posted on September 20, 2004 09:26:11 PM new
Another reason for sealing the northern borders.
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Monument to U.S. draft dodgers planned in British Columbia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NELSON, British Columbia -- Artists and activists in this picturesque lakeside town have announced plans for a bronze monument and festival to honor U.S. draft dodgers who fled to Canada.
"This will mark the courageous legacy of Vietnam War resisters and the Canadians who helped them resettle in this country during that tumultuous era," said Isaac Romano, director of Our Way Home, a celebration set for July 8-9, 2006.
In a news conference Tuesday, Romano said those to be honored range from draft-card burners during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early '70s to immigrants who have fled from military barracks to escape the current war in Iraq.
Dennis Klein, a sculptor and teacher at Kootenay School of the Arts, and artist Naomi Lewis have been chosen to make a memorial depicting Canadians embracing the hands of American resisters.
"I've met so many draft resisters over the years and some of them are local peers of mine that are artists and others are a part of the community," Klein said. "It would be nice to honor them and all those that actually took a step towards peace."
A heritage design adviser, Robert Inwood, is working to find a site and raise funds for the monument in Nelson, a town of about 10,000 with a lively arts community at the west end of Kootenay Lake about 410 miles east of Vancouver and 150 miles north of Spokane, Wash.
Mayor Dave Elliott said Nelson is the best place for such a monument.
"We have a lot of open-minded people in this area and certainly people who are conscious of the efforts that happened in the Vietnam War," Elliott said.
Festival plans include a concert by artists, many of whom also have been involved in the anti-war movement, speeches by historians and U.S. foreign policy critics and the screening of a feature-length documentary on U.S. war resisters in Canada by filmmaker Michelle Mason.
"There really is no hard figure on the number of people that came here," Mason said. "Estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000, and there are some statistics which suggest that half returned to the U.S. when the Carter administration put an amnesty for those people" in the late 1970s.
An "unusually large" number of resisters settled in British Columbia, many in the Kootenay region around Nelson and in the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast near Vancouver "where they set up alternative communities," Mason said.
Mark Nykanen, a U.S. war resister and four-time Emmy Award winner for investigative journalism who lives in Nelson, said he looked forward to Our Way Home.
"I see the concert as an opportunity to continue to encourage war resisters from the United States to resist the militarism which seems to be taking over my native land," Nykanen said.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on September 20, 2004 10:30:24 PM new
I agree with you Bear about the monument. It sounds kind of hokey to me but then the U.S. is putting pressure on Canada in certain areas, so maybe this is just some posturing.
posted on September 21, 2004 09:31:32 AM newLOL.. Canadians have baltz!..
Here they sit in the shadow of "The Super Power".. We the great Defenders of World Peace, Self appointed World Police, ... huge powerful countries quake and bend to our demands...
Then there's "Canada"..quiet, peace loving, self professed lovers of nothing in particular... we'll not exactly, they love their beer, and hockey,... and.. oh yes one other thing....LOL.. they love sticking it to the USA every chance they get.. HOO HOO..it's like a gnat in the eye, isn't it.. LOL
Krafty.. you need to get a little more baltz yourself and start to defend your country once in a while.. or at least see the humor in it all.. LOL..
posted on September 21, 2004 01:25:22 PM new
To put up a monument like this when the U.S. is in the middle of a war that's very similar, is kind of cheesey, imo.
Canada Has Stuff!
First off, let's make Alaska actually connected to the U.S. again! Those Alaskan folks are always getting screwed by not being part of the "continental 48 states". Let's give them a nice little bridge downstairs. A little bit of farmland never hurt anything either, but forget the permafrost part. Canada is the second largest country in the world, let's fix that.
If Christmas ever fails to come, the Canucks did it
The magnetic north pole is within the Canadian border. We must protect Santa Claus!
They're just a little too proud
Perhaps if they didn't think it was so cool to live in "Diet America" we wouldn't need to invade them, but with people like this guy and these people thinking that Canada is the coolest thing since sliced bread, we need to do our part to keep them in their place. There's a reason the continent is called "North America" and not "North Canada".
They stole our basketball teams
Since when does the "N.B.A." stand for "Canadians Can Play Too". We need to get Vancouver and Toronto annexed into America to preserve the "N".
They don't play nicely with each other
There has been a secessionist movement for years. Quebec doesn't like other Canadians, and the feeling is pretty much mutual. We don't have that in the U.S... you know, there aren't any (Texas) big states (Texas) that think that they're better (Texas) than the rest of the Union (Texas).
It's possible
Why go to the moon? Because it's there. Same with Canada, it's just colder than the moon.
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How To Invade Canada?
However you want!
With the world's longest undefended border betwixt us, you've got a lot of options of where to cross!
They want to make it easy for us
The border is wide open, with usually less than a 10 minute wait at the border. But if you have a pot-luck dinner in the evening and need to be home early, the Canadian government is nice enough to keep us up to the minute with the wait times here so you can pack your panzer and move on out!
The paths that we'll need to take:
There will be four teams (Quite possibly Little League Teams if they don't already have a game scheduled that weekend) that will move into Canada using a system of "roads" and "railways". By spreading out, they can attack the most important part of Canada: Beavers. The Beaver defense network is vast, but not insurmountable. After turning them into warm yet stylish hats, the little leaguers will continue on by using the paths below:
Now you're probably wondering why not a five-pronged attack from the North as well?
We're letting Canada keep the North. It will from now on be known as the smaller version of Canada, "Canadi" (Pronounced "Canadee". The plan for the new border is below:
The surrender will come quickly, they're French after all...
Let's not forget that not only do they speak French but a lot of them are. We should see white flags before we even leave home!
Welcome our funny-sounding countrymen!
Now that Canadi is created, and the U.S. has taken on another state (We suggest calling it "Canada" just to piss of the Canadies that still remember their old country), we'll have a really big party. Quebec can hang out with the South, since they both have this nasty little secession gene apparently; and we'll let Toronto re-unite with Seattle live on Oprah.
And finally, just for good measure, it's ZEE, no "Zed". Also know as, THE END.
posted on September 21, 2004 03:23:40 PM new
I think it was twelvepole who said a while back that Canada is the US's retarded little brother. Right on the money.
posted on September 30, 2004 08:47:56 AM new
That's to bad I wanted to see a monument of Bush in Canada for his war-dogging. That would have been the only way he would have gotten a statue.
DICK CHENEY SUPPORTS MY RELATIONSHIP: People ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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posted on September 30, 2004 11:04:21 AM new
If Canada really wants to pizz off the U.S., they should hurry up and get those marijuana laws passed. That, along with more provinces allowing gay marriages would do the Republicans in.
. The plan for the new border is below:
