Kizmet and her pals at it again

[ham]

Trudeau's reaction to the FLQ crisis of 1970 didn't bother me a bit. Most of the people arrested probably deserved it anyhow for being loud mouthed asses.

That is what Hitler's (or Stalin's ) supporters thought, exactly.
I dislike the hippie/communist/FLQ rabble more than anything, but we can't equate one reaction with 'well deserved' on one end and with 'horror' on the other.

ham, you're the expert. I've met dozen's of Quebecois and generally they seem like nice, normal, ordinary people. WTF is going on with Quebec politics? They seem to choose principles over pragmatics 9 times out of 10.

Well, I am NO expert, but if the place where you live were sold to or conquered by China and you were told it's alright and you 'just' have to live with a different majority, you wouldn't be very pleased...
I find their constructed self-perception of half-a$$ 'socialist' state and cartoonish 'freedom front' tactic rather ridiculous, but I cannot deny the underlying truth. Their marxist lingo is a poor excuse for a political agenda, but PQ was born in the era of hippies and decolonization, so poor ignorant kétains just happened to self-identify with a new Cuba...which heavily conflicts with the reason to start it all...if all they want is a French-speaking, anodyne melting pot full of Arabs, African-Caribbeans, Indochinese etc, then it's hard to see why Canada's multiculturalism is that bad after all...
The old clerical symbolism of LA LANGUE GARDIENNE DE LA FOI and LA RACE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE made much more sense...you can't endorse the marxist axiom that divides people only according to income level or position in the assembly line AND then push the French-speaking agenda based on the fact that JE ME SOUVIENS of Nouvelle France.