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  1. Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plans
    British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran.
    The timing of the CIA report has also provoked fury in the British Government, where officials believe it has undermined efforts to impose tough new sanctions on Iran and made an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities more likely.
    The security services in London want concrete evidence to allay concerns that the Islamic state has fed disinformation to the CIA.

  2. I’d listen to what the Israeli Intelligence Services are saying if ya want to really know what’s going on in Iran.
    The CIA reports are about what’s going on inside the Beltway.

  3. Online Poll Alert at The Ottawa Sun !! Question : Do you think Stephen Harper should work harder to fight Global Warming ? Go ahead, tell’em what they don’t want to hear.

  4. SUNDAY SPECTATOR
    December 9, 2007
    Suing for silence
    The right to free expression of opinion and belief — though constrained in its extremes during wartime — is not something that can be negotiated in a free country. For it is the most fundamental right — the queen bee in the hive, as it were. Every other freedom depends on this freedom. Take it away, and we no longer have a free country.
    A misunderstanding about this is at the root of much conflict between East and West. When cartoonists were invited by a Danish provincial newspaper to present their graphic notions of the Prophet Mohammad, there were riots right across the Muslim world. Danish, or what were believed to be Danish, targets were struck. (The right to riot, with the attendant rights to assault, vandalism, pillage, arson and so forth, are not among our fundamental rights.) Boycotts were placed on Danish products, and diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Muslim countries pressured both the Danish government and the European Union of which it is a member, to punish the cartoonists. They demanded new legislation across Europe that would criminalize any future blasphemy against Islam.
    The Danes, and the few allies who would stand with them in the heat, found themselves hopelessly explaining that in Denmark the government does not tell journalists what to write, or cartoonists what to draw. It is not in the power of a government to do that — the courts are there to prevent a government from trying — and the system can’t be changed without overthrowing everything. You might not like what is expressed — and you have the freedom to express your revulsion, even ignorantly — but you have, and ought to have, no power to silence the people with whom you disagree.
    This is an idea quite incomprehensible in Saudi Arabia, and nearly incomprehensible in Egypt. Their representatives were sincerely outraged by the failure of the Danish government to “take decisive action.” In their own countries, decisive action would have been taken.
    We, in the West, do not legislate for the Dar al-Islam (the Muslim realm). On the contrary, we endure the fallout from countries in which, because the right to free speech is not secure, opposition to authority must be expressed through violence.
    I make this hard point because it is necessary to understand. “Freedom of expression” did not develop in the West from purely idealistic motives. Nor is it necessarily a pretty thing. Like so much in civil society, we put up with it because the alternative is worse, and we’d rather cope with free speech, than with the free intimidation that results from its suppression.
    And I make this point in light of the case that has been brought against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine, before Human Rights Commissions for Canada, British Columbia, and Ontario, by the Canadian Islamic Congress, led by Mohamed Elmasry. The first two commissions have already agreed to hear the case, and thus rule on whether Mark Steyn had the right to express the opinions and beliefs in his bestselling book, America Alone, and specifically in the excerpt entitled, “The Future Belongs to Islam,” which ran in Maclean’s last year. According to the complaint, by expressing his opinions and beliefs, Mark Steyn “subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and Islamophobia.”
    That not all Muslims agree, has been made clear by members of the Muslim Canadian Congress, who have entered the fray in defence of Steyn and Maclean’s. But that is a tactical side issue.
    For more than twenty years, in this column and elsewhere, I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant’s right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgements on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover, “the process is the punishment” in these star chambers — for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.
    My hope is that this case against Mark Steyn and Maclean’s will be fruitful. It will be, if it inspires enough people — especially journalists, of all political persuasions — to express outrage at what has been done; and inspires Canada’s free citizens into the necessary political action to put an end to the human rights commissions themselves. The worst possible result, is if the case fails to produce this response.
    David Warren
    © Ottawa Citizen

  6. And now boys and girls, for your latest update on liberal hypocrisy:
    Larry Page (Google), a George Soros/Maurice Strong wannabe, got married this weekend at Richard Branson’s estate on Necker island.
    Guests were ferried in from all over the world on private jets. Bono, a liberal that defines the very essence of hypocrisy, was apparently one of the guests.
    Drive a Toyota Prius to work, buy a few carbon credits, that’s all it takes folks and if you are a wealthy liberal you are free to burn fossil fuels to your heart’s content. Al Gore himself being very familiar with this strategy.
    We had the hippie generation, and upon us now is the generation of wealthy liberal hypocrites, the do-as-I-say-but-not-as-I-do elite.

  7. I fully and strongly agree. End the Human Rights Commissions and the Human Rights Act.
    It began, as so many of our actions do, with good intentions – to deal with discrimination in employment and housing. However, it rapidly moved out of the few cases in these two areas and into the more ambiguous and lucrative area of ‘opinions’.
    What opinions do you have? What opinions do you express? If, according to section 13.1 of the Human Rights Act, you express opinions that might, just might, expose someone to ‘hatred or contempt’ – you are liable. The key phrase is
    “any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”
    Again, the focus is NOT on any evidence that your expression actually DID ‘expose anyone to ‘hatred or contempt’. Just that it might, it is ‘likely’.
    Think about this. We have in Canada, a law on our books that is based, not on actuality, not on factual evidence, but on pure speculation. This speculation is totally and completely subjective. There isn’t a shred of evidence.
    Why and how can this be permitted? It violates Section 2 of our Charter, which supposedly guarantees to us freedom of expression. In particular,
    “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
    2b. “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication”.
    Either this freedom to have a belief and express this belief is fundamental, and a basic right, or it is not. The HRC says that it is not. It is therefore in violation of the Charter.
    The Human Rights Act, Section 13.1 is in direct contradition to Section 2b of the Charter. Furthermore, the interpretation of this 13.1 section is totally subjective. No proof of any experience of ‘hatred or contempt’ is required. None. Only the suggestion by the accuser that your expression ‘might, just might’..have such a result. No proof.
    Such a clause, that bases its conclusions, not on evidence but on pure speculation, is not only open to extreme abuse (eg, as evidenced by Richard Warman’s constant complaints), but is unjust.
    It is unjust because we cannot have, in our legal system, an act that rejects evidence and that instead, relies on speculation about future events. This is a basic rejection of the foundation of our legal system, which rests on evidential proof.
    Furthermore, we cannot have, in our legal system, an act that violates a basic fundamental freedom guaranteed by the Charter, the right of freedom of expression.
    As so many have pointed out, freedom to express dissent is necessary. Expressing the opinion of a majority is hardly freedom but can be a sign of propagandic brainwashing and fear. Expressing an opinion that dissents is basic to our nature as a species endowed with the capacity to reason, to think, to analyze.
    These HRC should be shut down; they have transformed themselves into unaccountable and dangerous Thought Police. We are a democracy, not a totalitarian state. Thought Police belong only in totalitarian states.

  9. ET: End the Human Rights Commissions and the Human Rights Act. It began, as so many of our actions do, with good intentions…”
    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
    Be very careful with them.

