Anti-War Protest Goes Nation Wide

maybe they can all 'join hands across the nation'

thus deservedly wrenching their arms out of the socket trying to reach the other leftie 1/2 a km away.

LOL !!!

What was the final score in the hockey game?

Susan Mohammad reports for CanWest News Service that NDP leader Jack Layton marched with the protesters in Toronto calling for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan.

In related news, Al-Qaeda spokesman Hossan Abdul Raouf warns Canada to quit the Afghan mission or endure attacks like 9/11.

Stories at Canada.com

So we go in there, blow some stuff up, kill some people, help set up a democratic government, get started on some reconstruction and then we drop hat and leave?

This is a UN approved combat mission.

If we leave now people are never going to trust our word again.

Its like going over to your friend's house, taking his house apart on the promise you will renovate it and then leaving it in pieces.

If we leave now it will be like Rwanda II for those people who were not on the Taliban's side...

Pathetic, I heard one guy shouting about no more war for oil!! Ummmm hey dipstick, Afghanistan doesn't have any oil!!

I predict that the "Support Our Troops" rally in Edmonton this Friday (11:30 at Sir Winston Churchill Square)brings out more people than these idiots could raise from across the whole country! Snow or not!!!

Taliban Layton and his party are getting seriously marginalized over this issue.

Poor planning on the left ... last Wednesday was welfare Wednesday (Mardi Gras). When the money runs out (for the drugs and booze) they will be ready to protest.

Hint for Taliban Jack - plan these things for the middle of the month.

Several hundred show up in montreal, are we ever going to get rid of these frog bastards?

"Susan Fuchammad reports for CanWest News Service that NDP leader Jack Layton screwed with the protesters in Toronto calling for the withdrawal of all Dickheads from trooping with men in Afghanistan.

In related news, Al-Qaeda spokesman Hossan Abdul Raouf warns Canada that this is the
Toronto Maple Leaf's year to screw the seat holders big time!
e 9/11.

Toronto had barely 500 or 1 in 8000 citizens. Kingston had a pro troops rally that had several thousand show up.

The left has lost this battle and should just toss in the towel. We are wanted and needed in Afghanistan.

There looked to be about 500-1,000 in Vancouver - most from a few unions. It took them about 5 minutes to pass in front of my office. That said - there didn't appear to be any 'war protesters' per se. There were a lot of the usual suspects. Besides the unions: communists, anti-globalizationistas, the 'pirg' crowd. Dumbest thing I saw was the CUPE group holding up a pro illegal immigration sign: "No one is illegal".

Anyhow, 1'000 protesters is simply not enough. Last time I checked the Constitution requires 1,001 protesters to override the vote of the democratically elected parliament and the 10,000,000+ voters who supported pro-Afghan Intervention parties (Martin Liberals + PCs). Better luck next time hippies.

Jack Coitus Interruptus Layton says early withdrawal is the safest method.

don't these fools realize that all their protesting has acomplished absolutley nothing, Gulf War 1 went ahead, Iraq continues and their crying won't move Harper one inch; are they just plain stupid or what?

Front page news at Global - " thousands marched against the war". Al I saw was a bunch of turbans and union people. I understand there were many more that came out in support of our soldiers in Kingston.(Blogging Tories) That did not get reported by Global. North America's news service is PATHETIC.

Idiot leftists never get it

Hi There! I was at the Calgary rally and just to make sure everyone understands, there were about 75 people there in support of pulling our troops our. Of those, approximately 80% were organized labour. Lets put that in perspective. That equals 0.0075% of Calgary's population.

Sucks to be a moonBat!

Did you notice how many of those protesters had red on, touques, stripes, jackets, etc. Saw a lot of red there. Imagine supporting and protesting at the same time. Still haven't seen one poppy in the dozens out there. Guess Harper doesn't have to worry about the against the war vote.
Just a bunch of hippies and draft dodgers from the 60s letting us know they still exist.

If the lefty nitwits weren't just a bunch of cowardly poseurs they'd take their protest to the Taliban and their Pakistani and Al-Qaeda cohorts - they're the "root cause" of the war.

Oh, lost my head - I forgot, they want the Taliban to win!

Watch the coverage of one guy speaking, there is a clown in the background moving and shaking. Is that M J Fox in disquise.

