This comes from the same people that gave Arafat the Nobel Peace prize.......

They are idgits. Dutch.

Erik D,

Actually the Nobel Prize was a bribe to a courageous African woman to keep her from talking about Imperialism. By speaking out, Waangari Maathai has demonstrated her courage and foiled a plot by racist Scandinavians to silence her voice of truth.

Just goes to show that there are prize idiots on the Nobel Committee!

Our new Canadian $50 bill has the pictures of 5 famous Canadian women on it. They're being honoured for their contribution to women's rights, etc.



However, there is some controversy as it's been pointed out that most of them held pretty extreme views ie. were anti-semites, racist and 2 of them were the driving force behind the Sterilization Act, which caused something like 4200 handicapped people to be forcibly sterilized between the 20's and the 70's. (Wasn't Hitler into eugenics, too??)



Of course, the left wingers dismiss the controversy by claiming that the women's views were simply "a reflection of the times". Kinda like all the feminists giving Bill Clinton a pass for his "indiscretions" when a more right-leaning President would have been vilified for sexual harassment!



http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n1251/a04.html



NEW $50 SLAMMED AS RACIST



Canada's $50 bill will soon be replaced by images that have been attacked as racist and elitist, depicting portraits of the Famous 5 ( Judge Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby and the Montreal-born Henrietta Muir Edwards ).



Starting next month, the women's rights activists from Alberta will appear on the bill alongside Quebecoise activist Therese Casgrain. While the five won major gains in the legal status of women in Canada, they were also hostile to Asian immigrants and supported the sterilization of the less-bright among us. Calgary Sun columnist Michael Platt describes them as "white supremacists," pointing out that "Judge Murphy, in her 1922 book on drug abuse, The Black Candle, claimed narcotics are a conspiracy by blacks and Asians to bring about the degeneration of the white race."



But Frances Wright, whose Famous 5 Foundation lobbied for the bill, thinks differently. "The good things the Famous 5 did greatly outweigh any mistakes that they might've made," she says, explaining that The Black Candle was written after Wright consulted 500 "police chiefs, judges and politicians in the British Empire about the growth of drugs in the world. We believe they are the pre-eminent democratic champions of Canada, because they're largely responsible for Canadian women's right to vote and run for office."



Says Fo Niemi of local anti-racist Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, "We can celebrate what these women did but we still have to acknowledge their racist past, which is a reflection of their times." < !--color-->