Bring on the Rallies!
Saturday will be the big test for the Facebook brigade. Having amassed more than two hundred thousand button pushes, the anti prorogation activists now have to turn some bodies out onto the streets.
Let's be clear about something: I'm against prorogation and I have written about this Prime Minister's pettiness and King John tactics almost since the day he was elected. And yet people seem to think I'm some kind of Tory apologist. I've received all sorts of tart e-mails and even a taunting mention from Antonia Zerbisias in Friday's Star. I guess it's because I work for NewsTalk 1010 and The National Post that everyone assumes I'm a fire breathing right winger. That's a pretty out of touch impression of both outlets.
So lest I be misunderstood, all I was writing about when I penned a column on the anti prorogation crowd was that it's very easy to start a facebook page. Big deal. Now let's see you actually do something about it. This has been spun as some kind of new media versus old media battle when in fact it's a matter of moving beyond starting internet groups and getting down to the nitty gritty of old fashioned grass roots political activism. This isn't Avatar. If you want to make an impression on Stephen Harper or anyone else you're going to actually have to put some warm bodies on the streets.
So bring it on. I would love to be proved wrong. It will warm my dark heart. But as Rick Mercer has pointed out the push in the last ten days to actually deliver on the whole Facebook thing is drawing considerably upon the fact that it was originally shrugged off. So who is turning out to genuinely follow through on their button pushing and who is turning out to teach the crusty old media wretches a lesson?
Couldn't care less. It would be wonderful to imagine Stephen Haper standing by a window like Mr. Burns in his nuclear plant looking down on a genuine manifestation of discontent with his ways. But since we've rolled over and taken it for four years I wont be convinced until I see it.
Let's be clear about something: I'm against prorogation and I have written about this Prime Minister's pettiness and King John tactics almost since the day he was elected. And yet people seem to think I'm some kind of Tory apologist. I've received all sorts of tart e-mails and even a taunting mention from Antonia Zerbisias in Friday's Star. I guess it's because I work for NewsTalk 1010 and The National Post that everyone assumes I'm a fire breathing right winger. That's a pretty out of touch impression of both outlets.
So lest I be misunderstood, all I was writing about when I penned a column on the anti prorogation crowd was that it's very easy to start a facebook page. Big deal. Now let's see you actually do something about it. This has been spun as some kind of new media versus old media battle when in fact it's a matter of moving beyond starting internet groups and getting down to the nitty gritty of old fashioned grass roots political activism. This isn't Avatar. If you want to make an impression on Stephen Harper or anyone else you're going to actually have to put some warm bodies on the streets.
So bring it on. I would love to be proved wrong. It will warm my dark heart. But as Rick Mercer has pointed out the push in the last ten days to actually deliver on the whole Facebook thing is drawing considerably upon the fact that it was originally shrugged off. So who is turning out to genuinely follow through on their button pushing and who is turning out to teach the crusty old media wretches a lesson?
Couldn't care less. It would be wonderful to imagine Stephen Haper standing by a window like Mr. Burns in his nuclear plant looking down on a genuine manifestation of discontent with his ways. But since we've rolled over and taken it for four years I wont be convinced until I see it.
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