Liberal Purge, Liberal Integrity

Paul Martin expelled and banned ten people from the Liberal Party of Canada in order to preserve the integrity of the party, the state newspaper reported yesterday.

“To do something like that is not easy but I have a responsibility for the integrity of our party,” he said, receiving another round of applause.

Notice how the State organ emphasises first the painful nature of the deed for the leader, and then draws attention to the depth of support in more than one applause for the PM’s bravery in the purge. Is it just me, or does that read like a passage in Pravda?

He did not say preserve or keep the integrity, for that would require having some. He did not say integrity in the party but integrity of the party. Martin could not earnestly mean “integrity” as a moral quality, he means keeping the party physically together in the civil war that he started a decade ago–as a captain tries to protect the integrity of his ship’s haul. The ship’s clearly in distress, and the Chretienistas are drilling holes in the haul below deck as Hedy Fry speaks.

Crossposted from Civitatensis