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October 22, 2005

Stephen Lewis Unleashed

It's the title of an article in Macleans in which one anticipates learning that Stephen Lewis (of all people!) is turning on the UN to denounce the child prostitution scandals, the corruption in the Secretary General's office, the betrayal of the Iraqi people by European and Canadian interests under the Oil-For-Food scheme....

It teases;

The United Nations and its agencies have endured their share of criticism over the years, but seldom has such a verbal shelling come from inside the tent. Stephen Lewis is Canada's former UN ambassador, a special envoy to the secretary general on AIDS in Africa, an all-round humanitarian, and quite possibly the world's most ardent multilateralist. But in a series of lectures to be delivered this week, he airs a good bit of the UN's dirty laundry ...

The chain rattles...
Lewis offers no apologies for dispensing tough love. "There is a tendency to think that dissent should be contained or that self censorship is to be applauded," he writes in Race Against Time, a printed version of a text he's to deliver at the annual Massey Lectures in Toronto. "I regard both sentiments as the last refuge of an intellectual wimp."

Cry havoc!
The focus of his attacks: the world community's failure to meet the so-called Millennium Development Goals, targets set by the world leaders five years ago to address the alarming spread of poverty and disease, especially in Africa.

...and let slip the poodle of women's equality.
Lewis keeps a group photo of the UN secretariat, taken in 1985, on the wall of his study in Toronto; of 32 officials appearing in the picture, he observes, not one is a woman.

There is one passage in the piece that has the ring of leftist hypocrisy truth;
[...] over and over, he has left behind starving or disease-ridden children in squalid slums -- often flying to the next international aid conference at some luxury hotel.

Lewis claims he felt an "underlying sense of guilt" about that - not enough, apparently, to bark about it at the time. Though, to be fair, that's hard to do when the fangs are buried in expense-account foie gras.


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Its about time someone gave the UN a good ass whipping. After reading Romeo Dallaire text; "Shake hands with the Devil" one's first reaction is to weep in despair, followed by towering rage and disgust.

From page 6 of his analysis of the failure in Rwanda:

"...Engraved still in my brain is the judgement of a small group of bureaucrats who came to 'assess' the situation in the first weeks of the genocide: 'We will recommend to our governments not to intervene as the risks are high and all that is here are humans and there are too many of them."

Obviously, written by the too stupid to breathe crowd. In my fathers day, statements like that were also made shortly after 1945 by a Canadian officer billeted in his home. The officers quip was: "Hitler's only mistake was he didn't kill all the Jews." Evidently you don't need to wear an SS uniform to be a bona fide asshole. Of course the statement was made right after my father was de-Nazified from the Hitler Youth.

Of course poor Romeo Dallaire didn't realize at the time that the vipers running the UN show were conspiring against him, even though the reason for their existence was human rights.

As my maternal grandfather used to say when referring to government:

"Ihr seid Alle Schweinehunde, bis Ihr den Gegenteil anzeigen.

Translation:

"You are ALL sons of bitches/bastards; until you demonstrate the opposite."

Over the course of the summer, my father and I went canoeing with family in tow. We chatted some about his early youth experiences and he suggested the following:

"When the war (WWII) was over I came to Canada and during the 50s and 60s you really had the sense that mankind was progressing somewhat, but now after the spring Parliamentary session and quotes from Dallaire's text you come to the conclusion in your twilight years that they are all just assholes."

Like Romeo Dallaire he suffered post traumatic stress syndrome. In 1959 while the family was in Montreal, he was dozing shortly after I was born. The train was rumbling along past Lachine.
He leapt from the couch and yelled at the top of his lungs: "Alarm, ALLES RAUS!!" in memory of the 500 pounders coming a little too close to the railway station.

Well if Stephen Lewis can rip them all a new asshole, maybe the world will be a better place.

As too the 800,000 souls lost in Rwanda, the bastards could have easily have turned their machetes on Romeo Dallaire and we wouldn't even know about it. Sometimes life is not what you achieve but what you overcome. Perhaps you just survive so you can tell your story, and pray that the land of "Wooly Bully" doesn't arrive in your back yard.

60 years after WWII and they keep serving up the same old tired excuses about not intervening. If you follow the money trail, you usually find why all this shit happens.

"Oh you need food to survive? Oh not till I get my cut of the profits. And by the way your bullet will come later." They were bastards then, they are still bastards now.

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht at October 22, 2005 1:52 AM

WARNING: Tedious socialist drivel alert, posted only for context:

Shitty Moments in Ontario History:

Stephen Lewis Report on Racism in Ontario to the Premier --- Summer 1992 (commissioned after 8(!) shootings in three years in the TO black community. My how times have changed). Excerpts:

" As a result of the overall experience, I have four initial observations to make.

* First, what we are dealing with, at root, and fundamentally, is anti-Black racism. While it is obviously true that every visible minority community experiences the indignities and wounds of systemic discrimination throughout Southern Ontario, it is the Black community which is the focus. It is Blacks who are being shot, it is Black youth that is unemployed in excessive numbers, it is Black students who are being inappropriately streamed in schools, it is Black kids who are disproportionately dropping-out, it is housing communities with large concentrations of Black residents where the sense of vulnerability and disadvantage is most acute, it is Black employees, professional and non-professional, on whom the doors of upward equity slam shut..

# Third, there was another emotion that was palpable, and it was fear. Mostly, of course, it was from members of the Black community, and in particular, mothers. The eight shootings over the last three years, and the sense, real or imagined, of unpredictable police encounters with Black youth has many families very frightened...

"The Employment Equity legislation should be introduced for first reading before the end of June, and if the session is for some reason prolonged, second reading should proceed. Whatever the time-table for early readings and committee consideration, the Bill should be proclaimed by December 31, 1992. Furthermore, the most senior levels of the OPS should be mobilized to ensure rigorous implementation."
...
Everywhere, the refrain of the Toronto students, however starkly amended by different schools and different locations, was essentially the refrain of all students. Where are the courses in Black history? Where are the visible minority teachers? Why are there so few role models? Why do our white guidance counsellors know so little of different cultural backgrounds? Why are racist incidents and epithets tolerated? Why are there double standards of discipline? Why are minority students streamed? Why do they discourage us from University? Where are we going to find jobs? What's the use of having an education if there's no employment? How long does it take to change the curriculum so that we're a part of it?

The students were fiercely articulate and often deeply moving. Sometimes angry. They don't understand why the schools are so slow to reflect the broader society. One bright young man in a Metro east high school said that he had reached grade thirteen, without once having a book by a black author on the curriculum.
...
* The Minister of Education, through his new Assistant- Deputy Minister, establish a strong monitoring mechanism to follow-up the implementation of multicultual and anti- racism policies in the School Boards of Ontario.
* The Parliamentary-Assistant to the Premier, Ms Zanana Akande, continue to pursue, with unrelenting tenacity, the revision of curriculum at every level of education, so that it fully reflects the profound multicultural changes in Ontario society.
* The Minister of Education, in conjunction with the minister of Colleges and Universities, review admission requirements to the Faculties of Education in Ontario, in order to ensure that the Faculties make every effort to attract and enroll qualified visible minority candidates. To this end, the proposals of the Teacher Education Council of Ontario should be given serious consideration.
* The Minister of Education must monitor the implementation of Employment Equity in the Schools of Ontario, as closely as he monitors its implementation in his own Ministry.
* The Minister of Colleges and Universities examine carefully the representative nature of Boards which govern both Colleges and Universities so that they reflect the changed society of Ontario.
* The Minister of Colleges and Universities give serious consideration to the race relations policy proposed by the Council of Regents of the Community Cololege system, with a view to using it, with whatever appropriate amendment, as a model for post-secondary institutions.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6174/lewis.html

Posted by: Anonalogue at October 22, 2005 5:10 AM

Ah! It's always a bit rich to hear the patronizing sermons of champagne socialists like Lewis, Klein, Mcquaig et. al...

Posted by: markv at October 22, 2005 9:54 AM

"Cry havoc!"

And let loose the dogs of bore.

Posted by: JJM at October 22, 2005 3:47 PM

Truely word from on high.

Ole Stevie has been to the mountain and he has seen the promised land. He has seen the trough is in danger, credibility crumbling, corroded.

He's a laugh...again.

Posted by: eastern paul at October 22, 2005 10:54 PM

Stephen Lewis & Bob Rae & Roy Romanow & Martin & Dosanjh have built a killing sick care machine in Canada. Some parents are taking note. Throw the left out. >>>>

Health ministers accosted by parents
TORONTO (CP) - Health ministers were confronted Saturday by desperate parents who say governments are condemning their children to death by refusing to cover drug treatments for rare disorders. >>
cnews

Posted by: maz2 at October 23, 2005 6:30 AM

Its time to kick the whole damn UN out of this country its a whole wretched nest of vipers and hive of scum and villany why should we have anything more to do with the wretched UN?

Posted by: curlew at October 23, 2005 2:28 PM
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