The amber colours of autumn burned brightly as they hung from the trees and lay on the leaf-strewn streets, as a warm October sun greeted the city of Ottawa. Members of Parliament assembled as routine within Parliament Hill to debate the business of the day, until disrupted by a stranger to the city brandishing a Winchester .30-30 calibre rifle. Its bullets flew from the chamber uncertain of their purpose, striking and killing a corporal guarding the National War Memorial, which commemorates Canadas fallen soldiers—and now here lay another fallen. More shots are heard within Parliament Hill and by now the entire city has shut their windows and locked their doors. As the Prime Minister cowers behind a desk, so accustomed to raising his feathers when spraying words like bullets at a distant foe, the Members of Parliament brandish flagpoles like spears, ready to impale any intruder that might barge through the doors. Before given their chance, Sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers shoots the unknown assailant, killing him. And before the assailants identity is known, many hearts have already passed judgment: he is Muslim. As a recent convert to Islam, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, son of a Canadian Immigrant and Refugee Board chairperson, is demonstratively proven an agent of the Islamic State—little imagination seeks no alternative. Damn the Muslims! Export them! Leave our country! The Prime Minister, slimy as ever from the cesspool from which he emerged, capitalizes on the racist imagination run wild, implementing draconian security measures, preventative detention rights, free-range of identifying terrorists as the Conservatives please—everything short of the Emergency Act. Everyone with a dark complexion is Muslim until proven innocent; Muslim and guilty until proven you will not utter a word of dissent. Do you support Palestine? We suspect that you are with ISIS. Do you disagree with our war against Iraq? ISIS. Do you disagree with our support of the Syrian rebels? ISIS. Do you agree that the Unistoten Camp should blockade the a Energy East pipeline? Somehow, some way, youre ISIS. Zero connections with ISIS has been shown to exist between the son of a government worker and the terrorist organization, yet it has given Harper the necessary pretext to crush dissent within the country. An entire nation is shook by the death of one soldier on Native soil, yet we urge our soldiers and pilots to invade other countries or our government to support other wars, which will and has cost the lives of civilians: Afghanistan, 30,000; Iraq, 1.5 million; Palestine, 2,100 (over a span of 5 weeks). What can we call this? There is no rhyme and reason. It is bloodlust; pure bloodlust.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:03:10 +0000
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