08/11: Heroes
The CBC’s Living Out Loud will be airing tape from interviews done with Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War tomorrow.
(ETA 2012 Nov 16: they did air it, and as of today both episodes are up there.)
(And see also the ‘pedia article on the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.)
They were teasing the material tonight on another program (As It Happens), and someone pointed out that these people—who actually had to sneak away to fight—the Canadian government at the time had actually made it illegal to go—had it in their heads, among other things, that fascism was going to be big trouble for Europe, and they were right. And yet this brought them no end of hardships. Including some courtesy their own government.
Well, see, the only folk who insisted on still organizing troops from Canada after the law was passed were the local Communists.
But, yeah, they sure as hell were right about fascism. And they fought, and died, generally unsupported by Western governments. And on returning home, faced arrest, investigations, harassment, got themselves on various political shit lists.
‘Premature antifascists’, see. And, apparently, that’s a bad thing.
Heroes. The lot of them. And of a rare kind, y’ask me.
(ETA 2012 Nov 16: they did air it, and as of today both episodes are up there.)
(And see also the ‘pedia article on the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.)
They were teasing the material tonight on another program (As It Happens), and someone pointed out that these people—who actually had to sneak away to fight—the Canadian government at the time had actually made it illegal to go—had it in their heads, among other things, that fascism was going to be big trouble for Europe, and they were right. And yet this brought them no end of hardships. Including some courtesy their own government.
Well, see, the only folk who insisted on still organizing troops from Canada after the law was passed were the local Communists.
But, yeah, they sure as hell were right about fascism. And they fought, and died, generally unsupported by Western governments. And on returning home, faced arrest, investigations, harassment, got themselves on various political shit lists.
‘Premature antifascists’, see. And, apparently, that’s a bad thing.
Heroes. The lot of them. And of a rare kind, y’ask me.
13/07: True, dat
Marie-Claire Shanahan points out the media ‘round here really have been a mite thin on the ground re coverage of concerns re the Harper government’s muzzling of Canadian scientists.
My personal take: this is probably partly general inattention and the difficulty general audience media have covering science-related stuff to begin with, and some media, of course (cough the Sun chain cough), really are cheerleaders for and cronies of these slimeballs anyway, but Harper and Co. have also been very good at shutting down discussion of what they don’t want talked about just by making it difficult, reducing the ability of media that might raise critical points of view even to get access or, of course, comment. They don’t comment if they don’t like where it might go, and, of course, they’re muzzling the hell out of anyone who might be able to comment from inside (as in: this is the whole point of this story), so there ya go: the control these control freaks always wanted.
Which, yeah, isn’t pretty. Take home lesson: authoritarians of this stripe really should never be given the reins of power. It’s like handing someone who already has poor impulse control a bottle of hard liquor and a large, heavy mallet. It’s just not a scenario at all likely to lead to much good.
My personal take: this is probably partly general inattention and the difficulty general audience media have covering science-related stuff to begin with, and some media, of course (cough the Sun chain cough), really are cheerleaders for and cronies of these slimeballs anyway, but Harper and Co. have also been very good at shutting down discussion of what they don’t want talked about just by making it difficult, reducing the ability of media that might raise critical points of view even to get access or, of course, comment. They don’t comment if they don’t like where it might go, and, of course, they’re muzzling the hell out of anyone who might be able to comment from inside (as in: this is the whole point of this story), so there ya go: the control these control freaks always wanted.
Which, yeah, isn’t pretty. Take home lesson: authoritarians of this stripe really should never be given the reins of power. It’s like handing someone who already has poor impulse control a bottle of hard liquor and a large, heavy mallet. It’s just not a scenario at all likely to lead to much good.
There’s a protest tomorrow re the Harper government’s general muzzling of scientists on the federal payroll. Dunno if I’m gonna make it—busy week—but anyway, here’s the original Nature editorial documenting a few cases. There’s an earlier one, too. Predictably, climate scientists are on the list of those who don’t get to tell you where their research points, but they’re not the only ones, either.
There’s something just especially pathetic about this side of Harper. Honestly, this ideologically-blinkered, slope-forheaded yutz thinks he’s the guy to decide what people who, y’know, actually know things get to tell anyone?
Me, I figure this is exactly backward. It’s Harper and his dittohead followers really might as well be be told to button it. Or at least learn to speak only when they’re spoken to. Ain’t like he nor his goons have ever had much of anything to say that was actually worth hearing.
