Juno News - October 12, 2018


Cambridge University students spit on veterans' graves with scrapped Remembrance Day motion

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Andrew Lutton
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Remembrance
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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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00:00:00.520 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,
00:00:07.520 the tens of thousands of Canadians who fought and died while serving their country,
00:00:12.240 over a million from across the British Empire and World War I alone.
00:00:16.100 And this particular Remembrance Day is an important one, 100 years since the armistice that ended World War I,
00:00:22.180 though we used the day to honour the war dead from World War I, World War II, Korea, the Afghanistan conflict,
00:00:28.320 all of these situations where men and now women have fought for their country,
00:00:33.820 to have the freedoms preserved that we enjoy today.
00:00:36.760 It's not about celebrating war, although that comes as a shock to the people at Cambridge University,
00:00:42.040 who this week voted against a motion that would encourage students to wear poppies and commemorate the war dead.
00:00:50.800 They voted against it because they said it was imperialistic and jingoistic propaganda.
00:00:55.820 That's what they believe Remembrance Day is.
00:00:58.320 Something that used to be unifying across party line, across political values, across religion,
00:01:03.920 just a shared celebration of the sacrifices that, while sad and solemn,
00:01:09.440 helped build the country and the civilisation in the West that we have today.
00:01:13.920 But no, not for demilitarised Cambridge, which ran this campaign and ultimately succeeded
00:01:18.980 to basically purge Remembrance Day from campuses.
00:01:22.440 Now, this is in the United Kingdom, the same country that was the birthplace of the White Poppy campaign, 0.88
00:01:28.040 which, while presenting itself as being pacifist, was very much and is very much anti-veteran.
00:01:34.120 Remember, being against war is not what's at stake here.
00:01:38.520 Everyone's against war.
00:01:39.720 Everyone's celebrating and commemorating Remembrance is against war.
00:01:43.720 It's about honouring sacrifice.
00:01:45.800 Honouring the most noble thing one can do for their country at a time in history,
00:01:50.720 and at many times in history, when war was the only option.
00:01:54.720 The people who stood up and said,
00:01:57.520 I'm going to fight for my country, instead of allowing my country to be taken over by another. 0.96
00:02:02.320 No one likes war.
00:02:03.760 No one's happy about war. 1.00
00:02:05.200 But that's what these absolute moron leftists fail to understand. 0.99
00:02:09.520 They think that their own political agenda and ideology, and their freedom to express that, 1.00
00:02:14.720 comes about organically.
00:02:16.920 That no one had to fight for that freedom.
00:02:18.920 And the fact that they would spit on these veterans' graves,
00:02:22.120 which is what they do when they call Remembrance imperialistic propaganda is despicable.
00:02:27.920 And these institutes of so-called higher learning are at the forefront of this.
00:02:32.520 For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.