RECENT CIVILIAN SLAUGHTER IN AFGHANISTAN

You may or may not have heard about the recent slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan by US bombers. (We gotta be so proud to be fighting alongside our ally USA in this war). That's right 90 Afghani civilians, among them 60 children died in an this recent attack. So instead of telling you how we feel about this (it's obvious) we thought it's a good idea to give you a rundown on the recent civilian deaths caused by coalition bombings:

March 12, 2008: British confirm their air strike kills four women and children

March13, 2008: American bombing kills four women and children

June 11, 2008: at least 30 civilians killed by US air strike

July 4, 2008: 23 civilians killed by US air strike

July 6, 2008: 47 civilians killed by air strike at wedding.

July 14, 2008: 30 civilians killed in air strike

July 15, 2008: 8 civilians killed in houses bombed by US air force

July 17, 2008: 31 civilians killed by air strikes

July 20, 2008: 9 police killed in air strike

August 10, 2008: 8 civilians killed in air strike

August 25, 2008: 90 civilians, sixty of them children, die in a U.S. air raid

August 29, 2008: 3 civilians killed at Afghan checkpoint by German troops

CANADIAN FAKETIVISM

"Vancouver young radicals were at it again last night, attacking the olympic clock with white paint and a few minutes later getting arrested and charged with mischief under 5000 by the cops on Robson St. Meanwhile the Afghan war, our most embarrassing tax endeavor goes unchallenged.

I want to ask these brave young guerillas what is more disgusting? Our mercenaries killing Afghani civilians thousands of miles away in another country? or an Olympic that was approved by our democratically elected representatives at different levels of government?

Are you doing these to feel good about being radical? or your white paint is covering up the fact that you have nothing to say about our military involvement and ongoing war crimes in Afghanistan? This kind of public disorder not only won't stop the olympic but invites more clamp down on our privacy and freedom in the years to come.

You kids should just give up the activism carnival and go grab a beer or roll up a joint somewhere and, just like most kids your age, please don't give a damn about the Olympics. I prefer genuine apathy to faketivism of otherwise apathetic kids. While real apathy creates a real void that sooner or later has to be filled with a new kind of social action, by pretending to be politically active faketivists only delay the arrival of a real genuine social movement.