No, really, I’m being serious here. For once (just this once), I’m saying something nice about Jack Layton and I’m not being a smartass: the man does, in fact, have a brain.
Granted, he doesn’t use it all that often, but he dusted it off and trotted it out the other day.
Ottawa–A carbon tax would place an unfair burden on low-income Canadians, Jack Layton said yesterday.
“Those advocating a carbon tax suggest that by making the costs for certain things more expensive, people will make different choices,” Layton said.
“But Canada is a cold place and heating your home really isn’t a choice.”
How the hell did that happen??? Granted, he did get right back to the stoopid right quick (putting the screws to industry, blah blah blah; read the article), but he still had himself a good brain moment for a few seconds there.
Of course, I did. And so did every other mean, nasty, homophobic, anti-multicultural, knuckle-dragging, islamophobic, intolerant, Christian, gun-totin’, pickup-drivin’, nascar-watchin’, intolerant, scaryscaryscary, rightwingrightwingrightwing, redneck neanderthal in the country.
We said that this would happen and all the “progressives” did was fling the ad hominem like a bunch of cranky caged apes with too much poop within reach. They called us every dirty name in the book and howled to the skies that “gay marriage” was not the thin edge of the wedge; it was about rights, nothing more. Well, as usual, the Fearmongering Of The Right Wing Nutjobs® has come to pass…
“Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it’s not common, but it’s happening,” said Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre.
Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and his outspoken views on the implementation of Islamic law. In the past five years, Hindy said he has officiated or “blessed” more than 30 polygamous marriages; the most recent was two months ago. Even some imams in the GTA have second wives, he added.
“This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion,” he said. “If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that.”
There you have it. Polygamy and another step towards the dhimmitude of Canada, all in one handy package. A two-fer. Nice, eh?
We said that this would happen. But still, the “progressives” who got us into this mess are playing dumb, pretending that they have no idea how such a thing could happen. I mean, how could we possibly have polygamy in Canada?? Wake up, shitheads; this isn’t happening because you let it happen, it’s happening because you made it happen!
Aw, now I’m probably gonna get called an islamophobe. Hey, it’s just their culture, it’s not hurting or screwing over anybody, right? Bullshit:
…Hindy advises men to keep the second marriage a secret as long as they can, even from the first wife. There have been instances where he has gone with the men to their homes to share the news with the first wives, in an attempt to help lessen the blow.
Hindy had advised Rigby’s husband to stay quiet. When Rigby emailed Hindy, soon after discovering he had conducted the marriage, he offered little support.
“You have to stand beside him in these difficult times. You should stop causing problems to him. You will not get anything by divorce except destroying your life,” she said he told her.
Well, at least they’re not trying to ram their ideals down anybody else’s throats, right? Wrong, again (by years, this time):
A controversial Toronto imam warned Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan at a closed-door meeting to stop “terrorizing” Canadian Muslims.”If you try to cross the line I can’t guarantee what is going to happen. Our young people, we can’t control,” Aly Hindy, the head of Scarborough’s Salaheddin Islamic Centre, recalls telling the minister at the May meeting she held in Toronto with dozens of Muslim leaders.
Translation: “We’re gonna do whatever the hell we want, and if you try to get in the way, we’re gonna run amok on your asses.”
Hey, “progressives,” I got a little message for ya. You might be thinking to yourselves, in the backs of your little pea brains, “when they come for me, who will be left to speak up?“Â And you know damned well that they will come for you.
The answer is that WE will be left. Mean, evil, gun-totin’ intolerant rednecks. We’ll be left because we don’t allow ourselves to be screwed with. When totalitarian assholes push us, we push back, and we aren’t afraid of escalation; we give as good as we get — usually better. And it’s not just because we have guns and know how to use them (although that’s always nice); it’s just who we are. We love our freedom, we understand that it isn’t free, and we’re willing to pay for it. No matter the price. So we’ll be the ones that are left to speak up.
Here’s the problem for you, though:
I can’t speak for everyone, so I’ll just speak for me. While I’ll be around to speak up, I won’t. Not for you. After all the damage you’ve done, I’ll be more than happy to leave you to the God damned wolves.
My kin, on the other hand, are safe. And they’re staying that way.
Well now, isn’t this nice? And here I was yesterday, wondering just where the MSM had disappeared to when it came to covering this story. The Google search is still only coughing up one result so far (from CHQR in Cowtown), but I guess that’s a start.
The lovely Hunter over at Climbing Out Of The Dark, however, has managed to dig up a little something more (she’s such a cool chick). Here’s a vid from YouTube showing Ezra on Mike Duffy Live.
Still nary a peep from the Ceeb, though. Interesting, that; don’t you think?
Hunter also brings up another interesting question in her post: WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THE TORIES?
