Re: Right of Nations to Self-Determination

[Jim Jaszewski <jjazz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Chris Burford wrote:

> I presume from your address you are from Canada. It is interesting that
> you and Paul, from Scotland, are both from nations who are not primarily <-
> oppressor nations, and are oppressed; yet you lean towards playing
> down the usefulness of nationalism.

        I hope you're not falling for the Canadian Government Party Line
here... It's worked long and hard to build an international reputation
built on ignorance and lies -- you know, Mounties and totempoles and Human
Rights -- much like Yank and Brit propaganda about `democracy' and the
`moral high-ground'.

        The truth of Canada is the Oka Crisis, the reservation
bantustands, the potentially ugly Canada/Que'bec/First Nations Question --
and don't forget that Canada was the main supplier of `materiel' to the
U.S. in the Vietnam War, and probably the favorite destination (next to
Paraguay) of Nazi war criminals (the Mounties/CSIS have been protecting
their buddies all these years...) `We've' profited handsomely from being
handmaiden to imperialism, and it's only hypocrisy that allows the
canadian bourgeoisie to wash its hands of more concrete repression.
Scotland (and Eire), I gather, are in a similar boat...


> Coming from an oppressor nation, I want to lean towards
> emphasising respect for the right of oppressed nations to determination.

        Don't support KKKanada then: support the First Nations (they'll be
going more and more often to the U.N. to detail Canadian Government
perfidy...)

        I myself support Eirish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and Devon
independence!!  |>



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