Pot meet kettle

Okay, I want to talk about this little shindig the fetus fetishists held on Thursday (8,000 Catholic schoolchildren strong, although the Liberal Ottawa Sun says 7,000 but whatevs).

No Canada Wordmarks in evidence this year, thanks to the vigilance of the Wordmark Police, but apparently the crowd became somewhat unruly and things disintegrated into what our Birth Pangs correspondent characterized as "a chaotic mess" -- hmmm, what I might describe as "a chaotic orgy". But what can you expect in the midst of a collective combination indignance and persecution high? The mop-up required after something like that would be a daunting task indeed.

Anyway, the crowd orgy caused a traffic orgy and injuries to a cop who was trying to exercise a little Crowd Contol. Others are already all over this, and in particular I was impressed with Bene D's entry, which wonders (in a way Jesus would surely approve) if any of the marchers thought to follow up on the condition of the injured cop. Bene also adds a little quote from someone who was out there live-blogging on the fetus fetishizing mean streets of Ottawa:

"Pro-aborts can be violent" -- "keep them in line". Uhh, what? There were about 8 pro-choice people that bothered to protest against this thing, but there was a need to "keep them in line" because, well, we're violent? Good grief. If I shared an ideology with people like James Kopp, Paul Hill and Eric Rudolph, I doubt I'd want to accuse anyone else of being violent.

Then again, we do have the right to defend ourselves. Like they're apparently doing at this clinic:

Fortunately, thus far no anti-abortion protestors have been shot or blown up by "threatening signs".

As the marchers marched outside

something interesting was going on inside the House of Commons, as the totally non-abortion-related Bill C-484 was being discussed. Opposition is building, it seems.

Commenting on the march, stageleft notes the number of Catholic school kids in attendance. No surprise there, it's a free field trip out of class, and a credit just for attending this little shindig. What's not to love? They bring them in by the busload. (Although if I were a conservative, I might be bitching about what my tax dollars are being spent on -- marches for causes I disagree with and who knows what all else?)

And there's another reason that I wouldn't regard student attendance at the March for Life as proof positive of the rock-solid "pro-life values" and vestal purity of those kids from Our Mother of Perpetual Persecution High (School). According to "chastity speaker"(?) Dawn Eden, if the ones from Holy Cross Catholic School are typical, they are Wild Sex Beasts, and where Wild Sex Beasts go, contraception and abortion surely follow. After Eden's less than successful speech at HCC, her website was deluged with angry messages from the kids, like this one:

"I'm a catholic and i absolutely love having sex... does it mean im a bad person? No, i think that chastity should be up to the person, I believe in making my own decisions on my lifestyle, based on what i feel is right its called cultural relativism."

and

"You are a SLUT!! You're not a virgin! Face reality. PS- Just because we wear short skirts does not make us whores! Many of us are still virgins and wear short skirts! ALSO, a lot of us LOVE SEX!!!! So what?! You're just making us want to have sex more. So just shutup cuz no one cares about your life."

But that was last week. Those young ladies were probably "marching for life" yesterday. (What they did after the march is nobody's business but their own. *wink*)

Falling off a ladder

and getting a little bashed and bruised won't keep me from blogging about the Canada Wordmark/March for Life Scandal! Yeah!!!

Federal Government responses to the relentless pressure of Left Blogistan are starting to filter in. Darren at apply-liberally gets points for Most Persistence -- his tenacity on this issue was rewarded yesterday by a reply from Vic Toews himself.

If it sounds like a "party line" response, that's because... it is! But no matter, his now having gone on-the-record clears up some of our suspicions (and politicians never lie, right?). But as Darren points out, why did he have to mull things over for 3 weeks before responding? Could it be that he thought there *might* be something going on, or was it just run-of-the-mill wingnut brain damage?

My MP pointed things in a bit different direction, demanding a response from Heritage Minister Bev Oda. The Heritage Ministry if responsible for funding a lot of different interests and agencies (Status of Women falls under Heritage)... and Oda is known to suggest directing funds to questionable recipients (while cutting off funds from deserving ones).

I seriously doubt there was any funding involved with MFL or its infamous banner, but Oda needs to confirm it in no uncertain terms, get on-the-record that the "Campaign Life Coalition" receives no funding or other support from the government. My MP is on the job, baby.