Ms. May Must Go
Elizabeth May is the leader of the Green Party in Canada.
She has no place in public life.
On Sunday, she delivered a sermon/political speech to a congregation at a London, Ontario United Church.
She is unhappy with Mr. Harper's environmental policies. Many of us are.
But in an act both hysterical and demonstrative of a clear lack of knowledge and understanding of history, Ms. May raised the stakes.
She described the Prime Minister's plan to deal with global warming as "worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis."
This is what Ms. May and so many others fail to grasp.
There are no other people like the Nazis. There were only the Nazis. And their crimes were not, as Hannah Arendt and so many others have made clear over the intervening years, were not crimes against 17 Jews or 6 Million Jews or some homosexuals and some Catholics and some intellectuals and some gypsies.
The crimes of the Nazis were crimes against humanity. All of human nature. All human beings.
The Nazis declared, calmly and reasonably, that some categories of people had no inherent right to BE.
I will stop.
The moment Elizabeth May compares a public policy about climate change by the elected Prime Minister of a democratic country to Nazis is exactly the moment she declares herself to be wholly ignorant and unworthy of public office.
May has since refused to back down in her hideous accusation, and the leader of the Federal Liberal party is still committed to a coalition with this fool.
5 comments:
Ms. May, by choosing to run against Peter MacKay, has proven herself a coward. She has zero chance of winning, even with Steve Dion pledging not run a Lieberal candidate, therefore she is free to slander and malign anyone she chooses because she will never hold public office. When are coming back to radio, David?
"There is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress. This principle is itself frequently referred to as Godwin's Law."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
As on the Internet so in Real Life. May has lost all credibility in one step.
"Fool" is an apt description!
David,
When May took the reins of the Green Party I was interested to hear what she had to say. But it quickly became clear that she was more of a publicity seeker than a serious politician.
She's a smart woman. The speech she gave she prepared for. Thus one must assume that she knew perfectly well what she was saying. I'm wondering if she felt she had to step up the rhetoric a notch in order to remain in the much coveted media spotlight.
Yet, mark my words, the generally left leaning media will give her a pass on this and any other outrageous thing she says. This is a prime example of the media bias that so many of us non Liberal Kool Aid drinkers complain about, but such complaints always seem to fall on deaf ears. :-(
I am told by a friend of mine, a long time political perative, that Elizabeth May used to work for the Tories. Clealy, this is a person who wants attention and has no principles. Any old horse and cart will do. Some winning philosophy, eh?
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