lly care about the oppressed. Here or abroad, they will only jeer at the poor to “get a fuckin’ job”, ignoring the fact that most of those wretches already have two or three apiece and still can’t make enough to buy a decent house. The only people they will fight for is themselves, although they might pat the likes of me smirkingly on our heads and nobly claim they’re doing it for us, because we’re too silly and wussy to scream for more and bigger guns. (They think we only scream for ice cream.) Some might even eloquently fool themselves (and a few of us) into believing that there really is some higher purpose to what they’re doing. But at bottom, no, they’re not doing it for anybody but THEM. That’s why they voted for the Tories in the first place–or local fringe parties who think the Tories aren’t right-wing and authoritarian and pro-capitalist enough. It behooves us on the left to remember that. Don’t watch their mouths when they talk; watch their feet when it comes time to vote. These guys will never vote for the common good. Pure, unenlightened self-interest is their modus operandi, now and forever.Don’t believe me? Fine, take a good hard look at anyone who ever accomplished anything for civil rights and liberties anywhere. Tell me who they were, what their politics were. Was Rosa Parks a right-wing white guy with a gun, agitating for the right to unlimited guns? No, she was a middle-aged black lady who’d been a staunch, quiet civil-rights campaigner for many years before she simply sat down and stayed put on that bus in Montgomery, and wouldn’t budge when Whitey ordered her to. How about Gandhi? Damn, the dude kicked out the British Raj from India without firing a single shot–or even a literal kick! He walked around in white loincloths, not camo fatigues. He organized protests, not armies. And both of these heroes had such a mass following that it was impossible to ignore them. They won in the end, not with bullets but with ballots.Closer to home, Tommy Douglas–CCF socialist and Baptist preacher–gave every individual in Saskatchewan the right to free healthcare, education, highways and more. His socialist initiatives were so successful that every other province in Canada eventually copied them, even those with conservative premiers. Under Lester B. Pearson, a Liberal, the changes wrought by the leftist Tommy Douglas and his provincial government became enshrined in federal law. Pearson also let the Vietnam-era draft dodgers, conscientious objectors, and peace activists in, and more than 25,000 of them came to call Canada home. All have praised its peacefulness and freedoms; none have tried to import US-style gun-mad politics here. And Pierre Elliot Trudeau–another Liberal–patriated our Constitution from Britain, and appended our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Thanks to those two documents, we are (or were, before Harpo) better off than our cousins to the south, rights-wise. I’ll bet you good money that the rightards aren’t even remotely familiar with the text of either one. I can tell you this much: Neither the Constitution nor the Charter guarantee ANYONE the right to guns.And need I remind you that the Underground Railroad ended in Canada, where slavery was abolished long before it was even thought seriously about in the US? I’ll give you a broad hint as to why that is: it certainly wasn’t Tories, or any other conservatives, who agitated for that abolition. And it’s a pretty safe bet that conservatives weren’t sheltering any runaway slaves, either.The entire history of the Americas is rife with conservative oppressors and liberal-to-leftist freedom fighters. There is not one conservative who ever fought for human rights, and not one socialist or true, un-milquetoasty liberal who didn’t.And no, the leftists didn’t all have guns. They didn’t all need them: Tommy Douglas needed only his pen, some paper and a microphone to become our Greatest Canadian. Even Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who famously left behind his medical kit and kept his rifle when fighting in the Cuban revolutionary war (which his column won at Santa Clara), would say that it the people’s revolutionary consciousness, not his gun, that was his best and most effective weapon in the struggle for human rights. The gun was merely his back-up, a tool for holding off the enemy. It was not the instrument of change; the mind was. It was only when he could make no progress with the people that his revolutionary guerrilla armies failed. Where no mind for change exists, there can be no revolution; there cannot even be a victorious struggle for one person’s rights, let alone the “individual” rights of all. No individual’s gun, nor indeed the collective ownership of lots of guns, can change that. The US is lousy with guns; have they overcome the tyranny of Wall Street and the Pentagon yet? No, because the mind for positive social change is one thing conservatives have never had, and never will. Not even the so-called “libertarians” of the right. Those guys will fall right in behind authoritarians like dominoes, when all’s said; the topdog/underdog mindset is all they know. And they want to be topdog; they don’t resent authority unless they don’t have it to themselves. They don’t want to build a world where there are no topdogs or underdogs. They are conservatives, and the only thing they conserve is the old order, in which women and minorities stay in “their” underdog place, and white male topdogs with guns run the show.No, they are not our allies. They never were, and never truly will be. And woe betide anyone who is lulled by a few nice words from them into thinking otherwise.“If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” –Ernesto “Che” Guevara, one TRUE libertarian.
