The Circle is Tightening on the harpercons

Don't forget that people. This cabal of criminal scum would presume to have the RIGHT to rule over us even if their entire government was elected by fraud. THAT is how little regard they have for democracy.

This Rae attack-ad stupidity is just a sign of their desperation. A bunch of still photographs and a voice-over of hypocritical cliches that have been circulating since 1995. Nothing but an incompetent liar's attempt to change the subject.

Elections Canada is doing its work. Tens of thousands of Canadians are getting active. Forgive us if, as Canadian citizens who have known overwhelmingly free and fair elections for decades, if we're a little rusty in figuring out how to respond to a government that earned its majority thanks to a centrally-directed criminal conspiracy of electoral fraud.

So many Canadians are still grappling with the reality that this is for keeps and we're faced with a gang of rogues who will stop at nothing.

But they really have no escape. They've repeated the "in-and-out" scandal. They've had American election strategists campaigning for them. They've got people testifying that they were told to lie and say they were from Elections Canada and that they were giving out information they later discovered was fraudulent.

Finally, as we see with young "conservative" airhead Michael Sona, the harpercons are completely willing to abandon their own to save themselves. Expect the whole party to turn in and begin to devour each other as the law and the enraged citizenry advance closer and closer. They won't be able to muster the wherewithal to attack Bob Rae or anyone else. harper, Clement, Baird, Flaherty, and assorted other scum and villainy will look like a bunch of men trying to throw children and babies out of a lifeboat on the sinking Titanic.

Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Afghanistan and now Libya

When will North American fall for the next installment of beneficial imperialism? Syria? Sudan?

The reason why we shouldn't implore our governments to "do something" about an atrocity somewhere is that our governments are comprised of evil men (with a smattering of evil women - You've still got a long way to go baby!) who are either already complicit in this barbarism (witness Canadian "intelligence" agencies subcontracting torture to the Asaad regime in Syria) or they'll use your pleas as an excuse to get involved out of their own revolting self-interest and most likely make things worse.

A Friend From Europe

I met up with a long-time friend of mine who has been living in Europe for the past decade or so. She's been living in Denmark, which, despite not being part of the peninsula, is apparently a Scandinavian democracy.

Of the Danes, she says they're very insular and cold. She says that coming home to Canada has been a relief in some ways. In Kensington Market some people on the sidewalk asked her and her friends sitting at a patio if they knew where a particular store was. Her group told them where it was and then they exchanged some pleasantries about the weather. My friend told me that had been such a treat: In Denmark nobody would ask complete strangers such a question for fear of looking like idiots, and if they were the ones being asked they would nervously provide the answer and nothing more, in case the people who had approached them were psychos or con-artists or something.

On the other hand, she said Canada was a tragedy. We have so much potential, but everything is being hoarded by the wealthiest, and everybody else is mired in debt. In Denmark she knows people who are unemployed but they receive a relatively generous stipend from the government and they maintain themselves as productive citizens (working on projects of measurable value that sometimes lead to new employment or income) while at the same conducting intensive job searches.

Here, young Canadians in their late-twenties and early-thirties appear to eke out marginal existences at dismally paying jobs or they subsist on meager unemployment or welfare. Canadian young adults spend a lot of time playing video games and smoking pot. Another difference she found is that Danes discuss political-economic issues using facts and agreed-upon understanding of how the world works. North Americans argue over fantasies and reason according to the internal logic of various conspiracy theories. Canada's televised news is a laughable monstrosity, almost (to her eyes) indistinguishable from the neo-liberal christo-fascist pap of the USA's.

But the one thing that really struck me about her observations is the way her and European friends responded to the news of the nation-wide electoral fraud of the harpercons. In the first place, to her and the Danes, these are not "dirty tricks." They're CRIMES. They're CRIMES because they're illegal and because they violate what should be the foundation of any genuine democracy; the unimpeded exercise of the individual franchise. Obviously I agree, but I was hearing about this uniform expression of utter repugnance from Europeans, rather than from my fellow Canadian citizens (the tiny blog-o-sphere withstanding). They were all shocked that Canada had "fallen so far" as a mature, respectable democracy.

