Segolène Royal, Elizabeth May, Farhan Chak -- They demonize the opponent and we live with the consequences
Segolène Royal, Elizabeth May, and Farhan Chak have all recently engaged in vicious attacks on their opponents, likening them to dictators of the worst possible kind. When violence erupts because well-meaning fools decide that history ought not to repeat itself, and that these budding Hitlers must be stopped by any means possible, they insist they've been misinterpreted. That is, of course, nonsense.
There is a problem when you demonize your opponent. When they become the enemy, instead of merely the opposition, then you invite a major escalation in the level of violence.
Consider how the left in France are becoming more desperate to stop Nicolas Sarkozy from winning the French presidential election:
Segolène Royal intensified a desperate final effort yesterday to tar Nicolas Sarkozy, her presidential opponent, as a dangerous tyrant whose election would threaten the peace of France.
Ms Royal, the left-wing candidate who is about four points behind the conservative Mr Sarkozy in polls, denounced her opponent for the “great violence” and “brutality” of a campaign that she maintained was frightening away voters.
She will use a critical television debate with her opponent tomorrow to contrast her “France at peace with itself” with Mr Sarkozy’s “France of the hard Right”.
Pro-Royal campaigners have called him a “French Berlusconi”, a new Bonaparte and a “French George W. Bush”.
The Socialists set out to demonise Mr Sarkozy months ago, according to Eric Besson, a senior campaign official who defected after falling out with Ms Royal. “Since we had a weak candidate, it was the best path to take,” he said.
Marianne, a low-circulation magazine, has sold out 300,000 copies of a cover story on “The True Sarkozy”. This called him insane. “His is the kind of madness that has stoked a fair number of apprentice dictators in the past,” it said.
That demonization leads to violence anywhere Sarkozy's presence is felt -- including Canada:
Quebec supporters of French presidential candidate Nicholas Sarkozy are asking for police protection leading up to this weekend's vote.
The right-wing politician's Montreal campaign headquarters were vandalized Sunday night. Graffiti and expletives were spray-painted on the office's windows and printed posters were glued across the building's front facade.
Sarkozy's Quebec campaign manager said it's not the first time the office has been threatened. "I received calls: one was insulting, the other threatening me on this," Hradija DuKalli said Tuesday.
DuKalli has asked police to increase surveillance around the office leading up to Saturday's vote.
But if Sarkozy is really insane, and a budding dictator likes those of Europe's past, then isn't violence justified? Isn't this an example of the classic time travel ethics question of what to do if you found yourself face-to-face with a young Adolf Hitler before he became der Fuehrer?
Either Sarkozy is the new Hitler, or he is not. If Royal and her supporters truly believe he is, then history will judge them harshly for not doing whatever it took, no matter the cost, to stop him.
So when Green Party leader Elizabath May put Stephen Harper in the company as those who were in league with Nazis, doesn't that mean that she would support any action required to stop Harper?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried Tuesday to draw Liberal Leader Stephane Dion into the controversy over Green party Leader Elizabeth May's comments comparing the government's approach to climate change to Britain's appeasement of the Nazis.
May, who has been studying to become an Anglican minister, told an Ontario church congregation on the weekend that addressing climate change is a "moral obligation" and that Harper's stand on the issue was "a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis."
So when Liberal Party candidate Farhan Chak says Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are motivated by a philosophy of racial superiority coupled with war-mongering, a corrupt judiciary and coercive cultural homogenization, a description of Nazi policy if ever I heard one, doesn't that mean Farhan Chak would welcome any act, however violent, that would end Stephen Harper's tenure as prime minister?
The road being paved by the Conservative party is for those that oppose the basic Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ridicule our multicultural heritage and believe in coercive homogenization. This wayward way refuses to acknowledge climate change, is attempting to eradicate judicial independence, wishes to alter Canadian peacekeeping with war-mongering and is upholding the failed Bush administration's neo-conservative agenda as a model. It is a dreary road, pockmarked with intellectual pot-holes, exclusiveness, racial superiority, injustice and arrogance.
The silver lining to this is that few people listen to either Elizabeth May or Farhan Chak. But then it only takes one person at the right place at the right time...
Of course, the vandalization of Sarkozy's office will be denounced by Royal's people as wrong. But Royal, May, Chak, and others have to remember that there are those out there who will take their words as calls to action. It is not the case of a few unbalanced people misinterpreting their words. There is no misinterpretation here. The reason the violence is not more widespread is that the vast majority understand exactly what people like Royal, May, and Chak are saying, but have enough common sense to ignore it completely. And that's the only reason Royal, May, and Chak get away with it.
