Crystal Meth = Homosexual Marriage? Are you kidding me!
The attached PDF is a political ad sent out by a Tory MP in Alberta. The mixed messages are incredible. First off, the topic is the Crystal Meth problem. The flyer has statements such as "Are you concerned about the impact of Crystal Meth epidemic on your community?" and "Canada is being invaded by a drug scourge that leaves only victims behind. Its time to fight back."
Yet, the flyer's only image is of a man wearing a balaclava and holding a handgun. I suppose this means that all Crystal Meth users are all handgun weilding, balaclava wearing criminals. Of course, the flyer goes on to blame the problems on Liberals, specifically Paul Martin's government. No surprise.
At this point, the flyer is only a misguided partisan advertisement, marching to the familiar beat of "Liberals are soft on crime, and if you aren't scared already, you better be -because you and your family will be next." This is on par with many conservative fear mongering ads we've all seen many times before. Again, no surprise.
However, it is on the back side of the page that the mixed message reaches a new level. A dubious, and notably grammatically incorrect question appears on the flyer. It asks readers whether or not they support, quote: "homosexual sex marriage?". This of course, poses two questions, One: What is homosexual sex marriage? and Two: What does it have to do with the Crystal Meth drug problem, and those scourge that only leaves victims behind?
Granted the question appears at the end of the flyer, however I fully believe it was purposefully placed on the ad to relate one issue to the other. Shameful. Regardless of ones political view on both drug problems and same sex rights, the two issues should never become married together. (Pardon the pun).
Conservative Crytal Method Political Add (PDF)
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The social conservatism of the Conservative party is not getting a lot of play in the media right now, particularly their views on 'homosexual sex marriage' and abortion, which is probably not very responsible of the Canadian media. But I think what drives me nuttier than that is that the Conservatives, and conservatives in general, are taken to be good financial managers. Check out the clip below:
"As the party leaders slow their pace for the holidays, we bring you a tally of the spending promises so far from the campaign trail. Not quite halfway into the eight-week campaign, Stephen Harper's Conservatives are in front and setting a torrid pace with nearly $80 billion in promised tax cuts ($73 billion) and spending initiatives ($6.6 billion) over the next five years. They also own the single most costly item of the campaign—the $27-billion plan to cut the GST by one and ultimately two percentage points within five years. The Conservatives haven't costed this out themselves, but they acknowledge that a one percentage point GST cut, which they are promising to do right away, will dock the treasury $4.5 billion a year."
For some reason people forget that tax cuts are just as expensive as social spending. Many (including this blogger - zing) are quick to accuse the NDP of not being able to balance the books, but it seems clear to me that the quickest way into deficits for Canada is to elect Conservatives, just as it was in the states with the Bush administration.
I hope the Liberals and the NDP are able to realize this, and start making this argument.
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