The myth of freedom from oppression in the west

Every Remembrance Day, I always get a bit meloncholy, remembering the sadness of my father, an Inuk man who joined the Special Forces of the USArmy during WW2 here in what was called Frobisher Bay. To this day his war records are sealed by the DOD. What also used to strike me was my uncle, a German POW who was interned in Frobisher Bay during and shortly after the war. How he would in a drunken rage cry out how he hated to see Jews being shot in the street for no reason except that they were Jews. My father introduced my uncle to my aunt shortly after the war, so for me it is a unique time this Remembrance Day, one that is forgotten in history and not remembered by any of the armed forces, USA Canadian or even the Germans.

Although I have met USArmy Rangers who served here briefly also guarding and "re-educating" the German POWs when I went to boysout jamborees in Minnesota, and who remembered my father and they remarking that they too were not allowed to remember Frobisher Bay. I have also met former German POWs also at the jamborees and some who remembered the Inuit guards, and most of all my father for teaching them how to speak rudimentary English.

It brings to mind what my German uncle would say, that even though the USA and others say that since Hitler was defeated and the Jews saved, that it did not kill anti-semitism, neither amongst the Germans, but also amongst the Americans and Canadians. It was odd, considering that many Jewish soldiers served with distinction in the USA but were largely few in the Canadian Armed Forces.

In a way the world has learned to be politically correct, touting the same lie over and over again, yet today anti-semitism thrives, as do the new racism. The notion that white people had to save the world from Germans and that the new Order, largely white Americans, white Russians, did not really respect the ideals upon which the war was waged. Nor the peace terms.

Today you see the same type of zeal towards discriminating against another group of people, largely muslims and any other visible minorities. In Canada and the USA and the UK race crimes have risen. It is no wonder, since they have the great White Leader, George W Bush, who in his Texas state routinely practiced horrrible atrocities against ethnic minorities in the various penitentiaries, oddly in the same way Guantanimo Bay operates now with the concentration camp that houses Afghan "terrorist".

So really did Hitler really lose the war? Did the Third Reich really transfer to the west? Did the Americans, Canadians, British and Russians assume the new Great White Race ideal of the Third Reich? The war on terror certainly seems to be the grandchild of this doesn't it? Complete with racial profiling, creation of concentration camps to house "terrorist". Oddly those are the same terms the Germans used when they first started to commit genocide against the Jews.

And we wonder why are the Jews trying so hard to remember the genocide? Is it because in a way the west only paid lip service, so okay the state of Israel was created, but that was largely because the Jews were basically denied safe passage anywhere and it was a matter of necessity. Perhaps the Jews are bang on, we are the ones who are wrong. The world needs to learn the horrible lesson one more time perhaps.

Certainly the war on Terror has the capablity to switch to a world war, it has all the ingredients, a nation that discriminates and operates concentration camps, sure they are not committing mass genocide but pretty close to a more orchestrated method of selective killing of muslims. They even have borrowed a phrase from Guernica Spain, where the Germans first used the phrase "Precision Surgical Pre-emptive Strikes with limited collateral damage"......

Untold numbers of needless Iraqi and Afghani deaths

I feel sorry for those who have lost their loved ones to war. I remember my dad used to talk about his WW2 experiences, even though all he did was guard German POWs at a camp here in Frobisher Bay, which is still regarded as some sort of secret both by the Canadian and USA.

It is sad when people die for a cause that has no purpose but to provide more monopoly and big bucks to a few multinational companies. Countries that do not relish democracy in the western sense, will not fight to maintain the democratic principles. This is where the War on Terror is way off base.

Supposedly the USA and co-olition of the co-erced deaths, often young men and women who would much rather stay alive for a good purpose as to die for a war no one wants. It is interesting the parallels between the arguments that Bush makes to preserve freedom and individual rights, and those comments of the so called muslim terrorist make who also want to preserve muslim rights and freedoms.

In some parts of Iraq, the war on terror have destroyed antiquities, the same in Afghanistan, culture that is lost forever. It would be not even reasonable to preserve freedom at the expense of our history, there are better ways to gain freedom than to bomb the heck out of people.

How can you obtain freedom at the end of gun? It is a paradox that by fighting what we call terrorist, who too try to obtain their goals at the end of gun, that we are no different. The intense bombing and shelling of civilian houses in Iraq and Afghanistan to free the west of terror is no different in some ways than the terrorist blowing up buildings and trains in the west.

