Belinda Stronach and Noam Chomsky: unpicking indoctrination (Canada)

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<snip> Who defaults regularly, as a policy, on United Nations payments? Who overthrows freely elected governments as a policy? Who practices imprisonment, torture, and kidnappings of “suspects” all over the world? The U.S. does.

Who manipulates politics to say we should all “share North American resources”? Who propagandizes and indoctrinates Canadians every hour to the effect that Canadian resources and wealth are really U.S. resources and wealth? The U.S. does.

Who breaks the Canada/U.S. Free Trade Agreement daily? Who sucks in morally challenged people like John Manley, Stephen Harper, and Preston Manning? The U.S. does.

A Canadian person is not supposed to say those things. They are not acceptable to nice people when said by a Canadian. The only kind of person who can say things like that in Canada and be acceptable is a U.S. person like Noam Chomsky. Wonderful, progressive, radical, humane, thoughtful, caring Canadians read Noam Chomsky, icon of the American Dream, and they love him. If a Canadian says, as a Canadian, what Chomsky says – pointing out the effects of U.S. imperialism in Canada, most Canadians thrown up their hands and run for cover. <snip>

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