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West destroying themselves

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Ten years after 9/11, much of the free world paused to remember and remind us to “Never forget.” It truly is hard to forget that day for those of us old enough.  It was one of those history-making days that transcended everything running parallel, like the day JFK was shot or the landing on the moon for the first time.

 

But as I reflected on that day I was struck by a dichotomy; how far we have come in defeating the enemies of the West and how it may not matter if politicians don’t get their head around our spending problem.

 

The people who hijacked those planes were bent on their mission to ultimately destroy America and the West.  In many ways they needn’t have bothered.  We have been destroying ourselves from within for a long time. Unless and until western governments get control of their fiscal deficits, they will accomplish what Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed never could. We simply cannot afford to support so many politically correct causes and sacrosanct programs such as our healthcare system.

 

Equally, we cannot afford the ridiculous demands of groups like the BCTF and other public sector unions in their contract talks.  Where in the world do they think the money will come from?

 

The unions who drive the debate of the left in this country seem to think that there is no end of money available if we only tax the rich more.  Oh, and those damn corporations. And most especially banks and oil companies!  It doesn’t matter to them that these are the very organizations who generate all the money to pay for the public sector. The unions are content to bite the hand that feeds.

 

They really need a reality check as they stand there with both their hand and bottom lip out. Here’s a clue: want more money? Try providing more value.  Or get a marketable skill.  It’s amazing how much money business will pay for value provided.

 

But I digress. The USA under the leadership of Barack Obama is now getting frightening.  Not faux frightening as the lib-left screamed about the stewardship of the country under George W. Bush. But real frightening, as in their interest payments to China, which holds a significant amount of American foreign debt, will entirely fund the Army of the People’s Republic in a few short years.  Not debt payments, interest payments alone.

 

That’s unsustainable in the short term, let alone over the next decades.  If the American economy gets driven over the cliff, it doesn’t matter how responsible our governments have been.  We’re done too.  And when that happens, all of western society will go down the same drain.

 

Bin Laden could have just waited and watched the West do it to ourselves.

 

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September 13, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Report supporting police ignored by most of media

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Dr. Christine Hall, an experienced emergency room physician, released a report earlier this month detailing her findings from a study of incidents when the police interact in a violent manner with the public.
You likely haven’t heard of Dr. Hall or her study. The bulk of the mainstream media ignored her largely because she found that despite all the interactions police have with members of the public, less than one tenth of one percent turned violent and in most instances the police are restrained in their response and do not use excessive force. And unfortunately, supporting the police, for the most part, is not what is done in the mainstream media. It’s unseemly. After all, the police keep secrets from them. They must be covering something up.
Oh dear, whatever will David Eby of the BC Civil Liberties Association do now? His delusional perception that all police are jack-booted enforcers of the Establishment has been – horrors – wrong!
Eby is still perplexed why there haven’t been any complaints to his organization about police brutality during the Stanley Cup riot of June 15. Hint: the police were very restrained and the knobs weren’t. Most of Vancouver wished the VPD might have been a little less than professional and would have got some societal payback for every embarrassing waste of good oxygen who took part in that shameful event.
But the VPD, as an organization, is made up of professional men and women who want to help society, to make a difference.
Dr. Hall, now based in Victoria, examined hundreds of thousands of interactions between the police and the public over the past four years. She identified fewer than 1,200 incidents of use of force among 1.8 million police-public interactions. She says the vast majority of the incidents when police had to use force involved people who were drunk, mentally disturbed, or violent in their own actions toward the police.
The reality is that people are the authours of their own misfortune in the vast majority of cases and Dr. Hall’s study shows exactly that. The police are not society’s enemy. They protect us under the most trying of circumstances and every time they are forced to be violent they have to listen to the bleating of fools.
And the mainstream media dutifully record every syllable while Dr. Hall is largely ignored.

Leo Knight
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July 22, 2011 at 3:14 am

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When will enough be enough for habitual criminals?

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Last week infamous thief Tracy Lloyd Caza was breached by his parole officer and will likely serve the rest of his sentence. The warrant holding him in custody will expire in the days before Christmas.

