Category: Canada

More evidence that cranial cobwebs are evaporating, even in the MSM, has appeared in the wake of the foiled terrorist plot in Britian. Columnist such as the Freeps‘ Rory Leishman and the Calgary Sun‘s Ted Byfield have been pointing out for some time that the hard questions are going to need to be asked if our society is to survive, and it is beginning to look like more and more previously denial-bound dunderheads are beginning to take notice.

The hard questions that I’m talking about are also the simple and obvious ones that occur to everyone, whether they admit it or not, but the screeching handwringers on the left constantly admonish us must never, ever be asked openly. To do so, they say, would destroy the little multicult utopia that “we have all worked so hard for.” Those questions are: When are we going to reexamine our immigration policies in a rational fashion and When we finally get pushed too far (which we likely will), what will we do then?

Terrorism is not as “home grown” as apologists would have us believe. And Byfield hit it right on the head with:

“Those who sought political asylum,” observes the London Telegraph, “continue pursuing old vendettas from their suburban British homes — and demanding British conformity to Islamic values.”
But if the attacks had succeeded, one wonders how much of this arrogance would we be prepared to put up with?
Or as we counted our dead, would the day have arrived when at last we say to the “Muslim Community”:
“Get rid of these guys or we get rid of you.”

Now there’s a thought that should keep your typical multicultist awake at night. Not particularily palatable to me, either. After all, just what would we consider to be too extreme after the bodies of our own started piling up? Germany found out the answer to that one the hard way. And don’t fool yourselves, this is a war, and it must be won.

Here we go. The doomsayers are in full swing and crying their omenous prophecies of doom, gloom, social ruin and assorted apocalyptic apoplexy to the very heavens themselves.

Okay, so just what the hell set them off this time? I’ll tell you. The screeching barnyard fowl from the left have gone nuts over Justice Minister Vic Toews’ recent musings about letting the courts step in on matter involving little criminal bastards young offenders aged 10 and 11. To listen to the handwringers, you’d think that we were gearing up to warehouse kids in the kinds of places that even Dickens wouldn’t want to write about.

Even though the Tories have stated the agenda pretty bluntly, in language that you’d think that even a Liberal would understand:

“The issue here isn’t making a bunch of changes that will throw 10- or 11-year-olds in jail. The issue here is making sure that the kids that have the potential of falling through the cracks before they turn 12 are able to get the treatment they need. If it means the courts need to step in to make sure they get that treatment, then that’s something we should be discussing,”

career Grit fearmongers like London’s Sue Barnes still try to horrify the masses:

“Lies. The bottom line is that treatment programs are required and those should be existing right now and they shouldn’t be coming through a justice system; they should be coming through a social services system. This government is going too far in their lock ’em up and throw away the key approach to justice policy.”

The Grits, in typical full spin mode, flung out a news release with the screaming headline: “Justice critic condemns Conservative plan to jail 10-year-olds!”

Just how danmed stupid do they think we are? Why is it that every time the Tories try to actually deal with a problem (especially if it’s one that the Grits ran and hid from for years), these yoyos start bleating like somebody just suggested legalizing eating babies?

Yes, we understand that it’s not like there are homicidal 10-year olds running amok (although there are some very disturbing exceptions to that generalisation) but right now, if a kid 10 or 11 years of age the system can be utterly powerless to do anything about it. At least the Conservatives are moving on the issue. The liberals had more than a decade and did nothing but introduce the YCJA, which only made things worse.

Well, it’s not like anybody can really say that they didn’t see this coming. In a brazen display over the weekend, a pack of thugs (no doubt emboldened by the impotent response to the anarchy at Caledonia) openly attacked police officers on Walpole Island.

The Walpole cops were tracking a stolen car at about 4am Saturday morning when the thieving arsehole behind the wheel decided to pull a U-turn and ram the cruiser. An OPP cruiser was called in to help and was driven into the ditch by a van (probably hauling ass to help their buddies) that tried to ram them.

