Ignorant Americans

For the record, I don't know any Americans who are this ignorant. I know a lot of Americans. I actually like many Americans, too (a rare thing for many ignorant Canadians...). I found this clip, and couldn't watch the whole thing; my disgust and anger nearly made me queasy.

I was finally fed up when the longish-haired fellow started to mock our RCMP (national police) as being in practice the image have of the Mounties; wearing the red surge, riding a horse. Below, you’ll find two images of police in a raid. One is the RCMP and the other is the FBI. Which is which?

Right.

But, let’s think for a moment about what it would mean if his mocking was grounded in fact. According to him: the police in the US wears bulletproof vests, the RCMP wears the red surge; the police in the US ride armoured cars, and the RCMP rides horses. What has he established? – that the US needs its police to do these things. I doubt highly that anyone would wear a bulletproof vest if it wasn’t necessary. So, if this loser is correct, he’s told the world that the United States is a very violent place, and especially for its police. Great. Yep. Nice work, you moron.

This group of people has a demonstrable lack of education, or a profoundly short memory, or an insufferably arrogant attitude, or a combination of all three. Canada took over in Afghanistan when the United States decided to wander over to Iraq and leave the people in this suddenly defenseless country without a hope or a gun to keep the ousted Taliban from returning. None of the other NATO powers felt much call to, but the Canadians did. In cleaning up the mess that the US left (and I have supported much of their activities in the Middle East), we have said goodbye to 117 of our soldiers.
And back further, you discover the impact Canada has had on the world in its military efforts. Where the United States armed forces are feared, the Canadian armed forces are respected. This fact has been lost on this group of four morons.

The blonde’s comment about having to give Canadians some credit because, “it’s frigid up there,” nearly made my head spin about on my shoulders…

But I shouldn’t be so hard on them. Really, they have a tough gig. They’re on a show no one’s ever heard of until now, and are struggling to make it in a business that respects either good looks, good insight, or controversy; and they’re woefully unarmed in that contest. Left without the first two, they’ll fall back to the third with a blissfully arrogant smile on their lazy faces, and condemn things they do not understand about places they don’t care to visit, concerning people they do not know, using the mocking tone of the fool who believes his dungheap is the best because it is simply piled highest.

Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame; I certainly won’t pay you one more moment of concern than it takes to hit, “publish post.”