Green Delusions

"Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition, from petitioners in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and particularly in the Ottawa area, calling on the Government of Canada to conduct a parliamentary review into the events that occurred in the United States on September 11."
"As I understand the rules, I had to. It is a duty of an MP to present petitions and does not connote support."
"[The Green Party] believes that no citizen should be denied the right to make their voice heard in Parliament."
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May

Moment of Impact    Photograph by Spencer Platt, Getty Images

"...Your petitioners pray for the Government of Canada to conduct a parliamentary review of the omissions and inconsistencies in the official United States of America 9/11 Commission Report."
"[This will protect Canada from] future acts of state-sponsored terrorism."
ReThink911 Canada

"We have the funny situation of this person [Elizabeth May] who fights for climate change and believes in science ... who here is totally missing the point."
"She's arguing on behalf of an anti-science lobby, which seems to me to be incredibly ironic."
Dr. William Bowie, professor of infectious disease medicine, University of British Columbia

Cranky intelligence-tenuous conspiracy theorists have found a champion in Parliament. Most of the world comprised of sane, rational individuals have weighed the evidence and have evaluated the self-promoting statements of al-Qaeda elite, including the late-unlamented Osama bin Laden, proud to claim responsibility for the monumental atrocity of 9/11, but the delusional and the outliers believe a conspiracy between the U.S. government and Israel planned and executed those attacks.

And Elizabeth May, the champion of an responsible, hidden underclass of environmentalists and truthers, feels as herself a responsible politically-driven champion of truth and public good, that it is incumbent upon her as a lawmaker to give them their day in Parliament. And that the Government of Canada should at the very least strike an investigative committee to look into the guilt of the United States in destroying its own monumental edifices like the financial district's World Trade Towers, the Pentagon and the White House.

By committing those profoundly human-destructive acts of terrorism on an unimagined scale, they would be enabled to blame Islamists and promote Islamophobia, and mount military adventures in the Middle East to slaughter Muslims in their war against Islam. A simple-minded, albeit convoluted claim beloved of simple-minded and conspiracy-struck lunatics. Whose very absurdity seems to make sense to their warped mindsets, spurring them on to persuade the sane to join their ranks.

And to compound the illusion that she is the champion of the common folk who cannot think straight, who defy logic and reality and science, she presented along with the 9/11 petition in the House of Commons, a Green Party bill on Lyme disease. Leading a panel of disease specialists representing the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada to appear before a Senate committee questioning that Green party bill on Lyme disease.

That bill put forth the suggestion that Canadian doctors and nurses refuse to diagnose properly Lyme disease and in so doing are "abandoning sick people with a treatable illness". Yet another absurd movement, this one equating chronic fatigue symptoms with an unproven version of Lyme disease fallout has come forward to plead their case that Canadian health professionals are scientifically illiterate and fail in their professional expertise to practise responsible public medicine.

As it happens, Canadian parliamentary rules do not urge Members of Parliament to place fringe petitions front and centre before the House of Commons for consideration, when approached to do so by constituents. "Nevertheless, it is evident that many Members consider it a duty to present to the House petitions brought forward by citizens", states the reviewed content. Obviously for reasons blessedly obscure, Elizabeth May responded to that social compulsion.

That particular 9/11 petition had formerly been rejected by an NDP Member of Parliament, one who often does take up questionable petitions and for the very same reason cited by Elizabeth May. He, however, felt that one a tad too far even for his well-balanced taste in moderation. But which obviously found sympathy with the Green party of Canada.

The lunatic fringe is now sharing space with a Canadian political party of questionable intellectual repute.