Home Sweet Home

I thought my ex-pat friends would find this video clip interesting. Welcome back to Toronto.

A few thoughts on the video clip below. 1) As Mark Steyn points out, how can he be dragged in front of Canadian "human rights commissions" for writing about European demographics, while people that shout anti-Semitic garbage ("You are the product of pigs!") receive police protection in downtown Toronto? 2) I have the same winter hat as the violent thug at the end of the clip, who says that Hitler didn't do a good enough job. It isn't the hat's fault, but somehow I don't feel like wearing it again.

If these protests are evidence of what happens when there's strife in the Middle East, I wonder what it will look like if the gloves come off at home? Then again, Canada doesn't seem to be "home" to anyone these days. More and more, it looks like a waiting room for political and cultural gangsters. Their bodies may be here, but it's obvious their thoughts and beliefs lie somewhere else.

To talk about this stuff raises the old spectre of being called a racist, but this has nothing to do with race. It's about religion and old school heritage. And if I may be so bold, Canadians should not be slugging each other because of either.

The thug's final action in the clip reminds me of a line from 1984. It comes in the chapter where O'Brien tells a helpless Winston that the object of power is power. Simply power:

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever."