Path: utzoo!yunexus!unicus!craig From: craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Joe Clark's speech to the CIC Message-ID: <2367@unicus.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 88 16:39:42 GMT Article-I.D.: unicus.2367 Posted: Mon Mar 14 11:39:42 1988 References: <560@auvax.UUCP> Reply-To: craig@Unicus.COM (Craig D. Hubley) Organization: Unicus Software Inc., Toronto, Ont. Lines: 55 In article <560@auvax.UUCP> louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth) writes: >I wish to commend Joe Clark on showing the courage of his convictions >in his speech to the Canada-Israel Committee. It is refreshing to see >a politician who will say the same thing to both South Africa and >Israel (Canadian branch) when he sees (and we all see) violations >of human rights. Agreed. Now if only we could get him to convince Brian Mulroney to stop standing so close to the dictators-for-life of the little rathole `frontline states' north of South Africa whose human rights records are all consistently worse than the R.S.A.. There's a word for those who disapprove of whites oppressing blacks, but don't mind blacks oppressing blacks: racist. Dismissing these `tribal squabbles' as normal events, rather than as the genocidal wholesale slaughters they often are, shows up the self-righteous of all races who are not interested in human rights at all: The white ones who care only about the `bad behaviour' of fellow whites. The black ones who don't object to blacks killing blacks, but only to whites killing blacks. Both of these types, and you can find lots around, including Mulroney, make Mr. Botha seem almost honest. >Three cheers for Joe Clark. Maybe he has become real Prime Minister >material. It was the media that sunk him in the first place. Now that Mulroney's popularity has rightfully gone to hell, the Tories should stop squabbling long enough to bring him back. Most of the Tory bad apples that Clark had in his cabinet have been forced to resign by now anyway! Turner can't make up his mind about anything and can't talk straight to save his life. Not surprising as his party is full of lawyers. Broadbent appears to be a capable guy, but his party was built and is run by special interest groups (like the U.S. Democrats) and adheres to the socialist religion, and except for a few gutsy people like Svend Robinson, to look at his backbench and imagine them as a cabinet is to *know fear*. Clark looks mighty good right now. Too bad it fell apart for him in 1979. The real shame is, there *are* enough competent people around. But the parliamentary system fragments them and doesn't let them cooperate. Instead, they spend all their time hunting for scandals. Contrast this to the U.S. Congress, where Senators and Representatives of different parties often agree, and of the same party often disagree. The administration has to garner support for what it does, instead of just doing what it pleases. Admittedly, regional interests and porkbarrelling and vote-trading can hold more weight, but everything I've ever seen *during* a term of office, as opposed to during an election year, indicates to me that more attention is paid to issues and less to digging up dirt, which is *all* our opposition parties seem to do. At least that's what you see when politicians are together on television. Just an opinion, Craig Hubley, Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont. craig@Unicus.COM (Internet) {uunet!mnetor, utzoo!utcsri}!unicus!craig (dumb uucp) mnetor!unicus!craig@uunet.uu.net (dumb arpa)