A beaver gallops off into terminal paranoia, if not more:
Why don’t we just sew a swastika onto the flag now?
My comment (the first):
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“Harper is proceeding on an incremental program of power and control which is little different than what happened in Germany in the 1930s…
…German voters consistently denied Hitler a democratic majority. While leading a minority government he grabbed power in places which the average German thought inconsequential. They allowed him to nibble away at the prerogatives of the head of state until the head of state was folded into the same office as the head of government.
Think Harper isn’t attempting the same thing? The evidence says otherwise.”
Holy Godwin, Batboy! Just don’t get all shirty when your toxic discourse gets the blame after some prominent Conservative is assassinated (regardless of realities).
Who’s toxic now?
John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen (a true conservative, that rare breed in Canadian journalism) answers the question…
For those not familiar with the “Godwin” reference, here’s a full explanation of Godwin’s Law.
What a vile rant! But, see Jeffrey Simpson in today’s Grope and Flail: same sentiments, just better grammar.
I’m thinking that some one needs to give the ol’ tin foil hat another twist to tighten it up.
When the Left/Libs make outrageous accusations like that, it is usually a roadmap to their own strategy. In other words the Libs are telling us that they intend to do something “Hitleresque” in the near future. But in order to pre-empt anyone from identifying it for what it is, they accuse Harper of doing it.
Hmmm…so I winder what the Libs are planning? Another Hugo Chavez style parliamentary coup? Some more riots and “black block” violence under the guise of a labour protest?
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see. But the reference to Hitler is definitley a shot across the bow that the Opposition intends to do something “tyrannical” again; and they will fail miserably again!
Does head of state have ANY responsibilities in Canada?
Do these idiots ever look at themselves or hear themselves speak?
Harper as Hitler — yeah sure, with Mr. Dressup as the Reichsminister of propaganda . . . whatever.
Kids! What can ya do wit’ em? They have no long term perspective.
We need some way to ensure these guys take their medication.
Canada Uber Alles
Personally, I blame Sarah Palin, don’t you?
Aaron at 3:43 PM: “Does head of state have ANY responsibilities in Canada?”
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Sure. She waves at people and makes boring speeches once a year. Every once in a looooonnnnnng while, she prorogues parliament and makes lefty heads explode.
Beaverbrain should read up on Mackenzie King if he wants to know about autocracy in Canada.
Lefties have nothing to complain about in Canada – consequently they have to wallow in paranoia just to scare themselves so they can feel oppressed and courageous.
Yes, and the media! They’re in on this plot!!
From the Beaver’s post:
And now, Harper has taken another step outside his jurisdiction. He is setting out to politicize the Canadian system of Honours and Awards and take control of something which quite rightly belongs in the hands of the Governor General.
Umm…. with the “Canadian system of Honours and Awards” in the hands of the Governor General, what makes Flaming Beaver think it isn’t politicized now?
I’d argue that the whole “Canadian system of Honours and Awards” is totally outside the role of any level of government — that just isn’t the state’s job.
Consider the “GGs” — the Governor General’s Literary Awards. With total prizes of $450,000, how many households had to pay tax to fund such narcissistic nonsense? Assuming an average household income of $60K and taxes on that amount at about $13K, that means about 35 households worked all year to fund… a literary award.
Scrap it.
[To find these numbers, I just did a quick google on average income and a tax calculator.
Average income: http://www.discoveryfinance.com/average-annual-household-income-canada.html
Tax calculator: http://lsminsurance.ca/calculators/canada/income-tax%5D
What puzzles me is how these leftists come to their conclusions about Harper. They claim he is totalitarian, centralist, power-hungry, and so on.
I don’t know what their evidence for this is. Harper is specifically focused on decentralization; and he’s certainly not totalitarian or power-hungry.
But he IS against the unelected civil service making all the decisions; he IS against the massive equalization payments to such as Quebec who use the ROC to sustain their socialist lifestyle. He IS against the special interest groups wanting funding; against the constant reliance by the ‘arts and films’ on the taxpayer; against the socialist welfare state that undermines the family.
So- what are his totalitarian impulses? His goal seems to me to be to strengthen the individual and the family and the provinces.
So- I simply can’t see what grounds the left has for their rhetoric. Other than – that he is the PM and they..are…not.
Those freakin’ losers are our political opposition my friends. And they’ve been eating our lunch for a really long time with attacks that make no more sense than that drivel from the gallopingbeaver.
I think we need to up our game.
Lickmuffin – but IF the GG’s office is the source of decision-making about these awards, and the GG is unelected, isn’t this action a totalitarian act on the part of the GG?
Such unbridled hatred, if they don’t tone it down some *cough cough* extremist might get violent.
And then us leftards (rabies in the red eyed beaver?)will have to twist and spin everything and shout at the top of our lungs again to try to make it look like a right winger did it.
Do you think our MSM solid-wall-of-lies is easy to pull off?