The first cruiser was “extensively damaged” and the car that rammed it crashed later (big surprise there). The van took another run at the OPP cruiser before hauling ass to the scene of the first crash, where it repeatedly rammed the first cruiser before buggering off. Cops did eventually find the van, but not before the arsehole driving it set it on fire and screwed off. They still don’t know who was driving. Anyone who knows anything can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Fortunately, none of the cops were hurt. A 23-year-old Walpole Island man in the stolen car was “ejected from the vehicle” (funny how that phrase can have a nice ring to it sometimes, isn’t it?) in the first crash and is still in critical condition in a London hospital.

Boo hoo. Poor him.

Get used to hearing about stuff like this, folks. I said it before and I’ll say it again: the Provincial Government’s impotent response to lawlessness by natives is going to do nothing but encourage more of the same. But thanks to the Grits’ case of terminal political correctitude, we’re probably going to have to wait until some Grit politician’s kid gets hurt before anything real gets done to get tough on crime.

I have to admit it, this isn’t something that I thought I’d be writing about. I probably should have expected it sooner or later though, given the nature of today’s menagerie of wee technological beasties. Even worse, I’m not sure what my opinion on this is (which is definitely a strange land for me to be in). What’s got me so befuddled, you’re wondering.

Numerous media sources (starting, it seems, with the TO Sun) are in something of an uproar about some home videos made by some of our soldiers in Afghanistan that have ended up on the net. I’m not sure if I should be posting this in the “Stupidity” category or not. Here’s why:

I’m of two minds on this one; really. On the one hand, as the old saying goes, loose lips sink ships. On the other, the Canadian public seems to be in dire need of a severe wakeup call as to just what soldiers really do. We’ve had our collective heads nestled so far up our national backside for so long now that is seems that we have no idea what a soldier’s job really is.

I’ve been going over the footage at youtube.com (yes, that’s where it is and no, I dont feel like a loose-lipped bugger; it’s already out there) and it seems like it could be educational to a great many. Our boys are conducting themselves in a manner that would make any soldier proud.

And, in my opinion, should make us proud, too.

So take a look at it, make up your own mind, and let us know what you think. Comments to follow, I’m sure.

UPDATE:
Okay, kids. After numerous emails and a comment or two, I’ve decided to post links to the vids in question so people can make up their own minds. Like I said before, this stuff has been out there for some time now so I don’t feel like I’m giving away anything the rest of the world doesn’t already know. Here are the links (I still can’t get the embedded video to work without totally buggering up the layout of the site):

1. An undated forefight in Afghanistan
2. A short vid of pre-deployment training (the soldiers in Canadian uniform are training for Afghanistan deplpoyment, the men with the ski masks and AK-47’s are also Canadian soldiers attempting to simulate the conditions in Afghanistan.)
3. A firefight from July 8, 2006 (Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, “Red Devils” from Edmonton, Canada engage in a fierce firefight with Taliban insurgents on July 8, 2006 in Panjawi, Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.)
4. A July 13, 2006 dawn raid on a Taliban compound ( Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, “Red Devils” from Edmonton, Canada conduct a dawn raid on a Taliban compound on July 13, 2006 in Hydarabad, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.)
5. Canadian soldiers being ambushed on July 15, 2006 ( Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, “Red Devils” from Edmonton, Canada are ambushed as they conducted battle damage assessment in the village on July 15, 2006 in Sangin, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Also known as the “I can’t believe that guy’s not dead” video.)
6. Four part video of an undated firefight ( Operation ZAHAR, joint Afghan National Army/ Coalition Forces security operation to remove Taliban forces from the Zjarey District 25km West Kandahar, Afghanistan.)
7. More footage from Operation ZAHAR
   
8. A two part video, also undated
   
9. There’s also a few user compilations and some rather moving tribute videos, along with a few “support our troops” vids.

Well, there they are. This is just a sampling of what I was able to fine in only one site. There’s a lot more out there. The question is: is footage like this a help or a hinderance? I haven’t had time to look at them all yet, but I haven’t found anything of any real tactical value to the enemy yet. So what do the rest of you think? Comments to follow, I’m sure.

