I love CBC stories sometimes. And the liberal-left. Oh they’re all the same—who am I kidding? I’m a conservative to avoid all this mess. It’s so much easier to be right.
I wrote yesterday about an environmentalist industry speaker who decided to announce that it’d be perfectly OK to assassinate people who are involved in the seal hunt in Newfoundland.
Apparently it’s OK for extreme lefties to advocate assassinations in Canada. Did not know that. Just don’t say anything negative about gay people if you’re a Catholic Bishop. “Homophobia”: Bad. Agreed. Homicides? OK! Check!
I included this info in my blog entry which presumably has the added effect of adding myself to a hit list:
Dr. Jerry Vlasak has even backed assassinating scientists in at least one public speech, a view that convinced Britain to bar the long-time board member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society from visiting the United Kingdom last year.
… In the past, Vlasak has spoken on behalf of such radical groups as the Animal Liberation Front, which the FBI considers a terrorist threat.
He once told an animal rights conference that killing research scientists would save lab animals from experiments he considers cruel.
“If these vivisectors were being targeted for assassination, and call it political assassination or what have you … strictly from a fear and intimidation factor, that would be an effective tactic,” he said.
“I don’t think you’d have to kill, assassinate too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection.”
Charming! As one of my readers, Meadowlark, commented, “Yup, those lefties are correct. It’s the conservatives that are the extremists.” Memo to liberals: That was “humour”.
Call me an extremist but I’d rather have to worry about a “hidden agenda” (
TM
Liberal-friendly ad firms), than having a “contract” out on me. Then again I suppose that’s the predicament pre-born babies in liberal Canada face—they just don’t know it—so I should count my blessings.
But according to the CBC report, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, with which the assassination-plotter (and unlikely Conservative Party supporter) is connected, distanced itself from the “moderate’s” (or is that “progressive’s”?) statements…. or did they? Let’s review:
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is dissociating itself from comments by one of its directors who condoned assassination as a means of protecting animal life.
Founder Paul Watson — who earlier this week supported Dr. Jerry Vlasak’s position on the society’s board of directors — issued a statement Thursday, saying the society does not condone violence against sealers.
“We are a non-violent organization,” Watson said in an interview with CBC News. “We certainly don’t advocate threats against anybody.”
[…] Elizabeth May, the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, said Wednesday she would quit an advisory post with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society if Vlasak did not resign.
After that statement, Watson said May was free to resign, and he said he would not “condemn” Vlasak. […]
Oh! Mustn’t “condemn” assassination advocates. So it’s “OK” to promote “assassinations”, then. Got it.
Then Vlasak started making sense, I mean for a deranged left-wing (but progressive!) moonbat:
Meanwhile, Vlasak — who did not back down from any of his previous comments about violence — has blasted CBC’s coverage of his views.
He said his comments were not comprehensively reported by CBC, and that he was not speaking on behalf of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
“What an unethical breach of journalistic integrity,” he wrote in an e-mail message, adding that he had repeatedly described the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a non-violent organization.
“I didn’t expect much from a Newfie, but you have hit a new low for one-sided reporting,” Vlasak wrote.
Well I’ve called the CBC unbalanced before, and have said they are constantly reporting with an unethical breach of journalistic integrity, but I don’t have that oh-so-ethical “assassination” fervor so much. Crazy neo-con I am! See that’s the only difference.
The CBC seems to respect the critique from the extremist assassination plotter—enough to print his critical comments—but when was the last time they printed a “balance”-related critique from a Conservative MP, for example? Or me?
Have I mentioned that Fox News Channel is now unbanned in Canada? It’s now available to most Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, and Cogeco Cable customers and to Star Choice Satellite subscribers. Check it out! While the anchors and reporters are all still alive!
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