(/Yeah, back in your box, ye petty, pathetic little man. Please stop wasting everyone’s time. The adults need to talk now, thanks.)
There’s something just especially pathetic about this side of Harper. Honestly, this ideologically-blinkered, slope-forheaded yutz thinks he’s the guy to decide what people who, y’know, actually know things get to tell anyone?
Me, I figure this is exactly backward. It’s Harper and his dittohead followers really might as well be be told to button it. Or at least learn to speak only when they’re spoken to. Ain’t like he nor his goons have ever had much of anything to say that was actually worth hearing.
(/Yeah, back in your box, ye petty, pathetic little man. Please stop wasting everyone’s time. The adults need to talk now, thanks.)
I’m not sure I can suitably express my contempt for the efforts of the ruling thugs in parliament to rewrite substantial portions of the legislation of the country in the redeye hours, principally by ramming it all through in one marathon session, restricting votes, and making, y’know, actually sensible discussion and negotiation effectively impossible.
There’s something picturesque about it, tho’.
Daylight is no friend of these sleazy little cockroaches. So they’ll do their business in the dark, of course. And in a hurry and a rush and hope no one notices, and that those who do notice can’t stop them, nor even push out to the people a properly coherent sense of just what damage has been done.
Helluva way to run a country, you endlessly unprincipled wanks. Helluva way. But then, government by legislative shock, with too much happening too fast for anyone fully to appreciate the ramifications of what has been done has so long been a neocon tactic. It’s made a mess of rather a large count of nations and smaller jurisdictions, now. We’re just the latest.
And this will be their legacy, as it generally is, following such manipulative, theatrical stupidity: they fucked stuff up, fumbling around in a haste and in the dark, careless and foolish, heads full of hubris and little more. Red-eyed and in an ideologically-fueled hurry, determined to have their way whatever the cost, verily, they didst make an utter hash of the business of government. And pushed short-term and poorly thought-through resource extraction projects to the forefront, turned one more yearning middle power into a banana republic, for the duration of their term and long after.
There’s something picturesque about it, tho’.
Daylight is no friend of these sleazy little cockroaches. So they’ll do their business in the dark, of course. And in a hurry and a rush and hope no one notices, and that those who do notice can’t stop them, nor even push out to the people a properly coherent sense of just what damage has been done.
Helluva way to run a country, you endlessly unprincipled wanks. Helluva way. But then, government by legislative shock, with too much happening too fast for anyone fully to appreciate the ramifications of what has been done has so long been a neocon tactic. It’s made a mess of rather a large count of nations and smaller jurisdictions, now. We’re just the latest.
And this will be their legacy, as it generally is, following such manipulative, theatrical stupidity: they fucked stuff up, fumbling around in a haste and in the dark, careless and foolish, heads full of hubris and little more. Red-eyed and in an ideologically-fueled hurry, determined to have their way whatever the cost, verily, they didst make an utter hash of the business of government. And pushed short-term and poorly thought-through resource extraction projects to the forefront, turned one more yearning middle power into a banana republic, for the duration of their term and long after.
22/05: I say we send 'em the bill
… y’know, the one for the unwanted pregnancies, abortion services rendered, STD treatments…
… not to mention additional costs to the larger system due to people who, under the stress of unwanted pregnancies, drop out of school or otherwise generally find their young lives under significantly greater pressure.
Yeah, James Moore, you shameless panderer. Let’s talk turkey: the truth is, you just wanted to toss a bone to your Brylcreem Brigade base, and who gives a rat’s ass whose lives it screws up, right?
And seriously, you and that small gaggle of the endlessly dazed who wrote in to protest the exhibit: how spectacularly stupid can you be? Let’s get this straight: do you really think a science museum exhibit is a bad way for your kids to learn about sex?
So what’s the plan, here? Tell ‘em that’s off limits and hope they get it from internet porn, mebbe?
‘Cos, news flash, dearies: that’s how it’s going to work. So I think, seriously, ‘mongst the folk who might be passing along a little info, the lot up at 1867 St. Laurent were probably one of your better options.
So, yeah, pal, you and the slope-foreheaded CFRA listeners who wrote in on a script to complain, winding up with the exhibit now being that much less accessible to those it was actually meant to reach: expect a bill.
It’s like you lot are always preaching, tho’ clearly without much understanding the same: actions have consequences.
… not to mention additional costs to the larger system due to people who, under the stress of unwanted pregnancies, drop out of school or otherwise generally find their young lives under significantly greater pressure.
