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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Sep 27, 2023, Julian wrote on alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   (in article ):   
      
   > Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is   
   > standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of   
   > the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a   
   > 98-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian military who, it turns out, fought   
   > under the Nazis in the Second World War.   
   >   
   > It was an extraordinary sight, surely unprecedented in the modern West.   
   > At the behest of the House Speaker, Anthony Rota, MPs rose to their feet   
   > and gave rousing applause to an old bloke who once fought on the same   
   > side as Hitler. It occurred following an address to the parliament by   
   > Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. He clapped too.   
   >   
   > Trudeau himself, the most right-on man in Christendom, ostentatious   
   > loather of the far right (which is basically anyone who disagrees with   
   > him), applauded with vim for this former associate of the SS.   
   >   
   > This is the same Trudeau who fantasises that Nazism lurks everywhere.   
   > Who gleefully brands his critics as ‘far right’. Who has damned everyone   
   > from parents worried about LGBTQ education to truckers concerned about   
   > vaccine mandates as footsoldiers of a 1930s-style populism.   
   >   
   > Indeed, just a few months ago he sneered at the ‘far-right political   
   > actors’ who are trying to ‘outdo themselves with the types of cruelty   
   > and isolation they can inflict on already vulnerable people’.   
   >   
   > Who are these fascistic nutters, visiting hate on the weak? Parents,   
   > basically. Trudeau was referring to a decision by the premier of New   
   > Brunswick, Blaine Higgs, a centre-right politician, to change the gender   
   > rules in schools so that parental consent would be required for any kid   
   > under the age of 16 to ‘transition’ to a new name or new pronouns.   
   > Sounds sensible to me; to Trudeau, though, it had End of the Weimar   
   > Republic vibes.   
   >   
   > As a writer for the National Post said, in Trudeau-world ‘parental   
   > rights are now a “far-right” political issue’. This PC PM is   
   disparaging   
   > ‘millions of parents by lumping them in with other far-right radicals   
   > like white supremacists and fascists’, the Post said.   
   >   
   > Welcome to Woke Canada, where moms and pops who would rather their kid   
   > wasn’t transitioned behind their backs are far right, while a literal   
   > former SS fighter gets a fulsome round of applause.   
   >   
   > Trudeau also hinted that the Freedom Convoy of truckers that occupied   
   > Ottawa in early 2022 to protest against mandated vaccination were far   
   > right, or at least very extreme. These people are a ‘fringe minority’   
   > who promote ‘hate, abuse and racism’, he said.   
   >   
   > Left-wing talking heads were more frank. One radical magazine condemned   
   > the truckers as a ‘proto-fascist’ movement. All hail morally correct   
   > Canada, where working-class men who stand up for their jobs are   
   > ‘proto-fascists’ while a former fascist-adjacent soldier is cheered in   
   > the corridors of power.   
   >   
   > Many will say that Rota – who has now resigned – Trudeau and the other   
   > clapping seals were not aware of Hunka’s SS-linked past. And that’s fair   
   > enough. Although you don’t need a PhD in European history to think that   
   > a Ukrainian military man who fought against the Ruskies in the 1940s was   
   > probably linked with the Nazis.   
   >   
   > Trudeau has apologised for the ‘embarrassing’ ovation for Hunka. And   
   > Hunka, of course, is not a fascist anymore. It’s possible he never was   
   > one — many Ukrainians will have sided with the Nazis more from hatred   
   > for Russia than love for Hitler.   
   >   
   > And yet the Hunka scandal is a perfect snapshot of the liberal elite’s   
   > weird and delirious obsession with the far right. They marshall the   
   > horrors of the 1940s to condemn their critics in the here and now, as if   
   > every trucker protest and parental uprising were a harbinger of a new   
   > Fourth Reich. Yet when face to face with someone who was involved in the   
   > horrors of the 1940s, they smile and fawn.   
   >   
   > The cluelessness is off the scale. It’s good that Trudeau has said sorry   
   > for dumbly applauding a former SS fighter — when will he apologise for   
   > his equally dumb demonisation of his opponents as far-right loons?   
   >   
   > Brendan O’Neill   
      
   Of course now the Russians are using the incident for anti-Ukraine   
   and anti-Canada propaganda. They have always claimed that   
   there are Nazi elements within the Ukrainian military.   
      
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