Juno News - October 12, 2018Cambridge University students spit on veterans' graves with scrapped Remembrance Day motion
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Summary
Remembrance Day is a day to honour the war dead, and to remember the sacrifices made by those who fought and died for their country. But not everyone wants to wear poppies and remember those who died in WWI and World War II. In fact, the Cambridge University voted against a motion this week, calling it "imperialist propaganda."
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Remembrance Day is in just a few weeks, the one day of the year that we set aside a very modest proposition to honour the war dead,
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the tens of thousands of Canadians who fought and died while serving their country,
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over a million from across the British Empire and World War I alone.
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And this particular Remembrance Day is an important one, 100 years since the armistice that ended World War I,
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though we used the day to honour the war dead from World War I, World War II, Korea, the Afghanistan conflict,
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all of these situations where men and now women have fought for their country,
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to have the freedoms preserved that we enjoy today.
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It's not about celebrating war, although that comes as a shock to the people at Cambridge University,
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who this week voted against a motion that would encourage students to wear poppies and commemorate the war dead.
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They voted against it because they said it was imperialistic and jingoistic propaganda.
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Something that used to be unifying across party line, across political values, across religion,
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just a shared celebration of the sacrifices that, while sad and solemn,
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helped build the country and the civilisation in the West that we have today.
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But no, not for demilitarised Cambridge, which ran this campaign and ultimately succeeded
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to basically purge Remembrance Day from campuses.
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Now, this is in the United Kingdom, the same country that was the birthplace of the White Poppy campaign,
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which, while presenting itself as being pacifist, was very much and is very much anti-veteran.
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Remember, being against war is not what's at stake here.
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Everyone's celebrating and commemorating Remembrance is against war.
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Honouring the most noble thing one can do for their country at a time in history,
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and at many times in history, when war was the only option.
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I'm going to fight for my country, instead of allowing my country to be taken over by another.
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But that's what these absolute moron leftists fail to understand.
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They think that their own political agenda and ideology, and their freedom to express that,
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And the fact that they would spit on these veterans' graves,
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which is what they do when they call Remembrance imperialistic propaganda is despicable.
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And these institutes of so-called higher learning are at the forefront of this.
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For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.