April 26, 2006 #1

Don't miss. What a compilation!

Dust My Broom: THE CALEDONIA OPEN THREAD -- trackback

Non-Aboriginal Canadians are thankfully not as gutless as their law enforcement officials and politicians. Someone has to stand up against the Mohawk criminals, and it’s obviously not going to be the local rent-a-cops or pussy-ass politicians:

You have to wonder where all the progs are and why they aren’t supporting these protesters? I thought they loved a good cop car swarm? [. . . . ]

Over at Six Nations Solidarity, this is the headline. Note the loaded language then remember the Indian complaint that the MSM was being biased and painting a negative pic of the Mohawks: [....]

Amazingly, G&M’s Margaret Wente sums it up perfectly:

Wente: Globe and Mail

[....] Today the opportunities for young aboriginals in Canada have never been better. And yet, it’s hard to see the opportunity all around you when you’ve been nurtured on so much grievance and injustice. The protesters were raised on an endless diet of stolen land, discrimination, evil residential schools and broken promises. Many of the injustices were real. But how do you move on? How do you make peace with the modern world when you are haunted by ancient wrongs and obsessed with a romantic version of an idealized past? Who will teach these kids that there are other ways to be a warrior?

Some of them know. There was another story on the weekend, an inspiring one, about a Mohawk girl named Skawenniio Barnes. She comes from the Kahnawake Reserve near Montreal. Through sheer grit and determination, she got a library built there. Her parents never finished high school. Now, at 17, she’s destined for Princeton or Yale, on full scholarship. Somehow, she changed the script. And that is worth all the land-claims settlements in the world.

Skawenniio Barnes changed the script. Perfect. Read her story about the difficulties she faced trying to be a good student on the rez, and the pathetic hoops she had to jump through to get a library on her rez.

Sad isn’t it, how difficult it was to get a library, yet how easy it was to start burning tires and bridges?

[....] Amid the “coast-to-coast” solidarity for the Mohawks, on behalf of various Indian groups in Canada, one must ask…where the hell is our leader? Not a peep in four days. Has Mr Fontaine ever appeared more useless? This probably has to do with the Mohawks no doubt seeing Fontaine as the joke that he is, and not anything close to their leader. Of course, no one will say that. This man is so sad; he is too gutless to even pick a side. Either chastise the Mohawks for their invasion of a foreign country, or join them on the barricades. Instead he does nothing. How fitting. How typical. [....]

It has been open to comments ... and oh, do people comment.

Mention is made of a White Privilege Checklist [http://www.unh.edu/residential-life/diversity/aw_article17.pdf]



Police probe weeds out drug ring -- Project Concert Tobi Cohen, Apr. 20, 06

Police in Quebec are confident they've dismantled a drug smuggling operation that's had a bad influence on the youth of a fragile Native community near Maniwaki.

Yesterday, members of the Aboriginal Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (A-CFSEU) arrested 26 people -- nearly half of them from the Kitigan Zibi reserve where the operation was based -- for a series of drug trafficking and firearms offences. [. . . . ]

With the money to be made dealing in drugs, I'm guessing it's a losing battle ... but what is the alternative?




The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Paul Martin's hand-picked conspiracy theorist -- Lafond's embarrassing film is a parting Liberal gift to Canadians John Geiger, NatPost, Apr. 26, 06

The controversy and embarrassment that has erupted again over a film by Jean-Daniel Lafond, the husband of Governor-General Michaelle Jean, is a parting gift to Canadians from former prime minister Paul Martin.

[....] Contrary to the assertion made in the film's title, there is no "truth" here. The hostage deal claim was the subject of two U.S. Congressional investigations and has been refuted, a fact the film ignores. Lafond defends his work by saying it is not intended to be investigative journalism. He told Maclean's that he's "someone who treats discourse in an artistic manner." He said the film "represents reality, but it's not reality." [....]

It reminds me of SCOC Justice MacLachlan defending judicial activism as interpreting the law ... or is it extending the law now? Either way, explain your terms, both of you.


Lafond's film presents conspiracy theories -- Debunked stories portrayed as real in documentary Graeme Hamilton, NatPost, Apr. 26, 06

MONTREAL - Jean-Daniel Lafond, whose association with former FLQ terrorists sparked criticism of the appointment of his wife, Michaelle Jean, as Governor-General, is courting controversy again in a new documentary.

