This is why I'm not voting green

It has come to light in the past few days that the (former) federal green party candidate for the riding of Vancouver-Kingsway, Kevin Parent had published following the 9/11 attacks, his feelings and such. According to reports he recently held a news conference at a Vancouver coffee shop where while refusing to retract his comments or even apologize for them, he said the media had taken them out of context.

In November, 2002, in what he admitted was "a revolting confession," Potvin admitted to cheering "Yeah!" when he saw the first World Trade Center tower come down. When the second tower was struck, he cried "Beautiful!" to himself, despite the loss of life inside. And when he learned the Pentagon had been hit, he had to fight "an urge to pump my fist in the air."

One would think there would be outrage amongst the pacifistic greens at this blatant disregard for innocent lives lost by a surprise terrorist attack but instead the wingnuts of the far left came to the defence of this twit and accused a reporter from the Post for his failure to report the truth. Elisabeth May the greener leader (who just made a pseudo-alliance with the Liberals) decided she would give Potvin the benefit of the doubt over the weekend until she talked to him (he has been banished since Sunday) but too little too late.
I love it when the high and mighty moralists step in their own crap. And to paraphrase Lorne Gunter in the Post 'about that alliance Mr. Dion is that the kind of people you want to deal with?'

See Potvin's article on his offmedia website