The Writings of Stephen J. Gray

Letter From Davos

2012-01-26T19:39:00.000-08:00

Letter From Davos
(satire) By Stephen J. Gray

“Davos people control virtually all international institutions, many of the world’s governments, and the bulk of the world’s economic and military capabilities.”
Samuel P. Huntington

Dear Serfs, oops, I mean Taxpayers, just a little note to let you all know how we are doing in Davos. We are doing everybody we can think of, and you suckers twice, just kidding of course, what’s the good of it all if one cannot joke? Anyway all the jokers are here, pardon me, I mean the “international community” is here and many “eminent persons.” We have political leaders, bankers, financiers, communists, capitalists everybody who is any body is here. It truly is a gathering of the “great” and as you people cannot participate I thought it best to give you an update on our wonderful economic forum. Some of us are discussing the financial crisis and how to fix it, and might I say who better to do this than those of us who caused it in the first place. Did I just admit financial malfeasance in that statement? Surely not, anyway you know what I mean. Who better to fix a problem than those who caused the problem? Does that sound better, oh well, what the heck let’s just carry on with the rest of my letter. The bad news is people in many countries are suffering from austerity imposed by the unelected International Moneychangers Fund (IMF), which of course is funded by your tax dollars. But the good news is; there is no austerity in Davos. We are having black tie dinners the food is scrumptious, the drinks are excellent, the hotels luxurious and everybody is having a marvellous time, and important contacts are being made. In fact, the many politicians here are surely hoping that when their political careers are over there will be jobs for them in our financial world order. I like that old saying: “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours,” and there is plenty of scratching going on here, and plenty of scratch, oops I mean money on view.

The skiing here is fantastic and I am sure all the fixers, flunkeys, lackeys, yes men, press agents and assorted helpers of the great ones here will get some time in on the ski slopes. The entourages, paid for by your tax dollars, are surely entitled to a few perks. I read in one news report that one political leader had “…arrived Wednesday morning alongside about 40 staff members and a fleet of 20 vehicles.” I am sure when he gets back home he will tell you that everybody is “entitled to their entitlements.”

In closing I would like to say to all you serfs, pardon me, I mean taxpayers. Do not despair, we are thinking of you in all our discussions. You people are the backbone of society. But, society needs us also to run the system. We are the movers and shakers of the world. We finance the wars that help bring “democracy.” We bank dictators’ money for them. Sell them arms to suppress their own people. Then remove them from power when we have another stooge waiting in the wings to take over. We launder drug money in some of our banks. We speculate on the food system and on oil and other commodities, and if we need money to bail us out, you taxpayers are always available courtesy of your puppet politicians. So you see the system is in our good hands but we thank you for your participation in it. In closing, I say God Bless “democracy,” offshore tax havens and Davos where we all meet for the betterment of society

Stephen J. Gray
January 26, 2012.

The Bailed Out Bankers

2011-12-29T14:32:00.000-08:00

The Bailed Out Bankers
By Stephen J. Gray

The bailed out Bankers are free as the air
They looted the system, does anyone care?
They are laughing all the way to their very own banks
While taxpayers pay and get no thanks

The unelected bankers are imposing austerity
The International Moneychangers Fund (IMF) does not bring prosperity
The IMF is funded by taxpayers’ dollars
And the taxpayers’ are punished by these banking horrors

This ugly system benefits bankers
Are we in the hands of monetary gangsters?
What is the point in voting for politicians?
If unelected bankers are making decisions

They must be laughing at so-called democracy
When they get to dictate and impose a plutocracy
The bankers are financed with taxpayers’ money
Then they punish the taxpayers, is that not funny?

Surely, the system is a sick joke
When the moneychangers squeeze people until they croak
Banking bloodsuckers are running amok
And all the politicians do is talk

Democracy is dead, murdered by bankers
And the politicians are dumb as dangling anchors
The people are drowning in a sea of political fools
And the bailed out bankers are making the rules

The question is: Will the system collapse?
Is the answer: Maybe or Perhaps?
Can the system survive legalized fraud?
Or a justice system that appears to be dead?

Does martial law and chaos loom?
When the people protest financial doom
Will they be herded into newly built prisons?
Prisoners of the system who will not listen

The money changers are in control
And the politicians know their role
To be subservient to the moneyed elite
Will the people everywhere accept defeat?

If the time comes and they lose it all
Will the people take the fall?
Or will they take a stand against the money changers?
Will they rebel against the politicians and bailed out bankers?

Stephen J. Gray
December 29,2011.

The E.U. Debt Crisis,The Money Changers and Democracy

2011-12-11T11:11:00.000-08:00

The E.U. Debt Crisis,The Money Changers and Democracy
By Stephen J. Gray

Why all the fuss about the European Debt Crisis? It is all being taken care of by “respected” bankers. In fact, the E.U. Observer of December 8, 2011, had the headline: “EU to channel €150bn to IMF for its own rescue.” [1] Now isn’t that banking sleight of hand a nice money trick? A good magical solution with tax-payers dollars! Perhaps there will be a transfer or service fee included in the trans-action. After all, surely, it is good business practice to have a fee for moving financial dealings back and forth. The sub-prime mortgage fiasco is a good example where debt was sold back and forth to various financial institutions and fees charged. So, hopefully in this IMF money deal a banker will get a piece of the action, and it is all secured by taxpayers who are paying for it. Thank goodness for the taxpayers. No wonder some of them are rioting in the streets. But hey, they just don’t know how the financial system works. They pay and the bankers play with their money. One might call it a public private partnership; this free enterprise system is surely educational! Where would we be without the bankers?

The bankers’ penchant for making money out of nothing is surely a “gift.” A CNBC article of November 30, 2011 headlined, “How Does Europe Borrow Dollars From the Fed?” said this: “Neither the dollars nor the Euros come from anywhere. They aren’t moved or debited from anywhere. They are invented right on the spot with a few taps on the key pad. And that’s all. There’s no printing press fired up to make new dollars or euros. This is sometimes called “fiat money.” But that makes it sound as if some command from a sovereign created the money. It’s really closer to “keyboard money,” since it is created by data entry in a computer.” [2] Wow, wouldn’t it be nice if we taxpayers could create money from our computer. Still, I guess taxpayers should be grateful they are in on this deal; they get to pay for it!

Paying for bankers’ profligacy is the role of the people. It is called austerity, and it is imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a cabal of unelected bankers who are financed by the taxpayers of various countries. It is quite a system, first the people pay for them then they are punished by them. It is a form of masochistic monetarism accepted by the puppet politicians of various countries who surrender their national sovereignty to the gods of greed. One bailed out banker was quoted as saying he was doing God’s work. If the God he was talking about was Mammon then surely that fits his work.

“A crisis of economics has been turned into a crisis of democracy.”
David Coates [3]

Meanwhile, the work of saving the Euro continues. National sovereignty has been surrendered to technocrats, bureaucrats, bankers and the unelected. The Euro Observer of December 9, 2011 stated: “…almost all fiscal policy-making would be taken out of the hands of national assemblies and delivered up to European civil servants.” [4] The people are being betrayed by their puppet political “leaders.” Democracy has been ditched and political treason abounds. Referendums are refused and restrictions imposed. The crisis has been collectivized and bankers sanitized. The people are ignored and austerity is the final solution of the banking elite. A smell of fascism is in the air and the perverted money system is in the hands of the moneychangers who hold the power by appointment rather than by political approval by election or referendum. Democracy is dead in Europe slain by the banking elites. The quote below sums it up.

“I think that the European Union, like the Soviet Union, cannot be democratized.”
Vladimir Bukovsky

Stephen J. Gray
December 12, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1]http://euobserver.com/19/114553

[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/45492655/

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coates/banker-power-trumping-dem_b_1101305.html?ref=business&ir=Business

[4] http://euobserver.com/19/114561
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Links Worth Reading Below:
Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
http://www.infowars.com/banker-coup-goldman-sachs-takes-over-europe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/06/eurozone-shakeup-voting-rights-confidential-paper
http://www.forbes.com/sites/face-to-face/2010/04/29/ecb-president-favors-global-governance/

I Believe I Saw Evil Today

2011-11-27T10:13:00.000-08:00

I Believe I Saw Evil Today
By Stephen J. Gray

“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”
Sophocles

I believe I saw Evil today. I heard it speak. It was posturing and preening on the TV news while standing at a podium. It was celebrating death and destruction and an illegal war. It was dressed in an expensive suit had a shirt and tie, hair immaculately coiffured and face pasted in a smile. Its words were ones of praise and honour for a successful completion of bombing a country back to the dark ages. Evil praised the “brave acts” of releasing missiles and bombs on this country. It praised the winning of the “battle” that reduced a country to rubble. It talked of “human rights” and the end of barbarism after children and civilians were killed by evil’s own barbaric intervention.

Evil’s mission had blitzed and wasted a country in partnership with its evil family of allies, but they called themselves the country’s “friends.” Still, this is how evil operates it perverts the language and truth becomes lies and lies become truths. This is the only way evil can make its case. But, out of evil comes some “good?” So evil in its hypocrisy said it would help rebuild the country it destroyed. Yet, evil had at one time called this country a “staunch ally” and had supplied its dictator with weapons to suppress his own people. Evil, still consorts with other dictators even though their former “staunch ally” is now gone: murdered by evil’s “warriors of democracy.” Still, all is fair in love and war as the saying goes, and the show must go on and the villainous performers must perform on the world stage. So it’s on to find the next enemy and the next war to bring “democracy.”

Democracy is evil’s perverted battle cry as it consorts with other despots and dictators who suppress their own peoples’ freedoms. Meanwhile, evil talks “peace” through war and destruction. All this satanic mayhem is expensive. Bombing costs the taxpayers everywhere huge amounts of money, but that is the price evil imposes on you. “Bringing democracy” is not cheap and neither are the weapons of depraved intent. Evil profits from its evil work, and contracts would be awarded to those friends of evil who sanctioned and promoted this evil campaign.

Campaigns of terror, arrests and torture are now rampant in the country that evil had “liberated.” But, evil begets evil and evil thrives on hypocrisy. Evil leaders’ and its “warrior” partners led the fight from the rear, safely ensconced in their luxury surroundings paid for by the serfs they ruled over. Some of the serfs cheered evil and its workings. These were evils’ “useful idiots” who followed blindly the dictates of evil and believed evil could do no wrong. Evil had now tasted blood, and like a vampire was eager to participate in more wars. It was on a high and acting like it was a king in its kingdom. It was right royally inclined and its subjects were prisoners of its deluded hallucinations. Evil had a dream that was turning into a nightmare for sensible people. But in these perverted and morally bankrupt times evil is described as “good,” and that old saying comes to mind: “Woe to those who call evil good.”

Stephen J. Gray
November 27, 2011.

Note: See info below; then ask is this worthy of a “celebration?”

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

http://cryptogon.com/?p=25695

http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomb-build-benefit-uk-joins-gold-rush-to-patch-up-war-torn-libya.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/leaked-un-report-reveals-torture-lynchings-and-abuse-in-postgaddafi-libya-6266636.html

The Work of Evil

2011-11-20T14:45:00.000-08:00

The Work of Evil
By Stephen J. Gray

“The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Evil supplies weapons around the world to dictators who in turn use these weapons on their own people.

Evil bombs other countries and kills innocent civilians and calls this intervention a “humanitarian mission.”

Evil starts a war in another country based on a lie. It calls this lie a mission to destroy “weapons of mass destruction.” A country is reduced to a hell on earth and huge numbers are killed, others maimed and their homes destroyed.

Evil allows war criminals to go unpunished because they are “statesmen” and “leaders” of the “international community.”

