Adrian McNair at Popular Doctrine, a fellow member of the Progressive Bloggers aggregator site, gives us a very interesting analogy:
Thousands of protesters opposed to the war in Afghanistan rallied across Canada yesterday to show their “support for the troops by bringing them home”. Isn’t that a little bit like supporting the police by cutting police services?
I believe that this "progressive" analogy requires little comment.
Later, he offers his concept of democracy, presumably also as a "progressive":
I can see the point of opinion from both sides, but here I think the protesters are out of line. The only process in Canada must be the Democratic process. This means we need discussion, in the House of Commons, in the caucus of the Conservative Party, in the media by senior members of the Harper Government.
Emphasis his.
Let me guess, you're probably in a good position to define Canadian values too?
Posted by: Joseph Lavoie | October 30, 2006 at 07:50 AM
I'm in no position to define anything, danke schoen. I just shake the can and let the definitions fall out.
Posted by: Mandos | October 30, 2006 at 11:26 AM
What a pallid notion of democracy Adrian seems to have. I should have thought that watching the advance of legislative/executive supremacism south of the border would have cured any serious democrat of the delusion that democracy equals voting and nothing more, which I think is the implication of Adrian's call for everyone but MPs to shut up.
Stranger to me, though, and worse, is that he doesn't seem interested in basing his arguments on any serious assessment of the mission in Afghanistan. To me, that is every citizen's first responsibility. How can we either support or oppose the mission unless we know what it is? We should support it just because a majority in the Commons are going along with the PM?
Given that we have yet to hear an intelligent assessment of the mission from the PM, I don't think so.
Posted by: skdadl | November 04, 2006 at 06:18 AM
Nice to see a good Canadian "progressive" quote from the Manifesto according to Karl (Rove, that is).
He is like the cowboy that likes all kinds of music, both Country AND Western.
croghan27
Posted by: croghan27 | November 08, 2006 at 06:08 PM