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CUPE Ontario Letter to Harper: denounce the state of Israel
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| Lordpatch User Info... | July 31, 2006 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Room 313S Centre Block House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Prime Minister: I call on you to immediately denounce the state of Israel with the same voice with which you denounce Hezbollah and Hamas. As president of the largest union in Ontario, representing over 200,000 workers in the public service, I ask that you stop supporting the heinous war crimes that Israel is committing against the people of Lebanon and Gaza. The intentional bombing of infrastructure and civilian targets – which has already taken the lives of hundreds of men, women and this weekend another 37 young children, is criminal and violates all codes of international conflict and international law. You have been complacent, and by extension have made the worldview of Canadians complacent, in taking the lives of innocent people and leaving the survivors without the bare necessities of life. You have turned your back on Canada’s proud history as an honest broker of peace around the world. The proud history and tradition of Canada’s role as an international peacekeeper, begun by the Honourable Lester B. Pearson, has been made a laughing stock in the world. Your unfettered support for the United States’ soft foreign policy on Israel has violated Canadian tradition and embarrassed many patriotic Canadians. Your “measured response” statement, delivered the day before eight Canadians were killed, has embarrassed many. Your lack of response and criticism to those deaths has embarrassed Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Your blaming of the victims when Israel bombed a UN station is unconscionable. Canada lost a brave peacekeeper, a soldier who was upholding Canada’s marvellous tradition of peacekeeping, your silence in the face of his death is unacceptable – all other countries who lost citizens had the moral values and conviction to condemn Israel for this intentional hit on a peaceful observer station. Your blind support for George Bush and his policies and your rejection of Canada’s traditional role in the world has left Canadians confused and angry. You must call for an immediate cease-fire and a stop to the bombings by all parties. I urge you to take a strong leadership role, to reconsider the position you have taken, to be an active force in bringing peace to the Middle East, in saving the lives of hundreds more innocents, and in bringing Canada’s sense of fairness, social justice and peace to this critical situation. Sincerely, Original Signed By Patrick (Sid) Ryan President, CUPE Ontario CC: Paul Moist, CUPE National President CUPE Ontario Executive Board CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee CUPE Ontario Global Justice Committee Bill Graham, Liberal Party Alexa McDonough, NDP cope343 S/Sidlet/Stephen Harper remiddleeast - Mon, 31 Jul 2006 4:48pm Edited: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 4:49pm | ||
| Brumy User Info... | where the fuck do you live, so i can come to your house and break your hands and stab out your eyes so you can't post shit like this. - Mon, 31 Jul 2006 7:37pm | ||
| kyle User Info... | What can I say? Lordpatch is an exceptional example of a spineless shitsucker, and should be denounced as the weakling enemy of the state that he is. I'm honestly surprised he hasn't been banned just from the volume of complaints against him alone; never mind the dispicable and hypocritically un-Canadian content of his posts. Welcome to British Commie-land. They don't call it the Left Coast for nothing. - Mon, 31 Jul 2006 7:44pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Hey, If complaints against people in these forums actual meant something, half the population would be gone. Maybe future versions of the web-code will allow you to have a personalized ban list which will filter out whoever you don't like. Eventually you'll be the only one in here, and everything will be according to your opinions.(Finally) - Wed, 2 Aug 2006 1:52pm | ||
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