It warms my heart when I see people join together and march in support of those in Iran; I find it just that people can walk down the street show their support for Tibet, I can even accept the stupid communist march on May 1st... but the latest protest in Montreal is beyond my comprehension.
People held a rally a few days ago at the Bell Centre to urge the Montreal Canadiens to resign Alexei Kovalev. Seriously. A hundred people used Twitter and Facebook to coordinate an action to all meet at the arena, dress their kids with the "Bleu, Blanc, Rouge" in the middle of summer and protest because the hockey team doesn't want to give Kovalev 6 or 7 million dollars pert year. Are you impressed? Cause I'm not.
In fact I'm a little embarrassed for these people and especially for their kids that didn't have a choice but to come along. But stunted childhoods put aside... Here's the kicker, while the rest of the world doesn't seem to be getting any better: People are being arrested and will likely be executed in Iran for assembling and marching, people in Honduras are being shot by soldiers for assembling and protesting, there are over 2100 political prisoners in Burma because of assembly and protest and here... We assemble, march, assemble and protest for a pro hockey player?
This can mean two things:
1- That Montreal is a really fantastic city with absolutely no problems, where everyone eats, has a place to live, no one gets stabbed and beer is cheap.
OR
2- People are idiots and have nothing better to do.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions, I think my opinion on this matter is pretty clear.
Muchacho Enfermo
3 comments:
If it makes you feel any better, here in America, you would think the only thing of importance that has happened recently is the death of Michael Jackson. I'm sorry for his family, but couldn't care less otherwise. At least he lived a prosperous and unrestricted life. The same cannot be said of those in places like Honduras and Iran. To make it worse, the oaf who has been elected President is on the side of tyranny. No surprises there, when the people are more interested in a celebrity than world events.
lol... it doesn't really make me feel any better. It just reaffirms my belief that the North-American population as a whole would rather pretend the rest of the world doesn't really exist, unless we're buying it or blowing it up.
Michael Jackson is all over the news here as well. You can't open a paper without having some Michael Jackson thing on the front page, can't watch the news without seeing it.
The sad part is, that my media here has barely touched Honduras and after like 3 days stopped covering Iran. All we get is MJ and North Korea... yay?
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