OH CANADA TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE...??

Our Harpo led Canadian military has begun its latest campaign to bomb northern Iraq back to the Stone Age (so how can we then complain about how primitive and backward they are?) and we thought we would show some of the aftermath of this type of bombing campaign with the pictures below....

.....and so what are we fighting for? freedom, democracy, free speech, journalistic rights? Apparently not, according to the reaction to Hamilton Spectator writer's column about Nathan Cirillo being less than a hero for accidentally getting shot during the recent attack on Parliament hill.

What he wrote is hardly offensive, he merely pointed out that leaping into a burning building to save a baby is heroic, accidentally getting shot is merely an accident. Many people are accidentally victimized by criminals, it doesn't make them actual heroes just innocent victims.

But the reaction to this is predictable in our so-called 'free to write and think what we want' western society. A Facebook movement has started to get the writer fired. So much for, what was it again, oh yeah, freedom democracy free speech journalistic rights etcetera.

Apparently we're fighting for the opposite of those things.

Thankfully, Spectator editor-in-chief Paul Berton said he understood why readers were offended, but added a newspaper "cannot suppress opinions just because we may not agree with them."

No word yet on whether a movement has now begun to get him fired as well.....