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Such an ignorantly worded motion should have never passed in the first place. It also took quite sometime for a real apology to be forthcoming, and it was not until after the Carleton president got involved. The initial reaction by CUSA to the backlash was that students and the rest of the country just "didn't get it". Brittany Smyth, the CUSA president, kept trying to explain away the decision as having nothing to do with the clause that said CF was a white male illness. You can hear her here, on CFRA (Ottawa) radio. After a couple of days of public outrage, and a petition to have her impeached, Brittany did finally issue a somewhat mediocre apology.

The real star of this debacle is Donnie Northrup, the 4th year science student who authored the original motion. He made some interesting comments to a reporter of the Ottawa Citizen. Essentially, he regrets that we misunderstood the intent of his motion, and that he should have worded the motion more carefully. He claimed that he slipped up because he had a lot of homework due at the time. And to make himself look like a bigger ass than he's already made himself out to be, he adds that "writing is not something he's focusing his degree on."

So yeah, the decision is being revisited, but the idiots who made it are still idiots, and bringing attention to this stupidity is still worthwhile.

Of course not. We both have problems with ultra-conservative nutbars. The biggest difference is that in Canada we delegate them to the radio or proposing legislation that will never pass. In the U.S., they're elected to run the country.

Try this.

Of course, news.google.ca is your friend.

Well, actually, there are a lot, though they don't JUST target CEOs, they also target other members of the work force that piss them off. Even though they may not be as effective as mass terrorists like those seen on (and after) the dreaded day two years gone, they too get the job done. Now which type of terrorism do YOU think is more popular?

"How many individuals in the WTC had 'bad behavior'?"

Depends who ya ask, now doesn't it? I know we heroize the poor souls that were needlessly killed on GWB-day, but I think that the terrorists flying the planes thought that there was indeed 'bad behavior' going on in those buildings, mostly in the oppression of a group of people that they believe deserves to be masters of the earth. And if you look at their situations, you see why! Sure, we think it's awful for them to kill a few thousand civilians, and it is, but they see daily US bombings in Iraq (even before our current war started), economic sanctions that kept several Arab states poor enough that starvation was a primary killer of millions of innocents, not to mention the fueling of warfare between Arab nations with weapons contributions, etc. But I rant. Think of it this way -- are the acts of that day more or less justified than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

The people who dropped the A-bombs were not considered, terrorists, they were 'heroes,' they 'ended the war.' But they killed hundreds of thousands of innocents. That makes the WTC attacks look like chump change. And yes, they do think they are at War.

Sorry to rant -- comments like this just show a one-sidedness of knowledge that I refuse to ignore.

A previous article on the moron in question.