BIRDS OF A FEATHER - PART 30: THE GREENS AND THE JIHADIS

NATIONAL POST (CANADA):

A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful."

The editorial, entitled, A Revolting Confession, was first published on Nov. 28, 2002 in an alternative newspaper, The Republic of East Vancouver, which Kevin Potvin founded.

"When I saw the first tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, 'Yeah!' When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, 'Beautiful!' When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air," Mr. Potvin wrote in the editorial.

ECO-NUTSIES AND ISLAMO-NAZIS: BIRDS OF A FEATHER. AND IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE: THEY BOTH HATE MODERNITY AND INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION AND PERSONAL LIBERTY.

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