{"id":6567,"date":"2016-11-28T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2018-08-24T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:55:29","slug":"monday-november-28-2016-a-letter-to-my-member-of-parliament-bill-morneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"Monday, November 28, 2016 \u2014 A Letter to my Member of Parliament, Bill Morneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To:&nbsp;Bill Morneau, <span id=\"ctl00_cphContent_ctl00_grdParliamentaryAddress_ctl02_Label2\">House of Com\u00admons, Ottawa, Ontario, Cana\u00adda <span class=\"caps\">K1A<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">0A6<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Re: Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter Trudeau prais\u00ading Castro<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I vot\u00aded for the present gov\u00adern\u00adment.&nbsp;I vot\u00aded for you.&nbsp;I had vis\u00adcer\u00adal\u00adly despised Harp\u00ader, and I fell for your par\u00adty\u2019s hokum about \u201csun\u00adny days\u201d and restor\u00ading Canada\u2019s demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic val\u00adues after the grim repres\u00adsive\u00adness of the Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion.&nbsp;Naive me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This rid\u00ading includes Canada\u2019s prin\u00adci\u00adpal Gay neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood and busi\u00adness com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty.&nbsp;Among my friends was a man who suf\u00adfered ago\u00adniz\u00ading tor\u00adtures in the con\u00adcen\u00adtra\u00adtion camps that Cas\u00adtro threw thou\u00adsands of gays into.&nbsp;He is now, mer\u00adci\u00adful\u00adly, dead, and does not have to hear a Cana\u00addi\u00adan Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter prais\u00ading his tor\u00adtur\u00ader.&nbsp;He was under the impres\u00adsion that he had come to a democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter Trudeau\u2019s inane, syco\u00adphan\u00adtic blath\u00ader prais\u00ading a mass-mur\u00adder\u00ader, slave-hold\u00ader and exploiter is no dif\u00adfer\u00adent from Trump\u2019s cring\u00ading praise of Putin, Ronald Rea\u00adgan call\u00ading the geno\u00adci\u00addal butch\u00ader Rios-Montt \u201ca man of great per\u00adson\u00adal integri\u00adty\u201d, or Mar\u00adgaret Thatch\u00ader claim\u00ading Augus\u00adto Pinochet as a \u201ctrue friend\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This clear\u00adly demon\u00adstrates that our sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly \u201cdemo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic\u201d lead\u00aders have no com\u00admit\u00adment to, or respect for democ\u00adra\u00adcy, <i>what\u00adev\u00ader their par\u00adty<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:&nbsp;Bill Morneau, House of Com\u00admons, Ottawa, Ontario, Cana\u00adda <span class=\"caps\">K1A<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">0A6<\/span> Re: Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter Trudeau prais\u00ading Cas\u00adtro I vot\u00aded for the present gov\u00adern\u00adment.&nbsp;I vot\u00aded for you.&nbsp;I had vis\u00adcer\u00adal\u00adly despised Harp\u00ader, and I fell for your par\u00adty\u2019s hokum about \u201csun\u00adny days\u201d and restoring&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=6567\">Read more 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