June 6, 2019: Reader Tips

Historical Events Reader Tips 74 Comments

Today is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day on France’s Normandy Coast. Here are historical Canadian, American, and British radio broadcasts from that critical day in the 20th Century. A longer assortment of broadcasts, complete with photos, can be seen here.

When you read this, yours truly will be standing on Juno Beach in Courseulles-sur-Mer, capturing photos & video from the day’s commemoration ceremonies. I will do my best to post as much as possible in the coming days.

Your tips are appreciated, as always.

74 Replies to “June 6, 2019: Reader Tips”

  1. Robert
    Good for you! Would like to see some pix.
    I just returned from Edmonton visiting dad..96 yrs. He was decked out in a 75th D Day ball cap and tee today.
    If you run into Julia “Jakes Gift” Mackey, please say hello from Clive. She is there with Dirk.
    Thanks,
    Clive

    2. This is very interesting to me as a beneficiary of Treaty 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWT9zhKcuJo

      The link the subject of Menzoid’s interview made with his community and the treaty people is fascinating. A subject worth looking into, namely: Is Canada’s Tortured Relationship with Indians the Country’s Achilles Heal? Is it being Exploited by the followers of the ROP (Religion of Peace)?

      How many in SDA nation have observed the growing presence of ROPers as administrators, consultants and Indian Act Industry beneficiaries? Genuine question. If you have observed this please respond.

      By the way The Menzoid should win the highest award for Journalism in Canada. He has done more reporting in dangerous situations than anyone else I can think of. The interview linked is just another example of his great body of work.

  3. Angel posted this speech in the thread “With friend like this” in response to a comment on wether there is any good reason to continue the fight for our confederated Canada, and lastly it should also be posted here in honour of all the young lost souls who fought in D Day.

    For the 75th Anniversary of D Day I give you Angel’s comment.

    William Lyon Mackenzie King

    I speak to you tonight as the head of the government of a country which, for almost two years, has been actively and unitedly at war. In accepting your invitation, I have not been unmindful that, though it was extended by Canadian friends, I, nevertheless, would be speaking in a country other than my own, and to citizens or residents of a nation which is at peace — or at least, officially at peace.

    You have asked me to tell you something of the causes and ideals which led us to take up arms; something of what Canada is doing, and has been doing, as a nation at war; something, too, of our hopes for the world which will rise when peace comes again to bless mankind.

    The Canadian people entered this war of their own free will. As one people, we made the momentous decision by the free vote of a free Parliament. Our declaration of war was signed by the King upon the recommendation of His Majesty’s Canadian Ministers. The King’s proclamation was in the name of Canada. We, in Canada, were as free to make war or to abstain from making war, as the people of the United States are free to make war or to abstain from making war.

    The decision of the Canadian Parliament was given as soon after the outbreak of war as Parliament could be called together. It was a prompt and united decision. There was no hesitation. There was no compulsion. We knew humanity’s cry was upon us all. We took our stand as a free and independent people who wished to do their utmost to thwart aggression, to maintain freedom, to crush the cursed creed of Nazism, to preclude world domination by any power, and to end forever, if that were possible, the substitution of force for reason as an instrument of national policy.

    Our people went to war for the sake of Canada, but not for Canada alone. We went to war as well for the sake of Britain, for North American civilization which we are proud to defend, and for the sake of that humanity which is above all nations. We saw clearly that Canadian freedom, that North American freedom, was one with British freedom.

    We went to war at Britain’s side because we believed hers to be the right side. I do not hesitate to say that Britain or no Britain, Canada would never have entered the war if, at the outset, our country had not seen the issue clearly for itself and believed it to be what all free peoples know it to be today.

    In our unhesitating decision, and our action which followed, we were true to ourselves. For if any nation was ever inspired by high ideals, unselfish motives and a passion for human freedom and social and national justice, that land was and is Canada. We have a national history without stain of aggression, exploitation, or territorial greed. We have worked always in patience for peace.

    In our dealings with other nations, we have been amongst the foremost exponents of conciliation, mediation and arbitration; and the most consistent advocates of international good-will and understanding.