He will be deemed to have paid his debt to society for brazenly stealing jewelry from the fingers of elderly patients in hospitals when they are most vulnerable. Whatever conditions still remain that were court imposed, he will inevitably ignore. He will then be free to wreak whatever havoc he will upon seniors in Vancouver until he is caught and a judge puts him back in jail. Again.

And it will happen again. Just as sure as God makes little green apples. He’s got nearly 60 convictions dating back to 1977 and dozens more arrests where charges were bargained away in a guilty plea deal. He has no trade, craft or other marketable skill, save and except being a thief, robber and a con man who preys on those most unable to help themselves.

No matter what, neither provincial nor federal corrections services have been able to alter Caza’s criminal ways despite more attempts than Carter has little liver pills. At what point should we say enough?

And Caza isn’t the worst. A few years ago I wrote a piece about Kevin Wayne Morgan. He had a remarkable 188 criminal convictions when I learned about him from business owners on Commercial Drive in speaking with them during a security seminar. It turned out there would have been no need for the seminar, were it not for Morgan.

One guy, terrorizing a whole community and he keeps being allowed out to continue the crime spree virtually uninterrupted save and except his frequent arrests by the police who dutifully place him, yet again, before the courts to get, yet again, another couple of weeks in jail to clean up and get released for another crime spree.

It’s unbelievable really. Morgan has amassed in his life in the vicinity of 200 criminal convictions. One of the tenets of sentencing guidelines is that judges must consider the protection of the public. As near as I can tell, in Morgan’s criminal career this consideration has been totally ignored. How else can you explain when I was watching his 189th conviction that he was given a sentence of 14 days for a crime that had a maximum penalty of ten years in the Criminal Code?

When is enough, really enough?

Leo Knight
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April 24, 2011 at 10:54 pm

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Political subsidies drive electoral zeal

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While sitting on a plane to the Centre of the Universe, I found myself reading The Reagan Diaries, meticulously kept by Ronald Reagan throughout his presidency.  As I was reading words written nearly 30 years ago by the 40th President of the United States and reflecting on this federal election campaign, I was struck by how little had changed in the politics of the liberal left in the intervening years.

On February 27, 1982 Reagan wrote: “A half dozen Dem. Gov’s. Kept sounding off on how our programs we unfair and favoured the rich – paralyzed the poor.  Their answer?  Cut defense spending.”

He continued, “Food stamps are budgeted at $4 billion than 1980 and 3 million more people are getting them.  As for taxes favouring the rich – they are already 25% across the board and indexing the tax brackets does nothing for the rich – they are already in the top tax bracket.”

Sound familiar?  Change the dollar values and percentages around a little and this could be the Canadian federal election campaign of 2011.  (Wouldn’t you like to have only to pay 25% income tax?)

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is still banging on the tax the banks and oil companies nonsense and NDP leader Jack Layton is still harping on his tax the rich refrain.  The rhetoric is as predictable as an early start to golf season for the Leafs.

They both want to kill the F-35 contract without offering even a suggestion of what else they would do.  And we know how well that worked when Jean Chretien killed the Mulroney government’s contract to replace the aging, and now decrepit, Sea King helicopters described by the pilots who fly them as “10,000 nuts and bolts flying in loose formation.”

I expect the man behind the mustache to thump his socialist drum ad infinitum.  But one would think that the Harvard professor would be smart enough to understand that any increase in corporate taxes affects all business and is a job killer at a time when the economy is showing signs of life.  Or that any increase in cost to any business is added to the price of whatever goods or service they offer and is passed on to the consumer.  Surely he should realize this fundamental aspect of business.  Surely?

Iggy is trying to frame this as an election of ethics and who you would trust.  Then he promptly trots out former PM’s Jean Chretien and Paul Martin.  Yikes!  Chretien oversaw the most corrupt government this country has ever seen and Martin was the finance minister when all those billions were getting sucked out of the public purse in what was dubbed Shovelgate and the Billion Dollar Boondoggle.  And then there’s Adscam.  Ethics?  Not in evidence of late in the Liberal Party of Canada.

Proven again with the two teens who claimed they were tossed from a rally for Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Vancouver Saturday night.  They weren’t.  Once they were identified as Liberal supporters, they were twice asked if they wanted to go in and listen it was fine, as long as they weren’t disruptive.  They declined because that scenario wouldn’t fit the script that Iggy was about to deliver in Edmonton with Paul Martin by his side.  Iggy was actually quoted by the pliant media lapping the milk from the saucer he was holding, saying that the actions of the Conservatives were “grotesque.”

