- Reaction score
- 35
- Points
- 560
More on the leadership of these protest groups:
http://www.mikebrockonline.com/blog/2008/03/jack-layton-walks-with-the-far.html
http://www.mikebrockonline.com/blog/2008/03/jack-layton-walks-with-the-far.html
Jack Layton walks with the far left
By
Mike Brock
on March 16, 2008 1:43 PM
Yesterday, Jack Layton took to the streets of Toronto, to demand that Canada be "on a path towards peace in Afghanistan", at a protest organized by the far-left, radical Toronto Coalition to Stop the War. I'm sure he had plenty of fun, but a few notes about this group:
I've had some face-to-face conversations with the organizers of the TCSW, last year, when I went to a conference called Marxism 2007: A Festival of Resistance on the University of Toronto campus.
I spoke to quite a few individuals there, and most of my conversations are still recorded on minidisc, as the purpose of my trip was material for my show. So I can tell people, first hand, that the main people behind nowar.ca are principally communists. No, I'm not being Mr. Conspiracy.
In fact, these people are so far to the left, in their support with the Communist Party of Canada, and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), that they see the NDP as only a lesser-evil at best.
These people are also highly connected to local student "unions", particularly the Ryerson Student's Union, a constituent of the Canadian Federation of Students.
They even have their own radio station.
Go to the Ryerson University Student Campus Centre, and go up the stairs to the University Radio Station CKLN, and you'll often find communist paraphernalia on sale there. And if you look deeper, you'll find that the radio station itself is more connected with the communist movement, than with the social democratic movement.
No, I've never gone to Ryerson University as a student. But for a while, I took great time and effort in investigating and affiliating myself with the far-left here in Toronto. It's a tight-knit group, where you find the same old usual suspects wherever you go.
In fact, some local communist activists were at the Maclean's-Islam town hall at—there's that name again—Ryerson University. I know this, because some of them recognized me and approached me, having recognized me from my appearance at the Marxism conference.
The thing I find talking to these people, is that a lot of them are so blazingly honest about their motives, which is why they're probably relegated to the fringes of society. For example: I've been told in conversation, on more than one occasion, that these people are not necessarily against militarism. No, they are against militarism in the form of liberal hegemony. And by liberal, they mean capitalist. They have no problem with organizations like the FARC, or other communist paramilitaries.
Remember, communists are anti-liberal. Not anti-war. Liberalism means completely open democracy, absolute individual rights, etc. All of which are incompatible with far-left dogma.
If you read the manifesto of the Communist Party of Canada, you'll find that they prefer a new constitution, where only socialist parties may run for government; their idea of democracy is making liberalism illegal.
They justify it in weird and curious ways, which I'm sure they themselves believe.
It is their opinion, that in a liberal democratic society, nobody can ever be completely "free" since the "proletariat" are slaves to the "bourgeois". So it is with this, that they think of "mandatory socialist principles" for all political parties as being "more free". But I'm only pointing this out to show how delusional they are. There's a million ways to pick apart their logic, and I don't have the time.
I'm also pointing this out to show the kind of company that Jack Layton, Linda McQuaig, Judy Rebick, and others keep.
They stand side-by-side at rallies. Rallies organized by far-left radicals, who seek to remove the basic underpinnings of our free and open society, through the imposition of their morality, their political ideology and their "leaders".
With the tendency to sympathize with those kinds of people, it's no wonder that such people support the fascist Human Rights Commissions. It allows them to back-end load their ideology into our society, without the interference of real law, or reality for that matter.
Who are you Jack Layton?