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  1. Bob Tarantino on the history of freedom of expression in Canada:
    “In railing against censorship, we should take care not to falsely simplify the evolution of free expression in this country. Modern pundits tend to cast our history as one in which a tradition of untrammeled free speech has given way to the predations of politically correct thought police. In fact, censorship has long been a feature of the Canadian legal landscape.”
    bobtarantino.blogs.com/blog/2008/01/charged-convict.html

  4. “An individual (Bristow) helps to form and grow a neo-nazi group (Heritage Front) that gets involved in some nasty stuff. Warren Kinsella writes a book on neo-nazis and devotes 52 pages to the Heritage Front. Not once did Kinsella mention Bristow which is odd seeing that he was a founding and active member of the group and that the other leaders were mentioned several times.
    Warren can’t claim that he didn’t know about Bristow because he (Kinsella) filed a police complaint against Bristow some time earlier. Several months after Kinsella’s book was published, it’s revealed that Bristow was a CSIS plant. The only logical thing that would explain Bristow’s omission from the book, in light of that relevation, would have been that Kinsella knew that he was an undercover agent.”
    http://no-libs.com/?p=2120

  6. She shoots… she SCORES!!!!
    The thing that continues to amaze me is how feckless this guy is. He pretends that he’s battling the Forces Of Eeeeevile, the deadly Nazi underground. But he doesn’t check up on an unsolicited picture before splashing it on his website?
    Farces of Evile maybe, eh? Ya, them racists have really got ol’ Warren looking over his shoulder.

  7. Kinsella’s website is a joke. One cannot post to his blog but on the issue of Kate’s hoax he is inviting comments. He has several posted, the vast majority of which support his position. Well, duuuuuh! The comments do not get posted directly like on this blog. Oh no – Warren gets them first and then decides whether or not they get posted.
    I fired off a comment to him last night. I don’t see it up yet and I won’t hold my breath. It goes to show just how transparent and shallow this guy is. You can read him like a cheap dime-store novel.

  8. Kinsella does not have the intellectual integrity and moral courage to show all comments, the way Kate does here.
    That alone, more than anything else, tells the tale of who is right and who is wrong.

  9. Islamist extremists have penetrated the heart of Britain (from the Daily Mail,link to story at NNW)Pretty scary stuff.

  12. “How many people here have even heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force? I thought I was pretty up on things, but this surprised me.”
    My wife and I watch Aqua Teen, it’s quite funny, I’m not sure what you found so offensive, but I haven’t seen them all. I did see the movie and it was quite a bit racier than the TV show.
    I will agree with you, it is defiantly not for kids. All programming on Teletoon after 9pm MST is strictly for adults.

  13. Liberals are seeking a compromise on Afghan mission:
    http://www.nationalpost.com/newsletter/story.html?id=303381
    “Mr. Dion is set to release the text of the Liberal counter-proposals today. They fix an end to combat operations in February 2009, extend the military mission for two years for non-combat security duties and training, and would give NATO notice now that Canada is withdrawing all troops in 2011.
    The Liberals would appoint a “special envoy” to Afghanistan and establish a parliamentary committee to which ministers involved in the Afghan file — defence, foreign affairs and development — would have to report monthly. Liberals want to tip the aim of Canada’s military from combat to security for reconstruction and development.”

  16. Ho Hum,another day of warren bashing…note the small ‘w’…he hasn’t earned his cub reporter badge yet so no big ‘W’s’ fer this guy… not yet.
    And while we’re on the subject…298 hits on that post and still counting; One would have to ask if the self effacing ‘man from glad’ is really worth all the effort two days running!
    I’m sure warren is eating his heart out about now; both for the fact that he has never seen that kind of traffic on his blog and also that he’s never gonna make it with that fast biker chick from the sashwan flatlands.
    Not only did he blow his intellectual cover: his ego suffered a little road rash!!
    Anyhow enough of the punk lawyer for awhile as I think he needs time out to lick his wounds…Nothin’ personal warren but it does look good on ya.
    As I always like to say…’save a little humour for a dull day’

