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I used to have a lawyer friend who was at the top of his class in bashing the "privileged" class. He hated the "bourgeoisie" and claimed to be a man of the "proletariat". Unfortunately, his claim to the proletariat was a thin veneer.

Mahatma Gandhi once said: "You can measure the success of a nation by the way it treats its animals". There is nothing more to say.

The greatest enemy and threat to our Western democratized way of life, is not knowing.

As children growing up in a house where poverty reigned, but not supreme, we were raised with what seems to be considered by today's standards, an unbelievable dose of morality and ethics.

A Jewish student is bloodied at Concordia University by an Arab thug.

We learn so little from our history, that we are indeed cursed to relive it again, and again, and again, ad infinitum. And this is sad.

I bet if the situation was reversed, and they were ‘Jewish' students, especially the ones wearing yarmulkas (head-coverings) who rioted, the lead stories would have been quite different.

In a poll released September 7, 2002, 84% of Canadians seem to believe that the USA somehow deserved what happened to them on 9/11.

This time, Jews no longer depend upon the good-will of the rest of the world to protect them.

I figure it this way. If Thabo Mbeki, the president of the impoverished country of South Africa has enough money to razzle and dazzle them at his opening, then he doesn't need any money from me.