Archive for: July 2006

The courts are at it again. As if things weren’t bad enough, the marsupials in charge of Canada’s beleaguered “justice” system just keep on flinging the crap hither and yon like a bunch of disgruntled caged chimps on angel dust.

For those that need the latest count, here it is (more or less):

• 2 of the TO17 have been sprung on bail.
• 2 of the accused in Jane Creba’s murder have also been allowed to fly the coop.
• Jodie Wheatle was out on bail for gun charges when he gunned down salesman Sepehr “Danny” Fatulahzadeh-Rabti outside a car dealership last year.
• Edward Kelly strolls out on aggravated assault charges after he had sex with an 18-year-old without telling her he has AIDS (something he is in a habit of doing, BTW).
• 48 suspects busted in the Project Triple XXX gang sweep went in the revolving jailhouse door and right back out again.
• After having both their names and faces splattered all over the Canadian media, the courts still persist in the belief that information about the identities of the Medicine Hat murder suspect and the Taber shooter can be hidden; as if the genie can be shoved back into the bottle.

And those are just the ones that pop off the top of my head. Luckily, you & I don’t seem to be alone in our outrage over this tomfoolery. Ontario Opposition Leader John “Guess-What-Party-I’m-With” Tory has sounded off that he’s ready to make an election issue of this. Well, it’s about damned time. The high-and-mighty ‘roos have been buggering about with justice in this country for decades now with virtually no government willing to step up and rein them in. From the Singh decision to same-sex marriage to upholding a sentence of only one day for killing someone, the SCOC has taken one clanger after another that no elected official would ever dare try to make into law and rammed them down our throats.

So just how did we end up with this mess in the first place? Well, I hate to say it, but most of this trouble started with a document that was intended to protect Canadians: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yes, you heard that right. No matter how well or poorly intentioned the authors were (and that’s not a debate for here), the fact remains that it is a deeply flawed document.

Adopted in 1982 courtesy of Pierre “Up Yours” Trudeau, the Charter was intended to replace The Chief‘s Bill of Rights and provide equal protection for all Canadians. The actual result, however, has been the limiting of democracy in Canada and the emergence of an increasingly militant and beligerent judiciary, which can only be reigned in through the invocation of section 33, the infamous “notwithstanding clause” that the lefties like to shriek about so much (except when a Quebec court puts the boot to the Canada Health Act). In ratifying the Charter, power has been taked out of the hands of duly elected individuals in Parliament and final, absolute authority has been bestowed on nine unelected individuals, answerable to virtually no one, who show with ever-increasing frequency that they are both out of touch with the everyday realities of average Canadians and dangerously condecending and paternalistic in their views of the same. And the worst of the bunch is SCOC Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin (who I’ve ranted about before).

McLachlin, with her “The rule of law requires judges to uphold unwritten constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion” attitude, feels that judges and judges alone should be trusted with deciding what the law is and what it is not.

Since Her Majesty signed the Charter into law, no Canadian Prime Minister has had the guts to stand up to the courts and take back what rightfuly belongs to our elected Parliament: the final authority of legislation (some have even suggested that the Liberals have deliberately encouraged judicial activism to get things into law that they could never get away with in the House). Harper, however, has been subtly daring the Supremes to screw with him for some time now but the Almighty Boomers have been reluctant to hop in the path of ol’ “Roo Bar” Steve. This is likely because they know damned well that Harper is one wonk with the guts and backbone to not only amend the Charter, but also to scrap it altogeather and start from scratch, if that’s what needs to be done (and it may well be).

Yes, the lefties will pinch a titanic fit and assorted special interest groups will go ballistic but the sooner power is given back to the government, and the people who elect them, the better it will be for everyone. Here’s hoping the Supremes call Harper’s hand, and soon.

Wow. That was fast. As you know, I got on a little bit of a rant yesterday about so-called “Canadians” trapped in Lebanon (and bitching their heads off about the government’s handling of the biggest mass evac since Dunkirk) that weren’t really Canadian at all (except on paper). Seems I’m not as alone on that one as some of the eflamers I’ve been hearing from would like me to think.

