A SERIES OF RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Why on earth would anyone think John Baird knows what he is talking about?
Apart from the fact that Mr. Baird has proven himself in public
numerous times a dishonest and patronizing and unethical politician,
Canada in fact has no equivalent of MI6 or the CIA, so we have
absolutely no information sources of our own (CSIS being limited to
domestic efforts).
Baird is merely echoing the words of Israeli and American sources,
both of which not only have their own special interests for what they
say but are proved liars in countless instances.
We have the blunt testimony, made public through error, from the
presidents of France and the United States as to what a complete liar
Mr. Netanyahu is, an unprecedented and unimpeachable testimony into
secret affairs.
Israel endlessly plots to gain advantage and position throughout the
Middle East. Its plots have nothing to with genuine security but with a
desire to sit as arbiter of all affairs within a thousand miles of its
borders (whatever those are).
Only the other day the United States quietly cancelled a large joint
military exercise with Israel, having become quite fearful that Israel
would exploit it for engaging the United States in war with Iran.
Top level American military and intelligence men expressed their
deep concerns to Obama that Israel's series of black operations in Iran,
including the assassinations of several scientists were aimed at
triggering just such an event.
It would not be the first time for Israel: both the Six Day War and
the two-hour attempt to sink the American electronic spy ship USS
Liberty in 1967 were black operations, the second intended both to blind
the United States as to what was happening in the war and as an effort
to draw the United States into it.
And you cannot get much blacker than Israel's now-known sharing of nuclear technology with apartheid South Africa.
Baird serves Harper's interests as a faithful junk-yard dog, and we
all know Harper has bent over backwards to express views on Israel and
Israel's interests which have no basis in Canada's traditional foreign
policy.
Harper is motivated in at least two ways in this dark effort: one,
he is a fundamentalist Christian full of biblical nonsense about Israel
and the end of time from the nightmare lunacy of the Book of
Revelations.
And two, Harper is miming American Republicans in being totally
solicitous of all things Israeli because it brings in a steady flow of
campaign donations, and we know Harper has as a goal for personal
achievement to destroy and replace the Liberal Party, with campaign
financing games being a major tool towards the goal.
Baird only demonstrates he is one more shabby new-Conservative
politician ready to put short-term goals of party political success
ahead of Canada's genuine long-term interests, which absolutely do not
include ugly business like starting another Iraq-style war with Iran, a
country guilty of nothing, and perhaps convulsing the world into a major
crisis.
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"I recently watched a documentary about the rise of Adolph
Hitler. Seeing all those cheering, delighted 'fans' at every event as he
gave his speeches made me wonder what kind of people could applaud that
sort of bile and hate. Reading the comments in the Globe, though, I can
easily see we still have that same sort around today in Canada. I think half the regular comment posters here would cheer another Hitler if he promised to rid the world of Jews."
The comment is ignorant beyond telling.
I have studied the rise of Hitler in serious and scholarly books.
The rise of such people provides important historical lessons needed to
protect democratic and human values.
Most Germans never wanted Hitler.
Despite the most strenuous efforts, he was never able to get a bit more than 37% of the vote.
Hitler took over in an elaborate coup d’état after having been
appointed as Chancellor by President Hindenburg, an old man desperate
for peace in the streets and a man who previously was quite contemptuous
of Hitler.
And most Germans never wanted war, but they were trapped by a
vicious and ruthless government. Just read the works of the great
American journalist of Hitler's time, William L. Shirer. He was there,
and he was an intelligent and perceptive witness to events.
It is not just a coincidence that the popular vote for Harper is
close in percentage (39.6%) to that of Hitler's highest achievement:
every society has malcontents, ideologues and savages as part of its
fabric, just as a certain percentage of every human population is
mentally unbalanced.
And when people - politicians or ordinary people making grossly
dishonest comments - tell lies, over and over, louder and louder, we
should all be acutely aware we have entered a danger zone in human
affairs.
Baird has nothing but prejudice and no genuine information whatsoever to support his yelling and chest-beating.
How would we distinguish that mode of behavior from a small-time Joseph Goebbels type?
We cannot.
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"A very good reply by Mr. Baird.
"The difference between Iran and other dangerous countries like
Pakistan is that Iran actively funds, trains and directs terrorist
organizations that target the likes of Israel and the US and now Saudi
Arabia. Iran is also very bellicose about annihilating Israel or the
Zionist regime like they call it (as if there is a difference?) and this
is before anyone was talking about attacking Iran.
