[Rumors]

:rolleyes: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2441/3902212512_33ed1ab01c_o.jpgDuceppe defends reading of FLQ manifesto

Those who object to reading are guilty of 'censorship,' Bloc leader says

By KEVIN DOUGHERTY, Gazette Quebec






Gilles Duceppe says the 1970 Front de Libération du Québec manifesto is part of the history of the province, and that those who oppose its reading are practicing censorship.



Gilles Duceppe says the 1970 Front de Libération du Québec manifesto is part of the history of the province, and that those who oppose its reading are practicing censorship.
Photograph by: File photo, The Gazette

QUEBEC – Gilles Duceppe says the 1970 Front de Libération du Québec manifesto is part of the history of the province.

The Bloc Québécois leader told reporters this morning those who object to reading the manifesto want to practise “censorship.”

Organizers of Moulin à paroles, a series of readings this weekend to commemorate the 1759 Battle of The Plains of Abraham, have asked Montreal singer Luck Mervil to read the manifesto.

The manifesto, written by the kidnappers of British trade commissioner James Cross, was first read on Radio-Canada television as one of the kidnappers’ conditions.

The federal and Quebec governments have denounced the reading, describing it as a call to violence.

But Duceppe, in Quebec City for a meeting of his Bloc Québécois caucus to prepare for a new session of parliament next week - and for a new federal election - said other texts, including those of Lord Durham, would be read at the event.

Quebec nationalists consider Durham’s 1839 proposal to unite Upper and Lower Canada, as Ontario and Quebec were known then, was an attempt to assimilate Quebec.

The Bloc leader said the logic of opponents to the reading of the FLQ manifesto would also ban the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, whose chorus - “Aux armes les citoyens” - urges citizens to take up arms.

Duceppe began his morning news conference expressing his condolences to the families of Major Yannick Pépin and Corporal Jean-François Drouin, who “died tragically” after “putting their lives at risk for democracy” in Kandahar.

And he said Bloc election advertising, focused on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, was not negative, but was intended to show that both federal leaders share the same positions on Quebec.

kdougherty@thegazette.canwest.com
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

[Rumors]

Wow, I must say.....that's a surprise. :yes:

[matt602]

Apparently crying out "censorship! censorship!" is getting as popular as pulling the race card these days.

[shreddog]

Well, for free speech to be truly "free" it has to sometimes be ugly. Plus, to many in Canada, the manifesto is actually a "thing of beauty". Remember what Evelyn Beatrice Hall said ... (hint, it wasn't Voltaire)

[Doady]

Funny how in Quebec the banning the reading of the FLQ manifesto is "censorship" but banning all non-French store signs is not.

[le calmar]

Heil Duceppe.

[kool maudit]

so this is the bone we are throwing the resentment dogs this week?

have at it.

nothing is less interesting than the cancon view of such things.

i will withdraw and head back to my evening labors in gulag 514. if they catch me even typing on this non-accented keyboard i'm fucked.






(do you ever feel like you are being manipulated in this country? that the petty little fires and umbrages you feel when read these things, or their opposites... that, well -- they're the petty umbrages somebody wants you to feel? from the seditious racists of quebec to the dangerous rednecks of alberta, we are being sold a rather shabby narrative concerning each other. cui bono?)

[vid]

Now that kool maudit has posted, this thread can be closed.

[1ajs]

who cares

[Aylmer]

Isn't the BATAILLE DES PLAINES D'ABRAHAM history too?
And those who oppose it are practicing cencorship?

There seems to be a double standard here...

:)

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Funny how in Quebec the banning the reading of the FLQ manifesto is "censorship" but banning all non-French store signs is not.

Snap.

[Jamaican-Phoenix]

Isn't the BATAILLE DES PLAINES D'ABRAHAM history too?
And those who oppose it are practicing cencorship?

There seems to be a double standard here...

:)

Another snap.

[Acajack]

I can see both sides of the issue, but just to add something interesting to the debate...

About a year ago, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa presented a French theatre play called "Manifeste!", in which several notable manifests were featured, including the FLQ's.

No one made a big deal out of it.

[Gerrard]

Perhaps people need a primer on what censorship is. Although I'd always be suspicious of anything from CanWest.

