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Okay, I've been looking over fringe parties in the Canadian election, and the separatist Western Block Party -- which argues that BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba should split away and form a separate nation.

The leader is one Doug Christie, a lawyer who defends holcaust deniers and other fascists in court. Not surprisingly, he's running in my hometown of Esquimalt-Juan De Fuca. Christie is also a newspaper columnist who writes about homosexuality as a dangerous disease, and goes on about the "gay agenda."

So, looking up his party, I noticed his party's colours: "pale mint green, baby blue, periwinkle, cream, white, pale denim."

Hon, that colour scheme is gayer than the rainbow. Has any straight man ever uttered the word "periwinkle" in describing a colour?

CORRECTION: I seem to have made an error -- Doug Christie is the racist, and his client Doug Collins is the homophobe with the newspaper column.

How did I ever get those two mixed up?

This is me, being a fish

Date: 2006-01-09 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] em-fish.livejournal.com
I like bashing anti-gay assholes as much as the next bleeding-heart queer-positive cat-coddling lesbian. However, I balk at holding lawyer's clients against them. Sure, he might relish defending fascist scum in court, but unless he defends them in his column (does he?)..... I respect his part in The System.

PS, we totally have to get together. I get a cash injection on Thursday. Perhaps we should go somewhere for Italian or something.

Re: This is me, being a fish

Date: 2006-01-09 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] felis-ultharus.livejournal.com
That sounds good. Weekends are far better for me, though. Both Thursday and Friday promise to be gruelling days at work :/

As for Doug Christie, his racist sympathies are quite well-known. He just hasn't come out and said them. His list of clients is a little too long to be a coincidence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Christie_%28lawyer%29).

But, looking again, I must retract on thing -- the newspaper column. It belonged to Doug Collins, not Doug Christie. Because Christie defended Collins on charges of hate speech, I must have gotten the two mixed up :/

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