Veterans on Afghanistan: "impossible to win"

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=7d99f5be-0dd2-4751-a839-9aa07d3caf04&k=55889&p=1

Speaking of protests. How about the thousands of christain teens that turned out to protest pop culture, violence tv, games, immorality etc. Add these to the thousands that turned out for the Pope and we have a great future generation of leaders coming up.

cbcnews - "driving snow in Edmonton" ?????

driving snow my frosty ass, unfrigginbelievable!

Hi There! I was at the Calgary rally and just to make sure everyone understands, there were about 75 people there in support of pulling our troops our. Of those, approximately 80% were organized labour. Lets put that in perspective. That equals 0.0075% of Calgary's population.

When Christ had a dozen disciples and a few score hangers-on, what percentage of the population of the Holy Land did that number represent?

Good point Stephen, a dozen can change the world, but sorry to burst your bubble, even a million moonbats with a bad message, will still be a million moonbats.

The twelve had a potent message that people centuries later are still hearing, you on the other hand had a message so lame that even your own supporters did not show up to support it! It must really suck to be a lefty these days!

Richard is not a Christian, Stephen, but suuuuuuper nice try though; it's always amusing to watch one atheist try to club another atheist with the bible, lol. Next time, man up and leave other people's religion out of it.

Hey, Hunter

What was the message of that first-century moonbat, by the way?

I seem to recall something about loving your enemies and doing good to those who attack and speak badly of you (Matt 5:44).

Pretty 'lame' message, eh?

Oh, and I find the language of 'lame' and 'potent' messages quite interesting as well, especially in a New Testament context.

After all, John tells us that the 'lame' can be made to walk (John 5) despite every appearance to the contrary, while the consistent message of the NT is that the 'potent' (i.e. powerful) arguments, people, rules, regimes often turn out to be less 'potent' than they seemed at first glance.

Richard is not a Christian, Stephen, but suuuuuuper nice try though; it's always amusing to watch one atheist try to club another atheist with the bible, lol.

I'm not an atheist: I'm a Christian.

The point of my rhetorical question (and I apologize to Richard if I've insulted him with it) was that the number of people who hold an opinion (and their affiliation) is no evidence at all of its rightness or wrongness, as he implied.

In his post, Richard implicitly claimed to be on the side of 'understanding' and putting things in their proper 'perspective.' Yet, without even addressing anything at all of the substance of the anti-war demonstrators' position, Richard dismissed their views based on 1) the number of the demonstrators relative to the population of the city; and 2) their union affiliation.

That didn't sound much like 'putting things in perspective' to me, so I offered a rhetorical question based on a well-known historical instance where a small number of much-maligned people took a position that later came to be seen as the correct one.

I could have picked other examples, including non-religious ones, and perhaps I should have.

But I think the basic point still stands: pace Richard's implication, being one of only a few people to say something that contradicts the majority view does not make you wrong or a 'moonbat.'

In fact, the opposite is often the case.

"Poor planning on the left ... last Wednesday was welfare Wednesday (Mardi Gras). When the money runs out (for the drugs and booze) they will be ready to protest."

A worthless stereotype.

"Several hundred show up in montreal, are we ever going to get rid of these frog bastards?"

A worthless slur.

"It took them about 5 minutes to pass in front of my office."

Working on a Saturday. Sucks 2 be u.

"North America's news service is PATHETIC."

Maybe you should move to Texas.

"Idiot leftists never get it"

Ditto.

"Sucks to be a moonBat!"

Shouldn't you be posting on LGF? I hear they need a 200,000th repetition of that word.

"Is that M J Fox in disquise."

Another worthless slur.

"It must really suck to be a lefty these days!"

It must really suck to say it must really suck so often.

In closing, it seems nobody here had anything positive to say about the mission, the soldiers, the importance of our presence in Afghanistan, and the good we are doing by staying. Instead all I heard was back-slapping and frothing at the mouth, with superlatives and knee-jerk slurs and slogans.

Brutal.

Robert:
quit taking text out of context -- that's the basis for pretext.

Christian theology is not about numbers, though it might be where you hang your prayer shawl. It is also not exclusively about a "message" which you've represented as some sort of cherry-picked "this is important cause I say it is."

I seem to recall reading that Christ did not condemn the Roman Centurion whose daughter needed Christ's healing. In fact, Christ had some great degree of understanding the Military life and mind and spoke favourably of it.

My take on the Christian thing is that the people of the time were "empowered" by the Holy Spirit. That their Spirit-empowered lifestyle is what overturned the Empire within a few hundred years, max. They sang hymns as they were crucified, and as they were being marched into the Arenas throughout the Empire, to be served up as Christly Kibbles and Bits for the Tigers and the Lions. Again, it wasn't anything to do with numbers, nor with message. It was/is about power. And I'm not talking military might.

Any Canadian Political Leader, who can stand up before a rally in a Canadian City Square and openly declare that there is no chance of "Military victory" in Afghanistan, cannot in the same breath pretend that he supports our troops in theatre. Likewise the followers and supporters of such leaders.

As for F. Juarez? I'd like to see a really in depth follow-up on this guy. I'd also like to know whatever happened to "The Official Secrets Act." I was discharged in '65, and am still under The Act, because of events in some areas of my service.

The demonstrators this week-end have contributed greatly to the comforting and abbetting of the forces our troops confront on a daily basis.

forget the union types....it is the sponsorship of this rally by the CMC that should scare the crap out of everyone...taliban agents anybody?????as well, with al qaida calling for attacks in canada......wake up little snoozy...we are about to taste the wrath of the islamonutjobs, here in canada, in canadian towns, on canadian streets......i am not making this up....GO ARMY......PS..CAN ANYONE SAY FRANCE??

And to think our soldiers are over there fighting and dying to keep those stupid bastards safe.
They can't grasp the fact that if we don't get terrorists where they propagate, we'll have them here, if we haven't already.
The loopy Left, professing to be for love and peace while wanting to give Afghani people back to the brutality of the Taliban. THEY'RE SICK and STUPID.

i would guess the odds are 99% that the taliban/al qaida social group has dilitantes here preparing their dance cards...it is one boogie i will not miss out on...if they think it is tough sledding against a few thousand canuck troops, wait until they enrage the whole nation....remember WWII????it will finally get the average beer/hockey slob engaged!!!!!GO ARMY

Way to go Adrian ,a whole post about pointing out the obvious,something original would be nice,It really does suck .(200,001 what do I win?).

Attention Canadian union members:

Your union dues are used to aid/abet Muslim Islamist terrorists, aka the Taliban, etc.

The Taliban murder women and children.

Are you complicit in murder?

Do you as a union member condone/support the murder of women and children?

Does Taliban Jack Layton/NDP/Canadian Islamic Congress, etc. speak for you? Are these groups a front for Muslim Islamist terrorists?

Withhold your union dues from the Canadian Labour Congress.

Union members:

Stand up for Canada,

the true north, strong and free. ...-

From the website of the Canadian Labour Congress:

Oct 28 day of action! National Action to Bring Home Canadian Troops.. Learn more from the Canadian Peace Alliance>>>

Jack Layton and all his protesting minions seriously need to unpucker themself before they explode from all that trapped gas.

It is fascinating that this damp squib of a protest of all the usual suspects led the news stories. One could identify any number of demonstrations over the past year that drew much larger and more diverse crowds that escaped the notice of the CBC, CTV, and the major papers.

Perhaps the people who make these decisions at the networks and papers were not in attendance at these demonstrations, but the people that they eat lunch with were.

Ok, Does the CBC ever get its facts straight. One this guy was an Officer Cadet doing Basic Officer Candidate Course, He wasn't training for Afghanistan, Two, He wasn't thrown out of the military he asked to be released so stop making it look like he was fired, he asked to get out and the military was nice enough to let him ( Thank God). Three, he was a reservist, they are not ordered to Afgan, they have to volunteer to go and 99% of the time they have to beg to be selected. ( Not knocking the Reserves they are all good people). Four, In one of his comments he said he couldn't order people to go into dangerous situations in a mission he didn't believe in, well it would seem that he wasn't paying attention during training because Infantry Officers Lead their men into combat i.e. the reason the Motto " Follow Me" exists. Five, How could he be a war resistor if he wasn't even selected to be part of the mission. He was doing training that all Combat Officers do. Either CBC owes all of us and this gentleman an apology for twisting the facts or he is person of such character that the Forces is much better off not having on the nominal roll due to his own self importance and inability to under his role in the Forces. Thanks for the ability to vent Kate.

From CBCpravda this morning.
The video shown Saturday came a day after Castro's close friend and ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said the Cuban leader was walking and taking trips at night into the countryside

maybe he was depositing nightsoil for Dr. DavidSusukis little farming paradise.

Ignore the smelly CBC!

but it's so hard to ignore them when they use out tax dollars to make excuses for these pathetic protests. Left unsaid: these protesters care sooooo much about the Afgan people and Canadian troops that a little rain or snow will stop them!

