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Sunday February 24,
2008
Rome is burning, folks
but it's probably too late to yell "fire"
Some people have noticed I've been goofing off these
past several days. I haven't felt
inspired to write. I feel lately that all I can do is repeat
myself.
Canadians are asleep, or drugged or something. We are living in
Orwell's 1984 fighting unending wars with trumped-up enemies, bombarded
by words that don't mean what they used
to, the media are nothing but propaganda tools, everybody running for
office is a sleaze or a crook, political parties are interchangeable,
enjoying one big party at the tax payer's expense. Blah, blah, blah.
I whined
about the SPP long
before people went into the streets about it. I harangued city
councillors when they were in the processing of approving "Support
the Troops" decals on city vehicles, and now that it's a done deal,
people are beginning to protest.
I've said over and over that American troops, DEA officers (remember
Mark Emery who was kidnapped on
a Halifax street?) and US
state troopers are operating on our soil,
that it's only a matter of time before the military will be used
against the people they are pledged to protect, just the same as the
police are.
Lt. Paul Finnemore, in his emailed
attempts to interview yours truly, literally gave away the fact
that the government has been intending to use the military to quell
protests (emphasis mine):
"What
I
would like to talk about are things such as what your group would
expect of [sic] appreciate in terms of communication with the military
at any time or during scheduled demonstrations."
Personally I
think they
were at Montebello. Where else could they have gotten so many
"cops"
from? And when have you ever seen cops moving in formation
like freaky automatons?
Both the
SPP and
the agreement about the military were in the works when Jean Chretien
was Prime Minister, but the media weren't given the go ahead to report
it.
Paul Martin openly admitted in March 2005 that the talks had been going
on for a decade prior to the official announcement and had intensifed
after 911.
Have a look at YYC:
Was the SPP
"signed" or not? to see the material I collected on this over
time. Paul Martin's comment is with the "joint statement" at the
bottom of the page.
Makes you wonder if Pauly knew.
(Click the link to see the signs that "Bush knew" - I
sort of hate to see Mozart used that way, but the point is well made.)
Finally
last year the media started to talk about the SPP. Over and over
they said the SPP was signed, but the government denied
and still officially denies
there was any signing involved. One might wonder why it's so
important to the government to argue so fine a point.
And now
today the media are all abuzz, shouting that an agreement has been signed
to allow US troops on our soil. Will we soon hear that nobody
signed anything? As if it in any way alters the implications of
such a pact?
Thanks to all the people who emailed me about the announcement -
thinking quite rightly that I might not have been paying attention this
weekend.
Obviously this has stirred people up. It
even sparked Jade to start blogging again!
Chycho, who is always on top of things, asks: Did Harper just commit
treason?"
Good question, my friend. But if so, then Chretien, John
McCallum,
Bill Graham, and Paul Martin, to name a few, are equally guilty,
and -
like I'm ALWAYS SAYING - this is another indication that the Libcons
and the Allcons are on the same page - in a whole nother chapter from
the ones Canadians are given to read!
As far
back as 2002, this military agreement was reported in the People's
Daily - here and here
(I saved their HTML code just in case they disappeared).
In 2006 it
was reported (and underplayed) US
fighter planes are patrolling the Canadian border.
At least a year ago, Ron
Saba pointed out that the US Northern Command logo sports an
eagle encompassing all of North America!
Like the GST, once it's done, it's done. There's no going
back. At
some point, when Canadians are fully awake, they will either meekly
accept their sad lot or they will revolt, and it won't be pretty.
Cuba will
look like paradise in comparison - provided they manage to continue
staving off the US obsession with "spreading democracy".
Other stuff:
I also got nudged today by John of Manitoba with two
items on Afghanistan - here
and here.
How bout that Rick Hillier telling
Parliament to keep its mouth shut, eh? The cheek!
He
said he could not rule out that Taliban suicide bombings last week may
have been related to the parliamentary debate.
Gee, I wonder
what all the other ones were about. Getting rid of foreign
invaders, do you think?
Say, do you think there's any possibility that Karzai
rejected Paddy
"Pantsdown" as UN Envoy to Afghanistan because he is
an MI6 agent? Let's see,
navy commando, special forces training, multi-lingual ... if he isn't
MI6 he darn well should be! And Canada thinks John Manley can
take his
place? Must be more there than meets the private eye.
Can't
blame Karzai for
not appreciating Paddy's talents. As puppet president of
Afghanistan,
he has been parrotting the US myth that the aim of the war was to
defeat "the
Taliban" by taking out its leaders (hence the reason we're always
hearing that a "top" somebody or other has been captured or killed),
while all the while secret services have been working hard to keep
the war going by
offering weapons and training to "the Taliban" - under the guise,
of course, of winning them over.
yayacanada
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