About "gay marriage"

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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.

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Insightful as always.

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While I believe your post ought've been titled "About Canada", I can't help but agree with you wholeheartedly. The Canadians have about as legitimate and open government as New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago, New York City or Raleigh -- cities in the United States noted for their "alternative styles of governance and administration". I can't really compare the Canadians against other national governments, except as you said certain banana republics and some hard-line ideological Middle Eastern states. They are, however, only taking cue and leading the way in the style of power-grabbing which seems to have taken Western countries by storm.

The age-old struggle reveals itself, as bits and pieces of the facade of democracy, republicanism and freedom-nurturing fall away over recent time -- and will continue foresseably. It's a game, and it's called "Who Gets The Power, Whatever The Cost?"

Nice post.

Re: Insightful as always.

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Actually, it was stimulated by a post on someone else's blog, congratulating the Canadians on their new contribution to civilization and wishing that the USA would do the same. I have been following events in Canada at increasingly close quarters and with increasing disbelief - the manipulation of Parliamentary procedure alone could probably have brought down a government in Britain - and am deeply unhappy that many LJers will probably want to congratulate the Liberal gangsters on their advanced ideas, without knowing or caring from what manure they have grown. Of course, most of them would not give a damn if homosexual marriage were introduced by Communist China or by Robert Mugabe (who is, however, a villain on the other side - a confirmed queerbasher, among his other odious traits), so long as they got what they wanted. Which is probably exactly Mr.Martin's calculation.