Yeah, James Moore, you shameless panderer. Let’s talk turkey: the truth is, you just wanted to toss a bone to your Brylcreem Brigade base, and who gives a rat’s ass whose lives it screws up, right?
And seriously, you and that small gaggle of the endlessly dazed who wrote in to protest the exhibit: how spectacularly stupid can you be? Let’s get this straight: do you really think a science museum exhibit is a bad way for your kids to learn about sex?
So what’s the plan, here? Tell ‘em that’s off limits and hope they get it from internet porn, mebbe?
‘Cos, news flash, dearies: that’s how it’s going to work. So I think, seriously, ‘mongst the folk who might be passing along a little info, the lot up at 1867 St. Laurent were probably one of your better options.
So, yeah, pal, you and the slope-foreheaded CFRA listeners who wrote in on a script to complain, winding up with the exhibit now being that much less accessible to those it was actually meant to reach: expect a bill.
It’s like you lot are always preaching, tho’ clearly without much understanding the same: actions have consequences.
29/03: Bury that lede
So as you may (or may not) have heard, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand will be appearing before the Procedure/House Affairs standing committee today.
I’ve previously had a few words on voter suppression tactics in the recent federal election. You may consider those repeated, for the record.
Editorializing briefly, further on this, two points:
1) Re the Tories’ claims that oh, we had to hear this today… rilly… on budget day… jes’ worked out that way, honest…
Right.
Riiiighht.
I’d write a longer ‘riiiiigggghhht’, here, but Iet’s face it: since the current ruling party is, in fact, rapidly revealing themselves as a disgusting mob of complete and total sleazeballs with, apparently, roughly as much respect for democracy in general as they have for transparency and the rules of parliament—indeed, as a mob of total and complete sleazeballs who don’t much care how utterly corrupted the process becomes, so long as they can secure and hold power—indeed, a mob of total and complete sleazeballs who don’t much care if every damned voter in the country is disenfranchised if that’s what it takes to eliminate votes that, y’know, might not actually go their way—and since, indeed, there are probably third world juntas who wouldn’t try to pull shit like this in an election but this contrast won’t even particularly bother Harper and his Koch-inspired goons—I don’t expect there’s any number of vowels that will shame them into, you know, actually doing the honorable thing, here, anyway.
Oh, hell, tho’. Here’s one, anyway, for those of you who still, y’know, might actually have principles:
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Moving on:
2) To the media: cover it anyway. Endlessly. Put extra people on. This needs it. To anyone reading this: watch, listen write letters to the editor, keep the pressure on.
This game the would-be oligarchs play—together with this misbegotten notion that the desires of mere citizens should be subverted in any way to put the nutters who support your own fantastical dream of a self-serving ideology at the levers of government—from the bizarrely gerrymandered districts of the US through to ‘Pierre Poutine’s’ latest strikingly unprincipled antics—this has got to stop. It’s become a creeping cancer in recent decades. Democracy, universal suffrage, these are hard-won rights, fought for in street protests and under the guns of the riot cops and ‘internal security’ over long, slow centuries. What progress we have made, it has been won at great cost.
The notion that it all might die like this—rotted out to utter meaningless by the sleazy antics of a couple of appalling ethical failures of human beings, labouring in back rooms to frustrate, divert, miscount, disrupt the vote—it’s simply unacceptable.
We are better than this*.
We must do better than this.
(*/Well, some of us are, anyway.)
I’ve previously had a few words on voter suppression tactics in the recent federal election. You may consider those repeated, for the record.
Editorializing briefly, further on this, two points:
1) Re the Tories’ claims that oh, we had to hear this today… rilly… on budget day… jes’ worked out that way, honest…
Right.
Riiiighht.
I’d write a longer ‘riiiiigggghhht’, here, but Iet’s face it: since the current ruling party is, in fact, rapidly revealing themselves as a disgusting mob of complete and total sleazeballs with, apparently, roughly as much respect for democracy in general as they have for transparency and the rules of parliament—indeed, as a mob of total and complete sleazeballs who don’t much care how utterly corrupted the process becomes, so long as they can secure and hold power—indeed, a mob of total and complete sleazeballs who don’t much care if every damned voter in the country is disenfranchised if that’s what it takes to eliminate votes that, y’know, might not actually go their way—and since, indeed, there are probably third world juntas who wouldn’t try to pull shit like this in an election but this contrast won’t even particularly bother Harper and his Koch-inspired goons—I don’t expect there’s any number of vowels that will shame them into, you know, actually doing the honorable thing, here, anyway.
