"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." This timeless maxim and its many variants are widely attributed to Edmund Burke, although according to many sources he never put his idea into this concise a statement. Others attribute the statement to John Stuart Mill’s inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews in 1867, and even to a … [Read more...]
Freedom of Speech Personified: Pat Condell tells it like it is!
While Pat Condell and I will obviously disagree on the topic of God, we agree on far more than we disagree. He is an outspoken proponent of Freedom of Speech and is, along with many other European commentators, doing his best to alert the Western World to the threat posed by radical islam and it's murderous followers. Pat Condell, to quote the Wikipedia entry for him, is … [Read more...]
Road Pricing: A new tax to pay what our gasoline taxes supposedly pay for, with added bonus of spying on us 24×7
Government is innately wasteful. It's a simple enough concept to understand really. When a group of people are not accountable for the money they spend there is no incentive to spend that money wisely. While a simple concept, bureaucrats and politicians routinely show they cannot comprehend it. Take the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) and TransLink. These … [Read more...]
Leah-Lynn Plante, Matt Duran and Katherine “Kteoo” Olejnik: Political Prisoners Right Here in America
Seriously. Is anyone really surprised that Barack Obama's Justice and State Departments are staffed with hypocrites? Does anyone believe that statement is untrue? If yes, then you're either extremely naïve or very ill-informed. Let me explain... On August 17, 2012 the US State Department issued the following news release decrying the sentencing of Russian rock band … [Read more...]
Diamond Rio’s Uplifting and Inspirational Song In God We Still Trust
For the religious among us here is a lovely song that's been around a while but bears listening to again as we lead up to a US Presidential election where the values of the two candidates couldn't be more clear. In Obama we have a man who hates America and apologizes to the world for her success. In Romney we have a man who has character, integrity, moral fibre and a … [Read more...]
Attn: BC Residents! You Can Still STOP Your Smart Meter Installation
The information below is if you still have your ANALOG meter in place. Information on how to get rid of your already-installed Smart Meter is not yet available, but will be posted at Citizens For Safe Technology as soon as it is. Here is the latest information from Citizens For Safe Technology on dealing with BC Hydro and its Smart Meter program. [hr] Your Guide to … [Read more...]
Mass Hysteria: Government’s Age-Old Boogeyman by Jane Gaffin
Has the world suddenly gone bonkers? Well, no. The world seemingly has been afflicted with mass insanity since time immemorial. Hi-tech toys merely allow the madness to be refined. Eavesdropping on every telephone conversation, snooping into every e-mail message, cameras and recorders spying on and listening to citizens on every street corner, super-snoop … [Read more...]
Malala Yousufzai: shot in the head for the “crime” of wanting an education
Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai is a girl who has high ambitions. She wants to be a doctor. Well, at least she did before some terrorist Taliban moron shot her in the head and throat for her audacity. Who knows if she will survive her wounds and be able to accomplish that dream. The Taliban immediately took credit for this heinous act. Of course they did. These pathetic … [Read more...]
Privacy: We don’t care about it until the invasion of privacy gets up close and personal
We live in a strange age. We don't care that airport security screeners take what amounts to naked pictures of us with their "porn scanners" before allowing us to board our flight, something that was unimaginable just ten short years ago. We think nothing of posting our most private and intimate thoughts to Twitter or Facebook for the world to see. We happily share … [Read more...]
Pastor Terry Jones Barred Entry. So Much for Freedom of Speech in Canada…
Florida Pastor Terry Jones is best known for his outspoken opposition to islam. He made international headlines when he burned a Koran two years ago on the anniversary of 9/11. He also created and promoted “International Burn a Koran Day” as a way of protesting against radical islam. Terry Jones was scheduled to debate Toronto imam on the film Innocence of Muslims outside … [Read more...]
Freedom of Speech: The 27th Annual George Orwell Free Speech Awards
Imagine you are the parents of three young children. Imagine one of those children runs and falls into your precious little girl, landing harshly on her head. Discovering your child's injury, you rush your child to the hospital where you expect your child will immediately receive the medical attention she requires. Never in your wildest nightmares would you believe … [Read more...]
Sometimes would-be robbers get just what they deserve
Gatineau, Quebec store owner Zhen Yang and his wife did what they had to do when two masked thugs tried to rob them: They fought back. But it's how they fought that I found so inspiring. After pepper-spraying one of the thieves in the face with bear spray, Yang heaved the young thug onto the counter and then spanked him twice before his wife kicked the jerk in the head a … [Read more...]
Systemic Racism inside Thunder Bay Police Services? Sure looks that way from the outside.
In our Digital Age it''s very easy to screw up. Never more so than when [allegedly] racist Thunder Bay Police Services (TBPS) Detective John Read writes an offensive "joke" press release about the murder of Adam Yellowhead with the headline “Fresh Breath Killer Captured!!!” and then sends it out to hundreds of media outlets by "mistake". To quote the headline from a Globe … [Read more...]
Seems in Obama’s America Freedom of Speech applies ONLY to Muslims
Welcome to Obama's America, where you can say anything you want about Islam, just so long as its positive. Say something denigrating and, well, the director of "Innocence of Muslims", Nakoula Basseley (or Mark Basseley Youssef if you prefer), is living proof that the Obama White House, ever ready to pander to muslim extremists, will get you any way it can. In Basseley's … [Read more...]
Canadian Islamic Hypocrisy at its finest…
This video clip is of an anti-American demonstration in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where Muslims marched on the American Embassy. Look for the two enormous lies that the Tonto imam peddles in the hopes that nobody will notice. In case you missed them... 1. "Free speech does not give you a right to go and attack somebody’s faith." Yes. It does. In fact that is the … [Read more...]
