Appointing, Pandering, Criticizing, Spying & Terrorizing

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The Menu is still at the bottom and I have no time to try to fix it.

Some Previous Posts

Appointing, Pandering, Criticizing, Spying & Terrorizing
Touchy
DND: Audit of the Language of Work at NDHQ
Language Tzar Flexing Muscle
If a Cdn. Gov. Tree Falls in the Parliamentary Forest, Did It Ever Exist?
Menu & Diversity File, Bud: Civil Service Scandal & Ban Islamophobia?
Harper: Emerson & Others Crossing the Bar & What You Should Know
Regulating Vice
More Peace
You Will Learn to Love Big Brother

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” Shakespeare via Doug Fisher, Ottawa Sun, Feb. 12, 06

This article left me very sad. I too, was disappointed that Stephen Harper believed it necessary to make two appointments, because I have railed against appointments in the past. I take comfort only from the fact that I have tilted at windmills all my life ... and invariably lost. Perhaps Stephen Harper saw what had to be done to get anything done, and was willing to take a normal amount of negative publicity to accomplish his goals, perhaps forgetting that Conservatives always take more negative press than the Liberals or NDP do for the same thing or worse--think Svend's theft, Jean Chretien's many nefarious exercises of power.

I do not want Stephen to lose a chance to make changes in Canada; maybe compromises are necessary. Having chosen too often not to compromise, having stood up when it would have been politic to keep my head down, I can attest to the fact that it is not a winning move in Canada. Invariably, I was the one who suffered. Power rolls over and crushes those who stand up. However, I have no regrets; in fact, I could not be otherwise. Nevertheless, I know that those who play the game, who mouth the politically correct platitudes, who agree publicly when privately, they disagree, make the more politically astute choices and they survive. Hence, I bow to those who know how the political game is played, and play it. It seems that, given the apportionment of the numbers in the House, one does not even have a chance to govern without accommodation -- whether it be to placate business, the cities, or some other area or group, particularly Quebec, which has grown used to and demands power. Strangely enough, the Quebec appointee has not suffered the media excoriaton that the BC appointee has.

Additionally, in governing, I would completely eliminate so much that government is involved in at present, because I think it creates dependency or a sense of entitlement ... from those adults who see it as normal to live on welfare, who breed children with little thought or planning, who give society children who learn from these parents to live the same careless lives, adults who make no attempt to wean themselves or their children off their 'right' to support from other people's money ... to those who use forged documents or none, yet demand their 'right' to remain in Canada at taxpayer expense, even fighting for their 'right' not to be extradited (for cause) at taxpayer expense ... to the higher end of this continuum ... to the gum-chewing, high-living Dingwall's effrontery, ending with his entitlement to $400,000 being paid off (Was it, in effect, a bribe to keep him quiet, as has been suggested?) ... to the top of the dung heap the pinnacle of networking success that culminated in the swanning around the Polar regions by our last CBC-GG, royal entourage in tow, at taxpayer expense ... to the latest CBC-GG who rose from immigrant or refugee, to rapidly fit into the mould that allows appointees such as Michaelle Jean to believe they are entitled to drink $400 bottles of wine at the taxpayers' expense.

I would be appalled at spending that outrageous a sum, even in that position, from the public purse ... just because I could ... but then, my perspective has lost out to the opposite view so often that perhaps I am short-sighted in this, as well. Perhaps Canadians do want and reward a queenly approach or the pretense of it, at any rate.

Perhaps, when government can allow and facilitate or disallow and prevent one the ability to work in one's own country, one is entitled to batten on the public purse. Whether through overbearing and unfair business, job and unemployment funding, whether through coercive language legislation (an example of which is below), through the exercise of political clout, for example, because one has crossed the group who hold government power, as several whistleblowers have learned or for some other reason, the underlying cause of which remains shrouded, the effect is the same, unemployment or underemployment. With so much government power over whether people are able to earn their livelihood, maybe the only response to being cut out of work would be "Support me" ... or as a teenager used to put it, "Suffah dawg".

It seems that the majority of citizens want government involvement in their lives and, as long as they get a bit of whatever government has to offer or some of the pork, they are willing to overlook the outrageous spending of other people's money that occurs, under whatever guise, whether giving votes for preferment or monetary advantage, whether being helped or having to live up to the demands of the position.

