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Green Party says Potvin will not be its candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway ... as this was obviously coming, here's the vile Potvin's self-pitying barf-a-rama: To be brutally honest Author of "A revolting confession" responds to widespread media criticisms The Republic of East Vancouver "Vancouver's Opinionated Newspaper" Current Issue • April 12 to April 26, 2007 • No 161 By Kevin Potvin John Keats wrote 123 years ago, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." On the confusing afternoon of September 11, that didn’t appear to be quite enough. I went...

Potvin reacts to his "revolting confession"Potvin reacts to his "revolting confession"Kevin Potvin, who was acclaimed last month as the federal Green candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway, made a "revolting confession" - in his own words - on November 28, 2002. That's when Mr. Potvin published an editorial in The Republic of East Vancouver - the alternative newspaper he founded - discussing his immediate reaction to the 9-11 tragedy."When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, "Yeah!" When the second tower came down the same way,...

Green candidate stands by remarks praising 9/11 'Beautiful' Katie Rook, National Post Published: Friday, April 13, 2007 A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful." The editorial, entitled, A Revolting Confession, was first published on Nov. 28, 2002 in an alternative newspaper, The Republic of East Vancouver, which Kevin Potvin founded. "When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside...

Green candidate, 9/11 theorist stirs debate By Brian Hutchinson, National Post Published: Friday, April 13, 2007 Kevin Potvin, a federal Green party candidate in Vancouver, has admitted his spirits soared while watching the 9/11 terrorist events unfold on television. "Beautiful!" he describes a little voice inside him saying, when the second twin tower in New York City fell, and thousands died. Then came news that the Pentagon in Washington was hit. More deaths. "I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air," wrote Mr. Potvin in the smudgy pages of the Republic of East Vancouver, a biweekly...

We share common cause with the Islamist terrorists: Far from being unreasonable fanatics, the terrorists fight for the same things we do. We have a common enemy. Ian Buruma, writing in the Financial Times, reveals that “suicide bombers and jihadis” are by their very nature unreasonable. “There is nothing to negotiate with people who wish to kill as many infidels as they can to establish a divine realm of the faithful,” he instructs us. They see “mass murder as an existential act,” he adds. What source is Buruma drawing on to make these extravagant conclusions? I have been paying...

A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful.".... "When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, 'Yeah!' When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, 'Beautiful!' When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken...