Bud Talkinghorn -- Defectors & Spies -- Torture Claims -- Turkey -- Columbia U

Pat O'Brien--A Liberal politician of principle

It is strange to write such a title, considering the fierce control that the PMO has over the vast majority of that party. "Clapping seals" does not do them justice as an epithet. They are more llike like chameleons; they can change their beliefs depending on the leader's edicts. The much lauded "caucas solidarity" isn't far removed from the fanatical Nazis who followed Hitler to the bitter end. Whatever higher human values they once held could be subsumed by the party doctrine. I can only hope that O'Brien's moral stand will be emulated by those other Liberals who see the evil social engineering that is transpiring to erode marriage.


© Bud Talkinghorn



The CBC bias

The Fraser Institute has documented how CBC usually shows its prejudice against America. Its sucesses in the Iraq war are played down and its failures played up. CBC's supposedly insightful documentaries on Rough Cuts and The Passionate Eye seem to hone in negatively on President Bush and his voter bloc. Last night there was a replay (third or fourth time?) of "Stupidities", where Bush was prominently put forward as a prime example. Then a few days earlier, there was the Dick Cheney expose, where he was portrayed as some kind of Dr. Evil, who had no interests above personal gain. Gee, the Yanks must be colossally stupid in general, because they voted in this pair a second time -- unlike Canadians, who again voted in those paragons of virtue called the Liberals.

It would be too time consuming to go into all the shady little tricks that CBC uses to discredit any Republican platform--to be 'fair', they do exactly the same with our Conservative party. Let's just say that two methods are Mansbridge and his acolytes having perfected the censorious dying tone of voice, or the doubtful arched eyebrow, when forced to give the Right any good news. Other targets that are given a "hatchet job' are churches, anti-gay marriage groups, immigration critics (racists all), opponents of official bilingualism-created inequalites, and anything that doesn't pass their politically correct test.

I actually broke out laughing when I read that Ruth-Ellen Soles, a CBC spokeswoman made this rebuttal to the Fraser report, "CBC News takes fairness and balance very seriously" and "The report is patently false" (The National Post, June 8, 05). Perhaps she could explain why the censors didn't cut the Carolyn Parrish bit on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, where she childishly stomped on a Bush doll. For that matter, perhaps she could explain why that program and Canadian Airfarce couldn't find enough in Canada to satirize, without consistently relying on Bush-bashing? The truth of the matter is that CBC has grown more virulently left-wing in all their programming. I suspect you don't even get hired if you can't prove you belonged to The Student Socialist Movement, or at least to the Young NDP, while at university.

© Bud Talkinghorn--Don't take my word for this, or The Fraser Institute's; simply watch their programming attentively and observe what they choose as their viewpoints.

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China Diplomat: Beijing Running Spy Ring Jun. 8, 05

CANBERRA, Australia — Two Chinese defectors — one of them a diplomat who walked away from his post — claim that their homeland is running a spy network in Australia and other Western countries.

The diplomat, Chen Yonglin (search), left his job as the first secretary at the Chinese Consulate-General in Sydney last month to seek political asylum in Australia. Chen, 37, claimed China ran a ring of 1,000 spies in Australia involved in illegal activities including abducting Chinese nationals and smuggling them back to China.

[. . . . ] But a second Chinese official seeking asylum in Australia, Hao Feng Jun (search), backed Chen's claim [. . . . ]

RCMP probe on Taiwan trio shut down again 2002

[. . . . ] RCMP investigators in Ottawa had been given letters and notes addressed to the 'contact' dated in 1992 that were signed by a principal of Imperial Consultants.

The correspondence involved the processing of immigration files and the RCMP had been told that the contact had top-level access to Canada's Computer Assisted Immigration Processing System.

[. . . . ] In the mid-nineties, Imperial Consultants was riding the crest of the immigration wave that preceded Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule. The company was among the top groups bringing in entrepreneurs via the investor immigration program. The government program described as a passport-for-sale scheme offered permanent residency in exchange for a $250,000-to-$350,000 investment in the Canadian economy. [. . . . ]

We could get no cooperation to proceed from Immigration Canada and were blocked several times [. . . . ]

The details are of interest.

Have you ever checked our who have so many of the computer jobs in Canada? Check the students in our computer science departments; what did they work at before coming to Canada? How old are they?




Captives told to claim torture Rowan Scarborough, Jun. 8, 05, Washington Times

[. . . . ] In a raid on an al Qaeda cell in Manchester, British authorities seized al Qaeda’s most extensive manual for how to wage war.
A directive lists one mission as “spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy.”

[. . . . ] insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison.” [. . . . ]

Is Turkey Going Islamist? by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, June 7, 2005

Is it on the road to implementing Islamic law, known as the Shari'a?

[. . . . ] Actions that confirm one's doubts about the AKP having changed goals since it came to power in late 2002 include attempts to criminalize adultery, to transform religious instruction at public schools into propaganda for Islam, and to loosen the penalties against free-lance Koranic instruction. Condemning Christianity as a polytheistic religion and purging members of the Alevi minority from the government's Religious Directorate also raise red flags. [. . . . ]

Columbia Teaches "Hate" by Hugh Fitzgerald, FrontPage Magazine, June 6, 2005

Gil Anidjar is an Assistant Professor at Columbia, with his primary responsibility the teaching of Comparative Literature – but there is a lot of comparison, and very little literature, in his writing. He offers two Comparative Literature courses. One is on Freud and Derrida. The second, a course that is listed as part of Columbia's Middle East offerings, is called, dramatically, "Hate."

The course on "Hate" is not really about the history or literature of the Middle East at all. It is an extended rumination upon two matters. The first is the evil of Europe, which has for its own purposes not merely created "the Other" (or rather, being especially awful, as Europe will be, creating two "the Others" – "Arab" and "Jew"), and subjecting both of them to identical diabolical persecution. [. . . . ]

And finally, Anidjar asks:

There is, in fact, a level at which I simply lack all understanding. Can anyone seriously claim that the problem with Islamic countries is Islam?

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