Prior to World War II, Baldur Benedikt von Schirack, a bisexual with an American mother and a German father, became head of the Hitler Jugend (Youth). Instead of training them to be Boy Scouts he trained them to be killers. Von Schirack also became Gauleiter of Vienna and was responsible for the deportation of Jews there.

Today in Canada, we have a person of a similar calibre in the person of Major Serge Provo. He leads another group with Baldur von Schirack's 'Hitler Jugend' mentality.

The Major is very much like Charlie Chaplin in the "Great Dictator" and bears a definite resemblance to 'Il Duce' Benito Mussolini leader of Fascist Italy during World War II. His growing girth might one day give him the same appearance as Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering of the Luftwaffe. Serge, like Hermann Goering, has lots of grandiose ideas and they just might in the end bring about his own downfall.

A tinge of insanity becomes apparent every time he opens his mouth to talk about his make-believe nation and he has gone as far as to write the words of a national anthem which speaks of the war of independence to come. I predict that not only will he be truly welcomed in the hearts of misguided followers, but will one day also find a welcome in an asylum for the incurably insane.

Serge's "La Milice Patriotique Quebecoise" is very similar to the NAZI Brownshirts (Sturmabteilung) who in the 1930's terrorized non-Germans and threatened to use violence to achieve total power in Germany. The similarities between the two groups is not something to joke about though. Major Blunder Provo's Patriotic Militia is not something to be taken lightly.

A lot of what the Major spouts reminds one of Adolf Hitler in his early days but whereas Adolf Hitler put the blame for Germany's problems after World War I, on the Jews, Serge puts all the blame for the failure of Quebec's economy on the English-speaking people of Canada, even though Quebec has been a failure since the time it was called New France under the l'Ancien Regime. Its people were never productive and after the British conquest of 1760 they became the Hewers of Wood and the Haulers of Water. Nothing has changed.

People in Canada had better pay serious attention to this group's activities because at this very moment in time that same NAZI Germany insanity is alive and well in Quebec under the guise of nationalism.
 
Kenneth T. Tellis
Canada