Spotting the Good Guys

 

MEP Christine Anderson has been on a Canadian tour. She has been welcomed by Rebel News, Maxime Bernier and the PPC, Leslyn Lewis, and the leaders of the Freedom Convoy. On the other hand, Brian Lilley, previously considered a conservative columnist for the Toronto Sun, Justin Trudeau, and Pierre Poilievre have denounced her in quite intemperate terms.

Trudeau:

She is “responsible for a particularly vile level of rhetoric and hatred … hateful, vile, intolerant rhetoric.”

Poilievre’s office:

“Christine Anderson's views are vile and have no place in our politics. … Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here."

Yet neither Lilley, Trudeau, nor Poilievre quote anything Anderson has said. We must take their word for it.

My web search also turns up nothing. The most controversial thing I find is that Anderson posed for a photograph with Jeremy MacKenzie and the flag of Diagolon. Many people, it is true, claim Diagolon is a dangerous terrorist group; but again, we have to take their word for it. MacKenzie claims it is only a meme, a gag.

I cannot imagine Osama Bin Laden insisting that Al Qaeda was a gag, or Hitler that his antisemitism was.

It is conceivable that either Diagolon or Anderson do hold racist views. We cannot tell, because those who accuse them not only present no evidence, but will not allow us to see the evidence. They are the same people who are censoring anything on the Internet they disagree with. Anderson’s or Diagolon’s views are silenced.

This being so, we must assume innocence of Anderson and Diagolon. They have never been given a hearing here.

We’re in a deeper hole in Canada than I had imagined. Brian Lilley appears to be a member of a Fifth column. Perhaps he once was a conservative, but he has joined the Family Compact and started attending the cocktail and Kool-ade parties. Poilievre, so previously promising, looks like another O’Toole. He’s just a politician playing the game, will run cover for the established interests, and will change nothing.

This was a litmus test, and we need to remember who passed and who did not.