Always4iggy Always4iggy:
Which is exactly my point, Streaker. To get involved in politics, there is one way: You should run.
Here is what Harper's sideshow should have done:
Ms Basnicki - run on a conservative ticket with a platform of Anti Terrorism legislation aimed at Muslims and Sikhs.
Aging_Redneck Aging_Redneck:
So widows are not allowed to get involved in politics, and certainly not allowed to voice their opinion related to issues concern the death of their husbands?
Well, they can voice an opinion, definitely, Redneck. For instance:
a. They can have an opinion that husbands should not die untimely deaths. We all understand that.
b. They can also say that governments should find and prosecute those responsible, we all understand that.
c. They can say that governments should take all steps to prevent it happening again, we all understand that.
But Ms. Basnicki is going further, instead of setting
goals for the government, she is suggesting
methods which is incorrect. Ms Basnicki is the widow of a WTC victim, she has no demonstrated capability to choose which way we must deal with terrorists.
Hamilton Spectator Hamilton Spectator:
At a news conference before the vote, Maureen Basnicki, (pictured with daughter, Erica) whose husband Ken was among two dozen Canadian victims of the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks, urged MPs to "stop playing politics" and to "vote with their conscience and not with their party."
Deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said he sympathized with terror victims but labelled their appearance during the debate as "just a sideshow," prompting an angry response from Basnicki.
"Sideshow? I was a victim of terrorism. My husband was murdered. I don't like to be a victim of politics. The issue here is the security of Canadians," Basnicki remarked.
a. Ms Basnicki is not qualified to state that anyone is playing politics and not voting with their conscience.
b. Ms Basnicki is not qualified to decide what the security of canadians requires.
If Ms. Basnicki told parliament about how sad she was to lose her husband, it would be OK, a sort of National Victim Impact Statement. She would deserve a sympathetic and patient hearing.
But if she indulges in such obviously tutored lines, then it should be clear that no other woman, widow or single or married or whatever is less qualified than her to think. She would get no special hearing at all.
The real truth is that whether it is Basnicki or Zaccardeli or Hillier, Harper is taking advantage of politically unsophisticated persons who do not understand that they are being exploited.