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Vancouver-Kingsway’s most infamous Islamic terrorist sympathizer and recently-punted Green party candidate, Kevin Potvin, evidently believes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

After being raked in what he calls the “corporate” (read: neocon, Zionist-controlled, Satanic) media for an article written by him in his own publication, The Republic, stating directly that he cheered for Osama bin Ladin on 9/11, Potvin is striking back in a curious way: he now claims that journalists and society as a whole have been cowed by relentless, shadowy pressure from their corporate masters to show an appropriate level of sympathy for those slaughtered on that day and condemnation for their killers.

I didn’t cheer on 9/11. I certainly didn’t feel a lump of love in my heart for the people who did it. And as much as Potvin has attempted to tell himself otherwise, the vast majority of clear-thinking and moral citizens in our part of the world didn’t, either.

But Potvin seems to have found a home, quite literally on the political fringe. Work Less Party cofounder Condrad Schmidt says of Potvin: “He’s a smart man, and he’s intelligent. You couldn’t ask for a better candidate. And we’ll run him in Kingsway–where else?”

As a relatd aside, the video above shows leftist icon Noam Chomsky dismissing the possibility of a neocon conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks.

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The Green Party of Canada has finally gotten around to dumping Vancouver-Kingsway candidate Kevin Potvin after it was discovered that the magazine store owner cheered the 9/11 attacks and had a soft spot in his heart for Osama bin Ladin.

It took nearly a week for the Green party to send this guy packing, during which party leader Elizabeth May asked for an apology and explanation and was rewarded by Potvin with more ideological posturing and useless, rambling rationalizations.

At least they did get around to giving Potvin a well-deserved boot, but the delay should certainly prompt people to wonder why the Green party caters to such people in the first place.

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Standing up for planet Earth and cheering the mass-murder of human beings aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive positions, but it’s a tricky balancing act for a Canadian federal political candidate.

Federal Green candidate for Vancouver-Kingsway Kevin Potvin has been outed as a stooge for Al Queda by Public Eye Online. The founder of the local socialist rag, the Republic of East Vancouver, wrote in an editorial in 2002 that he felt pretty darn good as hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Centre on 9/11.

Potvin wrote: “When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, “Yeah!” When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, “Beautiful!” When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.”

The editorial goes on in this vein. “Nor was I alone, I know for a fact, whenever I passed a TV or newspaper with a report on the ensuing US war to capture Osama bin Laden, and I secretly said to myself, “Go, Osama, Go!” I am happy he has eluded capture by the Americans.”

Asked to explain his comments this week, Potvin at least has the decency to remain consistent in his slimy views: “I guess I could do the slippery thing and say I’ll go home and read it. Or I could also give you a wishy-washy answer. But, listen man, I’ve got to be honest with you. I totally endorse that.”

Nobody screens Canadian political candidates to ensure that they don’t hold views sympathizing with the enemies of civilization. Who knew one would ever need to?