"In the end, people here who ignore the facts at all costs will never be convinced until a bomb falls on their head."
It ain't our heads on which bombs will fall.
It's 70 million completely innocent Iranians.
Just as the Iraq invasion - again, a product of Israel's tireless
efforts on a very weak American president - killed hundreds of thousands
of innocents and destroyed a society for a generation.
It is only the genuine ideologues and haters pushing for extreme measures against Iran.
And surely we all know by now where policy driven by ideologues and haters takes us.
A one-way trip to nowhere.
And note what colossally dangerous prejudice the person making the comment displays: “other dangerous countries like Pakistan."
Goebbels couldn't have said it better.
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“The only threat a nuclear armed Iran poses is to the American ability to invade them.
“End of story.”
A brutal truth, but only a partial truth.
No country would ever use nuclear weapons in that fashion, because it would be national suicide.
And that is also precisely why the ideologues and haters who promote Israel's twisted views do not understand reality.
We know Israel has at least 150 nuclear weapons because former President Carter told us that a couple of years ago.
The truth is that even were Iran developing nuclear weapons - and it
is decidedly not doing so - all that would result is the kind of
stand-off we had in Europe for decades.
And that stand-off kept the peace.
Israel does not fear Iran with nuclear weapons per se. It fears the
rising influence of Iran in the region, an influence which in part stems
from America's stupid invasion of Iraq, another insane project
advocated by Israel.
Israel unquestionably wants the same kind of virtually absolute
authority in its region that America enjoys in the world at large.
The word for that is simple: it's imperialism.
So here we have, once again, imperialistic and grossly selfish
motives posing as desperate security fears and humanistic concerns.
It simply ain't so.
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"a rapid [sic] left-wing Jew" liza writes in describing Mr. Gerald Caplan.
Again, Goebbels could not have said it better.
How does anyone, not mentally unbalanced or viciously hating, write such ugly things?
Were anyone other than an apologist for Israel to utter such hate-speech, he or she would be attacked savagely.
But it's okay when you promote war and destruction on behalf of Imperial Israel.
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"It really is time for people to wake up. This is real.
"Remember 9/11."
Ah, the ultimate stupidity has been uttered: "Remember 9/11."
9/11 was a crime committed by 19 unstable men, each of whom paid for it with his life.
But that didn't stop the arm-pumping, belly-over-belt crowd from
murdering in blind rage at least half a million people having nothing,
absolutely nothing, to do with it.
Gee, I'm glad we have writers like this to remind us of stupid human beings can be.
We're chimpanzees with bigger brains, just big enough to cause horrific destruction.
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"Perhaps Mr. Baird and his colleagues will take the time to educate themselves"
When what you are after is propaganda and appeals to humanity's worst instincts, you don't educate yourself.
Why let education stand in the way of rage and irrationality?
It's so much more fun to stomp up and down like Mr. Baird does, the very picture of an angry child, albeit a terribly ugly one.
http://chuckmancartoons.blogspot.com/2010/06/canadas-john-baird-does-lunch.html
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"Gerald Klu Klux Kaplan has the IQ of pond scum and it is to
this paper's eternal shame that it publishes his ignorant and hateful
delusions. Since when does the globe publish racists like him? If Mr.
Klu Klux Kaplan hates the jooz so much, maybe he should write for
Stormfront or something."
Sorry, but apart from the misspellings, isn't it people like you who
hurl ugly names, instead of cogent arguments, who demonstrate low IQs?
Although in truth, IQ has nothing to do with it.
Goebbels was a highly intelligent and educated man, but he was a hater and a believer in ugly fantasy.
And just so, this writer.
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“Baird and his staff write well, but they cannot hide their
ethically indefensible support for Israel's politics of repression,
aggression, and religious superiority. I worry far more about Israel and
the US than I do about Iran.”
They don't want to hide it.
They make a very clear and public appeal to the supporters of Israel's bloody excesses.
It's precisely the scenario we see with America's Republicans, all
racing to outdo each other in excessive and nasty statements about
whatever it is that Israel does not like.
How can anyone argue that such people are serving the national interest?
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"For those whose comments are full of anti Islamic stuff, are
you aware that a proportion of the Palestinian population that was
driven out after WW II was Christian?"
I'm glad you remind us of that truth.
Hanan Ashwari, for example, an able politician and academic, is Christian.
And so are tens of thousands of Palestinians.
By the way, it is illegal in Israel for Christians to preach conversion as they do in Canada or the United States every day.
