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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2005-06-30 06:56 am

About "gay marriage"

The Canadian government is, without a doubt, the most corrupt and dishonest of all current governments in major industrial countries: and bear in mind that when you are competing against Bush, Berlusconi, Chirac, and Blair, that is one Hell of a title to have. But as an Italian citizen in my forties, I thought I had seen the height of corruption and dishonesty in the Craxi age - and Paul Martin's bunch of bandits have the late Mr.Craxi totally whomped. For one thing, there is the purchase of representatives. I had heard of such things going on in the Pakistani Parliament - till they passed a law forbidding members of Parliament from changing parties - but it had never even occurred to me that it might happen in a non-banana-republic state, and certainly no Italian politician had ever offered another money or inducements to switch parties. But Paul Martin's bandits have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, doing precisely that, at least once, and the evidence is overwhelming that they did it at least another time. Compared to this, which makes a mockery of elected government, even their notorious financial scandals become a comparatively minor matter.

Paul Martin and his party of gangsters should have been in jail long ago. Instead, they govern a major Western country - something they have in common with Chirac and Berlusconi, who both rose to the highest office of State as an alternative to going to jail. They are supported by a corrupt Press and by an utterly degraded CBC - a corporation that makes the BBC look like a model of objectivity and openness. And it is from this lofty moral perch that they have imposed "gay marriage" upon the country.

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2005-06-30 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I would say that what really stunned me were, one, the purchase or attempted purchase of representatives, and, two, the juggling with parliamentary time and repeated breach of promises (for that matter, I am told "gay marriage" was not even on the Liberal electoral platform in the last elections). God knows I have no time for Blair or Berlusconi, but I doubt whether either of them would sink so low. That is why I said that the Grits are worse than any leader of an advanced country I can think of. Purchasing the allegiance of opposition members, in particular, is banana-republic stuff.