This saving the unwashed from their common sense impulses is work hard work baby!
Lickmuffin
Exactly. These loons have no idea what they stand for; they’ve ‘jumped the shark’ by every measure. I mean seriously, in you’re quote it appears to me that they are today advocating for the Queen. Hmmm…. Would that be the same crown that spread Imperialism around the world?
Further to ET’s point, I think that Anne Coulter said it best when she said “for liberals, history starts anew each day”.
As Canadians, we can only hope that so called moderates after all of this time are starting to see the inconsistency, lack of cohesiveness, and the inherent contradictions that are the foundation of Leftist politics.
*Waits for the CBC and Heather Malice to chime in.
The truly sad thing is that when a toothy water loving rat cousin starts a rant invoking Godwin’s Law right from the beginning there are still those who try and debate the delusional Castor as if he/she were sane and rational. It’s like talking to a wall or a 5 year old brat.
Canadian Fascism? Want some Canadian Fascism?
Look up BDC Auberge Grandmere Shawinegan.
A small portion of he timeline:
“April 1996
Chrétien phones François Beaudoin, president of the federal Business Development Bank of Canada, about a $2 million loan sought by Yvon Duhaime, who bought the Auberge Grand-Mère. Duhaime wants the money to expand the hotel. Chrétien meets with the BDC president again in May to talk about the loan.”
The loan got turned down.
Things got nasty after this; Beaudoin was forced out,and thugs named Carle and some other piece of feces were bluntly told DURING THE TRIAL “you’re testimony is unreliable”. Coruptchien’s henchmen were disgraced, Beaudoin won.
Fascism?
You haven’t seen fascism.
That’s swastikas for you.
I thougt it was “BushHitler” before the ObamaNation(tm) got in…
This must be some wierd version of Front Page Challenge:
“Will the real Hitler please stand up?”
So if Harper is Hitler does that make Ignatieff Stalin?
Man it’s so hard to keep up with the blowhard rhetoric; its a damn hurricane out there…
Totalitarians in your neighbourhood
In your cities
With guns
In Canada
Choose your Canada
SOUND FAMILIAR….?
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
That link,”beaver” is really quite astounding! The fellow must have had a DC Comics and Hollywood movie version of history education!
I was going to comment over there, but why waste time on the extreme loonies.
One point,though,WHY does the X-Left constantly refer to the MSM as Harper’s allies?
Can they not read?
“Beaver” should rest easy,though,as we all well know,Hitler was slaughtered by a bunch of American commandos in a movie theater in France,and the same thing will probably happen to Harper if he doesn’t smarten up!
MSM solid-wall-of-lies™©
Too true!
Funniest bit for me was the comments. It seems like a lot of the old CC crew have beaver fever.
Ohhh puleeze….
Having been in government during the Chretien years, the word autocratic was not enough.
Step an inch out of line, and you were out of a job.
I saw it on countless occasions.
Harper is a pussycat compared to Chretien.
After him…well, Paul Martin was just inept…he couldn’t seem to find the reins of power
Hans Rupprecht at January 17, 2011 4:35 PM:
“So if Harper is Hitler does that make Ignatieff Stalin?”
Nope. Because Ignatieff already takes Hitler AND Stalin. Research on Iggy’s family history shows his ancestors’ Csarist anti-semitic and fascist connections, and after the revolution his family’s close friendship with the Stalinist regime.
Sorry, but Iggy’s got whole tyrannical package — it would be totally unfair to plagiarize and assign any of it to the mere “hockey-lovin'” musician Harper.
If you were to quiz Galloping Beaver on the history of Hitler and his rise to power, you wouldn’t get anything but nail-biting and perhaps crying.
At best, he knows that “Hitler bad and me don’t like Harper”. What towering intellect.
Frankly, it’s going to take a Hitler type leader to purge us of the destructive insanity and dishonesty we have been tolerating from the left of about four decades.
Heil Harper!
Autocratic abuse of power? Can anyone say “War Measures Act”? Anyone? Pierre?
LOL I felt like I was attending a group session for people with multiple personality disorders. Loopy left loopy left loopy left.
And the CBC series last year on “Propaganda” in WWI and WWII, hosted by George Strombolombolopolus, was a piece of propaganda in itself. It was supposed to be designed to educate students on Hitler and Stalin.
It went something like this:
Hitler = evil mass murderer.
Stalin = evil mass murderer, BUT, Stalin really was trying to help the working class and industrialize Russia.
ET wrote —
Lickmuffin – but IF the GG’s office is the source of decision-making about these awards, and the GG is unelected, isn’t this action a totalitarian act on the part of the GG?
I think you missed two key points in my comment:
“…the whole “Canadian system of Honours and Awards” is totally outside the role of any level of government — that just isn’t the state’s job.”
— and —
“Scrap it.”
It is not the government’s job to be handing out awards — especially in the form of tax dollars — to good little citizens. Whether it’s the GG or the PM controlling the awards, my point is the same: scrap the whole process.
