Harper tries to intimidate us into perpetual war
Stephen Harper insisted last week that we will not be intimidated by terrorism. He then did everything he could to ensure we will be intimidated by terrorism.
I've always been confused by the assertion that we won't be intimidated by terrorism. Has anyone ever suggested that we should be intimidated by terrorism, that because a man ran into the Parliament buildings brandishing a rifle, we should abandon parliamentary democracy?'
Obviously not.
But Harper wants us to be sufficiently intimidated that we will allow the fight against "terrorism" to take centre-stage and suck up all our energy -- unlike, say, threats that are just as likely or more likely to kill us, like Ebola or climate change. (These threats don't much interest Harper. He's made only made a small contribution to fighting the Ebola epidemic; and he's actively obstructed attempts to organize global action against climate change.)
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