lettertoed@thestar.ca
A sure sign we're on the right track is when a Canadian says we're not.
Al-Sadr should resign from the Shiite Clergy!
Nikki rocks. I'm glad to see he has another great forum for his essays.
Yes, the entire Administration should step down for the idiotic acts of a few enlisted men and women.
Bush haters will settle for nothing less.
Hey libs! Your motives are so blatently obvious. The usual spew is moving from the typical irritating crap we are used to, right on down to the absolute desperate attempts to take down an administration that has protected you to the best of their ability.
Isn't that what you want? To be protected? You will have no better protector than GWB.
You want the administration to step down. Then what?
Then what? Or is the step-down enough to satiate you?
The Toronto Star is a looney-tune paper. If you think the NYT editorializes on the front page, check out the Star sometime. they make the NYT look sensible.
We all see what they are trying to do. They now claim that they would have all been with us if it hadn't been for that nasty Bush and Rumsfeld, but the truth is they didn't have what it took to stand with us. Most of them couldn't field troops if they had wanted to. They are now trying to re-write history in order to lessen the shame that will be upon their heads in the history books of the future. Oh yes, and they will try to justify themselves so the Iraqi people won't condemn them in the future. It won't work.
The Toronto Star is the house organ of the Permanent Ruling Party of Canada - the Liberals.
Since the Trudeau putsch, and the re-writing of the Constitution that followed, Canada has become yet one more 20th Century utopian experiment, doomed to failure.
Contemporary Canada is nothing at all like the Canada I grew up in. In 35 years, a history was liquidated, a false one constructed, a judiciary established that nihilistically overthrows centuries of English common law, and common sense.
What I fear most about the upcoming election is the formation of a Liberal minority government, supported in power by the NDP. That very situation in the early '70s helped Trudeau gut the Old Dominion like a steer and tout up his socialist Frankenstein welfare state.
The stench of lies and hypocrisy in Canadian public life would gag a maggot on a gut-wagon.
Good epitome. And there we come to the crux. Abu Ghraib is a matter that needs correction, but the Star's editors need to review the difference in definitions between "degradation" on the one hand and "truncation" and "immolation" on the other.
This isn't about Abu Ghraib. This is about five Supreme Court justices, and the 2000 election. This is about the indignation of the Left: "We was robbed!" They were actually "caught stealing" -- but to them, I'm sure it feels nevertheless like a world-order-shattering infringement of their peremptory rights as Keepers of the Flame of Truth and Goodness, to get slapped like truants and ordered to their rooms without their dinners. And they will never be appeased, until they have danced on the bones of George W. Bush. That's what this is about. Charming, isn't it?
I think the Canadian King should resign.
Hehe, hehe, "indignities"..... HAHAHAhahahahaaaa....!
The Toronto Star is little more than a playpen for excitable, recently graduated "journalism" majors and flabby socialist hand-wringers who can't find a real job. Next week they'll be demanding more money for the "gun registry" or something....
I suggest continuing to ignore these cowardly Canadian mice. I won't acknowledge their existence by signing a petition, and I certainly don't care what they think about anything. In fact, I don't know a soul who cares what Canadians think about anything.
On the other hand, Nicholas Stix is one of my favorite writers and he has hit another one out of the park with this column. Thanks for the ping!
Now before you go dismissing this as just another unfounded, critical post, I hope you will examine it. A bigot is “One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.” Stix is calling for the resignation or the dismissal of a journalist based on the opinion she shared in an editorial. And yet he feels that sharing his opinion is perfectly fine. He is the very definition of a bigot.
Stix wrote that “Freedom of speech is a two-way street.” Does he not believe in free speech? What makes him think that he alone is free to express his opinions on current issues? Or perhaps not him alone, but only people who think like he does. His commentary also appears to condone the killings of the Arab prisoners. Stix may be of the opinion that killing prisoners in Abu Ghraib is appropriate, though such an opinion contradicts the Geneva Conventions. He is entitled to his opinions, and is entitled to share them with the world, if he so chooses. But to say that the “Toronto Star Editor Should Resign Now” based on an editorial that he disagrees with is bigoted and hypocritical.
Moreover, Stix seems to think that by writing an opinion piece in a newspaper, Ms. Shears, the Toronto Star editor he wrote of, is interfering in American affairs. Apparently, it is only Americans who are allowed to freely express their opinions on American politics. But consider his March 21, 2004 article: “Andalusia, aka the Nation formerly Known as Spain.” Perhaps he, too, ought to stop meddling in the affairs of other nations? Perish the thought. Stix might be unaware of this, but nearly everything that occurs in the United States has a profound effect on Canada, and vice versa. He may not know that Canada-U.S. trade is valued at nearly 1.5 billion US dollars per day? The globalization that has been taking place in recent years means that the activities of one country can have a significant impact on another country. Stix feels free to say anything he wants about the countries who chose not to participate in the war on Iraq. Their reasons for not participating might be domestic, yet he still “interferes” and call them “enemies” or “anti-American.”
So, should Stix stop writing about other nations? Should his articles remain unpublished because of the opinions they contain? Or is his article regarding the Toronto Star editor just nonsense? Here in Canada, I have the right to free speech and, like Ms. Shears, I will not be chastised for my opinion. And it is my opinion that his article was nothing more than bigoted, hypocritical, nonsense.
I would appreciate it if, in the future, Stix would think a little bit before he writes. But even if he doesn’t, I will still support his right to express his opinions. I will stand up for his right to free speech. And, regardless of whether or not our opinions differ, I will not demand his immediate resignation.