From coast to coast today, writers such as Peter Worthington, Rick Bell and more are questioning not only the follies of dual citizenship, but also numerous other glaring flaws in our heads-in-the-sand immigration policies. From the Lebanon evacuation fiasco to the inability to deport rapists or even murderers and terrorists to countries where they “may be mistreated,” cobwebs are shaking loose every damned place you look. Even MPs are starting to talk about “waking up and checking the common sense meter.” (Gee whiz; what trumpet’s that angel gonna blow next?)

Ontario MP Garth Turner is about as blunt as they get:

“We are talking about people, some who went back to Lebanon after the last conflict. They don’t pay taxes here, they don’t live here, they don’t have a loyalty here. We’re not their first country. They have a first country,” explains the parliamentarian, who describes himself as “just a little soldier asking who passes before they get to the public treasury.

“That’s where they have their house, their car, their bank account, their dentist. I ask: You moved out of this country and you’re not contributing here. Why would we come and get you? Or why would we do it for free?

“I’m getting a huge reaction, and not from racists who hate people with brown skin. The issue is: What the hell are we doing? People scratch their heads when they hear about 40,000 Canadians in Lebanon. Are there really 40,000 tourists? That’s a hell of a lot of tourists.”

It seems that the latte-lifting eggheads’ grip on public opinion is beginning to slip some. I can hear the egotistic ejaculations from their prodigious pieholes now:

“Oh, my God; the unwashed masses are starting to think for themselves! Next they’ll start demanding… well, I don’t know what. That in order to be called Canadian you actually have to be Canadian or some such horrible thing?? It’ll be the end of multiculturalism! The country will fall apart! The dead will rise to eat the living! The Tories will get a majority! EEK!”

Sounds good to me. Well, good if we can get the zombies to start with the Liberals. Once they run out of those, we nasty rednecks can just shoot the little undead buggers and then get on with fixing the country.

Even the tiresome Harper-bashing from the lefties, which never really lets up but has changed tune in keeping with the current situation and the PM’s support of Israel’s response, is beginning to wear damned thin. As Earl McRae reports, plenty of people you wouldn’t expect are getting just plain sick of it.

Amen.

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting pretty damned sick and tired of hearing so-called gay “rights” activists calling anyone who disagrees with them on anything at all a “homophobe“? They whip that little slur out like a gun, don’t they?

And it’s not like there really is any such thing as homophobia in the first place, is there? A phobia (from the Greek phobos, meaning “fear”) is an abnormal, irrational, persistent, overpowering and often debilitating fear of a particular situation, activity, person or thing. A phobia is a legitimate mental disorder which frequently affects those who suffer from it to such an overpowering degree that it can trigger a primal “fight or flight” response when the subject encounters the object of the phobia. Those who suffer from a phobia will therefore often got to extreme, even obsessive/compulsive, lengths to avoid any contact with or proximity to the object of their fear. I know an arachnophobe who will literally run screaming from the room at the sight of the tiniest spider. Another individual I know is prone to uncontrolled outbursts of violence when confronted with rodents. I have never in my life seen anyone respond to a homosexual individual with the intensity of someone confronted with the object of a specific phobia. Clearly, homophobia just… isn’t.

So why do they so gleefully fling this clanger about at the drop of a hat? The answer is simple: to give themselves an over-inflated sense of power by painting a picture of their opponents as inferior and fearful. They seem to hope (in the typical reality-impaired manner of the wantonly politically correct) that if they just tell us often enough that we are afraid, sooner or later we will start to be.

Good luck with that one, kids.

The fact of the matter is that there is no such thing as homophobia, at least not in the sense that homosexuality advicates use it (According to the OED, the word homophobia was originally used to mean “fear of men, or aversion towards the male sex”) so please keep that little fantasy to yourselves, thank you very much, and quit demanding that the rest of stick our heads in the sand along with you.

