Dear Editor:
If ISIS has “clearly declared Canada as a target for terrorism,” as Conservatives claim, it is because Stephen Harper is bombing Syria. He built military bases in Kuwait and Afghanistan; contracted a multi-billion dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia; cooperates with America’s illegal invasions in every Middle East country. The Harper government turns us into a target.
The Conservatives do this with our taxes, raising our debt to unprecedented levels. They do it without our consent, in defiance of the NO vote of both opposition parties, and widespread citizen outrage.
Canada perpetrates violence on the people of Syria. Bombing people – for “humanitarian reasons” – causes rage; some stay to fight back, some flee for their lives and their children.
Talk of Canadian generosity in ‘accepting’ refugees is beyond hypocrisy.
It is now coming to light that the West and “our” allies in the region provide arms to both sides of the false flag civil war, to seize oil and gas resources; to install puppet governments as the U.S. has done in every country in the region. Non-aligned journalists, whistle-blowers and scholars reveal that this ‘coalition of the willing’ gives weapons and support to ISIS; foment global terror to force on us a permanent war economy in the interest of military and corporate domination.
Like many of us, Conservative candidates may not know all this, since mainstream media does not report our own atrocities. Canadians must end these crimes against humanity, done in our name.
Hildegard Bechler, New Westminster
