The War Room

DOSSIER #2: THE DEFENSE SPEAKS : THE PEOPLE VS. MR. STEPHEN HARPER

It was with very little amazement or shock I suspect, that most of us saw the acquittal of Michael Jackson of all charges that he was tried on. Most concluded that he did something (not all of those witnesses were lying), and thought due to a combination of money, fame, wealth and political correctness he would get off. Most people expressed nonchalance about the decision and then got on with their lives. The lives of all of the young males (can we say that?) whose lives he may have ruined were mere collateral damage to the fact that Mr. Jackson, once self-declared King of Pop, beat the rap.

In Canada, we have seen similar reactions to The Liberal Party of Canada. With the Gomery testimonies and the public as judge and jury, there can be little doubt that at best, The Liberal Party of Canada is, at its highest echelons, quite probably fronting criminal activity that threatens our very democracy. Breaking any constitutional law it sees fit; redefining charter rights to the detriment of groups that disagree with it and using bribes, graft and pay-offs of public money to ensure it can continually out-spend, out-advertise and out-campaign any other party during election cycles this 'Party' and its supporters/propagandists in the media (CTV, G&M, Toronto Star, CBC etc.) consciously and consistently feed the public misinformation, half-truths and lies that ultimately threaten the very democratic principles upon which this great country was founded.

At worst the NDP-LIBERALS are a New Left Neo-Marxist party that foster divisions between the citizens of Canada based on class, race, gender and sexual orientation under the guise of partisan sloganeering like 'diversity' and 'tolerance' while they do nothing but foster a lack of diversity and intolerance to those groups who might disagree with them on serious issues (ie. free market entrepreneurs, the military, Roman Catholics, free speech advocates, Orthodox Jews, medical practitioners, Muslims etc.). Yet, they continue to enjoy popular support in the polls. This has shocked and appalled many conservatives, libertarians and average Canadians alike, who cannot understand the situation.

Enter Stephen Harper. For a short period of time, so brief you could be forgiven for having missed it, it looked certain to many that Mr. Harper would be the next Prime Minister of Canada, displacing the obviously incompetent, visionless, dishonest and old school back room boy, Paul Martin. And yet at every turn since that brief window two months ago, Mr. Harper has been plagued by accusations of being either too cold and sterile or too emotional; of being either simply out for power or not being willing to do what it takes to win; of either not doing enough to silence dissenters in his caucus or of muzzling their views. Since recently, much of the criticism has actually come from within his own party and one could easily forgive him and many conservatives for wondering why we have such a schizophrenic populace.

The answer is cultural. This is the true reason why conservatives have not been able to get any traction since Gomery. This is the giant behemoth they are up against. Here I use the term conservative with respect to ideology because some will say that Brian Mulroney succeeded. Mr. Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada were not an ideologically conservative party. They were merely a populist party that swayed with the wind, or to paraphrase what the great Maggie Thatcher once said of them; they put too much emphasis on the adjective and not enough on the noun part of the name.

As I have mentioned before, the West and especially Canada has been in a progressive leftist mode for nearly 3 generations now. Things that were liberal yesterday are seen as conservative and backward today. An example; how would you feel if I said one of the left's idol's was for the creation of the military-industrial complex; hated communism with a vehement passion; decried the reliance on the welfare state and believed war should be started if it could remove tyrannical regimes. Odd choice for a 'lefty' icon? I just described President John F. Kennedy. By today's standards, his ideology would be to the right of President Bush. But because he comes with the 'Democrat' label, his memory is accepted where someone like Brian Mulroney who was much more liberal than JFK, but comes with the 'Conservative' label is vilified.

The point is this. Conservatism in the West and Canada is up against much more than just the spin of the liberal media machine or the big money of the Liberal Party of Canada. No. Stephen Harper is up against every movie made during the last 45 years that has shown conservatives or conservative ideology as the 'villain'. He is up against every university professor that has told his students that capitalism is evil and America has done nothing but exploit poor third world nations. He is up against every rock star that sports a 'Che' t-shirt and says the 'Pope is a Nazi'. He is running against the memory of the corruption of Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Faye Baker and every All in the Family rerun that shows conservatives as stereotypical bigots, racists and misogynists with an IQ less than the average basement gimp in a Tarantino film.

In short, he is running against the culture of the Baby Boomer generation that saw everything with the 'liberal' or 'left' label as good and liberating and anything with the 'conservative' or 'Christian' label as oppressive, fanatical, bigoted and intolerant. The great Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan understood that we are in unprecedented times in human history. The great power of controlling minds, opinions and morality lies with those who control the media...not government.

Nevertheless, this is why Harper must stay and he must be supported. Because the mythology of the popular media culture (film, music, magazines, reality TV, beat novels) is a lie. It is a hedonistic fantasy that will not allow humanity to sustain itself and Stephen Harper is, by any definition, good, decent, hard working and honest. In short, he is the best kind of leader. He is the kind that people can rally behind because we know he is true and right. Conservatives should realize this and defend him at every turn. The War Room is proud to support a man for leader who is not fleet of foot and silver tongued with the media.

Modern liberals and leftists (both the NDP and Liberals are synonymous in our view) are people weaned on the pop-culture of the sixties baby boom generation who have no understanding of humanity and how the human species functions. They loathe the thought of putting a chemically grown tomato into their body but have no problem growing a human being chemically in a lab. They confuse boorish behavior with free speech and questioning with censorship. They think love is lust and helping the poor means making them dependent on others. In short, the New Left is morally bankrupt in every way and conservatives should quit defining themselves and their leader by these progressively lowering standards. We, the human race are better than that.

As Canadians and conservatives we must first define ourselves by our own standards. Not by the standards of those with whom we philosophically disagree. In short, Stephen Harper must stay and be supported because he is simply, a good and decent man who is not a relativist and believes in what is right and true. That is enough for me and should be for The Conservative Party of Canada. My vote counts. It says something about who I am. I would rather vote for
Mr. Harper and lose than a lesser, media friendly candidate and win.

The defense rests.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 5:00 PM