Dog show weekend, so things will be slow until Monday. I'll be hitting the road shortly, so will let you amuse yourselves with reader tips for the time being.
In the days leading up to his death, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener was a soldier under siege, trapped in his UN compound as the war closed in around him.But even as the bombing intensified, the Canadian peacekeeper managed to send a letter from the front lines.
Regular readers may have noticed I don't link to Mark Steyn's stuff very often. The reason? He's so good, I know half the blogosphere will beat me to it!
Maurice Strong is hiding from American justice - in China.
Leave your own in the comments.
China?
Dang. Why not exile Mo to North Korea?
May chairman Mo stay in China and never be heard from again. If he sticks his head up, shoot it off.
It warms my heart that someone is keeping on strong's tail. My only hope is that that evil Bastard, when he’s brought to justice, it's done so by the Americans as they will see that he gets what he deserves. A truly evil man, a true liberal.
Mark Steyn in McLeans? I may start buying that magazine if this keeps up.
Remember, he's the mastermind of the Kyoto Accord plot to undermine western economies. Apparently, he's an agent of the communist Chinese, and westerners who support Kyoto are textbook "useful idiots".
After Iran, Canadians see Israel as biggest threat to peace, poll finds
Iran is the biggest threat to world peace, followed by Israel and North Korea, according to a poll released Friday.
The online poll, sponsored by the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute, a think tank, and conducted by the Innovative Research Group, was answered by 2,393 respondents between Wednesday and Friday. The results are accurate to within two percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
The poll, released exclusively to the Ottawa Citizen, presented respondents with six options Iran, Israel, North Korea, Hezbollah, Syria and Lebanon. About 26 per cent of respondents said Iran presented the greatest danger while 20 per cent picked Israel, placing the Jewish state ahead of North Korea with 19 per cent.
Another 15 per cent said Hezbollah, while only one per cent pointed to either Syria or Lebanon. About 18 per cent said they didn't know.
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Respondents were also asked whether Hezbollah's attacks on Israel justified Israel's actions. The pollsters asked the following question: "The fighting in the Middle East started after Hezbollah's sudden attack on Israeli soil, killing eight and capturing two. Given this information, which of the following statements comes closest to your view?"
About 42 per cent said Israel's attacks are not justified, while 37 per cent said they were justified. Another 21 per cent didn't know.
www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/story.html?id=87fa4be4-b496-48da-ac13-9ff1105a11d2&k=20036
Yes, Steyn is great. His column on the 50,000 Lebanese 'Citizens of Convenience', a concept developed by the Liberals, points out how Canada has essentially set up a 'Call 911 Canada' card.
This card can be purchased for only the payment of immigration and citizenship administrative fees. It requires nothing else of the individual. No commitment, no obligations to the country. No payment of taxes, no residency, no employment in the country's work production. Nothing. So- why has Canada set up such a Call 911 Canada citizenship?
It benefits the Liberal Party, for the majority vote Liberal.
It benefits the Canadian taxpayer - not at all, for these 'Call 911 Canada' cardholders use the phone line only to call up Canada in times of emergency. At this time, they insist on the Canadian taxpayer assisting them, footing the bill, organizing the assistance - completely, immediately, and first class all the way.
The Call 911 Canada card, however, is only useful for vote-large groups. The Liberal Government did absolutely nothing about the Iranian beating death of Mrs. Kazemi. One vote is only one vote. But 50,000 votes - ah, now that's useful.
And the National Post 'Weep for the Victim' article neglects facts in favour of fiction.
Major Huedener wasn't there as a soldier; he wasn't fighting; he wasn't 'in the front lines'; he wasn't bravely writing his Flanders Fields; he was there under the orders of the UN as an observer. Not a military role; a neutral observer.
The fact that Hezbollah was using the UN site to launch missiles - should have been observed. Then, the UN should have, ethically, decided that they should not functionas a useful tool of Hezbollah, should not be used as a launch site - and the UN should have left.
Mark has been a columist in McLefts for some time.
they see it as balance. Mark Steyn balances the right exactly with the 50 leftist columnists they employ. looks very even to me.
Macleans has been getting better as they hired a new editor. I believe he's one of the orininal editors from the Post under Conrad when it was first launched (you know, when the Post was the greatest newspaper in history...)