  10. Re CBC, all L(l)iberal, all the time: I sent this to the ombudsmman this morning, with a cc to PMSH:
    “Dear Mr. Carlin
    “My husband and I listened to the 8:00 a.m. CBC news on Radio 2 this morning: the item on the demonstrations to support Kyoto was entirely unbalanced. It’s clear that the main purpose was, as usual, to uncritically support Kyoto and to criticize the Conservatives and Stephen Harper.
    “From listening to the CBC report, one would think there was no controversy about the Kyoto Accord: e.g., a demonstrator (who, ironically, ‘braved the cold’ to chastise Stephen Harper’s ‘global warming’ agenda) stated that ‘most Canadians’ support Kyoto. Documentation? None. A different opinion? None. One opinion expressed in the CBC report is that Prime Minister Harper needs to stop embarrassing Canada on the world stage, get on the bandwagon, and take climate change seriously. There are many who altogether disagree with both this anti-Harper scenario and CBC’s pro-Kyoto propaganda.
    “Off the top of my head, I can think of all kinds of counter arguments to both the CBC’s take on Kyoto and the Conservative agenda re climate change.
    “1) The Conservatives are proposing a workable formula for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Kyoto is a flawed document, which has not been ‘do-able’ by any of the signatories. Why would a responsible government stay ‘stuck on stupid’?
    “The Conservatives believe that a realistic plan is the way forward.
    “Did the CBC mention any of this? No.
    “2) Re reducing emissions: did the CBC point out that Canada’s record under the Liberals, who signed Kyoto, was abysmal?
    “(I notice that the CBC often conflates the Chretien Liberals with the Harper Conservatives. How convenient: the CBC makes a criticism of ‘the government’, while failing to point out that the failure was on the Liberals’ watch, not the Conservatives’.)
    “In fact, re Kyoto, the Liberals’ almost complete inaction—all talk, no action (typical Liberal modus operandi)—is a disgrace and highlights both their Tammany Hall tactics and their utter hypocrisy. The CBC might have pointed out that government ‘support’ for Kyoto doesn’t necessarily mean action.
    “The CBC might also have pointed out that the Conservatives have chosen to explore alternatives to the Kyoto script—maybe like the USA, which didn’t sign Kyoto. And what happened there? The Americans have a much better record re emissions than Canada did under the Liberals.
    “Obviously, there is no correlation between apparent support for Kyoto and actual emission reductions. CBC chose to overlook this fact entirely.
    “In fact, the CBC’s ‘report’ exploited this fiction. (Given that the CBC is a partisan, political operative, rather than an impartial observer and reporter, what else is new?)
    “3) Re Canadians’ support for Kyoto: for many, ‘Kyoto’ is code for less pollution, clean up our planet. However, when the true costs of the Kyoto plan are actually presented—our standard of living would fall drastically—Canadians aren’t quite so keen. In fact, on the highly costly specifics—smaller cars, higher gas prices, reduce/stop driving, reduce/stop flying, etc.—Canadians’ support for Kyoto drops off precipitously.
    “Did the CBC mention this fact? No.
    “4) Canadians also support fairness: when they find out that Kyoto is basically a money laundering scheme—’take from the rich to give to the poor’—they do not appreciate Kyoto at all. Carbon credits do NOT reduce pollution by third world countries. In fact, these credits are a means to ALLOW such countries to pollute, sometimes egregiously, at our considerable expense, as well as make certain already wealthy Westerners, with GIGANTIC carbon footprints (Al Gore, Maurice Strong, anyone?) even richer.
    “Did the CBC mention this imbalance and that Canadians don’t like being unfairly exploited by some of the biggest hypocrites on the planet? No.
    “5) Although the CBC presented Kyoto as the ‘Gold Standard’ for a greener planet, this is simply not the case. Perhaps the CBC could have mentioned that a number of accredited scientists, some involved in writing the original IPCC report, who share the Nobel prize with Gore, and who wished to present a dissenting view at Bali, have been denied the opportunity. Scientists, who have nothing to hide, welcome alternate hypotheses: they don’t censor them.
    “Did the CBC use this or any other evidence to question the credibility of Kyoto? No.
    “(Is the CBC even aware of the difficulty they’re having in Bali, trying to accommodate the large number of private jets arriving for the conference?)
    “The CBC’s sterling representation of Kyoto and its demonization of those who question it does not tell the whole story at all. In fact, I believe that’s the very idea at CBC: whitewash Kyoto and tarnish the Conservatives.
    “Shame on the CBC.
    “Sincerely
    “My Name
    (who lives in a modest, semi-detached house, drives a compact, gas efficient car, and hasn’t been in a plane in the last ten years)”
    I can’t repeat my opinion of the CBC in polite company, so please imagine the worst!
    Canadians, whose money is extorted to support the CBC, can’t be free of this propaganda machine soon enough.

