Jack Layton's Moral Bankruptcy

Canada’s lead “progressive” is Jack Layton. He is the leader of the NDP, a socialist party that collects around it all the unionist, leftist, peacenik, and enviro-loons fit to fill an asylum.

When it comes to the war on Islamic Totalitarianism, Jack Layton has carved out positions in the la-la-land of pacifism. It’s the typical hug-a-thug stance that the far left has come to be known for; that there is no thug or killer that “progressives” won’t snuggle up to and talk peace with to rousing choruses of kumbaya … or Allah Akbar, depending on the assemblage. It matters not the murderous curriculum vitae of their table-mates … “progressives” are arrogant and naïve enough to think that anyone will nuzzle up if given a chance. It doesn’t help either, that the likes of Jack Layton view The West as primarily at fault for thugs becoming thugs in the first place. After all, it is all about oil, the military industrial complex … and neo-cons.

Jack Layton has constantly called for the removal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan, or, failing that, the removal of Canadian troops from combat operations. Jack, in his “progressive” wisdom, wants our men and women in uniform digging wells and handing out pencils … only. It fails Jack’s brain to grasp, as it does most “progressive” brains, that there are no wells dug or pencils handed out if the bad guys destroy the wells and blow up the schools with a good teacher-beheading tossed in for sport. It fails Jack’s brain to grasp, as it does most “progressives”, that in an ugly world with ugly people, there may have to be some down and ugly killing going down before it’s safe enough to dig a well or hand out a pencil.

So it is, that Canada has lost another soldier in Afghanistan ... a soldier doing exactly what Jack Layton wanted him to be doing ... reaching out and helping ordinary Afghans. He was a medic, a volunteer in the purist sense because he was a reservist; and reservists DO NOT serve in Afghanistan unless they volunteer specifically for the mission. He was a helper, not a killer; he was a volunteer, not a victim; and he was extending a loving hand to some of the world’s poorest people.

His death stands as a stark reminder of the loathsome barbarians who would retake Afghanistan and plunge it once again into hell on earth. They kill anyone, anything, man, women, child, aid worker … and medic, who gets between them and their wet dream of Muhammad’s hell hole on earth. Yet, Jack would sit and bargain and cuddle up to these very same barbarians; not even waiting for them to come to the table from a position of defeat. Jack would negotiate what? Beheading rights? The size of sticks to beat women with? Whether or not females get medical care … and by whom?

“Progressives” are apparently all about helping the down-trodden of this world … yet, for the life of them, they can’t grasp the nobility of what our Canadian men and women in uniform are doing in Afghanistan. "Progressives" can't move themselves to feel pride ... least of all gratitude, for our soldiers. They spew shameful rhetoric, like, "I support our troops ... so bring'em home", without ever considering that our soldiers WANT to be there and they WANT to hold back the barbarins. The mere thought of such heroism, is beyond the "progressive" mind.

I prepared the following slide show to try and contrast the two divergent roles our soldiers play in Afghanistan. I tried to demonstrate that which Jack Layton can’t grasp … that our mission is noble, that its focus is the people of Afghanistan. I also wanted to show that the mission is ugly at times because Canadians put their bodies between barbarians and innocent Afghans. Canadians kill barbarians before they can wreak more havoc.


... we start in basic training:

(my apologies to those who have already seen the slide show)