Crap. Hit send before I spell checked or proofed. Damn.
Circumpolar MO hiding in China, eh?
Is Canadian Privy Councillor Mo still privy to Canadian state secrets, I wonder.
It really would be interesting to have him testify before the US investigators digging into in the Oil -for-food ( and ammunition) for Saddam's corrupt regime.
They have already put the cuffs on his communist buddy, Mr. Park as a result of that crooked deal.
Kate:
Mark Steyn is scratching his head about who those 50,000 "Canadians" are who are "trapped" in Lebanon. There's a report on "Gates of Vienna" of a heated debate in Denmark about 2,300 "Danish citizens" trapped in Lebanon. Who are they? They are Palestinians who applied for refugee status in Denmark, acquired Danish passports, plugged into the social services system, and moved back to Lebanon while continuing to collect generous social welfare payments from the Danes.
Gates of Vienna:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
Article entitled: Evacuating Danish Welfare Cheats from Lebanon
Good Post ET: Following was from CQ a few days back regarding a very quietly released Un report on the UNIFIL mission. Kofi had ample warning that peackeepers under his watch were in danger and being used as bait. Not much interest from the MSM though.
28. Control of the Blue Line and its vicinity appears to have remained for the most part with Hizbollah. During the reporting period, Hizbollah maintained and reinforced a visible presence in the area, with permanent observation posts, temporary checkpoints and patrols. It continued to carry out intensive construction works to strengthen and expand some of its fixed positions, install additional technical equipment, such as cameras, establish new positions close to the Blue Line and build new access roads. These measures resulted in a more strategically laid out and fortified structure of Hizbollah’s deployment along the Blue Line. Some Hizbollah positions remained in close proximity to United Nations positions, especially in the Hula area, posing a significant security risk to United Nations personnel and equipment, as demonstrated during the heavy exchanges of fire on 28 May. In letters to the Foreign Minister, dated 23 March, 27 June and 5 July 2006, the Force Commander, General Pellegrini, expressed grave concern about the Hizbollah construction works in close proximity to United Nations positions and requested that the Government of Lebanon take necessary actions to rectify the situation. However, the situation remained unchanged despite repeated objections addressed by UNIFIL to the Lebanese authorities. UNIFIL observed the reconstruction of Hizbollah positions that were damaged or destroyed during the 28 May exchange of fire.
What is a plug - in?
-ww.pluginamerica.com/whyev.shtml
This link brings you up to speed on the coming wave that, besides other benefits, like no pollution, also deflates Iran*s Nuke weapons plans. = TG
I applaud NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis for introducing Bill C-312, The Breast Implant Registry Act. From Hansard:
Breast Implant Registry Act
Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North, NDP) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-312, An Act to establish and maintain a national Breast Implant Registry.
She said: Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to have an opportunity to reintroduce this bill, which I have tried in the past on numerous occasions to get before the House or to suggest to the government that it might want to take it and run with it.
Here I am again trying to convince all members of Parliament to support an initiative that would establish and maintain a national breast implant registry. We want to do this out of the concern of safety, health and well-being of women in the country today. It fills a critical gap in women's health protection by collecting currently unavailable data about implant procedures and data that is needed as a base for informed health based decisions by women and physicians.
via AllThingsCanadian.blogspot.com
Macleans has a forum.
http://www.macleans.ca/forums/hot_topic/
A good Read
National Post
Canadians E-Mail suggests Hezobolla located close to UN Base.
"This has not been deliberate targeting, But has rather been due to tactical necessity"
Maj. HvK
While the left & msm cry out against Israel defending itself, maybe they should take note of the words of a man that gave his life as an unarmed observer doing the job he had always done in many theatre's, observe & report while putting his life on the line for the sake of Peace in a region.
A real Canadian, more then i can say about the left that seems to think Terrorism is ok.
Has anyone seen the Maurice Strong story in Canadian MSM lately ?? The Privy Council question is also very worrying. Many call MS the MOST INFLUENTIAL man in the world. A Canadian from Oak Lake Manitoba. And yet most Canadians do not recognize the name.
Yes, and he is reclining easily in Bejing China. He hates the Electric Car and supports the new price-busting China made Chery.