Oh, hell, tho’. Here’s one, anyway, for those of you who still, y’know, might actually have principles:
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Moving on:
2) To the media: cover it anyway. Endlessly. Put extra people on. This needs it. To anyone reading this: watch, listen write letters to the editor, keep the pressure on.
This game the would-be oligarchs play—together with this misbegotten notion that the desires of mere citizens should be subverted in any way to put the nutters who support your own fantastical dream of a self-serving ideology at the levers of government—from the bizarrely gerrymandered districts of the US through to ‘Pierre Poutine’s’ latest strikingly unprincipled antics—this has got to stop. It’s become a creeping cancer in recent decades. Democracy, universal suffrage, these are hard-won rights, fought for in street protests and under the guns of the riot cops and ‘internal security’ over long, slow centuries. What progress we have made, it has been won at great cost.
The notion that it all might die like this—rotted out to utter meaningless by the sleazy antics of a couple of appalling ethical failures of human beings, labouring in back rooms to frustrate, divert, miscount, disrupt the vote—it’s simply unacceptable.
We are better than this*.
We must do better than this.
(*/Well, some of us are, anyway.)
03/05: And now to business
Dear Mr. Dewar:
First, my sincerest congratulations on your being reelected to the House. I expect you will represent us ably, as always.
And now to business:
I am writing as one of your constituents to request that among the issues the opposition shall pursue in the coming legislative session, that an investigation into alleged voter suppression tactics in the 2011 federal election be put on the agenda of the house.
Furthermore, I think it only appropriate that the legislature consider increasing the penalties for conviction in such activities.
As so many have eloquently noted in the past several days, the formal vote is a vital institution, and the deprivation of any citizen of their franchise is a serious matter. News reports have made it very clear that efforts have been made to do exactly this.
I expect it goes without saying: this is a serious issue. I submit, therefore, that the following at the least should be done:
1) A full investigation be pursued, and if existing civil authorities do not have the means to pursue it thoroughly, either they be given those means, or an office of Elections Canada be specifically tasked with doing so, and funded accordingly.
2) The scale, scope, and distribution of this activity be profiled as well as possible. The Canadian people should know in which ridings such activity took place, and in what numbers.
3) If the scope is significant, the course of the investigation should collect sufficient information to make it possible to determine if any partisan intent on the part of those guilty is detectable from the known facts. To wit: we need to know whether those who received calls directing them away from their legally specified polling place had known voting patterns—and especially, did they previously respond to calls from parties attempting to determine their voting intentions—and is there a larger pattern in the calls revealed by this data?
As much as I realize this third recommendation will no doubt be contentious, I strongly recommend it, nevertheless. If an organized and widespread effort is afoot, the citizenry and the legislature both have a very real need to know on whose behalf it was intended to work. Indeed, I should think even those whose electoral interests it would have served should, on their honour, want to know as much, and I expect them, especially, to repudiate such tactics appropriately. The intent, here, among others, is to make it very clear to those attempting such activities that intended thrust of their activity may well be detected and aired publicly, and even if they are successful in their efforts, such deflection of the vote will become a matter of public record, potentially to the detriment of the reputation of the intended beneficiary.
4) Following the intent above, the results of such an investigation be aired publicly, and widely.
5) An effective and thorough information campaign be carried out informing voters widely that calls of this nature are not to be believed, and are to be reported, appropriately, to authorities. This recommendation is aimed, obviously, at neutering such attempts in the future. The criminals who run these efforts should be made to understand it will not only be futile, but, indeed, extremely dangerous.
6) Finally, it should be made very, very certain that the penalty for such crimes is appropriately severe. I should think an organized effort to swing the election by such underhanded tactics in a democracy such as ours should result in significant jail time.
Ours is a great nation, with a rich tradition of democracy. Tactics like these, beyond being a corruption of a vital institution, and a despicable denial of citizens’ basic liberties, are a black mark on our reputation. They must not be allowed to flourish. I believe we must, as a matter of preserving that institution, and those liberties, be vigilant and even aggressive in pursuing this matter. Nothing less than a basic and vital human right is at stake.
Yours sincerely, etc.
(/Sent to my MP this morning.)
First, my sincerest congratulations on your being reelected to the House. I expect you will represent us ably, as always.
