stephen harper, the Laughable, Pathetic Coward, Part XXXIX

Is it CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge's job to suck all of the klingons off of the hairs around stephen harper's asshole until they're as clean as if they'd had a shampoo at the beauty salon?

I'm just asking a question here.

Reading Montreal Simon yesterday, I got to find out how the perpetually fearful (of everything) stephen harper has decided to rationalize his laughable, pathetic cowardice when a gunman entered the Parliament building last October.

The CBC has helpfully (because there's no way in Hell that I would ever listen to that jackass for even five minutes) provided a transcript of the recent Mansbridge-harper interview. Let's have a look, shall we?

The incidents that I mentioned, at the moment they were happening it would be hard to determine exactly what was happening, who was behind these, how involved ISIS or ISIL might be. (overlap)
Right.
Um when we've looked at them, the difference between the Canadian and the other incidents is as a leader, you were right there.
Yeah.
You were there when it happened.
Yeah. One of them anyway.
One of them. But we've never heard your story. What was it like in that room? There is a gunman on the other side of the door and there was a lot of shooting going on.
You know, Peter, as you know, I don't spend a lot of time talking about myself. At a time like that, my first responsibility and as you know, I've told you we've received some training to deal with these kinds of situations. My first responsibility is to extricate myself from such a situation so I can continue the normal functions of government and obviously extraordinary functions on a day like that.  ...

Since when is whimpering in a closet an "extraordinary function" that it's necessary the prime minister must do?

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I don't need to tell you that for everybody in Parliament that day, not just our caucus, the other caucuses, the staff and employees, it was an experience no one wants to repeat. And obviously all our various police and security agencies on the Hill, off the Hill are going over the details of that to reach some conclusions on how they can ah better prevent and better respond to such incidents (overlap) in the future.
(OVERLAP)

Notice how harper is quick to try to switch from his own sordid behaviour to the imagined reactions of others and the responses of security personnel?

Some of the people who were in that room and in the other caucus room thought that they were afraid for their lives at that moment when they heard what was going on outside that door.
Yeah, that's a fact. That's beyond a doubt.
So –
Absolutely beyond a doubt.

(IOW) "It's beyond a doubt that I was in fear for my pathetic existence. Me being a shallow narcissist and all."

What was going through your mind? I mean what were you hearing?
Um look as everybody knows, we were, you know, I told people we were – we were in a caucus room. You see, you see on the video you see security people having a fire fight chasing a gunman down the hall. You're in the caucus room there, all you hear is a whole lot of shooting coming towards you. And you don't know whether that's a fire fight or whether that's just a bunch of guys with automatic weapons wiping everybody out in their path. So you don't know what that is but obviously ah I think it's fair to say that ah for everybody in the room, we were pretty concerned. 

What drivel. The gunman (Michael Zehaf-Bibeau) had already expended most of his ammunition. A few shots were fired (one of them hitting the outer-door of the NDP caucus room across the hall from the Conservative caucus room) and then Zehaf-Bibeau ran past those rooms and around a corner to hide in an alcove near the entrance to the Parliamentary Library. It was there that he was incapacitated by a shot from Sergeant-at-Arms Vickers and then taken out in a hail of bullets from the rest of the security team. 

The thing is, harper was already crying in the closet by the time the gunman had run past his meeting room. Did he really have time to process whether those were police chasing a lone-gunman down the hall or a team of professional terrorist gunmen with body armour and automatic weapons intent on wreaking Islamic vengeance upon the infidel Parliamentarians? The answer, obviously, is "no." At the first sign of danger, harper scarpered. "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled."

Perhaps you might think that I'm being unfair to harper, expecting him to be coolly evaluating the progress of the gun battle as it was happening. But harper is going to make much of his vaunted "training" and how it helped him deal with the situation. When your "training" only results in your immediately running for a closet, it's obvious that things happened exactly like this: 

Gunfire is heard. The RCMP tells harper to hide. He hides. End of story.