What better endorsement? If Mo hates it, it must be great. Yhess! = TG
bob - what does a breast implant have to do with health?
Mo is heavily into oil, as you are sure to recall... = TG
ET,
I can*t believe you even had to ask. TG
Chairman Mo has a lot more to answer for than a mere million dollar payola he was caught with....there's the Kyoto scheme to divert wealth to communist nations (primarily China) with the multi billion dollar carbon credit trading scam. Then a treasonous plan under Koyoto's industy regulating to handicap western industry and production with environmental controls not placed on China....then there is the multitude of personal projects he ran with public funds like upscale rain forest resorts paid with Ontario hydro funds, or any one of dozens of Chinese infrastructure projects he swung for Powercor with public seed capital from the Powercor-owned PMO.
Frikkin'-eh-right Chairman Mo is "welcome" in China. His sister (the avowed Maoist) was a Chi-com citizen and has a monument to her in Bejing...Mo is likewise an "honorary citizen" bestowed upon him by a greatful communist regime who he enriched by trafficing billions of private western capital into their oligarchial profiteering schemes.
As for Mo's disappearence into China...this is not news...he has had a citizenship and a posh residence in China for over a decade...Before the last election, and after Mo was being persued by US justice, he holed up in Ottawa as an appointed PMO advisor to his pal PM P. Martin hoping to escape extradition to the US under the protection of his pal Martin and as a privileged Canadian government official...when Paul Martin (Mo's Powercor protege) could not hold onto the Liberal-Powercor-PMO cabal in the last election, Mo sold his Ottawa condo and was not seen domestically after he took a flight to Bejing from Canada....now is the time to check if he's draining assets and bank accounts over here to avoid asset seizure if the poop hits the rotating oscillator.
This guy has left such a long smelly slime trail I don't understand why some folkies like Gordon Lightfoot don't imortaize thei great Canadian pismire and pen a trilogy to his monumental sleaze....say "Bejing bound" or "bitter(old) green" or "the wreck of the Kyoto accord"
No more rockin' in the free world for Chairman Mo.
Need more of your fix, folks?
Been posting some quite choice pieces lately, and I pull no punches, either! Y'all won't be disappointed! It's the Sentinel unchained, ranting about important stuff again!
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com
A fake boob registry.
Wonderful!
Let’s make Pamela Anderson its first registrant and honorary chair person.
And keeping with socialist dogma to manage all facets of an individual’s life, how about an ass registry?
Jack Layton, premier registrant and honorary chair person.
(Kate’s gone less that 5 minutes and this is what happens to her blog.)
How about a commemorative coin for prostate cancer? similar in size to the quarter with the pink ribbon , it could be bronze with a hole punched in it.
On the obverse , Jack Layton with his mouth open representing the same.
Do yourself a favor folk if bob (I know he spells his name backwards) is talking IGNORE. I think Kate said something about not feeding the trolls.
Castro's Believe It Or Not.
Slowly but surely....
Arafat grew thinner for weeks...according to his aides, Arfy was clear right to the end...
Old Bolshevik, Commy Brezhnez took 5 years to die....
Jimmah Carter has fown to Cooba to pray at the foot of Gastro... (unconfirmed)
SLOW DYING IS A LONG AND DREARY AFFAIR TO THE ELITE
by Amir Taheri
Gulf News
November 10, 2004
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/9077
I Believe That Castro Has Bled To Death....a New Beginning For The Cuban People
American Chronicle ^ | August 2, 2006 | Domingo Ivan Casañas
Yes, you have heard it right here.
I believe that Fidel Castro is being kept in a freezer so that on August 13th they can say he died on his birthday...
free republic
FREE,
Favour is spelled with a 'u' in it. Good punctuation dictates that folk would have an apostrophe afer it.
Some may choose to reply to a 'troll'. It's not up to you if someone makes this choice.
Kate,
Good luck and I hope your canine wins best in show.
Mystery Meat:
Regarding those 2,500 Lebanese holding Danish passports, one of them is the imam who went on a world tour with the Evil Mohammed Cartoons (tm)trying to inflame Muslims.
So you see he left the country because he was all pouty over the cartoons, but then he put in a 911 to Denmark when he needed his backside saved.
