Oh Those Fucking Liberals (Part Whatever)

I started this post this morning before taking a peek at "Progressive Bloggers" and reading about Jack Layton's worrying negotiations with stephen harper. Keep reading though ...

Check out this video of Hillary ("hard-workin' white woman") giving some self-righteous lecture about other countries' assaults on internet freedom.



The "heckler" referred to in the video's title was Ray McGovern. He'd been a CIA analyst for 27 years and has since retired. If you read "CounterPunch" though, you'll know that he's been writing there since the days of bush II, appalled as he was at that unelected regime's abuse of intelligence to orchestrate the invasion of Iraq. At Hillary's speech there, his "heckling" consisted of his standing silently with his back towards her, to protest the continuing wars in the Middle East as well as the torture of Bradley Manning:

McGovern's action was a powerful one and it threatened the Secretary of State. Two police officers roughed him up, pulled him from the audience and arrested him. As you can see from the pictures, the 71 year old McGovern, was battered and bruised, indeed his attorney reports he was left in jail bleeding.

Look how easily Clinton is able to go on with her speech, castigating other countries' assaults on freedom of speech and implying that the USA is somehow a beacon of freedom and blah, blah, blah, while the non-violent protester is physically removed.

Now check out this little example of liberal hackery. You don't have to read it. The whole thing is a respectful profile of Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley and it's like the Sherlock Holmes dog that didn't bark. There's nothing in it about how Bentley, the guy who is responsible for upholding the rule of law in Ontario has done sweet fuck all after it was discovered that his own government took orders from the Toronto police chief Bill Blair and using the World War II Public Works Protection Act, empowered the Toronto Police Service with the power to force people to have to identify themselves and submit to searches, contrary to the Charter of Rights and what civil rights advisers were telling protesters before the G20. Even more sleazy, the McGuinty government skulked about in the dead of night and enacted this legislation with determined secrecy.

And McGuinty disgustingly hides behind weasel words in a lame-ass attempt to deny his own behaviour and what it says about his concern for his fellow citizens' democratic rights.

This is what liberalism is today people. This is who they are and what they do. While "conservatives" offer the most contemptible, brazenly idiotic justifications for their abuses, liberals cloak themselves in this faux-progressive guise and proceed to pragmatically eviscerate our rights and our economic well-being.

So, what about Jack Layton even deigning to negotiate with the serial-abuser stephen harper? What about the possibility that the NDP will toss all of its credibility in the dumpster for more empty promises from harper and to avoid a potentially damaging election.

Yes, Liberal bloggers are crowing about the possible shit in the face of the NDP. Somehow all Dion's and Ignatieff's sins are forgiven and forgotten, and like a broken fucking record, this all points to the same brain-dead Liberal belief as before: that the best hope for Canadian "progressives" is to submit ourselves to the Canadian version of the US Democratic Party, and ... I can't stomach even writing about it.

Listen, if Layton caves, then it's a sad day for Canadian democracy. It's a sad day for Canada. Whoever decides to play the role of harper's goat, Layton, Ignatieff, some other Liberal, ... it doesn't matter. Our system is broken, the progressives are too busy fighting, the rest of us are either ignorant or stupid. Electoral politics is hopeless. Fuck it all, we're doomed.