People Are Being Killed To Protect This Group's Rights

To freedom of expression......

Disgraceful Canadian anti-war leftist group hits bottom, digs

Posted by Joel Johannesen

UPDATED - see below

I haven’t heard a peep out of their fellow leftists, Layton or his you’ve got to be kidding party minions, nor from Liberal Frenchman Stephane (the “Green Guru") Dion, denouncing this. I suspect they support the move.

The people responsible should obviously be arrested, tried, and sentenced to long jail terms. Of course liberals would be against that. And they appointed all the judges.

Anti-war letter angers troops

By Graeme Hamilton, National Post
Published: Monday, June 11, 2007

MONTREAL • As families on Canadian Forces Base Valcartier prepare for the departure beginning next month of 2,300 soldiers to Afghanistan, anti-war groups have sent letters to soldiers’ homes comparing Canada’s military activities to war crimes and urging them to refuse deployment.

The letters from a coalition of Quebec groups prompted angry reactions when they began arriving in mailboxes yesterday on the base outside Quebec City, home to the Royal 22nd Regiment, or Vandoos.

“I read the headlines and threw it in the trash,” said Master Corporal Pierre Calve, a father of three set to deploy to Afghanistan in August. “I believe in this mission. I have family here in Canada. This is a way to protect them, like our grandfathers did in the First and Second World Wars. It’s not to go and kill people but to protect the peace.”

The mailing, addressed simply to the occupant of homes on and around the army base, was paid for by anti-war groups based in Quebec City, Montreal and Gatineau. “Canada’s role in Afghanistan is a trap. It means on-the-ground Canadian soldiers become cannon fodder’ for the illogical and unjust policies of generals and politicians,” the letter reads.

Participating in the mission equals “complicity with the civilian deaths and other activities - like the transfer of prisoners to potential torture and death - that are tantamount to war crimes,” it says.

Joseph Bergeron, spokesman for a group called Guerre a la Guerre (War Against War), said he is not concerned the harsh message might upset family members of personnel bound for Afghanistan.
“Our letter is not what will traumatize people, but when they are over there and they see how many civilians die and [that] there are going to be many Canadians killed or injured, that is when the trauma will occur,” Mr. Bergeron said.

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The good men and women in the Canadian forces didn’t take kindly to the peaceniks’ idiocy, with one writing in their internet forum: “I certainly hope the letters were written on a soft but absorbent paper, so they can be used by the soldiers for a function appropriate to the contents.”