Yesterday Sun News TV’s Brian Lilley interviewed transplanted American agitator / community organizer Luam Kidane (h/t ‘batb’). Warning: Severe nausea may ensue.
Just imagine for a moment if a right-wing conservative came up from America and started spouting such drivel. The Left in Canada would go absolutely apoplectic. And rightly so by the way. But because one of their own is saying such things, it’s all perfectly fine.
SDA regular ‘lookout’ had some brilliant commentary on this matter:
Last night, watching SUN TV’s Byline with Brian Lilley, who exercised ADMIRABLE restraint, my husband and I were stunned too by Luam Kidane of the radical, brain dead group “No One’s Illegal”—well, we weren’t really surprised because this entitled, arrogant, ignorant, and stupid ninny is typical of a critical mass of the brainwashed “Whatever Generation”.
In even and silky tones, she insisted that Lilley adhere to HER definition of words—he didn’t—and she refused to answer Lilley’s main question (paraphrased), “Do you agree that Canada should have no immigration policy and no borders, so that anyone may enter Canada?”
Kidane finally admitted that, in fact, she and her group do not acknowledge Canada as a sovereign nation at all. They think it’s illegal, occupied territory, “Turtle Island”. Lilley then asked her if she ever used the services of this non-country—like the library, public transit, or the health care system. Kidane demurred. I wish that Lilley had pressed her on that one—and had asked her who was supposed to pay for services if the whole world has access to Canada and just anyone can enter any time.
Kidane’s ideas are radically and certifiably insane but there are a whole lot of other “youngsters” just like her, whose brains have been programmed by the lefties who run our education systems from kindergarten to post graduate levels. These people are dangerous. I don’t think breaking the law to achieve their revolutionary ends would bother them at all. In fact, I’ve just checked their web site and it seems they’ve probably already broken the law. Here’s part of this group’s April, 2011 blog message (note that Lilley’s question, which Kidane refused to answer, is unambiguously answered here):
“ . . . Close to one year ago, No One is Illegal joined with thousands on the streets of Toronto and dared to dream of a world without borders and fences. We marched with Indigenous people, migrants, poor people, people of colour, queer and trans people, feminists, disabled people, anarchists, anti-poverty activists, rank and file labour activists, anti-capitalists, environmental justice activists, and community organizers to confront the G20 leaders in Toronto . . . .”
Read the rest.
Just… wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard or read such drivel.
Canada is an occupying country and an illegitimate entity??? The state has nothing to do with the provision of services??? Canada is a white supremacist nation with an exploitative policy infrastructure???
Incredible.
I’ll agree to open borders when Kidane’s group agrees with no gun regulation and no social assistance programs.
Which, incidentally, is the central flaw at the core of Kidane’s group: They have complete and utter contempt for the wealth of the working people of all nations. Their concept of human respect is one-way only; from the citizen to the immigrant, always.
Lilley’s question about whether or not Kidane avails of services was pure gold.
Another example of a leftie with too much education and no common sense.
“We marched with Indigenous people, migrants, poor people, people of colour, queer and trans people, feminists, disabled people, anarchists…”
I for one would LOVE to see these people living under anarchy. If nation states are illegal, then anarchy’s the obvious alternative, yet these freeloaders can’t exist for five minutes without their precious state benefits paid for by others.
There must be something in the Prime Directive that warned us about making contact with whatever species that excuse for a sentient being came from.
She sounds like a graduate of the marxist’s school of communism, she reminds me of someone brainwashed from birth. Her progressive speakeazze was gagging, she didn’t deviate from her marxist script atall.
La la la la la la. Smurfette with large earings waiting for Gargamel to implement his social policies.
I have never before seen anyone so stupid on television .
Under that gob of hair there’s a massive mess of misfiring neurons. What came out of her mouth is downright nauseating.
Rose nails it @ 9:56. This interview was a perfect example of anarcho-communist talk.
Earth is an occupied planet … What’s her point?
Gads, somewhere someone popped the cork!
I think we should petition the gov’t to transport her to Africa or the ME where womyn [sic] of colour really need her…..where all her really good work could be accomplished. Good idea Loki.
Weapons grade stupid.
Frankly I’m shocked that a young girl this insulated can be brain washed with toxic ideologies which have the effect of making their indoctrinate appear brain damaged. These fringe political cliques should be treated as death cults and the people they brain wash should be institutionalized until they are deprogrammed.
She proclaims this country is illegitimate and on occupied land; perhaps our trusty immigration folks can show her that there is an exit door for unwanted American community organizers. Maybe she can then grasp the concept of sovereignty.
