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Check this site out. It seems to be under construction, but I can hardly wait until they expose the wicked military conspiracy to take control of our universities, along with the equally wicked contractors who supply us with our devilish engines of war. Here's the letter I sent them (and journalist Ken Wiwa of the The Globe and Mail who praised them in his article today...):
Dear Tim:
I read about your website in Ken Wiwa's Globe and Mail Article of 13 March 2005 "How Canadian Campuses Resemble African Countries".As an officer in the Canadian Army, one who has served in both Arica and Afghanistan (among other places), I was naturally interested to see what connections your organization was going to draw between the Canadian Armed Forces and the instituions of Concordia and McGill. I assume that, since you feel the need to "expose" these connections, they are deemed to be implicitly bad.
I assume that there must be quite a bit of work left to be done on the site, as apart from an open-source listing of companies that provide military supplies to various countries in the world, I couldn't find your explanation of what harmful connections exist between the Canadian Armed Forces and the two institutions. I could suggest a few, although perhaps not as nefarious as you are probably looking for:
My Regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, proudly carries in its annals the story of the "McGill Men", a body of young Canadian men, all students at McGill, who volunteered en masse to fight with the PPCLI in the First World War. This is a connection that the University can be as proud of as we in the PPCLI are;
Hundreds, if not thousands, of officers in the Regular Canadian Armed Forces have received their degrees through the two Unversities(along with most other major Canadian schools), either at their own expense before enrolling in the military, or at public expense through various in-service subsidized education programs. Along with their citizen-soldier comrades in the Reserves who have also obtained their higher education at these institutions, these officers have gone on to lead Canadian soldiers in probably every military operation we have been engaged in since the days of the McGill Men. Thus the two schools have contributed materially to making our military what is it today; and
research done either at the institutions or by the companies on your "hit list" ensures that (when our Government sees fit to spend the funds...) Canadian soldiers, sailors and air crew are equipped with the most effective equipment possible. This goes for our Allies as well. I am confident that you and your associates are happy to know that these efforts help me and other Canadian soldiers carry out the committment we have made to apply armed force in the service of Canada as required.
Sound a bit sarcastic?
Perhaps it should. The basic premise of the web site, and of Knowwar itself, seems to be that industries that supply the military are somehow evil or illegitimate. Of course, by extension, this argument extends to ther premise that military forces themselves are evil or illegitimate. This, as a flat statement, is rubbish, really.
The use of armed force is an accepted function of any legitimately constituted government in order to ensure its own security, or that of its friends and allies, or (if we follow Mr Axworthy's "Human Security" line) the security of any section of humanity faced by violent extinction.
How a military force is to be expected to carry out its tasks without effective, modern equipment escapes me. Unless, of course, one is arguing from the premise that we should not have armed forces at all, and thus be able to do away with the nasty companies that so wickedly supply them.
What exactly is the position of your organization on the legitimacy of the Canadian Armed Forces and those companies that supply us?
Cheers
Dave Banks
Dear Tim:
I read about your website in Ken Wiwa's Globe and Mail Article of 13 March 2005 "How Canadian Campuses Resemble African Countries".As an officer in the Canadian Army, one who has served in both Arica and Afghanistan (among other places), I was naturally interested to see what connections your organization was going to draw between the Canadian Armed Forces and the instituions of Concordia and McGill. I assume that, since you feel the need to "expose" these connections, they are deemed to be implicitly bad.
I assume that there must be quite a bit of work left to be done on the site, as apart from an open-source listing of companies that provide military supplies to various countries in the world, I couldn't find your explanation of what harmful connections exist between the Canadian Armed Forces and the two institutions. I could suggest a few, although perhaps not as nefarious as you are probably looking for:
My Regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, proudly carries in its annals the story of the "McGill Men", a body of young Canadian men, all students at McGill, who volunteered en masse to fight with the PPCLI in the First World War. This is a connection that the University can be as proud of as we in the PPCLI are;
Hundreds, if not thousands, of officers in the Regular Canadian Armed Forces have received their degrees through the two Unversities(along with most other major Canadian schools), either at their own expense before enrolling in the military, or at public expense through various in-service subsidized education programs. Along with their citizen-soldier comrades in the Reserves who have also obtained their higher education at these institutions, these officers have gone on to lead Canadian soldiers in probably every military operation we have been engaged in since the days of the McGill Men. Thus the two schools have contributed materially to making our military what is it today; and
research done either at the institutions or by the companies on your "hit list" ensures that (when our Government sees fit to spend the funds...) Canadian soldiers, sailors and air crew are equipped with the most effective equipment possible. This goes for our Allies as well. I am confident that you and your associates are happy to know that these efforts help me and other Canadian soldiers carry out the committment we have made to apply armed force in the service of Canada as required.
Sound a bit sarcastic?
Perhaps it should. The basic premise of the web site, and of Knowwar itself, seems to be that industries that supply the military are somehow evil or illegitimate. Of course, by extension, this argument extends to ther premise that military forces themselves are evil or illegitimate. This, as a flat statement, is rubbish, really.
The use of armed force is an accepted function of any legitimately constituted government in order to ensure its own security, or that of its friends and allies, or (if we follow Mr Axworthy's "Human Security" line) the security of any section of humanity faced by violent extinction.
How a military force is to be expected to carry out its tasks without effective, modern equipment escapes me. Unless, of course, one is arguing from the premise that we should not have armed forces at all, and thus be able to do away with the nasty companies that so wickedly supply them.
What exactly is the position of your organization on the legitimacy of the Canadian Armed Forces and those companies that supply us?
Cheers
Dave Banks