Wimpland

strikes again!

PARDON My pleasure, but didn’t I tell you years ago
that Canada was Wimpland? Seer and prophet though |
am, however, even I didn’t comprehend just how boneless

we have become.

The disease from which we suf-
fer is daintiness. Gone is the
roughy-tough, self-reliant, hard-
headed Canadian of yore. His
place has been taken by pansies,
thumb-suckers, bleaters, tree-
huggers and babies.

That’s why we have the
Mohawk *‘warriors’* and the Oka
fiasco. Thus, too, the Indian
**blockades** in B.C. and
elsewhere, all of which could be
cleared in 10 minutes by a bull-
dozer and 10 men.

We negotiate when we should
be applying the law. University
professors, politicians and the
twittering media say that poor old
Whitey is wrong again, and the
same fools and tools mumble us
into even bigger messes. We also
see the top brass of our so-called
army say they wouldn’t be going
to Oka to kick ass. They wouldn't
throw bullets. Only kisses.

All this kid-glove stuff comes
from two decades of ‘Shuman
rights’? propaganda. We are
afraid to say boo to a dead goose.

Typical of the malaise was the
simpering ‘‘interview’’ I saw on
CBC’s Journal. Not once was the
Red brother on the spot. Bill
Cameron didn’t have it in him to
send a hot rod up the Indian’s
rear vent.

It’s the same locally. We even
use the trendies’ vocabulary. It’s
**the Squamish nation,’’ and when
this fictitious nation slows traffic
on the Lions Gate Bridge, our
nice liberal West Vancouver
mayor tells us he’s sure we can
understand the frustrations of the
natives and their land claims.

He’s got it wrong, the
meretricious media notwithstan-

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ding. What we can understand is
that they have been spoiled rotten,
that we have poured billions of
dollars into their wealth with
damned little result, and that we
are fed up with hearing about
them and their self-inflicted,
unending woes.

Now we fear B.C. may be
“bought back’’ from them for $6
billion. But they should thank
their lucky stars that the whites
arrived. They never had it so
good.

We have brought the present
inconveniences on ourselves, of
course. Lame brains in Ottawa,
not knowing what they were do-
ing, as usual, wrote ‘‘aboriginal
rights’’ into that French-style
Constitution. Well, we deserve our
fate. That's what you get when
you go wimp.

As for the Oka scandal, it has
nothing to do with aboriginal

rights and everything to do with
armed criminality. Since when did
anyone have the right to pile up
thousands of automatic weapons
and garner tens of millions of
dollars from contraband cigarette
sales? Since when did armed
rebellion become O.K.?

Since Canada’s spine rotted,
that’s when.

There was only one thing to do
when those guys threw down the
gauntlet. Instead, three ministers
sign a deal with them and the In-
dians — rightly — claim a victory.
Of all the politicians, only the
North Shore's Jack Davis has
shown any guts.

It would have been difficult, no
doubt, if some nutty white group
had been letting off guns and
blockading roads, bridges and
railway lines. The politicians and
the media would then have been
in a tizz. As it is, we have spent
years bashing South Africa, and if
we moved against gun-wielding
Indians the Afrikaners would split
their sides laughing.

And there you have it. Limp
with liberalism, the powers-that-
should-be in this here Wimpland
tremble lest they be seen as
racists. They prefer to grovel and
throw dollars at the problem. In
the meantime, the Red brothers
can be as racist as they please.

In the 1960s, when B.C. Indians
were issuing a lot of hot air about
going in for guerrilla warfare, 1
questioned Indian Affairs Minister
Art Laing about it on TV. His
response — unthinkable today —
was that the Indians couldn’t
punch their way through a brown
paper bag. And even if they
could, force would be met with
force.

We are now the ones whe can’t
punch our way through a brown
paper bag.

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