This is just too rich to be true. Really, it is. Even I had to look twice at this one to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. Or maybe hungover.

The eternally unassuaged Grits moan and groan into every microphone they come across that PM Harper is a mean, nasty partisan who never lets anybody but Conservatives do anything. Then, Steve goes and does something totally unpartisan: he picks Liberal MP Wajid Khan as his special adviser on South Asia and the Middle East. Yes, you heard that right: Harper hired a Liberal. And the Grits totally lost it(NTTAWWT). Hell, I love watching moonbats turning on each other like a pack of starving dogs (insert big, scary, rightwinger grin here).

TO Grit Maria Minna (no relation to our apparently resident troll) hacked up the best hairball so far, I think: “Wajid’s appointment is a slick, sick, calculated move on Harper’s part. Liberals shouldn’t touch this thing with a 10-foot pole . . . Wajid should have known that he was playing into the hands of the Conservatives and Bill Graham should have said NO.”

Others are howling for Wajid to either quit the job or quit the Liberal party. Correct me if I’m wrong here, but isn’t that exactly the kind of “with us or against us” attitude that liberals are always whining about??

Naturally, the MSM, being the good little leftist lapdogs that they are, have gone all out to put whatever sort of machiavellian spin on this that they can. Not that we would expect anything else. It’s the same old “heads I win, tails you lose” attitude we’ve been seeing for years. Harper is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t, so the best thing to do is to just stick with his “principles, not polls” way of doing things and let the voting public make up their own minds.

They’re perfectly capable of it, and they’re getting rather unwilling to let the Grits or MSM or Big Nanny or anyone else, for that matter, tell them what they should be thinking. Minds are getting made up. And if what I see is any indication, most people are in their right mind. In many senses of the word.

Proving yet again that they know where their priorities are, the McWimpy government is waging a desperate battle to get back to the business of doing nothing. Attorney General Michael Bryant is going to court to argue that endless chinwagging is better than actually doing something to resolve the situation in Caledonia. Being typically Grit, Bryant seems to think that the law just doesn’t apply to everybody.

On Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Marshall knocked the wheels off this little bullshit bandwagon by ordering that there will be no talks between the protestors rioters and anyone until the law of the land is followed and a previous court order to vacate is obeyed. Let’s face a nasty truth here, boys and girls. No matter what some of the lefty-lovers try to say, everybody with a brain in their head knows damn well that if these were white people pulling a stunt like this, they’d have been dragged off to the pokey long ago, using any force necessary.

This puts the provincial Grits in one hell of a bind. No longer able to hide behind the “but we’re doing all we can; we’re talking to them” BS, they are still going to be expected to do something about the problem. Grits hate having to solve problems. Problems keep people distracted from Liberal incompetence and malfeasance so, obviously, it is in the Liberals’ best interest to drag every “crisis” out for as long as possible. Without any looming politically correct disaster to dazzle the masses, they start asking hard questions that Grits, with their wishy-washy, mealy-mouthed absence of guiding principles, are utterly unable to deal with. Conservatives (both big and little C), on the other hand, seek out such challenges and meet them head on; hence all the lib-left media fearmongering about us.

Got that? For Liberals, the logic is: problems good, solutions bad. Come to think about it, it’s kind of like a scaled down version of the way that Mideastern despots rail against Israel lest their people realise that it is their own leadership that is the author of most of their miseries. Hmm.

The natives, meanwhile, have been taking every opportunity to drop not-so-subtle insinuations that, without talks ongoing, the only alternative is mayhem. More proof of their thuggery.

Hazel Hill, a spokeswoman for the group, calls the ruling “an act of aggression.” What bullshit. Attacking an elderly couple in their car and trying to run over a cop are acts of aggression.

Rioter mouthpiece Janie Jamieson even has the nerve to imply that it’s up to the townspeople to keep cool heads. “There is a constant push from some (residents) to see bloodshed and they’re going to keep on creating situations until it happens,” she barfed.

When will this hypocrisy end?