First off, I’d like to thank all the lovely people for all the nice emails I’ve been getting over the last couple of days. You are very clever little boys and girls and I can’t ever recall such creative speculations as to my ancestry. Did you come up with all those clever quips all by yourselves or did your mommies help you out? Birdbrains.

Moving right along, I’ve been doing some thinking (yes, a dangerous pastime, but I have so much time on my hands these days) and a bit of math and I’ve come smack up against a rather interesting question: how is it that the US, with over 10 times our population, has only half as many people to evacuate from Lebanon as we do? There are estimated to be about 25,000 Americans getting out of Dodge while there are supposedly up to 50,000 “Canadians” trapped in the same country. Is it just me, or do these numbers not seem to add up?

The answer, sadly, is that they do add up; and for a very simple reason: dual citizenship. Now there’s an idea whose best before date passed long ago. It is far more common than many folks think for some to immigrate to Canada, stay just long enough to get citizenship (so that they can get all the benefits of being Canadian), and then bugger off back “home” to live out their lives with all the advantages of Canadian citizenship while contributing absolutely nothing in return.

What I would like to know is this: how many of those who are bitching and whining about the government taking too long to get their sorry arses out of Lebanon are people who haven’t been in this country in decades? Why should Canada be obligated to look after them after they deliberately chose to live in a country where terrorist organizations like Hezbolla have more clout than the government of the country?

It is time to seriously re-examine the whole idea of dual citizenship. Too many are merely “paper Canadians,” citizens of convenience and nothing more. They have no loyalty to Canada whatsoever and Canada shouldn’t be seen as owing them a damned thing. And don’t even bother trying to give me any of that multicult “but they contribute to our great cultural mosaic” bullshit. What kind of contribution are they making when they aren’t even here, and haven’t been for decades?

When first-generation immigrants who became Canadian citizens choose to return to live permanently to their country of origin, they should be stripped of Canadian citizenship, period. Canada should not be a country of convenience for anyone. These people were never really Canadian in the first place and it’s high time that we stopped calling them such.

The bitching continues. Howls of outrage are ringing out, mostly from Lebanese Canadians but also from the usual motley crew of leftist suspects, that the government isn’t doing enough to evacuate Canadians currently trapped in Lebanon. Bullshit.

What really gnaws at me is that, out of all the complainers that I’ve heard from (and there were quite a few after yesterday’s post), over 70% said that they vote Liberal. The actual number may be even higher; I haven’t managed to reach all of them back yet. That’s right: the same people that propped up a corrupt party (that sucked up to the “immigrant vote” in order to keep their grip on power and decimated our military) are now whining at the top of their lungs that the current government isn’t doing enough.

Well guess what, you whiny little shits? You reap what you sow. Don’t go boo-hooing to the nearest television camera about how the Tories aren’t helping anyone; they’re doing the best that they can with what they were left to work with, which isn’t too damned much. Hell, the PM himself has diverted his own plane to pick up evacuees (for American readers: imagine the President of the United States flying in on Air Force One to personally pull Americans out of some foreign hot spot and you’ve got the idea), what more do you think can be done??

Send in planes? What planes? The biggest things we’ve got are Hercs. When we went to Afghanistan, we had to rent aircraft from the Russians and that’s not going to happen this time because they’re too busy getting their own people out.

Send in ships? We had to charter the ones that we’re already sending, remember? We have no heavy transport vessels anymore; thank you very much, Grits.

Send in troops to protect our people? What troops? The Canadian Armed Forces has been whittled down to barely 60,000 men, most not in combat positions. And how the hell would we get them there (see above)?

So my advice is: If you spent the last several elections voting Liberal and now have family trapped in Lebanon, shut the hell up. You made your bed, now you can lie in it.

“My mother doesn’t like that, and I’m sure President Bush will be getting a letter . . . But I’ve been called a lot worse than that – including by people who say they like me.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, when asked by a Calgary radio host Dave Rutherford about a recent news conference in Washington, where U.S. President George W. Bush surprised him by calling him “Steve,” a diminutive used only by a few close friends.