In other news, Tarek Fatah of the Muslim Canadian Congress is stepping down. Seems he's been getting threats for years from his fellow Muzzies who find Tarek a little too liberal, and now he fears for the safety of his family.
Michael Coren has been mentioning these threats for years - Fatah regularly gives Coren a peek at his emails.
Threats.
Against one's family.
By a members of a broad strata of society.
Here in Canada.
I'm not making this up.
This is interesting. I wonder if Gagliano is part of the "lawyers' branch."
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=b0946658-f309-4331-abdf-f25a8025029b&k=96684
Police say lawyers use status to aid Mafia
'Astounding' misuse of Canadian legal system without precedent, new book suggests
Allison Hanes, National Post
Published: Thursday, August 03, 2006
Police suspect a handful of practising lawyers play an indispensable role in the dealings of Canada's most notorious crime family, protecting sensitive meetings from police scrutiny with their mere presence, and even subscribing to cellphone numbers for mobsters in order to thwart police eavesdropping, a new book reveals.
In fact, according to police, the organization of reputed Mafia don Vito Rizzuto has a special "lawyers' branch" that is considered by police to be "one of its most protected, secretive and valued divisions," the book says.
saw a thing from Dr. Suzuki last night praising sustainable Cuban agriculture. lots of oxen plowing fields ala pre-industrial revolution.
they didnt dwell on that the caloric intake of the Cubans fell by 30% and the population dropped by 10%. The good doctor looked downright chunky compared to the rationed cubans.
this mornings Herald went on about the Trudeaus and Castros. I would think CBCpravda has a whole special in the works- maybe on "Life and Times"
ju ju hound,
fa·vor Pronunciation (fvr)
n.
1. A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted: do someone a favor.
Troll.
enough
Saw that thing by Suzuki too. It was a wonderful bit of propaganda, was it not? How efficient and what a wonderful life it is to be a pre-industrial revolution serf. Ah, those were the days.
enough
out of boredom in my headstrong yout' I investigated unsuccessfully the prospect of boarding the next boat to cooba and cut sugar cane.
then I remembered aaaaaall dem nuke missiles fidel had pointed at my head some 7 or 8 years earlier and changed my mind.
aint cummunism wunnerful.
Warwick, re Mclean's relatively 'new' editor, you're right: "he's one of the original editors from the [National] Post under Conrad when it was first launched." That was in the good old days, when I didn't mind paying for a newspaper. These days, there might be one or two articles in four or five sections that are worth reading--and none, of course, in The Star. As a friend of mine used to say when a certain rag appeared in his mailbox, "Why am I getting this? I don't own a bird."
As usual, Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head. And, as usual, this Canadian who is a numero-uno, consistently brilliant, political commentator, is featured in only two Canadian media outlets that I know of: Mclean's and The Western Standard. Nice play, Canada.
The Canadian MSM are obvioulsy afraid of him, for good reason. If they gave him free rein, he'd tear them to shreds on a regular basis, hold a savage mirror up to them by telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, about the Librano$, Mo Strong, Paul Desmarais (who's also been instrumental in Mo's rise to worldly weatlth and power) and all the other power players and hangers on that act as cholesterol in our body politic.
Here's what he had to say in February 2005 about Canada's puppet master/kingmaker, Paul Desmarais who's son is married to Jean Chretien's daughter, France, amongst other connections:
"...there has indeed been a Canadian making a difference in the world-and if The National wanted to do a 133-part special report on him, for once they’d have enough material. Most of us know Paul Desmarais as the . . . [those ellipses in original] well, let’s hold it there: most Canadians don’t know Paul Desmarais at all. You could stop the first thousand people walking down Yonge Street and I’ll bet no one would know who he is. But the few who do know him know him as the kingmaker behind Trudeau, Mulroney, Chrétien and Martin. Jean Chrétien’s daughter is married to Paul Desmarais’s son. Paul Martin was an employee of M. Desmarais’s Power Corp., and his Canada Steamship Lines was originally a subsidiary of Power Corp. that M. Desmarais put Mr. Martin in charge of. In other words, Paul Martin’s public identity–successful self-made businessman, not just a career pol, knows how to meet payroll, etc.–is entirely derived from the patronage of M. Desmarais.