Rep. Allen West has some choice words for useless US Ambassador to the United Nations
Lieutenant Colonel Allen West (Congressman for Florida's 22 District) is one of my favourite American politicians, and for good reason. He doesn't mince words. He doesn't care of he offends the chuckleheads. He calls things precisely as he sees them and doesn't give a damn if he is "politically correct" when he does it. He despises the cowardice of the Obama … [Read more...]
Reverse Onus clause violates the Constitutional Rights of Violent Offenders, but is okay for law-abiding gun owners?
Gotta love this country, where up is down and left is right. Only in a nation that has completely abandoned rational thought and critical thinking could dangerous offenders have more rights than law-abiding gun owners. That this judgement comes out of the Ontario court system should surprise nobody. Ontario Superior Court Judge Alan Bryant ruled that reverse onus for … [Read more...]
A “human right” to a clean needle in prison??? Don’t be ridiculous…
Lawyers sure know how to fleece the system. One of these societal leeches just filed suit against the federal government for the (gasp!) horror of refusing to provide clean needles to incarcerated criminals so those inmates can inject themselves with smuggled illegal drugs. It’s absurd on its face, yet somehow lawyers like Sandra Ka Hon Chu manage to convince themselves … [Read more...]
The US Government believes you’re a right-wing terrorist if…
The US Government believes you're a right-wing terrorist if... you have a brain and aren't afraid to use it. The US Government routinely demeans, denigrates, ridicules, detests and prosecutes individuals for the "thought crime" of believing what the Constitution of the Constitution of the United States of America actually says. The United States Government has, … [Read more...]
Muslims cannot control themselves so our Right to Freedom of Speech must be surrendered?
The claim goes like this. Our Freedom of Speech must be denied because of those who speak ill of Islam so enrages muslims that they cannot prevent themselves from becoming homicidal lunatics. It's not their fault... you mocked Muhammad and therefore are to blame for any violence that muslims commit. Hogwash like this makes about as much sense as anything else coming out of … [Read more...]
Ottawa County Patriots’ Brand New Billboards (these guys are great!)
Jim Chiodo, President of the Ottawa County Patriots contacted me after he discovered my Sept. 23rd article on the fantastic work his organization is doing. They've launched a billboard campaign to show the American public the difference between a proven failure (Obama) and a proven winner (Romney). Thanks so much for posting a picture and "stuff" about our semi truck … [Read more...]
Junking English for the Sake of IngSoc by Jane Gaffin
The great failed experiment called the United Nations has come up with another bizarre notion. This time it’s the outlawing of speech. I don’t know if the Marxist deadheads hanging out in the tombstone-shaped, 37-floor UN building in Manhattan intend to prohibit all speech to bring complete silence to the land or just continue their rout of demonizing and redefining … [Read more...]
Ottawa County Patriots create awesome US Presidential Election billboards
The ability of some folks to simply do what needs to be done never ceases to amaze me. Take the folks at Ottawa County Patriots (http://www.ottawacountypatriots.org), a group of very smart and committed American Patriots who clearly love their country. Ottawa County is located on the south-west side of Michigan and includes Holland, Zeeland, Grand Haven, and a bit of … [Read more...]
The “Religion of Peace” issues death order on makers of Innocence of Muslims
How very peaceful and tolerant of the Islamic Fascists... A Muslim cleric in Egypt, Ahmad Fouad Ashoush, has ordered the murder of everyone involved in the making of "Innocence of Muslims", the YouTube video that White House Coward In Chief Barack Obama is blaming for the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American citizens last week. In true … [Read more...]
Followers of The Religion of Peace keep murdering… and Obama just keeps apologising
Cowardice from Barack Obama's White House is nothing out of the ordinary. In fact the world has come to expect it. The only people still surprised by the depth of his ongoing cowardice are those who believe they've seen the worst of it. His apology to the murderers of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American citizens shows the world just how weak, how useless and … [Read more...]
Privacy: A Relic from the Past by Jane Gaffin
George Orwell was right. Big Brother is watching! So is the menacing Big Sis over at the U.S.’s ubiquitous Homeland Security. That evil government department is in accelerated motion toward total world surveillance that transcends Orwell’s projections as well as that of screenwriters Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein whose unnerving British TV series The Prisoner … [Read more...]
Freedom of Speech and Marriage Fraud: How can they possibly be connected?
Actually, quite easily, unfortunately. Meet Lainie Towell. Yes, the photo looks a little weird, until you understand why this woman is wearing a wedding dress and carrying a full-size door, white on one side and red on the other, with the words “Mr. Immigration Minister, it’s getting heavy” emblazoned on the back of it. To quote the Ottawa Life magazine story about her … [Read more...]
Freedoms: Yours Until They Are Stolen by Jane Gaffin
People don’t give a whit about freedom as long as they naively believe the government is not goring their ox, which, they painfully discover with time, it was their own personal inalienable rights that were stealthily chipped away in silence until those freedoms no longer exist. Frequently, freedom-lovers allude to the famous “First They Came For” passage that refers to … [Read more...]
Got an iPhone or iPad? Great! Big Brother loves you and is tracking your every move…
An interesting story crossed my desk this morning and kicked my spidey senses into overdrive. Why? Big Brother (aka the FBI) was caught spying on us regular folk yet again. FBI Agent Christopher Stangl (semi-famous for an FBI recruiting video he made a few years back) had his laptop hacked by one or both of the hactivist groups Anonymous and Antisec. Is it just me or is … [Read more...]