http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/3/101702
Thursday, April 3, 2003
Canadians Tell U.S. Kids, 'America Sucks'
A busload of American "PeeWee" hockey players got a taste of the rabid
anti-Americanism that is festering in Canada: They were hooted at, our
National Anthem was booed, and people in the street gave them the finger or
displayed other rude gestures.
The Massachusetts kids were in Montreal for a PeeWee tournament when
residents of this French-speaking city treated them the way one would expect
an enemy to be treated: with scorn and hostility.
According to the Toronto Globe & Mail, the 11- and 12-year-old boys from
Brockton had been looking forward to the hockey tournament in Montreal. But
parents who accompanied them said they were unprepared for the depth of
anti-American hatred over the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
During their four-day visit, the young Americans were horrified to see the
Stars and Stripes burned and hear the National Anthem booed. When traveling
in their bus emblazoned with a red, white and blue "Coach USA" logo, they
saw people on the street make angry gestures at them.
Even worse, while playing hockey their Canadian opponents told their
American guests that "the U.S. sucks" and shouted other anti-American
insults, the boys recalled.
"It was a shock to go to a tournament and have kids saying this to us. These
are our friends that are doing this," Brockton Boxers coach Ernest Nadeau
told the Globe & Mail. "We didn't expect Canadian players - especially young
boys - would take things to that extreme."
Why Spend Your Money in Quebec?
One parent, Bill Carpenter, was so upset he canceled his family's vacation
to Quebec this summer. "We were very offended by the whole thing,"
Carpenter, who accompanied two sons on the trip, told the newspaper.
"I understand the opposition to the war. But we were made to feel unwelcome
just about anywhere we went. Montreal is a five-and-a-half-hour drive for
us. It's not like we were traveling to Syria or France or Germany," he said.
"As Americans, we felt in the past that Canada was our closest ally and
friend. No one told us we were heading into unfriendly territory."
According to the Globe & Mail, the trip took a turn for the worse almost as
soon as the children reached Montreal, when their bus entered the city's
downtown just as hundreds of college and university students were marching
through the streets in an appeasement demonstration.
Police cruisers spotted the U.S. bus and escorted it to its hotel on
Sherbrooke Street as a safety precaution. A police officer even urged the
visitors to remain in the bus until the protest passed.
The children watched in shock as demonstrators made obscene gestures toward
the bus. An American flag was dragged through the street.
"We felt horrible," Nadeau told the paper. "How would you feel if the
Canadian flag was dragged down the streets in the U.S.A.? This is a country
that's supposed to be our ally."
That night at a game between the Montreal Canadiens and New York Islanders
game, the U.S. national anthem was widely booed by the crowd, further
upsetting the boys.
"The kids were just questioning, 'Why are they doing this?'" said David
Cruise, who was there with his 12-year-old son. "It's hard for them to
realize we weren't in America any more; we were in a different country. I
said, 'They're booing our national anthem because they don't like us.'
"Whether you're for or against the war, we have guys over there dying,"
Cruise said. "The next time, we'll stay in the States. I'm not going back
there again."
The boys recalled that during a game against the Beverly Bandits, a team
from Beverly, Ontario, anti-American comments continued when the Canadians
hurled insults during face-offs and at other times.
"They told us we sucked, gave us the finger and said 'Down with the U.S.A.'
or 'The U.S.A. sucks," Nadeau said. At one point, a Canadian player made a
disparaging remark about the United States "and the referee turned around
and said, 'I agree with you.' "What stunned us was that the referee, who is
supposed to be unbiased, is agreeing with the boys on the ice."
His players "wanted to retaliate" against the Canadians, but Nadeau said he
urged them "not to do anything foolish."
Fanatics Cheer Iraqi Flag, Burn U.S. Flag
During a walk downtown with his two children Saturday, Carpenter watched
another anti-war demonstration when he saw the crowd cheering a man atop a
traffic light waving an Iraqi flag and a U.S. flag. The crowd cheered the
Iraqi flag and booed the U.S. flag. The man then soaked the U.S. flag in
kerosene.
"It went up in a puff of smoke and flames, and the crowd went wild. They
were all cheering," said Carpenter, whose 24-year-old son, a U.S. Marine,
was sent to retrieve bodies of Americans killed in the 2001 terrorist
bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
On the way home, as the bus crossed the border into the United States,
cheers went up in the bus. "We were very, very happy to get back home,"
Nadeau said.
Note that not all Canadians are hate-filled lunatics. A pro-U.S. rally is
planned for Friday in Toronto. Numerous Canadians have e-mailed NewsMax that
Quebec is the hotbed of anti-American fanaticism and that they are ashamed
of these French degenerates.
It's clear that the cowardly French are hopelessly corrupt whether they stay
in little France or spread their germs to other countries.