  19. kinsella doesn’t think; he reacts in a simplistic manner. He sees an object and reacts instantly according to his One Memorized Meaning. That’s an IQ that is definitely far, far below average.
    So, an acorn falling = the sky is falling.
    A scrawled swastika in a boys’ washroom = there’s a Nazi gang here!
    A tattoo on an arm = Concentration camp.
    Such mechanical, linear processing, that ignores context, is a symptom of ..mental incompetency.
    And the letters on his blog? I’ll bet almost 100% they are coming from people emailed by Kinsella and his friends (Warman, the CJC) and asked to write in.
    They aren’t written in the ad hoc style of blog writing; they are email letters.
    Plus, since Kinsella doesn’t allow comments on his blog, he’s editing them all.
    Both these actions show how Super Controlling the guy is.
    He Controls His Thoughts – and he does this by having a limited number of interpretations to what he sees and hears. He can’t handle multiple interpretations.
    He Controls Other People – that’s why he’s always threatening others. He insults them, he labels them with derogatory slurs. He threatens to sue them if they don’t define HIM the way HE wants to be defined.
    Kinsella is, psychologically, a Controller.

  22. War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency
    RAND Counterinsurgency Study — Final Report
    The difficulties encountered by the United States in securing Iraq and Afghanistan despite years of effort and staggering costs raises the central question of the RAND Counterinsurgency Study: How should the United States improve its capabilities to counter insurgencies, particularly those that are heavily influenced by transnational terrorist movements and thus linked into a global jihadist network? This capstone volume to the study draws on other reports in the series as well as an examination of 89 insurgencies since World War II, an analysis of the new challenges posed by what is becoming known as global insurgency, and many of the lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan…
    (Summary and full report available in PDF format)

  23. There’s something rotten in Denmark. It’s the headchoppers.
    (Via ICT) Danish cartoons ‘plotters’ held
    Danish police have arrested three people suspected of planning to attack a cartoonist who drew caricatures satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
    Denmark’s intelligence agency said the arrests were made in the western Aarhus region at 0330 GMT “to prevent a murder linked to terrorism”…
    It did not identify the target of the alleged plot, but the online edition of Jyllands-Posten said its cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, was the focus.

  24. meanwhile, in the socialist nirvana of Vancouver, freedom of speech is not a problem for the nutters.
    “What is the right word for a book like Greg Felton’s The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America?
    What is the right word for Felton’s thesis, which is that a Zionist “junta” was at work on Sept. 11, 2001, and that al-Qaida is a mere concoction in a secret plan to subvert the American Constitution, demonize Muslims and commit mass murder?
    What do you call it when the Vancouver Public Library decides to present Felton, an apologist for the book-banning, journalist-jailing Iranian theocracy, as the featured author on the evening of Feb. 25, and as the library’s contribution to national Freedom to Read Week?
    http://tinyurl.com/273dek

  27. (Via CSP) Tom Donnelly, Three Steps Back
    …an al Qaeda “contact”…gave a remarkably clear strategic assessment: “Pakistan,” the contact claimed, “has already tried to revive an outdated tribal system to counter the Taliban, but by killing tribal elders in Waziristan, the Taliban effectively stopped that scheme.”
    Now the Americans and the Pakistani government are working on tribal elders of the Shinwari and Afridi tribes of [the] Khyber Agency, [the border area] which is the main route of NATO supplies to Afghanistan. Approximately 80 percent of supplies pass through this route. But since the Taliban want to chop off NATO supplies from Pakistan into Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have warned these tribal elders to stay away from the conflict. However, the leaders have received huge bribes from NATO, and so they are obsessed with providing protection to the supply convoys. Therefore, the Taliban will increase their activities in Khyber Agency, which means a war with the elders of the Shinwari and Afridi tribes.
    In sum, the Taliban and al Qaeda seem to have a more consistent strategy than does the Musharraf government, the Bush administration, or NATO, and a growing stronghold in the tribal areas. Indeed, it is an increasingly open question whether Pakistan’s preferred strategy for the tribal regions can produce a competent protect-the-people counterinsurgency campaign…
    The Asia Times article quoted by Donnelly is here: Syed Saleem Shahzad, Ceasefire: A lull before the storm

