Here we have yet another Canadian politician wallowing in his hatred for the USA. What will the Cannucks do about it? Probably nothing. They let terrorists come and go at will to and from Pakistan and points Mid Eastern every day without raising a hand. Why should they say anything about one of their OWN guys?
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Green candidate stands by remarks praising 9/11 ‘Beautiful’
A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as “beautiful.”
The editorial, entitled, A Revolting Confession, was first published on Nov. 28, 2002 in an alternative newspaper, The Republic of East Vancouver, which Kevin Potvin founded.
“When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, ‘Yeah!’ When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, ‘Beautiful!’ When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air,” Mr. Potvin wrote in the editorial.
The 44-year-old bookstore owner, who ran for municipal office in Vancouver in 2005, said he at first withheld the editorial, publishing it only after he was approached by others who felt the same way.
“This is a revolting confession,” he wrote. “But it’s what happened.”
He continued: “I know lots of people were killed. But then again, I see lots of people getting killed whenever I turn the TV news on, and frankly, it doesn’t really get to me any more….
“Let’s face facts. If the news on the morning of September 11 was that 3,000 Tanzanians or Burmese had been killed, they wouldn’t have broken in on regularly scheduled programming, or cancelled football games, and there’d be no conversation about it the next day.”
Mr. Potvin said in a telephone interview last night that he is now skeptical that the events of 9/11 were entirely the work of terrorists.
“I have no idea what happened on that day, but it’s certainly not the story that Washington propagates.”
Mr. Potvin, who was recently acclaimed as a Green party candidate, is today meeting with voters to discuss “9/11 truth and its implications for Canadian foreign policy” at a downtown Vancouver cafe.
The Green party could not be reached for comment last night.
8 users commented in " Another America Hating Cannuck "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDon’t call him a “Canadian politician”. This guy has never been elected, and never will be, even in the bastion of Leftdom that is Vancouver. Even the Green Party has now revoked his candidacy.
Please don’t paste all Canadians with the same brush. We’re not all left wing lunatics.
Kevin Potvin is not a Canadian politician. He is a Canadian Jack Ass. Mr. Potvin cannot get a job with a legitimate news paper, hence his self published rag. He reads other newspapers, and then without the least amount of research or investigation regurgitates it in his rag with his own perverted twist.
The Green Party should dump his sorry ass and let him recede to the sideline shadows of mediocrity.
Correct the spelling of “Cannuck [sic]” in this piece of “high-quality English language reporting.”
The Green Party [i]is[/i] dumping his sorry ass, and not a moment too soon.
Not all Canadians hate the Americans, but more blogs like this one, that tars Canadians with the same wide brush, and we could learn to.
I’d like to apologize for those posting above and all Canadians busy kissing American ass. No one respects America anymore and even those few sycophants who profess to like you are standing there with their hand out expecting something in return. Clean up your own sewer of a country before you stick your nose in other countries problems. Stick with Israel, you’re two of a kind.
“They let terrorists come and go at will to and from Pakistan and points Mid Eastern every day without raising a hand.” This is false. Do your homework.
We should all be worried if this is the state of freedom of expression, that something written five years ago, or in any way questioning human reaction or foreign policy can be shut down by the mainstream press and political parties. If Potvin isn’t allowed to say what he said, then why are people allowed to send him death threats or call him a Holocaust denier? Or, why are any of us allowed to post comments in here?
The suicide idiots causing the Towers destruction were just that— idiots sucked in by the radical mullahs to sacrifice their lives to further the islamists cause and it failed. I do not agree with the Iraqi war because it visited a rain of fire & brimstone on the Iraqi people and while destroying many Islamic radicals it also killed hundreds of thousands of totally innocents.
The “war” in Afghanistan was a lot more justified even if it is incapable of curing anything and I believe that there will be lasting good from that conflict.
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