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January 14, 2009

If Canada Were The Nation Michael Byers Dreams Of

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He'd be beaten by guards and force fed.

Posted by Kate at January 14, 2009 12:40 PM
Comments

Call yourself Small Dead Brains

Posted by: Anon mon at January 14, 2009 12:45 PM

He's nuts! Isn't this the guy who also wanted to shut down the oilsands? Looooney tuuuuunes.

Posted by: Soccermom at January 14, 2009 12:54 PM

Call yourself Anon mon coward.

Posted by: JohnPeg at January 14, 2009 12:55 PM

Anon Mon Troll:
Did you think up that brilliant line by yourself or did you get help from the hungry prof?

Posted by: Ghost of Ed at January 14, 2009 1:02 PM

>He'd be beaten by guards and force fed.

When I click the force fed link my SpywareDetector terminates the connection and warns "Suspisious Link to 216.40.33.252.IP" Connection Terminated and shuts down the IE program.


Posted by: Oz at January 14, 2009 1:13 PM

Force Fed link works for FF & AVG Free

Journalists imprisoned in Cuba - on hunger strike.

Careful of what you ask for, Byers.

http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2007/03/hunger_strike_d.html

Posted by: ron in kelowna at January 14, 2009 1:18 PM

Force fed? Whatever for? Let the cretin starve.

Faster please.

Posted by: Warwick at January 14, 2009 1:23 PM

You're bunch of jackasses. Nutjobs. F.O.

Posted by: Anon mon at January 14, 2009 1:38 PM

Another brilliant witticism by morn mon.

Posted by: john at January 14, 2009 1:45 PM

Don't feed the trolls. Especially retarded ones.

Posted by: Warwick at January 14, 2009 2:11 PM

This is just like those Soviet loving Reporters. Who blackballed the real ones as acting shills for the communists. They have there eyes firmly sewn shut. That way the kick backs with entitlements keep flowing to this Puta's ( Spanish for whore) way.

Posted by: Revnant Dream at January 14, 2009 2:19 PM

Michael Byers is both disingenuous and dishonest. As a frequent (read: media whore) 'expert opinion' on CKNW and other stations, he was invariably introduced as a Professor of Int'l Studies at UBC.

The intent of course, was to put himself out as not only an 'expert' but as a disinterested, even handed and unbiased source of accurate information.

More than once I've called or e-mailed the host to first point out and then insist that he ask Byers about any active political associations. When caught out, he would reluctantly admit that he is a supporter of the NDP (this is prior to his becoming an NDP candidate)and that he supported them both financially and with strategic advice.

He is typical of the commie/leftist mindset. Power by whatever means possible: stealth, dis-information, misrepresentation, you name it.

And he is teaching our kids.

Posted by: No Guff at January 14, 2009 2:42 PM

Byers will end his hunger strike before it succeeds, since he plans to run as a Dipper again. Technically, you can't run as a dead candidate, just a dead-beat one.

Posted by: aek at January 14, 2009 2:49 PM

What is Byers' motivation ? Just a nut-case ?

But what about the saying - 'There is a reason for everything' ?

Any dots to connect ?

- Flunky Prof can't make it in the real world, the democratic world, the competitive world, so he doesn't want them to exist.

- French Nazi collaboration.

- Fanatical Enviros pushing an economy destroying fraud.

- A child picking up his marbles and going home.

- Cutting off the nose to spite the face.

- Many Journalists socialist agenda.

- Capitalism, the uneven distribution of wealth. Socialism, the even distribution of misery.

- Trudeau's, Perpetrator Rights trumps Victim Rights ideology.

Posted by: ron in kelowna at January 14, 2009 3:01 PM

Typical ndp idiot. Why is it talk show hosts like Bill Good keep interviewing these left wingnut clowns..

When I heard him on the radio saying he was going on a hunger strike I thought yea right.I wanted to phone in and suggest it wasn't serious cause its only for a week. And I suppose he will have water so he doesn't dehydrate and food if he gets hungry.

