Posted on 12/07/2004 2:47:29 PM PST by Niks
No, really. Not everybody up in Molson Land is like that crazy, jackbooted lady MP we told you about last week. Okay, sure, some of them are--like the estimated 5,000 Canadians (plus Bob Dylan) who turned out in below-freezing weather to jeer President Bush during his state visit to Ottawa last week. "There are people here representing a wide range of opinions," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Paddy Moore observed of the protesters, without apparent irony: "from anti-globalization, 'no to Star Wars,' support for Palestine, Marxism, not [to] mention exclamations like 'Queers hate Bush.'" Before the day was through, the aforementioned "wide range of opinions" was energetically exercised--amid what another news account called "copious amounts of marijuana smoke"--by means of paint-filled balloons, sharp sticks, and hurled rocks. At least two Canadian police officers were sent to the hospital, one with "serious facial injuries." THE SCRAPBOOK prays for their full and speedy recovery.
And we are no doubt joined in this sentiment by a group of "Canadian pro-Bush activists" organized by Connie Wilkins and Mark Fournier, founders of FreeDominion.ca. (Which is sort of like the FreeRepublic.com of Canada, apparently.) "About 200 of us showed up to rally for Bush" at Ottawa's airport, stalwart Maple Leafer Pete Vere writes. And when the president caught sight of them as he drove by, "the biggest Texas grin you ever saw came over his face," and he "gave us the big thumbs up." Mr. Vere says he "cannot describe the euphoria we felt at
that point. . . . Some young mother pointed the president out to her toddler and said 'That's what a real leader looks like, honey.'"
Incredible, eh?
THE SCRAPBOOK tips its hat, as well, to a 48-year-old engineer from Oshawa, Ontario, who marched through the downtown crowd of paint-bombers carrying a sign reading "Support President Bush." As the Ottawa Sun quite correctly points out, "John Al-Hassani is Canadian, too." But "I came to this country from Iraq," Mr. Al-Hassani tells the Sun. "I have family there. I talk to them all the time." So he consequently has little patience for those of his fellow Canadians who think it proper to jeer the president of the United States as a "murderer."
"Look at these fools," says Al-Hassani. "They have no idea. They are idiots. They are simple babies. The majority of Iraqis are glad Bush liberated them from Saddam Hussein. But you don't see that on TV, only the terrorist gangsters blowing people up. . . . These people have never suffered. They make me sick. . . . If Canada was a terrible dictatorship like Iraq was under Saddam, would these people tell Bush 'No, no, don't invade, we don't want you to give us freedom?'"
Great post, and good job FreeDominion.com
The truth will win out over time, at least 61+ million of our fellow citizens get it too.
NICE POST, Thank You!
The 5000 morons from Canada represent the anus of Western Society alongside with 47% of the America-haters here and Europe.
Free Dominion folks can be proud - glad President Bush saw the supporters - must have been heartening to see!
What in the heck was Bob Dylan doing there ?
I'd like to see confirmation that Bob Dylan was jeering Pres. Bush. VERY doubtful.
Can someone ping conniew and Entropy Squared. Congratulations again Free Dominion, great job.
He said a mouth full.
Thanks, I haven't been over there yet today.
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Just finished reading it in the Weekly Standard. Great job FreeDominion.com!!!!!!
Way to go guys.
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