Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Jason Kenney's Decision

Good idea or bad?

Over the past few days, opinion has been varied about Jason Kenney's decision not to overturn the CBSA's ruling barring the Street Corner Cromwell from entering Canada. Some have suggested that the decision has given he-whose-name-is-too-odious-to-mention more publicity that he deserves. As for me, I don't think he can get too much publicity. The number of stories in the media and YouTube videos that have appeared about this guy have been phenomenal and the more we hear the better. Take this one, for instance:



It speaks for itself and you couldn't ask for better publicity to demonstrate that Galloway really is just a low-life Street Corner Cromwell.

By the way, I wonder how many naive little lefties really understand the intent of the phrase "Street Corner Cromwell"? What do they know about the real Oliver Cromwell after whom the phrase is coined? Do they know, for example, that the English had a civil war in the seventeenth century during which their monarch, King Charles I, was beheaded. Do they know that a man named Oliver Cromwell became the leader of puritanical republic, which many historians describe as a genocidal regime, which lasted for eleven years, and ended only with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660?

How many of the naive little lefties know about the phrase from the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in which the poet, Thomas Gray, refers to the possibility that a hypothetical "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood" lies buried in the village cemetery? Gray is referring, of course, to the possibility that any community can suffer a tyrant, only circumstances render such tryanny less destructive by virtue of its more limited sphere of influence. Just as a village can have its tyrants, whose influence is only local, so too can a street corner be home to a tyrant whose influence is very nearly non-existent. This, then, should be the way George Galloway is to be portrayed. Kenney's refusal to overturn the CBSA's decision sends a very clear message to Galloway and his groupies that he should be seen as a nobody, and although it has served to raise public attention to the idiot, the media, blogs and YouTube frenzy that has followed, has simply served to verify Kenney's message. So, if you ask me, bring it on. The more exposure this twit gets, the better.

All hail, Jason Kenney.

1 Comments:

Blogger Balbulican said...

Well, I'll start the ball rolling.

I believe in free speech. So I believe that Ezra should be allowed to publish what he wants, that Wilders should have been allowed into Britain, and that Galloway should have been allowed into Canada.

March 25, 2009 5:59 pm  

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