No over-reaching hyperbole there even were it not a blatant set-up.

May 2nd can’t come fast enough for me.  It feels as though we have been in election mode ever since Harper tried to get rid of vote subsidies for political parties back in Dec. 2008 while in a minority parliament.  That attempt,  I might add was the impetus for the opposition parties to try and form Coalition #1.  Iggy has been trying to take over the government ever since.

Harper has made it clear that if he gets a majority government he will turn off the spigot to political parties.  Make no mistake, that is the life’s blood for the Libs, the NDP and most especially, the Bloc Quebecois.  They will do whatever they have to do to try and stop Harper from doing this.  No matter what Iggy says about not being a part of a coalition.  A coalition by any other name is the same thing.  Not necessarily a coalition, but a coalition if necessary.

They can spout all the empty rhetoric they want, but don’t be fooled.  This unnecessary election is only about political subsidies.   It’s been coming since Dec. 2008.  And Iggy, Jack & Gilles will do anything to stop Harper from keeping his promise.

Leo Knight

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April 18, 2011 at 12:30 pm

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Awish Aslam redux

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It’s been three days since I wrote a brief piece about Awish Aslam, the girl who got herself tossed from a Stephen Harper rally in southwestern Ontario and promptly became a media darling and there has been virtually nothing written about her since, despite an orgy of stories in the few days from the incident until I published that piece of reality for the MSM to consider.

I say virtually, because there was one exception that appeared today in the London Free Press by Warren Kinsella, former War Room guru of the election machine of Jean Chretien and author of books like: Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics. A book, I should add, that I bought, read and enjoyed thoroughly.

Now, I should also add that Kinsella and I do have some history. I took him on in an email exchange that I published in a column way back when Chretien was the Prime Minister and he was engaged in his “kicking ass” politics. Since then, he and I have established something of a détente. I admire what and how he does things and he no longer calls me names. Politically, we can agree to disagree. When his dad died a few years back I sent him a heartfelt message and he replied graciously.

Having said that, I can’t understand his position in this piece. Aslam has been outed as an NDP party insider. This whole thing stinks of set-up. She may try and minimize her role, but reverting back to my high school Latin, res ipsa loquitor. She is not what she tried to portray herself as being in those hundreds of news stories written by the MSM in the days after her ejection from the Harper rally. Fortunately for the rest of us, her 15 minutes of fame are up. Or at least they should be, were it not for Kinsella’s attempt to prolong them.

But the salient issue here is that campaign events are private events. Those who stage a private event get to choose who can attend. While there is no doubt the RCMP ejected Aslam, from what I can tell from the media reports, they did so at the behest of local party organizers. And that is very normal. It happens at every campaign event at which a leader appears, regardless of party. Albeit, it is usually a party volunteer or contracted security that performs the deed, but the end result is the same.

Campaign events are staged not spontaneous. At every one, and I have overseen security at a great many, party insiders from the local riding staging the event scrutinize those attending and identify anyone who is an outsider. Whatever the parties say to the contrary, that is the way it happens.

The reasons are simple. The leader is coming to deliver a message that will hopefully gain some traction with the media. But, the other salient purpose of these events is to pump up the volunteers, campaign workers and folks who slog in the trenches to dig in and work harder to get out the vote. They are not staged to allow undecided voters to hear the message and hopefully decide to vote for their guy. That may be the stated illusion, but it isn’t the case. And the last thing the local riding associations want is a heckler or someone who will embarrass their leader on what is likely their only shot at hosting the party leader.

Should the RCMP have been involved in tossing Aslam? Decidedly not. And they have apologized for that. The local riding association should have arranged for their own volunteer or contracted security force. But Aslam had no “right” to be at that meeting and the party organizer was quite within their right to ask that she be removed. The same happens at Liberal events and even NDP events.

On that, I can guarantee I am correct. I have been there.

Leo Knight
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April 11, 2011 at 4:14 am

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As always, there’s more to the story

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It is getting a little tiring watching all the mainstream media drinking each other’s bathwater on the story of the poor teen 19 yr. old “student,” Awish Aslam, turfed from a Tory election rally in Guelph. A google search of her name reveals more than 30 pages of stories written about her and the incident in the past five days. Dish up the pablum and a pliant media lap it up.