If Harper is indeed moving to put the “Canadian system of Honours and Awards” under the PMO’s control, I can only hope that he’s doing it to make it easier to de-fund the system in the future.
A case could be made for preserving military awards and recognition, or awards recognizing actual service to Canada and Canadians. But awards and subsidies for culture, such as the GG literary awards? Nope. That is not government’s job.
Of course, I am just bitter: where is my award for consistently surrendering almost 40% of my income every year, so that it can be distributed to who knows whom?
Humph.
another Calgary Marc;You left out the new constitution with no property rights and the Supreme court making the laws of Canada thanks to trudeau and his gang of leftists.
Harper = Hitler?
Does that mean we might, at long last, learn how to build a highway without potholes?
Autobahn for all!!!!!!
Meh… I’m willing to be none of the brain trust at the mucky beaver lodge even bother to vote, and when they do, it’s probably a throw away to a fringe party (hear that Jacko & Betty?). I wonder what they said in their little intellectual circle-j*rk when Chretien and his minions were robbing the public kitty blind… ah.. children.. what can you do. Some never manage to grow up.
ricardo
So mass murder is acceptable if the intentions are “good”..?
Wow. What drivel. The Beaver chap just demonstrates what passes for critical thinking amongst Mr. Harper’s political adversaries. This combined with articles in the Death Star, the Globe etc. only work to PMSH’s (how I like typing that) advantage.
Let us not forget Iggy’s clever ‘are you better off than you were five years ago?’ strategy. Should only remind – can I call us fly over Canadians?- of the good job PMSH has done. Five years and lets hope for five more.
Stick that in your pipe Mr. Gallopingsemiaquaticrodent and smoke it.
That smellybeaver was some vile, these people that believe this lunacy are certifiable. Harper is a family man, he cares about the future of all the children of Canada, not just his own, like Martin and Cretin/Turdough did. Harper did not come from money (Turdough), he did not have a sugar daddy to set him up with a 20 million company for 2 million (Martin), he has not married his children into money or spent 40 years at the public trough like (Cretin), and I am sure his strings are not pulled by the likes of Maurice, like the other 3. Get on with it beaver check into a hospital before you start soiling yourself in public not just in cyberspace.
syncrodox: “…mass murder is acceptable if the intentions are “good”..?
I don’t think the CBC went that far but they may have flirted with it — planted the little “seed” as it were in young minds “there’s a good way and a bad way to do a communist dictatorship.”
Of course the flaw in Hitler/Stalin who’s better/worse comparisons, is that no modern tyrant has ever come to power looking like evil incarnate. They all came to power under the guise of being “good” people. The CBC documentary did nothing to educate people on HOW it happens — and instead focused on the end result.
In other words kiddies, unless you see hordes of people marching down the street in jackboots and parading around with missiles and tanks, and Generals in gaudy uniforms, don’t worry ’cause it’s not Nazism or Communism.
But it didn’t start out that way — so by the time the “tanks and jackboots gaudy uniforms” come on the scene, it’s way too late to do anything about it.
The Nazis had gaudy uniforms? But they were Hugo Boss!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss
Google “early 21st century facism uniform designer” in 70 years, and you’ll find Lululemon and Birkenstock.
If Harper is an evil dictator, why do they want to give him control of all our guns by keeping the gun registry?
Why do they want to keep the long census form mandatory so he will be able to force them to reveal every intimate detail of their sorry existences to him?
Not terribly logical, is it?
I would actually like to see Harper taking a tougher line on a number of issues, from free speech to climate fraud to property rights.
The only real criticism of him is that he’s not really conservative enough, he has become more centrist in power. True conservatives have no voice in this government, it is dominated by socially liberal Red tories.
The leftist critique means nothing because it won’t cut into Harper’s voter base, but if there were ever to be a real conservative alternative at the ballot, then he would be in trouble.
The more we learn about Jared Lee Loughner the more obvious it becomes that he would find a good internet home commenting on lefty blogs like that one. A good fit, one of the gang, offered a warm welcome, etc
We’ll know for sure when HerrHarper grows a comb mustache!
@spike: My bad. Sorry. I also forgot HRCs.
ricardo
So to sum up… tyranny, in it’s initial stages is nuanced?
Yeah, he’s a dictator who wants to reduce the size of government. Makes sense.
These dopes give leftist leaders a complete pass when they micromanage and assert authority. When it’s a conservative they’re all indignant.
Why is Harper acting like he’s in charge? Because he is. As Obama said, “I won”.
As for the Star’s list of people “Beheaded/left under duress” (isn’t that violent and hateful?), is it unusual to have a number of people leave or be fired? And do we know the whole story of why they’re gone?
This is so typical of what is wrong with journalism. Forget the facts; just assert an opinion, and weave some anecdotes to support them.
5 years now. And I still smile every time I say to myself “Prime Minister Harper”.