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Unfortunately
they didn't figure out during the campaign that Liberal
extremists (yes, that includes Paul Martin, who used extreme
unjustifiable invective against the Conser-vatives. The
word Liberal sounds soft, but the words used were extreme)
would take advantage of Conservative moderation.
The
Liberals literally brought out a gun during their now
famous ad.
The
Conservatives responded with a cookie jar. One would hope
the Conservatives learned a lesson. But the jury is out.
Did the Conservatives bring out a hammer, a knife or a
gun, to knock down Liberal extremism that came from this
week's winner of the Hedy Fry award? Air Hedy was the
Liberal cabinet minister who discovered burning crosses
which never existed in Prince George, B.C. Her intellectual
heir in th the Paul Martin government is Judy Sgro, a
Toronto area member of Parliament. Judy has discovered
a right-wing conspiracy of people opposed to "AIDS
refugees."
You
didn't see much of her story this week. And we can understand
why. After all there was so much malathion in the air,
how could any other issue cut through the haze?
Here's
the way the story came across early yesterday morning.
Canadian Press reported the following:
"Newly-appointed
Immigration Minister Judy Sgro says she strongly supports
Canada's controversial decision to accept hundreds of
AIDS victims from around the globe. Sgro says most of
them -- about 400 each year -- are rape or torture victims
with nowhere else to turn.
"The
minister reveals she has received a steady stream of letters
recently, telling her to keep HIV-infected people out
of Canada. But Sgro dismisses the letter writers, saying
she's glad Canada can provide a safe haven for women and
children infected with the disease.
"She
says refusing AIDS refugees 'is not the Canadian way.'
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Sgro
suspects the letters are part of an organized "extreme
right-wing'' campaign to prevent foreign AIDS patients
from entering Canada."
10
questions for Adler Nation:
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1)
How many believe the minister knows what she is talking
about?
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2)
Do you think she could prove that most of the AIDS
victims contracted the disease after having been raped?
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3)
Do you think she has consulted Canadians to determine
whether or not refusing so-called AIDS refugees is
the Canadian way?
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4)
Do you think she has done any kind of cost analysis
to find out what kind of financial burden the Canadian
people will bear for these "AIDS refugees?"
Does she even know how many health-care
dollars will be spent on AIDS refugees?
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Is the government allowing in other refugees based
on disease? Does a person with AIDS get to jump to
the front of the line? What about heart disease, diabetes,
cancer? Are these people not as worthy?
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Is the minister being truthful when she publicly suspects
the letter-writing campaign to keep AIDS refugees
out is part of a right wing conspiracy? Is it right-wing
to say we want scarce health-care dollars to take
care of our own? We always thought universal health
care meant all Canadians have equal access to health
care. We didn't know it meant everyone on the planet
would get access to Canadian health care. Is this
another hare-brained idea from the Roy Romanow/Ted
Baxter think-tank?
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Will Stephen Harper speak out against this nonsense?
Or is he worried that in doing so he would be labelled
a right-wing extremist, opposed to helping Third-World
rape and torture victims?
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When will Liberals stop torturing our intelligence
And when will the Conservatives decide it's OK to
get off the mat after the Liberals have knocked you
down?
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Is it politically extreme, or extremely honourable,
to stand up for the common-sense values of those people
who voted for you and the others who were going to
vote for you before you decided to be moderate in
the face of Liberal extremism?
- Will
Stephen Harper some day agree with me that moderation
in the face of Liberal extremism is no virtue? Will
he agree that a winner doesn't take a knife to a gunfight?
Hey
Stephen. Cookie jars aren't lethal weapons. If they were
the Liberals would be spending billions of our dollars
to register them.
Charles
Adler can be reached by e-mail at: cadler@cjob.com
Letters to the editor should be sent to: editor@wpgsun.com
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