  12. With the greatest respect for the opinions of my fellow travellers–not the trolls–here at SDA, and, as an English teacher, I’d like to give a brief grammar lesson. (Correct usage always adds to the credibility of one’s argument.)
    1) Re: There, They’re, and Their:
    a) “There” connotes place: E.g., THERE are three birds in the tree. Please wait over THERE.
    b) “They’re” is a contraction (a sort of compound word) for “they are”: the apostrophe (‘) takes the place of the missing letter “a” in the word “are”.
    E.g., THEY’RE [they are] coming for dinner tonight.
    c) “Their” is both a pronoun and an adjective, which denotes POSSESSION–“belonging to them”.
    E.g., The children bought some flowers for THEIR mother.
    2) Re It’s and Its:
    IMO, BOTH should be spelled “it’s”, but it’s [it is] not up to me!
    a) “It’s” is a contraction for “it is”. The apostrophe takes the place of the missing “i” in “is”:
    E.g., IT’S [it is] too bad you can’t come.
    b) THIS IS QUITE SUBVERSIVE:
    “Its”–with NO APOSTROPHE–is the POSSESSIVE.
    (I believe “its” is the only possessive which drops the apostrophe before the “s”.)
    E.g., The dog eats ITS (NOT “it’s” as one would reasonably expect) bone before it goes for ITS walk.
    Honestly, I’m not doing this to be a horrible prig, but to spruce up our image and add to our credibility. As I say to my students, “If there’s a proper way to do things, it’s up to you to find out what it is and DO IT!”
    All the best 😉

  13. Many thanks, ET.
    I know what the response will be from the CBC: “Who, little old us? We see no evil here at all.”
    I write the CBC ombudstoady–he’s a CBC employee for Pete’s sake–not for fairness, but for a “paper trail”. When the Conservatives are finally, God willing, in a position to “throw the blighters out”, my cases will provide some of the documentation they might need.
    As my uncle used to say, “What a crew!”

  14. Jihadism, Liberalism and Perversion
    By Stephen Rittenberg, MD
    Our frequent exposure to the exhibitionistic snuff porn of Jihadis has prompted numerous attempts at psychological explanation. Clinicians know how comforting it is to have a diagnostic label. Correct diagnosis can be the first step to cure.
    There are problems, however, with psychological diagnosis. In totalitarian states, dissidents are often locked up in ‘mental hospitals’ for their ‘crazy’ behavior. They are diagnosed as ‘sociopaths’ and ‘narcissists’, interested in individual freedom rather than behaving like ‘normal’ conformists to the system. Shrinkwrapped (Sophisticated Diagnosis) has commented on the various problems with psychiatric diagnosis in our own culture, including its tendency to relieve the ‘sick’ person of responsibility for his actions. […]
    In our politically correct age, the word ‘perversion’ has been banished from the circles of multicultural academia, literary and journalistic usage. It is, we are instructed, ‘judgmental’, tends to unfairly ‘normalize’ heterosexuality and is, like the ‘N-word’, insulting. It creates hierarchical differences and that is illiberal.
    Nevertheless, despite the efforts to remove it from the language and/or because of that effort, it still carries an emotional charge. In a time when gleeful murderous terrorists blow themselves up daily, it behooves us to face the reality that militant Islamic jihadism is a perversion and its practitioners derive a gratification that is more than simply defensive against feeling of inadequacy. …- (americanthinker)
    http://tinyurl.com/2zpyu9

  15. Pickton guilty on all six counts, but of second degree murder, not first degree.
    Now we wait to see what the sentence is.

