Support "Nuclear Weapon-Free Vancouver", not our troops
In the last days of his regime, Chief Constable Jamie Graham announced a new programme to paste “Support Our Troops” stickers on the back of police cars.
Graham says “Support Our Troops” doesn’t mean support of the Canadian mission in Afghanistan like everyone thinks. He says it refers solely to the individuals who volunteer to be in the service.
But this raises the question: if it’s not Afghanistan, why else do “our troops” need supporting? They aren’t getting killed somewhere else. Do the troops still need supporting if they are getting drunk off their arse in a peeler bar in Petawawa?
A much better slogan would be the one that is on all major streets leading into Vancouver: Vancouver:A Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone
Unlike “support our troopsâ€, which was declared by the fiat of an outgoing, unloved Chief, “Vancouver: A Nuclear Weapons Free-Zone†has stood the test of fickle politics. It was debated and passed by City Council. Both NPA and COPE politicians have endorsed it. It has been up on the lamp standards for nearly 25 years. Who doesn’t love it?
You too can act like the Chief of a major city police force! Make your own politically-questionable ribbons like the one above here.
balls
i think the nuclear weapons free-zone thing makes vancouver look really flakey. why not genocide free-zone? or shaved balls free-zone? although, all the above would be better than the cop/cock fueled ‘support or troops’.
- Aug 16, 09:44 AMCameron
Haha. “Support Our Ribbons”
- Aug 16, 12:06 PMKevin
The troops have a lot more to do than just fight for human rights in Afghanistan, if you’d like to look at more than just the headlines.
- Aug 16, 10:23 PMFormer Soldier
Please stop to think about what you have just posted…
Done? Now, if after a second thought, you regret slandering people who are risking their lives for you, I accept your apology. I know it’s easy to get carried away with your own cuteness.
If, on reflection, you don’t regret it, then you are obviously a phony. You obviously don’t care about human suffering and certainly don’t care about what is right. The Canadian people elected this government, who sent the troops there. They are risking everything for you, whether you (as a member of that Canadian public) agree with the particular policy or not.
If you are someone who would mock those who believe they are dying FOR YOU then you are no different than George Bush. You are a simple, pathetic man, protected by those infinitely better than you.
Sleep well tonight, in the peace and comfort that others have paid for.
- Aug 17, 12:23 AMballs
I don’t have anything against the troops, but the mission (which is being run under the mandate of George Bush and the US). But let’s make one thing very clear: the troops are NOT dying to protect the Canadian public.
You could have made a dozen more valid arguments, but the Taliban pose no threat to Canadians. To even suggest that completely discredits your point of view and insults the soldiers that are fighting there.
Canadians will continue to sleep in comfort regardless of whether troops are in Afghanistan or not. Who is not sleeping well are the civilians being bombed by NATO planes who refuse to discriminate against civiliians and combantants, the women who have watched the US put vicious and brutal warlords back in power, and the farmers who have their opium crops destroyed and are not given any viable alternatives – all which only leads to more support for the Taliban and fuels a perpetual war.
- Aug 17, 09:12 AMSteve
Hello 5 balls, sorry but you are so full of shit.You haven’t got a clue as to what you are talking about.Terrorism does pose a threat to Canada.Our troops are there to defeat some very evil people who murder men women and children.Funny you never mentioned the suicide bombers who kill innocent people.Thank your lucky stars for NATO and yes George Bush…..Seems people like you have forgotten about 9-11 and the over three thousand people who were murdered.
Get a life and grow up.Come back when you know what you are talking about
- Aug 17, 11:29 AMballs
steve. it’s not september 12th 2001 anymore. stop repeating the same bullshit that we’ve heard for the past six years.
and thank our lucky stars for george bush? did you really just say that? i mean, really? then you have bigger problems on your hands than 9/11.
- Aug 17, 01:35 PMmemories are short
9-11 was carried out by Saudi Arabians and Egyptians, not Afghanis and Iraqis. “Terrorists” are now everywhere else but Afghanistan and Iraq. Those places are now just recruitment centres for al Queda using American and Canadian military presence as an incentive. The CIA publicly admit this.
Saddam Hussein was assisted to power and maintained there by the American government to help keep down the Iranians (while simultaneously selling weapons to Iran to fund the conflict in Nicaragua). This wasn’t a secret, the government were quite open about it. (The support for Iraq, not the Iran Contra Affair) This was a part of the Iran/Iraq portion of the Cold War.
Wealthy Saudi citizen, Osama bin Laden and his followers were also supported in their struggle to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, armed and trained by the US via Saudi Arabia, citizens of which planned and carried out 9-11 (not Afghanis or Iraqis).
There has been a Western military in presence in Iraq for ninety years, the last fifty of which have been primarily American, to ensure the steady flow of cheap oil from the region. Three thousand innocent people were murdered in New York as part of a huge and complicated morass of reasons- way too complicated to boil it down to a simple “evil people who must be stopped by George Bush” scenario.
Who, not-incidentally, lied about everything in this war to take advantage of people’s righteous fury over those deaths and get what he wanted. That is what is so insulting to those who died in the towers and continue to die in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Aug 17, 01:36 PM