For the heinous crime of Shopping While #Barefaced in West Edmonton Mall, a young woman identified as Selena Paley was manhandled by two mall cop thugs while someone recorded the proceedings and streamed it live to Facebook. The video linked above, two and a half minutes long, shows Ms. Paley being dragged through the mall and eventually pushed up against a wall, then … [Read more...]
All Hail the High Priestess of COVID – Dr. Bonnie Henry
If COVID is the new god then Bonnie Henry is its High Priestess. On Tuesday, December 8th, the High Priestess of COVID published the latest version of her bastardized commandments. If the restrictions that follow make no sense to you, don’t worry your pretty little head over them. This doesn’t have to make sense. It’s government policy. All Hail the High Priestess of … [Read more...]
BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch: Where the Rules are More Important Than People
At some point common sense must trump rigid bureaucrats and their blind obedience to the rules. That point won’t be today for landlord Jason Rivero who rented an apartment to, unknown to him, a convicted killer in November 2018. Alexander Tanasescu did not disclose his manslaughter conviction to Jason Rivero when he rent Rivero's apartment. On January 10, 2020, … [Read more...]
Child Terrorizes Kansas School With Finger Gun
Zero-tolerance rules sound great on paper but they quickly devolve into mindless bureaucratic stupidity. The case of one 12-year-old girl attending Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas, epitomizes this insanity. On September 18, 2019, she held her hand in the shape of a gun, pointing it at four other students while saying bang, then repeating the same gesture to … [Read more...]
School Shooter Alert: Margo Gaines, a 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome
We’re still stuck in a paradigm tyrannized by what I call “Bureaucrat’s Rule Number One.” The Rules Are More Important Than People They have it backwards... completely backwards. People are far more important than the best rules or policy statements. Is there a line where common sense finally kicks in? I hope so, but we haven’t found it yet. Today’s case in … [Read more...]
Take a Wrong Turn – Go Directly to Jail
Right now Mexico is at the center of a huge controversy over their arrest and imprisonment of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi for taking a wrong turn that led him to a border crossing. The trouble with border crossings is that once you’re on the path you cannot turn around. The issue at hand is the detention in Mexico of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, 25, who has … [Read more...]
Living “Off-Grid” is Declared Illegal by a Moronic Florida Judge
We’re told endlessly that we must be responsible for the energy we use; that we must be energy-self-sufficient; that the world as we know it will literally come to an end of we don’t buy into the eco-frenzy. I have no issue with being energy-self-sufficient. In fact I completely agree with the philosophy. Twenty-five years ago the power company wanted an exorbitant amount … [Read more...]
Petty Vancouver Bureaucrats and Their Hatred of Dogs and Dog Owners
A friend of mine lives in Vancouver’s Olympic Village. She is a delightful woman who happens to own a Whippet, an unusual-looking dog but a great companion. As all dog owners in Vancouver, my friend is required to purchase a permission slip from local government in order to keep her dog. Bureaucrats call that a “dog license.” As I’ve discussed many times before on this … [Read more...]
Petty Bureaucrats and their Crushing Need to Micro-Manage Our Lives
Petty bureaucrats come in all shapes, sizes and powers, as does their pathetic need to micro-manage every aspect of our lives. One doesn’t need to work for government to be a bureaucrat. They infest every corporation, large and small. They’ve even infested our homes, believe it or not. Today’s offensive one is a former member of the strata council of a BC townhouse … [Read more...]
Even the Rich and Famous must suffer the Fools of Airport Security
In the realm of human stupidity it's hard to do worse than the intrepid fools who inhabit the ranks of airport security. There common sense is verboten and the ability to think rationally... well, let's just say it's not welcome there either. The latest entry into the stupidest airport security blunder ever this week goes to the Swiss... a prize that actually surprised me. … [Read more...]
Prince Rupert School District Despises Freedom of Speech; Orders Teachers to Remove T-Shirts Promoting Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Imagine it... a school district, supposedly in charge of educating our children, deems the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be “inappropriate”. No, I am not making this up. Prince Rupert School District No. 52 recently banned teachers from wearing a T-shirt with “2(b) or not 2(b)?” on the front, and the text of section 2 of the Charter on the back: 2(a) … [Read more...]
