And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: via: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:39:18 -0400 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Ann Pohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The Tories picked on the wrong peoples' kids! I am attaching this for your info. People wanting more details can get back to me. Ann **************** Email recieved at 10:30 pm on May 11th Dear Ann, I hope the following will be of some use. In his omnipotence (self proclaimed) it never occurred to Mr. Harris that he might pick the wrong person's child. Well he picked a bunch of them and Liberal, NDP or Green, we are not about to let him get away with it. The kids are all perfectly willing to talk. Let me tell you about something that happened at my kid's highschool today. The big blue bus was in town with our dear Mr. Harris comfortably esconced but in need of a display of enthusiastic support. He was having a little problem with hostile greetings in the downtown area, so his minions headed out to northwest London. At two area secondary schools they recruited kids. Hey, it was a beautiful day and you could smoke on the bus - and they would write you a note letting you get out of class. Unfortunately, no one explained to the kids that they would be acting as a cheering section for the Tory election propaganda machine before they got on the bus. By the time my son and his friends realized what was expected of them in return for this day of "freedom" they were on their way to St. Thomas. My son and his friends tried phoning for a ride as soon as they could, but none of the parents were free to go and get them. Afraid they would be dumped in St. Thomas for non-compliance, they put on the t-shirts and hats that proclaimed them to be part of "Team Harris" and milled around as directed. They had been drilled on cheers on the bus, by an inept fellow who actually told them they would feel "gay" at first about the cheering, but they would get used to it. None of them cheered. They did try to tell an organizer that they were not Harris supporters, but he didn't care. I guess that about sums it up, Harris and his club just don't care. Talk about superficiality and dishonesty. Let me see, Harris is pushing for discipline in schools and encouraging kids to play hooky by allowing them to indulge in smoking under age in public. This shows a respect for education, discipline and the rule of law? If his support is so strong, why didn't he just ask a bunch of Conservative youth to meet him in London? He basically shanghaied kids and used them in a sham demonstration of support. They were instructed not to speak to the media. One girl kept saying that she felt she had to do something because she accepted food and a ride, just like the historical practice of buying votes. My son couldn't stand it any more and as Harris was exiting his speaking engagement, my son shouted "Dudley George lives" from about 2 feet away from him. Dudley was a friend of my son's; we're not involved in aboriginal rights issues for nothing. There were a group of young people who came in from a city 200 kilomteres away. They actively recruited their peers. Many of them admitted to being drunk and boasted that their room, board and alcohol would be provided as long as they stayed with the bus and did cheer-leading. The kids are all quite upset at how easily they were duped and how they were pressured into acting as if they supported the Tories. Many of them are willing to talk, in fact anxious too. They recognized the dishonesty and the callousness of the Harris team and they want to speak up for themselves and have an opportunity to tell what they have learned about Harris's true colours. What can they do? I guarentee that none of these kids will ever vote Conservative after today. They were used and they're mad. Men like Harris make my dreams impossible. May peace prevail on earth, Pat Linux Operating System http://www.nt.net/~russell/Linux "Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt -- it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." -- Tommy Douglas http://www.nt.net/~russell http://www.nt.net/~russell/Sandra Old Site http://sandra.literature.webjump.com/Mitchell Fax Number 603.737.3337 Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
