Letter Re Missile Defence And Sovereignty In Harper's

Posted on Wednesday, March 09 at 12:11 by sthompson
As The Canadian Press news service reported (Feb. 24), "The warning was no slip of the tongue: Cellucci repeated several times that Canada's decision had in effect handed over some of its sovereignty to the United States." Readers may evaluate for themselves whether the definition of sovereignty employed by Cellucci represents standard U.S. policy or a deviation. Subscribe to Harper's Magazine http://www.harpers.org/Subscribe.html SUBSCRIBE to Harper's Weekly via web: http://www.harpers.org via email: join-harpers-weekly@pluto.sparklist.com

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  1. Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:34 pm
    Does anyone believe that the U.S. would have listened to us anyway? Does anyone actually believe they would wait till the missile were over Washington before shooting it down, to protect Saskatoon? Ridiculous.

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  2. Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:40 pm
    I thought Celucci's comments are much like that of the US administration towards Iran. Preparation to 'lose' our soverenty, because we really lost it because of this decision. After the US media hammers away at it for a couple years or so, too many Canadians may think we always were just America Jr. and never were soveriegn.



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  3. Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:53 pm
    He speaks like Hitler,he sounds like Hitler,His boss`s grandfather was a Nazi.Cellucci or whatever his name is,IS A NAZI!Just like dubya!

  4. Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:41 pm
    Many people in Europe forget we were ever sovereign.

  5. by gorian
    Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:57 am
    No, if they never knew because they were ignorant and we haven't been loud nor independant enough.

    G

  6. Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:24 pm
    Hahaha. At least some of you have a sense of humor :)

  7. by mk
    Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:30 pm
    <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0222-22.htm">http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0222-22.htm</a>

  8. Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:23 am
    I always thought Washington was our capital and now I find out that Ottawa thinks they are running the country.

  9. Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:25 am
    I hope you leave this Canadian stuff at home when you visit the US. I do and the Americans don't seem to mind me too much.

  10. Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:46 am
    Simple fact of the matter is, if there ever comes a point where there actually is a nuclear warhead rocketing towards North America, the last thing on anyone's mind would be Canada's sovereignty. We'll all have far more important things to worry about should that day ever come.

  11. by avatar Milton
    Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:37 am
    If the nuclear powers fire their nukes at each other, we won't have to worry about anything for very long!

  12. Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:52 pm
    seeing as Easteris upon us it is time to put the sovereignty question where it belonlongs- with the easter bunny.<br />
    Sovereignty (spell checked) is a concept what follows is reality-<br />
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    <a href="http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rockroth.html">http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rockroth.html</a><br />
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    The involvement of the Rockefellers in promoting the world Communist Revolution also developed from their business interests. There was never any commitment to the Marxist ideology; like anything else, it was there to be used. At the turn of the century Standard Oil was competing fiercely with Royal Dutch Shell for control of the lucrative European market. Congressional testimony revealed that Rockefeller had sent large sums to Lenin and Trotsky to instigate the Communist Revolution of 1905. His banker, Jacob Schiff, had previously financed the Japanese in their war against Russia and had sent a personal emissary, George Kennan to Russia to spend some twenty years in promoting revolutionary activity against the Czar. When the Czar abdicated, Trotsky was placed on a ship with three hundred Communist revolutionaries from the Lower East Side of New York. Rockefeller obtained a special passport for Trotsky from Woodrow Wilson and sent Lincoln Steffens with him to make sure he was returned safely to Russia. For traveling expenses, Rockefeller placed a purse containing $10,000 in Trotsky's pocket.<br />
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    On April 13, 1917, when the ship stopped in Halifax, Canadian Secret Service officers immediately arrested Trotsky and interned him in Nova Scotia. The case became an international cause celebre, as leading government officials from several nations frantically demanded Trotsky's release. The Secret Service had been tipped off that Trotsky was on his way to take Russia out of the war, freeing more German armies to attack Canadian troops on the Western Front. Prime Minister Lloyd George hurriedly cabled orders from London to the Canadian Secret Service to free Trotsky at once--they ignored him. Trotsky was finally freed by the intervention of one of Rockefeller's most faithful stooges, Canadian Minister Mackenzie King, who had long been a ``labor specialist'' for the Rockefellers. King personally obtained Trotsky's release and sent him on his way as the emissary of the Rockefellers, commissioned to win the Bolshevik Revolution. Thus Dr. Armand Hammer, who loudly proclaims his influence in Russia as the friend of Lenin, has an insignificant claim compared to the role of the Rockefellers in backing world Communism. Although Communism, like other isms, had originated with Marx's association with the House of Rothschild, it enlisted the reverent support of John D. Rockefeller because he saw Communism for what it is, the ultimate monopoly, not only controlling the government, the monetary system and all property, but also a monopoly which, like the corporations it emulates, is self-perpetuating and eternal. It was the logical progression from his Standard Oil monopoly.<br />
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    Former member

  13. Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:52 pm
    Which means Capitalism is another word for Communism.
    The workers are now part of a Collective.
    Who will become the Hero of The Revolution?

  14. Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:13 am
    So why do they want BMD?



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