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Silly doesn’t begin to describe the season

Silly Season. It’s part of every summer, and very few places manage to suffer the kinds of Silly Season that Toronto routinely inflicts upon itself. This years’ Toronto Silly Season has merely been amplified by the G8/G20 Summit Silliness.

Silly Season. It’s part of every summer, and very few places manage to suffer the kinds of Silly Season that Toronto routinely inflicts upon itself. This years’ Toronto Silly Season has merely been amplified by the G8/G20 Summit Silliness.

Consider, for a moment, the anarchists and socialists and Marxists all gathered to protest something — anything — as long as they protested.

Aside from the absurdity of the anarchists being the major organizers of said protests (see: Websters, anarchism, for full clarity) the major brunt of the protesting boiled down to the protesters protesting that they weren’t being allowed to protest freely enough, thanks to the hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage previous protesters have caused.

To escalate the silliness even further, the protesters — Marxists, socialists, and anarchists who collectively (pun intended) protest for unfettered expansion of state power- are now protesting because they were given a very small taste of exactly the kind of state they’re protesting for.

This after the police clamped down on the protesters who, while protesting that their was far too little freedom to protest, managed to cause a few million dollars in property damage as well as torch a handful of police cars that were apparently infringing upon the protesters’ freedom to protest.

Toronto’s Gay pride Parade followed closely on the heels of the G8/G20 silliness. This event already provides its’ own brand of “chock full of nuts” silliness, without the added hilarity of the Summit Silliness.

For example, Pride Week organizers elected this year to encourage a parade contingent dedicated to protesting Israeli Apartheid, which actually means inviting Hamas and Hezbollah sympathizers to the Gay Pride Parade.

The irony of the activist gay community getting in bed with the anti-Israel crowd appears lost. In spite of the fact that Israel is the only country in the entire Middle-East that actually tolerates homosexuality, the activist gay community has chosen to side with Israel’s enemies, most of whom behead, stone, or hang homosexuals on a regular basis.

In the heart of a city and region that has been shocked on numerous occasions by Muslim men who have chosen to murder their daughters for the crime of choosing to express modest degrees of the kinds of independence that comes with living in a liberal democracy, gay and lesbian activists have chosen to actively court the favour of the Islamists.

Apparently they feel that the very same men who will murder their own daughters for the crime of dating the nice Italian boy down the block, won’t be quite as harsh when the nice Italian boy down the block turns out to be a girl.

The Gay Pride Parade is a protest. It’s a protest against the oppression of “gay culture”, and is often a venue where gays and lesbians engage in public displays of sexual outrageousness in order to make the point that they’re “just like the rest of us”.

All of which is passing strange, because if regular people like the rest of us engaged in the kinds of public displays of sexuality that are part and parcel of virtually all “Gay Pride” parades, we’d likely be arrested.

Add to the mix the fact that the activist gay lobby is actively courting the affections of a religious orthodoxy whose ideology has led its’ young women of a marrying age to seek out surgeons who can restore their virginity lest their lack of purity lead them to be drowned in a canal or tossed from a handy balcony, and suddenly Silly Season just doesn’t seem nearly descriptive enough.

Just as this observer can’t quite get his head around pro-Marxist protesters complaining about the “fascist” police, this observer can’t quite get his head around a “movement” dedicated to a very large degree of sexual freedom creating alliances with a political force that is profoundly dedicated to the very opposite.

There are even serious aspects to Silly Season. Some of Ottawa’s best and brightest are calling for the head of the head of our spy agency, for having the audacity to suggest that there may be spies among us. Meanwhile, the leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition gives a speech telling his Marxist Chinese hosts that they can teach Canadians a few things about human rights.

And mixed in amongst all those little news tidbits that make up the core of Silly Season are these tasty little tidbits. Remember a little Mafia-style racketeering scandal called Adscam? Well, in the midst of all this silliness, pay very close attention to the names of the people being arrested in the Quebec public works corruption scandal as it slowly unfolds.

Bill Greenwood is a Red Deer freelance writer.