The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (Pt. 9)

Tony Clement's gleeful kow-towing to the Chinese has certainly riled those who know for a fact that communism is a grave evil and that Norman Bethune's renewed canonisation is as bogus as it is offensive (who decides to assist those who would murder innocent people?). What do you do when everyone else has drunk the Kool-Aid of naivety?


Because he's Charles Adler:

As we try to put communism behind us, one member of our federal government is actually spending money to commemorate a famous Maoist communist. That’s right, Treasury Board president and allegedly Conservative MP Tony Clement is championing a memorial to an ally of Chairman Mao. You know, one of humanity’s most brutal dictators, a guy responsible for the death of more than 60 million Chinese during his vicious reign. Yes, your hard-earned tax dollars are going to a communist memorial in Canada.

Tony Clement, king of pork-and-barrel spending on Parliament Hill, has generously allocated $2.5 million of your taxpayer dollars to honour one of Chairman Mao’s lackeys. ...

And who is this communist idol being worshipped with your tax dollars? Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor.

After going to fight for the communists in the Spanish Civil War, Bethune headed to China to tend to Mao’s communist troops.

The communists later turned Bethune into a messiah, the way communist states use propaganda and revisionist history to brew nationalism and subversion. School children in China are still taught about this supposed heroic martyr.

Folks, I don’t take communism lightly. I have a personal connection to communism. I was smuggled out of communist Hungary in a backpack as a child. I was fortunate to escape life behind the Iron Curtain, but millions upon millions of innocent people remain trapped under the iron grip of communism.

There is zero excuse for Tony Clement’s disgraceful shenanigans. The Chinese can prop up false idols to hide the horrors of communism, but Canada should play no part in this.

Canadians deserve better. They deserve more accountability for their hard-earned tax dollars. Surely there are better ways for Stephen Harper to build bridges with China than to pay homage to one of Mao’s favourite defectors. Shame on him and shame on Tony Clement.

The Bethune Memorial House, the ridiculous statues and any other institution celebrating deadly communist regimes should never be built on Canadian soil, let alone receive public money from Canadians.

Tony Clement should be ashamed of himself.

And now the Kool-Aid drinkers:

Norman
Bethune is one of the greatest Canadian in history that helped save
thousands of human lives in China during WWII. I can't stand the media
slandering of a dead doctor.

(Sidebar: Allegedly a Chinese guy. Chen Guangcheng is also Chinese. He doesn't have anything nice to say about Bethune's chosen country.)

What Adler fails to mention, of course, is that Bethune died years before Mao actually took power and committed the plethora of atrocities he's responsible for. 
But that would render much of Adler's foolish rant moot, wouldn't it.  

(Sidebar: that's right. This sympathiser did die before Mao took power and really started killing people. Just like Hitler's appeasers who laid very low during the war. We can't point fingers, can we?)

Hey, by that standard, it's not as if Leni Rifenstahl made Triumph of the Will after the Holocaust had already happened. Maybe Norman Bethune was just a deluded fool, rather than an evil man - and, in fact, it's quite likely that his actions were motivated by genuine altruism - but since he helped to put Mao's evil regime into power, he can hardly be considered a hero, however noble his motives.

(Sidebar: no, his motives weren't noble, no more noble than "I didn't realise there was a concentration camp just outside of town". It's a shame because you nearly got it.)

Charles Adler is an idiot. International cooperation= good, Charles Adler = an idiot and a red-neck commie witch hunter. Condolences to Bethune's family for Adler's remarks.. 
The hatred and "commie calling" is bad. Everybody has different values, most Chinese approved of Mao's government for modernizing China and helping out the much of the world out of poverty (their number 1 enemy) and keeping Canada out of a bigger recession. If we didn't have China and the Chinese immigrants support we would be like the US during the mortage financial crisis.
If quadiblock admits Charles Adler is an idiot because he is spreading hatred. Then I would agree. Mao's power has done many good things to Chinese people overall, Chinese are very independent and hard-working people that are not working under Nazi occupations anymore. China is Canada's number 2 trding partner and should be respected like the rest of human beings. Much like Doctor Norman Bethune has done. MUCH LOVE TO DOCTOR NORMAN BETHUNE.

(Sidebar: the same alleged Chinese fellow. The millions who were killed in the Cultural Revolution, famines, prisons, organ trafficking, forced abortions and infanticides, as well as dissenters of all types also had a different idea for China's direction.)

This article is disgustingly one-sided and selective in its
information.
Just because Norman Bethune was associated with Mao Zedong, it doesn’t make him the same
person.
The author of this misleading piece doesn’t even address
who Norman Bethune is, or his legacy or accomplishments.  He fails to mention that Bethune was a
humanitarian, whose life’s work involved selflessly dedicating himself to offering
medical assistance to others – he directly would have helped thousands of
people in his lifetime.  Yes, he did much
of his work voluntarily under an oppressive regime, but even as a wartime
doctor, he didn’t distinguish between enemy and friendly casualties in his efforts, to make one example.
Honoring a humanitarian doctor is not the same as supporting communism.
But perhaps the author believes that if one has
questionable political leanings, the rest of his life’s work, no matter how
admirable, becomes meaningless?
Google Norman Bethune, read up on his life’s work, and
decide for yourself.

(Sidebar: no, his working with the tyrant Mao Tse-Tung makes him a collaborator and there is nothing humanitarian about it.)


Read the rest of the baffling and stunningly misinformed letters if you must. Know that this is what happens when you don't instill values in children and teach them that communism is evil.


Failure to do so only makes it more amenable to them.