12/06: Sleep deprivation as a tool of statecraft
Category: Canadian politics
Posted by: ajmilne
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.
