Wow - just ran across this - INTERIM DECISION of the HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL (Canada, of course! dated May 25 1998):

BETWEEN:
SABINA CITRON and TORONTO MAYOR'S COMMITTEE
ON COMMUNITY AND RACE RELATIONS
Complainants
- and -
ERNST ZUNDEL
Respondent
- and -
CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

Oh well, we have known for a long time that the truth is not that important in Canadian courts, although the mainstream media who are there as much as the courts to maintain the status quo aren't going to talk about it much - but I do recall a case a few years ago where some silly boy in Alberta, I believe it was, took Mulroney to court (Mulroney didn't show, of course) accusing him of lying during the election campaign about some promise. The judge dissed the guy pretty quick - saying something like "...anyone who believes a politician during an election campaign is simple-minded - case dismissed!" - so lying in elections is law of the land, you might say, sanctioned by the courts. Which, when you think about it, makes elections pretty useless (but we knew that anyway, didn't we - just testing!!)

Should also add that when I said the last time that we shouldn't live our lives in the past, I certainly wasn't saying we should forget it either - if bad things have been done, and the perpetrators not brought to justice, the books should indeed remain open. But as far as the so-called holacaust goes, well, Hitler's dead, and the Nuremburg trials were supposed to look after most of the perps - and I do believe that a lot of others have been hunted down since as well. So whatever happened, it was stopped, and the bad guys were punished. There are other things that remain unpunished however - the American supported wars and slaughters of the last half-century, for instance, although we don't read much about this in the media. We hear a lot about the 58,000 American soldiers who died during the Vietnam war, but a lot less about the 3,000,000 or so Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians. Or the half-million or so of East Timor, or the Philippines, or the hundreds of thousands in south and central America. Or more recently the illegal American destruction of Kosovo or Iraq, or the 1,000,000 or so Iraqis who have died during the last 12 years of American sanctions (don't start with the UN or NATO stuff - the US was and is responsible). Things like that - if there really was any god that these people keep calling on, he would have destroyed their violent land in a holacaust unlike any the world has seen since the flood, for their barbaric actions all around the world during the last 50 years. But no such luck - if these brutal slaughterers of innocents are ever going to face justice, it will be through a human court, not a divine one. I figure, however, unfortunately, the odds are a bit slim of that ever happening. As, obviously, do they.

If you want your own personal excursion into neverneverland, you might check out The Iron Cage is our Matrix, by Elizabeth Nickson, National Post, Friday, May 16, 2003

Ms Nickson performs the rather astounding feat in one short column of transforming Matrix Reloaded into (wait for it!!) - a film supporting the Chicago School of Economics' far-right whacko theories!!

No shit - would I lie about that? Backed up by several ad-hoc statistics (that is to say, no reference - which is understandable, as it would be difficult, I think, to find any even semi-serious stats for statements like our Canadian tax structure costs every family $12,000. yearly (that's right - twelve grand!!) - or that said taxes eat up 45% of GDP (right again - forty-five percent!!) - I don't think even the Frazer crazies dare go that far - but no prob for our Ms Nick.) And she lives in some fantasyland where she can say with whatever passes for a straight face with her that government regulation has been INCREASING over the last 15 years!! - apparently completely oblivious to the deregulation and privatisation that has been the hallmark of the last two Canadian BCNI/CCCE regimes, that have done such damage to everything from health care (I wonder if she heard of Walkerton out there in BC?) to Air Canada. But even that isn't the best part - at the end, she says that we poor misguided souls (alright, she didn't use those words, but that's the implication) in this sad socialist state north of the 49th are waiting for Neo - not to FREE us from the right-wing whackos like Ms Nick and her masters who have taken over our society and are in the process of creating a new feudalism with Ms Nick's masters as the feudal overlords and the rest of us as the drones supplying them with everything they desire, which is what the Matrix allegory is really all about (insofar as it has any application to Canada at all) - but, in her view, we are waiting for Neo to LEAD US INTO THE UTOPIA OF DEREGULATION, LOWLOWLOW TAXES, AND FREEDOM FROM THAT HORRIBLE GOVERNMENT BUREACRACY WE TOIL UNDER IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!

Sorry about all those caps - got carried away. But LORD TUNDERIN JAZUS B'Y ya gotta give it to these people, the way they can twist everything that happens into some form of supposed support for their crazy dystopian dream, or nightmare. Ms Nick is one of those elitists who doesn't really occupy the same world as most of us (National Post staff writer - about what you'd expect). She makes it clear that, regardless of her "interpretation", allegories such as the Matrix or Lord of the Rings are really amusing entertainments for children (one suspects she may just have had a glimmering of understanding that her interpretation of the film bore about as much relation to reality as her hilarious "statistics"), but people such as herself in the real world of Privilege are well above all such nonsense. Rose-colored glasses is, I guess, one way of putting this kind of world-view - head up the ass is another. The RM archive copy - read it all here if the original link has problems


Oooo-eeee. Where DOES the time go when you're having such fun? Get out and see Matrix - take the red pill - Neo is really on OUR side, guys - whether Ms Nick knows it or not (regardless of their sophistication in some areas, they are actually quite a simple-minded bunch in the ways of the universe, especially in their failure to understand that might does NOT make right), Mr Smith is an avatar of them, not us! Write if ya want.