UPDATED – see below
I haven’t heard a peep out of their fellow leftists, Layton or his you’ve got to be kidding party minions, nor from Liberal Frenchman Stephane (the “Green Guru”) Dion, denouncing this. I suspect they support the move.
The people responsible should obviously be arrested, tried, and sentenced to long jail terms. Of course liberals would be against that. And they appointed all the judges.
By Graeme Hamilton, National Post
Published: Monday, June 11, 2007MONTREAL • As families on Canadian Forces Base Valcartier prepare for the departure beginning next month of 2,300 soldiers to Afghanistan, anti-war groups have sent letters to soldiers’ homes comparing Canada’s military activities to war crimes and urging them to refuse deployment.
The letters from a coalition of Quebec groups prompted angry reactions when they began arriving in mailboxes yesterday on the base outside Quebec City, home to the Royal 22nd Regiment, or Vandoos.
“I read the headlines and threw it in the trash,” said Master Corporal Pierre Calve, a father of three set to deploy to Afghanistan in August. “I believe in this mission. I have family here in Canada. This is a way to protect them, like our grandfathers did in the First and Second World Wars. It’s not to go and kill people but to protect the peace.”
The mailing, addressed simply to the occupant of homes on and around the army base, was paid for by anti-war groups based in Quebec City, Montreal and Gatineau. “Canada’s role in Afghanistan is a trap. It means on-the-ground Canadian soldiers become cannon fodder’ for the illogical and unjust policies of generals and politicians,” the letter reads.
Participating in the mission equals “complicity with the civilian deaths and other activities – like the transfer of prisoners to potential torture and death – that are tantamount to war crimes,” it says.
Joseph Bergeron, spokesman for a group called Guerre a la Guerre (War Against War), said he is not concerned the harsh message might upset family members of personnel bound for Afghanistan.
“Our letter is not what will traumatize people, but when they are over there and they see how many civilians die and [that] there are going to be many Canadians killed or injured, that is when the trauma will occur,” Mr. Bergeron said.[…]
The good men and women in the Canadian forces didn’t take kindly to the peaceniks’ idiocy, with one writing in their internet forum: “I certainly hope the letters were written on a soft but absorbent paper, so they can be used by the soldiers for a function appropriate to the contents.”
And not a peep about this at the state-run CBC nor at CTV. Like their political leaders, I suspect they support this move.
UPDATE:
A PTBC reader named Maureen wrote to add this cogent thought:
From the way the story was worded, these letters came via Canada Post. As they are addressed to occupant rather than the actual householder, one can assume that nobody used a criss-cross directory to obtain names and addresses.
What has been done, is that this group of yahoos has paid Canada Post, or if delivered with newspapers, the paper’s owner, to do a blind bulk mailing by postal code.
Last I heard, all material submitted for bulk distribution must be reviewed for appropriateness (toothpaste samples, for example, are considered a hazardous material for mailing purposes). This means, therefore, that someone at Canada Post has approved of the message being delivered.
Something to consider.
UPDATE:
CTV Newsnet invites a guest on to explore the issue. They do it liberal media style. The guest? Just one. A young leftist agitprop who represents the group in question (above), and who sounds very much like a communist to me, is asked one or two ridiculous softball questions seemingly designed to elicit the entirely predictable talking-points lecture from the leftist, and naturally it is perfectly successful in doing just that. The “news” anchor, Jennifer Ward, sits there and allows the leftist to go on, on and on, and on, non-stop, forever, finally having to cut off her leftist blustering filibuster only in order to go to a commercial break.
No hard questions demanding justification from the agitprop. No analysis from a normal Canadian guest to balance that leftist tripe. This is perfectly typical of the liberalvision CTV and liberal media generally. Switching to Fox News Channel now for actual full information, balance, and intelligence.
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