I was actually shocked to come across a story about how the NBC network has fired three [alleged] reporters for doctoring and/or fabricating the transcript of George Zimmerman’s 911 call after the shooting of Treyvon Martin. Lillia Luciano, pictured here, is the third person fired for attempting to manufacture a story, instead of doing their job: reporting the news. The … [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...]
“Gun Control” kills. Here’s how…
The advocates of "gun control" are forever telling us that guns are too dangerous for mere citizens to use. It's just not safe, they say. That mentality has always bothered me because what are police officers except mere citizens with a little training? Anyone can become proficient in the skills needed to handle firearms safely. Training facilities like Front Sight can … [Read more...]
Earth Hour 2012: Why and How I will be celebrating this awesome event
Earth Hour is one of the most amazing events of the year. Never have I been so impressed with a cause that has, as its reason for being, the saving of Planet Earth, since Global Warming is going to kill us all. Just ask the same scientists who, only one generation ago, were claiming the world was entering a catastrophic ice age. Thirty years later that same data has them … [Read more...]
Is Homeland Security planning a war on Americans?
Is the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) planning a war on American citizens? It’s a valid question, I suspect, in the wake of news that DHS has ordered 450 million rounds of .40 calibre handgun ammunition and has an open tender for 175 million rounds of .223, the ammunition used in the M-16 assault rifle. That’s a LOT of bullets by anyone’s … [Read more...]
TSA Porn Scanners are for their viewing pleasure only. They don’t actually detect metal…
The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA as it's more commonly known, sold Americans on the idea the TSA would keep them safe. Like all "big government" agencies, the way this is accomplished is two-fold. First, strip you of your rights, and second, spend billions on technology that sounds great but doesn't actually do anything useful. I have, like many others, … [Read more...]
Unless you have a Government Permission Slip to break the law (a licence) you’re going to jail
What is a licence? It is nothing more than a Government Permission Slip (GPS) to break the law. Just because you may choose not to believe me doesn’t make it any less true. It is a crime to do a myriad of things in Canada today; things that should not be a crime, yet are. Politicians mistakenly believe they must always be doing something when the very best thing they could … [Read more...]
Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense = Zero Justice
The case of Jessie Sansone and his ordeal at the hands of the Almighty State should sound the alarm bells deep inside every Canadian's brain. Three government agencies, all now abdicating responsibility for the fiasco, combined for a perfect storm of abuse upon Jessie Sansone, all because his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of her dad holding a gun. NEWS FLASH! … [Read more...]
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: Are you really as incompetent as your protestations make you appear?
I couldn't help but laugh as I read reports that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is suddenly shocked to learn what Bill C-30,the "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act", actually contains. I find this odd, since I've listened to him defend Bill C-30 repeatedly and blather on endlessly about how police can never abuse their powers under this act; that he is … [Read more...]
The United Nations Needs Dismantling
The United Nations is not a secret organization. Everything said and done at the United Nations level is printed, published and online in the form of books, papers, documents and YouTube videos. The problem is that much is written in invisible ink and the reader must possess the uncanny ability to read between the lines; every word is couched in innocuous-sounding, … [Read more...]
Vic Toews: Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often, and for the same reason
While claiming it’s perfectly reasonable for the government to spy on its citizens, the shoe is clearly on the other foot in a lovely social media twist that makes a point to Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews. Toews is very cranky over how his personal life and details of his divorce, infidelity and lack of child support is being displayed very publicly on a … [Read more...]
Gun Owners Continue to Face Criminal Charges for a Law That Doesn’t Exist
I am flipping tired of the unmitigated hubris that continues to spur Canada’s game-playing cops and court system in their indefatigable zeal to prosecute innocent gun owners with the same pesky, recycled sections of the Canadian Firearms Act. In order to demonize gun owners to the hilt, the Government of Canada saw its way clear, at the behest of the United Nations, to dump … [Read more...]
MP Pensions: Justified for Service Rendered, or just more pigs feeding at the Taxpayer-Funded Trough?
I know I’m not alone in thinking that our Members of Parliament have taken advantage of the system. Decade in and decade out they seem to do little but vote themselves ever larger pay increases, fatter pensions. Oh, and more government intrusion into our daily lives as well. Overblown MP pensions have infuriated a lot of Canadians and even Prime Minister Harper seems to be … [Read more...]
PETA and the UN: No Friend To Man Nor Beast
If PETA’s cause was to bring awareness to prevent cruelty and undue suffering to domestic animals, livestock and wildlife, the shock-treatment approach might be considered a noble one. It isn’t. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) beats a Marxist drum that embraces the United Nations’ property-sucking Agenda 21 and is leading to a unified New World … [Read more...]