  16. Andrew Coyne has an excellent column against the censorship activities of the Human Rights Commission. I urge everyone to read his column in full.
    http://andrewcoyne.com/columns/2007/12/right-to-censor-others.php
    A few excerpts:
    “There are a great many people in this country who seem to have no clue about what freedom of speech means, or why it was invented. What is astonishing is to find so many of them in the employ of the human rights commissions.
    No: rather, I wish I were astonished. What’s truly astonishing is that the commissions should have been granted such powers to begin with. As Alan Borovoy, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, argued recently, “during the years when my colleagues and I were labouring to create such commissions, we never imagined that they might ultimately be used against freedom of speech.” To be acting as censors, he wrote, was “hardly the role we had envisioned for human rights commissions.”
    Amen. Yet the commissions have been allowed to stray, far from their original purpose of preventing discrimination in employment and housing, into the nebulous world of expression
    I don’t propose to get into the merits of their complaint: suffice to say I think it is baseless. The point is, I shouldn’t have to. Maclean’s shouldn’t have to. There is only one proper outcome for this affair: not merely that the CIC’s complaint should be thrown out, but that the commissions’ power to hear such cases should be removed. They have no business meddling with speech.”
    Agreed. These Human Rights Commissions should be abolished. They are operating, essentially, outside the law. Yes, they appear to be ‘inside the law’ because they were set up within the legal system. But, they are outside of the law because they have moved outside of the realm of facts, evidence, actual connections between cause and effect — and into the realm of pure speculation and imagination. On this, on speculation and fiction – they base their judgments. This is unacceptable in a democracy.
    Freedom of speech is an inalienable right. These Human Rights Commissions have no right to censor this right.

  17. “The science is very clear — it’s loud, articulate and incontrovertible. On this basis I think it’s time the world moved on,” Mr. Pachauri told Reuters a day before he and climate activist Al Gore receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.”
    From Nat’l Post. A Nobel Prize winner has spoken, there is no need for further debate.
    I know all who post here will quickly fall into line. 😉

  18. Bruce….it would be a fair sentence if he was sentenced to life(which we know means 25yrs/15 under faint hope clause)BUT to be served CONSECUTIVELY,not CONCURRENTLY.Again this is where the Lieberals sucked us in.When we agreed to get rid of the death sentence,they guareenteed us life would mean LIFE.Why do we keep falling for the crap out of these lyibg scum’s mouths?

  19. lookout….not a problem.We all probably could use a good English refresher course now and then,especially if you have growing kids/grandkids :):):)

  21. News article’s of China’s excess monies.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071207.r-cover-side08/BNStory/Business
    &
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071207.r-cover08/BNStory/Business
    Read readers comments on last article.
    Nothing came up as China started to black market toys, clothes, electronic hardware, parts for vehicles. These things were payed in Foreign Currency that was shelved for later use. Now for last fifteen years plus they have been using this to boost their own dollar. Claiming they are a poor country, getting businesses to put factories in Asia countries so they can maximize their own GDP.
    Float the Chinese currency along the rest of the foreign currencies and see what becomes of it. The world consumers would be surprised at the cost of built in China products.
    Example: Buying Chinese products at a Walmart:
    The coffee pot with Canadian label: When the coffee pot lid busts, try to get it fixed on warranty. On the bottom of the Walmart till slip they will only cover it for 90 days. Send it to office of the manufacture, they will forward it to the repair center and “low and behold”, THEY DO NOT HAVE PART OR CANNOT GET PART, so you are without a coffee pot. Suggestion “BUY NEW ONE” with same warranty.
    Example: Coleman Boots: were made in USA until 4 yrs ago, manufactures in China. Try to get the same wear out of the boot that was good for 2 to 3 years. You will be lucky if you get +-12 months out of them. They only cost 100 dollars at the local Canadian tire store.
    I really think that all people should be demanding of their manufactures, that they will put out a better product and where it is made, products it made from and where it assembled. I think people would start to think of what has this manufacturer, country has done in the past and for the future.
    Like to here more posts on this from ordinary working people instead of MSM. Merle Underwood.

  22. Hey, Merle, I’d like to hear more too!
    Also being a teacher, lookout, I also fight the battle of too, to, two, hear, here, there, they’re, their.
    No wonder non-English speakers have such a problem with writing and reading English. Apparently, learning to speak English isn’t all that difficult, which may have something to do with the fact that to conjugate a verb, you have only to add an “s” to the third person singular: s/he runs, etc. That’s WAY easier than conjugating either French or Spanish verbs. ‘Can’t speak for other languages, though I know that conjugating verbs is the specialty of many languages (German, Eastern European languages, etc.)
    Did Picton get second-degree murder only because they weren’t sure who ground the bodies into mincemeat?
    Second-degree murder doesn’t seem right somehow. Picton should be put away not only for a long time. He should be put away forever, and made to do some meaningful work to in some tiny sliver of a way give back to society/the families what’s been lost.
    The man is obviously depraved almost beyond imagination. The Cohen brothers gave us one body put through a wood chipper in Fargo, but that was a movie.