As a consequence of my personal reality check, I have resigned myself to the hope that Stephen Harper's decisions will lead to something better for Canada. The appointments themselves, as I have posted previously, do not differ appreciably from what has gone on before. The difference lies in the differing reactions from by the media, and is politically motivated, in my opinion. Compare:

* the demands for the repayments of electioneering money made to a newly minted Conservative versus the glossing over same for turncoats who became Liberals

* the demands that Min. Emerson go back to the electorate versus no such demand to Keith Martin, Belinda Stronach or Scott Brison (etc.) -- but they became Liberals so that was all right. Remember the glee with which our Pravda reported the saving of Paul Martin's government by Belinda?

* the harassment of Min. Emerson's children compared to the lack thereof (or lesser degree of harassment) with Ms. Stronach's children

In all cases, it was different and much easier treatment accorded ones who left the Conservatives to become Liberals compared to the treatment of the one who did the opposite. The instigation to action by leftists and a leftist/Liberal media in BC over Emerson is faux outrage and self-serving. A pox upon them!



Welcome additions to Multiculturalism & the ACOA Agency

Jason Kenney
Calgary Southeast (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister for Multiculturalism

Western input should add some balance to what had become a vote-garnering department designed to placate groups using other people's money. In fact, there is no reason for this department to exist except to help newcomers become Canadians. They will keep their own cultures as long as they wish. Why should the rest pay for home-culture maintenance?

Peter Van Loan
York – Simcoe (Ontario)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

Deepak Obhrai
Calgary East (Alberta)
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

No agency should serve just one area, in my opinion; it is too easy for corruption to set in. In practice, it has meant ACOA had become a porkbarrel. An-all Canada look at how money is allocated is necessary and input from the West and the Centre is a step in the right direction. I don't think we need these agencies devoted to single areas anyway. Their existence simply reinforces seeing the federal government as a piggy bank for its friends via that agency. Let the MP's consider all of Canada and what is best. Maybe a phase-out is in order.



Left-Wing Monster: Ceausescu -- Canadian Connection Ion Mihai Pacepa, FrontPageMagazine.com February 10, 2006

“Dunãrea,” the Romanian name for the Danube, was the codename for an operation involving heavy water. Ceausescu wanted to produce nuclear weapons that he could secretly sell to terrorist states, and heavy water was his first step toward attaining that dream. Our man in “Dunãrea” was a DIE illegal officer[2] documented as a Western engineer who had gotten himself hired by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, where he had been given a top-secret clearance. [. . . . ]

Contemporary political memory seems to be increasingly afflicted with a kind of convenient Alzheimer disease. In 1978, however, just a couple of months before I was granted political asylum in the United States, Ceausescu ... [. . . . ]

In December 1989 Ceausescu was executed at the end of a trial whose accusations came almost word-for-word out of General Ion Pacepa's book Red Horizons (Regnery, 1987), republished in 27 countries.

[1] Departamentul de Informatii Externe (Foreign Intelligence Service). [. . . . ]

Who would that AECL engineer be?


RCMP scopes out suspicious space contracts CP, Feb. 11, 06

MONTREAL -- The RCMP's commercial crime section has opened a file on the Canadian Space Agency and intends to investigate potentially millions of dollars in suspect contracts approved by the federal Public Works Department while Alfonso Gagliano was its minister.

[. . . . ] Samir Elomari, a former CSA scientist who successfully sued the space agency for falsely appropriating one of his inventions, submitted a formal complaint to the RCMP last month. [. . . . ]

Search: $7.3 million worth of contracts have never , $14.375-million civil


Know Radical Islam Conference at the University of Toronto

David B. Harris spoke on "Terrorism at our Doorstep". The former Chief of Strategic Planning for CSIS gave a frighteningly thorough analysis of the dangers currently threatening Canada. He identified enemies such as Ahmadejani and Hamas citing their own words to show that their stated goal is to destroy us. He described how Canada's failures to deal with post-Cold War reality have made our country a haven for terrorist organizations. We are regarded as a rogue state in the eyes of other beleaguered nations, and as idiots by those who seek our destruction. Politicians who pander to ethnic voters, such as Chrétien who personally advocated for the Khadr family, journalists who rush to gather news without due diligence in determining the background and credibility of sources, naïve University administrators: all have given legitimacy to radical spokesman for anti-democratic groups, leaving moderates without a voice. In Canada as in the United States, those groups are .........

Search: Salim Mansur , if scholars were allowed the freedom to discuss the Koran

It sounds like a Catch 22 situation there.