    We are nationally minded because, as Canadians, we are free and independent. But we see no escape, no safety, no refuge in national isolation. We are internationally minded because our people know that a threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. We know that there are no longer any geographical defenses strong enough in themselves to prevent the onset of aggression. We know that tyrannical ambition, once it overleaps itself, will overleap every boundary whether it be mountain or sea.

    Knowing these things, and realizing the strength of the enemy, we entered the conflict — English-speaking Canadians, French-speaking Canadians — as a united nation.

    Don’t let any one dare to tell you that French-speaking Canada is not on the side of freedom in this war. The union of the children of New France and their English-speaking brothers which fashioned the Canadian nation remains unbroken and will always so remain.

    The generosity of our citizenship into which men of many races have been freely welcomed, has been repaid by unquestioned loyalty to our institutions and our cause.

    As soon as the cloud on the horizon, no larger than Hitler’s hand, resolved itself into the storm of conflict, we determined that we would not wait until the enemy was at our gates. We went to meet him at sea, in the air and on land. Against total war, we have brought and shall continue to bring total effort.

    For nearly two years we have been at war. In the war we have had from the beginning two major tasks. We continue to play two major parts. Like Britain, we are a nation at war with all the power of our resources and all the strength of our will. For nearly two years we have gathered our strength as we have taken our allotted place in the conflict. Our soldiers, our sailors and our airmen are with Britain and her other allies in the front line of battle. Our forces on land, at sea and in the air have been and are being equipped and maintained at our own expense. In addition, like the United States, we are helping Britain by sending to her, to the limit of our capacity, the products of our factories, our farms, our forests and our mines.

    The task of arming and fighting as a nation is our own free contribution to the cause of freedom. The task of aiding Britain with munitions and money is an additional effort which Canada is also making for the common cause.

    With the United States, and like the United States, we are helping to provide the tools. With Britain and like Britain, we are doing our utmost to help finish the job.

    I have tried to tell you why. We believe that everything which free men value and cherish, on this side of the grave, is in peril in this war. The right of men, rich and poor, to be treated as men; the right of men to make the laws by which they shall be governed; the right of men to work where they will, at what they will; the right of womankind to the serenity and sanctity of the home; the right of children to play in safety under peaceful heavens; the right of old men and women to the tranquillity of their sunset; the right to speak the truth in our hearts; the right to worship in our own way the God in whom we believe.

    We know that if we lose this fight, all fruits will wither and fall from the tree of liberty. But we shall not lose it. We shall not lose it because the people of Britain stand and will stand in undaunted fortitude and magnificent resistance. We shall not lose it because, although some nations may lie crushed today, their souls can never be destroyed. We shall not lose it because we, on this continent of North America, who have been the pioneers of the frontiers of freedom, have already begun to stamp out the prairie fire of tyranny, anarchy and barbarism which every day draws closer to our homes.

    For today, whether we will it or not, we are all roof watchers and fire fighters. As Canadians, we are proud to fight the flames with the people of Britain who have maintained for free men their faith. in freedom, and kept inviolate the majesty of the human spirit.

    As Canadians, we are proud of our great and good neighbor, and grateful to know, as all the world knows, that she is with us heart and soul; that her genius, her skill and her strength work against time for those who fight for freedom.

    Some day peace will crown the sacrifices of all. When that day comes the peoples of the British Commonwealth and the peoples of the United States will be found at each other’s side, united more closely than ever in one great endeavor to undo the wrongs that have been done mankind. For it is, I believe, the unshaken and unshakable purpose of both that there shall be established upon this earth, now so rapidly becoming hideous with the blackened ruins of civilization itself, a freedom wider, and more deeply founded, than ever before in human history.

    Surely we have all come to see that the present conflict is something more than a war between Germany and other powers; that it is “a struggle between permanent and irreconcilable claimants for the soul of man.” On the one side stands spiritual freedom with its high regard for human values, the dignity of manhood, the worth of honest toil and the sacredness of human personality. On the other side is the spirit of Nazism and Fascism with their “coarse material standards,” their “cult of power as an end in itself,” their “subordination of personality to mechanism” and their “worship of an elaborate and soul-destroying organization.” This false and evil spirit has, in our own day, in our own and other lands, permeated all too deeply many phases of social and industrial life. It must be the purpose of our high endeavor to destroy it for all time.