Would someone please point me to the "Canadian Soldiers are murderers" signs? I can't find them in the pictures.

Very first line:

At the anti-war rally in Calgary today, members of one of the local unions were in full force trashing our soldiers with their screams and chants - Canadian soldiers are murderers!

I was at the Calgary support the troops rally on September 30th. (pics and whatnot on my blog)

It was a bittersweet experience. On one of the finest fall days Calgary has ever had we managed to get 350 people in front of city hall to support our troops. This at the epicenter of the right wing conspiracy.....you know ... the Calgary School and all.

Most Canadians don't give a fuck. When the real shit hits the fan it will invariably fall on the trailer park trash and our few devoted professionals to fix things.

I have not posted on my blog since that rally out of disgust. Quite frankly I hope power corp BOB wins the LPC leadership and the next election. Then the choice will be clear.... Right down the sites.

I am ashamed....In am Canadian.

Syncro

Thanks, Matt.

Taliban Jack and his similarly feathered friends will never wilfully admit the importance of the continued sacrifice by those that serve to protect freedom and democracy in Canada.

They don't even acknowledge the Islamic facism that lives within our own borders. When Canada's 9-11 happens (I don't believe it will be an "if"), they'll blame it on Canadians... The real reason, that the West threatens the rule of autocratic thugs in the Islamic world who murderously use religion to control their people will never cross the lips of Canada's left.

It won't cross their lips because Canada's left does not believe in freedom and democracy. Those ideals oppose their own social engineering agenda that demands brutal population control much like the way it's done in Islamic nations.

A day like November 11th has the opposite effect on Canada's left. Sacrificing for freedom and democracy is what Taliban Jack and his cohorts want us to forget.

Well, since my cat didn't know this was clock roll back Sunday, I thought I'd read the blogs SDA and see what was going on up north. Gee, it is nice to see all those students, union people and cadet washouts having a good (if somewhat delusional) time. CBC had a two minute video but CTV had at least ten different reports. Must have been a slow dog day.

Listening to these poor souls, it is hard to believe they are serious. Things like " Canada has a good reason to be there but not in our current capacity". So what capacity should Canada be there in?

A very junior moonie had a Freudian slip when he said " We want to protect out students,... boys and girls". Translation: mommy, I don't want to go.

Then there was the "we want out troops home. We don't want them to be part of a combat mission". Hey lady, that's what troops do, combat.

But the classic quote and the Cindy Sheehan award goes to cadet drop out who joined last March only to find out that canada was only there as " support of US hegemony in the middle east".

God bless those who died and spilled their blood so these protestors are free to speak out in public.

"In closing, it seems nobody here had anything positive to say about the mission, the soldiers, the importance of our presence in Afghanistan, and the good we are doing by staying."

That's odd Adrian - you must have missed the post on the Military Valour Decorations (or any number of others, for that matter). Are you in the habit of generalizing on the basis of one comments thread directed at those who denigrate our military, or do you just have a problem with short term memory?

Speaking of France, who are not pulling their weight where it counts in the current NATO mission, doing the hard stuff, they are not always the most stable of countries. Next time they get their arses in a bind maybe we'll jst say "non, merci".

Those that demonstrated are certainly welcome to it, though being idiots lead by their chief idiot, certain character in Toronto. "Idiot" being a medical terminology for person that insists on being stuid inspite of having normal inteligence.
As for the reall issue, Canadian soldiers are doing good works in that country and it would be real bad if they had to leave.

Speaking of notable lefty Canadian social engineers that dreams to "convince" everyone to move back into log houses and let starvation solve overpopulation:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/wl_canada_nm/canada_life_suzuki_col_1

It's about the fourth or fifth time he's retired. He'll be back in the spring like a bad weed. Of course, Cal2, you already know that.

The CBC crossed the line on Friday and Saturday.

The local morning French and English radio stations, in their "news" bulletins, announced the upcoming demonstrations, stating time and palce locally.

Adrian,

In closing, it seems nobody here had anything positive to say about the mission, the soldiers, the importance of our presence in Afghanistan, and the good we are doing by staying. Instead all I heard was back-slapping and frothing at the mouth, with superlatives and knee-jerk slurs and slogans.

There is a time and place for everything. The previous post honoured some of our heroes. This post is for the moonats. I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused (when I'm not ignoring them).

It must suck to be smelly...