And now to business:
I am writing as one of your constituents to request that among the issues the opposition shall pursue in the coming legislative session, that an investigation into alleged voter suppression tactics in the 2011 federal election be put on the agenda of the house.
Furthermore, I think it only appropriate that the legislature consider increasing the penalties for conviction in such activities.
As so many have eloquently noted in the past several days, the formal vote is a vital institution, and the deprivation of any citizen of their franchise is a serious matter. News reports have made it very clear that efforts have been made to do exactly this.
I expect it goes without saying: this is a serious issue. I submit, therefore, that the following at the least should be done:
1) A full investigation be pursued, and if existing civil authorities do not have the means to pursue it thoroughly, either they be given those means, or an office of Elections Canada be specifically tasked with doing so, and funded accordingly.
2) The scale, scope, and distribution of this activity be profiled as well as possible. The Canadian people should know in which ridings such activity took place, and in what numbers.
3) If the scope is significant, the course of the investigation should collect sufficient information to make it possible to determine if any partisan intent on the part of those guilty is detectable from the known facts. To wit: we need to know whether those who received calls directing them away from their legally specified polling place had known voting patterns—and especially, did they previously respond to calls from parties attempting to determine their voting intentions—and is there a larger pattern in the calls revealed by this data?
As much as I realize this third recommendation will no doubt be contentious, I strongly recommend it, nevertheless. If an organized and widespread effort is afoot, the citizenry and the legislature both have a very real need to know on whose behalf it was intended to work. Indeed, I should think even those whose electoral interests it would have served should, on their honour, want to know as much, and I expect them, especially, to repudiate such tactics appropriately. The intent, here, among others, is to make it very clear to those attempting such activities that intended thrust of their activity may well be detected and aired publicly, and even if they are successful in their efforts, such deflection of the vote will become a matter of public record, potentially to the detriment of the reputation of the intended beneficiary.
4) Following the intent above, the results of such an investigation be aired publicly, and widely.
5) An effective and thorough information campaign be carried out informing voters widely that calls of this nature are not to be believed, and are to be reported, appropriately, to authorities. This recommendation is aimed, obviously, at neutering such attempts in the future. The criminals who run these efforts should be made to understand it will not only be futile, but, indeed, extremely dangerous.
6) Finally, it should be made very, very certain that the penalty for such crimes is appropriately severe. I should think an organized effort to swing the election by such underhanded tactics in a democracy such as ours should result in significant jail time.
Ours is a great nation, with a rich tradition of democracy. Tactics like these, beyond being a corruption of a vital institution, and a despicable denial of citizens’ basic liberties, are a black mark on our reputation. They must not be allowed to flourish. I believe we must, as a matter of preserving that institution, and those liberties, be vigilant and even aggressive in pursuing this matter. Nothing less than a basic and vital human right is at stake.
Yours sincerely, etc.
(/Sent to my MP this morning.)
ETA: A number of folk have kindly asked me if they may cc. this to their MP. I’m hereby answering: yes, of course, and please do. But also, please let me know, as I’d like some idea whose office should have seen it. Thanks all.
… there’s reports coming that some total fucking asshole (or several total fucking assholes) is/are making those bullshit phone calls ‘round Ottawa claiming the polling places have been moved.
I really hope they catch those bastards…
No. Actually, beyond that, I kinda hope said wankers resist arrest, and force has to be used.
Seriously, what the hell is this, the third world?
I really hope they catch those bastards…
No. Actually, beyond that, I kinda hope said wankers resist arrest, and force has to be used.
Seriously, what the hell is this, the third world?
02/05: Vote today
… because every time a Canadian votes, it makes Stephen ‘Canadians don’t want this election’ Harper* cry.
(Especially, obviously, if they don’t vote for him.)
So make Stephen Harper cry. Vote.
(/Not to mention the ‘I’m just gonna try to grab this box full of student ballots that aren’t likely to go our way’ guy, and the ‘if you put an opposition sign on your lawn I’ll slash your tires’ guy. All those guys. Make them cry, too.)
(Especially, obviously, if they don’t vote for him.)
So make Stephen Harper cry. Vote.
(/Not to mention the ‘I’m just gonna try to grab this box full of student ballots that aren’t likely to go our way’ guy, and the ‘if you put an opposition sign on your lawn I’ll slash your tires’ guy. All those guys. Make them cry, too.)