    While that work is being done, it will be ours, as well, to do all that lies within us to make supreme upon the earth that friendship among men and nations which has ever lain hidden in the heart of mankind.

    1. The fool used the term genocide which now has triggered investigations of Canada by various groups around the world .

      Looks good on the jackass. Make him answer to it.

      1. Well idiocy, arrogance & overstatement..? Genetic traits of the Trudeau Family.
        Pierre used the killing of one guy (Pierre LaPorte), as a pretext to enacting the War Measures Act..ffs.

        This familys genetics should be destroyed.

        1. Why is Pierre Trudeau’s step son son there Both he and his stepfather despise the military. It’s too bad the other world leaders did not run this Ahole off

  7. http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/ontario-to-cap-public-sector-wage-increases/ar-AACrPcc?ocid=ientp
    The Public Sector Unions aren’t getting a wage freeze in Ontario, but a 1% per year cap. They’ll be protesting like there’s no tomorrow. Andrea Whorebath of the ENDP says that its terrible. The Unions say they’ll be protesting, that’ll it’ll be a long hot summer.
    “Ontario currently spends around $72 billion annually on public sector compensation.”

    IMHO Ford and the Cons aren’t doing near enough fast enough. The deficit is over 13 billion. The debt is over 346.4 BILLION.
    Except for extreme emergencies it should be illegal for any government at any level to deficit spend.
    #OntarioDecline

    Thanks to Veterans we are still free.

  9. Imagine, people died to preserve the “Canadian” way of life and now it has all but vanished.

  11. On the 50’th anniversary I was in England with the Canadian army and I was sent to a memorial ceremony in Oxford at what had been the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. I had lunch and drinks and got to meet with and talk with the guys who were on Eisenhower’s staff at the time. Very cool.

    1. “Guys.” You refer to men as “guys.” And “cool.” Please use the language of men, not of middle-school boys.

  12. In case your wondering why no member of the Royal Family were at the Juno Beach ceremonies this morning, the CBC informs us that Trudeau’s government didn’t invite them. I guess he didn’t want any colonial attitudes present. As a person who lost two uncles in the war, my father fought in the war, and I spent my life in the military, I found it insulting that this little boy child is prime minister.

    1. Every single day I find it insulting that this little boy child is Prime Minister. Thank a Liberal.

      1. ha ha !!!

        watched some of the live telecast.
        when the potato spoke I turded (note the spelling) off the sound.
        and proceeded to imagine a kraut mortar shell blowing his empty head to bits.

        I do not say this about *any* politician ever in the world. I may detest their communistic actions and demonic evil,
        but the TURDoo 2.0 I really do hate him.

    2. First, Pierre dances and mocks Her Majesty, now Justin just ignores her and her family.

      The idea of “honour” has officially been deleted from the Liberal Government’s protocols.

      And we wonder why the next generations are stumbling and falling like drunk and stoned party revelers.

      Shame is no longer a virtue.

    3. If ye break faith with us who die
      We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
      In Flanders fields.

  13. While the major newspapers are carrying stories on their websites about the D Day activities, Trudeau’s Toronto Star has basically ignored it. The main story is about the basketball team and lots of new Ford is Hitler stories. And Lorrie Goldstein has a good story at the Toronto Sun website on the Cooper censorship.

    2. The same thing that happened to Bob Rae’s NDP party happened to Wynne’s Liberal party. But Wynne lost because she was a girl and Rae lost because he was an incompetent twit.

