hegemony's Head Office. . .
Finally got around to looking at our infiltrators' report from the Canadian Peace Alliance conference where the decision was made to trespass upon our High Holy Day of Feile Padraig with counter-parades of marching teetotallers. It's an excellent report. Maith thú, comrades!The CPA's official account of what happened omits mention of its decision to stick with its 2004 resolution on Darfur and continue to oppose any military intervention to staunch the slaughter there. But let's get to the official business. There were 14 resolutions, which can be summarized thusly:
1. Sully the Feast of Saint Patrick with counter-processions of miserable old nuns, windbags, dupes and scolds carrying placards that say Down With This, Long Live That, Canada Out Of This, Canada Out Of That and so forth.
2. This is too funny (ní féidir a shéanadh): Right after the resolution calling for "anti-war" rallies across Canada, delegates voted to urge all CPA member groups to attend a conference of "the global anti-war movement" in Cairo later this month, which is really a strategy session with the well-known pacifist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
3. Resist the United Nations' nefarious plans to prevent the Iranian theocracy's attempts to develop weapons-grade uranium. 4. Destroy Israel. 5. Give Haiti back to the street gangs of Port-aux-Prince. 6. Demand that the Canadian government pay for public meetings where we can shout our slogans. 7. (Obligatory motion to placate vegetarians from the Slocan Valley who still think we're a peace group). 8. (Obligatory motion to assuage our guilt about Native people). 9. Clear the field of Canadians soldiers in Kandahar as a favour to the Taliban. 10. (Obligatory motion to assuage our guilt about Native people #2). 11. Destroy Israel. 12. Drag the New Democratic Party down below the Greens to single digits in the polls. 13. Destroy Israel. 14. Make the National Film Board pay for some old American hippie movies.
Our secret plan, as you can see, is working on time and under-budget. And our stranglehold on the news media is coming in handy too. Here's Ian King, from today's 24 Hours:
It's deeply ironic that Woody Guthrie, troubadour of the old Left, painted "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar to remind all what the message was meant to accomplish. Sadly, the modern anti-war left has turned to supporting fascists.
Tomorrow, the so-called peace movement marches mainly in opposition to Canada and the United States, and in support of governments and movements, however brutal, that oppose them. Not everyone marching to the Vancouver Art Gallery will hold those repugnant views - but the movement's leaders do.
Réitím leis an tuairim sin, Ian. I'll be toasting you with one of these.
3. Resist the United Nations' nefarious plans to prevent the Iranian theocracy's attempts to develop weapons-grade uranium. 4. Destroy Israel. 5. Give Haiti back to the street gangs of Port-aux-Prince. 6. Demand that the Canadian government pay for public meetings where we can shout our slogans. 7. (Obligatory motion to placate vegetarians from the Slocan Valley who still think we're a peace group). 8. (Obligatory motion to assuage our guilt about Native people). 9. Clear the field of Canadians soldiers in Kandahar as a favour to the Taliban. 10. (Obligatory motion to assuage our guilt about Native people #2). 11. Destroy Israel. 12. Drag the New Democratic Party down below the Greens to single digits in the polls. 13. Destroy Israel. 14. Make the National Film Board pay for some old American hippie movies.
Our secret plan, as you can see, is working on time and under-budget. And our stranglehold on the news media is coming in handy too. Here's Ian King, from today's 24 Hours:
It's deeply ironic that Woody Guthrie, troubadour of the old Left, painted "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar to remind all what the message was meant to accomplish. Sadly, the modern anti-war left has turned to supporting fascists.
Tomorrow, the so-called peace movement marches mainly in opposition to Canada and the United States, and in support of governments and movements, however brutal, that oppose them. Not everyone marching to the Vancouver Art Gallery will hold those repugnant views - but the movement's leaders do.
Réitím leis an tuairim sin, Ian. I'll be toasting you with one of these.
posted by Terry Glavin at 1:14 AM
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Okay I am linking to this, I am also sending it to friends - great post, had me in stitches, thanks.
Thanks for the toast, Terry. Responded in kind down at Pub 340 tonight.