"Imagine if Jenna Bush married the chairman of Halliburton’s son, and then George W. Bush was succeeded by a president who’d been an employee of Halliburton: Michael Moore’s next documentary would be buried under wall-to-wall Oscars and Palmes d’Or. But M. Desmarais has managed to turn Ottawa into a company town without anyone being aware of the company. .. Power Corp.’s other alumni range from Quebec premiers to Canada’s most prominent international diplomat, Maurice Strong. In fairness, you don’t have to work for M. Desmarais to reach the top of the greasy pole-Kim Campbell managed it, for about a week and a half.
"...we’re in the middle of the UN Oil-for-Fraud investigation, the all-time biggest scam, bigger than Enron and Worldcom and all the rest added together. And whaddaya know? The bank that handled all the money from the program turns out to be BNP Paribas, which tends to get designated by Associated Press and co. as a “French bank” but is, as it happens, controlled by one of M. Desmarais’s holding companies [well, technically it IS a French bank--a French Canadian bank]. That alone should cause even the droopiest bloodhound to pick up a scent: the UN’s banker for its Iraqi 'humanitarian' program turns out to be (to all intents) Saddam’s favourite oilman."
Dynamite. Where's the BANG??
Mark's just too much of a kick-ass, straight shooter to ever be persona grata in Canada. Too darn bad, because he's bar-none the BEST political commentator anywhere.
Hey Kate, how about a blog essay titled, The Draft Dodgers and the Doukabours?
Large numbers of American draft dodgers and cohorts, from Berkley and Boston and Ithaca have been active in Canadian schools, libraries, politics and culture, in ways that over the course of the years has influenced Canada disproportionately.
Want to really scare yourself silly. Read the first story at this site. "The End of the City on the Hill"
http://neoconmadrassa.blogspot.com/
Mississauga Matt: just read that article about Tarek Fatah in the G&M as well. Seems the practitioners of the "Religion of Peace" can be provoked to death threats and assaults even by those who've converted to it or were in it all along. If any further proof were needed that there is nothing one can do in a western liberal democracy to appease said practitioners of the ROP, surely this is it. But I'm sure the appologists will ignore this episode or rationalize it away.
Mark is the only journalist I have never disagreed with other than movie reviews.
Someone on the radio said if they want to come here get them to fill in a question for their citizenship that says they are willing to fight for canada.
Could cut down on the whiny citizens of convenience.
Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
ctv.ca ^
Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan Updated Thu. Aug. 3 2006 2:00 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Four Canadian soldiers were killed during a series of bloody attacks in the Afghan province of Kandahar Thursday. CTV News Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife said government sources confirmed three NATO soldiers killed on the outskirts of Kandahar city were Canadian. Earlier, a NATO spokesman said suspected Taliban fighters killed the three and wounded six others with rocket-propelled grenades. They died just hours after Canadian soldier Cpl. Christopher Jonathan Reid was killed when his LAV III vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb...
free republic
Fjordman has an excellent essay on the Nanny State over at Gates of Vienna:
tinyurl.com/gfhef
Oh my G*d, as if Mo Strong and company weren't enough to ruin your day, here comes David Suzuki.
There were so many factual errors (in the dissing of Christianity alone) in his '80s series "A Planet for the Taking" (which is into another incarnation?) that it makes one wonder how many other half-truths and outright falsehoods he was able to pass off as fascinating and cutting-edge "facts"? The CBC ran this series for years and many boards of education across Canada bought it for viewing in countless classrooms across the country. David Suzuki became a guru to undiscerning teachers and students and is revered as a "scientific saint" across the land.
The guy's a shameless and brazen self-promoter who, like Mo Strong and co., has lots of friends in "high" places like the CBC. He's done very well for himself and there never seems to be an end to his inventiveness in fleecing the Canadian taxpayer when it comes to financing his projects--and finding buyers for them.
And just like so many other high-power Canadians' kids who've hopped on the Canadian media/broadcasting gravy train, his daughter Severn has had quite a checkered and privileged career, beginning at the age of 12 at the first Kyoto Summit in Rio De Janeiro in 1992. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about her:
"Cullis-Suzuki is an environmental activist, speaker, television host, and author. Born in 1979 to Canadian geneticist and famed environmental activist David Suzuki, she received a B. Sc. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University in 2002. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind, and take individual responsibility.
