Maude Barlow et. al. for acknowledging what was surely a thoroughly appropriate place for desperately needed speech in defiance of those busy strangling it.
I don't care to give it any more air than it's getting in this thread, but back on page 2 or so are the weaseling noises of such notables as the Trudeau-in-waiting and Ms. Green-party-elected who both hung Brigitte out to dry with their snouts up a Queen's arse. Disgraceful. What kind of "opposition" is that, anyway? Toadies. I hear in the news this morning it's a total pile on from the house and in the prime sinisterial press -- a real public spanking, two minutes in the naughty corner. 'Unprofessional!' they crow. In what way, I'd like to know? What's 'professional' about the horrendous shite that goes on in the house of commons not to mention in all the unwashed boardrooms of the nation where Harper and his drones execute their long, cold coup? I read Brigitte on her day(s) of destiny as having chosen a tack perfectly fit for a Queen's chamber. "Walk softly and carry a big stop sign" said the Ghomeshi. Indeed. Even Uncle Jack got in on the finger waving and clucking. What a blight of perfidious arseholes.
I will say I wish Brigitte had been better prepared to answer the question "why
there, why
then?". I didn't see that come through in the Solomon attempt to wrap her up like a piece of fish nor the other one posted in here. It deserves an answer, and I think she must be quite capable of articulating it. Please don't anyone think I mean to slight her bold and forward motion in any way, I just think a valuable opportunity to be explicit was missed. Never mind - Brigitte's bigger picture is that these opportunities need to be seized
everywhere -
now. I couldn't agree more.
"O the temerity of this brat! Who does she think SHE is!?", they whine. Neither senate nor the house are temples, dammit. They BELONG to Brigitte as they do to all Canadians. They are let to the use of the elected and appointed and the Queen by our consent, are they not? I think she's quite astonishing and I do hope there are many more like her out there. After all, the great many who didn't vote for the kitten-eater are very much in her corner --
in spite of the forceful messaging from all broadcasting corners re: just how the minions in their millions ought to feel about it!!! -- So, can we take that to mean a lot of people don't need an explanation for "why there, why then", and it's obvious to them as it is to me? I sure hope so, so I'll throw in an optimistic hallelujah.
I have also heard the pundits on the matter of how shit won't stick to that Harper in some people's minds, heaps and barrels of it all around him notwithstanding. They speak of the perfect spin on deflection and attraction the Harper machine doles out; he is never responsible for what goes wrong and always the reason things went 'right' for a change. **Just enough** people believe it's true... where does that leave Brigitte's (banned in real time) broadcast act ? If she is left to play the 'the cheese who stands alone' there will be no echo. Already, there is such a fucking torrent of condescension coming at her and the spirit of what she's done that I wonder what will be left of it by the end of the week.
How will the millions of us applauding follow this brilliant opening scene from Brigitte's pen? What utterly peaceful, deceptively simple, impossible to ignore creative act of system jamming/message altering/fire-starting might we imagine and commit to? I think Brigitte is very clear about quite a number of important things, one being that she sees her action as a drop in the bucket that must become a full-on flood of speaking up and out. On its own, her action will evaporate fairly quickly. The masters of officialdom and their press agents (not to mention more recent inductees) are also very clear about the fact that this kind of unsanctioned "kooky left wing" shit is not on. 'Childish, contemptible stunts' will be appropriately labeled and repositioned for consumers who might otherwise misread them.
The system
is broken if an autocratic branch-manager & transnational corporate bum snuffler can seize absolute unchecked authority by pandering to the worst and lying about everything else to gain the support of a pitifully minor portion of citizens. The means by which our consent is measured and enacted is demonstrably ineffective and loads one personality disordered wrecking ball with power unbecoming, authority he has and will continue to abuse. Assuming 1+1 still = 2 and we still believe that the prime minister's power should be greater or less in accordance with the people's endorsement of their **stated agenda (adjusted for credilbility one hopes), we can only see the results as proof that something needs a radical fucking overhaul. Radical overhauls require instigation by free radical
s in the environment and the propagation of radical thinking. Brigitte is a free radical and part of the cure for the cancer eating the world.
It's budget day in Ottawa ... all the pages left on the hill must be getting a lot of very special attention.
This an imperative call to action, but as yet I am ashamed to say I haven't come up with anything quite so epic as Brigitte's tough act to follow.
House of Commons peanut gallery flash mob anyone?
Many people will sleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back. ~ Louis David Riel