Horny Toad

Posted by: Horny Toad at January 14, 2009 3:03 PM

Horny Toad, we had the smelly newly minted liberal leader of Alberta also on a hunger strike not long ago, don't worry these lib/ndp assh...s have about as much resolve as an Indian blockade in 30 below. These poopsies will be grovelling at the feet of the first pony-tailed scraggly bearded prof that walks by with a tofu sandwich. I agree, why do radio hosts think they have to showcase every misfit in the asylum, other that to boost ratings, listen to Adler for a day and you will see that. Looks like anons mom finally kicked him out of the basement, and Starbucks aint hiring.

Posted by: bartinsky at January 14, 2009 3:11 PM

Actually reading the recent article about Byers "hunger strike relay", he only has to fast for a week then some other dead beat socialist takes over until they triumph and crush western civilization as we know it. Hunger strike relay? True courage in the faculty of UBC...

Posted by: Rick Rae at January 14, 2009 3:14 PM

Never hoid o' da mook.

Posted by: mojo at January 14, 2009 3:37 PM

I may be wrong on this but I believe Byers was one of the 'experts' behind the whole 'mistreated detainee'farce a year or two back. Now,our soldiers rarely take detainees,and I doubt if the scum make it back to whatever sewer they came from. Also ,if memory serves me correctly,Mr. Byers has more than a passsing acquantance with Ignatieff.

Posted by: wallyj at January 14, 2009 4:00 PM

Byers is doing it only for the publicity; his stunt certainly doesn't help anyone other than himself.

He's also viciously anti-American, anti-Iraq war, and quite frankly, a typical sophist leftist. Oh, he's also an ardent Kyoto and AGW type, informing us that Harper is ignoring 'the planet burning'. Pro-Arar (remember him - the man whose claim that he was tortured was accepted only on his word?)

He actually holds what is called a Canada Research Chair, a funded research position, in 'Global politics and international law'; part of the ubiquitous and amorphous 'social justice' leftist perspective.

Posted by: ET at January 14, 2009 4:32 PM

Now if he volunteered as a frycook at a KFC and donated the proceeds I would take him seriously.

Posted by: Speedy at January 14, 2009 5:21 PM

What a vapid statement, ulianov. I'm against Byers because I've read his biased, ignorant articles.

Are you saying, seriously, that if one rejects the nonsense that Byers writes, that this also means that one accepts 'jailing journalists, librarians and human rights activists"? Kindly link those two variables together.

Here are two paragraphs from an article by Byers:

"He [Harper] has also picked unnecessary quarrels with China over human rights, Russia over the Arctic and Iran over ambassadors, rather than seizing opportunities to constructively engage these increasingly important states.

In Afghanistan, Harper has stubbornly opposed negotiations with dissident groups, shown a casual disregard for the rights of detainees, and seems to view the mission mostly as a way of currying favour with the United States."

Now, ulianov, please tell me why these examples, and there are many more in Byer's writings, can't be critiqued as examples of deep bias, self-assumed and ungrounded opinions about China, human rights, Russia and the Arctic, and as usual, his hostility to the US.

Oh, and please explain how criticizing Byers for his bias and his ungrounded and strictly personal opinions, also means that one approves jailing librarians.

Posted by: ET at January 14, 2009 5:31 PM

Ulianov: Kate does sarcasm, you do stupid.

Posted by: rebarbarian at January 14, 2009 6:03 PM

Byers? The same one who was teaching at UBC??

What a jerk.

Posted by: OMMAG at January 14, 2009 6:37 PM

Simply reference THIS .... to understand the exact worth of Byers' scribble.

Posted by: OMMAG at January 14, 2009 6:40 PM

"Technically, you can't run as a dead candidate,"

Why not,aek? The lieberals/dippers have dead people voting for them,why not a dead candidate?