Evil perverts the language to camouflage killing.

Evil calls killing children “collateral damage.”

Evil calls dropping bombs, “dropping ordinances.”

Evil calls launching missiles, “acts of bravery.”

Evil makes huge profits off its carnage of killings and bombings in some countries.

Evil then profits from the rebuilding process in the countries it destroyed.

Evil sends young men and women to fight in illegal wars and calls this “bringing democracy.”

Evil consorts with and props up dictators but does not “bring democracy” to the countries of “friendly dictators.”

Evil calls these dictators, “friends” and “allies.”

Evil bails out financial criminals who looted the monetary system.

Evil takes advice from the financial criminals.

Evil calls financial fraud, “doing God’s work.”

Evil orders the arrest of people who protest the robbery of the financial system.

Evil gives over their countries sovereignty to unelected bankers.

Evil assaults peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Evil spreads propaganda disguised as “news.”

Evil suppresses free speech and promotes the killing of the child in the womb.

Evil calls the killing of the unborn child, “freedom of choice.”

Evil declares it will not allow any discussion of abortion killing.

Evil says: “… we are not opening the abortion debate….”

Evil pretends it supports “human rights” but opposes any rights for the innocent child in the womb.

Evil gives its country’s highest “honour” to an abortionist.

Evil calls this abortionist “a hero.”

Evil imposes “sex education” on young children.

Evil destroys the innocence of these children.

Evil subverts parental authority.

Evil parades naked, and calls it “pride.”

Evil says orgies are okay as long as “no harm” is done.

Evil says criminals are “morally worthy” to vote.

Evil says a pervert’s work has “artistic merit.”

Evil parades of obscenity and nakedness are led by some politicians and police chiefs.

Evil is rampant in positions of power.

Evil has been known to get a prize for “peace.”

Evil thrives on the hypocrisy of the system

The words in the poem below by Josiah Gilbert Holland are surely apt in today’s world.

God, give us men!

GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Stephen J. Gray
November 20, 2011.

Corruption and Treachery Incorporated?

2011-11-12T09:42:00.000-08:00

Corruption and Treachery Incorporated?
By Stephen J. Gray

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller

The financial system is in crisis mode after being looted by financial fraud artists and nobody goes to jail. The perpetrators are laughing all the way to the bank and the banks are bailed out by tax-payers dollars. People have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings and their faith in the honesty of the financial system. The system is in the process of arresting people who protest and occupy city land because of the failure of the justice system to arrest the financial criminals. Some protesters have been tear gassed, others shot with rubber bullets for peacefully protesting and some in the corporate media state: “We must have law and order.” Hypocrisy is rampant in the editorial pages and in the news, but what do you expect when the corporate media is controlled by a few elite hands?

Law and order indeed! There is no law or restraining orders for the financial criminals who perpetrated the massive monetary scam; but, there is “law and order” for peaceful protesters who try to bring justice to the corrupted system. Meanwhile, the politicians call the robbery of the financial system “economic turbulence” and say they will fix it. What a joke these political performers are on the world stage. Mr Unctuous Change, the Bunga Bunga man, and the rest of the politburo of world “leaders” meet and discuss the financial situation in opulent surroundings. Then they line up to have their picture taken and wave to the world. Or perhaps, they are giving the people the finger, knowing that once they leave political office they will be well taken care of by the elites behind the scenes? Do they really think they are fooling us with their scripted baloney by their purveyors of propaganda? And it’s all paid for by the tax-payers. Then they proceed to tell the people about the necessity of austerity.

Meanwhile, there is no austerity in the war business. The political “warriors” who never fight have billions of tax-payers dollars to spend on wars that they start with their mouths, while others do their dirty work at their command. The political “warriors” and the corporate elites consort with and supply dictators with weapons to use against their own people. It’s a dirty evil game with bloodstained profits for the suppliers. These corporate cannibals feed off death and destruction, then profit off the re-building of the destruction they created.

The destruction of language by these political hypocrites is Orwellian. Dropping bombs is “dropping ordinances,” bombing a country non-stop is called a “safe bombing” mission! Killing children is called “collateral damage.” Releasing missiles on civilians is called an “act of bravery.” But hey, all this perversion of words from twisted political minds and compliant media is called a “humanitarian mission” to “save” the people, while killing the people in the process of “saving” them. Political hands are stained with the blood of the innocents and it is a perversion of words to call these war criminals “honourable,” or “right honourable.” This political gang of so- called “leaders” is a danger to a free society and should be locked up, preferably in padded cells where they could be treated for their insanity. But no, instead they perform on the world stage and masquerade as “humanitarians,” when incompetence is really their forte.

Incompetence rules over us and we are prisoners of a system called “democracy” that is anything but democratic. These so-called leaders have signed away their national sovereignty (the European Union (EU) is one example, and the North American Union (NAU) is in the pipeline though this is disguised as “creating jobs” and “security” for the people.) Parliaments are being bypassed and unelected bankers are running amok dictating monetary policy financed by tax-payers dollars. These are the same bankers who perpetrated the monetary fraud of the financial system; yet, the political puppets impose austerity on their citizens at the behest of the bankers.

So, what is really going on? Are we being herded like cattle in a certain direction that will mean total control by those who have a one world agenda for the planet? After all, they succeeded with the undemocratic European Union (EU). Next could be the North America Union (NAU). Make no mistake, these people have a plan for us all and national sovereignty could be doomed before we realize it’s gone and one world government imposed. Therefore the question is: Are we seeing corruption and treachery incorporated?

"This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter

Stephen J. Gray
November 12,2011.

Info for further reading at links below:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-elites-enjoy-police-protection-2011-09-27

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

Wachovia to Pay $160 Million to End Money Laundering Probe

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avbx.9LIE6.A

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomb-build-benefit-uk-joins-gold-rush-to-patch-up-war-torn-libya.html
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/major-wars-and-suppression-of-american-freedoms-planned-before-911.html
Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
http://www.infowars.com/paving-the-way-for-a-north-american-union/
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/9621-obama-to-host-north-american-summit-on-security-global-warming
North American Union- The Fall Of Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5bfSZXefc8
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=42703
http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/9679-eu-creates-dictatorship-under-guise-of-financial-stability

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8874507/Europes-Politburo.html
http://globalistagenda.org

Letter to National Post

2011-11-08T19:31:00.000-08:00

Letter to the Editor [Not Published]
National Post
November 5, 2011.

Dear Editor, re: your headline, "No Canadian money for eurozone bailout fund: Harper" National Post, November 5, 2011. Who does Harper think he is fooling? Canadian taxpayers help fund the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The unelected IMF bankers bail out and impose austerity on various countries. The BBC news of November 4, 2011, had the headline:"G20 leaders agree to boost IMF resources" the article went on to state,"The leaders released a final communique, which:...Agrees to support the IMF and give it more money if necessary..." the article further stated :"The G20 leaders' hope is that increased resources will help the IMF to support struggling eurozone economies, such as Greece."[1] But hey, perhaps Harper does not know Canadian taxpayers help fund the IMF and if that is the case, is he just stupid, or devious?

Stephen J. Gray

The War Criminals Who Bombed Libya

2011-10-30T14:12:00.000-07:00

The War Criminals Who Bombed Libya
By Stephen J. Gray

“First, the [Libyan] war is illegal under the United States constitution and our War Powers Act, because only the US Congress has the authority to declare war and the president has been unable to show that the US faced an imminent threat from Libya.”
(Dennis Kucinich, American Congressman, writing in the Guardian U.K Newspaper July 6, 2011.) [1]

Libya has been bombed non-stop for around eight months all in the name of a “humanitarian mission.” The main perpetrators of this atrocity are the so-called “civilized political leaders” of the western world. Their partners in war crimes are NATO and the Al-Qaeda [2] led rebels. The propaganda merchants for the war were mostly the mainstream media who gave credibility to its illegality and mostly covered up the Al-Qaeda led connection to the rebels. The victims of this war are the Libyan people, men women, and children. Their homes destroyed and reduced to “smithereens.” [3] Thousands killed or maimed all in the name of a “humanitarian mission,” and a “responsibility to protect.” Orwellian doublespeak is the vocabulary of this political filth that rule over us: Killing civilians and children [4] in order to save them! Destroying a country in order to protect it! And “proud”[5] of their obscene and dirty work in the process. No words are strong enough to describe the sick hypocrisy and insane rhetoric coming out of the mouths of these so called political “leaders” who call themselves “The Friends of Libya.”

“Friends”of whom? Certainly not of the little child screaming in agony with half its face blown away. [6] [8] This child cries out for justice as do its parents, but, will they get it from the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC)? I would not bet on it. The political war criminals are free right now and congratulating themselves on a “job” well done. To see them issuing statements (and most of the grovelling mainstream media consorting with them) and praising this massive bombing obscenity as a “humanitarian mission” is to see institutionalized evil in action. Our evil political emperors have no clothes, they are obscenely naked and a revolting picture to the eyes of any decent person who believes in the sanctity of human life. They are political fiends who are a danger to all that is good and decent, yet, they boast of a great “mission success” after their bloody atrocities and months of bombings. Innocent children are slaughtered and it is mostly covered up by the sycophantic media who parrot the war criminals propaganda and write editorials and columns that Josef Goebbels would be proud of.

“The effective propagandist must be a master of the art of speech, of writing, of journalism, of the poster and of the leaflet. He must have the gift to use the major methods of influencing public opinion such as the press, film and radio to serve his ideas and goals, above all in an age of advancing technology.” [7] (Josef Goebbles)

Technology in this illegal and obscene war has dulled the senses and corrupted the language. We saw on a TV news story how “surgical strikes” were carried out by the “brave” assassins in the sky. No mention, or very little, of the human consequences and victims below. But hey, if we killed some innocents below it was “collateral damage” and we can always apologise. This illegal war not only had civilian casualties, other casualties were truth and justice. Meanwhile, the war criminals are free and in positions of power. We would do well to remember the words of Lord Acton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Make no mistake, we are seeing the absolute corruption of politics and the brain washing of society to justify the atrocities committed in this illegal criminal war.

Stephen J. Gray
October 30, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/06/libya-nato1

[2] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH30Ak01.html

[3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

[4] Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

[5] http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/20/national-post-editorial-board-canadas-proud-role-in-libya/

[6] http://cryptogon.com/?p=25695

[7] http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb59.htm

[8] Google Censors War Crimes Video
http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

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Info For further reading:

Ron Paul - End Obama's Illegal War in Libya (20-Jun-11)(POLITICAL DISCOURSE series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlnl4soXcE
Civilian deaths won't derail Libya mission: NATO chief
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110620/nato-secretary-general-anders-fogh-rasmussen-110620/

CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27232.html

NATO, Rebels Accused of War Crimes in Libya
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8651-nato-rebels-accused-of-war-crimes-in-libya

NATO Commiting Crimes Against Humanity by Killing Libyan Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhDFyj0VESI

Obama Calls Murder of Children in Libya A “Success”
http://www.infowars.com/obama-calls-murder-of-children-in-libya-a-success/

Google Censors War Crimes Video
http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

Thoughts on a Great Victory

2011-10-23T18:33:00.000-07:00

Thoughts on a Great Victory
A speech by the Right Hon. Mr. Slick Sicko

Satire by Stephen J. Gray

We are gathered here today to hear my presentation on our great victory over the dictator who used to be our friend and who was called a “staunch ally” by a NATO member country. Our former dictator friend is now dead, murdered by a bullet to the head after being terribly abused by our brave rebel fighters, who are led by an Al- Qaeda associate. Yes, I know Al-Qaeda is supposed to be our enemy but on this occasion they are our friends. Al-Qaeda on the ground and NATO in the air performed heroics to bring this war to a successful conclusion. Thousands upon thousands of bombing sorties were carried out, oops, I mean surgical strikes. Missiles were released on unsuspecting targets and some civilians and children were killed by the brave operators in the sky. Still, the price of a humanitarian mission is to save lives and if we did some killing oops, I mean collateral damage; then that is the price that has to be paid in a safe bombing attack. Cities were reduced to rubble, peoples’ homes were destroyed, electricity and water supplies were damaged and hospitals were overflowing with dead and wounded. We created hell on earth. But, that is the price that had to be paid for this humanitarian mission to be successful. I know some silly and ignorant people have been saying, it would have been cheaper and saved lives if we had sent in an assassination squad like we did with old Osama Bin Laden. But hey, that was not in the cards. Why do things on the cheap? We have an expensive taxpayer funded military arm called NATO whose business is war.