  23. Another one goe horribly wrong?
    Ottawa Sun Poll today
    Do you think Stephen Harper should work harder to fight global warming?
    Yes 40%
    No 60%
    Total Votes for this Question: 1068

  24. “insurgents” = 30 dead Muslim Taliban perverts.
    More, please, and faster.
    …-
    Canadian and Afghan troops capture IED factory in Panjwai-area
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A coalition force led by Canadian soldiers captured a Taliban explosives factory and cleared insurgents operating around a highway in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province.
    The Canadian military says a Canadian unit, a company of Afghan army troops and a Nepalese company backed by artillery and air support took on insurgent elements that had been operating around Highway One.
    The military says the explosives factory that was captured Saturday produced improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
    Kandahar Police Chief Sayed Aka Fakid claims that coalition forces killed 30 insurgents and wounded nine more.
    There were no Canadian casualties and only one Afghan soldier was wounded.
    Panjwai district has been the scene of bitter fighting off and on for the past couple of years. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937027/posts

  25. I heard a new insult today on TV. Howie Long (on the Fox NFL pregame show) was being critical of Mike Martz, now coaching the Detroit Lions. He said, ‘Mike Martz is the Al Gore of football coaching, Al Gore still thinks he’s the President, and Mike Martz thinks he’s still coaching his old Rams team.’

  26. Cutting the heads off the Muslim Taliban snakes.
    …-
    “This follows the coordinated decapitation campaign against Taliban leadership elements inside the district for the past several months.”
    Musa Qala, Afghanistan- Operation Snake Pit pounds Taliban stronghold
    The massive Coalition assault on Musa Qala, dubbed Operation Mar Kardad (Snake Pit), scored its first series of casualties against the swarm of Taliban and foreign fighters entrenched in the city center. A targeted air strike killed a local commander known to be involved in arm and drug trafficking along with several of his aids, according to a US military statement. The three pronged assault on the city’s outskirts was launched yesterday with thousands of Afghan army and British troops along with US, Danish and Estonian forces taking part in the operation.
    Local Taliban commanders have previouslyclaimed having nearly 2,000 fighters including suicide bombers in position to defend the city, a figure ISAF officials have publicly doubted.
    The only exit route is north, which leads to the rugged mountain district of Baghran. Afghan government officials have urged the Taliban to lay down their arms and exit north, an offer many fighters are reportedly taking. The AP reports that scores of fighters are exiting the northern route dressed as civilians. Still, stubborn Taliban commanders inside the city are claiming they will fight to the death. It is widely known that the Taliban have spent many of the last ten months sowing the avenues into the city with anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937104/posts
    Commenter # 1:
    This follows the coordinated decapitation campaign against Taliban leadership
    Off with their heads!!!!!

  27. I now have the transcript of Dalton McGuinty’s statist response to the question of protecting property rights (especially farmers’ rights).
    Basically he is saying that individual’s are incapable, so the state must do everything (e.g. no home schooling – the state educates all):
    MPP Randy Hillier Makes Queen’s Park Debut
    (Queen’s Park) Newly elected MPP Randy Hillier of Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington made his speaking debut in Queen’s Park today. Mr. Hillier began by welcoming 150 visiting members of the Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) to the Gallery at Queen’s Park, reminding the Assembly that the OLA promotes the principals of democracy, natural justice, strong local government, and represents the interests of the rural community. Mr. Hillier then sought and received unanimous consent from the House that “those (OLA members) present be permitted to wear the distinctive shirts that signify their membership in this very important organization,” upon which the Landowners displayed their recognizable ‘Back Off Government’ shirts. Then the following exchange was recorded in Hansard on Dec 6, 2007
    “PROPERTY RIGHTS
    Mr. Randy Hillier: My question is for the Premier. The people of rural Ontario and our economy are suffering attack after attack from the McGuinty government. Excessive and costly regulations, red tape and disrespect for democracy have become the stock-in-trade of your government. From mills to markets to mines, the people of my riding and of rural Ontario are suffering at the hands of your government.
    Premier, your legislation allows prospectors and government agents to trespass on and destroy private property. Your ministers dismissed the unanimous will of our local communities. Your legislation deprives people of due process. The people in this gallery and myself ask you, will you end this injustice? Will you show respect for the people of rural Ontario? And will you move to protect their properties and their livelihoods by entrenching property rights?
    Hon. Dalton McGuinty: Let me say first of all that I welcome the member, congratulate him upon his election and offer him my very best wishes as he assumes his responsibilities. I think it will quickly become apparent that we have a significantly different perspective on the province, on our values and on our responsibilities. I happen to believe this is the greatest province in the best country in the world, and I start with that as my foundation.
    The member champions an anti-government movement. I’ll speak for a moment just in my capacity as an Ontario citizen. I count on my government to build, staff and maintain my schools so my kids can go there because I can’t do that on my own. I count on my government to build, staff and maintain hospitals because my family can’t do that on its own. I count on my government to protect our air and protect our water because I can’t do that on my own. I count on my government to strengthen this economy because I can’t do this on my own. I believe in government.
    1500
    Mr. Randy Hillier: I ask the Premier to read pages five and six of his throne speech, where you state that you have a plan for jobs, “good, high-paying jobs” that “put food on our … tables.”
    Now, look around at the Liberal reality; look to the galleries and look into the faces of rural Ontario, and there you will see: Earl Saar, who lost his sawmill to the MOE; Gary Nicols, who is losing his business to the MNR; Bob Mackie, whose archery business was targeted by the NAC; Dave Honey, a juice grape farmer, squeezed out while OMAFRA watches; Bert Weery, who is fighting to keep his farm from the hands of the Attorney General; and Mr. Arnold Geisburger, whose crime was to cut firewood.
    Will you make your throne speech meaningful by entrenching property rights in this House?
    Hon. Dalton McGuinty: I just cannot share such a negative perspective, embraced by a man who is so young to be so negative.
    We have continued to work hand in hand with all Ontarians, including those who are blessed with the privilege of living in beautiful rural Ontario. We have worked hand in hand to improve the quality of their schools, hand in hand to improve the quality of their health care. These are things, people, of universal interest to all Ontarians. We worked hand in hand to strengthen their economy, for example, with our RED program. We worked hand in hand as well to protect the quality of the environment. We have learned a lot from Ontario farmers in particular. Apart from our First Nations, they are the original stewards of our land.
    My pledge to rural Ontarians is that we will continue to work with them, hand in hand, to not only maintain but to enhance the special quality of life that is only to be found in rural Ontario.”

  28. I now have the transcript of Dalton McGuinty’s statist response to the question of protecting property rights (especially farmers’ rights).
    Basically he is saying that individual’s are incapable, so the state must do everything (e.g. no home schooling – the state educates all):
    Mr. Randy Hillier: … will you show respect for the people of rural Ontario? And will you move to protect their properties and their livelihoods by entrenching property rights?
    Hon. Dalton McGuinty: …the member champions an anti-government movement. I’ll speak for a moment just in my capacity as an Ontario citizen. I count on my government to build, staff and maintain my schools so my kids can go there because I can’t do that on my own. I count on my government to build, staff and maintain hospitals because my family can’t do that on its own. I count on my government to protect our air and protect our water because I can’t do that on my own. I count on my government to strengthen this economy because I can’t do this on my own. I believe in government.
    1500
    Mr. Randy Hillier: I ask the Premier to read pages five and six of his throne speech, where you state that you have a plan for jobs, “good, high-paying jobs” that “put food on our … tables.”
    Now, look around at the Liberal reality; look to the galleries and look into the faces of rural Ontario, and there you will see: Earl Saar, who lost his sawmill to the MOE; Gary Nicols, who is losing his business to the MNR; Bob Mackie, whose archery business was targeted by the NAC; Dave Honey, a juice grape farmer, squeezed out while OMAFRA watches; Bert Weery, who is fighting to keep his farm from the hands of the Attorney General; and Mr. Arnold Geisburger, whose crime was to cut firewood.
    Will you make your throne speech meaningful by entrenching property rights in this House?
    Hon. Dalton McGuinty: I just cannot share such a negative perspective, embraced by a man who is so young to be so negative.
    We have continued to work hand in hand with all Ontarians, including those who are blessed with the privilege of living in beautiful rural Ontario. We have worked hand in hand to improve the quality of their schools, hand in hand to improve the quality of their health care. These are things, people, of universal interest to all Ontarians. We worked hand in hand to strengthen their economy, for example, with our RED program. We worked hand in hand as well to protect the quality of the environment. We have learned a lot from Ontario farmers in particular. Apart from our First Nations, they are the original stewards of our land.
    My pledge to rural Ontarians is that we will continue to work with them, hand in hand, to not only maintain but to enhance the special quality of life that is only to be found in rural Ontario.”

