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Lest We Forget?

Issue: Some Canadian Douchebag gets drunk pees on a war memorial and the media and country go nuts!

Dan you can’t possibly be pro war memorial discretion are you? NO! But I’m also not pro losing perspective and that’s what everyone has done here.

A kid got drunk and peed on a war memorial – the world is not ending. Is this kid a douche bag ? Of  course  – do you think he’s in Al Qaeda? Or behind some greater youth conspiracy to undermine the war effort? I doubt it. This is issue is border lining on Salem for some people.

First up David McGuinty who is thinking wow my brother just allowed the first two Nuclear Power Plants in North America in the last three years – how can I out stupid him ?  

“But McGuinty, the Liberal member for Ottawa South, wants Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Vic Toews to create a new criminal offence that would specifically prohibit "mischief, vandalism or destruction" of Canada's war memorials. Fines should be substantial and penalties should include imprisonment, McGuinty said”

Imprisonment? Listen I know these sorts of issues piss us off so it’s a gut reaction. But really IMPRISONMENT? Our prisons are full enough as it is, plus you need to save room for all the Muslims being held without warrant after all. Besides, this has happened once! Okay once, society needs to start having a breakdown over things that happen once! The rest of us do not need to spend countless hours of peoples time and tax payers money because one kid is an idiot. He’s already going to die as the douchebag who peed on the memorial! When we find out his name write it down.. and check the obits in 40 years – it will be there. “John Doe leaves behind three loving grandchildren his wife Jane and years of shame – No matter how patriotic you feel kids, grandpa wants you to remember that too much Molson’s can be a bad thing”.

But apparently that’s not enough for some people – they want justice – how about a buylaw – sorry bylaw (silly me) that we can hang him from the flagpole and let the vetrans beat him until Candy comes out – or would that disgrace flag poles? Wait wait David McGuinty isn’t finished

"Most countries for years now have had honour guards posted at their tombs of the Unknown Soldier, and I thought we should be doing the same," McGuinty said.

No we shouldn’t! because guards cost money – and we need all the guards we have in Afghanistan remember? A month ago we were crying for more guards at Parliament Hill because people were going to behead the Prime Minister – (dan note: if it comes down to those being the choices – go with the Unknown Soldier – atleast he did something helpful for Canada. ) We don’t need guards or giant barriers or Port a Pots around the memorial – we need perspective.

Everytime I think there are signs we’re  better than the United States – we lose it again. First it was terrorism and now we’re going to bring up something that is virtually the same as America’s debate on flag burning. The peeing you say is obviously different – and I agree because I’ve never seen it before this kid and I doubt I’ll see it after. Is it disgraceful ? ofcourse but so is 90 percent of what the government does (they did after all have a debate on who gave who the finger – before they left for a well deserved summer break). Soldiers fought for freedoms and the future they did not fight for red and white fabric and slabs of concrete. You simply say – that act is a disgrace – pity his mother and move on. Their will always be morons, worry about the things you can DO SOMETHING ABOUT.

You know what’s disgraceful is that most kids don’t know what Dieppe is, or Vimy Ridge or anything about Laura Secord except that her ice cream rocks! Worry about that - Not drunken misfits .

Worry about Freedom of the Press – you remember that right? When people didn’t have to enlist to ask a question. I think that’s one of those freedoms politicians cynically throw around that my grandfather fought for.

Worry about the fact our Defense minister used to Lobby for a company that lied to get the U.S. into the first Iraq war and at the same time he was lobbying for Airbus.

Worry about the fact our Health Minister owns 25 percent in a Pharmaceutical company that his department is suppose to regulate.

Worry about the fact that Canada’s record on Climate Change is the second-worst in the world. Only the United States throws out more greenhouse gases proportionate to either its population or to the size of its economy.

While you’re at it - Worry about the fact, we’re backing out of an environmental agreement (Kyoto) that took 16 years in the making. An agreement we helped take the lead in. An agreement that is the first real world step in helping reduce Climate Change – You know the whole species not killing itself issue is something that might have interested the troops back in the first two world wars  - In fact if I recall that’s why they went in the first place.

Worry about the fact we’re in our biggest military operation since Korea and almost half the country doesn’t want to be there. Worry, that we just spent 15 billion dollars to ensure our stay til Vancouver’s newly themed opening ceremonies where the countries will come in on the tanks we bought.  

Worry about the fact we’re in a three party system that can only seem to have one functioning party at a time.

Worry that the official opposition party is going to have a pro war candidate running next election – so the choice will be “Calgary Afghanistan or Harvard Afghanistan.”

If you want to get petty about patriotism, fine but don’t spend my tax dollars for your gut reaction. Remember this countries last two leaders weren’t exactly Captain Canuck – Do you recall Harper mocking the poppy? What about Paul Martin and the old “Canadian Flag-shmag”… my ships are worldly?  

When people sign up for the army they want to fight for our freedoms, to protect Canada or to help bring peace to other countries, you know things that actually matter - not fake issues like flag burning or where some drunk kid makes the mistake of his life. If we want to respect them we should be engaged in the public debate – over things that actually matter – things that affect real people day in and day out and its Parliaments job to make those issues accessable to the public.

You want to punish this young man? Make him help you work on increasing the youth vote, or work on Parliament actually working together, not one side threatening an election and the other side being scared of one, you know so the youth actually can bring themselves to vote for someone and not feel their more mature than the candidates themselves.

Then you can come to me and say we’re truly doing our fallen soldiers proud, because if we don’t have a strong, united, informed country – we’re really just like Germany’s World cup fans– yelling, waving flags and still trying to figure out how we lost.