This was a war; and wars cost money and they also make money for some of us. This one lasted around eight months. Billions of dollars were spent by the “Friends of Libya” on bombs, missiles, guns etc. Now all that weaponry will have to be replaced. This will keep the arms manufacturers busy and keep people working. The ruined homes and infrastructure of the country will have to be rebuilt and our people will help rebuild it after destroying it. Is that a make work project or what? And the good old taxpayers of the free world will pay through the nose as always. ( cheers ensue from the respected audience of the international community)

Let me just paraphrase an old saying: “Out of evil work comes good work” ( much laughter and burst of applause ensues from the eminent persons in attendance)
But, I digress.
Working and warring for democracy is never easy but we keep doing our best to see that the world gets it. I know some cynical people will say that we supplied our old murdered dictator and former friend with guns, tanks and tear gas etc to suppress his own people, so how can we say we are believers in democracy? Quite simply, selling him arms and fawning over him was a business decision at the time, all of us elites did it. People say there are no ethics in our kind of business, still, somebody has to do it.

At the moment, we have a financial fraud and moral bankruptcy in the financial system and it just so happens our old deceased friend had “144 tons of gold” and billions of dollars in our respectable banking system not to mention plenty of oil. So when the chance came to bring our democracy to his country we decided to help with a humanitarian mission. In fact, we are hoping we might get a Nobel Peace Prize for our efforts. Still, you cannot please everybody, some people are saying we are war criminals and we should be put on trial. But hey, that will never happen; who would run the world? (A number of hear, hears are heard and a standing ovation ensues)

In closing let me say this, I would like to thank the corporate media who did a great job suppressing the Al-Qaeda and Islamist connection to the brave rebels. NATO for its big bang up job, no pun intended, of bombing the country back to the stone age. And let us not forget “The Friends of Libya,” without your authorization this massive bombing campaign, oops, I mean surgical strikes, would never have happened.
God Bless you all as you continue to bring democracy to the world and support international law.

Stephen J. Gray
October 23,2011.

Info for further reading:
The Battle For Libya Is Almost Over... As Is The Battle For Its 144 Tons Of Gold
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/battle-libya-almost-over-battle-its-144-tons-gold
Al-Qaeda and NATO’s Islamic Extremists Taking Over Libya
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8795-al-qaeda-and-natos-islamic-extremists-taking-over-libya
Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
NATO Reconsidered
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/28/nato-reconsidered

Letter to National Post

2011-10-22T07:57:00.000-07:00

Copy of Letter sent to National Post.

Letter to the Editor
National Post
October 21. 2011.

Dear Editor, re: "Canada's proud role in Libya" National Post, October 21, 2011.
You state in this editorial: " the true heroes... are the Libyan rebels themselves." Don't you people know that: "A significant proportion of the revolutionary army is composed of Islamist fighters, some of whom were previously in the al-Qaida-linked Libyan Fighting Group..." ( Guardian U.K. Oct. 20, 2011) [1]
So here we have Al- Qaeda and NATO destroying and bombing a country back to the stone age, and killing civilians and children [2] and you call this a "proud role" for Canada! Give your heads a shake and do some research before you start sounding off in an editorial. Whatever happened to so-called "investigative journalism?"

Stephen J. Gray

Info links below:
[1]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/libya-bloody-victory-gaddafi-beginning

[2] Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
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Check out my blog: http://graysinfo.blogspot.com for more info on Libya and other issues.

Has Corruption Become Legitimate?

2011-10-19T20:46:00.000-07:00

Has Corruption Become Legitimate?
By Stephen J. Gray

People around the world are protesting in the streets, and many of the elites and corporate media are asking: “What is their problems?”
Any thinking person can see what the problems are.
We have massive financial fraud perpetrated on the money system and the fraudsters were bailed out with tax-payers dollars. Meanwhile, we have a cabal of political leaders who call themselves the G20 or Gang of 20 meeting in opulent surroundings debating how to fix the financial system. The solution is staring them in the face. Jail the financial fraudsters! Shut down all these offshore tax havens and publish the names of all the elites, banks and corporations who keep their money offshore. But, of course that will not happen. The powerful elites are too powerful and the politicians are their dumb lackeys.

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” - Ron Paul.

Meanwhile the war campaigns are never ending. Young men and women are sent to foreign countries to fight wars based on lies. The Iraq war was supposed to be about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) but this turned out to be untrue. Young men and women were killed or terribly maimed and disfigured and it was all based on political lies. The people of Iraq also suffered casualties, men and women, children and babies were also killed, maimed and disfigured all because of political liars. Some of them now write books and travel the world on speaking tours after reducing a country to a hell on earth. A decent and moral society would put these “leaders” on trial for war crimes, but hey, these are the “good guys.”

The “good guys” also supply weapons, missiles, tear gas etc. to dictators around the world. They also have been known to supply both sides in a war. Think Libya where the “political pillars of society” supplied the Gaddafi regime with all kinds of weapons and are now helping the Al- Qaeda rebels to destroy the country courtesy of NATO and its bandits of bombing. Libya is another country reduced to rubble and the war criminals are the “good guys.”
Then the “good guys” get contracts for re-building the same countries they help destroy. This is called “humanitarian help” and “bringing democracy” and “responsibility to protect.” Or to quote from George Orwell’s book: 1984. “War is Peace”

Now the “good guys” are gearing up for another war. Iran is the latest enemy to be considered for a “humanitarian mission.” The NATO war horse is surely champing at the bit, and the political “leaders” and the “respected” think tanks dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits are shooting off their mouths calling for combat. As always they will lead from the rear, safely ensconced in their luxury bunkers while others do their killings and bombings. While back at the ranch and the luxury office towers, the arms dealers and bankers count their perverted profits with bloodstained hands.

Meanwhile, families lose mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters in these endless wars in defence of corporate freedom, to pillage, plunder and loot the world.
Somebody once said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.” Based on what we see happening today it would appear the scoundrels are in charge, and young men and women in uniform are dying because of these lying political “patriots” who sell out their national sovereignty to the unelected manipulators and supporters of the New World Order. No wonder people around the world are protesting and asking the question: Does Corruption Rule?

Stephen J. Gray
October 19, 2011.

Info for further reading:
Goldman ‘Too Big’ to Face Prosecution Over Mortgage Securities, Hintz Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

JPMorgan settles bid-rigging case for $228 million
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-08/business/29750189_1_bid-rigging-jpmorgan-chase-competitive-bidding
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Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

Wachovia to Pay $160 Million to End Money Laundering Probe

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avbx.9LIE6.A
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Libyan gold rush followed end to sanctions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyan-gold-rush-followed-end-to-sanctions/2011/05/25/AGGgbVBH_story.html
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How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mh30ak01.html

nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
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Military Admits: $360M in Taxpayer Money Lost to Taliban & Criminals in Afghanistan
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/

Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diplomats-suppressed-document-lays-bare-the-lies-behind-iraq-war-428545.html

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html
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Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War
http://www.prisonplanet.com/corporate-fascists-clamor-for-iran-war.html

Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels

http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/north-america-mainmenu-36/8599-reports-cia-working-with-mexican-drug-cartels

Absurdity of Iranian Assassination Allegations: If This Was a Hollywood Script it Would Go In the Garbage Immediately
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo65.1.html

The Political “Warriors”

2011-10-08T13:15:00.000-07:00

The Political “Warriors”
By Stephen J. Gray

Standing on their platforms on the World Stage
Stood the political warriors of the present age
Dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits
These are today’s warring kooks

They are the warriors who never fight in battle
The rear end heroes who endlessly prattle
Their mouths are their weapons to lay waste a land
While others do their dirty work when they issue a command

Political hypocrites who don’t fight in the blood soaked action
Posturing and pontificating is their satisfaction
“Warrior leaders” creating hell on earth
Cackling and laughing in their insane mirth

Political clowns and dangerous with power
Authorizing bombings by the endless hours
Children are dying and a country laid waste
The “warriors” call this “humanitarian” it’s to their sick taste

They feed off death and call it victory
Their propaganda sycophants will write their history
Political warriors who lead from the rear
While authorizing missiles to instill fear

Do political terrorists control and rule?
Is the world stage a platform for dangerous fools?
People are paying a terrible bloodstained price
But hey, they are being “saved” by political lice

Where will it all end, one might ask?
Political war criminals are up for the task
Creating death and destruction is their forte
Thousands and thousands of “successful” bombing sorties

The slaughtered children cry out for justice
Bombed into oblivion by those who say: “trust us”
Their homes reduced to smouldering rubble
By those who were “saving” them, but caused them trouble

Who will be the next target for this “humanitarian mission?”
By these political killers and the brotherhood of perdition
Like sharks in the water, they have tasted blood
And these “warriors” feed on adulation, even though it’s crud

Are they political filth, as bad as the dictators: they say they abhor?
Birds of a feather! Are they are all warmongering whores?
It would be nice if they had to lead by example
Put them in the front lines of war. Let them have a sample

Let them feel the horror and misery of the bombings they started
Let’s see if they are “heroes” amongst the unwanted
But hey, political cowards don’t fight in war
They just encourage it, more and more

Can we afford these “honorable” ones?
Who are spending billions of dollars on missiles and guns
Are they sick in the head? Are they diseased war carriers?
God save us all from these Political “Warriors?”

Stephen J. Gray
October 8, 2011.

Did the National Post Capitulate on Free Speech?

2011-10-02T17:17:00.000-07:00

Did the National Post Capitulate on Free Speech?
By Stephen J. Gray

“We obviously don’t want to offend anyone, but we also understand that everyone has a freedom of speech,” [1] Enzo Loschiavo “National Post’s manager of advertising sales,…” Quoted in Xtra, Sept. 29, 2011. Canada’s, Gay and Lesbian News.

The National Post says it believes in free speech and free expression, yet it recently withdrew an ad after some people were, “offended” and who did not like the ad. In fact, it issued a grovelling apology in defence of its suppression of free expression. The newspaper stated: “The ad in question was attempting to make the case that the Ontario curriculum was teaching very young children about issues that, at that age, should be the domain of parents.” Parents “domain” should certainly include the right to object, and expose what they consider indoctrination of the minds of their children, especially when “human sexuality” is being taught to them. The paper went on to state: “Where the ads exceeded the bounds of civil discourse was in their tone and manipulative use of a picture of a young girl; in the suggestion that such teaching “corrupts” children, with everything that such a charge implies; and in their singling out of groups of people with whose sexuality the group disagrees.” Oh really, when did it become “manipulative” to show a picture of a young person in an ad. Or wrong to “disagree” with anyone on anything?

