POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Peter MacKay is simply an embarrassment.
He doesn't know what he is talking about, yet he insists on
talking in public.
And he does so as part of his ridiculous trip to accept an
award, an award from, of all institutions on the planet, the Pentagon.
His "award" represents the kind of plaque given to
aluminum siding salespeople for exceeding an annual quota.
Had he any effective intelligence and pride, he would have
quietly turned down this "award."
After all, his only merit in getting it is committing our
poor country to spend tens-of-billions dollars on a useless plane which cannot
even do what it was designed to do.
But the Pentagon is happy because Canada is helping
subsidize their long efforts to rejig this high-tech albatross.
Boy, if I ran a aluminum siding company, I'd sure award a
salesman who dumped a carload of unsalable merchandise like that.
But as a citizen of Canada, it is degrading to see this
mediocrity - supposedly a senior minister of Canada - go grovel in front of
powerful Americans in exchange for a crummy plaque and a moment of press
exposure.
What does MacKay know about Iran? Nothing.
What does MacKay know about nuclear technology? Nothing.
What does MacKay know about the use of Israeli propaganda
like the phrase "red lines"? Nothing.
And what does MacKay know about telling the truth?
Nothing, as he has amply proved through his entire national
political career from the way he tore up an agreement that gave him a
leadership position to the way he insulted a woman in public and just laughed
and to the way he abused the authority of his position with men and equipment
intended for serious purposes dedicated to his fishing-trip travel.
A moral and ethical nullity.
That is the value of the words coming from this man.
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"Wow, the HARPER
Government keeps sweeping up these international awards, don't they?"
There's an award out there somewhere for anything you care
to name.
The indescribably repulsive Tony Blair has received a number
of them for his efforts as mass murderer.
Harper is called a "statesman," after blowing
every single opportunity to achieve anything meaningful in the world and
lowering his country's reputation.
He was given his award by a smiling and charming elder host
in a yarmulke whose idea of statesmanship undoubtedly focuses on Harper's
self-declared crusade for Israel and Israeli values, having nothing to do with
Canada or with the welfare of the world in general.
MacKay is given his award by the world's largest institution
dedicated to killing people, as a sign of gratitude for a fat contract.
Awards are nothing more than presents from wealthy people
used to promote their purposes. Rarely do they represent genuine merit or
achievement.
It is a form of marketing.
