Some guy from the St. Jean Baptiste Society is claiming that all these stories that surfaced about harassment faced by restaurants at the hands of the OLF is an...get this...anglo media driven conspiracy.
Where logic is absent, charge conspiracy.
Where evidence is absent, claim conspiracy.
It's easy.
Moreover, Beaulieu has the arrogant gall to ask we have a 'discussion in a civil manner.'
What's to discuss exactly? That an on/off switch button (true story at Holder's restaurant) is unacceptable and that we must be 'understanding' of the insecure Quebec plight?
That we should just pipe down and pay our taxes....quietly? That we should just let other people step on our communities? Is this joker insane?
Nationalists - like Jean-Francois Lisee - come speaking in peaceful and smooth tones. It's the benevolent double-speak of despots. The sad humor in all this is the people it's directed at usually have come from war-torn places where oppression is real. They see a sheep in wolf's clothing from a mile away. This is how the Parti-Quebecois - and all its nationalists branches that support it from UQAM to the SJPS don't quite grasp because their too myopic - are viewed. Like petty little despots unhinged.
As one line from a Polish paper covering the embarrassing affair put it, "language vigilance first, racial purity next."
Do NOT laugh. It's the next logical progression for these people on this slippery slope begun in 1961. For a party elected in 1976 and almost managed victory in 1995 in the referendum.
If they're going after words, who is to say they won't direct their attention to words we wear on out t-shirts? The music we listen to in our cars? After all, playing victim offer endless permutations on how to suppress free citizens. You can justify anything at that point.
In a larger sense, Quebec is battling itself if not a shadow. In order, for it to 'survive' it will have to ban ALL LANGUAGES at some point at which point it will commit suicide. On the other hand, human history is BUT an evolution of civilizations changing hands and Quebec will be no different in this way. Quebec will have to face the inevitable maturely and honestly at some point.
That's why Bill 14 is evil. It's not a 'balanced' bill. It's a piece of shit bill written by pieces of litter who are looking to further suppress minorities. And if you're a member of the CAQ and you vote for it, then you belong in the same litter box.
It's no longer 'just' about English now. The PQ and its cohorts WILL go after the great communities of this province - and quite frankly that God it remains a province without an army.
They already have.
Moderate Quebecers will ask us to ignore it. That the PQ are dead, for all intents and purposes in a global world. Perhaps, but here's the problem. These actions by the OLF ARE STATE-SANCTIONED.
Name me ONE jurisdiction in NORTH AMERICA - even Europe - where one group of people are accorded the right to harass another in the interest of 'protecting' the majority?
Name. ONE.
Any lawyer or philosopher removed from the situation in Quebec would call all this for what it is: Prejudice by other means. Tyranny of the majority. Suppression of civil liberties in a society claiming to be pluralist and democratic.
As for Jean-Francois Lisee. Already I reject him as my 'anglo' representative (get out of here), but he showed his true colors in this mess. Here was his chance to PUBLICLY state this was unacceptable behahior and that enough is enough.
He didn't.
He can't.
He's a PQ nationalist.
The role is mutually exclusive to the issue.
What I find hilarious is how backwards the PQ are as they felt the need to anoint Lisee to such a post. As if we're a bunch of 'Picts' needing to be coddles and subdued. Their fricken 'what's the problem my Anglo friends' attitude is begin to grate and rub the wrong way.
It reflects just how far removed they are from the reality that there is NO French-English problem at the citizen level. We live in linguistic and respectful peace. The PEOPLE free of government intervention find ways to live in harmony.
It's when the government sticks its fat, ignorant, nose in our affairs things start to become toxic.
Yes, the PQ are toxic to the soul of Quebec.
Oh. Quebec is an Algonquin word.
When will they be changing that?
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