Newspaper ads show pictures of children and adults all the time, in an attempt to sell the product, are these not “manipulative?” And the National Post “disagrees” nearly every day in editorials as do some of its columnists writing on various issues, such is the role of a free press. But, it seems with its censorship of the ad in question the paper’s stand is as the old say goes, “free speech for me, but not for thee.” The paper also said: “The National Post believes strongly in the principles of free speech and open, unhindered debate. We believe unpopular points of view should not be censored simply because some readers may find them disturbing, or even offensive.” The newspaper’s apology for suppressing free speech and free expression is surely bizarre? They say they believe in “unpopular points of view” and they also say: “This ad will not run in the National Post again.” Are they confused or what? Do they need some kind of help to straighten out their thought processes? Or were they under pressure from special interest groups to suppress the ad?

Xtra, Canada’s Gay and Lesbian news of September 29, 2011, stated: “A coalition of queer community groups has also drafted an open letter response to the ad. The signatories, including Egale, the Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line, the 519 Community Centre, Sherbourne Health Centre, Rainbow Health Ontario, Queer Ontario, Fife House, Ontario AIDS Network, Black CAP and the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation, call on the leaders of Ontario's political parties to denounce the ad and clarify "where each party stands on the position advanced" in it.”

Questions need to be asked regarding the behaviour of the National Post regarding this ad. First they publish it. Then they make a craven apology and say:
“The fact that we will not be publishing this ad again represents a recognition on our part that publishing it in the first place was a mistake. …The Post will also be donating the proceeds from the advertisement to an organization that promotes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.” [2] (emphasis added)

People should be asking themselves; is the National Post practising censorship and trashing the principles of free speech and free expression by capitulating to the strident voices of political correctness?

Stephen J. Gray
October 2, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Activists_respond_to_transphobic_ad_in_National_Post-10837.aspx

[2] http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/30/an-apology-from-the-national-post/

Note: A picture in the ad can be seen at link below:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-national-post-apologizes-for-pro-family-ad-donates-proceeds-to-gay

The Loss of Freedom in Canada

2011-09-30T08:23:00.000-07:00

Note: I wrote the article below in 2002. It was published in Catholic Insight Magazine in its November Issue 2002. Nearly nine years later, nothing much has changed regarding freedom in Canada SJG.

The Loss of Freedom in Canada
By Stephen J. Gray

"Freedom can primarily be characterized by the absence of coercion or constraint. If a person is compelled by the state or the will of another to a course of action or inaction which he would not otherwise have chosen, he is not acting of his own volition and he cannot be said to be truly free." Chief Justice Bryan Dixon in the "Big M Drug Mart Ltd." decision.

Substitute "the judiciary" for "the state" in the above quote and we realise we are not "truly free." To understand how we lost our freedoms we have to go back a number of years to the beginning.

The loss of personal freedom in Canada had its roots in a decision by an appointed Supreme Court judge. His name was Ivan C. Rand. This judge brought compulsory union dues to Canada in 1946. This assault on personal freedom was known as the Rand Decision.

The rationale behind his decision was that trade unions needed money for collective bargaining and since workers benefited from negotiated agreements all persons in the union had to pay compulsory dues. There should be no freeloaders. Collective bargaining evolved into collective coercion, and trade unions became a tax-free money machine for numerous political, social, and moral issues that had nothing whatsoever to do with the workplace. Support of abortion, homosexuality, radical feminists, socialism, and numerous other causes became the agenda of trade unions.

There are over 2 million compulsory union members in Canada. These people, just like everybody else in society, have different social, moral, political, and religious beliefs, yet they are forced to support non-work issues with their forced union dues. Even union members' personal views on society are under attack. Chris Kempling a member of the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF), was disciplined by the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) for "conduct unbecoming a member." What was Mr.Kempling's crime? On his own time, he chose to write letters to the newspapers criticizing the homosexual agenda of the BCTF.

We have reached a dangerous crossroads in Canada when a person can be disciplined by a union for expressing his opinions in letters to the newspapers. Whatever happened to "freedom of expression" in this country? The union bosses say all these non-work issues are decided democratically at conventions. This begs the question: how can anything be democratic if membership and dues are compulsory? And what does this say about our so called Charter of Rights and Freedoms? When a person is in a forced association, how can he have freedom of association?

More Union Involvement

We also have the Vriend decision where the Canadian Labour Congress( CLC) was an intervenor -- what a system this compulsory payment of union dues has become. Another intervenor in this case was the Women's Legal Education Action Fund (LEAF). LEAF has received money from trade unions and also receives government grants. The CLC and LEAF are in favour of "democracy" and "equality" but have no problem taking compulsory union dues to finance their agendas.

Recently we saw the furore over the Durham School Board's attempt to stop a homosexual youth taking his homosexual date to the school prom. The Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) issued a press release in favour of the homosexual couple, stating: "We have pushed employers, legislators, and courts in our demand for equality." The press release was signed by union boss Buzz Hargrove. This is hypocrisy, talking about "equality" while being funded by compulsion. Buzz and his union buddies obviously have clout when they boast they can push "legislators" and "courts" to comply with their demands.

More on Judges

What started with Judge Rand and his edict of compulsion has now opened a whole judicial can of worms that is eating away at tradition, normalcy, and morality.

We have a judge in the Nesbitt and Egan case "read in" words that are not written in the constitution. We have a judge in the Singh decision that allowed criminals to stay in Canada. We have another judge declaring a pervert's work has "artistic merit." Now we have another piece of judicial tripe from a judicial threesome in Ontario on homosexual marriage: "The restriction against same sex marriage is an offence to the dignity of lesbians and gays because it limits the range of relationship options available to them" (Judge Harry LaForme quoted in the National Post of July 13, 2002. The other two judges "concurred" with him.) The judges gave Parliament 24 months to change the "legal definition of marriage." Our elected representatives are now being given ultimatums by the non-elected. One could call this a judicial coup d' etat.

Somebody once said the law is an ass; now the law is three asses braying in unison. As mentioned earlier, some of these court cases have some trade union involvement. It would be interesting to see how much union time and money has been diverted to intervening in cases that are unrelated to the workplace. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is on record as saying that it "leads the labour movement in its support of lesbian and gay issues" (CUPE Quarterly, October 1992). CUPE has also been to court on behalf of "same-sex" pensions. Morgentaler, Canada's foremost abortionist has received money from unions, which is evidenced by the following: "The Ontario Federation of Labour has donated thousands of dollars to the Morgentaler defence" (The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada, page 301.)

Other ways in which we are losing our freedoms are through appointed human rights commissions. These non-elected bodies have also imposed bizarre decisions. The National Post of July 26, 2002, had a headline on page 2 that stated, "Rights commission tells Ottawa 'do what's right' on gay unions." These non-elected commissars are in existence due to the cowardice of elected politicians who have abdicated responsibility to these kangaroo courts.

There are two common threads to the loss of freedom in Canada, by compulsion and by appointment. The trade unions' weapon is compulsion. The Judiciary's and Human Rights Commission's weapon is appointment. All have one thing in common, they are anti-democratic. We live in a pretend democracy. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become a judicial monster that devours freedom, morality and decency, and vomits compulsion, filth, and depravity.

In this country the peoples' own money, compulsory union dues and tax dollars, are used to fund this loss of freedom. The Court Challenges programme is one example in which the politically correct interest groups receive funding from our tax dollars to take their cases to court. Meanwhile people who are opposed to these groups have to raise their own funds to oppose them. Canada has become a country where the majority is dictated to by an appointed minority, where tax-free unions, funded by compulsion, dictate to their forced membership and use union dues as they see fit, courtesy of an appointed judge, where the Parliamentary system has become subservient to judicial tyranny under the guise of "independence of the judiciary." A more appropriate phrase for these judicial outlaws would be "the perversion of the judiciary."

Robert Bork in his book The Tempting of America--The Political Seduction of the Law, wrote, "Once the judges make the law, the democratic process is at an end." His words aptly sum up what is happening in Canada today.

Stephen J. Gray

Do “The Friends of Libya” include Al-Qaeda?

2011-09-02T10:11:00.000-07:00

Do “The Friends of Libya” include Al-Qaeda?
By Stephen J. Gray

“Elements of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups were known to be key players in the NATO-backed uprising in Libya from the beginning, but now it appears that prominent Jihadists and terrorists are practically leading the revolution with Western support.”[1]
The New American August 30, 2011.

There they were a gathering of “humanitarian” hypocrites. An international community of political charlatans who go to war with their mouths, while NATO does their “humanitarian bombing,” that kills children and civilians. Most of this gang calls itself “Friends of Libya,” and they are the instigators of these mass bombings that result in destruction and death in that country. Now these humanitarian “friends” are going to “help” reconstruct it. The New American of August 30, 2011, stated: “Elements of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups were known to be key players in the NATO-backed uprising in Libya from the beginning, but now it appears that prominent Jihadists and terrorists are practically leading the revolution with Western support.” [1] But hey, all these political hypocrites are going to bring “democracy” after NATO has rained destruction and death on the Libyan people. Surely, thinking people everywhere must be wondering what is really going on?

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
George Orwell

Deceitful politicians from various countries supplied their old friend, the dictator Gaddafi with all kinds of weapons, some even trained his troops then they spend months trying to kill him. Thousands of bombing and missile attacks, over many months were needed by NATO, for this “humanitarian mission” to succeed, and in the process NATO manages to kill innocent children and civilians in this illegal war. Which raises the question: Should these politicians and NATO along with Gaddafi be charged with war crimes? After all, what is the difference between the dictator killing his people and NATO, at the behest of politicians, killing the Libyan people? [2] Are some people in the so called “international community” allowed to plot and kill with no repercussions? And why are the so-called “investigative media” not asking these questions? Has anybody seen the Al-Qaeda connection to the so-called Transitional National Council (TNC), [3] mentioned in any corporate news reports, and if not, why not? I guess the “investigative media” is too busy reporting official versions of the “Friends of Libya” meeting!

One has to ask: Is this a meeting of mutt-heads or political dogs of destruction all poking their noses into the affairs of Libya and sniffing at the chaos and hell on earth most of them created? Oh, I forgot, these are the “eminent persons” and the “honourable ones” dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits that make war with their mouths. Others do their dirty work for them, now they have the gall to call themselves, “Friends of Libya.” Orwell’s, Big Brother is surely alive and well in the political world of today. Bombing children is “humanitarian” and pressing buttons to release missiles from thousands of feet in the air is an act of “bravery.” Or to paraphrase the words of an old song: “You always hurt the friends you love with a hasty missile you can’t recall, but if we killed you dead last night, it’s because we love you most of all.” Of course, truth is the first casualty in an illegal war, and the end result, will probably be a civil war. Perhaps, that was the plan all along? But hey, the arms dealers and their political puppets in governments are savouring the profits and more to come from the war business. This war business is just like any other business. Fast food outlets sell and market hamburgers. The war business sells and markets weapons and needs war to showcase their “products” in action. Therefore, the war in Libya is “good” for their evil business.

In this business NATO plays a lead role. “NATO was formed initially to counter the communist East.” Now that the “Cold War” is no longer available a new reason for being had to be found for NATO. It has become the Military Arm of the New World Order, financed by the peoples’ tax dollars, ever ready to bomb, blitz and kill on orders from the “international community.” One wonders: Is this “international community” made up of political misfits, marauders and morons, dictators and dopes, criminals and crackpots who rule over the taxpaying serfs while pretending to be “honourable” and “eminent persons?” Still, these are supposedly “the Friends of Libya” and a cynic might say, “God help Libya, with friends like this.” They are a curse on society. First, they bomb and blitz it non stop for months then they say they need to “help” it, because it is “devastated.” Can you believe this crazy political gang of war criminals? The quote below says it all.

