9/11: Views from the left coast

Six years on from the 9/11 attacks of 2001, Canadians still stand in solidarity with their southern neighbors.

Of course, not everyone is on the same page. Mobilization Against War and Occupation, based out of Vancouver, still spews the stale lies about the Taliban being a popular resistance movement valiantly fighting vampiric foreign devils in NATO uniforms. Osama bin Ladin's old allies in the war on civilization may triumph in the end, but will they remember to thank MAWO on V-Day?

Ah, well. I'm sure CUPE is happy to have their support in their revolutionary struggle against the ruthless oppression of Vancouver City Hall.

Then there's the Republic of East Vancouver. Kevin Potvin's socialist rag rails ceaselessly against a 9/11-inspired Islamophobia - a terrible pattern of prejudice that happily for our local Muslim community does not actually exist. Nenonen, take a pill: Calling Muslim terrorists who kill innocent people (mostly other Muslims) barbaric is not bigoted - it's just the way it is.

Of course, entire communities of useful idiots have mobilized around the banner of Vancouver 9/11 Truth, which includes as an unalterable provision of its constitution the following:

In the case of Sept 11, 2001, there exists an overwhelming body of evidence suggesting that (1) the attacks of that day could not have been carried out without complicity from within the highest levels of the US government, and (2) the official "investigation" was in fact a cover-up, by US authorities and media alike. The truth about 9/11 is not known, not because it is unknowable, but because it has been concealed.

Note to nutbars: Even Noam Chomsky calls the theory of US involvement in 9/11 hogwash.

Way to push the edge of the local lunatic fringe a little further out there, team!

J'Accuse Kevin Potvin

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.

Kevin Potvin, Al Queda stooge, in his own words

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.