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An inconvenient truther …

by kadyomalley on Friday, September 26, 2008 12:35pm - 80 Comments

… goes down:

For Immediate Release
September 26, 2008

Statement from Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion

The Liberal Party’s commitment to tolerance and multiculturalism is paramount.

I have reviewed the past comments of Lesley Hughes and it is clear they do not meet this standard.

While I appreciate her apology, I cannot condone those sentiments in any way.

I have therefore asked Ms. Hughes to step down as the Liberal Party candidate in Kildonan-St. Paul.

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Read the article that sparked the furore here, and assorted media coverage here.

It’s worth noting that, as is the case with Julian West, the NDP’s erstwhile candidate in Saanich Gulf Islands, Hughes’ name will remain on the ballot. I wonder if there’s any chance this could result in the NDP scooping up the seat? It wasn’t exactly what you’d call a close race last time, but if now homeless Liberal voters were to wander over to the NDP, the sum of the two parties’ support in the last election would result in a defeat for the Conservative incumbent, Joy Smith.

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  • Ben Hicks

    So since the Holocaust incolved millions of innocent deaths and 9-11 merely involved thousands, spreading lies and slander to incriminate innocent Jews as scapegoats for the later is somehow better? I think not.

    And in the lie that they “merely knew it was coming” is the assumption that they are alligned with the actual perpetrators, and were therefore accomplices. In effect, her argument is in perfect synch with that of many Egyptians.

  • Jack Mitchell

    Ben Hicks, they’re both deplorable, but the antisemitism of 9/11 conspiracy theory is incidental, where the essence of Holocaust denial is antisemitism. From what little I know if them, I think the 9/11 Truthers are more focused on the USA creating its casus belli than on Israeli involvement.

    I happen to think it’s more important to know why antisemites are antisemites than it is to point out that they’re wrong, which is so obvious it gets us nowhere.

  • Ben Hicks

    Unfortunately, I’m not sure lack of understanding on our part is the problem. I don’t think the kind of madness these hate-filled delusions spring from can be reasoned with. What we can do is expose these lies and ostracize the scumbags who spread them.

  • Jack Mitchell

    Not the most humanist vision, there, Ben. I actually do think that if one could sit down with, say, a prejudiced Egyptian peasant and explain the facts about al-Qaeda, the hijackings, etc. that he’d change his mind. Of course that would deprive you of an enemy, but it’s a small loss compared to making our Israeli friends more secure. There will always be complete psychos, of course, but I think a sizeable proportion of antisemites are just badly misinformed.

  • Ron

    For the last time, the Hughes article clearly states the Israelis WARNED THE US.
    Yes, that is WARNED, as in HELPED, WAS NICE TO.
    Sheesh. I’m done here. Good luck with your reading comprehension my reality-challenged friends.

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