[mr.John]

It's beyond me why anyone living outside of Quebec gives a crap on what's happening in this province, and please stop attacking poor Gilles ,after all he is a Canadian citizen working for the Canadian government being payed in Canadian dollars (well over a million throughout his illustrious career I might add) and when the man wants to travel (to the holy land of France of course ) he pulls out his Canadian passport. And finally when this great man desides to retire guess who'll be paying his fat pension in Canadian dollars

[Acajack]

It's beyond me why anyone living outside of Quebec gives a crap on what's happening in this province, and please stop attacking poor Gilles ,after all he is a Canadian citizen working for the Canadian government being payed in Canadian dollars (well over a million throughout his illustrious career I might add) and when the man wants to travel (to the holy land of France of course ) he pulls out his Canadian passport. And finally when this great man desides to retire guess who'll be paying his fat pension in Canadian dollars

He was also elected by people who are Canadian taxpayers to represent them in their Canadian Parliament.

[Rico Rommheim]

Canada

[mr.John]

Gilles gives Mr. John a dirty look after I waved Canadian dollars at him
ahhhh I never get tired of photographing this tool
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3904189608_44bdc7a3b9_o.jpg

[mr.John]

At least Pauline still loves me..kissy kissy

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3903478209_b0bccf49e6_o.jpg

[samne]

Nice Armani shades Gilles.

[kool maudit]

i am a federalist, but it doesn't bother me on an emotional level that some people have had the idea to break the union.

it's not like confederation was borne down the side of mount ararat on three flaming white steeds or whatever. it was a crunched-together imperial deal like many others. i think it's worked alright, but that's me.

the tribe-emotions that canadians often display on this topic are... unbecoming for a new world people.

[MolsonExport]

I say that Duceppe himself should do the reading, only he has to wear his showercap while doing so.

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/09/23/chiassonduceppehairnet321100.jpg


If you are going to read half-baked marxist-leninist/arch-nationalist diatribe, then you gotta look the part.

Old Duceppe is well positioned to do the read, as he dabbled in Marxist-Leninism while serving as a hospital orderly in the 70s.

[Acajack]

I say that Duceppe himself should do the reading, only he has to wear his showercap while doing so.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cs-montrealgazette/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00/00/23/91/78/Duceppe+1997.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0TTXDM86AJ1CB68A7P02&Expires=1252525373&Signature=ey0d%2fSgmhovNM9YRM5FqhU9xMB0%3d

If you are going to read half-baked marxist-leninist/arch-nationalist diatribe, then you gotta look the part.

Old Duceppe is well positioned to do the read, as he dabbled in Marxist-Leninism while serving as a hospital orderly in the 70s.


For the record, here is the guy who will be reading the FLQ manifest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_Mervil

He hails from the same part of the world as Canada's Governor-General.

[MolsonExport]

^could be worse. could be Normand Brathwaite.

[Acajack]

^could be worse. could be Normand Brathwaite.


:jester:

[someone123]

This article is basically nothing, although I think failing to distance oneself from the FLQ manifesto is about on par with, say, waving Confederate flags around and then rambling on about free speech. The separatist movement in Quebec is not always terribly nuanced.

Yes, that thing is a part of Canada's history, but it's not a good part - it was a creepy rant sent by kidnappers and murderers. The only good that came out of it was that enough people were against those kinds of tactics that Canada moved toward the present arrangement rather than, say, the political situation of countries like the one Luck Mervil is from.

[kool maudit]

Yes, that thing is a part of Canada's history, but it's not a good part - it was a creepy rant sent by kidnappers and murderers.



agreed.

creepy rants bequeath more creepy rants.

[Rumors]

agreed.

creepy rants bequeath more creepy rants.

You sound like a Parrot. :rolleyes:

[MTLskyline]

Why not go ahead with the re-enactment of the battle on the Plains if it is deemed acceptable for the FLQ manifesto to be read there?

Nobody seems to be worried about angry federalists disrupting the event with violence like certain militant sovereignist groups were threatening if the battle re-enactment went ahead.

[MolsonExport]

^well, since the departure of the loathesome Galganov, the angry anglos haven't had their version of Pierre Falardeau or Raymond Villeneuve.

[Acajack]

Why not go ahead with the re-enactment of the battle on the Plains if it is deemed acceptable for the FLQ manifesto to be read there?



I think the problem most people had with the re-enactment was that it was being portrayed as a celebration, almost a joyful thing. You will recall the images used to market it featured smiling red- and blue-coated soldiers shaking hands. There truly was to be a festive aspect to it.

I don't think Luck Mervil or anyone else will be grinning when he reads the FLQ manifesto.

[PhilippeMtl]

Rumors, you' re a sad man... Really.

