Allan Rock and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Well given lecture on the history of the R2P Doctrine and how it came to be.

Stresses that it is not about military interventions and is more about the continuum of options available to the global states. Mentioned that Sudan is a sign of this, as a military intervention would not work, and R2P would.

We have an excellent resource in Pres. Rock. He himself is a gifted speaker with incredible experience and a great resume. But through him we also have access to others; Paul Martin spoke a short time ago. During this lecture Pres. Rock acknowledged the presence of former Defence Minister David Collenette.

Q&A Section

Marc Kelly=dumbass

He acts in his usual manner. He talks only about himself, and continual shows a disrespect for both the Chair of the Q&A and everyone else not only in the room, but in line to ask a question. I think Marc Kelly would have a good career as a comedian, since he can easily make an entire room laugh at him . . .

When he finally allowed a response to his tirade, Pres. Rock would make a statement about how this is not the forum, and we are here to discuss R2P, but that he would reiterate that Mr. Kelly's situation is no more important than that of the other 35000 students, and that his duty as President is to deal with every student, and not just Mr. Kelly. (I am paraphrasing)

Then Marc Kelly decides that we don't have enough of a circus atmosphere and pulls out his own microphone, even though the microphone for the Q&A was still active(??). And talks about how his freedom to express himself has been taken away and he isn't even allowed to talk. This is when I told him, "You're standing right here Marc!" This is when Protection came over and kindly escorted him out to remind him of the rules, he then came back in, looked like he was going to make another scene but ended up not.

It's sad, because Marc Kelly seems like a nice guy, he's just been brainwashed by Denis Rancourt into thinking he needs to take over the university and rescue everyone from the evil clutches of Allan Rock.

The final question was asked by one of Marc Kelly's supporters (one of his posse nonetheless), it was a two part question. She spoke in French and spoke extremely fast. And I was distracted by the lack of facial expression when she spoke, it was slightly unnerving. The first part of the question had to do with the 'idea' of Canada not being a real thing, or something important (along those lines) and the second part was a statement about Marc Kelly. As soon as she mentioned Kelly the crowd almost seemed ready to lose its patience. But when she finished she received a Thank You, and started to walk away, but Pres. Rock stopped her and rebuked her statement about the idea of Canada and said that the 'idea' of Canada does exist and is really respected globally. Which was kind of a subtext throughout his entire lecture, about how he, as a representative of Canada, was able to spearhead the R2P initiative and work hard to get it through the UN GA. Apparently she wasn't even paying attention.

My final point is this: Why does Marc Kelly have a posse of people? And he always has someone videotaping him. Is it all about him? Is he starting a cult? I mean, unless you are planning on making a scene, why would you have someone videotaping you?


To close, I would say kudos to Pres. Rock for a good lecture, and the way he handled the disturbance. Bravo!