Burma's democratic heroine named honorary Canadian

[CBC News]

Parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion to designate Burma's democracy advocate, Aung San Suu Kyi, an honorary Canadian citizen.

Burma's pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, was named an honorary Canadian citizen Wednesday in the House of Commons. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, has been held under house arrest since 1989 for her political views.
(Canadian Press) ​

Prime Minister Stephen Harper presented the motion in the House of Commons, calling her a "symbol of the desire of the Burmese people for political freedom."
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been held under house arrest in Burma — also known as Myanmar — for the past 18 years by the military junta governing the impoverished southeast Asian country.
"More than anyone else, she has focused international attention on the plight of her people. This is why we are bestowing honourary citizenship on Aung San Suu Kyi," Harper said.
Other foreigners who have been granted honorary Canadian citizenship include the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
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[darkbeaver]

That's wonderfull news CBC when will you connect the word Genocide with the word Iraq? Untill you can do that you're just another crap shoveling propaganda source.

Nobody should be granted honorary Canadian citizenship. It's an empty gesture.

 

[MikeyDB]

A bit extreme perhaps Beve but I understand where you're coming from....

It took western society decades to finaly entertain the notion that women were as capable as men when it came to voting.....

So long as "democracy" as we Canadians and Americans "understand" it, shelters notions like particular churches and high-ranking members of those religions being exempt from proscecution under child abuse and sexual abuse laws....

So long as our governments maintain systems that victimize the elderly, the poor the infirm and the "illegal immigrant"......

So long as our governments feel free to discard ideas like the Geneva Conventions and allow our agencies and government enforcement people to do away with ideas like kidnapping and permit torture as a part of our "democracy", Afghanistan and Iraq where billions are being spent instead of fighting global warming and pollution, where young men and women are conditioned to "fight" for a "freedom" and a "democracy" that can simultaneously embrace the very behaviors they're fighting against.....

It's a mess Beve!

 

[darkbeaver]

What's extreme Mickey? I've listened to my beloved CBC become an apologist of imperialism, they never miss an oportunity to interview an American right wing think tank, they never miss an oportunity to highlight the pain of Isreal, if you consider the press the Isrealis get against thier population you are left with the impression that they are the single most important nation and people on the face of the planet, by a country mile. If you consider the blatant disregard for fact and context in CBC's reporting you see the rot that has become Canada. We got the imperial/capital bug just as bad as Uncle Sam, the same carriers and the same priests of capitalism we are homongenous with them and therefore just as guilty just as dirty and just as damned to fight over the last pieces of the natural world. I hope the aliens get here soon while they can still get burgers and fries to go.

Oh yah, CBC, listen while they pedal the Darfur Genocide and the Somalia Tragedy and the Burma Debacle and Al Oilman Gore's princely attributes and the evil of Putin and Amadinejad and the putrid sentamentalism of our heroic service to the people of Afghanistan.
I'am getting angry at myself, to have lasted this long to see and understand that I'am nothing but a peice of meat with a number, now that's ascension of a Dark order.Contemplation of crap will not reveal an underlying beauty.

 

[Nuggler]

Most exhalted Beaver of Great Darkness:

" I'am getting angry at myself, to have lasted this long to see and understand that I'am nothing but a peice of meat with a number, now that's ascension of a Dark order.Contemplation of crap will not reveal an underlying beauty.

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Man will never be free untill the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Percy Bysshe Shelley "

You got it right, twice in one post. Good goin Beav.

It's the CBC's job to get us thinkin seriously of most of the sh!t nobody intends to do nothin about..............they do a great job, no?:-?

In me minds eye I could see those moist little pursey lips of "STEVE'S" mouthin them platitudes; drooly little slippery dickhead.

JFK once said that Canada will give you "all aid short of actual help". (or somesuch) Seems to personify "Steve's" philosophy. ............and the CBC got the message out!!!!:headbang: (although Steve has managed to get a bunch of Cdn. soldiers killed for no good reason, {not his own kin mind you}, so guess he does more than "just talk", long as he doesn't have to do the diein."


:tard: By jeebus, someday I'll figger out what I'se tryn ta say, eh!