[Vaillant]

Pauline Marois will be part of the event and sunday at 1pm they suppose to have a walk for the independance of Quebec:sly:

[MolsonExport]

Here is the manifesto, for those who are interested:

In French:

Manifeste du Front de libération du Québec
membres du FLQ
Octobre 1970

Le Front de libération du Québec n’est pas le Messie, ni un Robin des bois des temps modernes. C’est un regroupement de travailleurs québécois qui sont décidés à tout mettre en œuvre pour que le peuple du Québec prenne définitivement en mains son destin.
Le Front de libération du Québec veut l’indépendance totale des Québécois, réunis dans une société libre et purgée à jamais de sa clique de requins voraces, les « big boss » patronneux et leurs valets qui ont fait du Québec leur chasse gardée du cheap labor et de l’exploitation sans scrupules.

Le Front de libération du Québec n’est pas un mouvement d’agression, mais la réponse à une agression, celle organisée par la haute finance par l’entreprise des marionnettes des gouvernements fédéral et provincial (le show de la Brinks, le bill 63, la carte électorale, la taxe dite de « progrès social » [sic], Power Corporation, l’assurance-médecins, les gars de Lapalme).

Le Front de libération du Québec s’autofinance d’impôts volontaires (sic) prélevés à même les entreprises d’exploitation des ouvriers (banques, compagnies de finance, etc.).

« Les puissances d’argent du statu quo, la plupart des tuteurs traditionnels de notre peuple, ont obtenu la réaction qu’ils espéraient, le recul plutôt qu’un changement pour lequel nous avons travaillé comme jamais ; pour lequel on va continuer à travailler. » - René Lévesque, 29 avril 1970.

Nous avons cru un moment qu’il valait la peine de canaliser nos énergies, nos impatiences comme le dit si bien René Lévesque, dans le Parti québécois, mais la victoire libérale montre bien que ce qu’on appelle démocratie au Québec n’est en fait et depuis toujours que la « democracy » des riches. La victoire du Parti libéral en ce sens n’est en fait que la victoire des faiseurs d’élections Simard-Cotroni. En conséquence, le parlementarisme britannique, c’est bien fini et le Front de libération du Québec ne se laissera jamais distraire par les miettes électorales que les capitalistes anglo-saxons lancent dans la basse-cour québécoise à tous les quatre ans. Nombre de Québécois ont compris et ils vont agir. Bourassa dans l’année qui vient va prendra de la maturité : 100 000 travailleurs révolutionnaires organisés et armés !

Oui il y en a des raisons à la victoire libérale. Oui il y en a des raisons à la pauvreté, au chômage, aux taudis, au fait que vous M. Bergeron de la rue Visitation et aussi vous M. Legendre de Ville de Laval qui gagnez 10 000 dollars par année, vous ne vous sentiez pas libres en notre pays le Québec.

Oui il y en a des raisons, et les gars de la Lord les connaissent, les pêcheurs de la Gaspésie, les travailleurs de la Côte Nord, les mineurs de la Iron Ore, de Québec Cartier Mining, de la Noranda les connaissent eux aussi ces raisons. Et les braves travailleurs de Cabano que l’on a tenté de fourrer (2) une fois de plus en savent des tas de raisons.

Oui il y en a des raisons pour que vous, M. Tremblay de la rue Panet et vous, M. Cloutier qui travaillez dans la construction à St-Jérôme, vous ne puissiez vous payer des « vaisseaux d’or » avec de la belle zizique (3) et tout le fling flang (4) comme l’a fait Drapeau-l’aristocrate (5), celui qui se préoccupe tellement des taudis qu’il a fait placer des panneaux de couleurs devant ceux-ci pour ne pas que les riches touristes voient notre misère.

Oui il y en a des raison pour que vous Madame Lemay de St-Hyacinthe vous ne puissiez vous payer des petits voyages en Floride comme le font avec notre argent tous les sales juges et députés.

Les braves travailleurs de la Vickers et ceux de la Davie Ship les savent ces raisons, eux à qui l’on a donné aucune raison qu’ils voulaient se syndiquer et à qui les sales juges ont fait payer plus de deux millions de dollars parce qu’ils avaient voulu exercer ce droit élémentaire. Les gars de Murdochville la connaissent la justice et ils en connaissent des tas de raisons.

Oui il y en a des raisons pour que vous, M. Lachance de la rue Ste-Marguerite, vous alliez noyer votre désespoir, votre rancœur et votre rage dans la bière du chien à Molson. Et toi, Lachance fils avec tes cigarettes de mari… Oui il y en a des raisons pour que vous, les assistés sociaux, on vous tienne de génération en génération sur le bien-être social (6). Il y en a des tas de raisons, les travailleurs de la Domptar à Windsor et à East Angus les savent. Et les travailleurs de la Squibb et de la Ayers et les gars de la Régie des Alcools (7) et ceux de la Seven Up et de Victoria Precision, et les cols bleus de Laval et de Montréal et les gars de Lapalme en savent des tas de raisons.

