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Am I the only one who's fucking scared by the Support Our Troops rally with all the neatly printed signs and Harper coming out and shit?  And how HOC staff are supposed to be non-partisan but Peter what's-his-face-lord-of-the-commons allowed them to wear red ribbons because support-our-troops is a non-partisan agenda, not at all a conservative demagogic device meant to silence war critics, right?

At this point I think that Layton is mostly a rotten liberal, when not actively conservative (see gun crime moves during the election; see Layton to support raising the age of consent; see almost complete abdication on the childcare issue, something that they had the Liberals on board to fight with), but his now loud opposition opposition to the Afghan War makes me feel warm inside.