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 wonder what komrade kennedy and his ilk thinks about a mass exodus of his loyal supporters...hope he's crapping his pants.
This is a good thing.
FMCDH(BITS)
The old Win Win. Another good deal
My sentiments exactly, but I do feel a bit sorry for my conservative friends in Alberta and other generally red parts of Canada. The balance is much closer than we realize in many parts of the world. The leftist's really don't have a plurality in most countries and the tide will eventually change givin the stupid policies that leftist's enact.
This exodus really hurts my feelings. As a gesture of reconciliation, please send any Shania Twain or Pam Anderson-types that you encounter South. Thanks. Enjoy the rest of the NHL season.
Yeah but who wants a sick liberal immigrant? They ARE canuckians, ya know.
Yeah but who wants a sick liberal immigrant? They ARE canuckians, ya know.
Find some seminar brochures and leave them where your co-workers will find them. I'd like to get some for Christmas wrapping paper for the 'freedom challenged' in the family.
Check my post #33. Why doesn't some enterprising tv programmer ask these emigrants why they don't give up their US citizenship and surrender their passports?
Perhaps such questions would reveal the utter baseness of the expat...no responsibility, no loyalty, no sympathy for the US, only contempt and ridicule, except if their snug refuges are threatened, then they flash their US passports and demand to be the first ones out on US government planes.
If you don't live here, don't pay taxes here, don't want to be an American, then give up your passports.
On a program about Mexican illegals crossing the border at night, one man stepped from behind the fence and made the sign of the cross before putting his foot down on American soil. I have prayed for him every day since.
Expats should trade their citizenship with those who long to come here. Immigration problem solved. b.
BYE!
Bring back the draft, that'll flush the rest of em outta here!
Exactly right.
If Canada reformed their immigration laws so that you had to renounce US citizenship and apply for Canadian in order to hold a full-time job, the progressive's tune would change.
Or, it may be easier to change our emmigration laws so that you had to declare allegiance to get an absentee ballot- it would at least force hypocracy on them (more).
Their dream is to fold Canada and Mexico into one big 'democracy' and then
Liberals Will Rule The Earth
This is GREAT news!!! Let's hope NBC does a weekly show about how great Canada is so MANY more libs will move there. Thanks NBC. You're not so bad... sometimes.
Just make sure when they leave they renounce/lose their US citizenship and are removed from voting records. We don't want them coming back.
Exactly .. and the faster they leave the happier I will be.
Think it will work out where all of our libby libs go north and some of the Canadian conservatives come south?
May all of the liberals who hate America aka USA relocate to Canada. I'm sure once they lived the true life of a liberal, they may find conservatism little more palatable.
I also wish those they love communist dictators and terrorists do the same. Live in the Utopia for a year than maybe I would give credance to what you believe in.
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