Les travailleurs de Dupont of Canada en savent eux aussi, même si bientôt ils ne pourront que les donner en anglais (ainsi assimilés, ils iront grossir le nombre des immigrants, Néo-Québécois, enfants chéris du bill 63).

Et les policiers de Montréal auraient dû les comprendre ces raisons, eux qui sont les bras du système ; ils auraient dû s’apercevoir que nous vivons dans une société terrorisée parce que sans leur force, sans leur violence, plus rien ne fonctionnait le 7 octobre !

Nous en avons soupé du fédéralisme canadien qui pénalise les producteurs laitiers du Québec pour satisfaire aux besoins anglo-saxons du Commonwealth ; qui maintient les braves chauffeurs de taxi de Montréal dans un état de demi-esclaves en protégeant honteusement le monopole exclusif de l’écœurant Murray Hill et de son propriétaire-assassin Charles Hershorn et de son fils Paul qui, à maintes reprises, le soir du 7 octobre, arracha des mains de ses employés le fusil de calibre 12 pour tirer sur les chauffeurs et blesser ainsi mortellement le caporal Dumas, tué en tant que manifestant ; qui pratique une politique insensée des importations en jetant un à un dans la rue les petits salariés des Textiles et de la Chaussure, les plus bafoués au Québec, aux profit d’une poignée de maudits « money-makers » (8) roulant cadillac ; qui classe la nation québécoise au rang des minorités ethniques du Canada.

Nous en avons soupé, et de plus en plus de Québécois également, d’un gouvernement de mitaines qui fait mille et une acrobaties pour charmer les millionnaires américains en les suppliant de venir investir au Québec, la Belle Province où des milliers de milles carrés de forêts remplies de gibier et de lacs poissonneux sont la propriété exclusive de ces même Seigneurs tout-puissants du XXe siècle ; d’un hypocrite à la Bourassa (9) qui s’appuie sur les blindés de la Brinks, véritable symbole de l’occupation étrangère au Québec, pour tenir les pauvres « natives » (10) québécois dans la peur de la misère et du chômage auxquels nous sommes tant habituées ; de nos impôts que l’envoyé d’Ottawa au Québec veut donner aux boss anglophones pour les « inciter », ma chère, à parler français, à négocier en français : repeat after me : « cheap labor means main-d’œuvre à bon marché » ; des promesses de travail et de prospérité, alors que nous serons toujours les serviteurs assidus et les lèche-bottes des big-shot (11), tant qu’il y aura des Westmount, des Town of Mount-Royal, des Hampstead, des Outremont, tous ces véritables châteaux forts de la haute finance de la rue St-Jacques et de la Wall Street, tant que nous tous, Québécois, n’aurons pas chassé par tous les moyens, y compris la dynamite et les armes, ces big-boss de l’économie et de la politique, prêts à toutes les bassesses pour mieux nous fourrer (2).

Nous vivons dans une société d’esclaves terrorisés, terrorisés par les grands patrons, Steinberg, Clark, Bronfman, Smith, Neapole, Timmins, Geoffrion, J.L. Lévesque, Hershorn, Thompson, Nesbitt, Desmarais, Kierans (à côté de ça, Rémi Popol la garcette, Drapeau le dog, Bourassa le serin des Simard, Trudeau (12) la tapette, c’est des peanuts (13) !).

Terrorisés par l’Église capitaliste romaine, même si ça paraît de moins en moins (à qui appartient la Place de la Bourse ?), par les paiements à rembourser à la Household Finance, par la publicité des grands maîtres de la consommation, Eaton, Simpson, Morgan, Steinberg, General Motors… ; terrorisés par les lieux fermés de la science et de la culture que sont les universités et par leurs singes-directeurs Gaudry et Dorais et par le sous-singe Rober Shaw. Nous sommes de plus en plus nombreux à connaître et à subir cette société terroriste et le jour s’en vient où tous les Westmount du Québec disparaîtront de la carte.

Travailleurs de la production, des mines et des forêts ; travailleurs des services, enseignants et étudiants, chômeurs, prenez ce qui vous appartient, votre travail, votre détermination et votre liberté.

Et vous, les travailleurs de la General Electric, c’est vous qui faites fonctionner vos usines ; vous seuls êtes capables de produire ; sans vous, General Electric n’est rien !

