tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post3392366254072417793..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: The General and his Gay SoldiersSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-86301742564876087482007-03-17T10:30:00.000-04:002007-03-17T10:30:00.000-04:00I didn't actually fake a fit but it was hair raisi...I didn't actually fake a fit but it was hair raising.<BR/>Ironically, the Canadian immigration act that I came in under stipulated seven (if I recall correctly) reasons for exclusion or deportation:<BR/>Prostitution;<BR/>Homosexuality;<BR/>Epilepsy;<BR/>Mental disability;<BR/>Membership in subversive/revolutionary group;<BR/>I forget the others.<BR/>I qualified for deportation under at least two of those 'categories'!Lepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12300425802850862584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-27116967095877581882007-03-17T01:04:00.000-04:002007-03-17T01:04:00.000-04:00Hey Jay!! I want you to know that I spent a lot of...Hey Jay!! I want you to know that I spent a lot of time looking for just the right picture. And don't you love the way he's holding that<BR/>mike...like a lovely tulip... :)<BR/><BR/>Hi JJ...I knew about the translators...it's really nuts..They invade a country where the Chimp doesn't know the difference between the Sunnis and the Shia..and they couldn't even understand what the people were saying...or talk to them in the streets. mama mia what a mess...<BR/><BR/>Hi Scout!! I know what you mean...and in the larger sense you are right. But right now being allowed to sign up is like gay marriage. It's a mark of equality. You might not want to get married or fight but those who want to should be able to. But I really do know what you mean.Eventually we're going to have to stop killing each other or the planet is doomed. But I also believe that as long as there are some real bad guys, and we want a gentler kinder world and they don't...We can't be too gentle with them or they'll kil us all.But then I admit that I have been steeped in military stuff ever since I was a boy...so what the fuck do I know? :)<BR/><BR/>Hey Leonard!! I don't blame you...faking epilepsy is a good one!! But seriously... I read your excellent post on ward 22. It was really shocking. I'd say it takes a group that came up with apartheid to do something like that. But then I read the other day how Alan Turing...the guy who helped crack the Enigma code...and once of the inventors of the computer...was forced to take hormone treatment for his homosexuality...until he grew breasts and killed himself. These dirty racists and homophobes are all the same...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-72472500249414370912007-03-15T17:47:00.000-04:002007-03-15T17:47:00.000-04:00Having ended up pretending to have epilepsy to get...Having ended up pretending to have epilepsy to get out of serving my country (okay, it <B>was</B> apartheid South Africa, but an army tends to be an army... in attitude anyway) so I have little resonance with this issue. <BR/>However, I have been blown away by what I started to hear about the practices against gays in the notorious Ward 22 in the old South African Army.<BR/>(I blogged about it recently).Lepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12300425802850862584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-10763949026650158122007-03-14T21:50:00.000-04:002007-03-14T21:50:00.000-04:00this conjures up so many questions and thoughts ab...this conjures up so many questions and thoughts about ANYONE being part of the system , striving for equality etc.. it's not to diss those who are a part of it, but i have to wonder, why does anyone want to be, no wonder what stripes they wear?<BR/><BR/>i think bringing about the new paradigm may mean saying, 'ok, we've had enough, we're not going to partake anymore'. <BR/><BR/>'love of country' is different then following it blindly. support of troops , even though it's been their choice to go over to iraq or afghanistan or wherever, is important...but perhaps the best thing would be for the able soldiers to 'just say no' and end their terms.<BR/><BR/>if recruiting criminals is what it takes, then at least they'll be fighting for the biggest criminals of them all....the politicians who continue imperialism.<BR/><BR/>simon, i know you love sebastien and he's a soldier, but sometimes i have to question a post like this because it doesn't jive in the spirit world. warrior energy can be put to better use then firing guns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-7757778235365909312007-03-14T19:37:00.000-04:002007-03-14T19:37:00.000-04:00Here's a link about the translators:http://www.msn...Here's a link about the translators:<BR/>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6824206JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458917081261136618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-12304948912545348092007-03-14T19:33:00.000-04:002007-03-14T19:33:00.000-04:00I heard (I should look for a link before I type, b...I heard (I should look for a link before I type, but oh well) that the army was firing arabic translators because they were gay. Apart from being bigoted, how stupid is that??? More than <I>anything</I> they need translators... one of the worst problems of that whole war right from the start was that none of the coalition forces spoke arabic, so nobody could talk to the people.JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458917081261136618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-82385654782861750352007-03-14T17:15:00.000-04:002007-03-14T17:15:00.000-04:00my initial dumbass thought:"Nobody dressed like th...my initial dumbass thought:<BR/><BR/>"Nobody dressed like that, wearing that much ribbon, has any business saying anything the least bit naughty about gays. I mean, Jesus, but that is seriously FEY."<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>Methinks he needs to take some lessons from the ancient Greeks...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com