April Reign

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes

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14 Women Slaughtered ho hum

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You just can’t make these people up. If you did you would be accused of hyperbole. Of creating the classic over-the-top silent film villain.

After posting about the Con shriekfest yesterday I had two of them drop by. One to post word for word what is on the rally for canada site and one to drop this little nugget.

Author : Don Uthole
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Comment:
Look. Just because one group holds a memorial to promote their feminist ideology, does not mean there aren’t more important issues or issue others believe are important. When did you all get dibs on deciding what was most important?.

Right. Got that? 14 slaughtered women nothing but feminist ideology. Interesting that’s what Lepine thought too.

So remember the lesson for today is women murdered for being women unimportant. A rally to spread lies and fear on behalf of mien dear leader totally not ideology but important political dibs.

Dec. 6th. Ring a Bell?

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If it wasn’t already obvious who is behind the Rally for Canada campaign it is made clear that they are dimwitted Cons by their choice of day to rally.

December 6…come on now think hard…no not coming up with anything? Well hardly surprising from the supporters of a party seeking to revoke abortion rights, seeking to revoke equal pay for work of equal value, who see daycare as licked with a taxable 1200 a year –don’t spend that all in one place now!–

Apparently the Cons don’t feel the need to pay respect to the women killed that day or the many many victims of violence since. One can only hope that the negativity and noise from the Con wankfests don’t disrupt any memorials being held.

Thanks for once again showing why you will never ever get my vote.

Beware the Evils of LSD

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Liberals, Socialist and Disjoiners (Separatists)

Sensations and feelings change much more dramatically than the physical signs. The user may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. Sense of time and self changes. Sensations may seem to “cross over,” giving the one the feeling of unity and seeing democracy in action. These changes can be frightening and can cause panic among Conservative members.

HE WHO MUST BE OBEYED, fearful of losing his tenuous grip on the brass ring, has resorted to the silliest and shallowest of political manoeuvres – the scare tactic.

A missive to Conservative supporters reads;

“As you read this letter, the Liberals are holding secret negotiations with the socialist NDP and the separatist Bloc Quebecois to overturn the wishes of Canadian voters and take power,

Though he himself was involved in trying to wrest power from the government of the day jointly with gasp Socialists and Separatists [read Alison on this]

“respectfully point out that the opposition parties, who together constitute a majority in the House, have been in close consultation. We believe that, should a request for dissolution arise this should give you cause, as constitutional practice has determined, to consult the opposition leaders”

Yet he now maintains that such an avenue thwarts democracy. That’s rich coming from a man and a party whose ideology is the antithesis of democracy.

COAL for Christmas

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Little Stevie has been very naughty. Going around thinking he is special, breaking things he sees no value in — like democracy — and generally not playing well with others.

Traditionally Santa brings such children coal for Christmas. I think this year should be no exception, Harper deserves a coal [ition government] and while that is punishment for him it will be a grand gift for the rest of us.

The last few years have been very depressing watching the opposition waste opportunity after opportunity bowing to the manipulations and machinations of a party for whom ideology trumps all. Duceppe put it best;

What the Conservative government presented today was not an economic statement but an ideological statement. This ideology so blinds the government that it fails to see how urgent it is to act.

Instead of presenting a plan to help the economy recover and breathe some air into it, the Prime Minister has chosen to smother it. . . The Prime Minister has preferred ideology to economics. He has placed partisanship above democracy.

Despite the surpluses accumulated over 10 years, the Conservative government not only refused to present its plan, to provide relief, it consciously chose to stifle the economy to advance its outdated ideology on the reduction of government.

Naturally, we are prepared to cut our salaries and to reduce growth of expenditures by the government bureaucracy. But the purpose of these savings should not be to reduce government in order to avoid a one-time deficit, but to support the economy, to support the people.

The government has decided to take advantage of the crisis to attack the rights of women and workers. The government is proposing to suspend public servants’ right to strike. It has decided to attack women’s rights by submitting their right to pay equity to negotiation. Since when are rights negotiable? It is scandalous. We will never accept such an attack by the government on women’s and workers’ rights. We will never allow it.

Not content with putting ideology before the economy, not content with attacking workers, women, and Quebec, the Prime Minister is adding insult to injury by putting his own extreme partisanship before democracy. When speaking on December 8, 2005 about reforming the financing of political parties, the Prime Minister said:

“These measures are directly inspired by reforms introduced by René Lévesque 30 years ago, reforms of which all Quebeckers can be very proud. Quebec has led the way in electoral reform.”

By announcing his intention to eliminate public funding of political parties, the Prime Minister is betraying the memory of René Lévesque. Public funding was at the heart of René Lévesque’s reform. This desire to slash funding is a direct attack on democracy. Using the economic crisis as an excuse and under the pretense of saving $30 million, the Conservative government has shown the world the extent of its hypocrisy.

Hardly a few weeks ago, the Prime Minister called an election for strictly partisan reasons. He spent $300 million, ten times more than what he is trying to save by eliminating political party funding. What will the Prime Minister announce next in the upcoming budget? Does he plan to shut down Parliament to save $500 million?

The Prime Minister has manufactured a democratic crisis, simply to give himself a partisan advantage, because this government’s goal is to silence all forms of opposition: silence artists, silence women, silence unions and silence the opposition.

The latest rumour is that Harper has taken a step back and will reverse the decision to end the public financing of all parties.

Giorno, Harper’s Chief of Staff, has released a memo with such gems as;

* We’re not even two months removed from the last election, and a group of backroom politicians are going to pick who the Prime Minister is. Canadians didn’t vote for this person. We don’t even know who this person will be.