Travailleurs du Québec, commencez dès aujourd’hui à reprendre ce qui vous appartient ; prenez vous-mêmes ce qui est à vous. Vous seuls connaissez vos usines, vos machines, vos hôtels, vos universités, vos syndicats ; n’attendez pas d’organisation miracle.

Faites vous-mêmes votre révolution dans vos quartiers, dans vos milieux de travail. Et si vous ne le faites pas vous-mêmes, d’autres usurpateurs technocrates ou autres remplaceront la poignée de fumeurs de cigares que nous connaissons maintenant et tout sera à refaire. Vous seuls êtes capables de bâtir uns société libre.

Il nous faut lutter, non plus un à un, mais en s’unissant jusqu’à la victoire, avec tous les moyens que l’on possède comme l’ont fait les Patriotes de 1837-1838 (ceux que Notre sainte mère l’Église s’est empressée d’excommunier pour mieux se vendre aux intérêts britanniques).

Qu’aux quatre coins du Québec, ceux qu’on a osé traiter avec dédain de lousy French (14) et d’alcooliques entreprennent vigoureusement le combat contre les matraqueurs de la liberté et de la justice et mettent hors d’état de nuire tous ces professionnels du hold-up et de l’escroquerie : banquiers, businessmen, juges et politicailleurs (15) vendus !!!

Nous sommes des travailleurs québécois et nous irons jusqu’au bout. Nous voulons remplacer avec toute la population cette société d’esclaves par une société libre, fonctionnant d’elle-même et pour elle-même, une société ouverte sur le monde.

Notre lutte ne peut être que victorieuse. On ne tient pas longtemps dans la misère et le mépris un peuple en réveil.

Vive le Québec libre !
Vive les camarades prisonniers politiques !
Vive la révolution québécoise !
Vive le Front de libération du Québec !

In English:



Manifesto of the Front de libération du Québec
in Marcel Rioux, Quebec in Question, 1971

Translation from French by James Boake

The people in the Front de Liberation du Québec are neither Messiahs nor modern-day Robin Hoods. They are a group of Quebec workers who have decided to do everything they can to assure that the people of Quebec take their destiny into their own hands, once and for all.
The Front de Libération du Québec wants total independence for Quebeckers; it wants to see them united in a free society, a society purged for good of its gang of rapacious sharks, the big bosses who dish out patronage and their henchmen, who have turned Quebec into a private preserve of cheap labour and unscrupulous exploitation.

The Front de Libération du Québec is not an aggressive movement, but a response to the aggression organized by high finance through its puppets, the federal and provincial governments (the Brinks farce 1, Bill 63, the electoral map 2, the so-called "social progress" tax 3, the Power Corporation, medical insurance - for the doctors 4, the guys at Lapalme 5...)

The Front de Libération du Québec finances itself - through voluntary taxes 6 levied on the enterprises that exploit the workers (banks, finance companies, etc....).

The money powers of the status quo, the majority of the traditional tutors of our people, have obtained from the voters the reaction they hoped for, a step backwards rather than the changes we have worked for as never before, the changes we will continue to work for. -- René Lévesque, April 29, 1970 7
Once, we believed it worthwhile to channel our energy and our impatience, in the apt words of René Lévesque, into the Parti Québécois, but the Liberal victory shows that what is called democracy in Quebec has always been, and still is, nothing but the "democracy" of the rich. In this sense the victory of the Liberal party is in fact nothing but the victory of the Simard-Cotroni election-fixers 8. Consequently, we wash our hands of the British parliamentary system; the Front de Libération du Québec will never let itself be distracted by the electoral crumbs that the Anglo-Saxon capitalists toss into the Quebec barnyard every four years. Many Quebeckers have realized the truth and are ready to take action. In the coming year Bourassa is going to get what's coming to him: 100,000 revolutionary workers, armed and organized! 9

Yes, there are reasons for the Liberal victory. Yes, there are reasons for poverty, unemployment, slums, for the fact that you, Mr. Bergeron of Visitation Street, and you too, Mr. Legendre of Ville de Laval, who make F10,000 a year, do not feel free in our country, Quebec.

Yes, there are reasons, the guys who work for Lord know them, and so do the fishermen of Gaspesia, the workers on the North Shore; the miners who work for Iron Ore, for Québec Cartier Mining, for Noranda know these reasons too. The honest workingmen at Cabano 10, the guys they tried to screw still one more time, they know lots of reasons.

Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr. Tremblay of Panet Street and you, Mr. Cloutier who work in construction in St. Jérôme, can't afford Le Vaisseau d'or 11 with all the jazzy music and the sharp decor, like Drapeau the aristocrat, the guy who was so concerned about slums that he had coloured billboards stuck up in front of them so that the rich tourists couldn't see us in our misery 12.

Yes, Madame Lemay of St. Hyacinthe, there are reasons why you can't afford a little junket to Florida like the rotten judges and members of Parliament who travel on our money. The good workers at Vickers and at Davie Shipbuilding, the ones who were given no reason for being thrown out, know these reasons; so do the guys at Murdochville that were smashed only because they wanted to form a union, and whom the rotten judges forced to pay over two million dollars because they had wanted to exercise this elementary right 13. The guys of Murdochville are familiar with this justice; they know lots of reasons. Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr. Lachance of St. Marguerite Street, go drowning your despair, your bitterness, and your rage in Molson's horse piss. :D And you, the Lachance boy, with your marijuana cigarettes...

Yes, there are reasons why you, the welfare cases, are kept from generation to generation on public assistance. There are lots of reasons, the workers for Domtar at Windsor and East Angus know them; the workers for Squibb Ayers, for the Quebec Liquor Commission and for Seven-up and for Victoria Precision, and the blue collar workers of Laval and of Montreal and the guys at Lapalme know lots of reasons.

The workers at Dupont of Canada know some reasons too, even if they will soon be able to express them only in English (thus assimilated, they will swell the number of New Quebeckers, the immigrants who are the darlings of Bill 63).

These reasons ought to have been understood by the policemen of Montreal, the system's muscle; they ought to have realized that we live in a terrorized society, because without their force and their violence, everything fell apart on October 7 14.

We've had enough of a Canadian federalism which penalizes the dairy farmers of Quebec to satisfy the requirements of the Anglo-Saxons of the Commonwealth of Nations; which keeps the honest taxi drivers of Montreal in a state of semi-slavery by shamefully protecting the exclusive monopoly of the nauseating Murray Hill, and its owner - the murderer Charles Hershorn and his son Paul who, the night of October 7, repeatedly tore a .22 rifle out of the hands of his employees to fire on the taxi drivers and thereby mortally wounded Corporal Dumas, killed as a demonstrator. Canadian federalism pursues a reckless import policy, thereby throwing out of work the people who earn low wages in the textile and shoe industries, the most downtrodden people in Quebec 15, and all to line the pockets of a handful of filthy "money-makers" in Cadillacs. We are fed up with a federalism which classes the Quebec nation among the ethnic minorities of Canada 16.

We, and more and more Quebeckers too, have had it with a government of pussy-footers who perform a hundred and one tricks to charm the American millionaires, begging them to come and invest in Quebec, the Beautiful Province, where thousands of square miles of forests full of game and of lakes full of fish are the exclusive property of these all-powerful lords of the twentieth century. We are sick of a government in the hands of a hypocrite like Bourassa who depends on Brinks armoured trucks, an authentic symbol of the foreign occupation of Quebec, to keep the poor Quebec "natives" fearful of that poverty and unemployment to which we are so accustomed.

We are fed up with the taxes we pay that Ottawa's agent in Quebec would give to the English-speaking bosses as an "incentive" for them to speak French, to negotiate in French. Repeat after me: "Cheap labour is main d'oeuvre à bon marché in French."

We have had enough of promises of work and of prosperity, when in fact we will always be the diligent servants and bootlickers of the big shots, as long as there is a Westmount, a Town of Mount Royal, a Hampstead, an Outremont, all these veritable fortresses of the high finance of St. James Street and Wall Street; we will be slaves until Quebeckers, all of us, have used every means, including dynamite and guns, to drive out these big bosses of the economy and of politics, who will stoop to any action however low it may be, the better to screw us.

We live in a society of terrorized slaves, terrorized by the big bosses, Steinberg, Clark, Bronfman, Smith, Neopole, Timmins, Geoffrion, J.L. Lévesque, Hershorn, Thompson, Nesbitt, Desmarais, Kierans (next to these, Rémi Popol the Nightstick, Drapeau the Dog, Bourassa the Simards' Simple Simon and Trudeau the Pansy 17 are peanuts!).

We are terrorized by the Roman Capitalist Church, though it seems less and less so today (who owns the square where the Stock Exchange was built? 18); terrorized by the payments owing to Household Finance, by the advertising of the grand masters of consumption, Eaton's, Simpson's, Morgan's, Steinberg's, General Motors - terrorized by those exclusive clubs of science and culture, the universities, and by their boss-directors Gaudry and Dorais, and by the vice-boss Robert Shaw.

