TORONTO – The Toronto Star has become the 27th newspaper to run an op-ed accusing the rest of the North American newsmedia of refusing to label the Oregon occupiers as ‘insurgents,’ ‘insurrectionists,’ or another suitable synonym they found in their thesaurus for ‘terrorist.’
“If a group of armed African Americans or Muslims took possession of a federal building, the national conversation would certainly include words like ‘terrorist,’ or ‘revolt,’ or ‘armed thugs’” opined just about every other commentary page in the United States and Canada this week. “But only we have the guts to come out and say it.”
The column, and nearly 50 others, accuses the rest of the mass media of keeping silent on the issue to keep from losing advertisers and readers who don’t want to hear “the real truth about racism in America.”
“You know what, I’m going to say it: our editorial department are the real heroes of this stand-off,” said an editor. “You won’t find another North American news outlet taking such a hard stance on this issue so don’t even bother looking. Really. Please don’t look.”
The op-ed, and many like it, accused the FBI of reacting improperly in the face of the threat of a half-dozen white militiamen who overtook a wildlife refuge in the middle of nowhere.
“Only on these pages will you find someone with the courage to say that, unless the federal government storms this compound and takes these agitators out, racial justice will never be achieved in America,” claimed the author, and at least a dozen other North American editorialists, who advocate for a return to the policies that made Ruby Ridge and Waco such successes. “That’s a brave opinion, right? You guys want to read this kind of stuff?”
When questioned about the fact that much of the content in their editorial was plagiarized from similarly themed articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Slate Magazine, among others, representatives from the Toronto Star could not be reached for comment.