Oh Noes!!! we don’t know who it will be. How can we start smearing them?

* Not a single voter voted for a Liberal-NDP coalition. Certainly not a single voter voted for the Liberals to form a coalition with the separatists in the Bloc.

Actually the PR vote went more to a coalition than to the CONs

* This is what bothers me the most. The Conservatives won the election. The Opposition keeps saying that the Conservatives have to respect the will of the voters that this is a minority and so on.
* …how about Liberals, NDP and Bloc respecting the will of the voters when they said “YOU LOSE”.

YOU LOSE!? HAW HAW You’re rubber I’m glue… This is the best a government that thinks they were born from gods right nut can do?

* And what’s this going to do to the economy. I’m sorry, I don’t care how desperate the Liberals are — giving socialists (Jack Layton) and separatists (Gilles Duceppe) a veto over every decision in government — that is a recipe for total economic disaster.

SOCIALISTS RUN!!! HIDE!!! LOOK UNDER THE BED. Oh hai Sarah

* But how more phony could these guys be?

Yours? Geez I don’t know I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of them yet

* I mean, I follow the news, virtually every single day you have Harper or Flaherty out there telegraphing exactly what they plan to do with the economy. And not once did you hear the Liberals, NDP or separatists talking about toppling the government in response.
* No — do you know what set this off. When Flaherty said he was going to take taxpayer-funded subsidies away from the opposition. Now there is a reason to try and overturn an election— because the Conservatives the audacity to say “Hey, it’s a recession, maybe you should take your nose out of the trough.”
* And I wish the media would be more clear on this point — the opposition aren’t being singled out by this fact the Conservatives stand to lose the most money of all. The only difference is that Canadians are voluntarily giving money the Conservatives, so they don’t need taxpayer handouts. The only reason the opposition would be hurt more is because nobody wants to donate to them. They should be putting their efforts towards fixing that problem.
* I don’t want another election. But what I want even less is a surprise backroom Prime Minister whom I never even had the opportunity to vote for or against. What an insult to democracy.

Hmm so every other democratic country has the system you guys want to dismantle but anyone who calls you on it is against democracy? So how are things there in the Ministry of Truth?

Sign the Petition. Support a Coalition

Giorno memo from the G&M

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

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The anti-rape poster seen in the picture above started a debate not over how to better protect women or make them feel more comfortable reporting rape but whether or not it was an insult to God and too sexy.

“The poster poses the question: ‘Who Pays For Man’s Sins?’ and a caption which reads “Only four per cent of women who suffer sexual violence report their assailants.”

“I’ll do everything in my power to stop this poster going up,” said a city councillor, Maurizio Cadeo.

He and other right-wing councillors said the poster was “blasphemous” and would offend the religious beliefs of many Italians.

“We’re calling for the poster to be withdrawn because an important day like this should not be debased by such a sexual provocation,” said councillor Carlo Fidanza, a member of the right-wing National Alliance party.

Sexual provocation? Seriously?

The good councillor is not alone however,

A new poll has found that nearly half of Northern Ireland’s students believe that a woman is wholly or partially responsible for rape if she flirts.

The Amnesty International commissioned poll, published on 29 September, entitled Violence Against Women: The Perspective of Students in Northern Ireland, explores the “blame culture” found in attitudes towards women and sexual violence.

The research revealed that, of the 715 students surveyed at Ulster University, 46 per cent felt that a woman’s flirting would leave her bearing some of the blame in the case of rape.

30 per cent believed that women were partially or totally responsible for rape if she wears sexy or revealing clothing and one in ten reasoned that violence was acceptable against a girlfriend who nags, flirts with other men, or refuses to have sex.

Attitudes it seems have not changed overly much. Women are asking for it if friendly and sexually autonomous, and frigid bitches if they are not. At fault for abuse if they don’t protect themselves and nags if they defend their rights and beliefs. They are tarring all men as rapists if they cross the road or take other self defense measures and accused of having at least partial fault if they do not and an attack occurs.

Days such as today provide an opportunity to highlight the issues of violence, yet they will do nothing to stop it. Real change needs to come from all of us recognizing each others humanity, dignity and rights.

Prison Changes You!

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Conrad Black in a letter to the Sunday Times rails against private prisons, the war on drugs and high incarceration rate in the U.S.

“U.S. justice has become a command economy based on the avarice of private prison companies, a gigantic prison service industry and politically influential correctional officers’ unions that agitate for an unlimited increase in the number of prosecutions and the length of sentences.”

Fruitless attempts to wipe out the illegal drug trade are to blame for the situation, says Black, taking up a battle cry long espoused by people he’s never traditionally associated with – those on the left of the political spectrum, including groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.

“The entire ‘war on drugs,’ by contrast, is a classic illustration of supply-side economics: a trillion taxpayers’ dollars squandered and (one million) small fry imprisoned at a cost of $50 billion a year; as supply of and demand for illegal drugs have increased, prices have fallen and product quality has improved.”

Having seen the system Black has suddenly developed a desire to reform it.

[..]penal reform is a cause he hopes to champion when he’s released from prison.

“I wish to advise Lord Hurd that when I return to the UK, I would like to take up more energetically than I did initially his request for assistance in his custodial system reform activities,” Black wrote, referring to Douglas Hurd, a patron of Britain’s Tory Reform Group.

Perhaps next he could do an enforced stint on welfare, work for a living at minimum wage, need a daycare space……..

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