American Fugitive: The Truth about Hassan lends credence to a number of anti-American conspiracy theories and offers a generally sympathetic view of its subject, David Belfield [Hassan Abdulrahman/David Belfield], an admitted assassin wanted in the United States for the 1980 murder of an Iranian diplomat. [. . . . ]

Search: Toronto's Hot Docs festival , Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former press attache of the Shah , curry favour with Ayatollah Khomeini , Martin Luther King and Malcolm X , In a book he published , "So, a sovereign Quebec? An independent Quebec? Yes, .......



Ottawa wants to reclaim $40,000 in legal aid offered on election day to Pelletier



All the news that's fit to print Burkean Canuck, Comment from Calgary Clipper

I expressed my concern that a City of Calgary alderman is presently sitting on the AB Human Rights & Citizenship Commission. How can this not be a conflict of intereest if this person has to adjudicate something approaching freedom of speech. [....]

Court challenge -- Gay/Les Book Store Wants Public Money Apr16, 06

[. . . . ](Lawyers for) Canada Customs argues that the case simply isn't important enough to justify spending public money. It also says that the court has to consider the issue of subsidizing a private, for-profit body. [. . . . ]

The latest case has drawn a flock of intervenors, including the Canadian Bar Association, Egale Canada, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund ...



Starving the activist propaganda machine NatPost, Apr. 26, 06

[....] Every year, the federal government spends between $6-billion and $8-billion underwriting the activities of special interest groups, non-government organizations (NGOs) and advocacy groups. Much of this sum is knowingly given for the purpose of lobbying the public and government on behalf of these organizations' pet causes.

The model is one of the most enduring legacies of the Trudeau era. In the 1960s, the government of Pierre Trudeau hit on the idea of funding activist groups to "speak for the voiceless in society," to tell government what it was doing wrong and how it might create new programs to rectify it.

Welfare coalitions, therefore, are funded to do research that shows the need for more welfare, health-care advocates for more public funding for health care, gun-control supporters for stricter registration of firearms and so on. [....]

Search: the highest profile feminist and multicultural organizations , Court Challenges program

The feminists and multicultural organizations do NOT speak for a large segment of Canadian society. I can speak for myself; I don't need them. Besides, I consider that both do more harm to our society than good; these groups curb discussion and enforce Liberal values, whatever they are at a given moment. It became politically incorrect to question what they were pushing. Multiculturalism used to be a fact of Canadian life and all immigrants concentrated on becoming Canadian. Not any more; now they try to force their values onto Canadian society, whether they fit in or not. [Changed error: It should have been "incorrect", not "correct" in this paragraph. Apr. 28, 06]

Let these groups work for funding for themselves, as do the less favoured groups. Then we'll see what support they have, as well as how much political clout.




Substance abuse costing economy about $40-billion a year, new study finds Norma Greenaway, NatPost, Apr. 26, 06

[.... Besides costs associated with alcohol and tobacco, now there is a growing problem ] a dramatic increase in illegal drug use is cause for special concern. It says there was more than a doubling of drug-related deaths between 1992 and 2002, largely because of overdoses and the spread of previously unmeasured hepatitis C. [. . . . ]

Miss DownHome is a low maintenance kind of woman TorSun, Apr. 26, 06

Delightful.




'Go outside and play,'

Ian Gillespie: Think outside the tube -- "You want statistics? Try this:" -- re: the television tube -- London Free Press, Apr. 26, 06



Family Values

The price we pay for porn Pamela Paul, NatPost, Apr. 26, 06

Pamela Paul is the author of Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families.

In these porn-friendly times, to even question pornography's effect on society is considered proof of one's prudery, intolerance and reactionary politics. But dare we seriously ask what effect porn has on people's sex lives? [....]

Particularly on the Internet, where much of pornography today is consumed, the type of sexuality depicted often has more to do with violence, extreme fetishes and mutual degradation than with sexual or emotional connection. [....]

Sex sells and now that we're so diverse, any kind of sex sells, particularly, it seems, degrading sex. A part of this is a sad indictment of women who try to please bored husbands, to say nothing of what it says about men and pornography.

Worth reading.




Cheesemakers on bended knee -- Danish cartoon update -- The lesson? Give in and give up free speech; it wins them over every time. Andrew Apostolou

Next step?

The beauty of the deal for supposed men of religion like Qaradawi is that the victim, Arla, is shaken down for the privilege of no longer being unfairly targeted. [....]