  15. Two recent links criticizing our beloved CBC:
    — the Ceeb promotes the sexualisation of children, including polygamy:
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tax-funded-canadian-broadcaster-uses-snapchat-to-introduce-kids-to-sex-drugs-polygamy

    — good column stressing the CBC as hating free-enterprise:
    https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/william-watson-the-cbc-apparently-stands-for-capitalism-bashing-corporation

    (Btw: hate to name-drop, but in the early 1980s, as a graduate student at Queens U., some in the economics department would play summer pick-up basketball at the nearby sportsplex (two buildings away). Bill Watson taught a course at summer school, and was part of the group. Just want to say it was difficult guarding him. I am 6’1″, he is 6’7″. Got to meet with him at the occasional conference ever since, and he is a class human being — always anxious to help grad students find work, always willing to talk to me).

  16. May all those who died saving humanity from the globalist experiment in “national socialism” rest in peace.

    May we, their sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, yet avenge them against those who bankrolled Hitler’s rise to power—and died in bed, unrepentant and unpunished.

  17. The Appeals Court Pauses investigation into Trudeau and Agha Khan and Conflict of interest etc. This has to be held off until after election. SNC Lavalin is pretty much buried now with the help of Government Media, Trudeau is rebounding against the Steer. All is looking good again for the Wee Groper. The tingle is returning to the Soccer Mom’s and eastern bastards. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-court-of-appeal-pauses-investigation-into-trudeaus-vacation-with-aga/

    1. I don’t think his calling Canadians genociders will do him any good. It is grossly insulting, and surely even the Natives must recognize that the enquiry was just for Liberal political gain.

  18. I was on formal parade one day when I met a man in a legion jacket and tie. The man had a rack of service medals across his barrel chest that was to say the least impressive. For some reason after the ceremony was over he decided to talk to me over a few beers in the officers mess and I learned of his history. He had gone in on the first wave of D Day. His feet had just cleared the ramp when a machine gun bullet ripped through his chest. The impact rendered him unconscious and his soon to be lifeless body began drifting back toward England. A hospital ship saw his body and fished it out of the sea. They laid his body with too many others on the deck and covered it with a sheet. A few minutes later the ‘dead body’ sat upright and bellowed “I’m not dead yet”. The medics tended his wounds and eventually his missing ribs were replaced by a steel plate that gave him a permanent barrel chest. He stayed on in the Canadian Army and fought in Holland then in Korea. I remember him on June 6 every year along with three of my uncles who also waded ashore that fateful day. Three uncles that fought from D Day to VE D without receiving a scratch from their enemy.

    1. Joe

      Awesome…!! My father spend his War years as a SLAVE for KRUPP in Central Germany – picked up off the street in Haarlem (1941) – (my birthplace), and Liberated in ~April 45. He spoke of it the odd time and a glaze would come over his eyes…he never held any love whatsover for Germans…..EVER.

      Particularly when the German Govt back in the early 2000’s were paying out reparations to said slave labourers – He got shafted due to a lack of proper-correct “papieren”. I think if he could at that time, he mighta nuked the MoFo’s. Being an Oil n Gas Inspector, I know that particular feeling – having worked little since PM Dipshit came to power – He being just another Fkn NAZI.

      Only good thing to come of his application..? He wrote a letter to the org that represented Wartime Slaves about his being rejected. A year later he got a letter form some guy in Italy, also a wartme slave and surprisingly, from the same Kamp – his lower Bunkmate for 3 1/2 years. Brought tears to my eyes when he told me that…unreal..!!

      THEY Will NEVER Forget
      …..Best we don’t either.

      1. One of my uncles told me about liberating a slave kamp. He never said which one, he just spoke of the ‘living’ conditions the slaves were forced to endure.

  20. Has anyone else started to out right laugh at the Conservative Party of Canada? The astro turfing troll attempts here are almost as good as Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories.

    The best they have is “we’re” the only party that has a chance of defeating Trudeau. It is literally all they have. It is the only argument any of them have offered for months now. Regardless of the question asked.