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Yeesh. It was my post at Facebook, yes?
On the one hand, I’m sorry to have caused you distress.
On the other, bloody good rant. 😉
I dunno. Things are dire, Sabina. Very dire. I don’t think some kind of concerted effort should be dismissed.
There are a lot of conservative fellow-travellers very pissed at King Stevie at the moment.
At the moment, I’d consider a temporary alliance with Satan (if I believed in such a creature) to get rid of the HarpoCons.
Sabina
I had similar discussion today about so called leftist anti war groups in the US wanting to join forces with Ron Paul types.
These are the same misleaders of the movement who for 10 years did everything they could to tailend after the Democrats and distract the movement to turning towards a working class analysis and socialism.
Keep up your great writing.
Rojo Rojito
Cort
Absolutely fantastic.
It’s possible to use these people as temporary allies without necessarily thinking they’re awesome people.
You didn’t have to put up with any bullshit yourself in any case.
Thanks, Cort–and Fern. (And Toby and Thwap and–did I miss anyone?) Yeah, it was Fern’s thread that touched me off. Sorry about that, I guess I fucked up there but good.
The question is, do I go on to do better, or do I chuck it in and give these right-wing spoilers the victory they obviously crave? Cort, you’ve seen the damage they did down in your neck of the woods; maybe that answers my question. For whatever brief time and on whatever narrow point I might agree with these people, ultimately they’re not worth cultivating, unless they turn. I don’t know what it takes to turn them. Clearly I don’t have it, either. Maybe no one does! Against stupidity, even the gods are powerless–old German saying.
I don’t think they’re really serious about anyone’s civil liberties but their own, and the jerk’s responses to my comments only confirmed that. Pure selfishness and look-what-a-great-man-I-am-out-here-in-Alberta machismo–phooey. Alberta is mostly flat, so I guess it’s easy to feel tall there for standing up a bit, and then falling on your ass. Even on your ass, you’re likely to be the tallest thing for miles around. Things like that have a way of working on the psyche, after a while. Little men think they’re big, forgetting that what’s out there past their own flat horizon is a lot bigger.
If I ever achieve anything halfway great and then get all egotistical and sidetracked like that, I hope I have the decency to vomit over my own shit, as Che said. I can’t claim seniority, but I’m old enough to know that my own little individual achievements, and anyone else’s, are just that–little and individual. Alone, no one amounts to much, but in bad company, it’s even harder to amount to anything, as long as it’s only about so-called individual rights. As soon as they get ’em, they’ll drop the rest of us like a hot rock, and we’ll be back to square one, having to fight them for our collective rights all over again and being infiltrated with spoilers and provocateurs all over again. It’s amazing how hard that is for some to grasp. If these guys only tripped over their own dicks it wouldn’t be an issue, but they’re fucking others up, and probably very much on purpose, too.
Wow. But yeah, yer right.
I saw the original thread on FB today.
That guy beat his chest, called you the bigot and then demanded you go back to where you came from. LOL.
Wow. Cold war mentality.
I do not think it is really a great idea to make alliances with many of these people.
They are Teabaggers.
Their freedums they are always screaming about are way to selective, and they are far too willing to follow the corporate party line.
Great rant Sabina.
I guess I should ship my 5th generation Canadian-Norwegian/German/Irish ass back to where it came from too cause I really think that lawrence twit is an asshole with a small dick and a big gun. 🙂
Thanks, Pale, you were great. Sasha was great, too…if I hadn’t vowed to stop commenting on that thread already, I’d have high-fived her in Spanglish.