So one of the cars was at the dealer this morning. Maintenance thing. And while normally I could wait ‘til later to get it, when we had another vehicle around and even going that way, I had this weird computer problem, had to hit a local office for a bit…
Anyway, so I wind up in a cab, enroute to the dealer to get the car. And, as is generally the case in cabs, some AM talk radio pinhead is on the speaker.
So I am now qualified to give you the latest excuse some sad sack objectively pro-torture talk radio wanker is giving for the government not handing over documents in the Afghan detainee abuse scandal. It’s like, hawesome. Are you ready for this one, people? It doth take your breath away, truly…
It’s ‘cos Gilles Duceppe might see them.
Yeah, seriously, that’s the excuse now. See, sure he’s a duly elected federal representative of his riding, but, see, he’s also a separatist. And those are probably for killing soldiers or deliberately exposing intel sources in Afghanistan or somethin’… And obviously, the document trail on prisoner exchange policies would be just the way for him to do that, too… National security! It’s about national security! Honest! And copping to the fact that we really screwed the pooch, here, people, obviously that would compromise our brave soldiers’ lives… Somehow…
Honestly, I wonder where the nutjob Conservative supporters would even be without the separatists, where authoritarian dickweed governments in general would be without ‘national security’… On the former, especially, it seems to me the separatist thing was the excuse for proroguing parliament rather than accepting the reality they were, effectively, no longer the government some months back… Now they’re the reason they should keep stonewalling on why we handed folk over to be tortured?
Wow. That’s one flexible excuse, that one…
Oh noes. The separatists are comin’. Hide the women and children. Also: any potentially politically inconvenient documents, while you’re at it.
(And don’t go playing by the traditional governance rules of your democracy, dammit, whatever you do… I mean, that’s just what they’re expecting you to do…)
Ah, but what can ya do. Talk radio pinheads are apparently above such dreary concerns as, say, not colluding in torture… And anyway, I amused the driver a bit, when I proceeded to swear a blue streak at his radio for most of the ride. Tho’ I’m thinking: they probably get that a lot, these days…
Seriously, anyway, we need a proper conclusion, here, so let me make this short ‘n sweet:
Give it the fuck up, ya wanks. Shit’s gonna come out, whether you like or not; get over it. So shut it now and hand it over; no one with an IQ with more ‘n a single digit is buying all this distraction bullshit anymore. And thankee kindly.
Anyway, so I wind up in a cab, enroute to the dealer to get the car. And, as is generally the case in cabs, some AM talk radio pinhead is on the speaker.
So I am now qualified to give you the latest excuse some sad sack objectively pro-torture talk radio wanker is giving for the government not handing over documents in the Afghan detainee abuse scandal. It’s like, hawesome. Are you ready for this one, people? It doth take your breath away, truly…
It’s ‘cos Gilles Duceppe might see them.
Yeah, seriously, that’s the excuse now. See, sure he’s a duly elected federal representative of his riding, but, see, he’s also a separatist. And those are probably for killing soldiers or deliberately exposing intel sources in Afghanistan or somethin’… And obviously, the document trail on prisoner exchange policies would be just the way for him to do that, too… National security! It’s about national security! Honest! And copping to the fact that we really screwed the pooch, here, people, obviously that would compromise our brave soldiers’ lives… Somehow…
Honestly, I wonder where the nutjob Conservative supporters would even be without the separatists, where authoritarian dickweed governments in general would be without ‘national security’… On the former, especially, it seems to me the separatist thing was the excuse for proroguing parliament rather than accepting the reality they were, effectively, no longer the government some months back… Now they’re the reason they should keep stonewalling on why we handed folk over to be tortured?
Wow. That’s one flexible excuse, that one…
Oh noes. The separatists are comin’. Hide the women and children. Also: any potentially politically inconvenient documents, while you’re at it.
(And don’t go playing by the traditional governance rules of your democracy, dammit, whatever you do… I mean, that’s just what they’re expecting you to do…)
Ah, but what can ya do. Talk radio pinheads are apparently above such dreary concerns as, say, not colluding in torture… And anyway, I amused the driver a bit, when I proceeded to swear a blue streak at his radio for most of the ride. Tho’ I’m thinking: they probably get that a lot, these days…
Seriously, anyway, we need a proper conclusion, here, so let me make this short ‘n sweet:
Give it the fuck up, ya wanks. Shit’s gonna come out, whether you like or not; get over it. So shut it now and hand it over; no one with an IQ with more ‘n a single digit is buying all this distraction bullshit anymore. And thankee kindly.