Posted by: Justthinkin at January 14, 2009 6:51 PM

Of all people [ET], I thought you would understand the sarcasm. After all, in the previous week you were called a terrorist loving egg head when you didn't voice unequivocal support for Israel. Posted by: ulianov at January 14, 2009 5:38 PM

In other words, don’t you understand ET that we’re kindred spirits? Notwithstanding that I’m an illiterate fool and you’re an accomplished, smart person, we’re still cut from the same cloth. Please help me to fight these ignorant conservatives.

Posted by: glasnost at January 14, 2009 7:24 PM

Ummm, NO! Just pointing out that right whingers are rarely capable of anything other than binary thinking.~ulianov

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that think in binary and those that don’t.

Posted by: glasnost at January 14, 2009 9:27 PM

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Posted by: lance at January 14, 2009 9:42 PM

That's deep, man.

Posted by: glasnost at January 14, 2009 10:06 PM

So... ulianov, you old murderous dictator namesake, do you or do you not agree that Byers is a narcissistic, ineffectual attention-whore masquerading as an academic? If you do not agree, please provide references to any sort of serious academic work Byers has published in the last 10 years. His attempts to paint the men and women of the CF as war criminals do not count since it is apparent to even smart leftists (Glavin for example) that Byers and his buddy Attaran's attempts were nothing but tactics to get their names in the news on the backs of Canadians who are actually working to make the world safer and better instead of hiding in safe, marxist campuses. Let me ask you, Ulianov - have you ever done anything noteworthy in your life? Anything tangible and selfless for society? I don't expect an answer, sunshine....

Posted by: Tanker at January 14, 2009 10:09 PM

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Posted by: ural at January 14, 2009 11:25 PM

What exactly is an "unnecessary quarrel with China over human rights"? Free countries should be quarreling with unfree ones over human rights 24/7. How else can we start to get them to change their nasty ways?

Posted by: nv53 at January 15, 2009 12:45 AM

Posted by: ulianov at January 14, 2009 5:38 PM >

"the previous week you were called a terrorist loving egg head when you didn't voice unequivocal support for Israel"


This week your nazi's! Or neo-nazi's I can't get it strait - Anyway those guys you were marching with in Calgary the other day.

Posted by: Knight 99 at January 15, 2009 1:22 AM

Byers should have moved to Cuba and taught in a Cuban university.They dont pay as well as a Canadian one but he must be above making money at least he thinks everyone else should be.He could also speak out against any excesses that he saw in Cuban society or govt.as they would surely treat a fellow traveler with respect.

Posted by: spike 1 at January 15, 2009 1:23 AM

Tanker:

I never claimed to have an opinion on Byers. And I've done many tangible, noteworthy and selfless things...but this is the blogosphere and I'm anonymous, so who cares?

Posted by: lberia at January 15, 2009 1:58 AM

Today I get to met the latest rash of trolls I see. Hi, Anonymous Man and Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, my name is Michael H Anderson. WTF are you doing here where you're so clearly not welcome? Where I come from, we call that "trolling". Since you're both suffering from spongiform encephalitis, you don't have much of a chance of changing anyone's mind here, so you are ipso facto wasting your time. Why don't you both go light up the bong and stare at the peeling paint in your welfare flats, and let thinking adults have a conversation without being disturbed by the prating of kiddies?

TIA, Michael.

Posted by: Michael H Anderson at January 15, 2009 9:27 AM

Hey, just a thought before I head off to work – that’s the thing the rest of us do so you can pay for your baggies of Wheelchair, ulianov – could someone find out how much MUSLIM LAND was absorbed into the Russian Socialist hive?

Maybe the answer is "none", but I think it might be amusing to know. Of course, it will have been for their own good, just like artificial famine was for the good of my family in Ukraine. Will check in later...

Posted by: Michael H Anderson at January 15, 2009 9:59 AM

...or conversely, if they didn't absorb any NEW Muslim land, they sure as hell didn't repatriate the Muslim land absorbed by the Empire, did they? Frankly I can't be arsed looking it up anyway...got new threads to check out.

Closing thought for anon and ulianov: if you're the best the leftoids can front here...well, we have met the enemy, and they are pathetic.

Posted by: Michael H Anderson at January 15, 2009 11:26 PM
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