"We have to help the National Transitional Council because the country is devastated, the humanitarian situation is difficult and there's a lack of water, electricity and fuel," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on RTL radio. [5]
Reuters September 1, 2011.

Stephen J. Gray
September 2, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8795-al-qaeda-and-natos-islamic-extremists-taking-over-libya

[2] http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8651-nato-rebels-accused-of-war-crimes-in-libya

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0DPb8d-Yg

[4] http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/economy/france-unblocks-libya-cash-ntc-denies-oil-deal.html
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Info for further reading:
How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mh30ak01.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
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The “Humanitarian Mission” Report

2011-08-28T17:11:00.000-07:00

The “Humanitarian Mission” Report
By Stephen J. Gray

The National Air Terror Organization (NATO) oops, pardon me, I mean the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is doing its business with a bang, in fact big bangs—no pun intended. In the past six months it has, according to one report, done over “6,000 sorties.” These bombing missions have killed civilians and children but NATO did apologise for some of its “surgical strikes” going awry. You have to admit “surgical strikes” sounds better than bombing the place to rubble and ruins. Still, I did like how one dingbat politician described these criminal air strikes in an illegal war: He called them “dropping ordinances.” This guy certainly knows how to camouflage killing. But hey, this is a “humanitarian mission” to save lives and if we slaughter a number of innocent lives in the process that’s the cost of the war business.

Talking about business, the oil companies are all lining up to get back to doing what they do best—profiting from oil, and they are all ready to get their hands on that black gold. Gold, as you all know, is all the rage and it just so happens that this old dictator who used to be our friend had a reported 143.8 tons of gold. [1] Wow, what a treasure. Still, the spoils of war go to the victor and this precious cargo will be a boon to the financial system. Hopefully, we can find a “respected” banker to handle and look after this loot. I hear that a central bank has already been formed out of all this mayhem and bloody chaos and that it will take care of the gold and the dictator’s money.

Who will pay for all this death and destruction by NATO? The taxpayers of course! Millions of dollars have been spent on this “humanitarian mission” and “safe bombing campaign,” and all this money came from taxpayers of various governments. These “caring” governments all agreed that the dictator who used to be their friend must go, so the solution was bomb him back to the stone age. But hey, that’s the age we live in today. War criminals, or an old dictator friend, must not be tolerated; unless, of course, they are our war criminals and our dictators and our “allies” and are still our “friends.” Some people are saying NATO and the governments who authorized this “humanitarian mission” are all hypocrites and war criminals and should be put on trial. [2] NATO did kill people, and NATO was approved by governments and even if it was an illegal war you can’t put NATO or the politicians on trial. They are “humanitarians” who run the system, though one straight talking politician did call this evil foray by the system, the “new international gangsterism.” But surely gangsters have a role to play and the system needs them? In fact, perhaps they will be getting a medal for valour in arranging the bombing to save lives, while taking lives by killing innocent children and civilians. Anyway, I am sure a medal will be struck in their honour for “bravery,” perhaps even a Nobel Peace Prize for their “services to humanity.”

Humanity must be protected and that’s why the “international community” will be meeting at a “high level conference” to discuss the safety and security of the country they have just blitzed and bombed to bloody rubble. They are calling their meeting “Friends of Libya.” Isn’t that a nice Orwellian phrase? They approve bombing, mayhem, killing and destruction, and now they are having a friendly discussion to plan its “re-building” and “help” with the distribution of its money held by bankers. One is reminded of that old saying, with friends like these who needs enemies? What a nice bunch they are? Aren’t we lucky to have such “humanitarian” rulers? Birds of a feather flock together as the saying goes, and the political and business vultures of the New World Order are getting ready to feed off the country’s “reconstruction.” Still, these are “honourable people” and respected members of the “international community” doing what they do best, spreading B.S., lies and hypocrisy in the name of “humanitarianism” around the world, when their mission was really about “regime change.”[3] Meanwhile, the taxpaying serfs in various countries pay for their insane and criminal excursions, and the killing and bloody destruction is all done in the name of “responsibility to protect.” God help us all and save us from these dangerous criminal political hypocrites.

Stephen J. Gray
August 28,2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

[3] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html

Info for further reading:
The Bloody Aftermath of NATO’s Libya War
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Incredibly, as The New American reported months ago, U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that a high-level American delegation to Libya in 2009 was swooning over the Gaddafi regime. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman called the dictatorship “an important ally in the war on terrorism,” while Sen. John McCain assured the regime that the U.S. government wanted to supply Gaddafi with military equipment….
http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8761-the-bloody-aftermath-of-natos-libya-war

CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27232.html

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
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Are We Engulfed By Evil?

2011-08-23T13:06:00.000-07:00

Are We Engulfed By Evil?
By Stephen J. Gray

Bloody Wars:
Endless war is being waged around the globe. The weapons supplied by governments of all political stripes. A recent example was the illegal war in Libya supported by the “democratic” governments in the West against their “old friend.” It was called a, “humanitarian mission” to unseat a dictator. Meanwhile, there are other dictators supported by the West. Saudi Arabia and communist China are but two examples. Which makes one wonder why are there no “humanitarian missions” bombing these other dictatorships? Oh, I forgot these other dictatorships are “friends” and “allies,” and so this evil political farce continues with politicians claiming to be in favour of “human rights” while sanctioning illegal bombings and the killing of children and civilians by NATO, which of course is funded by the tax dollars of people from various countries. One hypocritical political “leader” even said these missile and bomb attacks as being done by “brave soldiers.” Which makes one wonder what is “brave” about pressing a button thousands of feet in the air that releases a missile that kills innocent children? One might ask; are war criminals not only the dictators, but also, the so-called political “leaders” spouting democracy and human rights as they create bloody mayhem? Meanwhile the profiteers of these bloody atrocities, who never participate in combat and operate out of luxury office buildings are laughing all the way to their stock portfolios. It would be interesting to see the names of just who is making a killing – no pun intended – from financing wars that are unjust. Justice would be served if all the political warmongers and all the dictators were put on trial for crimes against humanity. But hey, who would run the corrupt system if we did that?

Financial War:
Financial war is being waged on taxpayers everywhere by the financial elites of the monetary system. We are told the financial system is in crisis and that austerity is the only solution. The people of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy etc. are in the process of being punished by the dictators of austerity, also known as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the European Central Bank (ECB) and other banking cabals of the financial world. The unelected money changers are dictating financial policy to puppet politicians who are, I believe, betraying their own peoples’ and their countries sovereignty at the behest of these financial parasites who are funded by the tax dollars of the people. In fact, the peoples’ tax dollars bailed out many of these financial bandits who looted the financial system. None of the perpetrators have gone to jail and some even wrote a letter to Congress telling them to solve the debt crisis. What a joke, first they milk the system then they give advice to the political cows to get their political barnyard in order. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. But hey, financial pillaging is now acceptable and goes unpunished in the “land of the free.”

War on the Unborn:
A hidden war is being waged on the innocents in their mothers’ wombs by abortion. This war is camouflaged by the banal slogan called “freedom of choice.” Killing by choice is sanctioned by governments’ world wide and is today’s “final solution” for unwanted humans. Human life is disposable and hypocrite politicians of all political stripes are mostly in favour of killing by choice. But now, the consequences of killing by choice are starting to show up world wide. Old people are beginning to outnumber young people. Politicians everywhere are bemoaning this fact that there is a demographic crisis. Only they call it “low fertility,” rather than lay the blame on abortion. None of these politicians will admit that the millions of unborn killed by state sanctioned slaughter is the result of their political perfidy. They sowed death and now they are reaping the results of their hidden holocaust.

War on Free Speech:
Free speech everywhere is under attack by unelected so-called Human Rights Commissions (HRCs). These unelected, appointed bureaucrats are terrorizing society. People are dragged before them and forced to pay their own costs, meanwhile their accusers are given a free ride at tax-payers expense. So called “democracy” has been hijacked and freedom is fast becoming a word you can only read in a dictionary. Political correctness has become the rule, and the political rulers who created these HRCs are drawing big pensions and the next generations of politicians allow these unelected, appointed commissars of correctness to continue to rule with impunity. Democracy and freedom are prisoners of the system. The appointed are in control and the controllers are the appointed. But hey, think yourself lucky. Every three or four years you get to place an X in a ballot to choose which political party you wish to punish you. This political game is called “democracy.”

In summing up, I believe the evils that are happening today can only result in some form of horrific tragedy. Society has lost all recognition of right and wrong. We are headed for some great catastrophe. No governments, no politicians, no leaders and no one can continue to perpetrate evil and call it good, for as the good book says:

“Woe to those who call evil good” (Isaiah 5:20).

Stephen J. Gray
August 23,2011.

Note: I have added some links to interesting info below
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Info worth reading and listening to at links below:

http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dGHuRExiM
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http://www.thedailybell.com/1327/BIS-Trading-With-the-Enemy-The-Whole-Story.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333389/title/Financial_world_dominated_by_a_few_deep_pockets
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/

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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3578

Al-Qaeda Group To Become Main Power In Post-Gaddafi Libya
http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaeda-group-to-become-main-power-in-post-gaddafi-libya.html
EDITORIAL: Obama’s illegal war
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/18/obamas-illegal-war/
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

http://www.infowars.com/genetic-genocide-humanitys-greatest-threat/

www.unmaskingchoice.ca

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2009/03/freedom-of-expression-and-conservative.html

Why Are These Looters Still Free?

2011-08-14T10:48:00.000-07:00

Why Are These Looters Still Free?
By Stephen J. Gray

“Pension and social security funds have also been stolen and moved offshore, leading to the end of fiscal responsibility and sovereignty as we know it.” [1]
Finance Examiner, November 7, 2010.

The financial system world wide has been looted by financial criminals yet none of the elites have gone to jail. There is very little in depth coverage of these financial crimes in the corporate media. No pictures are flashed across the evening news, asking: “has anyone seen or have information on these financial thieves.” No endless front page stories calling for law and order or for the arrest of these sophisticated financial thugs. No calls for confiscation of their offshore tax free and banking facilities. No demands by politicians to make the financial system safe from rogue bankers. In fact, no calls for jail time, investigations or any prohibitions on these monetary bandits who destroyed the financial system. Instead they got bailed out by tax-payers dollars. Some have been known to advise governments and others are known as “eminent persons” in the financial field. Something is rotten and festering financially. The smell of corruption in high places permeates the system and the system has become a playground for financial gangsters and looters, aided and abetted by people in power.

“Over the past decade, the UK has allowed its capital city to become the home for many of the world’s most cut-throat and dodgy global financiers.”
John Kampfner, The Guardian, July 26, 2007. [2]

Now compare the powerful reaction to the vulgar and criminal looters in the U.K. Police are arresting the looters in England. They are smashing down doors to get at some of the accused. The corporate media world wide are in a reporting frenzy, with stories about the looters and there is a call for martial law. Some people are even asking for the army to be brought in. Meanwhile the politicians are all screaming: “We must have Law and Order.” Who would argue with that? After all, if the law is not obeyed and order becomes disorder then we are no longer a decent, honest and honourable society. Which raises very important questions once again: Why are the looters of the financial system not in jail? Why are the luxurious offices of the economic looters not being raided or their oak panelled doors being broken down, and the well heeled racketeers inside dragged out by the scruff of their necks? Is there one law for the crude rioting looters in the U.K. and no law for the sophisticated financial criminals who looted the monetary system? Where is the political outrage by politicians against their financial friends some of whom contribute money to their political campaigns? Where are the front page stories about these professional corporate criminals who brought down the world’s financial system. Why are they free? Do they have a free pass to break the law with impunity after looting the system? An article from the Finance Examiner of November 7, 2010, headlined: “Catherine Austin Fitts interview on the Looting of America” said this:

“Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists have deliberately imploded the US economy and transferred gargantuan amounts of wealth offshore as a means of sacrificing the American middle class. Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90's and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud.” [3]

The financial fraudsters who looted the system are laughing all the way to their banks and tax free havens. The only people arrested and charged are the crude uncivilized looters in England. Meanwhile the “civilized” financial looters continue their depredations world wide and it’s all done in the name of saving the financial system. What a joke! What a farce, and what does this say about the so-called “justice system?”