    What did you have for supper last night?
    — “don’t split the vote, only we can defeat Trudeau”.
    Do you prefer dogs or cats?
    — “Max is the problem, he is just not a team player. Only the CPoC can get Trudeau out of office”
    Do you have any policy that is different from the Liberal Party?
    — “Trudeau is an international embarrassment and you have to vote CPoC to get rid of him”
    I asked you what your policy was, why won’t you answer a simple question?
    — “if you vote for anyone but us, you are guaranteeing another Trudeau term”
    Seriously dude, I am not asking about Trudeau, I am asking about YOUR policy.
    — “We are the only possible alternative to Trudeau, don’t split the vote”.

    1. Someone let the dogs out
      They’ll show where the truth is
      The grass is always greener
      Where the dogs are shitting, oh yeah.
      Chris Cornell

      The Conservatives are basically telling us the grass is greener.

  21. I hope SDAers take some time to read or watch some D-day coverage today, and reflect on that day. Just want to mention that I hope our Canadian media cartel, in days going forward, discuss the difficulties facing the Canadian army in the days and months following the Normandy invasion. Most of us realize it was a tough go for Canadians back then. I wonder how much media coverage will be devoted the war in Europe beyond D-day.

    1. Having been born during the war, I immersed myself in the history for many years. My father though he served, was never sent overseas. He never thought of himself as veteran, yet was given an honour guard ceremony by the local legion when died.

      1. My father served in Patton’s army as a radio operator in a battalion artillery unit. The battalion commander was gung-ho, and would often send his commander half-track into places where it didn’t belong. At the very end of the war, when the unit was outside of Munich, Germany, word got out that there was a death camp nearby (the Buchanwald camp). My father’s gung-ho commander ordered his half-track to go into the death camp (with my father in it), even though artillery units had no business being at a camp, or in any developed urban area for that matter.

        All I know is that my father had a nervous breakdown a week later, and spent two months at a mental hospital before being honorably discharged. All of his life he was difficult to get along with, but could function decently well. There was no PTSD back then being discussed.

        My late mom was a Spanish refugee, a teenager, whose family fled to Algeria during the Spanish civil war. She often told stories to me as a boy about her brittle relations with Vichy French personel. She met my late father there, and came home as a war bride.

        For these reasons, I am a product of WWII, and read a lot about WWII, and the run-up to it.

  23. Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    “If you are accused of hate speech under the Criminal Code, you are presumed innocent. Not so under S. 13, the former human rights hate-speech provision. The onus was on you to prove your words hurt no one’s feelings nor upset any group’s theological or cultural sensitivities.”

    Toronto Sun
    @TheTorontoSun
    GUNTER: Why Canada’s hate speech provisions were wrong then and still wrong now (link: http://bit.ly/2K3rx3h) bit.ly/2K3rx3h

    https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/gunter-why-canadas-hate-speech-provisions-were-wrong-then-and-still-wrong-now/amp?__twitter_impression=true

    https://mobile.twitter.com/MaximeBernier/status/1136604377781874688

    1. As per Max’s Sun link above the Sun reported

      So twisted and mistaken was the CHRC’s view of free expression that one of its investigators, Dean Steacy, even testified, “freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value … It’s not my job to give value to an American concept.”

      1. “Investigators used assumed names to post racist messages on websites, for instance, then charged the sites’ webmasters for promoting hate if the phoney messages weren’t removed fast enough.”
        Good luck with that, Kate.
        “In one case, CHRC investigators even hacked into a private citizen’s Wi-Fi router so they could post damning messages without it being obvious they were using government computers. They never went to the trouble of obtaining a warrant, of course.”
        #CanadianDecline

  25. Mark Friesen #PPC Candidate #YXE

    Great commentary provided by
    @CanadaPoli2
    regarding the absolutely despicable position the two authoritarians took against free speech and how they reacted to Max defending free speech. “Wow.” I’ll say. Check it out.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8eAD_lnphrs

  27. Pro tip:

    I don’t know how many of you listen to National Post Radio. I haven’t noticed mention of it here but perhaps I’ve missed it.

    I listen to Anthony Furey in the mornings 7-10. It’s a show made for conservatives and SDA. For example the panel this morning consisted of Barbara Kay and Brian Lilley. Babs called bongo an idiot.

    I listen via XM sat radio but I think you can stream it live somewhere and I believe it has an app.

