Here above is the second poster in our limited series on brainwashing. We can enjoy them as smilers — if not laugh-out-louders — today, but imagine the conditioning of our minds at the time when most of us received that stuff as acceptable. And keep your ear to the ground for the guff we are being fed today — like George W’s phony posturing that embroiled his country (among others) in the Iraq disaster. And put to work your best critical speculative analysis on the justification for our country’s adventure in Afghanistan, We are being fed a landslide of guff on that too. (In case you missed it, go the background on the brainwashing series, at Editor’s Notes Monday, July 16. You’ll find it in the Archives.)
As a loyal, patriotic Canadian it gives me no pleasure to wax critical of my Prime Minister. But when he embarrasses us it leaves me no alternative. In his current Latin American tour he’s doing nothing less than playing Bush’s office boy. George W. was given an unpleasant reception during his recent tour of Latin America. So he’s sent in Harper to see if he can mend some fences. Where does our willing poodle go first? Why to Columbia, the most notorious, blood drenched country in the region. Speaking to the media Harper said in effect, just because a country is under violent control of its leadership doesn’t mean you can’t do business with it. How democratic. Harper must think Canadians are half-wits to try out this change-of-heart nonsense. We know he’s playing poodle for George W., and he should be ashamed of himself.
I’ll take my leave with a reference to the last article on today’s list. It’s an open letter to Steven Harper, congratulating the prime minister on his trip to Latin America.
Looking forward.
Carl Dow
Editor and Publisher
True North Perspective
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