As most of you likely know by now, Ezra Levant spilled the beans earlier today about the fact the it looks like the RCMP has begun a criminal investigation into the ongoing skulduggery being perpetrated by Canada’s so-called “Human Rights Commission” (a mind-numbingly hypocritical title if ever there was one).
Something like this is news. Big news. Big, big, big. Here’s a little tidbit for you:
Just how bad does it have to get before the government stops saying that the CHRC follows “procedures specified by the law”? We’ve got the Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP investigating now. What does it take to get the government’s attention — a NATO airstrike?
And how about the claim that the government is “monitoring” the CHRC to ensure that it “remains effective”. Effective at what? Hacking Internet accounts? Shredding their records and deleting their hard drives? Staying out of jail? What exactly about the CHRC’s conduct could be called “effective”?
Question: when the RCMP investigates CHRC staff, will the CHRC pay for their criminal lawyers? If so, is that an indication that those CHRC staff hacked the website in the course of their duties?
Like I said, Big News. Big, biggitty, big-big-big. So… why is it, then, that CBC the Ministry Of What You Should Think has diddly, CTV has squat, and when I type in “CHRC RCMP” into a Google news search, all I get is…
Your search – CHRC RCMP – did not match any documents.
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Who’d have seen this coming? After all the eeks and awks from the surrender monkey crowd that we’ve all had to sit through for years now, things are still progressing such that even the Red Star has been painted into the corner of having to admit that we’re just plain winning the war. And don’t fool yourselves, either. No matter what the latest lingo is, it’s not a “NATO operation,” not a “UN mission,” and it’s sure as hell not “Dubya’s misadventure.” It’s a war. If you don’t believe me, just ask any soldier who’s been there.
It’s a war, and we… are… winning (I’m putting the whole thing here, with my emphasis added, in case it vanishes down some “subscription only” black hole later on):
KABUL – In 2001, when the Taliban was abruptly toppled, there was no armistice.
No surrender was ever signed. No declaration of defeat conceded.
It seemed not to matter that much, then. It matters now.
The Taliban was ostensibly, and in fact, trashed, its command hierarchy skulking off to the frontier regions of northwest Pakistan to lick their wounds. And, with the passage of time, left largely unmolested in their foreign redoubts, to connive, to regroup.
Six years ago, after the capital’s liberation, the routed Taliban held not a single acre of Afghanistan soil.
Today, the roundly accepted estimate – not necessarily accurate but asserted as such by no less than the U.S. director of national intelligence – is that Taliban forces control 10 per cent of the country.
The government led by Western-backed President Hamid Karzai, its authority propped up by NATO and American troops, has purported control over 30 per cent of Afghanistan territory. Warlords, who may or may not align themselves with Kabul – depends on which way the wind is blowing – essentially lay claim to all the rest.
These are rule-of-thumb generalizations, often cited by critics who bemoan Afghanistan’s regression to patchwork fiefdom and lawlessness, the Taliban insurgency resurrected like a phoenix from the ashes of a vanquished, deranged regime.
“Those percentages of what the Taliban hold drive me crazy,” Christopher Alexander counters heatedly. “Because they don’t hold anything, really. There are some places where they hold out,where they’re holed up. And they’re able to do so because there isn’t an active challenge to their presence. None of that means that they’re in control.”
Alexander, a boyish 39, has been on the ground in Afghanistan for 4 years, first as Canada’s ambassador and latterly as deputy special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations: The No. 2 guy for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Few outsiders know the Byzantine intricacies of this godforsaken nation better.
At a time of international weariness over any practical resolutions for the chaotic dilemma that Afghanistan remains, Alexander is jarringly optimistic. He might be accused of blue-sky dreaminess, but he’s too well-informed to be dismissed as naïve or wilfully blind.
For one thing, he knows the Taliban. Quite a few of its commanders have, if furtively, come to this very office, sat in these comfortable chairs, and broached the subject of an honourable truce, if not necessarily for the entire insurgency, then at least for themselves.
“That doesn’t mean reconciliation is happening. But it does mean the demand for it has grown,” Alexander says.
Such tentative overtures in the past two years – both to UNAMA and the Karzai government – is not being done from a position of strength. If the neo-Taliban were that hardy, none of its members would be seeking reintegration.
“Why are they making these approaches? First and foremost because they’re afraid for their life and limb. The commanders, in particular, feel that the Afghan forces, and ISAF, are zeroing in on them, as the command-and-control of the insurgency, much more successfully. The more they get promoted in the hierarchy, the more likely they are not going to survive.
“Secondly, a lot of these men, even though they’re still fighting, even though they’re still pretty angry with the government, can see that their cause is not leading anywhere.”