The only response I've got to those making a mess of Fhéile Pádraig with the "US/UK out of this, Canada out of that" chants is to respond with a "Michael Douglas out of Catherine Zeta-Jones!" (substitute to taste) on the way between one boozer and the next.
This is two years in a row they've interfered with St Patrick's. Last year, we were treated to Sunera Thobani's tortured reasoning that any progress for Afghan women and girls since 2001 was illegitimate as it had come as a result of war, which is, uh, bad, or imperialist, or something. Listening to too much of this stuff will ruin the Feast of Saint Patrick -- and if that happens, the terrorists (or at least some sourpusses, hypocrites and blowhards) have won.
CPA marching on St. Patrick day? Gee. I wonder, would they accept a brew from a normal person?
Nah. They should be pumped full of Liffey water.
I would be vehmenently opposed to any resolution that says "destroy Israel". I'm not a big fan of CPA these days, but can you please point out which resolution, and which phrase in said resolution suggested that? I was unable to find it.
Dirk, you say that "many soldiers and officer who have been to war usually come back convinced about the ineffectiveness and inhumanity of military solutions no matter the good intentions of those who initiate the action.In the end such tactics usually results in more bullshit and suffering that the locals have to deal with."
Would you consider WWII ineffective? How about sending troops to Bosnia? That too bullshit?
Stephen: Get some specs, buddy. Each of those three resolutions would destroy Israel. That's what they're there for. You should be able to see that without my help.
The first would expropriate Israel's right to its own immigration policy. The second would ultimately disarm the IDF. The third would prevent Israel from defending itself from attacks from Gaza.
My point: This is not about peace. This is about opposing Israel, and it is about more war, more suffering, more death.
I know it's often unpleasant to see things for what they really are. But we have to do it anyway.
In solidarity, etc.
T
Dirk: You're not doing yourself any favours here.
Your comments are irrelevant to the post you're commenting on. For one thing, if you couldn't tell that the post was tongue in cheek, you're even more humourless than I thought. For another, that there are Jews who criticize Israel is irrelevant to substance of the CPA resolutions.
A person's nationality or religion is irrelevant to a criticism's validity. If it was relevant, I would have pointed out that the CPA's Palestine resolution was opposed at the convention by the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians, the Jewish People's Order of Canada, and other Jews who were there.
Aisde from the obvious, Dirk is missing the other point. Out of 14 CPA resolutions, 5 were Israel-related. Come back when CPA proposes resolutions are based on peace or lack thereof (rather than the presence of Israel), and we'll talk.
Or as my sainted husband said, when I told that there is an alliance that wants to make our lives more peaceful, "What, by destroying the CPA?"
P.S. I'll be addressing this and related subjects on the Calgary radio station CHQR ("The World Tonight" program) shortly after 8 p.m. Calgary time today.
Transmontanus puts forward a misleading and distorted account of the CPA's Palestine motion.
Opposition to the motion was not absolute. The motion was opposed by the Jewish groups because of the inclusion of the specific mention of the right of return. They agreed with the rest of the motion's content, including even the mention of 242, but debated the specific mention of right of return.
That "other Jews who were there" opposed the motion is simply not true. The only Jewish opposition came from the delegates from the groups in question. Other Jews who spoke as individual observers or other delegates voiced support for the inclusion of the right of return.
Just to clarify another matter, Glavin's "report" quickly glosses over the debate on Darfur, indicating that either his mole fed him incorrect information or he had no mole at all (or did Glavin simply distort his mole's report?). Not mentioned is the fact that the Darfur question was not in fact resolved (hence a lack of resolutions) and left at a stalemate, most people being undecided on the matter. Due to time constraints (which also affected the Palestine debate, which was lengthy nonetheless) the Darfur question was not fully addressed.
The rest of Glavin's piece is a pathetically contrived account of what happened, but that's par. Even so, it's even worse that his drivel is a poor derivative of his Eustonite counterparts in Britain. Too bad Glavin is too old to sign up or I'm sure he'd be doing his patriotic duty. With any luck, maybe the age limit will be raised.
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