Stephen J. Gray
August 14,2011.

Endnotes:

[1]http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/26/comment.china

[3] http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america

The World Banking Politburo

2011-08-05T19:44:00.000-07:00

The World Banking Politburo
By Stephen J. Gray

‘I believe the world is ready for a shift to this more “systemic” vision of IMF surveillance’ [1]
“Address by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund,
At Bretton Woods Committee Annual Meeting
Washington D.C., February 26, 2010”

It would appear from the words of the former managing director of the IMF that the world is prepared for “ IMF surveillance.” The IMF is funded by tax-payers dollars from various countries, so one wonders when did the people anywhere decide that unelected bankers should be watching over them? Especially when it was out of control bankers that caused the financial crisis and then were bailed out by tax-payers dollars. Are we the new tax paying slaves who need to be watched over by bankers who operate in the global markets?

The global marketplace is where capitalism merges with and invests with communist China, and the communist rulers are spoken of as an “ally” by a “conservative” politician. Politicians are elected by the people of democratic countries but is it really only a game played out to make the people think they still have a voice, while their national sovereignty is sold out by treacherous political leaders? The European Union is but one example. Once elected the puppet politicians punish the people with ever increasing taxes. The real rulers of the money system are the central bankers; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). The BIS is in fact the head office where the central banks report to. In fact, it has been called “the central bankers' bank,…” [2] The Money Changers are in charge and governments listen when the money changers dictate policy. Austerity programs are dictated by the IMF and politicians bow to their commands. Greece and Ireland are but two recent examples, where the people are subjected to austerity so that bankers can be bailed out.

Central Bankers are the controllers and issuers of money. [3] Bankers dictate austerity programs through the auspices of the IMF, and politicians of all countries whether capitalist, communist, conservative, liberal, socialist or despotic all are mostly under the monetary control of the central bankers. Bankers have proposed a single world monetary system [4] and it could come to fruition, under the guise of “saving the world.” It is just a matter of convincing the people of different countries that this would be to their advantage. (A pause here for incredulous laughter from cynical persons). Anyway, the banking politburo have seen how easy it is to manoeuvre independent countries into the European Union (EU) and how easy it is to get politicians to sell out their national sovereignty for the Euro. In fact many people wondered if the Euro had been the testing ground for an eventual world currency. The banking politburo could prevail if a single world currency is propagandized properly. After all, puppet politicians of all political stripes in the G20 had earlier agreed on “global economic governance.”

“The Group of Twenty ("G-20") nations, the new Financial Stability Board ("FSB"), and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") are progressing on two fronts: the monitoring and revision of national and regional economic plans to facilitate global economic governance…” [5]

It appears that “global economic governance” is being facilitated. The question is: Are these politicians and political leaders from various countries guilty of political treason? Was “global economic governance” discussed in any of their parliaments? Are they traitors to their countries by selling out their national sovereignty? Should they be impeached? And finally, I ask, what is the point in electing politicians if an unelected bankers politburo are dictating monetary policy to most of the world? The quote below by a famous banker is worth thinking about.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Stephen J. Gray
August 5, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2010/022610.htm

[2] http://thedailybell.com/1812/Bank-for-International-Settlements-BIS

[3] http://www.webofdebt.com/excerpts/introduction.php

[4] http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=213953

[5] http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/g20-and-imf-officials-institutionalize-economic-global-governance

2011-07-29T07:12:00.000-07:00

Here is a Letter I sent to the National Post. Some of my more important words were censored out, And the word "allegedly" was never in my letter.
Letter to Editor
National Post
July 27, 2011.

Dear Editor, re: "Don't call China an 'ally'" National Post, July 27,2011.
You state in this editorial, "China's human rights record remains troubling,..." China is responsible for the slaughter of millions of its own people. Engages in torture, removes the organs forcefully from people, suppresses free speech, has used tanks against dissidents in Tiamen Square, has a history of forced abortions; need I say anymore? I believe a more apt word in your editorial regarding its "human rights" would have been atrocious or inhuman.

Stephen J. Gray
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Here is the National Post Version of my letter published July 29,2011
. or are there better words?
National Post · Jul. 29, 2011
This editorial states: "China's human rights record remains troubling." Troubling? China engages in torture, allegedly removes organs forcefully from people, suppresses free speech and has used tanks against dissidents in Tiananmen Square. I believe better words to describe China's "human rights" would have been "atrocious" or "inhuman."

Stephen J. Gray, Chilliwack, B.C.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/there+better+words/5176182/story.html
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Excerpt below from The Epoch Times July 14, 2011. (emphasis added)
"Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned, and according to some estimates, over 40,000 have had their organs forcefully removed in lucrative transplant operations. To date, the Conservative government has not mentioned any of these issues in a major public speech."
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/baird-heads-to-china-to-build-ties-59098.html

Communist North Korea Claims Discrimination by CPC

2011-07-22T14:15:00.000-07:00

Communist North Korea Claims Discrimination by CPC
(Satire) By Stephen J. Gray

Dear Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), it has come to our notice that your Minister of Foreign Affairs has been, how do you say, bad mouthing us. He is reported as saying, "North Korea is simply not a credible chair of a disarmament body,…” [1] We find this statement by your Minister to be very hypocritical. This is the same gentleman and government which supports the illegal bombing of Libya where civilians and little children have been killed. Yet, you people call this a “humanitarian mission.” Your allies even supplied arms to Libya when the dictator was your friend.

Libya of course is a dictatorship, as are we in North Korea yet your foreign minister visits the dictatorship in China and calls them a “friend” and an “ally.” [2] Are some dictatorships more equal than others? Quite frankly we are feeling slighted and discriminated against. Where is the fairness and equality in your foreign minister’s behaviour? We are treated like pariahs, yet China is hailed as a beacon of light in your unfair governmental decisions. How can this be? We are just as good dictators as China! Look at our record. We have starved and jailed our people, we even have Gulags while China has used tanks against their own people, sold poisoned goods to the West, and committed all kinds of atrocities, like forced abortions [3] and taking live body parts from prisoners, and torture etc. [4] Your Conservative Party congratulates them on their 90th anniversary despite its slaughter of millions of its own people. We say shame on you and of course shame on us too. Still, we ask you, who is more ethical, us or them? In fact, we could argue that they have done worse things than we have. We believe your foreign minister and your government should look in the mirror and ask themselves, “Are we hypocrites?” It is all so disheartening to see communist China being praised and congratulated by you conservatives while we are vilified. We believe your minister needs to give his head a big shake and get with some kind of equal opportunity program for dictators. Human rights are human rights, and we believe our rights have been violated and discriminated against. We believe your treatment of us is biased, yet your praise of China could be seen as grovelling and sycophantic. Perhaps we should complain to your Human Rights Commission that we are being discriminated against.

We understand your Human Rights Commissions are very good at arriving at the proper political decisions, so we are weighing them as an option; however we only want to do this as a last resort. Please do not think we are resorting to threats, but we have heard that your minister has been described as a “pit bull” and we do not want to be bitten by him anymore in the world of public discourse. Dog is a delicacy in our country, but we do not think this type of dog is edible. Tee, hee, hee. Sorry, did I make a silly pun or joke? Very sorry, hope no offence taken, please. It really saddens us to write this letter, but in all conscience, how could we let this slight upon our country pass without comment? Your foreign minister should come visit us and he will see that we are just like his friends in China, a dictator who can smile. We will shake his hand and politely inform him of his double standards, we will smile with him just like his friends do in China. Then hopefully we will receive his blessing and the approbation that he gave to China’s dictator. After all, what is good for the goose should surely be good for the gander, as the saying goes. Thank you for your attention to this matter, because one dictator should not be made a favourite over other dictators, we are all equal.

Yours in Comradeship and Concern.
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Stephen J. Gray
July 22, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www2.canada.com/story.html?id=5036246

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/effusive-john-baird-wraps-up-china-visit-with-praise-for-strategic-partner/article2103353/

[3] http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7iDZnkn1xo

Alleged Fraudsters “Agreed” to Fines: No Jail Time

2011-07-17T06:24:00.000-07:00

Alleged Fraudsters “Agreed” to Fines: No Jail Time
By Stephen J. Gray

“We participated in things that were clearly wrong and we have reason to regret and we apologize for them,…” Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, quoted in Bloomberg News, November 18, 2009. [1]

Despite the alleged massive frauds perpetrated by financial scam artists in the sub-prime mortgage scandals none of the really big fish have gone to jail. The smell of corruption permeates the system, and yet the system appears to have accepted that some people are too big to fail or jail. An article in Bloomberg news of June 1, 2011, stated,
“ Goldman Sachs Group (GS) won’t face criminal prosecution related to sales of mortgage-linked securities because such a move could threaten the U.S. financial system, according to Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.” [2]

Well excuse me, does this mean that the justice system hands down no jail time for the powerful but gives jail time to the powerless? The article went on to say: “In July, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle a civil fraud suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that alleged the firm misled clients about a mortgage-linked investment.”

Goldman Sachs is not the only financial firm that has plenty of money to pay a fine but does not do any hard time. Here is an excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle of July 8, 2011:

“JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $228 million to settle federal charges that the bank conspired to rig the bidding on investment contracts sold to state and local governments to boost its profits at taxpayer expense.” [3] The article went on to say:

“The Justice Department and the SEC have been investigating for more than four years the ways that banks and financial advisers fixed the bidding on investments sold to municipalities. Prosecutors say the conspiracy cost taxpayers by allowing banks to pay governments below-market rates. JPMorgan's penalties are the largest yet to result from the investigation, which also led to settlements with UBS AG and Bank of America Corp.”

Well, isn’t it nice that these “respectable” bankers “agreed” to pay a fine? Did they also “agree” that jail time was not necessary in their cases? After all, if they were innocent of these charges, why would they have “agreed” to pay fines? But, they “agreed” to pay. What does that say about guilt?

I believe something is rotten in the halls of justice when the powerful can waltz away free after allegedly committing fraud. Many of these bankers and financiers were bailed out by taxpayers’ dollars. Many of them have subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, and some of these powerful bankers have been known to advise governments on monetary policy. Meanwhile, there are over 40 million Americans on food stamps and an article of January 19, 2011, at prisonplanet.com, headlined: “The More Americans that Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes,” is well worth reading. [4]
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-more-americans-that-go-on-food-stamps-the-more-money-jp-morgan-makes.html

A woman in Michigan has been threatened with jail time for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard. [5] Perhaps, she would be treated differently if she was a banker? Many people have lost their jobs and homes, their pension funds are in the dumpster and their taxes helped bail out the perpetrators of their predicaments. Yet, the predicaments of the perpetrators are washed clean by them agreeing to pay fines! Are these perpetrators getting special treatment? No jail time has been handed down, yet unimportant people have gone to jail for much less. If there was any justice in the system surely some of these pin striped suited bankers should be doing hard time? Instead some of these bankers and financiers are flying around free as vulture birds and feeding off the misery and despair they created.