Remember that term: "Mature Democracy"? That's how Jack Layton described the European systems where coalition governments weren't (often literally) regarded as being the work of the devil. (An observation that earned Layton the scorn of the pea-brained Charles Adler.)

stephen harper has done all he can to foster this state of miserable ignorance and misinformation. he has done all that he can to foster a culture of contempt for democracy. he does this because it serves his needs and it agrees with his agenda. The more stupid, deluded, apathetic and cynical Canadians are about their system, the more will WE leave him free to perpetrate his crimes in freedom. In the final analysis, if harper owed his power COMPLETELY to fraud, it wouldn't register with either him or his supporters, not even in the slightest. The important thing for these scum-bags and morons is their own victory. The only thing that would disturb them would be a defeat. And no matter how honest or total their defeat was, if you think the picture they have in their heads of us as "sore losers" is over-the-top, just wait for their comeuppance. You're going to hear moaning and whining and threats of violence like you never thought possible in Canada.

I welcome it. I welcome it when their leaders and their crimes are dragged into the light of day and exposed and harper, Baird, Clement, Flaherty, ad nauseum are themselves dragged off to prison. I'll enjoy it when the most shameless harpercon zombies stand on their front lawns pissing and moaning about liberal witch-hunts and AdScam and other inanities and I'll tell them (as I've taken to doing more and more the past few years) to shut the fuck up.

Patrick Ross Isn't "Depressed"

As part of my ongoing campaign of posting any sort of shit that comes to mind just to make a post (because responding to the Conservative Party of Canada's electoral fraud CRIMES are too important for my paltry blogging efforts) I'm just going to talk about Canadian Cynic's failed nemesis Patrick Ross.

Long story short, as part of his personal vendetta against Canadian Cynic, post-pubescent blowhard Patrick Ross typed a bunch of libelous claims about CC using CC's real name. CC sued Ross and Ross, for one reason or another, failed to appear in court and, therefore, a default judgment was made ordering him to pay CC $85,000 in damages and to take down the libelous statements.

Ross, being a typical conservative, decided that instead of accepting the consequences for his actions, refused to take down the statements and went to ground. When he was finally forced to show up in court and account for himself, Ross said all sorts of curious things and also posted on his blog that he was suicidally depressed.

Ross isn't depressed. Ross is still posting his shit-for-brains right-wing drivel and attacking his enemies with his usual boorish intensity. What Ross is genuinely feeling is referred to by the medical community as "Upset." Ross opened his big fat mouth (or typed with his big fat fingers) one stupid thing too many and it's cost him. Ross has dropped his life in a steaming vat of dog-shit and he's dimly aware that it's all his fault. But Ross isn't having any crisis of the soul. The rancid slab of mad-cow would perk up in an instant if a space-alien fairy appeared and paid off all his legal debts. Ross is just a snivelling, whining, self-pitying and stupid sack of shit, refusing to take ownership of his own bad decisions.

Him and Bruce Carson and Michael Sona should get themselves in a circle-jerk about how tough their lives are and leave the rest of us out of their blubbering.

Electoral Fraud Food For Thought

Just drawing your attention to this:

There is also a question of what an inquiry will uncover and, importantly, what recommendations it could possibly make. At the very least the Elections Canada investigation should be allowed to come to completion and, at that time, the RCMP and the legal system should be brought to bear on the case. Until the scope is understood - and allegations verified - a commission of inquiry is simply jumping the gun.

I still don't know where I stand. An Inquiry can compel testimony and evidence, something I'm not sure Elections Canada can do.

[h/t to Dave at "The Galloping Beaver."]

Awesome!!! Shitty actually.

I decided to go to "progressive bloggers.ca" to see whether or not one specific blogger had anything new and insightful to say about the harpercon electoral fraud scandal. Instead I had to endure this:

Gordon is speaking great language for Liberals. Gordon is speaking the language of empathy, community and responsibility.

"Empathy, community and responsibility" 'eh? Impolitical is a smart woman. But you know what? The Liberal record of betrayal of "empathy, community and responsibility" is so basically obvious that I'm not even going to provide links to the rise in homelessness, wage stagnation, income inequality, and environmental failure. Impolitical displays willful ignorance of all of this. Remember the "Red Book"? Seriously? Do you remember the "Red Book"?

