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Easier left unsaid
You didn't hear what the terrorists did to our war memorial? That's because the mainstream media was too timid to tell you
Ezra Levant - September 11, 2006
How does the media treat the desecration of our war memorials? Depends on the desecrators.
After the evening fireworks on Dominion Day, three drunk teenagers relieved themselves on the National War Memorial in Ottawa. A retired major in the Canadian Forces snapped pictures of that loutish act, and the story became a national scandal. Newspapers put the insult on the front page, and it burned up countless hours of radio and television talk. David McGuinty, a Liberal MP from Ottawa, even called for an amendment to the Criminal Code to specifically punish memorial-peeing.
One of the midnight pishers, Stephen Fernandes, saw his photo on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen and turned himself in. He claims he drank a whole bottle of vodka that day, and had no clue what he was doing--it wasn't a political act. "I didn't mean any disrespect to any veterans, any soldier serving our country right now, or any Canadian citizen," he said, "and I'd like to extend my apologies to anybody that I offended." His fellow micturaters also made tearful apologies to the police and to the Royal Canadian Legion.
The boys were contrite. In the sober light of day they realized their offence. Still, the media had a field day on the subject, huffing and puffing as the self-appointed guardians of the memory of our war dead.
And well that they did. But where was the media honour guard six weeks later at the completely sober, premeditated desecration of Calgary's war memorial-- a protest in support of the terrorist group Hezbollah?
Calgary's wasn't the first Canadian "peace" rally to fly the flag of the explicitly anti-Semitic, explicitly terrorist group Hezbollah--a flag whose central image is a fist holding an AK-47 machine-gun. But it was the first time that a terrorist emblem was proudly displayed on a war memorial honouring Canada's dead soldiers, including soldiers who died fighting other fascists.
The leftist activists who ran the rally, which featured local Muslim and labour leaders, huffily denied that Hezbollah flags were flown. But home video taken of the rally shows the opposite: not only were Hezbollah flags flown, but the organizer of the event herself was draped in the terrorist flag as she led the protest. Go to this website, www.tinyurl.com/j4gft, and see the video for yourself.
Like the Nazis, Hezbollah is fascist, anti-Semitic, violent and disregards any rules of war. But unlike the Nazis, Hezbollah is actually illegal in Canada.
How would the media react if a Nazi rally were held on a war memorial? No need to ask--we saw their response to Piddlegate. So why the double standard when it comes to Islamic fascism?
Political correctness, of course. It's easy to take a tough line on the Nazis, 60 years after the Second World War. And it's easy to be stern with young white men going wee. But our political and media establishment is too worried about being called "racist" or "intolerant" when the fascists are Muslim, not white. It's the same reason Toronto's police chief, Bill Blair, bragged that he didn't mention the word Muslim once when he arrested 17 Muslims for plotting to blow up the CN Tower, and why James Judd, the director of CSIS, proudly claims that racial profiling is "fundamentally stupid."
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Self-delusion by the media hasn't gone unnoticed by a news-hungry public that increasingly turns to the Internet to hear what their daily papers are too polite to tell them. And self-delusion by the police has led to a kind of vigilantism, as vulnerable citizens refuse to pretend, like Blair or Judd, that they're still living in September 10, 2001. Passengers on Europe's Monarch Airlines flight last month refused to let the pilot fly until two Muslim men, wearing bulky clothes, speaking Arabic and acting erratically, were removed from the plane. It's unclear whether the passengers were overreacting, but it's clear what they were reacting to: a security establishment that, like Judd, takes pride in ignoring the obvious nature of the terrorist threat.
This is not a call for 1940's-style profiling--internment camps of enemy aliens. Far from it; it's a call for honest reporting and even-handedness from a press corps so concerned about appearing liberal that it has started to make excuses for the most illiberal fascists we've seen in a half-century.
Easier left unsaid
You didn't hear what the terrorists did to our war memorial? That's because the mainstream media was too timid to tell you
Ezra Levant - September 11, 2006
How does the media treat the desecration of our war memorials? Depends on the desecrators.
After the evening fireworks on Dominion Day, three drunk teenagers relieved themselves on the National War Memorial in Ottawa. A retired major in the Canadian Forces snapped pictures of that loutish act, and the story became a national scandal. Newspapers put the insult on the front page, and it burned up countless hours of radio and television talk. David McGuinty, a Liberal MP from Ottawa, even called for an amendment to the Criminal Code to specifically punish memorial-peeing.
One of the midnight pishers, Stephen Fernandes, saw his photo on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen and turned himself in. He claims he drank a whole bottle of vodka that day, and had no clue what he was doing--it wasn't a political act. "I didn't mean any disrespect to any veterans, any soldier serving our country right now, or any Canadian citizen," he said, "and I'd like to extend my apologies to anybody that I offended." His fellow micturaters also made tearful apologies to the police and to the Royal Canadian Legion.
The boys were contrite. In the sober light of day they realized their offence. Still, the media had a field day on the subject, huffing and puffing as the self-appointed guardians of the memory of our war dead.
And well that they did. But where was the media honour guard six weeks later at the completely sober, premeditated desecration of Calgary's war memorial-- a protest in support of the terrorist group Hezbollah?
Calgary's wasn't the first Canadian "peace" rally to fly the flag of the explicitly anti-Semitic, explicitly terrorist group Hezbollah--a flag whose central image is a fist holding an AK-47 machine-gun. But it was the first time that a terrorist emblem was proudly displayed on a war memorial honouring Canada's dead soldiers, including soldiers who died fighting other fascists.
The leftist activists who ran the rally, which featured local Muslim and labour leaders, huffily denied that Hezbollah flags were flown. But home video taken of the rally shows the opposite: not only were Hezbollah flags flown, but the organizer of the event herself was draped in the terrorist flag as she led the protest. Go to this website, www.tinyurl.com/j4gft, and see the video for yourself.
Like the Nazis, Hezbollah is fascist, anti-Semitic, violent and disregards any rules of war. But unlike the Nazis, Hezbollah is actually illegal in Canada.
How would the media react if a Nazi rally were held on a war memorial? No need to ask--we saw their response to Piddlegate. So why the double standard when it comes to Islamic fascism?
Political correctness, of course. It's easy to take a tough line on the Nazis, 60 years after the Second World War. And it's easy to be stern with young white men going wee. But our political and media establishment is too worried about being called "racist" or "intolerant" when the fascists are Muslim, not white. It's the same reason Toronto's police chief, Bill Blair, bragged that he didn't mention the word Muslim once when he arrested 17 Muslims for plotting to blow up the CN Tower, and why James Judd, the director of CSIS, proudly claims that racial profiling is "fundamentally stupid."
Super Drug Mart
Self-delusion by the media hasn't gone unnoticed by a news-hungry public that increasingly turns to the Internet to hear what their daily papers are too polite to tell them. And self-delusion by the police has led to a kind of vigilantism, as vulnerable citizens refuse to pretend, like Blair or Judd, that they're still living in September 10, 2001. Passengers on Europe's Monarch Airlines flight last month refused to let the pilot fly until two Muslim men, wearing bulky clothes, speaking Arabic and acting erratically, were removed from the plane. It's unclear whether the passengers were overreacting, but it's clear what they were reacting to: a security establishment that, like Judd, takes pride in ignoring the obvious nature of the terrorist threat.
This is not a call for 1940's-style profiling--internment camps of enemy aliens. Far from it; it's a call for honest reporting and even-handedness from a press corps so concerned about appearing liberal that it has started to make excuses for the most illiberal fascists we've seen in a half-century.
