From the Murder Capital Of Canada;
You declared you were “not going to sit around anymore and do nothing”. Well, you did something after the murder on Magnus. You went on vacation.
And you had your spokesman blow the citizens of Magnus off with a stirring claim of you commitment to their welfare.
He said YOU HAD A LIST. Yes, a real list of crack houses and sniff houses and booze cans that should be closed down. Sometime, when there’s resources and money and… hell, have you folks heard about the Museum for Human Rights?
Holy crap, it’s worse than I thought:
Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The museum will be unlike anything that exists today. It will be a forum for dialogue where legislation such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms will be explained and discussed.
Historical events such as the Residential Schools will be told through unique storytelling techniques employed by Aboriginal Canadian elders.
The museum will serve as an education facility for peacekeepers where they will learn about the culture of other nations before they are deployed.
Also, there will be an observatory with current i.e real-time information on human rights issues and situations from embedded journalists and activists situated around the world. Visitors will be able to access information about international rights groups and can immediately register to be advocates of these groups if they choose.
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Half of the operational budget requested from the federal government will be allocated to fund a national student human rights education and travel program. This program, unique to the CMHR, will bring 20,000 Grade 9 students from across Canada by the second year of operations to participate in a special human rights educational trip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Museum_for_Human_Rights
Just declare it a “gun free zone” and save all the money on more expensive public placebos.
Priorities all askew!
There’s also significant Federal dollars in this project isn’t there?
Poignant and well written article by Black Rod. That it’s unpaid boggles the mind, when you compare it to the dreck written in the major daily’s.
I have never understood
a) Why there would ever be a museum of human rights. Surely, real human rights are their only museum. Museums are for defunct things.
b) Why it would be in Winnipeg.
OKay, sure, rhetorical questions I know the answer to. What, precisely, is going to be in this museum? A giant picture of Pierre Trudeau, donated, doubtlessly, by his arsehole son and liberal fitishists?
What depressees me is that the CPC is giving money to this as there is a provincial election com ing and they want to help the local “conservatives”, or schmlucks.
At some point, the conservatives in this country must look to other countries and understand that, in fact, people want real conservative parties, not simulacrums.
Bob:
“The museum will serve as an education facility for peacekeepers where they will learn about the culture of other nations before they are deployed.”
What we need is a museum to warmongers so that we may have the abillity to defend ourselves.
From the title of the thread, I thought we were going to debate the infinite possibilities of Justin Trudeau. I was mistaken…THERE IS A GOD!!
ha ha ha
Jeez, Black Rod’s piece is on of the best journalisitic efforts that I’ve ever seen. Does ANYBODY have enough stick to get it into the MSM? I don’t, damit.
I’ll bet that Black Rod would even let it go as a freeby. Something that good cries out for wide distribution.
“It gives Winnipeg the chance to offer hope to the world from right here at home.”
Stupid. Kind of like lighting a candle in your window in solidarity with the world’s oppressed, you really haven’t done squat to advance the human condition.
Why not build this expensive monument to human rights should be where it would be really useful like one of the planet’s real human rights hell holes…. North Korea, Putin’s Russia, the ME, China? That would make sense to me.
My family and I had our human rights violated on Banatyne Ave, Wpg in about 1985.
For years we had enjoyed The Old Spahgetti Factory restaurant.
While walking (6 & 9 yr olds) back to our car we were confronted by a very aggressive pan handler. Even though it was not cold (September) he wore a long loose coat. As I was gettin the kids in the car he made motions that made me think he had a weapon of some kind. I pushed him back, closed the door and got the hell out of there.
We never returned for spahgetti again. We also avoided the whole downtown.
$$millions on a musem ?? … well, ok. How about some on law and order too ??
Wpg.is a hell-hole..riddled with crime,drugs,and juvenile car theives that continue to re-offend.Friends of mine came to the city from Snow Lake..had their brand new truck stolen/trashed.Response from Man.Public Ins..get a “club” anti-theft device.Not only are the little bastroids stealing vehicles,they have a new game,of running down early morning joggers.If I didn’t have to go to Wpg.for odd work assignments,I would avoid it like the plague.
They might be “savages” (amd glue-heads) to you, but they still have ‘rights’……
As a matter of fact, these maggots have more ‘rights’ than YOU do- the most important of which is a tax-payer paid lawyer to keep them out on the street, at YOUR expense!
Haw!
The ‘LAW’ is an ass, ( and the lawyers and judges intend to keep it that way).
My vehicle has been broken into/attempted theft several times in my drive way. After dutifully reporting the incidences to the police, I asked what do I do if I catch the culprit(s)? The cop’s reply was quite simple:
“You can pretty well delve out more punishment than we could.”
Therein lies the crux, delve out the punishment and then wait for the retribution, which won’t be from the authorities. It’s getting to be a mad mad world in more ways than one.
If the world had piles, Wpg is where they would be.
It is the only place, where up to now, my HR was violated, when as seems like a lot of you on here, my car was broken into in 1985. We stayed overnight at a top Hotel, valet parking, where it was parked next to an open gate. I think the valet was in the gang. Needless to say the manager and the cops just shrugged and basicaly said tough.
Never been back and dont expect to.
I am also wondering just how much longer Harper is going to keep acting like the Libs with all our money he is throwing around to buy the next election. Hope it gets him more then he looses, he has already lost mine.
…close to home, our church youth group – vbchurch.ca was in Winnepeg last month to help with the homeless and other charitable things as our youth pastor is from there.
Their van got broken into and purses and stuff stolen, even got the rocks the thieves used to smash the windows..
Real live wake up call for the kids I guess.
Jeez, crimes suffered 20 years ago? You guys don’t have a clue how bad it is now.
We had some young offenders steal a car and purposely run down a jogger in a posh area of town. The police response? At the press conference, the spokeswoman claimed it never would have happened if the car owner had installed an immobilizer.
That’s how far it’s gone: The police have no chance to punish the the thieves, and the goals now are minimizing the damages they can cause. Can you believe that? In a world-leading country?
Then you have the local MPs from the Liberal and NDP (including Judy W-L that Black Rod mentioned) party coming out against the Conservative justice reforms. Typical.
And yet the provincial Dippers look solid to win the current provincial election, which tells you either how stupid Manitobans are, or how much they suffer from Stockholm syndrome.
And this is coming from a Manitoban who just returned from five years living in Alberta, Ontario and the Yukon. (For the record, I was transferred back, and we did miss our families.)
Only proves politicians have read sheeple right. Doer now out campaigning on crackdown on crime. What a joke. After election of course it’s back to business as usual. And the media are silent on why Doer hasn’t done anything on crime in his previous 8 years in power. I thought elections were the time to put politians on the hot seat.
What a great piece, and great comments, too! The only thing that I can add is that a government that does not provide for the safety of its citizens an their property is illegitimate.
The museum last time I checked will not mention abortion so being born isn’t a human right. already I’m cynical.
Can I get some sympathy here!
I work in down town murderpeg.
A city where twice as many have died since Canada finally showed up in afghanistan than soldiers in the “bloodbath”.
Funny the Globe & Mail never shows the bodies here or fights to be at the funerals. Because they want to believe that it’s all ok but they never look at the long term crime rates, compare Canada now to 1960 and it’s a different world.
In most crime categories the “Country” Saudi Arabia Is better than the “City” of Winnipeg wonder what our rates would be like if there were 30 million winnipeggers.
Crimes in Saudi Arabia
Population: 27,019,731
Assaults: 4,705
Burglaries: 11
Car thefts: 5,573
Illicit drugs
death penalty for traffickers; increasing consumption of heroin, cocaine, and hashish; improving anti-money-laundering legislation and enforcement
Murders: 105
Murders (per capita): 0.00397456 per 1,000 people [.397456/100,000]
Prisoners: 23,720 prisoners
Rapes: 87
Rapes (per capita): 0.00329321 per 1,000 people
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines: 367
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=93
winterpig
nice place to fly over