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The Rhino Party is rocking

A lot of people in the US were either upset at Stephen Colbert’s ‘presidental run’ or all for it to the point there are still sites online urging people to sign up and get him to run.

Canada has a tradition of spoof parties - and The Rhinos are back. They are called the Neorhinos and are hilarious as ever.

The original Rhinos were founded in 1963 by Quebec author Jacques Ferron, and reached the pinnacle of their success in the 1980 election where they received 110,000 votes - or 1.01 per cent of the popular vote.

Some of the revamped groups platform includes:

Replace soldiers’ weapons with paintball guns; Create a national gas-barbecue registry; and replace the Defence Department with a Ministry of Laughter.

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The Rhinos are back and they’re hoping to lure voters with the tantalizing promise of weekly orgasms - and marijuana in every pot. The Neorhino party promises to declare Spanish as Canada’s official language and pass legislation forcing Prime Minister Stephen Harper to go on a diet.

They’re proud of smoking pot, they draw their political inspiration from cigar-chomping comics and rock legends, and they want to get elected so they can stick it to “The Man.”

The new party - officially called neorhino.ca - is one of at least two groups claiming to be a reincarnation of the defunct Rhinocerous party that specialized in political satire.

Like the old Rhinos, the party has no clear political ideology except for two deep beliefs: something’s seriously wrong with the state of modern politics, and Canadian public discourse could use a lot more fun.

“We are a Marxist-Lennonist party - based on the philosophy of Groucho Marx and John Lennon,” said party president Francois Gourd.

Beneath the thick veneer of gags, the party raises a serious point: people are so disenchanted with politics that almost 40 per cent of Canadians no longer bother voting in federal elections.

via: The Galloping Beaver
The Neorhino Party - wiki
Rhinoceros Party - wiki
List of frivolous political parties around the world - wiki

Satire parties are a tradition: Official Monster Raving Loony Party in the UK, McGillicuddy Serious Party in New Zealand, the Donald Duck Party in Sweden, the NEE Party in Belguim and the Beer Lovers’ Party in several parts of Eastern Europe.

A few of the former parties platform promises:

Repealing the law of gravity

Paving Manitoba to create the world’s largest parking lot

Providing higher education by building taller schools

Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada’s three official languages

Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset^]

Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River

Abolishing the environment because it’s too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space

Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory, after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (Nunavut did not yet exist) in Canada’s backyard, in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada’s natural resources

Ending crime by abolishing all laws

Paving the Bay of Fundy to create more parking in the Maritimes

Turning Montreal’s Saint Catherine Street into the world’s longest bowling alley

Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last

Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California

Putting the national debt on Visa

Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons

Offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros “Hindquarters” in Montréal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)

Published 1 year, 2 months ago

3 Responses to “The Rhino Party is rocking”

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1 retro on Nov 20th, 2007 at 11:34 am

Go Colbert! As wacky and wierd as he is, I’d vote for him.
2 francois yo gourd on Nov 24th, 2007 at 4:51 am

Hello. if you ga to the web site of the neorhino.ca. You will see that the neorhino has a political plateform: We want to elimlnate the canadian military budget and trafer the money for free education, free heatth care and a bing amount to culture. Canada will become the most creative country in the world. We want Achievable Utopia. We want to abolish tax shelter where big comapanie do not pay billions of dollars. We want proportional representation in the elections. We want to free Canada from the domination of the USA.
We want to legalise Marijuana.
«America has the best politicians money can buy.» Will Rogers
We want to bring back to vote the 40% of canadians who dont vote.
Check the neorhino.ca