Category: Politics

I always wondered how George Bush planned to totally eliminate democracy in this country. Now we know.

Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack

I just read this article about the US and how they keep slighting if not deliberately rebuffing Canada and Mexico.

U.N. Wire | 2003.10.14 | Crossette

One thing the article doesn’t mention, but something that my parents and other Canadians mention a lot is that with 60,000 Americans being given extremely generous hospitality on Canadian soil when their planes were grounded on 11Sep01, Canadian police, firefighters and avalance rescue workers pouring across the border in any transportation they could scrounge (often paid out of their own pocket), the Canadian government offering troops and financial aid, George Bush gave a speech at Ground Zero praising the nations that had rushed to aid the US, but didn’t mention Canada even once.

And meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is still beating the drums about how lax Canadian borders let the terrorists in, in spite of the fact that not one of the terrorists did come through Canada, and that cross border trade should be stopped or curtailed until Canada beefs up her border security.

Ok, I said I wasn’t going to make political rants on this blog. I lied.

Here are questions that I, as a nominally liberal person, ask myself, and which I don’t like the answers I come up with.
Continue reading “Questions that make me uneasy”