The Man behind the Mutt
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is your usual run of the mill blathering right wing knob head with a typical middle of the road Canadian Tory pedigree upbringing. No refinement here. No sense of history and furthermore a limited knowledge of Canada’s past political bearings.
Socially conservative, hooked to a pedestrian and servile admiration for a capsizing concept known as the “free market” and consumed by a typical faith-based hangover from the Mulroney-Harris era, Kenney does not have the chutzpah or the intellect to carry out a sustained intelligent campaign for typical conservative values, as a Joe Clark would.
Kenney is your average impulsive, mediocre dupe with a limited knowledge about the diversity of the people of the world and limited understanding of world history, nationalism, colonization, resistance and wars of liberation. BUT! Behind him is someone else-- a sharp little neocon twit with a fast rising David Frum mouth and clear cut US neocon DNA stream. This person, who is a shadow behind him is the real Kenney. This person, this ground hog and political skunk, who has been quietly working away, fulfilling his own personalized political career, does not flash his cards too often and not too openly. He appears once in a while, when the soil is warm. This is a person trained in the Goebbels school of propaganda warfare and a well-heeled Neocon with an American Enterprise Institute pedigree. His personal animosity towards Muslims in general and Arabs in particular(despite being an Ismaili) has been the driving force behind his rampant neoconservative tirades. This is a fellow who openly defended George Bush’s failing policies till his last day in office, spewing out open contempt for the Geneva Convention statutes against torture in a prominent article in the National Review. This man is a DC-trained lawyer and a management member of the right wing Foundation for the Defence of Democracies (FDD). Do you wish to know who are the founders and philanthropic backers of the FDD? Well here they are:-Charles Krauthammer (failed doom-school philosopher and neocon fatherhead) , Eric Cantor (Republican Chairman of the Committee to Counter Terrorism), Richard Perle (we know this goon) , Steven Pomerantz (Former Director of the FBI), James Woolsey (former director of the CIA) Sen James Lieberman , Steve Forbes and Newt Gingrich and a whole host of supporters of AIPAC. No other DC right wing think tank has such a plethora of committed militarist war mongers and religious obscurantists and apologists for the American Empire. Velshi, who is a relative of the CNN Velshi, is rolling out the usual anti-Arabism that is often rampant in segments of his community and cocktailing it with his neocon pro-Israeli desperado blues. This is a man who trashed Kofi Annan in an unsubstantiated fashion as a crook, because of his questioning of US unilateralism and went on to question if Banki Moon could also turn out to be crook, as well. Irrespective of the failures of Annan and the future hazards faced by Moon, the fact is that they have shown some resistance to be being swept aside by the US-Israeli war machine. So here is the real Rasputin… It is a tragedy that Canada is ruled now by Bush cronies who have slipped and straggled across the border and are regrouping here.
Alykhan Velshi...Check this out "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alykhan_Velshi"