Stephen J. Gray
July 17, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aQWV0pN.Y1LQ&pos=1

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

[3] http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-08/business/29750189_1_bid-rigging-jpmorgan-chase-competitive-bidding

[4] http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-more-americans-that-go-on-food-stamps-the-more-money-jp-morgan-makes.html

[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/woman-jailed-for-vegetable-garden_n_893516.html

Real Women Praises Harper

2011-07-09T09:39:00.000-07:00

Real Women Praises Harper
By Stephen J. Gray

“Whether one supports the Conservative Party or not, it cannot be denied that Mr. Harper is an outstanding leader of his party.”
Page 8, Real Women of Canada, newsletter May/June 2011.

Mr. Harper is being touted as an “outstanding leader.” So let us examine what Mr. Harper the “outstanding leader” says and does on a number of issues:

Free Speech: “Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society,” says Stephen Harper, president of the National Citizens' Coalition. “It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.” [1]

Yet, the Harper government intervenes against free speech: “The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008).

Bilingualism: “As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.” (Stephen Harper) [2]

Now Mr. Harper says this: “My friends, for me a prime minister should speak French,” Harper said, calling French “the founding language of this country” (Source: The Gazette, Sept 8, 2008 [3]).

Same-sex marriage: “I don't see reopening this question [of same-sex marriage] in the future.” (Stephen Harper, CTV News Dec. 7, 2006 [4]).

Sexual orientation and its illegitimate offspring “same-sex marriage” were never in the Charter, yet we had the silly spectacle of a supposedly conservative government introducing a motion on this that they knew would be defeated. A government with principles would have used the not-withstanding clause to return sanity to this country. But unfortunately Mr. Harper is on record as saying, regarding this nonsense called same-sex marriage, “I will never use the notwithstanding clause on that issue” (Lifesite News December 16, 2005, [5]).

The Status of Women: This group achieved increased funding under the Harper Conservatives as witness the following quote from a minister’s speech: “As a demonstration of our firm commitment to the success of Status of Women Canada, Budget 2007 provided $10 million in funding to the Agency, bringing the total budget to $29.9 million, a record for Status of Women Canada” [emphasis added] (Speech for The Honorable Josée Verner, P.C., M.P., Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, on the occasion of an appearance before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons, Ottawa, February 5, 2008, [6]).

Abortion: “The Conservative government won't be initiating or supporting abortion legislation, and I'll use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn't come to a vote…” (Stephen Harper, [7]).

And we thought we lived in a democracy? Or is it a hypocrisy?

And talking about hypocrisy, based on the evidence we have seen from Mr. Harper’s government, are they really a conservative government? Or is it back to the days of the Red Tories and the Mulroney government? A former Reform party member and MP had this to say about Mr. Harper: “he will be remembered as an opportunistic, masterful tactician who, in the course of only three years completely purged the Conservative party of its Reform ideals and restored the Mulroney model of government.” (Lee Morrison, former Reform M.P. in the Calgary Herald, September 14, 2008 [8]).

Furthermore, a former Mulroney supporter is now in “charge of various files…” Read this:

“[Senator] Ms. LeBreton is one of the women Mr. Harper put in Cabinet and trusts. She was a staunch Progressive Conservative, most closely tied to Brian Mulroney, and made it into Mr. Harper's inner circle despite her vocal opposition to his vision to unite the right (the former Reformer Party/Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives). Mr. Harper appointed her Conservative leader in the Senate and put her in charge of various files,...” (National Post, September 22, 2008).

This makes one wonder, is Ms. LeBreton now in charge of the abortion “file?” Ms. Breton has said this on abortion:

“… there are certain issues, particularly those that concern women and children, and those of particular concern to women, and here I will use the abortion issue as an example, where even if 99.9 per cent of the members of my party were going one way, I would not support any policy that did not give women the right to choose” (http://www.parl.gc.ca/infoparl/english/issue.htm?param=147&art=983).

And on the “right to choose,” Mr .Harper is on the record as saying this: “Let me be very clear on the positions I’ve have taken on that. I want there to be no misunderstanding. I’ve said repeatedly, that I will not, that my Conservative government will not be tabling any legislation impacting in any way a woman’s right to choose” (June 27, 2006, LifeSiteNews, http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/060627a.html).

Mr. Harper is now heading a majority government. But on moral issues is there really any difference between the “conservatives” and the other parties? Are we now immersed in “throw the dogs a bone politics” where we are being promised all kinds of goodies with our own tax dollars and moral issues are not even discussed? Are we back to what a former Reform M.P. called in his Calgary Herald article, “Liberal, Tory, same old story?” And will social conservative people buy the “story” that we have a “conservative” party?
For, as Andrew Coyne wrote in MacLean’s of September 10, 2008,
“…Harper's whole time in office has been spent reassuring the public he has no plans to lead them anywhere, that under a Conservative government nothing much would change — they would govern much like the Liberals,…” [9]

Stephen J. Gray
July 9, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/20/harper-must-act-now-to-protect-free-speech/

[2] http://gerrynicholls.blogspot.com/2008/03/bilingualism-harpers-new-god.html

[3] http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5cc31fca-80a5-448b-ab5b-ffce081a7502
[4] http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061207/samesexmarriage_vote_061207/20061207?hub=TopStories

[5] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121606.html).

[6] http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/med/spe-dis/2008/0205-eng.html

[7] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011707.html

[8] http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=55305055-5bff-4b78-8427-7f3c15bcd213

[9] http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080910_115261_115261

An Imaginary Letter of Thanks from CPC to CPC

2011-07-07T07:18:00.000-07:00

An Imaginary Letter of Thanks from CPC to CPC
(Satire) By Stephen J. Gray

“Dear Comrades in the Conservative Party of Canada(CPC) I would like to thank you for your best wishes to the Communist Party of China(CPC) on our 90th anniversary. I notice we have the same initials CPC and surely this is a good omen between us. I hope that you also can attain a 90th anniversary of your CPC. You have a great leader in your country just like we have in ours. He does not accept any dissent in the party and neither do we. The people need vigilance and control if there is to be any great leap forward and I am sure they will get it from your and our comrade leader. One must rule the people with strength and vigour. They need a forceful hand and this must always be used with firmness. Your great leader impresses us with his dogmatic statements. I personally liked his stance on your abortion issue, where he stated: ‘This government will not open, will not permit anyone to open the abortion debate.’ He sounds like he is in complete charge of your country and a very strong man, and a strong man does not need to be democratic. He must be like a wise father who knows what is best for his children who are the people of the country. Chairman Mao was our wise and strong father and his legacy is still with us. Now you have a Chairman of your own who will bring accountability to your country.

“I hear that your party is sometimes called the Red Tories and we have been called Red China. So you see there is another nice coincidence. You have been called Red and we have been called Red so our colors could be called compatible. Did I make silly joke? Ha Ha, He, He, no offense comrades. I hear your CPC is a big defender of human rights just like our CPC. We believe free speech is not a right and your government has intervened against free speech so once again our policies are somewhat similar. Your great CPC leader has appointed party members and losers to your politburo, pardon me I believe you call it the Senate. Anyway, not much difference, it is a place for party supporters who are losers but need a place to sleep, same as here. Please, just another joke ha, ha, he, he, no offense please. I see also you handle demonstrators much like us. We used tanks as in Tiananmen Square to control them. You used other methods in the Toronto Square against G20 protestors, perhaps you should try using tanks they work well. Still, the relations between our countries are very good and I am sure we can learn from each other. It is so good to have CPC comrades in this world today where there is so much misery and unhappiness. Your letter gave us so much happiness that we cried tears of joy knowing we were accepted by your CPC. We, who have received so much criticism are now treated with respect and acclaim by your CPC. Chairman Mao must be smiling wherever he is, vindicated at last by the great CPC and its great leader Chairman of the Majority in the land across the sea.”

Yours Very Truly
A Comrade of the CPC to the Comrades of the CPC

Stephen J. Gray
July 7, 2011.

A Speech by the Respected Financier and Arms Dealer, Mr. Unctuous Evil

2011-06-26T13:41:00.000-07:00

A Speech by the Respected Financier and Arms Dealer, Mr. Unctuous Evil
By Stephen J. Gray

“ Dear Friends, I see there are many eminent persons, politicians, leaders of governments, honorable persons, members of the international community, dictators, despots oops, I mean authoritarians gathered here today.

“We are assembled to discuss the state of the world. Despite all the gloom and doom being reported, I have to say things are going well in the weapons industry. This so-called recession has not hurt us one bit. We are still selling arms to dictators and despots, pardon me, I mean respected authoritarian regimes. We are also supplying both sides in wars and we are still making massive profits.” (Mr. Evil pauses while massive applause takes place.)

“War is a profitable business except for those who die in it. Killing and slaughter, oops, I mean collateral damage can never be avoided. I mean, just look at Libya, we sold all kinds of bombs and missiles to its dictator who is now our enemy, but it is still a win, win situation for our business of death. We are bombing Libya non-stop, and taxpayers will pick up the tab, but it is a humanitarian mission even though we are killing civilians and little children. Bombs and missiles don’t discriminate and mistakes can be made, but we do offer apologies. Anyway these missile attacks are surgical strikes, though some innocent patients die, and when this is all over we will inscribe a memorial to their memory.

“One must never forget we are involved in a humanitarian mission. We are bringing democracy to some places and helping keep dictators in power in other places, but this is not a perfect world, and dare I say thank goodness for that. (a number of hear, hears are heard and some more applause takes place) The beauty of our business is we never have to go to the front lines or wear combat gear. We are the planners and plotters who make things happen. We are the humanitarians of the planet ever ready to do our duty. Of course duty comes with a price, and our price is ever increasing profits. But, surely making money off bloody death and destruction is an honorable profession? After all, somebody has to do it and who better than us?

“We have an impeccable record in this world of deceit, lies, disinformation, treason and treachery. Some people are even saying that some of us are war criminals. Still, one cannot please everybody and some of us have been known to get a Nobel Peace Prize, so we can’t all be that bad. (applause takes place and a standing ovation ensues)

“Out of evil comes good, the Libya situation is a good example. When it’s over we will help rebuild the country, we will sell arms to the next leader of the country. The oil will still be there for us to help manage and the money and gold that the dictator entrusted to us is safe in the hands of our respected bankers. Though, I must admit one of our trusted financial institutions did manage to lose over a billion dollars of his money. But hey, who ever said the price of doing business investing was always profitable. Still, never mind, at least we know his money is somewhere safe in our financial system. The only monetary losers are the Libyan people. Oh well, at least we are performing a humanitarian service for them with our bombing mission, and what could be more caring and profitable than that? Thank you and God Bless us all as we continue our humanitarian work.”

Stephen J. Gray
June 26, 2011.

The Liberal Party, oops I mean “Conservative” Party Win a Majority Government

2011-06-12T15:28:00.000-07:00

The Liberal Party, oops I mean “Conservative” Party Win a Majority Government
By Stephen J. Gray

“The Globe and Mail published its editorial endorsement on Wednesday, saying, ‘Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party are best positioned to guide Canada’ into a new period of global ambition.” [1] ( CBC News, April 29, 2011)

Wow. Isn’t that something the liberal Globe and Mail endorsing “conservatives.” Does this mean that the country still has liberals in power albeit they call themselves “conservatives?” But hey, all power to the Red Tories, oops I mean “conservatives” they have been governing and acting like liberals for the last number of years and finally they have achieved success. Is all this talk about the Liberal Party being nearly dead, propaganda? Are they still alive only they call themselves “conservative?” Anyway, what’s in a name, by their actions you will know them as the saying goes, and certainly on moral issues there is no difference between any of the parties. But hey, who needs or wants morality in politics? Just promise the serfs all kinds of goodies with their own tax dollars then punish them after getting elected. Around 40% of the people refuse to participate in this political con game. Perhaps, they are the wise ones who still have some concept of morality and refuse to compromise their principles.

