COMMENTARY · 25th March 2011
Merv Ritchie
Today, March 25, 2011 at 11:20 am the Canadian Parliament voted to close their doors to business. This means, yes an election, but more importantly, the end of debate and discussions. On the day a Canadian General is instructed to take over directing a campaign of war against another, non aggressor country, on a day when Japan announces the failure of reactor number three’s containment vessel leaking plutonium, (the most dangerous toxic substance known to man), into the open surrounding ocean and land, on a day when nothing is more important to the people of Canada than a debate to address these most serious concerns, the Parliamentarians decide to call it a day and go home.
This, my friends, is a crime.
Now we all individually get to watch the outrageous display of Canadians at war, with the entire affair being directed by our own General, having no Government to challenge it.
Now we get to observe a continuing meltdown in Japan, the worst Nuclear accident since Chernobyl, get worse, with no Government to debate what to do about it or how to prepare for effects from it.
Those who believe this wasn’t a pre-planned affair, wasn’t thought about in great detail and manipulated by others to enact this entire vote to end the Canadian Parliament are deluded. This was all planned to distract us from the horrific reality of the world today. Lets talk election and watch pretty pictures of Halo 360 live on the telly. Lets not frighten the sensitive Canadian, distract him.
Our international neighbours, to the south, the good old US of A are challenging their President for taking them into another war. What is wrong with us and our media? Call it whatever the Mainstream Media wants; we are dropping bombs on a Country who was not a threat to any other Country. If we want to talk about them killing their own people and how this is the bar we need to step in and start bombing a Country over, then there is easily a list of a dozen others we should be bombing.
And what is this “No-Fly Zone” bullshit all about. Yes, passed by resolution 1973 in the United Nations, but how is it that before this motion passed no other country flew there? Now that we have a “No-Fly Zone” every country in the world, except Libya, gets to fly there. Am I alone here in finding this ludicrous? There is a word for actions and deeds such as these. Malicious. The western world is being betrayed by their governments and their media. Another word, Treasonous.
No where was it heard in Parliament, in the last few days, on the illegality of our Canadian troops bombing targets in Libya. (Our email to our MP Nathan Cullen, to clarify this declaration of war was not responded to.) It is bad enough to have our boys and girls sent home in boxes from Afghanistan, but now we are in another Military engagement, get it, WAR, and our parliamentarians vote to go home and not even let these words escape their lips.
Lots of other things have happened too with the closing of the doors of the ‘Civilians Government Business Responsibility Chamber’ the bill to ban crude oil tankers on the west coast, the one which demanded the Government put a bill forward for the members to vote on banning tankers all along the Northwest coast of BC, is now dead. Dead in the water, just like some of our brave men and women will be, just like some tankers will be, just like our environment will be, just like those Japanese workers who stepped into a pool of water only to discover their feet were burning up, will be. They stepped into pools of the worst radioactivity slop ever dreamt up. Just like this international manipulation to close the Canadian people's democracy chamber.
And our Parliamentarians are quitting now for at least a couple of months to ask you to vote them back in.
How pathetic is that?
observer
Comment by Ernest on 7th May 2011
One World Government, eh?
harper gets my vote
Comment by sierrashelby on 28th March 2011
due to the lack of respect by the ndp and liberals federally, i will vote for the conservatives. i see no care of concern from the liberals or ndp in regards to our economy or the severe implications that an election puts on the canadian taxpayer. not to debate the budget at all and to continue the mudslinging is becoming intolerable behavoiur. the ndp and the liberals only want power they see nothing wrong with what they are doing, they are not listening to the people at all. I am one taxpayer who is fed up with the lack of work being done by the people we have elected as mps. The whole works of them should be fired and their paychecks stopped as of today. we the taxpayer should not have to pay for another election that will again shows tht it is all about the power. layton should step down as he is a disgrace to the ndp and the liberals should be ashamed of themselves for having a leader who is nothing more than a mudslinger. they offer nothing. harper will get my vote due to the stupidity of the liberals and ndp.