And, I had this to say the first time I heard about harper's cowering:

For what it's worth, I had a gun pointed straight at my face (from perhaps 3-5 meters away), so I know they're scary. I might have wanted to hide when there had been shots fired in the hallways outside the Chamber. I'm also sure that there were security personnel who were obligated to protect the prime minister (even though that position is occupied by a usurper) and they would have been very insistent that he be taken to a safe place. I might have allowed myself to have been convinced by their insistence.
But then, if I was a guy who had bullied and brow-beaten my cabinet and caucus for a decade, and lied, cheated and stole to get where I am, I think I would have no problem telling those security people to forget about dragging me off to a broom closet.
Justin Trudeau's "slut" of a father (to quote the doughy puss-ball Ezra Levant) ignored his security detail when angry rioters were tossing bottles (and god knows what else might happen sir!) at a St. Jean-Baptist Day parade. He stayed put while many others ran for cover and earned enormous political capital for it. Here was harper's chance to prove himself an equal in courage. And he blew it.
I know one thing for certain; if I had gone into a broom closet while my colleagues faced danger, I would NOT then say "We will not be intimidated." Because, harper, you most definitely WERE intimidated.

In other words, harper had a chance to act like a leader and he failed. Simple as that. Understandable, but also, extremely embarrassing for one who constantly poses as a warrior-leader, to the extent of playing dress-up in military attire.

Were you scared?
You know, I, I think I mentioned to you, I've been trained in incidences like that. Obviously you get keyed up. But um –
What does it mean you were trained, like –
Well the RCMP has run me through some drills to simulate these kinds of situations. So ah you know, as a prime minister you're in a little bit different position of other people, Peter. ...

It's already been well established that hiding at the first sign of danger hardly counts as "training." And it's the opposite of "leadership." When a sniper took shots at the crowd during the liberation of Paris, Charles de Gaulle did not cower. He stood there, all two meters of him. (He was insane, but that's what makes a man a warrior-leader. What harper has yet to figure out is that you can't pantomime being a warrior-leader if you're a gutless coward.) 

Here, harper begins to babble about imaginary plots and his own paranoia, acting as if his ravings have anything to do with the mentally-ill man whose attack sent him cowering in fear.

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As prime minister I have access obviously to all the government's intelligence, all the security risks that are faced by the country and by me personally. 
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This would be practically nothing. Although, as the government and the news media trumpet "Islamic Fundamentalism" as this super-grave threat to our nation's existence (thus making it seem awesome to a certain sort of insecure, unbalanced men), and as long as we continue to attack predominantly Muslim countries, and (insanely enough) SUPPORT jihadist groups (in Libya, Syria, etc.) a genuine threat might emerge.

... So, you're in a different head space than most other people who are suddenly facing this kind of situation for the first time.  ...

Ah-ha-ha-ha! Ignoring for the moment that YOU were facing that kind of situation for the first time too, are you saying that if they were "trained" like you were, they would have all stampeded for the closet at the same time that you did??? You fucking imbecile!

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As I say it's a – it's a situation nobody wants to repeat. But the bigger question and obviously the questions we're looking at as we formulate additional legislation to deal with this terrorist threat is what do we have to do to protect the country writ large. That's really our main concern. 
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Given that funding for mental health programs and programs for fighting drug addiction would have prevented this guy's rampage, it's pretty revealing that you've said NOTHING about reversing your cuts to such spending. The fact of the matter harper (you fucking scum-bag) is that you WANT there to be more shit like this. Just not around you. Because it scares you, and your fearful reaction cuts into your laughable attempts to present yourself as a "strong leader."

Just the last point. Were you, as has been reported, put in a closet?
Ah you know, I'm not going to comment on that. Um ah one of the ah – one of the things you try and do in a situation like that is conceal yourself if you can. But obviously the best situation is to exit, as I said, so that you can – so the prime minister can continue to run the government and that's what we were able to do within a few minutes fortunately. 

In other words: "In answer to your useless question (since I already felt ashamed enough about hiding in the closet that I apologized to my caucus), yes, I was hiding in a closet. Can we change the subject?"

Who was the first person you called when you got out of there?
I called my mom just to assure her I was okay and ah, and ah I could tell by her voice that she was concerned.
She'd probably been watching all this.
Yeah she was watching.

What a pathetic fucking coward. What a travesty of a human being. What a bullshit interview.

I'm not going to make any comments about harper's mother. She might have had something to do with her son turning out to be such a disgusting, loathsome creature, or she might have tried her best with the material she was given and he would have been a total scum-bag no matter what.