But clicking a couple of more pages reveal this link. It might look like a bunch of gobbledy-gook but it is actually HTML script of an email written on Dec. 2, 2008.

When you look at the script in an HTML viewer, you can see the entire email. Here it is. I enlisted the support of Pierre Bourque of Bourque.com fame to help me identify the people the email was sent to and as I thought, they are mostly all NDP MPs, party staff or other insiders. You will notice the supposed “victim” of Harper’s “goons” as some media and Michael Ignatieff have taken to calling the RCMP who were doing security for the Prime Minister, is one of the recipients.

The email refers the reader to Bourque’s website and a poll he was running. Well, on that date, Bourque tells me he ran two polls. This one and this one.

You will notice the polls were all about what was going on in Ottawa on that day which, of course all about the coalition the opposition were trying to form to usurp the government.

So, it would certainly appear that the poor 19 yr. old second year poli-sci student is really an NDP insider. This whole thing smells like a set up and the mainstream media have been played like a fiddle by the NDP.

But, of course, there could be something I’m missing.

Leo Knight

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April 7, 2011 at 7:59 pm

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The President is missing

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In my lifetime, I have never been embarrassed by a sitting US President. Until now.

I remember watching the resignation speech of Richard Nixon and shaking my head at the apparent ineptitude of Jimmy Carter as he fumbled the Iran hostage file. I ground my teeth as I listened to the testimony of Oliver North and tried to stifle my gag reflex as the impeachment of Bill Clinton wound on following the ill-advised spilling of his DNA on Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress.

But for all that, they occupied the office of the President of the United States. POTUS. The leader of the free world.

And, as events in the Middle East have demonstrated, no matter what we may think or want, the eyes of the world turn to the US to provide help when things are bad. It is not, as the political left might have you believe, that America is imperialist or a colonial power or any of that leftist nonsense. As we have seen in Libya in the past week, the freedom fighters have been calling for American help in, at minimum, establishing a ‘no fly’ zone.

And POTUS? He’s been golfing and generally amusing himself by doing anything but appearing as the leader of the free world. Even the imminent meltdown of four nuclear reactors in Japan could not rouse the Speechifier in Chief from his vacation. After all, he needs a good rest with all the speeches he gives. It’s tiring spouting all that rhetorical BS.

Today, the UN Security Council finally agreed to enforce a no fly zone. Well, that is about a day late and a dollar short in my opinion. The Benghazi rebels who have be trying to remove the terrorist leader of Libya are almost a spent force.

Time will tell how this will all turn out, but the salient question is, where has Obama been? When he should have been seen as the leader of the western world in the face of a crisis he was …golfing. Oh, and appearing on ESPN picking who he thinks will be in the Sweet 16 and on to the final four in the NCAA annual basketball tournament known as March Madness. Frankly, who gives a fig! The world is in crisis on two continents and Barack Obama thinks college basketball is worthy of his attention.

If he does not go down in history as the worst President in US history, I will be astonished.

Leo Knight
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March 18, 2011 at 3:30 am

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Loopy left just can’t get it right

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A letter in the July 5th issue of McLean’s magazine really shows the woolly-headedness of the left. Someone you have never heard of, named Irene Gammel, evidently some apparatchik of Ryerson University, that oh-so-politically correct bastion of all things multi-cult as long, well, as they aren’t Jews of course. Oh, and they aren’t particularly keen on white men either. They are okay with white women as long as they are lesbian man-haters. Stay at home Moms are as welcome as someone with diarrhoea at a hot tub party.

Anyway, apparently Gammel “co-edited” a bit of leftish nonsense entitled Anne’s World: A new Century of Anne of Green Gables.

Evidently, Gammel and author Helen Hoy, have re-created the story’s heroine as a child with fetal alcohol syndrome – itself a creation of the loony left – and mental illness. All evidently, to be about “diversity of cultures, identities and perspectives.” Ack! Gag me with a spoon.

Lucy Maud Montgomery created Anne as a fictional character to tell a story, a story of fiction. You remember fiction? As in made up.

But these card-carrying members of the loony left have to try and recreate a much-loved piece of Canadian fiction in their own woolly-headed image.

