Sigh.
This episode reminds me of the union at Prince Albert Park (I think it was) where the union filled complaints against the seniors that planted flowers.
Sigh.
This episode reminds me of the union at Prince Albert Park (I think it was) where the union filled complaints against the seniors that planted flowers.
“It’s sort of beyond the scope of what you would imagine some private citizen would do,” said some spokesdrone.
In fairness, it -is- DC. They’re not used to people that aren’t begging or otherwise demanding freebies and handouts. Constructive activity from a mere citizen? Never happens!
So because this guy went out,and planted flowers,without 3 crew trucks and 12 union slugs,they are looking for him?
Damn.I’m screwed.I planted four rows of carrots,2 of parsnips,40 sq/ft of taters,3 rows of beets,2 of yellow string/green beans,a bunch of cukes and squash,and the darn asparagus came up on its own,right next to the rhubarb. And what about the poppies I planted(as flowers). Mind you,union slugs make p**s poor fertilizer.
Oh.And the gooseberry plants are dying horrible deaths because they were not watered by some idjit.
Time to start calling these union a**holes the a**holes they are.
Oh well, I’m sure a ‘compromise’ can be reached. Special planters in safe places, much like the graffiti walls for the damn kids.
We’ve always been slaves to senseless authoritarianism in this country but the last 3 decades we have suffered under overbearing statism run by psychocrats.
In a related event, it looks like the SCBC has convicted the comic Guy Earl for mouthing off to some heckling lesbians.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/23/supreme-court-upholds-decision-to-force-comedian-to-pay-15000-for-tirade-of-ugly-words-against-lesbian-heckler/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29
Holy crap, the Supreme Court is only the same side as ….? If we beat the Nazis in WW II, where did our rights suddenly go. I don’t remember my father saying he got his guts ripped out by a bullet to defend the rights of Lesbians over free speech. But what the hell did he know? He wasn’t a lawyer. He was cannon fodder for the lawyers.
I had to work with bureaucrats off and on in various capacities for almost forty years, and while many are great and do a good job, many are complete morons and devoid of any common sense. Add unions to the mix and you have stuff I shoveled out of the barn for seventeen years.
I once offered to paint, fix up, clean up my kid’s school. I was told that I couldn’t do any of that as the custodian’s union would file a grievance. I was then told that when the local parks dept groomed the school’s softball diamond, the union “grieved” — and the school district had to pay the union a settlement.
You think that this is bad? Here’s something current and local;
The town of High River suffered terrible damage in the flood but, a lot of houses on higher ground escaped unscathed. Hundreds of owners that left town a few days ago under the mandatory evacuation order are still not allowed to return to check on their property.
O.K., I suppose that’s no big deal but here’s the kicker. Soldiers and mounties patrolling the town are checking every accessible dwelling to make sure that there are no flood victims inside. If an otherwise undamaged house, which obviously escaped flooding, is locked, they break a window or (and this is NOT an exaggeration) kick the door in, usually wrecking the door frame in the process. Thus, when the owners return, they will find their otherwise undamaged homes in need of repair thanks to the thoughtful gummint.
A friend of mune who is “camping” in his undamaged house to protect his property and that of his neighbours was unable to stop the uniformed vandals from kicking in the door of a house that he knew with absolute certainty to be unoccupied.
And oh, yeah. Soldiers searching a house that they had broken into came across a couple of hunting rifles and confiscated them. Good luck to the owner if he tries to recover his property. He’ll be lucky if he doesn’t end up with a big fine for “unsafe storage” and a prohibition order.
Two examples from la la land of Vancouver Island. This weekend, a traveller to Gabriola Island was forced to return to Nanaimo by a B.C. Ferries employee. It was the last ferry of the day and the would be passenger found her ‘frequent floater’ pre-paid pass was short a dime on the fare. She offered to give the required dime to make up the fare, but hey, rules are rules and she had to stay overnight with friends.
Second example is more pertinent to the article. Back when the Dippers were in power, they had no money to maintain the interchange green spaces. I ‘adopted’ one and every two weeks would hump my lawnmower and weed whacker down to do my bit. Wasn’t long before I got a visit from a CUPE member who claimed I was doing a union job. I pointed out that the job wasn’t being done period – so what’s the difference?
Apparently the difference is that people get peeved when they see their formerly tidy green spaces going to rack and ruin – which puts pressure on the gov’t to restore those services to the justly deserving union crews.
Maybe he should have asked for permission, just like the people who spray-paint graffiti, spit on the ground and leave wads of gum everywhere. Check that. The latter are not beautifying.
All Unions are on the left. Generally all common sense is on the right. They have been proven to be incompatible. It’s really that simple.
Well, I’ve had a similar experience. I occasionally plant Gary Oak seedlings around my place. They’re the only Oak tree native to BC, and pretty scarce on the mainland (outside of my efforts). I’ve caught local ‘environmentalists’ ripping them out of the ground because they don’t know what they are, in the name of fighting ‘invasive species.’ I’ve seen city employees do the same.
I’ve decided to stop fighting these nutters. When my current crop has matured enough I’m going to sell them to the city/environmental groups for a few hundred a pop. Then those same people will spend time and resources caring for them, rather than destroying them. You can’t fight these stupid bureaucracies, but you can manipulate them.
“Soldiers searching a house that they had broken into came across a couple of hunting rifles and confiscated them”
If this is true, we are seeing the same FEMA police state crap here they experienced in New Orleans in the fascist state to the south. I have feared the spread of US police state authoritarianism ever since Harper bought into the DHS “perimeter of security” BS and sent Stock Day to the Banff conference where “standardizing” police functions north and south of the 49th was discussed. Any “standardizing” done with the US police forces under the direction of a clearly surveillance-militarized police-state Washington regime will result in Canada coming into the US neo-authoritarianism sphere of influence. The current NSA and IRS scandals tell us where this leads.
Several questions must be answered in court by authorities WHO ordered such police-state actions in the flood zones which breech both constitutional and jurisdictional constraints? , and where does the authority come from to violate private secured property? – obviously this is some mutant RCMP-UN civilian gun stealing agenda disguised as unwarranted impromptu CFA safe storage enforcement regime in disaster areas. I heard rumors of the same thing happening in the fires up north last year. It needs to be nipped in the bud now before it becomes common practice. The police state culprits need to be called out and made accountable.
It is up to all of us who witness police violations like this to hold them responsible for any criminal breech, because this is becoming far too common. Left on its present course the police will be the sole violators of rights rather than the protectors of rights. I suggest you inform the owner what happened and stand as a material witness in any action he wishes to launch – too bad you didn’t video it or better yet confront the burglars and take names.
Occam, the cops can do anything they want. Really. That’s what “state of emergency” means.
Anything. They. Want.
Unless somebody is physically there with a news crew to shame them into proper behavior, this kind of thing will go on. That’s how things are in Canaduh. You don’t have rights, particularly property rights. What you have are privileges, which can be revoked when they become inconvenient for any low-level official. Your only defense is to have Friends In High Places. Otherwise known as corruption.
That’s why we need to cut the budget of every government agency in this country in half or less. They’ll still do this kind of thing, but because they will have less money there will be fewer of them doing it. Eventually it should be possible to starve them out altogether.
A few years ago in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a local Boy Scout troop cleaned up/cleared an overgrown path in a public park. The city union sued them. Yes, there was so much uproar over the lawsuit that the union withdrew its complaint, but the damage had been done. Dang greedy fools.