Harper soon found himself in a familiar pose of travelling prime ministers: commenting on a world gone wrong to the journalists at the back of his plane. He voiced unwavering support for Israel in its quest to rescue two of its soldiers, kidnapped days earlier along the Lebanese-Israeli border by the Hezbollah terrorist group. Harper said Israel had a right to defend itself, and that it had shown a "measured response" in its attack on Lebanon.
For many, Canada's 22nd prime minister had redefined his country's position towards the intractable Middle East conflict by showing such clear support for one side of the conflict over the other. Harper was, quite literally, making foreign policy on the fly.
For all his efforts to focus his agenda on five domestic priorities, Harper was forced to face a sixth, one that comes with the job of being prime minister: defining Canada's role of the world.
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Harper Leaps Into The Foreign Policy Pond
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Propaganda lesson 101:
The Israeli soldiers were on Lebanese soil, and they were not kidnapped, they were captured, and they were not captured by terrorists, they were captured by Lebanese resistance fighters trying to kick out Israel from their country. Israel meanwhile, holds thousands of Lebanese resistance fighters (no doubt many innocent people among them), but this is never mentioned by our subservient MSM. Normally the two sides trade prisoners, but this time Israel decided to carpet bomb Lebanon, which is a war crime without doubt.
It is well documented that Israeli "lobby" groups bribe US officials into supporting Israel. No doubt, Harper is under Israeli influence as well, which means he'll mess over Canada before breaking whatever deal he has going on behind the scenes.
Remember, we DID NOT vote Harper into office. He got in on a legal technicality with only 23% of the eligible vote.
About 77% of the Canadian vote went away from Harper!
Why is this treasonous nut case running the country and why has the so-called opposition not kicked him out???
Canadian are responsible for Harper by the very virtue that we allowed the "legal technicality". No one is leading a campaign to correct it. No one is objecting.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
What people seem to be doing is tuning out, basically shrugging their shoulders under the assumption that there's nothing that can be done, or is worth the cost. In some ways, that'll be good enough once enough people simply stop paying attention to the government. At that point all the government will have left is brute force. At the moment too many people pay attention to the government and push themselves around like good little children. People tend to get much more motivated when the thugs in dark clothing start pushing them around for real.
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Quick to judge, quick to anger slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
But we do and we elected them. It's like we do nothing for ourselves and demand others show us the way. I for one, admit to being a typical Canadian, a hypocrite but then who isn't. Our only claim to fame is the willingness to complain AND do nothing about it. If we are to gain by the lack of doing, then maybe we should "all" stay home on election day. "No" votes are better then votes for the lesser of evils. Trouble is; we Canadians can't even get together on that plan. We will still go vote and on the pretense it's our civic duty. Our civic duty is to elect someone who realy has a concern for Canadians. It's not our civic duty to vote for someone, who at best, is still not good enough.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
I did'nt elect any of them, and neither did millions of voters. The current regime in this country got only 23% of the eligible vote!
"It's like we do nothing for ourselves and demand others show us the way."
What if that crap comming at us through MSM channels about how Canadans expect so much from "their" government is a big fat lie? We get lied to all the time, so who knows what Canadians as a whole are really thinking. I'd like nothing more than to be able to tell the government to go F* itself and leave me alone and I hope that millions of Canadians would rather be left alone as well.
"Our only claim to fame is the willingness to complain AND do nothing about it."
I see your point, but half the time we can't do anything about "it" because the government has made doing just about everything illegal or so full of red tape that it's too painful or expensive to bother with. We're also so dependent on a heavily taxed pay cheque that we spend almost all our time slaving away for someone else, which leaves no time for barely an original thought. My point is that we've been conditioned since childhood into being what I refer to as "subservient dependents" and we perform well at it.
"Trouble is; we Canadians can't even get together on that plan. We will still go vote and on the pretense it's our civic duty. Our civic duty is to elect someone who realy has a concern for Canadians. It's not our civic duty to vote for someone, who at best, is still not good enough."
I could not agree more. Voting for the lesser treasonous fraudster should NOT be an option worth considering. However, in the last election only 64% voted for the lesser criminal, the rest voted for the "None of the Above Party" (NOTA) by staying home. We have no idea how many more voted for NOTA by spoiling their ballots because Stats Can does not publish those results. I think a growing number of us may be clueing in.
Real change will never arrive when so many Canadians think that what's going on is a real democracy, and that it's for their own good to be hogged tied and shackled, made dependent on government handouts, and made into fearful peons.
Note: When I say "government", I for the most part exclude municipal levels, since at that level we often actually do get some value for the money. The higher up we go, the worse it gets.