I am so tired of the left. The next time they are right on anything will be the first time.

I am, for the record, absolutely angry with BC Premier Gordon Campbell’s handling of the HST and the apparent way he deliberately obfuscated the issue during the spring campaign of 2009.

But, and this but is bigger than Libby Davies’, if Carole James, the leader of the BC NDP and Jim Sinclair, the head of the BC Federation of Labour, are against it, then clearly it must, by definition, be worthy of support.

And there’s the paradox.

Thousands have signed petitions in the campaign steered by the long past his ‘Best by’ date, Bill vanDerZalm, against the HST. Have they examined the nature and structure of the tax? I doubt it.

But one has to wonder how much of this is created by a visceral anti-tax reaction, something of which, I might add, I possess in abundance.

There have been a number of things done by the Campbell government that I haven’t liked, not the least being the way the HST was foisted upon us with nary a word of consideration with those who actually have to pay it. But then, I am still smarting over Campbell’s aquiesence to the BCGEU back in 2003 just when he had them on the ropes.

But there is no way in Hell I am prepared to return to the rule of those idealogical idiots who inhabit the NDP. Not a chance would I want to see BC return to the dark days of the 90′s. With the election of the NDP in 1991 until their demise, mired in scandal in 2001, those ego-centric, idealogical idiots, managed to take the BC economy from first to worst in the country. Even Newfoundland, the perennial weak sister of Confederation, had a better economic performance. That’s a monumental amount of incompetence.

Hands up anyone who wants to give the levers of power to the shrill and shallow Carole James. Not in this lifetime or the next I say.

Let’s not forget that James is propped up by Sinclair the other loud opponent of the HST. He’s the head of the BC Fed. The union funded organization that is against anything business and for anything that doesn’t involve that curse word “profit.”

Unions, in my opinion, have outlived their original purpose which was the protection of their members. And I say that as the son of a career union member and a former member of four different unions in my working life. They are nothing more than political operatives of the left and protectors of those who feel entitled but fail to recognize that effort should be the precursor to reward.

But more than that, they strip all their members of substantial amounts of money and give them exactly … what? Anyone who gives value to his or her employer could negotiate a good deal for themselves. Why? Because any employer will pay for value. Value is not paying some ample bottomed individual to take coffee money in a government cafeteria. Get a marketable skill that doesn’t involve a mop or a stool and chances are you will make a decent living without a union sucking money off your paycheque.

And, while I am on this rant, I am so tired of the rhetoric of the NDP and their union backers. They talk about a living wage. Life is not about having your hand out expecting something you have not earned. Well, unless you are a a paid-up member of the Liberal Party of Canada or the NDP and their collection of Chardonnay socialists.

Or, to quote the venerable Margaret Thatcher, “the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”

In my father’s day, the unions existed to protect workers from exploitive employers. But in this day and age, there are laws in every jurisdiction to prevent employers from exploiting any employee. The employment standards in every province across this country must be adhered to by each and every employer. Never mind the various Human Rights tribunals that have moved from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Unions have evolved into members’ money-sucking political machines of the left. And nothing more, despite whatever protestations to the contrary you may be assaulted with from the likes of Jim Sinclair, Sid Ryan, Buzz Hargrove or the biggest blowhard of them all, Ken Georgetti, head of the Canadian Labour Congress. Evidently, they won’t be satisfied until they have achieved a universal level of mediocrity.

I was in the Calgary airport recently and watched several members of the Teamsters going into the Air Canada lounge. I guess traveling business class on members’ dues is de rigeur for the entitled of the left.

At any rate, these scions of the labour movement were wearing black t-shirts with their logo on the back arranged in biker style with a top rocker, logo and a bottom rocker. One had a baseball cap referring to himself as a thug. They looked like bikers but they weren’t, they were union executives. Or, more accurately, they looked like union executives being biker wannabes. But the message they were espousing was clear. They were tough. They were the Teamsters. They were to be feared.

These are the allies of the political left.

It doesn’t matter whether we are discussing that hopey-changey master of rhetoric inhabiting the White House, Carole James or the self-righteous “co-editor” of the ludicrous re-casting of Anne of Green Gables as an FAS suffering, psychotic, one-legged Nigerian lesbian bus driver, I am so tired of the protestations of the left.

