As I said yesterday, the hate and racism published on an ongoing basis on Vigile.net is not representative of Quebeckers- Anglophones, Francophones, federalists or sovereignists.

Once the issue came to light, many sovereignists who were largely unaware of the situation withdrew their support rather quickly.

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Cette image apparaît sur le site Québec de demain, cité ci-dessous comme "one of my favourite francophone bloggers" par "Nodogsanglophones". Alors, on a tous compris que cette image n'a pas été insérée par Nodogsanglophones... mais nous avons aussi compris qu'elle en dit long sur son favourite francophone bloggers Alors trève de braillage.
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Here is what one of my favourite francophone bloggers had to say;

"As a sovereignist, I cannot morally, support a site that publishes, such antisemitism! Coudonc, Is there no moderator who reads the texts, before putting them online,...??" Le Québec de demain

Unfortunately there is a moderator and he is one of them...

While people like myself and others in the blogosphere have been sounding the alarm for quite some time, it was in fact an article in a mainstream Montreal French newspaper, La Presse, which really set off alarms.
In spite of the fact that some PQ members have contributed to the financing of Vigile.net, in light of events, the party moved quickly to disassociate itself from the website:

"MP Agnes Maltais and the Parti Quebecois dissociate themselves from the anti-Semitic remarks found in some texts submitted to the site Vigile.net. Since its founding, the Parti Quebecois has always opposed all forms of discrimination against any community whatsoever and will continue on this path." PQ Website

Bernard Drainville of the PQ , a previous donor, also tweeted his disapproval.

Other PQ members are keeping discreetly quiet, a bit like the Pittsburgh Penguin team-mates of Matt Cooke, who delivered another unacceptable head-shot in a NHL game on Saturday. It's hard to condemn your own.

When scandal hits, it's often prudent to follow a policy of discreet silence and let the clamour die down or fade. That's what good publicists and crisis management consultants advise. Sometimes, the hardest thing you can do to defend yourself is nothing. That's why defence attorneys always tell their clients to shut up. Remember the recent scandal at the English Montreal School Board over wasting money by paying for its employees to attend a conference in Hawaii. They promised to address the issue after the school break, but we haven't heard from them since.

Does anyone care? We live in a short attention span universe.

FLQ terrorist Rhéal Mathieu

But silence is not the 'la vrai nature' of Bernard Frappier whose website struck back with a vengeance against those who had the impertinence to denounce its excesses.

The website published, a further onslaught of anti-Jewish articles and offered readers a series of ad hominum attacks, against all those deemed as enemies.

On Sunday, FLQ terrorist Rhéal Mathieu published his views on Vigile.net regarding past foibles of certain members of the Canada-Israel Committee, including Luciano Del Negro, who he accuses of certain youthful indiscretions. LINKFR

Who is Rhéal Mathieu?

"In 1967, Rhéal Mathieu pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to nine years in prison for his part in an FLQ bombing that claimed two lives. He served his sentence and obtained a pardon for that crime, but he never shed what a Crown prosecutor later called an “obsession” with the intertwined issues of Quebec independence and the French language. In 2001, he was convicted of attempting to firebomb three Second Cup cafés in Montreal to protest the chain’s English name." National Post

Oh the the hypocrisy!

An unrepentant terrorist lecturing others on their past! Only on Vigile.net!!!!
Read my blog post about this odious character- Terrorist Inspires RRQ Intimidation Campaign

Journalist Joseph Facal of the Journal de Montreal was also given the Vigile.net treatment after writing to Bernard Frappier asking him to remove articles written by himself, published and archived on the website without his permission.

"Last Friday, I was advised that this site housed a large number of supposedly hateful texts towards certain minorities, including Jews. As always in such cases, I proceeded with caution and I decided to check myself.....