Of course, when those few people understand exactly what people like Royal, May, and Chak are saying, but decide instead to put their words into action, it is always someone else who gets hurt.
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Why is May using a Brit PM and not a Canadian 22 yrs in the job PM
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html&series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=4&page_id=1&lang=E
Posted by: at May 2, 2007 11:16 AM
Why is May using a Brit PM and not a Canadian 22 yrs in the job PM
http://history.cbc.ca/history/?MIval=EpisContent.html&series_id=1&episode_id=13&chapter_id=4&page_id=1&lang=E
Posted by: Pissedoff at May 2, 2007 11:16 AM
Putting links on here does not work
Posted by: Pissedoff at May 2, 2007 11:19 AM
I will admit I am a born again right winger. The left got way to crazy for my likeing. I just woke up one day and realized the left were against anything that made sense, and were paving the path to bankruptcy, and a country without vision or identity.
I didn't mind May, I thought she was a pretty bright woman, and I thought she was trying to approach this global warming thingmajig using intelligence and calm. I don't agree that it is brought on by human behaviour, but was willing to listen to her.
There is not a doubt in my mind now that May is off her menopausal rocker. To evoke her god, and incite mass hysteria amongst her followers is the first sign the woman does not have both oars in the water.
The far-left have a tendency to attract nutbars, they know this because they are forever apologizing for them. May knows this. To let the dogs loose, and tell them the world could be ending tomorrow morning because of Harper puts him, and every other tory candidate in danger. What she did was not only the end of her political career, it left the door wide-open for the lunatic fringe to cause physical harm to our Prime Minister with her blessing.
Posted by: Honey Pot at May 2, 2007 11:19 AM
These lefty fruitcakes are in a death spiral. The longer their bizarre behaviour is exposesed for Canadians to see the better.
Next election Canadians will consign the green party where it belongs, the dust-bin of history
Posted by: missing link at May 2, 2007 12:08 PM
Hey Steve - This makes me think, whatever happened to that guy not that long ago that said SH was going to need to take a bullet sometime?
I haven't heard anything about what became of that, has anyone else?
Skal!
Posted by: The Hammer of Thor at May 2, 2007 12:30 PM
Add to that list the Canadian MSM, namely:
CBC
CTV
Toronto Star
Globe & Mail
Others ...
Even now, I am listening to CBC Susan Bonner defending May, slagging Doan, and the CBC broadcasting a stream of Liberal mouthpieces ... really bad and getting worse as we approach an election.
Posted by: Observer at May 2, 2007 01:18 PM
The loony in question is here...
http://www.discovervancouver.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=106927
Posted by: LoB at May 2, 2007 01:29 PM
I assume you made the same comment when Peter McKay said the following in the House 'demonizing' his opponents:
"I do not expect members of the NDP to understand this. I fully expect that the Neville Chamberlains of the 21st century in the NDP do not want to be part of an effort that is aimed at elevating the lives of the people of Afghanistan."
Posted by: at May 2, 2007 01:33 PM
The HOC has become a total disgrace. The Opposition is the worst in history.
When they have nothing to offer but playing the Gotcha political games, its time to give the people a chance to sort the bloody fools out.
The Opposition is not ready, but we are and the Harper Conservatives have the goods to do the job.
CBC has got to be made tell the truth and stop spinning facts to manipulate opinion.
PHONE THEIR TALKBACK NUMBER 1-800-565-1422 AND SORT THE BUGGERS OUT.
Posted by: Libby at May 2, 2007 03:47 PM
Nobody seems to want to scratch the surface of the University Of Ottawa to find the truth about Taliban
propaganda over torture to get our troops out so Al-Qeada Camps can return for more Global Jihad and mass murder by Muslim Jihadists in Canada and the USA.
Here's facts about Terrosim and the Uof Ottawa.
- The prof alleging Torture has ties to a Whahabi Islam Org. in Canada that demands Sharai law .
- CAIR has been caught fundraising for terrorism and CAIR did admit ties to Maher Arar .
- The Doctor who gave evidence to Justice O'Connor to prove Arar's allegation of Toroture was on Staff there and linked to the above persons
- Alex Neve from Amnesty Intl. has ties to CAIR ,Sheema Khan, the Arar's , CAIR's Muslim lawyers , Dr.Elmasry, Aly hindy , the Khadr's , the Toronto-17 Terrorists, and the U of O Law department for the Prof alleging war-crimes.
- The Arar's attended the UofO , CAIR and the Arar's along with Jack layton held a Fundraiser to donate money to the UofO Law department the Prof is paid to run .
