If you go back through history a bit, you’ll find that most dictators have one thing in common - that being that they seem to develop a knack for playing the ‘tough guy’ on their own people, yet when confronted with an exterior force more powerful than themselves (which is pretty much everyone else), or when they’re forced to look in the mirror and fess up to their own shortcomings, they generally turn into something akin to 10-year old, ‘candy cane’-type little girls who immediately try to blame others for their own wrongdoings, try to connive their way out of it or simply run and hide in someone else’s shadow.
With that in mind and to simplify things a bit, let’s amalgamate these two drastically different human character traits and refer to them as: Candy Dictators.
Take our so-called ‘leader’ for example – who, for obvious reasons, is the epitome of the: Candy Dictator for trying to play ‘tough guy’ with Canadians, while simultaneously rolling over like a scared lapdog to the Mexicans, the Chinese, no doubt a number of others, and of course and as always, good ole Uncle Sam.
You’re probably already aware of the fact that the Candy Dictator and his handpicked judges on the Supreme Court managed to circumvent the entire Canadian Parliamentary process and has begun to deport draft dodgers back to his overlords in America.
Mind you, as with most dictators – candy or otherwise, they always get what they want whether the public agrees or not, so this really shouldn’t come as a big surprise to anyone.
In essence, this all boils down to one, simple fact: the Candy Dictator has decreed that if you’re not willing to kill people for no good reason, you’re not welcome in Canada anymore.
As for the notion that conscientious objectors are “criminals”, shouldn’t it be the other way around? Aren’t criminals generally people who want to kill other people as opposed to people who don’t want to kill other people?
In light of that, it’s not really much of a stretch to deduce that the Candy Dictator is far more the criminal than any peace lovin’ draft dodger could ever hope to be.
In fact just last week he took Canada to an all-time new low point by deporting war resister Jeremy Hinzman and his entire family including their youngest child who was actually born in Toronto. Isn’t that illegal too? Again, who’s the criminal here?
“I applied for Conscientious Objector Status in the US Army because I realized that I cannot kill a fellow human being. But my application was denied. I knew that in Iraq I would be ordered to take part in combat operations, or other actions that are against my principles,” said Hinzman.
So much for Canada being a global leader in the area of human rights.
And if you think that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel, it gets worse.
Take the whole Omar Khadr fiasco for example.
At the tender age of just 15-years old, the Toronto-born Khadr was seized in Afghanistan by US troops in July of 2002 following a firefight there in which they claim he was responsible for a grenade attack that killed an American soldier.
As a result, Khadr was shipped to a detention centre at a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he has been held without trial ever since.
Yet after repeated please from Khadr for help from his own government, the Candy Dictator did exactly what candy dictators are expected to do, and at the same time he played ‘tough guy’ with Khadr, he also played ‘candy cane’ with Uncle Sam.
As a result, Khadr has taken the unprecedented action of actually suing the Prime Minister’s office to force the Candy Dictator to do something on his behalf.
Just for the record, what we have here is a Canadian citizen – a boy in fact, who has neither been charged with anything nor has had his day in court, has been seized by a foreign country and held in prison for almost six years, has endured torture beyond most people’s imaginations, has made numerous pleas for help from his government, and has gotten absolutely jack-squat out of the Candy Dictator who shortly thereafter, reverted back into to the previously mentioned 10-year old girl and immediately blamed his mistakes and/or apathy on others.
When confronted by the press to explain his lack of action in the case, the best the Candy Dictator could muster up was, “The previous government took all the information into account when they made the decision on how to proceed with the Khadr case several years ago.”
So in other words, when the Candy Dictator was held accountable for his actions – or in this case, lack of action, rather than coming up with an explanation as to why he continues to crumble to his American masters, he immediately pointed the finger at the Liberals and blamed them!
…and out goes the tough guy and in comes the candy cane…
And if you think that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel, it gets worse.
Apparently, tens of millions of Canadians aren’t the only ones getting just a bit sick and tired of the flip-flopping antics of the Candy Dictator.
In fact and ironically enough, even the Americans have had it with his, ‘tough-guy – candy cane’ routine, at least some of them.
When told that the Candy Dictator flat-out refused yet again, to do something, anything about the Khadr case, US Navy Lieutenant Commander Bill Kuebler took the bull by the horns and delivered a severe scolding - just like a 10-year old girl might get, and basically humiliated the entire country in the process.
“You (should) stand up for the rights of a Canadian citizen, you (should) follow the law, you (should) do the right thing, you stop taking your orders from the Bush administration,” Kuebler charged, adding, “you (should) also stop being the last western leader to subsidize a clearly failed policy at Guantanamo Bay.”
Granted, Kuebler is the lead defense lawyer in Khadr’s case, but someone has to do it and it most certainly won’t be the Candy Dictator. How thick is the irony now when a member of the American military has to step up to defend a Canadian citizen accused of killing another member of the American military while the Candy Dictator, who is apparently the so-called ‘leader’ of this country and is supposed to look out for all Canadians, won’t for fear of offending the White House?
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to have a Canadian as Canada’s Prime Minister?
Kuebler also pointed out that Khadr is the only western national among the remaining 270 terror suspects still to be held after other western governments struck deals with the Bush administration for the repatriation of their citizens.
Not the Candy Dictator though. Apparently, he’s too busy appeasing his bosses south of the border – even if they’re just as sick of it as we are, instead of standing up to them and standing up for one of his fellow citizens.
And if you think this doesn’t have anything to do with you, think again.
…and out goes the candy cane and in comes the tough guy…
Thanks to Bill C51, expect a visit from the Candy Dictator’s Garlic Goon-Squad very soon and for starters; you can wave goodbye to both the Rimbey and Bentley farmers markets, and all the others for that matter.
During the most recent election campaign, the Candy Dictator promised “transparency” in the federal government.
Well at least he got that right.
With the: imminent Security and Prosperity Partnership sellout; the imminent renegotiating of NAFTA sellout; committing $600 billion of our money for his new war toys; the Brenda Martin fiasco; the lining of the Supreme Court to his – and ultimately Uncle Sam’s advantage; the re-enlisting of our troops for another two years in Afghanistan when they could’ve pulled out – and please, can you quit blaming the Liberals for everything already!; the despicable policy of arbitrarily deporting draft dodgers; the cowardly Omar Khadr travesty and who knows what else; it’s easy to see right through the Candy Dictator to exactly who’s holding the puppet’s strings.