"In 1992, at the age of 12, Cullis-Suzuki raised money with some schoolmates to attend the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, where she received a standing ovation for a speech to the delegates. ['Wonder if Mo Strong was in the audience? 'Wonder if he had anything to do with financing her trip?]
"In the spring of 2002, Cullis-Suzuki helped launch an Internet-based think-tank called The Skyfish Project. She is a member of Kofi Annan’s Special Advisory Panel, and as such she and members of the Skyfish Project brought their first project, a pledge called the 'Recognition of Responsibility," to the UN World Summit in 'Johannesburg in August 2002.
"Cullis-Suzuki has hosted a number of television programs, including Suzuki's Nature Quest, a children's television series that aired on the Discovery Channel in 2002. In 1993, Doubleday published her Tell the World (ISBN 0385254229), a 32-page book of environmental steps for families."
Quite the curriculum vitae. Her orbit, like her father's, seems to favour big-bucks, high-profile globe trotting: a speech at the Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit; a member of Kofi Annan's Special Advisory Panel; an environmental activist, speaker, television host, and author. She travels all over the world, spreading the "Suzuki Environmentalist Doctrine," and because of the Suzuki moniker has a lot of people, no doubt, hanging off her every word.
'Nice work if you can get it.
Why Arabs Lose Wars
3w.meforum.org/article/441
The reasons could also be pertinent to their lack of progress in other areas- science , democracy etc..
Bob, this is from the website you named, on how polling is done...there is no indication this poll on the survey of Canadians on countries that present the greatest danger is done any differently.
cdfai.org/PDF/Afghan%20Mission%20Poll.pdf
And how do you suppose they conduct those surveys...in their own words, more or less?
Those who even know of this group are asked if they want to join what they call the "Canada 20/20 Panel".
They then complete an enrolment survey (cute huh).
But, they note that the base sample is "recruited through the Innovative's telephone survey.
And their *core analysis* is based on those who respond to e-mail *invitations*.
Sounds exactly like the kind of survey we would tend to question, those who are thinking about honest random polls, anyway;)
This just in from Dust My Broom (also at the Shotgun):
"Lebanese witnesses silenced by opposition
August 3rd, 2006 by Darcey
"The Canadian Coalition for Democracies issued a statement today condemning what they call the silencing of witnesses at the Foreign Affairs Committee discussing Canada’s middle east policy and the evacuation of Canadians from Lebanon.
"The subject matter for the hearing was specifically Lebanon, yet Opposition MPs passed a procedural resolution that effectively denied all Lebanese witnesses the right to speak. These witnesses included people with family members in the southern war zone of Lebanon and those directly affected by the evacuation. The Opposition used a procedural motion to silence these voices. As a result, Opposition MPs, with no first hand knowledge of the situation, were able to criticize the government without fear of contradiction from Lebanese witnesses or by CIDA and the Red Cross who were directly involved in the evacuation and humanitarian effort.
"CCD strongly condemns Alexa McDonough and other Opposition MPs for excluding Lebanese, CIDA and Red Cross voices with first-hand experience on the situation in Lebanon from providing testimony to a committee whose mandate was specifically the tragic situation in Lebanon."
There's more at both sites.
Is Canada a Banana Republic or is that just me being paranoid?
Muslim Islamist terrorists in Canada:
The enemy within Canada.
The worldwide battle against Muslim genocide is here, in Canada.
Choose your side:
Freedom and democracy; or, Islam and Sharia law. ...-
Hezbollah’s violent ideology hits Montreal streets
Judeoscope ^ | August 2, 2006 | Peter Subissati
As tensions have risen significantly over the last few weeks between Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and Israel, many Montrealers, myself included, have grown accustomed to the spontaneous anti-Israel rallies that have taken place along the main thoroughfares in downtown Montreal.
(Video excerpted from CBC footage aired on July 30, 2006. (launch by external player)Most media reported that the rally had been peaceful.)
This Sunday was no exception, as the situation in the Middle East escalated a notch after an IDF-guided missile missed a Hezbollah weapons cache in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, hitting a home where over 50 civilians had taken refuge. Many in Montreal’s Lebanese Shia community were hardened by the loss of dozens of children in the botched strike, and assembled at Dominion Square, opposite the Israeli consulate where a rally took place early in the afternoon. What followed was a spontaneous procession of some 3,000 people that spilled onto Peel St. before proceeding onto Ste. Catherine St., which became gridlocked as a result of the pedestrian traffic.
Onlookers such as myself were taken aback by odious chants directed at Israel, the United States and the Harper administration. Supporters of Hezbollah, which has been designated a terrorist group by the federal government since 2002, branded pictures of their spiritual leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, as well as a surprising number of the group’s infamous yellow flag that depicts a hand clasping a Kalashnikov machine gun. Meanwhile some of the protesters hoisted other posters that showed the mangled corpses of Lebanese civilian victims under the banner “made by Israel”, while others wearing kaffiyehs displayed a large Israeli flag that was defaced with a swastika painted over the Star of David.
After having heard countless cries of “death to Israel”, “vive le Hezbollah” and once in Arabic “death to the Jews”, I addressed some of the protesters by shouting back “am Yisrael chai” (the people of Israel live) and “shalom aleichem” (peace to all). The incident then turned violent when a fanatic ran up to me suddenly, punching and strangling me quickly as I fell onto a parked car on Ste. Catherine St. As the attacker was restrained and ushered away I then yelled “Are you crazy? This is Canada, so act civilized like everyone else watching you.” The unknown assailant was then reintroduced by protest-organizers into the crowd to avoid detection by the numerous members of the media and policemen who had witnessed the assault. Other disgruntled anti-Israel protesters then attempted to enter my place of work where I sought refuge yelling “Jewish pig” and “down, down Israel” as police and bystanders sealed the entrance briefly, preventing the mob from breaking the storefront.
Sunday’s anti-Israel rally was another sad example of how the hateful and violent ideology of Hezbollah thrives in Canada despite attempts to outlaw the terrorist organization domestically. Montreal police must enforce existing anti-terror legislation with more vigor, or sadly this may be the beginning of more violent protests to come ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677248/posts
Mush and madness from Softy R2P Lloyd:
www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/3617342p-4181901c.html
1) Mush:
'TO shape a coherent approach to our role in the world means finding a way to encompass and utilize the advantages that this 21st-century diverse cultural reality provides in the way of added perspectives, connections, and relationships while forging ways to reconcile the differences and meld the rich but complex mix into a coherent set of values that can replace St. Laurent's formulation without foregoing his basic intent that "we thus have a useful part to play in world affairs, useful to ourselves, through being useful to others."..'
2) Madness (in light of the August 1 Commons foreign affairs commitee fiasco on Lebanon and the May 17 Commons debate on Afstan):
'...broaden the participation of Canadians from all backgrounds by giving Parliament, as the legitimate representative institution in our democracy, an enhanced role in setting the mandate of our international engagements. Add to that the need for ongoing parliamentary review of our international initiatives, a broader role in monitoring our intelligence and security activities, and a dedicated responsibility to involve the public in a continuous series of open hearings and educational exchange on the emerging global risks facing Canadians.
Isn't it exceedingly strange that on a matter seen as so vital by so many Canadians as the Middle East crisis that Parliament is on summer holidays?..'
Mark
Ottawa
new kid....
in reference to your previous post re: who demerais is. i do. i use to ride on the buses he drove in sudbury while building the foundations of his present empire.
Surely if someone really wanted to find out where Maurice is hiding, all they would need to do is ask any one of his various Business/Government Friends/Fellow-Directors on the Canada China Business Council:
www.ccbc.com/home/content.php?Cat=About&Subcat=Board
HISTORY
The Canada China Business Council (CCBC) was co-founded by Paul Demerits and Maurice Strong on June 1st, 1978 as the gateway for Canadian companies with business interests in China and for Chinese enterprises doing business in Canada, with a mandate to facilitate and promote trade and investment between the two countries. Throughout the 26 years, CCBC has expanded its presence in China and is a key partner for the Canadian government and Canadian and Chinese companies involved in Canada-China trade...