There are more and more of us who know and suffer under this terrorist society, and the day is coming when all the Westmounts of Quebec will disappear from the map.

Workers in industry, in mines and in the forests! Workers in the service industries, teachers, students and unemployed! Take what belongs to you, your jobs, your determination and your freedom. And you, the workers at General Electric, you make your factories run; you are the only ones able to produce; without you, General Electric is nothing!

Workers of Quebec, begin from this day forward to take back what is yours; take yourselves what belongs to you. Only you know your factories, your machines, your hotels, your universities, your unions; do not wait for some organization to produce a miracle.

Make your revolution yourselves in your neighbourhoods, in your places of work. If you don't do it yourselves, other usurpers, technocrats or someone else, will replace the handful of cigar-smokers we know today and everything will have to be done all over again. Only you are capable of building a free society.

We must struggle not individually but together, till victory is obtained, with every means at our disposal, like the Patriots of 1837-1838 (those whom Our Holy Mother Church hastened to excommunicate, the better to sell out to British interests).

In the four corners of Quebec, may those who have been disdainfully called lousy Frenchmen and alcoholics begin a vigorous battle against those who have muzzled liberty and justice; may they put out of commission all the professional holdup artists and swindlers: bankers, businessmen, judges and corrupt political wheeler-dealers....

We are Quebec workers and we are prepared to go all the way. With the help of the entire population, we want to replace this society of slaves by a free society, operating by itself and for itself, a society open on the world. Our struggle can only be victorious. A people that has awakened cannot long be kept in misery and contempt.

Long live Free Quebec!
Long live our comrades the political prisoners!
Long live the Quebec Revolution!
Long live the Front de Liberation du Quebec!



http://biblio.republiquelibre.org/Manifeste_du_Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

[Rumors]

Rumors, you' re a sad man... Really.

You came out from the shadows, this story is everywhere.... so whats the big deal. :rolleyes:

[Rico Rommheim]

Here is the manifesto, for those who are interested:

In French:



In English:



http://biblio.republiquelibre.org/Manifeste_du_Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

Just read it now for the first time. What a pathetic excuse for separation. Basically, "the world sucks, It must be the fault of english speaking people so lets go nuts and build a nation!" Oops that doesn't work? let's kill people and hide in Cuba!!!!

Somehow I doubt the young people of today who are going to blindly cheer at Roch merville's reading of the manifesto would even get along, never mind understand the authors and their ideologies if they had met them.

[urbino]

Calmez vous les anglos.

[mr.John]

Calmez vous les anglos.
I agree 100 per cent, maybe take a nice relaxing bus ride...oh oh oh wait a second that might not be such a great idea


STM bus driver refuses to speak English, calls police
Passengers kicked off bus after man asks driver for time – in English

By Jason Magder, The GazetteSeptember 9, 2009Comments (570)
StoryPhotos ( 1 )

Passengers board the No. 66 bus on Walkley Ave., near Côte St. Luc Rd., in Montreal on Sept. 4, 2009.Photograph by: Robert J. Galbraith, The GazetteMONTREAL – At least now he knows how to say "Quelle heure est-il?"

Muhammad Ahmad Munir, a master's student from Pakistan studying at McGill University, was kicked off the No. 66 bus at 6:45 Friday morning after he asked the driver what the time was in English.

"I got on the bus and I didn't have a watch, so I asked the driver for the time," he said. "She started talking in French and I didn't understand what she was saying."

The 32-year-old native of Islamabad came to Montreal a few months ago to enroll in a master's degree program in Islamic studies at McGill.

After twice telling the bus driver he didn't understand French, she responded in English, saying: "I don't speak English."

"I then told her that she just showed me that she does speak English, and that's when she really got angry."

Munir said when he insisted on being served in English, the bus driver pressed a button to phone police, and proceeded to tell all the passengers to get off the bus. The bus was stopped at the terminus on Côte St. Luc Rd. at the corner of Walkley Ave. There were about 20 people on board the bus, Munir said.

Constable Yannick Ouimet confirmed the Montreal police received a call from the driver about a passenger who was being aggressive.

Reached Friday afternoon, Société de transport de Montréal spokesperson Isabelle Tremblay said the incident is under investigation.

Notre Dame de Grâce resident Linda Whitehall, who was waiting to get on the bus, said the driver must have phoned her colleague on the next bus because when it came, its driver would not open the doors for anyone waiting at the stop. Whitehall, who works at the Montreal General Hospital, was late as a result of the incident, and was forced to take an alternate bus.

