Harper’s Crime

Note: The following is an excerpt from a piece I’ve been working on for a long time about regionalism and separatism in Canada. The rest of the piece hasn’t been coming together, but this section neatly sums up my feelings and I’d rather not let it sit unread in the middle of a chunk of less successful writing. -josh

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Stephen Harper’s greatest crime is stoking the fires of regionalism in this country. Remember that this is the same guy who spent years in the house accusing the Liberals of a Quebec bias. Well you see his true colours now. Stephen Harper is without a doubt to the West what Gilles Duceppe is to Quebec. He’s got the same chip on his shoulder and the same sense of entitlement born of the same victim complex. Those attitudes breed regionalism and regionalism is and always has been the greatest threat to our massive and fragile nation. You may not be a fan of Pierre Trudeau but he had a unique ability to identify this threat and he attacked it wherever he could, most famously in Quebec. He didn’t fight the separatists because they sought independence; but rather because they sought to reward Quebecers for thinking small by embracing isolationism. The Conservatives play the same game; rousing their base while casting the rest of us aside. It’s somewhat ironic, actually; for someone who so gleefully mocks the separatists to be so like them.

Josh gets flamed, Bigtime.

Hey folks. I got a comment on my post “The Self-Righteous Front” this morning and I was going to list it as trash and move on, but it’s so angry and so filled with vitriol that I didn’t feel like I could deny you the honour of reading a real, old school internet flame.

So here’s the diatribe, unedited from “Mr. Freedom”. Oh, one more thing before we get to this little missive. I hate it when people flame using an alias, so I Googled the author and thought you might like to know that…

…Mr. Freedom is actually NEVILLE A. ROSS of Toronto. He’s a bit of an artist who loves comic books and Star Trek. He likes Star Trek so much that the only 3 people he follows on Twitter are Wil Wheaton, Levar Burton and Leonard Nimoy (and he calls me a man-child). He’s also into photography and cosplay. Comments for Neville can be directed to solex10@hotmail.com

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Hey Josh, I see that you love to kiss cop ass and suck on cop dick; do you love to get fucked in the bum by cops, too? Do you love to kiss and lick cop pussy? Are you a lover of brainwashing by the semi-neoconservative MSM? It seems that you do, because all I see here is the rant of an out of touch, socially, politically and (dare I say it) emotionally stunted man-child who will kiss the ass of anybody in power just to live and survive-that’s what this rant of yours looked like to me.

<i>NOTHING</i> in this rant looked, or sounded like, you had any inkling of what the protesters (not the Black Bloc) wanted to say to the world. Nothing sounded as if you had <i>any</i> idea of the issues the protesters were on the streets trying to bring to everybody’s attention. Instead, all I see here is an immature nobody who’s taken his talking points from Rex Murphy, Bill Riley, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Makin, and every other neoconservative bully with a big mouth and small sexual member. It also sounds like the typical North American sheep who vote and pay taxes, consume like there’s no tomorrow and who only knows what’s on <i>Canadian Idol</i>, and what’s happening in the NHL playoffs/Super Bowl/Grey Cup/NCAA championships, plus whatever’s playing a the local multiplex or what’s going on with the latest celebrity.

I could be wrong about this, and if I am, please let me know. But so far, what I read above is what I’ve described you as.

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So there it is. I might make a habit out of showcasing the most hate-filled comments I get here on the blog. The only question I have in response is…what’s MSM??