  29. Sorry, I tried to shorten the quote so my posting would get through, but the longer version seems to have been posted anyway.
    As for my English, individual’s should read individuals of course.

  31. “That thought fills Sunni Arabs with dread. “If we accept Iran as a nuclear power that is like accepting Hitler in 1933-34,” warned one senior Arab official, using the kind of analogy that back in Washington would get him dismissed as a neocon warmonger.”
    The Gulf States and Iran
    America and Israel aren’t the only ones worried about the mullahs getting a nuclear bomb.
    BY MAX BOOT
    The release of the new National Intelligence Estimate will provide more fodder for those who claim that “neoconservative ideologues” and the “Israel lobby” are overly alarmed about the rise of Iran. In reality, some of those most worried about the mullahs wear flowing headdresses, not yarmulkes, and they have good cause for concern, notwithstanding the sanguine tilt many news accounts put on the NIE.
    I recently visited the Persian Gulf region as part of a delegation of American policy wonks organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Throughout our meetings in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the top issue was Iran’s ambitions to dominate the region.
    Evidence of those imperial designs is not hard to find. …-
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010968
    …-
    Iranian Protesters Demand Release of Students (Several cities throughout Iran involved)
    VOA
    Iranian state media say students have staged a demonstration at Tehran University, damaging the main gate.
    The state-run IRNA news agency says the protesters Sunday chanted slogans against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students.
    The incident comes a day after intelligence agents arrested several people at Tehran University for allegedly planning an illegal demonstration. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937055/posts

  32. Nicola…thank you for that info.Hillier has backbone.
    I’m reminded again that the reason the Libs are back in Ontario is because Tory is a red Tory.Why didn’t Tory make any of this an election issue?

  33. Thanks lookout. On the topic correctness We should also stop using the terrorists language to identify them and start using proper labels. First off, terrorists do not practice jihad, they practice hirabah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirabah). Second the terrorists are not mujahideen they are mufsid (http://www.google.ca/url?sa=X&start=0&oi=define&q=http://www.ndu.edu/csc/docs/Choosing%2520Words%2520Carefully–Language%2520to%2520Help%2520Fight%2520Islamic%2520Terrorism%252024%2520May%252006.doc&usg=AFQjCNEbGWIgqI2QMozmzLCUZ8cLlBBFxA).
    The difference between the first two is that jihad is a holy or “good” struggle and hirabah is a corrupt or “bad” struggle. The difference between the second two is that mujahideen are involved in jihad and mufsid are involved in hirabah. A more accurate description of a mufsid is an evil or corrupt person.

  35. All our success in Afghanistan is for naught as long as we let millions of muslims emigrate to the west.

  37. Can Conservative Ottawa swallow yesterday’s man?
    NOTE: The title of this article has been changed by the T.O. Star. (Advisory by National Newswatch)
    …-
    Brian Mulroney’s return to Ottawa
    (TO Red Star)

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