{"id":93,"date":"2002-11-03T21:42:01-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-04T05:42:01+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=93"},"modified":"2002-11-03T21:42:01-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-04T05:42:01+00:00","slug":"soviet-canuckistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/11\/03\/soviet-canuckistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Canuckistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother sent me a note on a recent comment<\/a> by a (failed) politician from the U.S.A. who calls the country we live in Soviet Canuckistan<\/q>. I thought it was funny–yet another crackpot trying to get in the paper–but then I looked up the phrase<\/a> on Google to see the various coverage.<\/p>\n\n

I used to think Pat Buchanan was just a blowhard. I still do, but I’ve recently realized that he’s a dangerous<\/strong> blowhard… and that there are dangerous people in this<\/em> country who not only don’t have a problem with him, but revere him as the unerring voice of sanity and rightness. I’ve looked at the websites: these people are just this side of skinheads, and will be angered most that this post doesn’t go so far as to actually put them in that category.<\/p>\n\n

I’m not a political person–on the whole it’s a topic that doesn’t interest me in the slightest–but I’m ashamed to share a country, let alone a continent, with people like this.<\/p>\n\n

First They Came<\/h3>\n

First they came for the Communists.
\nI was silent.<\/span>
\nI was not a Communist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for the Jews.
\nI was silent.<\/span>
\nI was not a Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for the trade unionists.
\nI was silent.<\/span>
\nI was not a trade unionist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they came for me.<\/p>\n

There was no one left to speak for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Pastor Martin Niemöller<\/a> [adapted from various sources]<\/p><\/div>

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