I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

I don't usually leave long comments below articles on The Concordia Link site, but I'm especially proud of my response to this agit-prop piece about a recent protest against a meeting of the Free Trade Association of the Americas outside the Ritz-Carlton (notice how they don't actually say how many protestors were there... I think the Gazette said it was 20... maybe). Though I didn't actually bother addressing any of their arguments, I was just amused that Patrick Lavery, the writer of this opinion piece (posing as an article, though they only give the views of protestors, particularly the tiresome Rob Green who was the Concordia Student Union president who effectively turned the CSU into the Communist Party of Concordia before being forced out of office by a financial scandal... plus, the "article" gives contact info for this protest group; great objectivity there), seemed to be implying that (Red) Tory leadership candidate runner-up David Orchard was somehow "right wing"... um... no, Orchard's wacky anti-Free Trade antics are the cold shower I need to keep me firmly in the Canadian Alliance camp whenever I consider holding my nose and voting Progressive Conservative in order to get the "Natural Governing Party" (re: the Liberals) kicked out.

I could debate these guys on Free Trade, but why waste my time? They're on the far, far left margins effectively barking at the storm clouds to stop raining. Protest to stop Free Trade all you like, but, after that, try something more constructive like draining the Saint-Lawrence one thimble at a time.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 5:38 AM