“She proclaims this country is illegitimate and on occupied land….”
I suppose she is leaving then.
I’m surprised Lilley went so easy on her… he could have totally, completely skewered her. (worse than he did)
Although I guess she didn’t need any help in making herself look like an idiot, it would have been nice to see Lilley really give it to her.
I’m surprised that so many people accept the “Turtle Island” story. If you ask for proof then you’re told that it was verbal tradition. Show me the first time the expression, used in this way, was recorded in a book. I’d say not before the 1960s.
Wow, just wow…..
Brian Lilley is not the guy who should be interviewing this nut ball. Can we import Megyn Kelly for the next interview.
Ah, but only white people from Europe who have been here for at least a generation are illegal, guys. We are the nasty white-supremacist despoilers and disposessors, MWUHAHAHAAA! Kneel, subjects, beneath my glossy jackboot!
Where I live, there are thousands of lobotomized shitferbrains like Kidane. Thousands. It’s the world upside down. And Oz, lest we forget, there has already been one bombing campaign out of this city, which directly affected my family. My sod-hut cottonwood-log-felling and house-building pioneer family that has never harmed anyone.
Oh yeah – Kidane and her ilk are the enemy all right – thank goodness they like publicity so much.
Michael H Anderson: “Where I live, there are thousands of lobotomized shitferbrains like Kidane.”
Where do you live?
At the University of Toronto (and I suspect other universities), this isn’t even extreme. This is the common agenda pursued by most of our student unions, and this is the sort of rhetoric that’s shoved down our throat in humanities and social science classes. Try writing a sociology or history paper that disagrees with this woman and you may as well just write “D-” all over it before handing it in to save the TA/Prof the trouble of doing it themselves.
Where is ‘Anarchist Town’? After all these years of their stupid bullshit one would think they created one? Annoying government paid idiots.
Not every university student is a useful idiot stooge. I can understand that a lot of my classmates are gullible and easily manipulated, but please don’t paint us all with that brush.
SUN NEWS READS SDA!
Last night, Brian Lilley gave an on-air hat tip to Small Dead Animals during his show, Byline. He mentioned that he’d received a gigantic amount of feedback to this No One Is Illegal story, and that, thanks to Small Dead Animals [h/t batb two days ago] he’d learned that Kidane is American.
(I think Lilley’s show is excellent and it’s fast becoming one of our favourites—but I think his researchers need to be more on the ball. E.g., How could they have missed that Kidane isn’t even Canadian? This info is easily found on the internet. Likewise, re the Insite story: its own web site admits that, despite nursing supervision, there are 200 OVERDOSES a year. Huh? I also think that the fact that the addicts supply their own, illegal “medication” should have been really emphasized. It was mentioned only in passing and the implications could easily have been overlooked: many, if not most, of the ILLEGAL substances taken into Insite have been acquired by THEFT. All it takes is one good anecdote—like Jack Layton mentioning Iggy’s 70% absence rate—to severely wound, if not obliterate one’s opponent! Thorough research provides the ammunition.)
lookout – as someone who hangs around SDA a lot I do find that flattering (the idea that someone who knows someone who knows Mark Steyn might have read one of my comments sends my heart a-flutter), but the fact is that a very simple Google search reveals the fact that Lou-Anne (she’ll always be Lou-Anne to me) is a yank. So you’re right, that’s slightly weird.
Anyway, I have to get Sun. If I could get Sun and the Turner Classic Movie Network I might start watching TV again.
Yes, despite not being perfect (!), SUN’s a breath of fresh air: they cover topics straight up—they call it “straight talk”—and they don’t give the Conservatives an easy time. Ezra was really tough—and rightly so—with “I’m James Moore and You’re Not”. I guarantee SUN will be worth your while. We haven’t watched TV news, except for FOX, for years: the “all left, all the time” news is very bad for one’s blood pressure.
Since I posted in this thread the other day, I actually watched the entire interview with Luam Kidane.
Her most obvious contradiction — that if you believe no one is illegal then you can’t argue at the same time that “Turtle Island” is “occupied” — was pointed out by Sarnia Jim on May 18 @ 10:18 p.m.
The other thing that struck me was that, in response to any question from Brian Lilley, Kidane would always answer that she wanted him to define or clarify his terms. However, she herself would throw around the usual left-wing nonsense like “dignity”, “exploitation”, and even “race” without any clarification at all.
It is a standard leftist tactic to use vague and undefinable terms like “dignity” when pushing their irrational agenda.
And as always, opposition to capitalism is biting the hand that feeds.
The Marxists’ goal (to use a religious reference) is to rule in Hell rather than work productively and be happy in Heaven.