Canada's "terrorists" an agricultural pun

Contributor: "YYC"

The Natural Compost is such a blatant example of the media supporting the work of the industrial/military power structure that to effectively counter its vicious mongering would take up too much of my life. I couldn't help, however, seeing the double meaning in this headline:

Canada grows its own terrorists

First you grow a war machine that feeds off the destruction of life forms in the name of "liberation", then you plant seeds of racism, general fear and hatred of the Other; then you water the seeds by glorifying the slaughter of abitrarily designated weeds abroad - lest they migrate here and infect our crops.

Next, you take the youngest plants, turn as many as you can into maneaters and export them abroad to destroy the so-called foreign weeds. You keep planting seeds of fear and hate at home lest the crop of maneaters dwindles, and to further justify the production of so many of them you display examples of weeds that have migrated into our very own pristine environment.

Weed! Weed! scream the minions of the machine, holding them up for everyone to see and be horrified by, pointing fingers, embellishing their exploits, then performing a ritual called "justice" before sacrificing them to the dogs of war.

Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ...

Too esoteric? Okay, let's look at a couple of the pithy comments below the NP article.

In the comments section d_yoush_begg 9:32 AM on March 31, 2011 says that the writer:

"forgot to mention all the young people Israel recruits for its blood-stained military who then go on to terrorize unarmed palestinian villagers and grab thier land, acre by acre. Canadians taking up arms for foreign cause is morally and ethically wrong and criminal to say the least."

Let's assume that includes NATO's "interventions" as well.

VancouverDave 8:46 AM on March 31, 2011 said:

"The only terrorists in Canada have offices on Parliament Hill."