Posted on 11/03/2007 7:59:04 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The political fashions that begin in Britain tend to find their way to Canada extremely quickly, especially when they come from the left side of the body politic.
A new report from the think-tank of the governing Labour Party states that, "Britain is no longer a Christian nation and Christmas should be downgraded in favour of festivals from other religions to improve race relations."
The report goes on to call for a new form of "birth ceremony," at which the state and parents would agree to "work in partnership" to raise babies. It demands action to "ensure access" for ethnic minorities to the "largely white" British countryside, advocates an end to "sectarian" religious education in schools and encourages people to fly flags other than the Union Jack.
"If we are going to continue as a nation to mark Christmas," the report says, "then public organizations should mark other religious festivals too." And, "any liberal state should recast the civic oaths and national ceremonies, or institutions like Parliament and the monarchy, in a more multi-religious or secular form."
So the pre-enlightened Ebenezer Scrooge has told us what Britain should become. Or has become to a relatively large extent. But unlike the products of Charles Dickens' generous and compassionate imagination, the spirits behind this report are nasty, intolerant and crude.
DANGER FOR CANADA
So what of Canada? We're in enormous danger. We adopted an official policy of multiculturalism long ago and decided that Canada simply was not worth preserving.
Immigrants to the country who wanted to assimilate, adapt and become truly Canadian were told that there was no need. Hold on to your own culture and traditions, speak your own languages, be anything unless it's Canadian.
Don't blame newcomers for doing what they were told to do by arrogant white liberals who always know best. Instead of the community and the family there was the state and the collective. Instead of patriotism there was self-loathing. Instead of sacrifice there was entitlement.
Instead of Christianity there was, well, there was anything. Even to the point of embracing alternative religions that by their nature rejected the very pluralism, equality and progress that the social engineers claimed to cherish.
Much of the problem began when Canada found itself spoiled. We had survived the Depression, the Second World War and post-war austerity. Then came the vacuous '60s. Instead of being grateful for what we had, we wanted even more and assumed that anything that appeared new and novel had to be good.
TRUDEAU
Along came the prince of the new and novel and he was far from good. Trudeau. A man who so detested English Canada that he became obsessed with expunging Anglo-Celtic culture and rebuilding Canada in his own image.
New Canadians would not be required to speak or to learn English and instead of one law, one way and one country for all, we would divide and subdivide into ethnic and linguistic ghettos. The wealthy would, of course, be immune and indifferent because money buys its own form of golden separation.
For the rest, the pieces of the jigsaw no longer fit and the picture became broken. Festivals, faith and traditions became threatened. How ironic that the British, whose heritage our leaders rejected, now are lighting the path to self destruction.
There still might be time to save Canada the great. But only if we jettison the humbug.
“Paging Mr. Orwell, GEORGE ORWELL, please report to the front”
Where dost go Canada, can California be far behind? And as California dissolves all that is integral to civil community, will Hillary be far behind in advocacy?
a new form of “birth ceremony,”
Lets see....does this ceremony involve castrating all white males at birth? If physical castration is still too extreme, then mental castration is certainly called for. Along these lines, it no doubt involves pleging the baby’s soul to the UN, Gaia, Allah, or even Satan.
Great Britain isn’t Great anymore, and they’ve gone off the deep end.
Kinda like they did in Zimbabwe?
"It takes a village".
France showed the way of self denying and destruction in the old europe.This is the straight consequence of relativism/multiculturalism.Chirac who was supposed to be on the “right wing” was far to be a conservative and wanted to cancel any historical christian reference in the european constitution.He did it.
This explains a lot in his foreign policy...
But despite a big propaganda by biased MSM seems that people are awakening
There's little doubt Ramadan and other Islamic obvervances will one day supplant Christmas in Britain. But by that time race relations will hardly be "improved." To the surprise of the suicidally naive political left, the Islamic victors won't quite as tolerant as they were...
This plague infects the brain. It drives millions into psychosis--a murderous and suicidal psychosis.
One theory suggests that its etiologic agent crossed the species barrier from lemmings to humans at some time in the 20th century, probably after 1945.
Another theory holds that it originated in dolphins or whales, driven to beach themselves in a mass suicide, and that it infected humeans who tried to save them from their own self-destruction.
Whatever the cause--this deadly disease drives its victims insane, renders them impervious to logic, reason, common sense, and even the will to survive and to protect their children. They become murderous and suicidal. Their ravings make no sense. They abandon all rationality and everything that makes them human.
We must find a cure! We must!
Not all of Great Britain is insane. They won’t go this way. Read Theodore Dalrymple, he sees a different view of the future for England.
There are people who have made their career pushing for this crap and they will not change their minds even if the new pagan festivals are burning WASPs at the stake... mustn’t offend the natives and their quaint customs. It’s like gays who are in favour of islamofascism because they're part of the Left that hates the west. The sad thing is these people’ll get their asses handed to them but they shouldn’t try to drag everybody else into their sick delusion.
Many social programs will be implemented by the New Social Order of liberal thought and control to encourage the growth of a strong liberal people. One such program will be to advocate the virtues of motherhood. This program will include a gigantic woman’s rights informational campaign to urge women to increase the size of their families. for this is in accordance with the new social “demote Christianity” order. Cash incentives will be paid for each child born. On the 16th of December 2008 liberals propose the institution of a new award to honor liberal motherhood, especially the large family. The award to be in three classes with the criteria as follows:
Bronze 3rd Class Mother’s Cross - A bronze Christian Cross normally worn about the neck suspended by a 10mm blue ribbon with two white stripes at each edge. A round shield was affixed to the cross, bearing the inscription ‘liberal Mother’ encircling a red enamel Hammer and Sickle on a white enamel field. Behind the shield and between the arms of the cross will be a projection of rays. The arms of the cross will be red enamel with white enamel edges. The reverse will be plain save for the date ‘16 December 2008’. It is presented for bearing 3 to 5 children.
Silver 2nd Class Mother’s Crescent - similar to the 3rd class Mother’s Cross except that the metal parts are finished in silver. It is presented for bearing 6 to 7 children.
Gold 1st Class Mother’s Hammer and Sickle - again similar to the 3rd class except all the metal parts are finished in Gold and also it is presented in a hard presentation case that consists of a hinged and compartmentalized box. The exterior is a very dark red simulated leather with a facsimile of the award embossed in gold. The interior of the lid is a white satin and the base is an off white velvet. It is presented for bearing eight or more children.
“Great Britain isn’t Great anymore, and they’ve gone off the deep end.”
You appear to be missing the fact that this isn’t something that is happening, just the random utterings of a left wing ‘think’tank.
If we were to judge the USA by what come out of similar organisations, the conclusion would be much the same.
Precisely so. This is a think tank for goodness' sake! Would Freepers expect us British to judge the U.S. on the basis of the garbage spouted by U.S. think tanks? I sincerely hope not. For what it's worth, everybody here in Britain still says "Happy Christmas" without the slightest compunction. A long time since I heard that in the U.S., where the patronisingly (so it seems) inoffensive "Happy Holidays" seems to be the norm.
Thank you. People here tend to spout off in the worst way sometimes. And we criticize knee-jerk libs when we are just as bad sometimes, LOL.
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