Showing posts with label Cowardice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cowardice. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

The Most Juvenile of Governments

Honestly.

It's as if our government is run by five-year-olds. I could see a five year old saying something like this. "Mommy. I didn't break the vase. I just told my little brother to break it."

Oh, I get it kiddo. It's not your fault because you didn't physically break the vase yourself. Totally makes sense.

The Harper Government (for so they call themselves) wants the same kind of immunity.
"The plaintiff [Abdelrazik] alleges that the Defendant [the government] requested the Government of Sudan to imprison the plaintiff without legal grounds and shared information with the Government of Sudan to facilitate his continued imprisonment. He does not allege that the defendant directly imprisoned the plaintiff. In the absence of that material fact, there is no cause of action for false imprisonment."

That's right. Apparently the Harper Government can't be charged for the results of things they ask other people to do for them.

What a clever legal precedent. I'm sure various mafia bosses and other gang leaders will be greatly pleased to know that they are not responsible for things they ask other people to do. Another thing? Corporations can dump all the pollution they want in to rivers ... as long as they outsource it.

Brilliant, brilliant, legal precedent.

Grow up, you idiots. I know it's tough, but part of maturity is accepting the consequences of your actions. If you sent the man off to be tortured, you have to own up to it.

Otherwise, we're just going to think you're a bunch of immature cowards.

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Friday, January 01, 2010

The Emperor Has Dissolved The Parliament

Regional Governors now have direct control of their systems.

Fear will keep the opposition in line. Fear of ... of ... of ...

I don't know what we're afraid of. Terrorists maybe. Or the gays.

Apparently having our government turn in to a dictatorship of a minority isn't one of the things that inspires fear though.

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

In a joint statement ...

... the Liberal and Conservative parties declared that democracy has died in Canada.

Oh, no, wait. They just declared that the issue of the alleged attempt to bribe Chuck Cadman in to voting in step with the Conservative Party to bring down the Liberal government of Paul Martin, is a dead issue.

What do they mean by "the matter was dropped"? Are the Liberals, under that sycophant to the wealthy Michael Ignatieff, really telling us that there was no attempt to bribe Chuck Cadman? Am I really supposed to be happy to know that no one will be held accountable - in our supposed democracy - when the attempt to bribe an MP in a confidence vote is caught on tape?

Michael, you wuss, that'd better not be what it means.

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