Why? Why? Why?

I am back and pissed again. I had a decent post done up that got lost. Technology can be a real bitch. I guess I should really back these postings up when I write them. Live and learn. Or is that live, do not learn, but complain about things not working. I think I will go with that.

I have a new idea of what strikes me as funny today. I have been following the trial of David Ahenakew in Saskatchewan. As an aside, I have been to Manitoba and I would not really recommend it as a vacation place, I can only think that Saskatchewan is a step in the wrong direction, but that is just me. Anyway, here is a guy who is an Order of Canada member and was a former head of the Assembly of First Nations who is being tried crimanally for willfully promoting hate against an identifiable group. He told a reporter for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix in December of 2002, the Jews were a "disease" and Adolf Hitler was trying to "clean up the world" when he "fried six million of those guys" during the Second World War. He is a real beacon of enlightend thinking.

In any event, his lawyer, Doug Christie, noted lawyer to Holocaust deniers James Keegstra and Ernst Zundel, has had his client testify that he is a "holocaust victim". "Thousands and thousands of Canadians--they should be answering questions about their hatred toward Indians."

First point is have these "Thousands and thousands of Canadians" voiced their hatred of Indians as he did of Jews? My guess is no. So that makes this statement the proverbial red herring. It has no meaning as it does not cause him to answer for the statements he DID make to a reporter.

He has used the excuse that he did not know that the reporter would publish the statements. Again, if you are dumb enough to make them to a reporter then I have no sympathy for the consequences that you may suffer. But to me the best is yet to come.

Yesterday, Doug Christie and David Ahenakew revealed that a mitigating factor was that he had doubled his diabetes medication and a had a couple of glasses of red wine. He no doubt washed down his diabetes meds with some alcohol. Here is the funny part (and it may lead me to be charged with "hate"ful speech but I am willing to fight the "man" on this one). Is it just me or are they resorting to old "drunken Indian" defence? I mean talk about using stereotypes.

Here is a man spouting hateful and just plain stupid and impolitic speech. Then, he compounds it all by having no balls. He wraps himself up in a justification purely based on his membership in a "victimized" group in our society. But the best is that the bow on his package is to perpetuate a sterotype of his people in the eyes of Canadian society. It is all so laughable.

The best part is that Doug Christie has picked himself another winner of a fascist client. Well, just think about it. A Native Canadian alluding to the fact that he is a drunken Indian so that he can justify making his idiotic prejudicial comments (because he did not "think" that they would be reported). He has also claimed that the Jews started the Second World War. I guess he was out drinking when things came to pass.

I guess the hate crime people will be knocking on my door soon as I post this, so you may not hear from for a while. Or will you.....ciao.