February 10, 2004
A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION? OVER MY DEAD BODY!
Colby Cosh alerts us to the latest Helen Caldicott madness:
"We want to organize a bloodless, Gandhi-type revolution." So says Dr. Helen Caldicott, the Australian anti-nuclear scold who is the subject of a new documentary financed by CBC Newsworld. It's called Helen's War: Portrait of a Dissident. "Dissident" is certainly a charming word to describe a pediatrician who has had an international media industry devoted to following her as she pursues her hobby: Solzhenitsyn should have been so lucky!
A Colby reader points out that "the documentary is directed (and its title chosen) by Caldicott's niece, Anna Broinowski." Yep; she's the daughter of stumpheaded diplomatic toxin Alison Broinowski. Some family.
Posted by Tim Blair at February 10, 2004 12:09 AM"stumpheaded diplomatic toxin Alison Broinowski"
must be related to Sheila Broflovski
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at February 10, 2004 at 01:24 AM
I had the misfortune of seeing Dr. Caldicott speak in the States almost two decades ago. It was an evangelical rally for a lily-white group of well-off leftist twits. It featured her fire and brimstone view of nuclear war, her willingness to forgive every Soviet crime, and her "my way or the road to Hell" rhetoric. Of course all her forecasts, such as the world coming to an end from an inevitable nuclear war due to Reagan's re-election and so forth were incorrect.
Caldicott was and is a Marxist who latched onto upper middle class liberals' fear of nuclear war to try to force her socialist agenda down folks' throats. Once her beloved USSR collapsed, she latched onto upper middle class liberals' fear of global warming to try to force her socialist agenda down folks' throats. For her next trick she'll latch onto upper middle class liberals' fear of cheap third world cappucino to try to force her socialist agenda down folks' throats.
Posted by: jeff at February 10, 2004 at 01:58 AMI can't wait for the day everyone else on earth becomes a pacifist... then I, with a club I shall fashion out of an animal's bone, shall rule the world.
Posted by: Sortelli at February 10, 2004 at 02:19 AMPeople like LaCaldecott always put me in mind of a little verse by Hilaire Belloc:
Pale Eben Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
Just what do Helen and Co. propose to do about the Roaring Bills of the world? Love them to stupefaction?
Here is another gift to humanity from Caldecott. http://www.accesstoenergy.com/view/ate/s41p1357.htm
Posted by: K'tar Deaz at February 10, 2004 at 03:52 AMOpps. Sorry, I got my liberal nuts confused. Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson.
Posted by: K'tar Deaz at February 10, 2004 at 03:55 AMOf course, Ghandi's revolution wasn't bloodless at all. Thousands died. His methods worked -- against the British, whose ruthlessness only went so far. Such tactics won't work against tyrants such as Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, the madman in North Korea, etc. If she wants to be an actual dissident, she ought to move to China, or Iran, or Pakistan and demand that they give either the attempts to acquire nukes (Iran and North Korea) or give up the nukes they have.
Dissident! Heh.
Posted by: saltydog at February 10, 2004 at 05:33 AMSo are Alison and Helen sisters, or sisters-in-law?
Posted by: Dylan at February 10, 2004 at 08:59 AMWouldn't afternoon tea at the Caldicott-Broinowskis be a lark.
Posted by: ilibcc at February 10, 2004 at 09:26 AMUnless you immediately publish a withdrawal of the offensive, insulting, and defamatory remark about me and my family(published above), I will take legal action.
Posted by: Alison Broinowski at February 13, 2004 at 09:12 AM