For all that the media focuses on ostensible Taliban achievements, they have not, in fact, taken or maintained control of any territory where forces – national and international – have been deployed to push back. Even in Helmand province, the insurgency’s heart, the Taliban are on their back foot with the recent arrival of aggressively on-the-offence U.S. Marines, driving insurgents downwards to the Pakistan border, whence most came.
A keyhole view is often favourable to the Taliban as the shadow-government in this district or that region. They get big splashes with increasing IED attacks and suicide bombings, especially now aimed at Kabul. That ratchets up the terror and discourages foreign investment but has not brought the Taliban any closer to regaining power. That, remember, is their objective – to drive out NATO, usurp or assassinate Karzai, shred the Constitution, dissolve Parliament and reimpose their puritanical dominion.
They are not remotely close to doing so.
If the situation often looks to the world as if Afghanistan is sliding back toward the insurgency’s clutches – it could happen but is hugely unlikely – that’s not a view shared by Taliban realists, who do not believe their own propaganda.
“They know what success looks like,” Alexander reminds.
This is a crucial point often forgotten in fretfulness over Afghanistan.
“Many of them were around the block in ’94, ’95, ’96, when they marched triumphantly to Herat and then to Kabul, when they cruised to victory, in a sense. This is very different. They are challenged from the moment they cross the border, let alone in the environs of Kabul or downtown Kandahar.
“Publicly, the Taliban set all these objectives: In 2006, Kandahar was going to fall. In 2007, Kabul would fall. None of that happened.
“The smarter ones, who are more realistic, see the writing on the wall. And the ideologues, the ones who want to die fighting, are a pretty small minority. They make the videos but they’re not setting foot in Afghanistan because it’s too dangerous for them. They’re back in Peshawar and Quetta.”
What Taliban commanders learned last year – when several key leaders were killed – is that NATO, the Afghan forces, and in particular the National Directorate of Security (the Afghan intelligence agency) has penetrated their communication network, the lifeline of command-and-control, and infiltrated their ranks, just as the Taliban and their sympathizers had successfully co-opted the Ministry of the Interior at a senior level and some vectors of the military.
“Even their high-profile guys can’t trust their own entourages, can’t use a cellphone or any other kind of communication . . . it’s too risky. And they have to communicate.”
From where Alexander sits – a perspective admittedly not shared by many outside the country, and assuredly not by most civilians in the volatile south – the insurgency has plateaued. It’s particularly reckless and a sign of desperation to turn that insurgency on Kabul.
“I’m not saying that this conflict is ending. Nor am I predicting that the going will be easy in Kandahar and Helmand. But within the borders of Afghanistan, the Taliban are losing momentum because they’re being challenged in more places, both politically and militarily.”
Also, crucially, there is just no stomach among the overwhelming majority of Afghans to be plunged back into that dark past.
“People are remarkably un-nostalgic about the Taliban days.”
It’s one of the oldest lessons in the book; one that every small-town boy learns while he’s growing up. Got a problem with a bully? The solution’s simple: start swinging and don’t stop until he cries like a girl. It’s real easy to push others around when they aren’t fighting back, but once you find that you’re going to have to take your lumps every damned time, you start to think twice. And all bullies are essentially cowards at the core.
Everything we set out to do in Afghanistan, we will do. And there’s not a God damned thing the Taliban or anyone else can do about it. The spin just isn’t working anymore. Sucks to be them, eh?
Layton has one.
Of course, I did. And so did every other mean, nasty, homophobic, anti-multicultural, knuckle-dragging, islamophobic, intolerant, Christian, gun-totin’, pickup-drivin’, nascar-watchin’, intolerant, scaryscaryscary, rightwingrightwingrightwing, redneck neanderthal in the country.
The answer is that WE will be left. Mean, evil, gun-totin’ intolerant rednecks. We’ll be left because we don’t allow ourselves to be screwed with. When totalitarian assholes push us, we push back, and we aren’t afraid of escalation; we give as good as we get — usually better. And it’s not just because we have guns and know how to use them (although that’s always nice); it’s just who we are. We love our freedom, we understand that it isn’t free, and we’re willing to pay for it. No matter the price. So we’ll be the ones that are left to speak up.
Well now, isn’t this nice? And here I was 
Something’s got me wondering. Big time.
Who’d have seen this coming? After all the eeks and awks from the surrender monkey crowd that we’ve all had to sit through for years now, things are still progressing such that even the Red Star has been painted into the corner of having to admit that we’re just plain winning the war. And don’t fool yourselves, either. No matter what the latest lingo is, it’s not a “NATO operation,” not a “UN mission,” and it’s sure as hell not “Dubya’s misadventure.” It’s a war. If you don’t believe me, just ask any soldier who’s been there.