  28. Kate,
    I thought I’d chime in on your holocaust joke of a few days ago.
    I think it was vile and disgusting, but also funny. Considering Kinsella’s desperate attempts to prove that nazism is rampant enough to warrant writing a book about it, and to take pictures in a community centre washroom.
    Blind worship of any figure whether Jesus, Mohammed, Trudeau or Hitler is dangerous to a (l)iberal western democracy. Making Kinsella look like an ass for his worship of the last 2 was entirely necessary.
    Kinsella has been creating a strawman out of nazism for too long. We as a people need to establish that individual rights are more important than group rights.
    Thank you for making that ass look like an ass,
    Jon

  29. In regards to the polygamy welfare rip-off in TO,Glenn Beck had woman from Britain on his show last eve speaking of same nonsense happening there.I e-mailed Glenn this am to let him know about the TO ‘scam’ so hopefully it will get some wider coverage.I know Glenn pays attention to what goes on in Canada,as his interview with Ezra highlighted.Maybe some of you good folk here,can also send along info to him.

  31. To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury
    Rowan Williams’ dangerous claptrap about “plural jurisdiction.”
    By Christopher Hitchens
    “Picture the life of a young Urdu-speaking woman brought to Yorkshire from Pakistan to marry a man—quite possibly a close cousin—whom she has never met. He takes her dowry, beats her, and abuses the children he forces her to bear. She is not allowed to leave the house unless in the company of a male relative and unless she is submissively covered from head to toe. Suppose that she is able to contact one of the few support groups that now exist for the many women in Britain who share her plight. What she ought to be able to say is, ‘I need the police, and I need the law to be enforced.’ But what she will often be told is, ‘Your problem is better handled within the community.’ And those words, almost a death sentence, have now been endorsed and underwritten—and even advocated—by the country’s official spiritual authority.”
    http://www.slate.com/id/2184186/nav/tap3/
    His Al-Eminence:
    http://tinyurl.com/yr676c

  32. Kate,
    ‘too soon’ doesn’t even cover it. You had to have known that a popmpous boob like Kinsella would draw the conclusion that the picture sent to him was of a holocaust survivor’s arm. If you knew that when you sent the picture then you were in effect impersonating a holocaust survivor – and that’s really too far. Kinsella’s ripe for the mocking, but by impersonating a victim of the holocaust?
    On something completely unrelated. Cherniak has a ‘very special post’ on this – I don’t think he has quite the right angle. Think Lucy, think Charlie Brown, think ‘football’ – then read his latest post.

  33. Assud the Jew-hating Bunny, brought to you by the Religion of Peace. Let’s give them a country to run!!
    I find it hard to believe there are still anti-Semite leftards who still blame the Jews for the violence in the ME…
    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/02/12/2008-02-12_on_gaza_tv_hamas_bunny_brainwashes_kids_-1.html
    “Hamas has reached a new low in its cartoon brainwashing of kids to kill Israelis: a Bugs Bunny look-alike who declares, “I will eat the Jews!”
    Assud the rabbit is the newest star of “Tomorrow’s Pioneers,” a Hamas-authorized kids show that airs on Gaza TV and is beamed around the Arab world.”

  35. Meanwhile back here in Quebec the usual pressure groups have succeeded in pushing to the end of voice mail instructions in French for provincial ministries the alternative of touching ‘2’ to get info in English. This means English speakers will probably hang up without realizing that after two minutes of instructions in French that they could have had service in English.
    There are a lot of elderly people in Quebec who only know a few words in French.
    As usual the Liberal government is trolling for a few more nationalist votes and is actively making sure all voice mail makes sure we ‘square heads’ know our place.

