Hockey Protests Breakout Around The Globe

Reaction from Canadians was gritty, tough, full of passion and pride. Don Cherry, High Priest of the Temple of Hockey Night in Canada, called the cartoons, “vile, typical-European-socialist hatred” and demanded an immediate apology from King Carl XVI of Sweden. The monarch, who admitted that the cartoons were “an insensitive act hurtful to millions of peaceful Canadians” nevertheless refused to offer an apology on behalf of the newspaper. Effigies of Björn Borg are being lit on fire by protestors in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal, and the Swedish Embassy in Ottawa is continually being pelted with Göteborgskex cookies.

In Canada, images not showing the Prophet Gretzky victoriously holding a Stanley Cup or celebrating an international play win are strictly forbidden. “The guy gives 110% all the time, eh?,” said Deaner Spitowski, outside of the Tim Horton’s church in Edmonton. “Why would any hoser talk that way about the Great One?” Terry Puddester, one of the thousands of people protesting outside the Ikea store in Gander, Newfoundland, added, “that pussy Peter Forsberg never scored 215 points in a season.”

Other Hockey leaders in Canada have called for a boycott of Swedish goods, including furniture, meatballs, ABBA, Ace of Base and Cardigan records, Volvo and SAAB vehicles, Ingmar Bergman movies and any product related to golfer Annika Sörenstam. The Canadian newspaper The Hockey News is even running its own anti-Börje Salming cartoon contest, stating that, “if they [Swedes] believe in freedom of speech, then they won’t have any problems seeing images of Salming having intercourse with Harold Ballard and Wendel Clark.”
Hockey is practiced by over 30 million Canadians world-wide.




4 Comments:
The "I burned my swedish bra" sign caused me to lose a quarter pint of fine UK bitter out of my nose.
Well done, sir. Well done, indeed.
It looks like the Calgary Sun is playing its usual conservative role and damning all those in the "Liberal Media" who have "too much respect for hockey to publish said cartoons"
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Man, that shit is gonna blow up like the Godfather.
That was a great post. The guy outside of Ikea calling Forsberg a pussy ... very funny. A fine job, neighbor to the north.
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