Sustainability and a Free Society Are Not Compatible
A conservative-minded individual passes through several distinct stages before he is enveloped by the Marxist-Leninist ideology. First, he rants that the philosophy is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, counter-opposed to law and the Christian faith and is a scourge to a "free society". Next, he is brainwashed to believe he has no rights and tires of standing up for some … [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...]
Freedom to Read What You Like? Not In Canada…
If you’re a Canadian, do you believe you have the right to read whatever you like? If you do, you’re not alone, even though you are sadly and grossly mistaken. Canada, believe it or not, has a long and sordid history of banning books and magazines that some unelected and unaccountable bureaucrat has decided you should not read. You see, the Freedom to read what I like is … [Read more...]
Truth: The Most Deadly Weapon
Truth is a funny thing. In today’s world, truth has become relative, not a certainty as it was in times past. Today, truth is whatever those in Power say it is, and when someone is able to prove them wrong, that someone usually disappears and is never heard from again. What prompted this little musing? I’m signed up for a list of Freedom-related quotes, and … [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...]
Update: When cops can’t be bothered to do the jobs they’re paid to do…
On Thursday, in an article titled "When cops can't be bothered to do the jobs they're paid to do, they ask for civilian volunteers?", I wrote about how Fredericton Police Chief Barry MacKnight wanted civilians volunteers to set up and operate speed traps for the Fredericton Police while they do other, unspecified tasks. Naturally, I didn’t think much of the idea, but I’m … [Read more...]
The Office of Religious Freedom? Do we really need another cadre of bureaucrats to tell us what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 2 says?
I must admit I was horrified when I heard the name "Office of Religious Freedom." The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms clearly says the following: 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: (a) freedom of conscience and religion; (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of … [Read more...]
This decision was moronic even by TSA standards…
The US Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA) is hardly the most intelligent bunch in the world. The TSA is made up of thugs empowered by the Patriot Act to use, abuse, sexually molest and otherwise harass travelers who are silly enough or desperate enough to want to fly. I’ve written before on some of the more asinine things the TSA has done, including the forced … [Read more...]
Unmanned Taser Drones coming to a militarized police force near you
While I’m sure there are some who will brand me as one of those tinfoil hat guys, I’m sure anyone willing to actually look at the facts will see I’m not and have never been fitted for one of those shiny (yet amazingly stylish) hats. So here goes. I've known the United States was going down the Orwellian toilet bowl for a long time, but I never ever would have believed … [Read more...]
Just when I thought the Obama White House couldn’t get ANY stupider, they tax Christmas Trees
Yes, I know… it sounds totally moronic and absurd, doesn’t it? And no, I’m NOT making this up! I’m just not that imaginative! Barack Hussein Obama, clearly, is nothing if not moronic and absurd. To quote David Addington: The economy is barely growing and nine percent of the American people have no jobs. Is a new tax on Christmas trees the best President Obama can … [Read more...]
Illogical Paranoia: The Root Cause of Lost Freedoms
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo." -- H. L. Mencken, American journalist The first principle of people-control is not to let them know they're being controlled. That is the reason governments propagandize “crime-reduction” as a favorite motive when sneakily … [Read more...]
Big Brother Has Come Too Far in 10 Years
The hallway stank of boiled cabbage and old rag mats, both government-issued. At one end of the hallway, a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man about 45, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no … [Read more...]
When two Government Agencies can’t get their act together it’s always the law-abiding who pay the price
This is the classic example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing with a law-abiding citizen being harassed and placed in handcuffs because of the total incompetence of one or more government bureaucrats. It's absurd, asinine, stupid, moronic... I could go on but you get the point. Some jackass bureaucrat at the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) … [Read more...]
Hypocrisy Reigns Supreme at Ontario Human Rights Commission
I've always believed the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is nothing if not useless, stupid and unnecessary. Today I add "hypocritical" to the list of adjectives used to describe this anti-freedom, anti-private property government thugocracy. Earlier in the year the OHRC was bored and started paging through the classified ads sections of Ontario newspapers, combing … [Read more...]
Trash Police March on Homes
From our friends in the UK comes a tale of environmental woe: Robin Hood always feared the Sheriff of Nottingham, but always managed to get the better of him. Robin robbed the rich to give to the poor. The people of Nottingham, UK need Robin back soon because the local Sheriff’s department have found ways to rob the poor to give to the rich. In 2010, the Council of … [Read more...]
America! Take a lesson from Canada on how to treat girls selling lemonade!
Jane Gaffin just sent me a link to an article that highlights one of the differences between Canada and the United States that America really needs to embrace: Lemonade Liberation! Over the past few months I've written about the Lemonade Freedom Martyrs and their horrific treatment at the hands of extremely thuggish US Law Enforcement personnel. As I wrote about in my … [Read more...]