Every year stories of jackbooted thugs of the State dispensing the Spirit of Christmas warms my heart
[powerpress] Every year there are stories of government agents dispensing the Spirit of Christmas. They never fail to warm the depths of my heart. One story that caught my eye while scanning the headlines today was of Christian Critzer, a Christmas tree farmer in Waynesboro, Virginia. Okay, technically these particular state thugs … [Read more...]
When is your private property not your own? Whenever a bureaucritter of the Nanny State says so.
We like to believe that when we make the most expensive purchase of our lives, our family home, we’re actually the ones who own it. It’s a fallacy, however, as more and more homeowners, if I can even call them that, are discovering across North America. When we buy a piece of land and a house, we believe we can do what we want with that land and home. Oh, we’re such … [Read more...]
Steven Boyd and Karen Bursey are the latest victims of Bureaucrat’s Rule #1
Anyone hanging out here for any length of time will already be familiar with Bureaucrat's Rule #1, but for the benefit of any newcomers, here it is in all its repulsive glory: Bureaucrat's Rule #1: The Rules are More Important than People As you can see, it's quite a simple rule and it is gleefully used the world over by tyrannical bureaucrats who love nothing more than … [Read more...]
Canadian Patriotism: Fly the Canadian Flag, get a fine, have a lien placed against your property
Did you know that Canadians have no right to fly the Canadian flag? As shocking as that sounds, as unpatriotic as that sounds, this is the reality here in the land of True North Strong and Free. Fly the Canadian Flag and you can be fined by your condo association and/or your municipality or both, depending upon where you live. How incredibly… patriotic. Imagine, if … [Read more...]
Texas Judge Lanny Moriarty: Arbiter of Justice or Pathetic Little Tyrant?
Common sense. It's such a simple thing but it's in such short supply in our world, isn't it? The latest case of gross human stupidity to show up on my radar is that of Texas Judge Lanny Moriarty, who felt the petty and pathetic need to make an example of grade 11 Texas honour student Diane Tran. If you haven't heard of her before, prepare yourself to be … [Read more...]
Union County police fine man for the “crime” of saving his son’s life
It sounds absurd, I know, but that's the net result of police actions in Winfield Park, New Jersey, earlier this month. Frank Roder thought he was doing a good thing when he took his son down to the Rahway River to feed the ducks. No sooner had Frank and his son arrived at the parking lot when his young son jumped out of the jeep and ran directly for the edge of the … [Read more...]
The Fredericton Police Service’s blatant intimidation of blogger Charles LeBlanc
Whether or not a person is annoying is not just cause for them to be harassed by police, yet that is exactly what is happening to Fredericton blogger Charles LeBlanc. Charles LeBlanc is, by many accounts, an annoying blogger. He has been called rude and belligerent as well as names that are for worse on many occasions. His blog posts are often rambling pieces that are … [Read more...]
John Stossel on how everything, including common sense, has become illegal in America
Every day there is another asinine law passed, and every day there is another story of how some bureaucrat has abused a citizen because some rule buried in a regulation handbook says he can. John Stossel has made a career out of exploring all of this stupidity, and his latest entry into the absurd is called "Illegal Everything." If you think you've seen every bureaucratic … [Read more...]
The Day Fisheries and Oceans Lost Its Fish by Jane Gaffin
According to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Keith Ashfield and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, the Stephen Harper Conservative government proposes to amend the Fisheries Act. An article posted April 24 by Margo McDiarmid, CBC Environment Unit, quoted Gerry Ritz as telling reporters on a conference call that farmers and landowners have been pushing for changes to … [Read more...]
Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds: Taking Insensitivity to an All-New Low
Thomas Bounds is a sheriff with the Alberta Sheriff’s Service. He requires, at a bare minimum, a severe reprimand and retraining to learn how to act like a human being, since he clearly has no clue at the moment. For his blatantly abusive and potentially life-threatening treatment of Bill Berry, a 52-year-old deaf and mute cancer survivor, Sheriff Thomas Bounds should really … [Read more...]
Tom MacLachlan: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1 sucks, doesn’t it?
Tom MacLachlan was just doing what I’ve personally done numerous times… he was dropping coins into parking meters to prevent a couple of total strangers from getting a parking ticket. I must admit, there is an odd pleasure that comes from knowing you’ve prevented someone from getting a parking ticket. That feeling is enhanced, even more strangely, by the knowledge that the … [Read more...]