BMD Crunch Time
Posted on Wednesday, January 26 at 09:20 by lgrisley
So, PLEASE, get to work. Contact as many delegates as you can, including MPs, senators, riding officials, etc. Let them know IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that if they vote for the MD plans you and all your family and all your friends are going to go out in the next election and work as hard as possible to defeat the Liberal candidate in your riding. Scare the hell out of them!
Given yet another truly DUMB editorial in the Globe and Mail (January 25th) and the usual garbage in the National Post and some of the Asper newspapers, our job isn't easy. BUT, the polls clearly and consistently show that the strong majority of Canadians are with us.
If Martin goes against this strong and growing majority, he and the Liberals deserve to be punished. Let's make that clear to ALL the delegates at your local level.
NOW IS THE TIME to do this. In a few weeks it will be too late. We need strong, passionate letters and phone calls and visits to party and constituency offices AND MP's HOMES. Get the press to attend.
Let's not lose this. It's too important for the future of our country, for our children and our grandchildren.
Mel Hurtig
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on January 27, 2005]
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Playing the irrelevant 'Mr. Nice Guy' routine doesn't work when it comes to nuclear missiles, even if they land in US cities the fallout would affect Canada. We should take the responsible approach and help protect all of North America.
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
Kevin
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
--Bertrand Russell
You trolls also forget - it doesn't even work! Hello... that sort of matters!
Time's up.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
Yet in the last 50 years there were a number of agreements and treaties that were eliminating weapons before they were either created or launched. Now the wingnuts have thrown all that away for a $80 billion pipe-dream.
"It's only a manner of time".
The twisted logic never ceases to amaze me.
If I hit someone, that person reserves the right to hate me for it. If that person retaliates would I be in the right to continue the fight? If I anger someone and then buy a gun because that person MAY retaliate all the time saying that it is because people hate me, am I not forgetting my own involvement in the ordeal?
Plus the weapons do not work. The only tests that have been successful are those that were rigged. We may not be asked to pay any money upfront on this but it is a sure bet that we will be paying later; either in dollars or in lives because BMD will spark some sort of retaliatory defence/offence on those whom we are supposed to be protecting ourselves from.
Plus, 9/11 did not occur because of ballistic missiles. 9/11 also was directed, more or less, at the US. This means that if we continue to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the US (like Harper would like) then we _ARE_ under a threat. (Interestingly, it would be from terrorists and the US because the US continues to try to coerce our government and others into following their ideas of freedom and democracy.)
/rant
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter --
Winston Churchill
What a better way from keeping the "wolf" from getting to close to the door.