Bah! I was going to go through that blog entry and give it a detailed thrashing, but there's too much nonsense to deal with. I'll let this just speak for itself.

"We need to help people, right here, right now...We have to be a community. We have to help each other. We have to show Stephen Harper what true Canadian values look like. People helping people." Canadian values! Yes, progressive Liberals speaking about what Canadian values are! More please!
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The "People. Planet. Profits." slogan captures well what Liberals are about. Blessedly, there's no talk of centrism here, no resort to typical tired platitudes.
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What is going on here? Is it possible that someone in Canadian politics is trying to make people interested in voting again? Challenging them. Giving them something to raise their eyebrows about. Yes, by all means, more fun in our politics please! And that's not to say it's fluff. The serious messages on the environment, child care and pensions come through. But it sure helps when it's not a chore to take a look when people constantly tell you how busy they are and how they don't have time for politics. It's not the same old, same old.

And the main thing that irks me about this nonsense is that this Liberal airhead is doing nothing but challenging the NDP airhead for Jack Layton's old seat. All this lying about "empathy, community and responsibility" is just transparent nonsense intended to take the seat of one centre-left opposition party and give it to a centre-right opposition party. In the meantime, harper gets to run rampant with his fraudulently elected majority.

Dear USA: You Can Still Torture Canadians

Thanks go to pogge for sharing this article from Prism Magazine: "Secret Cable Reveals How Ottawa Colluded with Washington to Blunt Fallout From a Security Case Gone Horribly Wrong". It's based on information from Wikileaks (who might have blood on their hands says the blood-soaked Obama administration).

In the article, the incompetents from the RCMP work with the psychopaths from US intelligence to "limit the damage" from the Arar Inquiry to their ability to toss around names and groundless allegations that result in innocent Canadians being tortured in Syria.

The cable says Giuliano Zaccardelli, who was the RCMP commissioner at the time, “fears that the recommendations (of Justice O’Connor) will seek to undermine his institution’s independence and its ability to freely and proactively share information with us.”

In a meeting with the U.S. legal attaché, the diplomatic cover usually given to the senior representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Canada, Zaccardelli said that “the hostile nature of the questions put to him by the (Arar) commission leads him to believe there will be a strong move to restrict flexibility in information-sharing and the conduct of investigations.

“Law enforcement officials will simply have to adapt and develop work-arounds to allow for continued effectiveness in investigations and prosecutions. Overall, Zaccardelli believes everything can be overcome through close cooperation, but it will take a concerted effort to make it work.”

Mr. Zaccardelli “regrets that some of the proposed recommendations will make it even more cumbersome to exchange information and confirmed that the fallout from Arar has already made it more difficult to conduct joint law enforcement operations, employ U.S. informants, and monitor conversations.”

Let's just remember something here: Who are the dangerous terrorist masterminds that CSIS and the RCMP have thwarted? Besides the four innocent men tortured in Syria, and the hapless and entrapped young men and teenagers in the "Toronto 18" that is? Can you think of anyone?

These are the super-cops who infiltrated the super-secret, well-nigh impenetrable circle of villains who planned on bringing down the entire corporate state maybe breaking some windows at the Toronto G20 Summit. In that heroic operation, our intrepid security forces did gain access to the evil-doers inner circle and, with only $1 billion plus in expenses, .... er, um, ... well, .... UTTERLY FAILED to prevent the window-smashing. (Oh, but they did brutalize some random people the next day!)

Given the paucity of actual accomplishments by our boys in red serge, it seems that all the restrictions on their freedom that Zaccardelli and his successor Bill Elliot were wailing about would not have had any significant impact on anything at all.

The article points out that neither the US intelligence agents or the RCMP expressed any remorse for having sent an innocent man to be tortured. Not only do they lack that essential humanity, they don't even reflect upon its significance for their so-called "work." The terrible fact of their own uselessness never occurs to them as they double-down on their efforts to torture even more of us as a result of their paranoid insanity.