If extortion is not resisted, it is repeated. The Danes have a word for such regular payments: Danegeld.

A world gone ADD -- A psychiatrist finds symptoms of disorder just come with our busy existence Anne Marie Owens, NatPost, Apr. 26, 06



Think outside the tube You want statistics? Try this: The average Canadian child watches about 25 hours of TV a week. Ian Gillespie, CNEWS, Apr. 26, 06



She's only 12 Rick Bell, CalgarySun, Apr. 21, 06

Mention is made of "her 23-year-old so-called boyfriend" -- How can a 12 year old have a 23 year old boyfriend ... other than the kid in class who teases her and so she thinks that means he likes her ... and he probably does?



Fitzgerald: Islam compatible with democracy? April 24, 2006

Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the dhimmi Dutch report asserting the compatibility of traditional Islam with Western notions of democracy: [. . . . ]

As for the statement from the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy, notice that there appear to be only two alternatives: either we, the Western world, continue "exporting democracy to Muslim countries" OR we try to encourage "democratic attempts" (what is a "democratic attempt," exactly?) "harmonious" with "their own traditions and cultures." And of course we will be treated to all manner of assurances that Islam is fully compatible with Western principles of human rights -- despite all the evidence marshaled by Professor Afshari, and despite the clear evidence of the systematic rewriting and gutting by Muslim legal experts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and what that tells us about the Muslim view of such things. We will continue to be assured, always in the abstract of course, never in any deigning to dwell on detail, that Islam is "compatible" with "democracy." [. . . . ]

In response to the following, mentioned in the article, there is plenty of discussion.

"When you say "leave the Muslim countries to their own devices" and "Buy what oil you must, but limit all other contacts" would you include the charitable works in that? I'm thinking of basic medical aid and clean drinking water together with measures we might have to take to stop the spread of diseases which could harm us. I'm also thinking of the basic Christian call to be charitable, say in the matter of food for example."

I tend to agree with the succinct Carolyn2.



Video worth watching: the "peaceful" ones at "peace"

Re: Display of Palestinian terror 'does not promote diversity'

Check out this short video filmed of the Islamic Thinker's Society in New York April 20/06 threatening that the real Holocaust is coming.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/video/20060420IslamicThinkers.wmv

Shouldn't these guys be charged? Listen carefully to what they say.



Russian bombers flew undetected across Arctic - AF commander
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060422/46792049.html ^
Posted on 04/22/2006 8:10:10 AM EDT by RusIvan



The truth on crime (in Canada)
The Ottawa Sun ^ Mon, April 24, 2006 Editorial Board
Posted on 04/24/2006 8:00:38 AM EDT by fanfan

[. . . . ] Well, what liberal politicians, academics and pundits have been doing is quoting the statistics very selectively. It’s true that after peaking in 1991, violent crime has been dropping, slowly. Today it’s down 10% from a decade ago.

But those who want to coddle criminals don’t tell you that this very slight decline has in no way matched the explosion in violent crime that started in the 1960s and continued for 30 years. The real story is that violent crime today is at levels that would have been considered appallingly high only two decades ago.[. . . . ]

I agree with this comment: "Perhaps we should ask ourselves how much crime is no longer reported."

It may have been always been thus, but now we have access to so much more information, enough to be more fearful. I've had a new lawnmower stolen but I suspect that it would take much time and good luck to find the culprit(s). Storage shed, timing, night, a crime of opportunity ...... and there goes something within me. I got dead bolts ... so far okay ...... but I still double check.

What has been more pervasive is the psychological effect, the feeling of trepidation if I come home late at night, the rush to get the key in the lock to get inside, the fact that people will sometimes phone to see that I got home okay. It changes your life in small ways. You may not walk in the dark the way you did, nor walk forest trails, even designated walking paths. You know too much.



Publius Pundit: Thank you, America Apr. 25, 06 via newsbeat1/PajamasMedia

[. . . . ]Sadly, the Left is once again refusing to pay tribute to the Allies; to add insult to injury, some radicals almost surely are gonna burn the US and Israeli flags, while waving the Palestinian one, as occurred last year.

Well, exactly the other half of the Italian population, those who didn’t vote for this immature and anti-reformist Left, today will pay homage to those American, British and Jewish soldiers who died for our freedom. [. . . . ]