    Check it out, you will like Furey’s program. The rest of the lineup is unremarkable.

    1. Thanks, will look for it.
      Just a comment on Anthony Furey, he used to appear on the now defunct SUN NEWS channel which Pierre Karl Peladeau used to own. Used to listen to this channel and bounce over to FOX NEWS. (Still groaning that SUN NEWS is gone, especially now that the Liberals have bought off the SLUTTY MSM.)

      Suddenly, many are turning against Trudeau. Finally.
      Oh, the horror. / s Snicker.

      Following is a repost of Ezra’s interview with Conrad Black promoting CB’s new book. In it, he too, surprisingly, talked against the little PM Baby. In the past he said that JT was a nice enough young fellow and then bit his tongue. Now, he let slip his true thoughts: that the tax on carbon / the Green movement / Climate fear mongering is utter “nonsense”, and just another excuse for another tax. When the pocketbook gets a wallop, the truth comes out, even if you’re a billionaire.
      In case you missed it, it is a good interview:
      https://youtu.be/k4qzacT_PW4

      1. Your probably right. I have an XM subscription. I like it because you can get radio when your up in the bush. Came in handy in the arctic.

        Not sure if you can stream it with the App?

        Furey has all the old Sun News crowd on as well as other conservative guests. Beats the hell outa terrestrial radio.

    1. Here’s my favourite: “you’re a fuckin’ rat-eater scumbag fuck off”
      Because its so accurate.
      I wouldn’t give Boissonault the steam of my piss if he was dying of thirst.

  29. I was expecting this morning that Groper would have thanked women, muslims, and homosexuals for storming the beach of Normandy and saving peoplekind.

  30. my fambly war history?
    none.
    NONE.
    the old man, oh he was really gung ho about sending the lads over to the jungle in ‘nam.
    NONE of the fambly men did a titch of time in the armed services.
    a great uncle was a goddamn draft dodger in WW I or whatever. mebbe II, I was single age when I learned that.

    so, ya dad, fine and dandy *sumbuddy else* takes up the challenge whilst YOU stayed home
    guzzling your goddamn beer and siring the siblings.

    Im still waiting for my chance to make up for lost time.
    I learned I have a def about avg aim, has to do with my photography experience actually, learning which of the 2 images in my mind to focus on when I keep BOTH eyes open. and THAT has to do with focusing on the ‘big picture’ with one eye and the firearm sights with the other.

    anything can happen given enough time.
    if youre gonna be bested, well, *take as many of them with you as you can*.

  31. Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    Big Brother is alive and lives in Ottawa.

    GOLDSTEIN: In 1984, members of the “Inner Party” retroactively censor official transcripts, expunging, in the name of Big Brother, language the Party deems offensive, or subversive, by sending it down the “memory hole.”

    https://mobile.twitter.com/sunlorrie/status/1136427880571949057

    Maxime Bernier
    @MaximeBernier

    By foolishly accusing Canada of being responsible for a genocide, Trudeau equates one of the world’s most peaceful countries to history’s most bloodthirsty regimes, insults Canadians, and loses all credibility when defending human rights abroad.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1135956787809738753

  32. Ezra Levant
    @ezralevant
    A Canadian dad has been ordered by a court not to “misgender” his daughter who now says she’s a boy. We spoke to the dad’s lawyer, who “misgendered” her in his interview, and now he’s facing court action, and we’re facing demands to delete the video:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7jYXegcHKU

    1. seems Normandy isnt the only place where land mines were and now ARE a problem.
      migawd. what demonic insanity is it facing ginormous legal consequences for something so trivial as a goddamn pronoun.
      must have sumptin’ to do with unfettered powah.
      hmmmm. that rings a bell with the Normandy thing too eh? herr adolph and HIS unfettered powah?

  33. Robert, visit the “cimetière canadien normandie”, sign the guest book in the wall safe of the right hand entry portico.
    Many visitors and commentaries.
    My father’s twin brother rests there.

    1. Probably the librano weasel Grant Mitchell. He’s a former Alberta librano who da liddle thief appointed. An enemy of the people.

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