I always knew something like this would happen sooner or later.
Looks like we’re on our way to criminalized dissent.
Thanks, Fern Hill, one of the good people at Dammit Janet who gets that Stevie Spiteful is anything but mainstream, for your good work and research, as usual.
CK,
Here’s a curious twist, Craig Smith of the blogging tories is attacking the Harper Conservatives from the BT platform.
In a recent piece entitled ” Hey Liberals: Go ahead and call me a racist”, he posts a photo of some Muslim protesters at some protest or other, accompanied by his heartfelt ” I don’t want these f**king people in my f**king country” screed.
The next contribution ” CPC majority? Who cares?”, informs us : ” Harper, Ignatieff, Layton. Who cares. They are all the same”.
A class act all the way, I suspect there is a real fraternity of spirit between such BT contributors and BT inspired contributors to your own discussions such as Redneck Jim.
One would have to conclude that former pillars of BT support such as Smith, constantly harping on the immigration menace, felt less than enthused with all the attention Harper operatives were showering on ethnic enclaves such as Brampton in the last campaign.
But isn’t the BT blog site affiliated to some degree or other to the Conservative Party, and doesn’t the party bear some responsibility for the screeching of its supposed supporters.
So I’m surprised such propaganda didn’t surface and figure a little more prominently in the latest election campaign. And I’m suprised those such as CanadianSense who blog right alongside Craig Smith get away with proclaiming, with a straight face, that the Bloc is racist and fascist because it continues to defend Quebec’s cultural prerogatives and policies, whereas their own champion Harper endorses the best multiculturalist traditions of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, inviting new Canadians into the Conservative fold, costumes, cuisine, values, we’ll take it all.
Keep in mind this is quite some posturing, and quite an about face, for those erstwhile Reformers
whose every other speech in the Commons in bygone days read like it came directly from the pages of that Macadamia blog, constantly seeking to link immigration with crime.
ck Reply:
May 7th, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Hi Dupmar, Stephen Taylor, now with the NCC and co-founder of BTs, is actually quite the Harper cheerleader. I wonder how Smith and Taylor are getting along in the sandbox now??