Hurtig said that Prime Minister Paul Martin, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, and Defence Minister David Pratt are all intentionally misleading Canadians about the American National Missile "Defense" plans, which are really a well-documented plan to put weapons, including nuclear missiles and powerful lasers, in space.
Hurtig said that if Canada signs on to become part of the U.S. system, it will be repudiating over 30 years of our country's leadership in the international campaigns for peace and disarmament, and, rather than offering Canadians any security, will ensure that Canadian cities will become targets in any future apocalyptic nuclear confrontation between Russia and/or China and the United States.
The Edmonton-based author said that while both the Liberals and the Conservatives are hell-bent to join the dangerous and unprecedented Bush/Rumsfeld/Pentagon plans, outside of Quebec, among federal political leaders, only Jack Layton has shown the wisdom to speak out against Canada's participation.
Hurtig said the decision is pivotal, one that at the very least could well determine our future ability to have any kind of independent foreign or defence policies.
He also quoted several well-known international authorities to the effect that dangerous new tensions leading to the possibility of a devastating nuclear war are rapidly increasing because of the American Star Wars plans.
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
I still laugh that some people still believe a vote for Layton is a vote for Harper. Harper has no chance. Even if he gained votes, they'd be in the same ridings. The people that speak against voting for Layton are doing their best to bring about a definitive two-party, one-voice state. Thanks. They probably voted for the Liberals in the past.
Heh.
Would you care to enlighten us!
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
Hurtig wants us to be an autonomous nation, free of U.S. control...and the U.S. is close to Isreal, so HOW is he cozying up to Israel? (I don't get it.)
Mel is right RMD is an offensive weapon. Did you not hear those twisted monsters yowling about "the best defense is a good offense"? Did you not hear the convicted war criminal George W. Bush say that the US would strike pre-emptively when ever and where ever it felt necessary to do so? I have paraphrased what he and his ring wraithes have said but I think I got the gist of it.
Now, with a loose cannon like the US running around, how safe do you think China feels? Perhaps "cannon" is no longer apt so let me change it. With a "loose collection of WMD's" like the US running around how safe do you think anyone or any country should feel? Consider that the US bombed a Chinese embassy, (it was a US plane and NATO is US controlled ), on May 7, 1999. First they declare it an accident then they declare it was retaliatory. How would the US react if another country had accidentally on purpose bombed one of their embassies?
Will Canadians listen? How are they going to hear about it? They are not going to be told by the big daily newspapers or big TV or radio networks. Most of the guys and gals that I work with read the "Sun" or the "Herald" from front to back and then consider themselves very well informed on the events of the day. I do my best to open their eyes and will continue to do so but it is not enough. We need a "Georgia Strait" style newspaper again, like we had in the early seventies, a beacon of light in the dark of the night. This might at least get some of the youth tuned in. Has anybody else got any ideas of what we can do? I would like to hear them.
IMHO a vote for the Liberals or Conservatives is a vote for the annihilation of the entire human race.
FAIR critiques of Israeli policy are welcome, anonymous. Feel free to try again with this in mind.
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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf
1. I meant to type "Israel," but forgot to check my post, and was very tired when I posted it.
2. I was responding to the post by anonymous, which Susan deleted, which suggested that Hurtig was an "Agent for Israel," by claiming China, Russia were the real threats. I simply pointed out that Hurtig wants us to be independent of the U.S., which is the country closest to Israel, and that he was simply saying that China, Russia WOULD build up newer arsenals in response to the Star Wars plan. Hurtig never said "China and Russia" are the real enemies. Actually, Hurtig mentioned how Russia was disappointed that Canada isn't condemning the BMD plan.
Where is our disagreement? I don't see it.
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?