Archive for: June 2006

Perhaps just to add insult to injury, James Loney, possibly the world’s most carefully selectively-out-of-the-closet homosexual, has joined a protest march to bellyache about detained terror suspects being held as threats to national security. It’s enough to remind me of a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s “Natural Born Killers:”

WARREN RED CLOUD: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, “Why have you done this to me?” And the snake answered, “Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake.”

Pull your head out of your arse, Jimmy-boy, and make up your mind whose side you’re on: the country that protects you or the fanatics who will saw off your melon just because you’re gay?

That didn’t take long, did it? Just when the usual suspects were popping out of the woodwork to scold us for our paranoia, a deadly plot (involving three times the explosives used in the deadly Oklahoma City bombing) was uncovered in Toronto to target innocent Canadian citizens for nothing other than being who we are. CTV coverage (and plenty of it) can be found here. On the other hand, the Ministry of What You Should Think has chosen the typical, sheepish, goodthinker angle.

Following a massive raid, authorities have released the following names and addresses of the adult suspects in an al-Qaida-inspired domestic terror cell:

Five more suspects cannot be named because they are under 18 and therefore fall under the protection of the YCJA. Isn’t that nice? We have now shown every terrorist-minded bugger in the world exactly how to target his recruitment techniques in order to obtain a perfectly anonymous operative in Canada. These aren’t a few dumb kids that got caught joyriding or pinching a CD from the local music shop; these little bastards were planning to murder hundreds of people, if not more. We have every right to know exactly who they are, where they are, and what they’re up to every waking moment of their lives from now on.

“There’s been an explosion on the subway.”

It’s the kind of phone call that makes you sick to your stomach. Those words were shouted by a frantic contact who really thought this was it. A lot of people thought the same thing — the terrorists have finally got to us.

So begins the latest article by Toronto Sun columnist Joe “Scrawler” Warmington in today’s edition. It seems that even in the ever-so-tolerant Centre of the Universe, they are beginning to get it through their heads that the bad guys won’t leave us alone forever just because we’re Canadian. An earlier article along this line, also by Joe, can be found here.

Holy double standards, Batman. Will somebody please explain to me just why it is that when the HypoGrits go talking all tough, they’re saving the whole world but when a Tory talks tough, he’s just being a big, mean, nasty, intolerant, backward, anti-whatever knuckledragger?

What’s that, you say? I’m just being a stereotypical, paranoid, right-wing nut-job? Well then, just chew on these examples, why don’t you:

Schools
First off, there are the soothsayers of doom and gloom at TO’s school board who are howling the same old same old once again. “Schools and pools are closing, oh my! Send money before it’s too late!”

The TDSB had themselves a little chinwag earlier this week to stage their latest production of the long running hit, Chicken Little Knows Best, and declare in duly prophetic and ominous tones that 64 schools and 77 pools will need to be closed if the Grits don’t pony up a great, green glob of government goodies, and damn quick. Now, why does this sound so familiar? Waitaminit, I heard it last year; and the year before that, come to think of it. Hell, when the Tories were running the show, they turned this little begfest into something resembling an annual pilgrimage, complete with a Grim Reaper prancing about in front of one news conference and prophesying apocalyptic consequences if the moochers didn’t get everything they wanted.

When Chainsaw Mike and Evasive Ernie were running the show, it was headline news whenever these bozos pinched a loaf about funding. Remember that these are the same 77 pools the board threatened to can in ’99, 2000, ’01 and ’02 that we’re talking about here. Now that the Natural Governing Party is in charge, it barely rates ink. For a guy who wants to be known as the “Education Premier,” McSquinty sure is heading bassackwards on this one. Education Minister Sandra Pupatello was equally befuddling yesterday:

“I don’t know if it’s the same clip I’m seeing or if it’s just a re-run clip from last year,” she burbled to the press yesterday. “They are the largest landowner in the city of Toronto … they are sitting on a lot of very valuable property but they have declining enrolment, 10,000 fewer students, yet they have had an 11% increase in funding.”

If I didn’t know better, I’d think Sandy was channeling the ghost of Paul Christie. You remember him, right? The mean old board supervisor the Tories appointed who was demonized in the press for noticing the same things as Pupatello.

Elections
Second, we have Harper’s plan for fixed dates for federal elections. The TO Red Star crowd freaked out, with letters to the editor asking how ol’ Steve can have the gall to “arbitrarily change the parliamentary system into the American model in the blink of an eye?” Huuuhhh??? Harper suggests something and these bozos drop bricks in their BVDs but when McSquinty went ahead and did the same thing, nobody so much as broke wind over it.

For all that fuss, the fact remains that all fixed election dates do is to pull the “we can call an election whenever the polls are good for us” rug out from under the sitting government. This is not such a bad thing. And besides, whatever criticisms I may have about the Yanks, they are still a democracy. We’re talking fixed election dates here, folks, not fixed elections.

Courts
Then there’s Caledonia. Highway 6 is still blocked, there is no end in sight, and the province was called on the carpet yesterday to explain to superior Court Judge David Marshall just why the hell his court order to remove the protesters hasn’t been enforced. Now I wonder what would happen if Tories were to bang heads with a judge?

Ontario is supposed to be governed by the rule of law, but McSquinty and his gang have instead decided to deal with this by throwing a bunch of taxpayers’ cash (we don’t get to know just how much) to the town, local businesses and the developers of the disputed land. Nothing at all about dealing with the “occupiers” of the disputed land.

The fact is, if you allow lawlessness in one place, it just primes other malcontents to break the law somewhere else. Don’t believe me? Consider that natives have set up an information picket at the Brantford casino, saying they own that site. If this sounds familiar, it’s because that’s how the Caledonia clusterfiddle started out, and Tory critic Bob Runciman was looking for answers in the House yesterday:

“Can you advise us if you’re taking action to deal with the Brantford challenge, or are you once again going to sit on the sidelines until the situation deteriorates and becomes Caledonia Two?” Runciman demanded to acting premier Gerry Phillips.

Sorry, Bob, but I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one if I were you. The Grits are far more interested in politically correct optics than in law and order. After all, it’s not like anybody is trying to take over one of their homes.

Enough is enough. The time has come for the federal government to knock off the Pontius Pilate act and take action on the situation in Caledonia. If the natives have a legitimate claim to make, let them do it through the courts like everybody else. No other group in this country could pull a stunt like this (and so frequently, too) and get away with it. If a bunch of whites were to try such a “stand off,” the riot squad would dispatched posthaste and the “occupiers” would be cooling their heels in no time flat.

The mayor of Caledonia gets pilloried for saying that locals are being hurt economically by the protest and is accused of implying that the protesters are on welfare. Correct me if I’m wrong, but they had been occupying the site for about two months at that point; what kind of boss lets you just pick up and take that much time off to go and man a barricade? No boss I ever worked for would.

Phoney KKK pamphlets were distributed. There’s nothing like playing the race card, don’t you know?

Henco Industries, the developer of the land that all this fracas is is being raised over has been told that he can have back valuable documents that were looted from the site on April 20 – but only if the looters get paid for them!

It’s gotten so screwy that even the judge that issued the original order to have the natives removed back in April is starting to demand answers.