.......My initial discomfort was quickly transformed into deep trouble. When I checked, there were indeed many texts containing the most odious stereotypes about Jews.... Friday I sent a two line email to the webmaster, Bernard Frappier, asking, very politely, to remove all items bearing my signature. In my email, I refrain from any condemnation of those who leave their texts on this site. They can do what they want. What does the good Mr. Frappier do? He published my email on his site, knowing full well the reaction it would engender. Having been copiously insulted in my life, I have acquired a tough outer shell of reinforced titanium! The insults and innuendo are nevertheless very revealing of the mindset of those uttering them. Obviously, to them, I'm "yellow," "manipulated," "intimidated," lacking "guts," an agent of the great Zionist conspiracy and so on. It never occurred to them to realize, that with full knowledge of the facts, I didn't want to be associated with anyone who thinks, writes, encourages, condones or tolerates such remarks. Freedom of expression is not total. My point is simply that many of these texts are beyond the bounds of moral acceptability.. Read the whole article in French.

Even after the exchange of emails vigile.net continued to publish Mr. Facal's articles and in response one of the principles in the antisemitic affair, Robert Barberis-Gervais, decided to give Mr. Facal the royal treatment.

"And now the scab of the Journal de Montreal, which one of my friends nicknamed "Jackal", sailed into the anti-Vigil fray. The sovereignist side of Vigil bothers these pseudo independentists like Francois Legault and the 'Jackal.' Now they are sending a message to Bernard Frappier and everyone at Vigil in favour of censorship and self-censorship. In addition to trying to discredit a site, its webmaster and its authors they are calling them antisemitic. For the Parti Quebecois who is considering whether to continue funding Vigile (by the way, if Bernard Drainville doesn't sends his $500 to Vigil next year,, I will no longer send my $400 to the PQ, I'll send it to Vigile). That's what we did with Yves Michaud. It's the same "pattern", the same effective approach.

This demonstrates the power of the Jewish lobby." LINKFR

Once again the sad obsession with Jews manifests itself in that last line.
And so we are to believe that the "Jackal' (a play on the name "Facal) gave in to pressure brought forth by the 'Jewish Lobby'......how embarrassingly sad!

If you read French click on the link and read the utter depravity of a mind twisted by hate.

I'm sure Mr. Facal is rolling his eyes in utter astonishment at his characterization.

I for one hope this goes on for quite a while, the more the merrier. Every new attack on Jews and on those offering condemnation ostracizes Vigile.net even more.

Another month of this and only the nut-bars will remain!

If any one line will send a chill down the backs of mainstream sovereignists, it is this one offered by the writer above.

"..... I have news for you. Vigile.net website is on the vanguard of the values​​, principles and ideas promoted by the Quebec sovereignty movement"

If so, Heaven help us all!!

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of your quotes refers to Bernard Drainville's annual donation to Vigile.net as being "his $500".

This should read "our $500". It came from riding funds. Generous fellow that M. Drainville. With other people's money.

March 22, 2011 12:24 AM

Mississauga Guy said...

The separatists abandon vigile when it suits them and, like boomerangs, come right back when the heat is off.

While many francophones don't support vigile, they do support their acrimonious and evil spirited language laws that call for the elimination of English. Only the Constitution calls for marginal protection of English. French can predominate on signs with 10cm letters, so why can't English or Chinese letters be 9cm. French will still predominate.

After the way Bill 104 was answered to by the PLQ, I consider that party to be as evil in their fight against English as any separatist government.

Quebec's language laws are bit by bit turning Quebec into an evil xenophobic empire, and this is why we need a federal party to combat their barbaric response to Bill 104. As if allowing one single child who should have been protected under Bill 101's own provisions in Sections 81 and 85.1 to allow him to go to English school, his family had to break up so this challenged child could get the English schooling he needs in the State of Delaware.

Maybe there were no guns or bullets à la Mommar Kadafi, but these laws were and are used as a weapon against an enemy whose only crime is French is not their mother tongue. What Jean Charest did was barbaric and nothing less, genteel on the surface, but with a pretty barbaric undertone nonetheless. This makes Quebec a pretty vile place if you're not of the majority's ilk!

March 22, 2011 12:38 AM