"I was so embarrassed," Whitehall said. "This is the first time I have ever been embarrassed to be a Quebecer. Everyone was outraged over this."

Munir said he was upset about the incident, but it hasn't turned him off Montreal.

"I know for the most part, people are not like this," he said. "I haven't had a problem with anyone else since coming here."

Munir said coming from Pakistan, he understands the need to preserve the French language.

"In Quebec, they really have saved the culture very well," he said. "In Pakistan, we have lost our Urdu language, so on this point, I can appreciate the insistence on language, but there should be more tolerance for others."

Munir, who speaks Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic, and English, said he has tried to speak French, but so far can only manage a few words.

"I can say 'bonjour,' and I even said 'bonjour' to her, but I can't put together a complete sentence," he said.

jmagder@thegazette.canwest.com

God knows what would've happened if the poor dude asked for directions?

[le calmar]

Ouch... I know it's the Gazette, so the journalist is probably biased as always. I can't see why the bus driver would do such a thing, she could be fired for doing that for no reason... I don't like most of the bus drivers, but that guy from McGill was probably a total asshole, and he was the only one interviewed along with another angry passenger. I'd like to know the full version. When I see the story somewhere else I can change by mind, but we're used to this kind of propaganda by the Gazette.

[Darth_Master]

Just read it now for the first time. What a pathetic excuse for separation. Basically, "the world sucks, It must be the fault of english speaking people so lets go nuts and build a nation!" Oops that doesn't work? let's kill people and hide in Cuba!!!!

Somehow I doubt the young people of today who are going to blindly cheer at Roch merville's reading of the manifesto would even get along, never mind understand the authors and their ideologies if they had met them.


You're simply a brainless colonialist Quebec-basher who actually wants the disappearance of the French culture in North America.

[habfanman]

Oh oh! We've opened the floodgates now!

10 guys protest in front of Calgary city hall = never hear a word about it, even in Calgary.

10 guys protest in front of Montréal city hall = INCIDENT OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. ALERT ALL MEDIA OUTLETS IMMEDIATELY!!

Spoken word event held in Halifax, Malcolm X and Osama Bin Laden quoted = who cares?

Spoken word event held in Québec City, FLQ manifesto read from (as well as Oh Canada, Mordecai Richler and 150 others) = NATIONAL OUTRAGE!! ALL MEDIA OUTLETS RESPOND. REDNECKS REPORT TO YOUR KEYBOARDS!!

People kicked off bus in Toronto because a passenger set fire to it = limited local coverage

People kicked off bus in Montréal because of spat between smart-ass idiot passenger and bitchy driver = MAJOR LANGUAGE ISSUE!! ALL MEDIA VACATIONS CANCELLED - POST ON ALL OUTLETS AS PROOF OF INTOLERANCE IN QUÉBEC!!

Nothing better than manufactured outrage over insignificant events- bitter people have to eat too!

[Rico Rommheim]

^Very good point Habsfanman!


Oh oh! We've opened the floodgates now!

Don't seem to bother you, you've now completely become assimilated into the SSP Canada section. welcome. :cool:

[jmt18325]

Nothing better than manufactured outrage over insignificant events- bitter people have to eat too!

Agreed.

[habfanman]

Ouch... I know it's the Gazette, so the journalist is probably biased as always. I can't see why the bus driver would do such a thing, she could be fired for doing that for no reason... I don't like most of the bus drivers, but that guy from McGill was probably a total asshole, and he was the only one interviewed along with another angry passenger. I'd like to know the full version. When I see the story somewhere else I can change by mind, but we're used to this kind of propaganda by the Gazette.

If a person tells you that they don't understand you- for whatever reason- yet you continue to speak to them in the same language then.. you're being an idiot. When you use their response of "I don't speak english" as proof that they do in fact speak english.. then you're being a complete fucking asshole and deserve to be kicked off the bus.. while it's moving!

The Gazette sucks, it's written for West Island Angryphones and is pretty much irrelevant to anyone else.

[Acajack]

Somehow I doubt the young people of today who are going to blindly cheer at Roch merville's reading of the manifesto would even get along, never mind understand the authors and their ideologies if they had met them.

Not sure that that many people, even among sovereignists, would blindly cheer the FLQ manifesto.

Among separatists, the FLQ episode is generally viewed as a shameful black mark on their movement that actually takes away from its credibility and is part of why it hasn't achieved its objective.

[Rumors]

I watched it for about forty five minutes, found it pretty boring myself...the place is empty. :rolleyes: