Posted on 12/14/2004 8:38:03 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
NBC on Friday night delivered a positive portrayal of U.S. citizens so upset by President Bush's re-election that they've moved to Canada. Reporter George Lewis highlighted how one woman "says Canada is more in tune with her liberal views than the USA." She then touted how Canada has "gun control and universal health care and no death penalty." Lewis trumpeted: "She's not alone. In Bellingham, Washington, Charles Key, a Vietnam veteran, is planning his move to Canada." Key claimed that America no longer stands "for freedom and diversity and tolerance." Without any regard for how the "pursuit of happiness" was declared in the Declaration of Independence for the USA, not Canada, Lewis relayed how the woman insisted that "all of us are entitled to the pursuit of happiness." She declared "I found my dreams in Canada" before Lewis jovially concluded: "And as she spots a bald eagle, she jokes that even America's national bird is taking a serious look at Canada."
Anchor Brian Williams set up the December 10 NBC Nightly News report: "NBC News 'In Depth' tonight. After the hard-fought election this nation has now been through, after the victory for President Bush and the red states, a lot of those on the losing end, the bluest of the blue, find life so unbearable they've made the ultimate decision: To leave. While neighbors wish them good riddance, they say they're going to a place they're welcome. NBC News 'In Depth' tonight: Here is George Lewis."
Lewis began, as checked against the closed-captioning by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth: "Lorraine Wright, originally from California, has pulled up anchor and headed to Canada. Do you think you'll spend the rest of your years here?"
Lorraine Wright, at a marina: "Absolutely."
Lewis: "As a Canadian citizen?"
Wright: "Absolutely."
Lewis: "Wright, who runs a hotel and tour company on Quadra Island, British Columbia, says Canada is more in tune with her liberal views than the USA."
Wright: "You know, they have gun control and universal health care and no death penalty."
Lewis: "She's not alone. In Bellingham, Washington, Charles Key, a Vietnam veteran, is planning his move to Canada."
Charles Key: "America no longer reflects my political and social values."
Lewis: "Spoken by a man whose ancestor, Francis Scott Key, wrote this:"
Clip of artist singing: "-the land of the free-" Key: "'The land of the free and the home of the brave' to me always meant that America was supposed to stand for freedom and diversity and tolerance. And I don't think that it does anymore."
Lewis, at a border crossing: "So far Canadian officials say they haven't seen any huge exodus of Americans moving to Canada, but they do note that since the U.S. election thousands of Americans have been checking out the Canadian official immigration Web site. And in the last week, more than 300 people in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco paid $25 apiece to attend seminars hosted by Canadian immigration lawyer Rudolph Kischer."
Rudolph Kischer, immigration lawyer: "Bush has been great for business."
Unidentified man: "Good riddance."
Lewis: "On a show televised in Canada, Charles Key noted there are plenty of Americans who think the idea of moving North is plain stupid."
Key on the TV show in Canada: "And it's reflected in words like 'good riddance' and 'don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.'"
Lewis: "Lorraine Wright says some may think of expats like her as traitors, but says all of us are entitled to the pursuit of happiness."
Wright: "I found my dreams in Canada."
Lewis concluded: "And as she spots a bald eagle, she jokes that even America's national bird is taking a serious look at Canada. George Lewis, NBC News, Quadra Island, British Columbia."
I hope we don't do ANYTHING to discourage these dopes. Get going, LOSERS!!!!
And legal too.
Ah, yes. As I recall, the bulk of the discussion of the Constitution in the state ratifying conventions and almost two-thirds of The Federalist are devoted to affirmative action and allowing sodomites legal permission to pretend they're married.
A pain drain.
Agreed!
We can hope and I think it is likely there maybe an exodus. We all know liberals are like sheep. They follow there (liberal) leaders without question. Bye Bye Socialist.Enjoy the rain, snow and taxes of your socialist paradise. heh heh
Too bad we can't get a nonstop express train set up from Mexico to Canada.
So...disgrunted and dispirited "liberals" cannot realize their dream of Euro-socialism imposed upon the republic of America?
*Moore* power to their exodus and encourage them to
"move-on."
Any chance they're migrating from purple states? I'd love to see Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc. become red in 2008. Our luck? It's the last 300 liberals in Texas leaving.
Hey, numbnuts -- I got your diversity right here (holds up both LEFT and RIGHT middle fingers)!
I wish every last one of those America-haters would go join up with their buddies. Guess what? Pretty soon the Canadians won't be able to stand 'em, either. Why? Because they're just plain dysfunctional. I oughtta know; I work with a couple of 'em (one of whom wrote anti-Bush, anti-American lamentations all over her car windows right after the most recent defeat of communism at the polls, and that drivel is still there, for all to see, 6 weeks later).
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Go fools, and I hope after your realization of what a mistake you have made, you are NOT allowed re-entry to the greatest country on earth. Fools.
FMCDH(BITS)
I say build a bridge to help them. It could be covered to keep out the snow. Maybe a people mover!
They will be able to vote in our elections; no matter how rabidly anti-American the ex-pat community is all over the world, they will never renounce their US citizenship and surrender their passports. And they freak out when you ask them why.
But we all know why. Just like Canada who since l951 has spent less than 1% of its budget on defense, and like Western Europe who has relied on US troops and US missiles for protection since l945, the expats will stay cradled in the protective arm of America while they bite her to the bone. b.
addition through subtraction. It would be the greatest gift to this country if the most liberal citizens left and set up camp in Canada.
Cuba does have the death penalty, though. Still, five out of six isn't bad!
Bye, bye baby, baby goodbye!
Hey, if they take our liberals, then treating their sick is a very fair trade, IMHO.
Cool, can we get them to revoke their citizenship while they're at it.
Great marketing campaign.
Translation: She runs a B&B, and drives folks around the mostly hippy-dippy island in her minibus.
There are plenty of dreadlocked hippy-wannabes and horse-tailed hippy has-beens and never-wases on Quadra. She'll feel right at home, since about half of these deadbeat colonies consist of damnyankees who already came up here!
I would like to find where and who I can send a $25.00 donation to help encourage more to attend these seminars and rid our country of these traitors...and my donation is most likely tax deductible!
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