Bud Talkinghorn: CSIS meets the Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism -- & -- Let's Talk about the Gun Registry and Weak Sentencing

CSIS meets the Senate Committee on Anti-terrorism

Jim Judd, the Director of CSIS, was answering questions -- shown on CPAC on March 9, 05. He was peppered with questions about how sensitive CSIS was in exchanging information with countries that had less than a sterling record of democracy. Judd admitted that it was a necessity in this era of Islamist terroism to have contact with the countries that produced these terrorists, i.e. Eygpt or Algeria. The Liberal Senators who were so concerned to assure that no Canadian refugee or immigrant would have his name revealed, are the same crowd that cheer on Canada siding with the thug states of the UN. The majority of the times that the dictatorial regimes of the Muslim world have put forth a resolution to condemn Israel for "genocide" or "terrorism", Canada has voted with them. Our UN record of voting against the only democracy in the Middle East is a total disgrace. But than, considering the UN's own record on human rights (think Rwanda, Cambodia and Darfur), it follows. The majority of the General Assembly members are just this side of Stalin's communists. The UN's record of impotence in the face of a Pol Pot or a Mugabe is almost perfect. The Liberals like to pretend that they are a 'moderating' influence on the institution, but they have simply allowed themselves to be as morally corrupted as the worst members.

Thankfully, President Bush has appointed a U.S. ambassador, John Bolton, who sees the UN for what it is, a talkshop for tyrants and their sympathizers. He once said that the UN building could lose 10 storeys and no harm would be done. The international left is all a-twitter of course. They want UN supremacy to trump national sovereignty. Forget that Mugabe has allowed his populace to face mass starvation; that shouldn't preclude him from running the UN World Food Bureaucracy. Myanmar could head up the Human Rights Tribunal. And finally, the massed troops of the UN could finally get their act together and defeat that one enemy of freedom, Israel. Well, unlike our ambassador, Sheriff Bolton will be there to whip out his badge and stop some of this nonsense.

© Bud Talkinghorn




Forget grow-ops, let's talk about the gun registry and weak sentencing

James Roszko didn't beat those four Mounties to death with a marijuana plant; he shot them with an illegal automatic rifle. That he was even out of prison to commit that heinous crime speaks to how we allow psychopathic criminals to rack up endless crimes and do little time.

According to the news, Roszko had a string of criminal offenses that dated back to his teens; yet the only time he served was for sexually molesting a boy. That jail time was less than two years, despite having been charged over the years with 17 other offenses--one of shooting a teenager.

Now let us examine the efficacy of the Liberals' gun registry in stopping Rozsko from obtaining his weapons. It is obvious that the man had criminal connections, as the Mounties were about to arrest him for stealing car parts, along with his grow-op. Criminals do not report their guns to the registry; just the law-abiding do. Toronto's ex-police chief, Julian Fantino has declared that the gun registry has not solved one violent gun crime in his city. The wasted tens of millions spent to top up this already billion dollar boondoggle could be spent in tracking down the "Saturday night specials", the Uzis and the Glocks that turn streets into shooting galleries. These are the weapons of choice amongst the gangsters, not shotguns or target pistols. However, for the Liberals to close down the gun registry now, would be to admit that it was a brain dead idea from the outset. Besides, the tiny, but powerful, coterie of "elites" that support it might be displeased. Thus the illusion of guarding our safety will continue; as will the future Rozskos and their deadly unregistered arsenal.

© Bud Talkinghorn -- One other thing that is apropos of this issue. Notice how CBC has edited out a crucial part of the interview with Mrs. Myrol, the mother of one of the slain RCMP officers? In the original version she stated that it is time that Parliament start making decisions on criminal justice, rather than letting the Supreme Court decide. We can't have any criticism of the Supremes now, can we?


Note that CBC complied by omitting her question to the Prime Minister -- The Liberal Propaganda Arm does the government's bidding for its share of the lucre. NJC