History Meets The New Politics

Posted on Friday, May 04 at 13:58 by 4Canada
For that matter, why didn't the PM denounce colleague Stockwell Day on the same grounds for accusing Liberals in 2002 of being Chamberlains instead of Churchills? Who owns this stuff? Who gets a veto on how history's images are deployed? What if someone mentions the Battle of the Bulge in a speech about diet plans? Is that insensitive to history and context? I'm not trivializing. Many people lost family members in that battle. They'll surely react, but it doesn't mean the image is unavailable for the use of others and other generations. This whole thing is about generations. Each era has to choose its own challenges. There are now generations of Canadians not born when Hitler died in his bunker. An entire cohort doesn't recall the Red Menace or the Berlin Wall. That doesn't mean they don't care; my experience is they do — they want to honour the past and learn from it. http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=59066 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 7, 2007]

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  1. Sun May 06, 2007 1:24 am
    Last week, Green Party leader Elizabeth May compared Stephen Harper and his Tory government's plan to combat climate change to Sir Neville Chamberlain's 1930s appeasement of Hitler and the Nazis. Reaction was swift and May was roundly criticized for the use of Nazi-era atrocities to make her point no matter the what the complainers reaction have been saying “Another dead soldier in Harper's War”
    Using the defense of the clueless, Elizabeth May said she was just quoting someone else. First, holocaust deniers, then the storm troopers of the people who pay the bills, then skeptics, albeit junk science skeptics.
    You should see what us “prove it” types call you people who mix faith and science into your favorite cures for the planet. Then you insist we enter your reward through hardship delusions until you’ve crushed the life from our civilization and emptied our treasury. You have a lot of gall. I would suggest that improper metaphors aren’t an issue when people can’t tell science and reality from political propaganda. That is Ms May’s real offence.

  2. Sun May 06, 2007 7:50 am
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    Tell It Lke It Is Lyrics


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    Go and find yourself a toy
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    And I'm not a little boy

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    Don't play with my heart
    It makes me furious
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    Then a baby I will, girl you know that I will

    Tell it like it is
    Don't be ashamed, to let your conscience be your guide
    But IIIiiiii
    know deep down inside me
    I believe you love me, forget your foolish pride

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    You may be here today and gone tomorrow
    You might as well get... what you want
    So go on and live, baby go on and live

    Tell it like it is
    I'm nothing to play with
    Go and find yourself a toy
    Tell it like it is
    My time is too expensive and I'm not your little boy

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    Don't be ashamed, let your conscience be your guide
    But I.........
    deep down inside me
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    uuhhhhhh
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    Tell it like it is
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    baby baby

    Now, one could think this rude of me to respond so, but
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    We have lost our balance.

    Balance occurs here

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    ---
    "It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
    —Sir Josiah Stamp

  3. Sun May 06, 2007 7:23 pm
    Hopefully, a day will arrive when the Mianstream Media
    and the Government are no longer obsessed with this
    politically correct BS. Untl that day, you will continue
    hearing the same distrtacting garbage from both of
    them.

    Isn't great when you can sweep all of the serious
    issues which plague humanity under the rug by
    bringing up some other irrevelant issue? Don't do it too
    often, though, people might catch on.

  4. Sun May 06, 2007 9:01 pm
    MSM and gov hold a long standing adversarial position and are hardly likely to release their obsession, so quite rightly , Yes! We will hear the same tune from them. It is their stated and unstated position.<br />
    <br />
    The above will occur until we , the electorate, in the case of government act on the fact that we are the source of their being<br />
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system</a> <br />
    <br />
    Now as so far as people catching on we’ve yet to reach a critical mass to bring about the tipping point necessary to implement the kinds of changes some of us desire.<br />
    <br />
    <br />
    It is bad enough to have as adversaries MSM and elected governments, it is worse still to have an indifferent or colluding populace<br />
    <p>---<br>"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."<br />
    —Sir Josiah Stamp



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