There is no difference between the two, both are horrible acts, crimes against humanity.

The ghosts of our youth beg to get the right story told, that is that the war on terror is really a war on the common sense of everyone. One day there will be peace and when we attain it, we will look back on this period of infringement on civil and human rights as a crime against humanity. And for what? In who's name? And for who?

George W Bush Vigilante War on Common Sense

Bush's war on terror made sense to some at the beginning. However, with the invasion of Iraq, it seemed that the purpose of Bush's "war on terror" quickly became a war on common sense. That is for the person on the street. If you are a multinational oil company and George H Bush, George W's dad happens to sit on the board, hmmm, it didn't take long to put two and two together.

However it seems that the rest of the republican party has expanded the war to include a war on minorities, a war on free thinkers, in fact it seems that the United States of America has become the new Soviet-style dictatorship. In the larger urban centers of America the FBI has posted spies in Boyscout troops, in even the small church's knitting clubs cause you never know where the "terrorist" are eh?

Companies that gave money to muslim charities all of a sudden became "potential" terrorist, and labeled as supporting "insurgents". In a way, 2001 was the year when the CIA became obsolete, and the White House started to invents its own "spies". That is basically if you get the White House Spokesman to chant the same line over and over again the world's media will eventually repeat it. On CNN it is not uncommon now to hear the word insurgency blamed for perhaps cases where muslims retaliate for the US Military illegal actions in Iraq. Shooting unarmed civilians will sometimes encourage Iraqi's to join the so called insurgents.

In a way it is sad, because now the west it seems has joined this new War on Common Sense. You are seeing the resurgence of a new Manifest Destiny if you will, the mentality that white people have to save the world from itself. What are the reprocussions of being saved?

I wonder if the war on common sense will go down in history labelled inproperly, when it should have been labeled as a bunch of Vigilante White Men out to defeat the evil minorities. George W Bush and his "coalition" of white world leaders would indeed look comfortable wearing KKK robes and burning crosses. The only difference is they get enlisted servicemen who fly billion dollar planes to drop bombs on the minorities, or get enlisted servicemen to shoot them up in the streets.

Just starting.

Well for now I am just going to say hi from Nunavut for now. I will post more tomorrow.

What is a real Canadian?

That is a question I would ask myself, as we used to sing God Save The Queen and then the national anthem every morning in school, of course they don't sing God Save The Queen anymore. However it seemed that when our school teacher would talk about Canadians she didn't exactly mention that Inuit were Canadians per se. Canadians paid the taxes she said that funded the school. Canadians paid the taxes that created this country. Yet my father who worked also paid taxes and when I asked her "does that mean my father is a Canadian" she just laughed.

It seems foreigners are sometimes very welcome to Canada, that is if they have the Hong Kong Bank, or millions of dollars, but if you are just a working class Taiwanese refugee, you are not so welcome.

Just what is a Canadian? Is it a white middle class person? If so then it seems Canada is disappearing a bit. When we travel the world over the world thinks Canada being a wonderful multicultural land is a shining example. However if you are an immigrant medical doctor with a Nobel Prize, you still have to start fresh in Canada because Canada doesn't recognize "alien" medical degrees. Yet a lot of the universities that doctors oversees study in use the same theories and medical practices as in Canadian universities, because all humans are the same it seems. However the Canadian governments don't recognize that. It seems the red tape kind of takes the shine of the gleam of how "Canada welcomes university trained doctors". In fact Canada has a horrible need for doctors, you would think that it would help instead of detering people who can really help and become what it means to be Canadian.

It seems that Canadians are considered to be a unique biological being, and unless you happen to be one of them, then you should "know your place". I am not saying Canadians think they are a unique race, it just seems obvious that you always here that there are two founding races in Canada. What about the native people who helped and saved the new Canadians from themselves? What about the other ethnic groups who provided the expertise so that these new Anglo and Quebecois could survive the new harsh climates? It seems they too were told to "know your place".....

Yet what place is that? I guess for the dead Oka Mohawk who should have known better than to die and be buried in a spot that the Quebecois white golfers wanted. How uncivilized of the Mohawks to die in a piece of real estate that "real" Canadians want to use to play golf on. Then we wonder why those Mohawks were so angry, and for what we wonder?

So I wonder if anyone out there has the answer, what is a "real" Canadian please let me know.