  36. Off blog comments to “new” LPC proposal on Afghanistan, to end combat operations in favour of “defensive security,” whatever that is. If you think that approach makes sense, read below:
    “I don’t like to comment in these forms as I feel that it does little good, however there are some that I feel are commenting without a true understanding of Afghanistan (can’t be gotten from a TV). Many point out the social injustice that exists in Afghanistan today (compare it to pre 2001. You need to understand the start state). I served in Afghanistan and have been in many gunfights, come close to death, have had friends die and will be back there again before too long. Let us be very clear here. Whether the CF stays or goes is a political issue. But if you place the caveat that we have to do recontruction and training and eliminate offensive operations, you will be signing many of our death warrants. I cannot go into many details, but allowing the rag-tag Taliban to meet, train, mass in numbers, create weapons and ammo caches,and build/place IEDs while you build new schools will only allow them to hit us AND the Afghan security forces harder and more effectively. They are the ones who initiated the fighting in my 20 plus gunfights. Further, training teams must go into the fight with the Afghan soldiers in order to mentor them and teach them how to win. I’ve got to go back. Its a hard job, but going into the fight without anymore than a couple fellow canadian soldiers present is not good. I have a wife, 2 brothers, a sister and parents whom I love. Don’t send me into a fight with one hand tied around my leg, because all politics aside, that is what Mr Dion’s position really is. Please understand the country and what the army has to do in order to achieve developement and reconstruction. Security is the first step.”
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080211/Afghan_motion_080212/20080212?hub=TopStories
    Dion really doesn’t have a clue does he? Combat is combat, and people die. The trick is to make the enemy die for their cause rather than you die for yours. By forcing soldiers to be sitting ducks by disallowing pre-emptive military action (search and destroy, ambush, close air support), he is sentencing our soldiers to be sitting ducks, ill-prepared to deal with massed, better organized attacks. Mr Dion, we are in reconstruction and training right now. That is where we are taking casualties right now. Combat operations training mentoring is not ultimately taught in a classroom or at some seminar, it happens in the field, it’s a high risk and intensity on the job traning.
    Get your head out of your a**.
    The Taliban would cheer this change of doctrine and ROE. Frankly, if the Canadian people were naive enough to elect the Liberals and they actually implemented this policy, I would advocate for an immediate withdrawal of all Canadian forces, diplomatic corps and NGOs.
    Dion wants to barrack our troops, but not in the relatively safe enclaves of Kabul, but as sitting ducks in Kandahar. This is as neither fish nor foul “solution” that will ensure our failure in Afghanistan.
    Jack Layton must be having a good laugh right now.

  37. As to mandated zero residential energy consumption homes in California; why wait? It is after all California; every residence has a treadmill, exercise bicycle, stairclimber or eliptical exercise machine. Just require every household to buy a small generator and hook it up to the exercise equipment. Couch potatoes will have to hire an illegal to run on the treadmill or face a fine for failing to meet the zero consumption standard.

  38. Obama: not a moderate.
    “Barack Obama’s Houston campaign office prominently displays a Cuban flag with a superimposed picture of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born terrorist and revolutionary.
    Of course, Obama made an issue of not wearing an American flag pin or placing his hand over his heart during the national anthem, quite rightly pointing out that neither gesture is necessary to be patriotic. But it sure makes him look like a fool when his ultra-left supporters go to work every day under the flag of the dictator Fidel Castro.”
    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/02/obama_wont_wear_flag_pin_but_d.html

  39. Bret Stephens, Putin’s Torture Colonies
    …correctional colony No. 5, located not far from the Manchurian border, does not even make the list of the worst penal colonies in the country.
    That distinction belongs to the newly revived institution of Pytochnye kolonii, or torture colonies. After all but disappearing in the 1990s under the liberal regime of Boris Yeltsin, there are now about 50 pytochnye kolonii among the roughly 700 colonies that house the bulk of Russia’s convict population, according to FDRP cofounder Lev Ponomarev. And while they cannot be compared to the Soviet Gulag in terms of scope or the percentage of prisoners who are innocent of any real crime, they are fast approaching it in terms of sheer cruelty.
    wsj.com/article/global_view.html

