Thomas Walkom - yes and no

[hat-tip to Accidental Deliberations], Thomas Walkom's column on the robo-call and misuse of military resources scandals is okay about describing the unprecedented anti-democratic, abusive behaviour of the harpercons. But I'll give Walkom the benefit of the doubt over his speculations on the source of stephen harper's behaviour:

Early in his political career, Harper expressed outrage at the tactics employed by Liberals, in particular their use of scaremongering and mockery to paint the party’s conservative opponents as neanderthal know-nothings.

Eventually, it seems, he decided to defeat the Liberals by outdoing them at their own game. His personal attacks on Liberal leaders Stèphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff took negative politics to a level rarely seen in Canada.

In Harper’s world, there is never a middle ground. Those who raise concerns about Canadian treatment of Afghan prisoners are labeled Taliban stooges. Those who oppose a proposed oil pipeline are called unpatriotic radicals and foreign tools.

Those who question a government bill that would give police access to personal internet information without the requirement of a judicial warrant are accused of aiding and abetting child pornographers.

In a world so sharply demarcated between good and evil, is it any wonder that zealous Conservative workers might engage in a bit of electoral fraud here and there?

You see, I don't agree with this at all. harper isn't really fighting a deluded battle of good versus evil. harper is a hypocrite. harper doesn't often reflect upon the enormity of his own scuzziness, but he gets a glimmer of it every so often, from the murk of his being. harper knows that he consciously decided to try to deflect attention from the child-raping proclivities of the Afghan government he has sent our soldiers to fight, kill and die for. harper knows that he will stop at nothing, including smearing veterans' rights activists, to condemn "the troop" to a lifetime of misery and poverty if they're wounded and therefore useless to him. harper knows that destroying public health care will cause gigantic increases in misery, poverty, rising household debt and early deaths. harper knows that the corporate assholes he smooches want nothing but to strip-mine this country of its resources and drive Canadian workers into unemployment and poverty. harper knows that federal government bureaucrats are the reason that the First Nations peoples of Attawapiskat are freezing in tents and unheated shacks, but he accuses them of mismanagement and tries to use the crisis to increase his own power and renounce our treaty obligations to them, and continues to let them freeze and suffer.

harper is a piece of shit. Electoral fraud is no different from stated contempt for the spirit and the forms of democratic government to him. It is all of no consequence. He's a third-rate con-man shilling for corporate greed-heads. His only concern for his office is to serve them and to indulge his own laughable vanity.

he is scum and he should be treated as such.