{"id":28498,"date":"2014-11-02T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28498"},"modified":"2014-11-02T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:12:55","slug":"harper-we-will-not-be-intimidated-reality-were-intimidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/02\/harper-we-will-not-be-intimidated-reality-were-intimidated\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper &#8211; &#8220;We will not be intimidated&#8221;. Reality? We&#8217;re intimidated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent fatal attacks on Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil provoked a strong verbal reaction from the PM. Yet the actions of military commanders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecommentator.com\/article\/5322\/islam_is_changing_the_west\" target=\"_blank\">directly contradict what Mr. Harper said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the recent Islamist outrage in Ottawa, Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, \u201clet there be no misunderstanding. We will not be intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Over in Canada after the latest atrocity, military personnel have been requested \u201cto restrict movement in uniform as much as possible.\u201d That request came from Rear Admiral John Newton, Commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>So the Canadian military\u2019s response to Islamist aggression in Canada is to instruct military personnel to take off their uniforms. Is that defending our Western way of life? How is it \u201cnot being intimidated\u201d when you are afraid to walk your own streets in your country\u2019s uniform?<\/p>\n<p>If Prime Minister Harper meant what he said about \u201cnot being intimidated\u201d, was this not precisely the time to insist that Canadian values be respected by all citizens? As the Canadian journalist Mark Steyn commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we have to have dress codes on the streets of free societies, I\u2019d rather see more men like Corporal Cirillo (the murdered Canadian soldier) in the uniform of the Argyll &#038; Sutherland Highlanders &mdash; and fewer women in head-to-toe black body bags. &mdash; I\u2019m tired of being told that we have to change to accommodate them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent fatal attacks on Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil provoked a strong verbal reaction from the PM. Yet the actions of military commanders directly contradict what Mr. Harper said: After the recent Islamist outrage in Ottawa, Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, \u201clet there be no misunderstanding. We will not be intimidated.\u201d [&#8230;] Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11],"tags":[448,258,257],"class_list":["post-28498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-religion","tag-canadianforces","tag-stephenharper","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7pE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28500,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498\/revisions\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}