  42. Bodies and souls for sale; not to the Faustian Devil; but, to the “dehumanized Conditioners.”
    …-
    The Abolition of Man? How Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
    “An age of science is necessarily an age of material­ism,” wrote Hugh Elliot early in the last century. “Ours is a scientific age, and it may be said with truth that we are all materialists now.”[1]
    One does not have to look far to discover the con­tinued accuracy of Elliot’s assessment. Scientific materialism–the claim that everything in the uni­verse can be fully explained by science as the prod­ucts of unintelligent matter and energy–has become the operating assumption for much of American politics and culture. We are repeatedly told today that our behaviors, our emotions, even our moral and religious longings are reducible to some combination of physical processes interacting with our environment.
    In 1943, British writer C. S. Lewis wrote propheti­cally about the dangers of scientific materialism in a small, penetrating volume titled The Abolition of Man. There Lewis warned that “if man chooses to treat him­self as raw material, raw material he will be: not raw material to be manipulated, as he fondly imagined, by himself, but by mere appetite…in the person of his dehumanized Conditioners.” …-
    http://www.heritage.org/Research/Thought/hl1058.cfm

  43. Re: Swastika on boys’ washroom wall.
    A large percentage of English youth do not believe that Churchill was a real figure in history. I don’t believe we can assume that our youth are any better educated. Is there any reason to believe that the person responsible for drawing the swastika has enough education in history to know what the Swastika represents as opposed to just drawing a figure that is easy to draw? Something like the ‘elroy was here’ pic of elroy looking over a fence.

  44. Speaking of che(I am a murderous punk, thug, criminal) guevera.
    I had a run in at the gym a month or so ago with a kid(maybe 20) who was wearing a che t-shirt. When I confronted him with the question”why the f@#$ would you wear a shirt glamorizing a murdering criminal?”, he was speechless(and maybe a little intimidated).
    I do not think he will be wearing that shirt to the gym again.

  46. From a Liberal Blog:
    A Canadian Soldier comments on the Liberal Amendments
    The following comments are from a current serving Canadian soldier and highlight better than I could possibly hope to, why the Liberal amendments are going to get our troops killed, if adopted.
    I don’t like to comment in these forms as I feel that it does little good, however there are some that I feel are commenting without a true understanding of Afghanistan (can’t be gotten from a TV). Many point out the social injustice that exists in Afghanistan today (compare it to pre-2001. You need to understand the start state). I served in Afghanistan and have been in many gunfights, come close to death, have had friends die and will be back there again before too long.
    Let us be very clear here. Whether the CF stays or goes is a political issue. But if you place the caveate that we have to do recontruction and training and eliminate offensive opperations, you will be signing many of our death warrants. I can not go into many details, but allowing the rag-tag Taliban to meet, train, mass in numbers, create weapons and ammo caches,and build/place IEDs while you build new schools will only allow them to hit us AND the Afghan security forces harder and more effectively.
    They are the ones who initiated the fighting in my 20 plus gunfights. Further, training teams must go into the fight with the Afghan soldiers in order to mentor them and teach them how to win. I’ve got to go back. Its a hard job, but going into the fight without anymore than a couple fellow Canadian soldiers present is not good. I have a wife, 2 brothers, a sister and parents whom I love. Don’t send me into a fight with one hand tied around my leg, because all politics aside, that is what Mr. Dion’s position really is. Please understand the country and what the army has to do in order to Achieve developement and Reconstruction. Security is the first step.
    Posted by The Grumpy Voter at 8:49 AM

  47. Actually, Aquateen Hunger Force is quite amusing..it’s offbeat, and definately not for kids.
    Perhaps you watched the episode where Shake’s hand is cloned into a dog named ‘hand banana’, who ends up raping their neighbour Karl at every opportunity?
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=6HWUA_j8Gb4

  49. It’s been all over the news here that OPP forces in a province wide sweep have arrested 22 people and laid 73 charges in what they are calling the largest child-pornography investigation in Ontario’s history.
    “Word of the charges came alongside reports of a startling study that shows more than 15,000 people in Ontario are actively using their computers to distribute child pornography.
    A special task force in the U.S., with help from Toronto police, discovered that more than 4,000 computers in Toronto alone, were involved in trading images of child sexual abuse, the study found.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080212.woppchildporn0212/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
    Ontario is going to hell in a handbasket. Never mind the Nazis, we need to worry about the pedophiles in our midst.

  50. Breaking news:Libs walk out of the House en masse on the vote on the crime bill.So much for caring about ‘getting tough on crime’ What a bunch of irresponsible a**holes.

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