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Monday February 18,
2008
In "the crucible of war"
America needs a
war
president and by golly it's going to get one if the power behind the
throne remains stronger than that of the people. In both Canada
and
the US, neither the left nor the right is trusted, but the people in
their desperation, instead of en masse demanding decent government, are
looking for saviours where there are none.
From the BBC
(emphasis mine):
Former
President George Bush Senior has endorsed John McCain in his bid to be
the Republicans' presidential nominee.
Mr Bush
described Mr McCain's character as "forged in the crucible of war"
and
said he would carry conservative values to the White House in
November's vote.
[...]
He is considered almost certain to be the eventual Republican nominee,
having already won 843 of the 1,191 delegates he needs to secure the
nomination.
However, Mr McCain has not been popular with more conservative
Republicans because of his relatively moderate views on abortion,
immigration reform and gay marriage.
By "more
conservative"
the evangelical Right is politely described. Anyone who backs
Ron Paul is in league with that element. They don't like "godless"
foreigners and they hate gays, and some of them are ready to murder abortionists
- oddly enough because "God hates murder"! They don't think Bush
is Christian (tough) enough.
Some of them, like
Alex Jones for instance,
also postulate that equality for women is part of America's "moral
meltdown" and was (is) a combined CIA/Jewish/communist plot. His
website uses the psychologically disturbed Henry
Mackow as a source for
that conclusion.
Makow
isn't a racist, no, no, but he does think there is a secret agenda behind
the Civil Rights Movement. He proved he wasn't sexist
or racist by importing a submissive
Asian bride. Yeah.
Ron Paul doesn't have a prayer of getting the Republican nomination,
but in the meantime he's managing to distract a lot of people from
taking
concrete action against the status quo. He definitely wants to
close
America's borders, leaving the door wide open to persecution of its
current minorities, but although he is personally against abortion and
gay rights, he's going to pass the buck and make these into state
issues rather than federal ones. So there would be states closed
to
gays, for sure, and the Ku Klux Klan types who don't like anyone
different from their exterior selves could become more visible and
active in some states. In other words, they would decide the kind
of
murder that God approves of.
Paul also wants to dismantle medicare and the federal oversight of
education. As a doctor, it makes him feel good to allow poor
people to
owe him money, and no doubt he's all for "faith based" and home
schooling.
I thought that the Canadian Action Party might be worth a look here in
Canada as an alternative to our major parties. I was pleased that
they
supported 9-11 truth and were opposed to the SPP (NAU). I thought
they
might be what is termed "progressive", but I was wrong to make that
assumption.
More and more the Ron Paul - Alex Jones connection has become apparent,
and the CAP seem to be taking their cues from Alex Jones, whose
opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, for
example, is barely half a hair's breadth this side of native
anti-Semitism.
By native, I mean embedded in the type of Christianity that judges Jews
on the basis of their rejection of Jesus. Sometimes support for
Palestinians can be rooted in that type of anti-Semitism, and it's
important to watch out for that.
Two of Jones' associates, Aaron Russo and Henry Makow, both avid Ron
Paul supporters, converted from Judaism to what appears to be that
brand of Christianity, adopting a superior attitude to their fellow
Jews.
In fact, Connie Fogal eventually had to issue an apology to her mailing
list for having referenced Makow, expressing regret for his sexist and
anti-Semitic views:
From: "Connie Fogal"
<conniefogal@telus.net>
To:
<cap_contacts@falstaff.canadianactionparty.ca>;
<fogal_contacts@falstaff.canadianactionparty.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Apologies and Disassociation
from Dr Henry Makow
Connie
Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party deeply regrets the
broadcast of the article by Dr Henry Makow called Canada Pimps Its
Girls to big Pharma.
My
deepest apologies to everyone for the broadcast of the Makow article on
Gardasil. It was the worst article we could have used to profile the
Gardasil issue, and has harmed our campaign against Gardasil as well as
the reputation of CAP. CAP does does not share the views of
Dr Makow
on anti-feminism nor anti-semitism.
CAP
has been following the Gardasil issue for months. On learning
recently
that Canada has moved more quickly than any other country to a mass
Gardasil vaccination program for our girls across the nation, CAP felt
an urgency to profile our opposition to this vaccine. The article was
not properly vetted. I have to take full responsibility for that
because ultimately the buck stops with me, no matter what the
delegation of work.
I
can do no more than apologize and promise once again to do a better job
at vetting broadcast material. The fact that our resources are so
limited and the task we attempt is so great does not relieve us and me
in particular of the duty to perform better.
The
article has been removed from our website. This was a time when our
system moved too quickly compared to our usual concern that it does not
move quickly enough.
What I don't
understand
is why all of these so-called 9-11 truthers are supporting Ron Paul
when he absolutely came out against them.
Have a look at these videos where he betrays the majority of his
followers:
"I don't endorse
anything they say and I don't believe that."
"Absolutely
not!"
In this video,
he actually tries to muddy the waters by suggesting Iraq was behind it;
and by expressing support of the 9-11 Commission's Report.
Yet here
is the CAP's leader, Connie Fogal - a
professed 9-11 truther - on the
subject of Ron Paul.
Basically, she thinks that the election of Ron Paul in
the States would be good for Canada. Which explains why there were
so many "Vote Ron Paul" signs at the Canadian SPP protest in Montebello
- they came there with Fogal.
The CAP must have gotten quite a few complaints about all the American
sources of info on its site because there are a lot more Canadian links
there now than there once seemed to be - but links to Alex Jones and
Aaron Russo persist although I didn't see a direct reference to Ron
Paul. Strangely, their section on War has only one Canadian
source,
and the
rest is all American, with links to sites that support Ron Paul.
It's unsettling to think that the choice for Americans (and therefore
Canadians) is between a war mongering fascist who has a rep, so far, of
being "soft" on civil rights, and an isolationist who will allow
America to slide back to the 50's, when there was no health care
system, and when people who went to church were automatically assumed
to be "godfearing" and therefore good while those who spent Sunday
morning in bed or gone fishing were automatically assumed to be
untrustworthy, and women and foreigners kept their place if they knew
what was good for them.
It's even more unsettling to hear that the latter choice could be good
for Canada.
From Wikipedia:
A crucible is a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to
contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures.
That's what we're in allright, just like Mr. Frog.
One has to be constantly testing the water.
Related: 87-Year
Old NH State Rep Will Not Eat, Willing to Die for Impeachment of Bush
and Cheney
yayacanada
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