- The Arar's set up a Scholarship with the $12 million they got for Alleged Torture by Jordan and Syria which goes to the law department of the Prof. alleging War-Crimes against our troops, the Scholarship is to bring Human Rights and Justice to Canada by challenging anti-Muslim laws and Islamophobia with Court Challeneges and lawsuits
against Canadians.
- Sheema Khan from CAIR lied to Justice O'Connor to re-enforce CAIR's bogus Islamophobia survey and Post-9/11 backlash , Khan failed to reveal that the Racial-profiled
Muslims rounded up by the RCMP were Illegals with forged ID and Passports along with two of them taking flying
lwsson over the Pickering Nuclear Plant and were caught on Hydro's beach property checking out the cool-water intake
ducts, Khan later claimed that lots of people take flying lesson and visit the beach without being arrested or deported.
- CAIR still has Charity Status even with the admission to 4 Members being indicted for Terrorism funding and Jihadist smuggling into the USA , and Liberals along with the NDP still support CAIR and Sheema Khan on top of Nihad Awad from CAIR telling the CTV in a video that they did support Maher Arar from 2002 and they are glad he got $12million from Taxpayers .
- Nihad Awad is in a picture at a Pro-Hamas rally in the uSA and has a Hezbollah flag waving man to his right while he stays mute on Terrorism.
- Layton and the NDP approved employing Aar's wife in their Ottawa Office for her Sharia law tenets as a Orthodox Muslim that's anti-gay, anti-Abortion , and attended a rally with Alexa McDonnough to support the Hamas terrorism under the guise of "Women Against Occupation" .
- Layton allowed Arar's wife to run in Ottawa for the NDP in a anti-USA/Israel area for the Arab/Muslim vote , except the Sharia law based voters didn't want a female Muslim in Politics and that's why Carolyn Parrish stayed in power as a anti-USA/Israel non-Muslim female.
- CAIR and the Arar team of lawyers demanded an Inquiry to avoid Arar taking the stand along with Sheema Khan and being held to Purgery Laws for misleading the Courts.
- Many of the groups tied to the UofO and CAIR/Arar have quietly changed the definition of Torture to include psychological damage from fear of possible harm or not seeing a Lawyer of Foreign Affairs rep. to plead their case.
Basically , the Lawsuits start by false claims of Torture that get printed in the media and then repeated until it is seen as the truth, next the alleger uses these News articles to complete the circle of evidence that it must be true because the media also claims it, then the scam becomes over the torture "Deniers" to prove their wasn't torture.
Next , the Lawyers rush in a file a massive Lawsuit against Canada to force a Inquiry which will use all the propaganda to create doubt so the Judge sides with the alleged torture victim .
Maher Arar's own website posts a 2003 $35 Million dollar Claim against Jordan and not Canada or the USA , it was only after the Courts threw out Arar's claim to apply Canada's Charter Of Rights within Jordan and Syria as a dual Citizen that the CAIR lawyers and Khadr supporters switched the lawsuit in 2004 to a $400'000'000.00 dollars against Canadians for what the USA did when he was denied entry at JFK Aiport from Tunisia by himself and only Jordan would take him in as a Muslim male to re-unite with his family to fly back to Canada.
Arar never testified , and CAIR and the NDP made sure of that by using Parliament to demand the Inquiry and then demand Arar get a huge bag of money based on allegation by the team of Al-Qaeda supports in Ottawa .
If Canada was so Guilty and Arar was really tortured , they why did CAIR not push to take this to Court over the $400'000'000.00 and let Arar take the witness stand, and why was it that when the O'Connor report was to come out and evidence started to show the USA did not rely on RCMP information that Arar's lawyer and Jack layton agreed to lower the Suit to $35 million from $400 million , and then jump at the $12 million .
After the cash-4-life settlement with the Arar's it was only then that CAIR came clean on links to Hamas and hezbollah funding and that they WERE supporting Maher Arar since 2001 when the USA questioned Arar having a Can/USA Social Insurance Number and home in Boston near the Logan Airport and a wife and kids alone in canada at a Ottawa address while Arar Globe-trotted to the middle East even after he fled Syria as a Draft-Dodger and the RCMP raided Arar's home and found Computer HardDrives and CD's hidden in walls and the attic , plus Arar rushed to get a weapons permit after the Montreal massacre when he lived in Montreal as a non-Citizen and Liberals announced tougher Gun Laws after the 1989 slaughter by Gamil Gharbi on a Jihad for Allah.
