I will preface this post by saying these people are damn lucky to be total tools in a country like Canada where bureaucratic stupidity extends to the population.
Case in point:
I'm getting a little tired of all those right-wing ranters who seem so attracted to your Letters page. I am one of those "bleeding heart liberals" who they so despise, and am damn proud of it. I support the long-form census -- yes it's intrusive -- because it provides vital information for our social programs. I support immigration because that's what we all are, except for our First Nations people. I support the gun registry because every cop in the country says it makes us safer in a way getting "tough" on crime does not.
So to all those redneck yahoos who want to turn Canada into another Tennessee, why don't you go back to your pumpkin patches and shoot something, preferably each other, and let us "lefties" try to reverse the damage done by Stephen Harper and return Canada to its prideful place on the international stage.
He's from Toronto, of course.
What's wrong with this letter? Everything.
Point-by-point:
Right-wingers? Rednecks? Pumpkin patch? Tennessee?
Ad hominim much? Just for that, I'm going to strongly suggest that people vacation in
Tennessee AND Alberta. Lovely places to visit, people! Inadvertently recommended by a person who thinks anything other than Toronto is "redneck" and dangerous. Think of all those wild flowers and wide open spaces. How gauche!
Furthermore, private think-tanks like the Fraser Institute reveal the cracks in the system the moron- I mean- letter-writer thinks don't exist. Hospital waiting times, cancer medicines that exist in the "redneck" United States but not in Canada, other tidbits of vital information the average Canadian
should be made aware of. Consumer websites gather better information than the census. So, what good is the census, other than intruding in the lives of private citizens and gathering useless information on the various aboriginal groups that will still be sponging off the Canadian taxpayer long after this letter-writer is gone? By the way, the aboriginals crossed the Bering Strait. Grade Four history.
No, the gun registry was another expensive failure that did not track illegal firearms or stem the tide of gun violence. Any reader of the
National Post would know that. Anyone who read any newspaper or watched TV or online news sources would know that. Except for the letter-writer.
Harper did not put Canada on the international stage? Really? Who boycotted Durbin? Was it Chretien? Nope.
Again, someone who clearly does not pay attention to the world outside of Ignatieff could write a letter so boorish and misinformed.
Letter two:
Rex Murphy's opinion on the Mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero is an admittance of intolerance. Essentially he states that it's OK to be intolerant just this one time because Muslims are involved.
As a Canadian who happens to be a Muslim, Mr. Murphy has equated me and all Muslims with those who perpetrated 9/11. Stating that the complex in question should have a memorial for 9/11 built into it is absurd. Muslims should not have to apologize for or collectively condemn the acts of 9/11 any more than anyone else. I was not involved in 9/11, why should I apologize? Why should my mosque apologize?
Should my Christian friends apologize for colonialism? The mosque being built in this area has nothing to do with 9/11. Making the association between the two treads terribly close to discrimination.
There seems to be a double standard when dealing with Muslims and I can assure you it is not helping the situation. People such as Mr. Murphy have created an East/West paradigm that does not exist and will only lead to those Americans who are born and raised Muslim to feel ousted by their society.
The Muslims who will use this complex are as American as everyone else. This is common ground for both United States and Islam, as everyone is created equal and everyone is equally American.
As I've said before, the building of the mosque near Ground Zero is solely for Islamic triumphalism. The Muslim body at large had nine long years to convince the US and the world that only a handful of fanatics felt like killing Jews, Christians and anyone else they didn't like yet failed utterly in doing so. Those who are planning on building this mosque have no love for the US, have expressed distrust and contempt for it, even blaming it for the September 11th attacks. The false pieties of freedom of religion or American patriotism are insulting and completely ingenuine. Just ask the Muslims who don't want the mosque built near Ground Zero. Are they haram now? If the Muslims truly think this is about freedom, then allow me to build a cathedral in Riyadh and attend Mass there. It's about openness, right?
4 comments:
I didn't know that Alberta was home of the redneck. In fact, the wife and I just vacationed out there 3-4 weeks and LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING: Southern Ontario people could learn a ****ing lesson or two in hospitality, graciousness and pleasantness from the Alberta folks we met. They also exhibit less tendency towards being OPINIONATED even when they lack a SOLID INFORMATION BASE. I have been to Tennessee too and even pseudo-intellectual, left wing know-nothings usually know that Tennessee doesn't even HAVE that reputation, with several major cities and world-famous universities such as Vanderbilt being located there. It is, in fact, barely even a southern state being not far from Cincinnati and the Mason-Dixon Line. It's like me picking a place I have never been, eg. Sofia, Bulgaria and saying the people there are all ignorant bastards. This is a REAL problem with left-leaning people; they make VERY STRONG statements (usually condemning) about things THEY DON'T KNOW THE FIRST THING ABOUT!
Might I add that I would be quite willing to discharge a firearm or two at a moving target? LIBERAL LETTER WRITER > Come trespass on my property the same way you enter serious discussions w/o any business being there! :)
HAROLD HECUBA
Perhaps it is the Toronto Syndrome indicated by a complete lack of logic, civility, humility, humour and good taste.
I find it fitting that Ron Brown wrote "Toronto (of course)." A rant that stupid could have come from no where else.
In my experience, the people of Toronto are drunk on their own sense of worth, inflated as it is. They seem to believe they are of some higher grade or people, as if simply living in proximity to a museum or university make them intelligent, regardless if they have been to either. I say this, having lived there.
~Your Brother~
What more can be added on to your post?
The inflated sense of worth and entitlement alone make much of Toronto insufferable. This letter was icing on the cake (made with tofu so you know it's crap).
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