Even if I have to suffer through the HST and another term of Gordon Campbell.

Leo Knight
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July 13, 2010 at 6:31 am

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Well, that’s alright then

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For those of us who thought that politicians would do anything to get elected and then justify it by saying the end justifies the means, I give you, as evidence the truth of that statement, Bill Clinton.

Clinton, whose only lasting legacy of eight years in the White House is a stain on Monica Lewinsky’s dress, spoke at Robert C. Byrd’s memorial yesterday. He justified the fact that Byrd had joined the Ku Klux Klan by saying he was just trying to get elected, as if that alone makes everything okay.

Byrd, who died last week at the age of 92, was the longest serving member of the US Senate and the undisputed King of Pork. There are more buildings, roads, highways, bridges and what not named after him in West Virginia than any other Congressman or Senator in history in all the other states combined. He turned an office in the Capitol into the epitome of the practice of selling his vote in return for government largesse to his state. And then, to top it off, ensured the result was named after him.

Do anything to get elected, including joining the KKK to get the votes of the good ol’ boys then, once elected, engage in political extortion, that is the legacy celebrated by Bill Clinton and the Speechmaker-in-Chief Barack Obama yesterday.

Have these people no shame?

Sorry, stupid question. But really, how could the supposedly liberal, big tent party leaders like hopey-changey Obama and their eminence grise, Clinton, support a man who was an unequivocal racist? According to Clinton, in referring to Byrd’s early tryst with the Klan, it is explained simply: “I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians.”

Just trying to get elected Bill? I’m not sure that is quite true. In fact, Byrd organized 150 or so of his nearest and dearest to start a chapter of the KKK. He held first the title of “Kleagle”, chief recruiter and then was elected “Exalted Cyclops”, the head guy in his chapter. This was far from a flirtation.

In 1944 Byrd wrote to a segregationist Senator in Mississippi on the issue of Blacks in the military. It seems he held some pretty strong views.

“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds,” said Byrd to Senator Theodore Bilbo.

Now, I don’t know about you, but that sounds suspiciously like the guy really believed in white supremacy.

And oddly enough, he was the only Senator who voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. Any guesses what they had in common? Just the colour of their skin.

Neither Clinton, who proclaimed himself the first Black President nor Obama, the actual first Black President, distinguished themselves yesterday at the Byrd memorial.

The hypocrisy is palpable.

Leo Knight
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July 4, 2010 at 5:30 pm

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Predicted recriminations come, but are undeserved

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It is beginning to appear as though I am a soothsayer. Which, of course, I am not. But not hours after I said the recriminations would start against the Toronto Police on the one hand saying they didn’t do enough when the Black-Blocheads went on their rampage at the G20 conference, and, on the other hand they went overboard and abused human rights etc., blah, blah, blah, the recriminations started and pieces of absurd journalism, like this appeared.

Now, first of all, this is a sad excuse of an example of journalism. It is nothing more than a reporting of the propaganda of a collection of socialist wing-nuts.

This collection of wing-nuts managed to get an audience with a mainstream media outlet that, in itself, defies logic, is trying to make a meal out of the fact the police did their job. Read this quote carefully and think about it. “Camille, a slight redhead who refused to give her last name, said police then rifled through her possessions and found some black clothing. She also had a lawyer’s telephone number scrawled on her arm and an anarchist book in the car.”

Now, I may be little slow, but, if they had black clothing, an anarchist book AND a lawyer’s phone number inked on their arm in case they got arrested, I suspect the police just might have, just maybe, in a pinch, thought they might be intent on committing an offence.

I dont know, colour me naive, but if you write a lawyer’s number on our arm, it is quite likely you are going to do something that might get you arrested, and, you recognize that, hence, the inscribing of the phone number of the one person that might get you out of jail once arrested.

And, if the police suspect that you, might, just might, do something that might be a breach of the peace (Sec. 31 CCC), they can arrest you.

Hmmm, is it possible the police just might have acted appropriately, prudently and professionally? I suspect so. And I suspect the whiners quoted in this piece should have been ignored and not given credibility in the mainstream media. But, hey, that’s just my opinion.

Leo Knight
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June 30, 2010 at 5:40 am

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