Anyone that thinks there is no connection to Al-Qaeda, taliban, Saudi Whahabi islam,Sharia law,Jihad,CAIR , Sheema Khan, Elmasty, Khadr's, Aly hindy,Troronto 17 Terrorists in canada are willfully blind as Liberals claimed for the Billion dollar Sponcership scam that Martin and Chreitien
signed off for under the "Unity-Fund" to buy Election with the $50 million funneled from the Treasury Department while every witness at the Gomery Inquiry assumed everyone else above and below them was responsible and they were "Just following Orders".
How odd that while several non-Politicians have been found guilty of accepting them money and the Judges agree that Politician gave it , we have yet to see Martin or Chretien be held responsible for naming who they appointed to dole out the money or who in Quebec ran on a fraudulent Election with the dirty Money .
Someone somewhere in the Goverment had to give permission for the money to go out the door , and someone had to have refused to investigate the Scam after a Leader in the National Party body had sent Paul Martin the letter alerting him to kickbacks and cash envolopes used to funnel tax dollars back to Liberals.
If Martin and Chretien are to be believed , then it's a soory state for canada that POliticians can rob us blind and use the Sgt.Schultz defence that as willfully ignorant and saw nothing, and heard nothing.
No wonder Dion is crazy for power to smear the Conservative and label our Soldiers War-Criminals , he knows Paul and Jean set up a money scam to steal millions for Liberal election and have Tax funded lawyers defend them in Court as not responsible as P.M.'s even though the Salary was increased by Chretien because he claimed the Responsibilities were greater the George Bushes and he get 250'000 ayear.
Shame on the NDP, Bloc,Liberals,and Sikh MP that clapped when Dion failed to denouce the Nazi reference for canada's policy that isn't based on Al Gore or Michael Moore's farce-u-mentaries that preech doom and gloom to inflict fear so people will blindly accept their Doctrines .
Posted by: roger at May 2, 2007 04:16 PM
roger: Thanks for your comment. There are far too many rats on the loose.
We should be very concerned about the network of undesirables who have been given refuge in this Country through lax Liberal immigration. In no small way fortified by our Charter Rights and Multi-Culti policies.
Sadly many get their asses into our universities, Elmasry is one to watch. Attaran is another trouble maker. The Khadrs should have been sent packing long ago.
Now we have the worst Opposition in history all worried about Afghan terrorist prisoners and accusing our military indirectly but obviously of war crimes.
The goddamned media are out of control. We have to have an election or we'll have a Banana republic.
Posted by: Libby at May 2, 2007 04:45 PM
As I just said over at Kates:
One thing the MSM and the leftards haven't clued into yet.. is that despite all of the teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing the lib's, dip's and "journalists" are doing about those poor taliban prisoners, the majority of the canadian public doesn't really give a flying f*ck about how taliban prisoners are treated.
Simple as that
Posted by: The Hammer of Thor at May 2, 2007 05:26 PM
The Hammer of Thor: According to The best Chief of Defense Staff we've had in a long time, Rick Hillier, our Military men and women are "Pissed off", he said it plainly, with the crap the Opposition are carrying on with.
Not one person I've talked to gives a flying fox fart about the prisoners. There is nothing that can come close to the cruelty of Taliban terrorists and the Taliban regime that was making life impossible for Afghanis.
Stoning women to death in soccer fields and chopping off heads in public, fine people to worry about.
We should be severely concerned with Liberals and NDP members going to bat for Taliban over our own military.
Too hell with the Bloc, they're a waste of space.
Posted by: Libby at May 2, 2007 05:58 PM
Great comments kids. TALibaN Jack and Mousie Dion are dangers people. Arar didnt go to court because he would have had to answer questions abount the alleged torture.
OH YA f**k the msm
Posted by: rod at May 2, 2007 11:54 PM
May should compare her own comments to nazi's first.
"Man is not above nature, but in nature." -- Ernst Haeckel, Father of German Ecology.
"Man must not fall into the error of thinking that he was ever meant to become lord and master of Nature." Hitler again.
We National Socialists demand of ourselves that we live as naturally as possible, that is to say in accord with the laws of life. The more precisely we understand and observe the laws of nature and of life and the more we keep to them, the more we correspond to the will of this omnipotent force." -- Martin Bormann, NSDAP Party Secretary.
http://hespeler.blogspot.com/2007/05/nazis-for-nature.html
Observer the G & M and Star kill trees and to stop global warming should be shut down. Mr Hitler would have wanted it that way....
Posted by: DrWright at May 3, 2007 06:49 AM
 
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