What really kills me laughing is that he seriously thinks anyone cares about his street cred. For all I know, he could have made that shit up; right wingers generally do (and I’ve seen many that did, on more forums than I care to count). It’s the old “I blah blah blah, so YOUR argument is invalid” canard. Like I give a shit what the old mofo did in the past that makes him so much more credible than me…supposedly. It’s what he’s turned into that’s the issue, not what he used to be. And what he’s turned into, is a JACKASS. Holding that over others’ heads doesn’t make him any less of a jackass, either. (More of one, actually.)
Didja notice, too, that he called me a bigot on no grounds whatsoever? I had no idea what his ethnicity was, and privately, I figured he was probably a Pole or Ukrainian, by the surname. Couldn’t have cared less. Didn’t even bring the matter of ethnicity up. HE did. Someone has a big buffalo chip on his shoulder out there in Alberta, yessirree.
Too bad I’m not commenting there, or I’d point out to him that it wasn’t us Germans that put his Native confederates (if indeed he IS a Native) in residential schools. That was the English and the French. The Germans had nothing to do with any of it. If anything, Germans (over in the old country that is) are big fans of Natives, thanks to Karl May’s Winnetou novels, and a lot of them are seriously dedicated to preserving Plains languages and cultures because of that. As for me, I was born here, went to public school with Native kids, and liked every single one. (In fact, one of my closest friends in high school was Native and adopted by German parents. Yes, I can say that “some of my closest friends are”…because it’s true, and I’m not using that as a preface to anything ugly.)
My people did nothing bad to his people, and he still calls ME a bigot? What a fucking joke. Or rather, what a fucking PROJECTION!
I actually did not even notice his surname? I never do unless it is something like Flowerpot or Kettle and it gives me a giggle.
He came off sounding like an agry old McCain, and we should all get off his astroturf or something something….
Anyway, he is quite a narsty piece’o’work and I hope he enjoys his time with his 27 cats. Cantankerous old bugger.
As for age, I think you and I are about a yr apart. LOL. And I def ain’t some kid either.
Oh lord, did he say he had 27 cats??? I deleted his last response unread…fucking waste of time and temper. If that’s true, I feel sorry for the kitties. They must all be clawing each other to shreds in their efforts to get away!
Well said, the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
Yup…usually, he’s still just another enemy.
Plus, I get the feeling there’s more than enough critical mass on the true-friend side. All that’s needed is to keep the pressure on. This site is really doing a great job of that:
http://www.g20inquiry.org
They’re collecting stories, video, etc. of the repression.
Long time no rap, madame.
And yeah…I’m with you totally on the belief that serious progressives and Leftists should have not a damn thing to do with the Teabaggers and right-wing “libertarians”. The truth is, we really don’t need them nor do we need their approval to oppose police-state antics. Not to mention, their racism, their sexism, their scapegoating of the usual groups, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
At least Che walked his talk and gave his life to his mission. The only thing that these phony “libertarians” would give would be….themselves high-fives and tax breaks.
Great to see you are still alive and kicking ass, Bina.
Anthony
Thanks, Anthony, good to see you back.
What’s really hilarious is that this particular nut (who, it turns out, was Native rather than white…but his attitude was all the worst of Whitey, all the same) was joining the clamor for a public inquiry into the police thuggery at the G-20 in Toronto. I thought flibbertigibbertarians didn’t DO public anything, just as a matter of principle. After all, if it’s public, it’s government and statist and therefore evil, right?
But shoot, what’s a principle if you want to overthrow government and disrupt public order the lazy-man way? These guys are all talk and no walk when it comes to principles. So of course they want to latch on and hitch a free ride…they’re the same guys who always want to have their cake, eat it, and make others pay for both slices.
And yeah, like you say, Che lived what he preached. He also paid for what he took, whenever he took it, unless it was supplies from the enemy forces. But then, he had real tyrannies to overthrow, and hearts and minds to win in the process. What we have isn’t at that dire stage yet, and if things get done right, with peaceful but continual pressure, it won’t ever go there. But of course, when did the flibs ever do the right thing? To them, traffic signals are tyranny! (I shit you not. You should see some of them on Twitter. I’ve kicked a few butts there, too.)