Live blogging my question for Elizabeth May
Waiting at an empty union station. Only one green sign in evidence. Elizabeth May should be here any minute.
My question: “is it racist to support Hezbollah?” Or “is Hezbollah a terrorist organization?”. Whichever I remember.
Update: she’s not here till eleven now. Delayed.
Updater. Hockey hall of fame and I can’t find a Canucks jersey. Some guy is rubbing people in a massage chair near some trophies. It’s sparsely attended. I have jet lag and I can’t fake interest in organic produce for another four hours. Tindal confirms, she’s not here till past eleven. Like the trickle of people moving past me – I’m going home.
FYI – yes, mother I got permission to take pics at the event.
Hezbollah is both a terrorist/rebel organization and a humanitarian one. It’s possible to like one & not the other.
Esn
September 25, 2008 at 5:43 am
You can keep parroting that line but what you are not fully grasping is that Hezbollah’s social programs are designed to act as a recruitment program and provide cover for their military activities. Do you have any idea of the level of indoctrination which exists within their so-called daycare and youth programs for children? Hezbollah is not Doctors without Borders or a Shi’ite version of the Boy Scouts.
Kateland
September 25, 2008 at 7:29 am
The Black Panthers ran a day care center.
The SLA handed out free food in South Central.
Al Capone gave money to Depression era soup kitchens.
Discuss.
Kathy Shaidle
September 25, 2008 at 12:30 pm
…and Mussolini made the trains run on time. Good old-fashioned Canadian train efficiency, this. Great for being only a few hours late each way.
Oh, and to get closer to the thread’s theme, Hitler greatly increased the welfare state of Germany.
James Goneaux
September 25, 2008 at 12:52 pm
It’s an old trick designed to make the people dependent upon you and not inclined to want to rock the boat.
Louise
September 25, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hezbollah’s motto is: ‘cradle to grave’.
It means they make themselves so indispensible to the civilian population whom they control (and make no mistake, I DO mean ‘control’) that the very idea of existing independantly of them is unthinkable.
If you need to truly understand this methodology, take a look at how modern-day religious cults control their members. Textbook appliaction, Hezbollah is.
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September 25, 2008 at 5:30 pm
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