Principles mean that one stands for something. So where does the Liberal Government, oops I mean “conservative” government stand on morality? On the greatest moral issue of our time the killing of the child in the womb by abortion all parties boast they are in favor of this continuing slaughter. In fact, our democracy challenged Prime Minister is on record as saying. “As long as I am prime minister we are not opening the abortion debate…” (Stephen Harper quoted in Globe and Mail, April 21, 2011). One would think in a so-called “democracy” any issue would be up for debate, but it appears this is not so in “democratic” Canada. Have we given a majority government to a dictator? And on the issue of free speech Mr. Harper’s “conservative” government intervened with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and other powerful groups against it.

“The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008)

Mr. Harper is on record as saying this about Human Rights Commissions:
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society … It is, in fact, totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff” (Stephen Harper) [2]

Here is Mr. Harper speaking on “conservative values.”
“Individual freedom is something Conservatives value…
"What exactly are those conservative values?
I think we all instinctively recognize them when we see them, although it is sometimes difficult to define them. I like to summarize my idea of conservatism in three "Fs" --freedom, family and faith.” Stephen Harper
{National Post, April 30, 2009.) [3]

Oh well, at least Mr. Harper says he believes in “freedom” though, I believe, by his actions and words he contradicts himself. Still, the liberal Globe and Mail endorsed him as did most other newspapers in the country. Yet, these newspapers are always trumpeting their support for free speech. Dare one call most of them hypocrites? Because not one of them, I am aware of, has raised the issue of Mr. Harper’s dictatorial quote on abortion. Imagine if he had said: “As long as I am prime minister we are not opening debate on the killing of ducks on Alberta Tar Sands.” Imagine the furore this would have caused!

But hey, he did speak out on “dead ducks” even though he refuses debate on dead and slaughtered babies by abortion.
CTV news of May 2, 2008. had this headline:
“Canada's image hurt by oilsands duck deaths: PM” the article went on to quote PM Harper as saying: "I'm not here to make any excuses for the particular event that occurred over the last few days. It is a terrible event. It is not going to do anybody's image any good,...'' [4]

Oh well, at least ducks appear to have more sympathy from the P.M. than the terrible events of slaughtered humans murdered by abortion. Anyway, as I said earlier, liberals should take heart. I believe, liberal ideology still holds power even though those in power call themselves “conservative.” So Liberals should not despair, if the Globe and Mail can endorse Mr. Harper surely all is well in Liberal Land under a “conservative government?” A final comment for those “true believers” who kept saying “wait until Harper gets a majority.” The quote below is for you.

“Our agenda is the same agenda with a majority government or a minority government,”
(Stephen Harper quoted in National Post, April 4,2011) [5]

Stephen J. Gray
June 12, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/04/election-word-of-the-day-endorsement.html

[2] http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/20/harper-must-act-now-to-protect-free-speech/

[3] http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/04/30/terence-corcoran-no-room-for-libertarians-in-harper-conservatism.aspx

[4] http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20080502/oilsands_standards_080502/

[5] http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/04/04/conservatives-would-govern-the-same-with-majority-harper/

An Update on The New World Order

2011-06-08T14:55:00.000-07:00

An Update on The New World Order

The international elites are holding their yearly conference in one of the offshore tax havens. Mr. Juan Elitist is this year’s respected speaker. His speech begins.

“First of all let me say welcome to the international community gathered here today. You are the crème de la crème of the world community and the real rulers of the earth today. Oh sure, many of the masses elect politicians but we, the unelected, advise the politicians. Still, democracy is a wonderful system, though I am sure our dictator and despot friends, oops, I mean authoritarian friends amongst us would beg to differ. But hey, the end result is the same, we hold the power and the power is us. ( much applause ensues and squeals and shrieks of approval are heard from the eminent persons, statesmen, stateswomen, respected financiers and business oligarchs in the audience.)

“Power and money go hand in hand and handling money is not for simpletons. It takes respected bankers to handle money a good example is one of our most respected financial firms. They came out of the recession unscathed, thanks to a bailout of taxpayers’ dollars. Still, I must say I wonder how they managed to lose nearly one hundred percent of one of our former dictator friend’s money after he invested with them. It wasn’t peanuts either, over 1 Billion dollars according to one report. Still, they did offer to turn him into one of their major investors, and surely that was a good business solution to the problem. This is a firm, whose boss has said they are doing God’ work, and surely there is no higher calling than that? There was only one disgusting note to this episode of free enterprise investing of a dictator’s money. Our reputable and respected financial firm received threats and had to get some security for itself before it left the dictator’s country. I ask you what is the world coming too? The sooner we get rid of this ungrateful guy the better. Anyway, I am sure our former dictator friend’s money is somewhere in our system so it will not go to waste. Meanwhile, we are now wasting our old friend’s country with massive bombing raids and missiles or as one simple politician put it planes “dropping their ordinances.” I have to admit that does sound better than bombing them back to the stone age. Still, we have wonderful air support from our National Air Terror Organization (NATO) sanctioned by our Gang of Eight (G8.), oops I mean governments of eight. It is a humanitarian mission to save the people, of course some people including children are being slaughtered but this is only collateral damage and they are surgical strikes, and eventually after our old dictator friend goes we can go about re-building his country. I am sure some of you are already preparing bids on the rebuilding process and others will want to help out with the country’s oil business.

“Our business of ruling the world is coming to fruition. I mean, who would have believed that nearly all those countries in Europe would agree to a European Parliament and one currency called the Euro. It just shows what can be done by not asking most of the people whether they want this type of governing system. Still, it does help when we have pliable politicians prepared to sell out their national sovereignty for a seat in our world politburo. As I said earlier, our vision is happening before the eyes of the people and the people don’t see it. I always say, under the guise of a perimeter of national security one can impose anything. Soon, we will have a North American Union (NAU), and that along with the European Union (EU) brings our agenda of eventual World Union (WU) much closer. So you see good things are happening for us while the people are kept busy watching games and soap operas. Give the masses entertainment before enslavement, and dull their capacity to think and they don’t realize what is happening to them. Still, as long as their taxes keep rolling in to bail us out who would argue that we have the greatest system going for us. I’ll close for now, and let us all head to the hotel bar and raise a toast to the continuing success of our New World Order. (A standing ovation ensues and shouts of “three cheers for Juan Elitist are heard throughout the hotel.)

(Satire) by Stephen J. Gray
June 8. 2011.

Are We Seeing Hypocrisy and Corruption Incorporated?

2011-05-29T13:37:00.000-07:00

Governments and corporations sell bombs, tanks, guns, missiles, tear gas etc. to dictators and despots. Then, when these same dictators use these weapons to suppress and attack their own populations they pretend they are outraged. Just look at what is happening in Libya, a mass bombing campaign is in progress. Missiles are launched and mayhem is the order of the day. All this is done in the name of a “humanitarian mission.” Which makes one wonder what is “humanitarian” about killing civilians and children? Surely, the political pimps for the arms industry, who make up the Gang of Eight (G 8) and who used to be friends of this Libyan dictator could have used Mafia type tactics and had him taken care of. Oh, I forgot, our “democracy” does not do such criminal acts.

We do not have criminals or war criminals in our midst we only have politicians who support “humanitarian missions.” There are no profits to be made in mafia type solutions and the country is not reduced to rubble, only a “good war” attacking the dictator at home produces profits for the weapons industry. The reconstruction of the country creates opportunities for the multi-national elites in re-building the country after the bombing frenzy. The big prize, the oil is already there and the money and gold in the dictators bank accounts probably held offshore by “respectable bankers,” is surely worth having. But hey, we know that money will be returned by the bankers to the Libyan people, don’t we?

The Washington Post of may 25,2011 stated this:
“Some of the world’s most sophisticated banks and investment firms rushed to do business with Moammar Gaddafi’s government in Libya after the United States rescinded the country’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism five years ago, according to an internal financial document obtained by The Washington Post.

“HSBC, Goldman Sachs and other top banks took on hundreds of millions in cash deposits. Hedge funds and private investment firms, including the Washington-based Carlyle Group, sold Libya’s investment authority complex financial products. The Libyan sovereign wealth fund bought more than $1 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, effectively giving Libya a chance to underwrite U.S. debt.” [1]

Meanwhile another “friendly dictatorship” in Saudi Arabia that is supplied with weapons from the democracies in the West is using these same weapons on populations in the Gulf, but there is no “humanitarian mission” in progress there, after all the Saudis are “good dictators.”

A British M.P. had this to say in the Guardian of May 28, 2011.
“Jonathan Edwards, a Plaid Cymru MP who has tabled parliamentary questions to the MoD about its links to Saudi Arabia, said he found it difficult to understand why Britain was training troops for ‘repressive undemocratic regimes.’”[2]
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It is not only Britain that beds down with tyrants and dictators. The Ottawa Citizen of April 23, 2011 had this headline, “DND reports reveal Canada's ties with Gadhafi”

The article went on to say: “Western politicians have labelled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi a despot and a brutal dictator, but Defence Department reports portray him in another way -as a staunch ally in the war against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.” [3]

So there we have it, yesterday’s friend is now today’s enemy. The Libyan dictator is now a pariah, while other dictators and despots are praised as friends. Therefore, based on the evidence, I ask the question: Are we seeing hypocrisy and corruption, not to mention political evil continuing to be incorporated into the democratic system?

Stephen J. Gray
May 29, 2011

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyan-gold-rush-followed-end-to-sanctions/2011/05/25/AGGgbVBH_story.html

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/28/uk-training-saudi-troops

[3] http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/reports+reveal+Canada+ties+with+Gadhafi/4663544/story.html

2011-05-18T06:23:00.000-07:00

Here is a letter I sent to the National Post. The letter was published May 18, 2011.
The letter was edited by the newspaper. Here is the complete letter. SJG.
Letter to Editor
National Post
May 14, 2011

Dear Editor, Re your editorial, "Respect for life,respect for free speech" May 14, 2011.
Excellent editorial and straight to the point. Unfortunately most of the media, including the National Post have been silent on the most recent attack on free speech by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He has been quoted as saying:“As long as I’m prime minister, we are not reopening the abortion debate,” National Post, April 21, 2011. I find it amazing that none of the investigative media who are supposed to support free speech and free expression never even criticized him for this dictatorial comment. Surely, in a supposedly free country all issues should be up for debate in Parliament? Perhaps your next editorial will take him to task for this assault on democracy in Canada.

Stephen J. Gray

Society at “Work”

2011-05-08T17:38:00.000-07:00

They kill their young by abortion and call the atrocity “freedom of choice.” They carry out this heinous slaughter in abortion chambers, decapitating, disemboweling and beheading the victims. They even awarded the country’s highest honor to one abortionist for doing his dirty “work” over many years. He is declared a “hero” in society and lauded in most of the media. The present leader of the country, just like the others before him believes in “freedom of choice” to kill by abortion and he is on the record as saying: “This government will not open, will not permit anyone to open the abortion debate.” These kinds of words are surely worthy of a dictator.

They sell weapons, missiles, tear gas, tanks etc to their dictator “friends” who use these weapons to kill and slaughter their own people. Then they attack one of their “friendly dictators” with missiles and bombs in a “humanitarian mission” to save lives! Yesterday’s friend is now today’s enemy. Innocent men, women and children are killed and maimed by their attempt to “save lives.” Cities are reduced to rubble, homes are destroyed, and thousands of refugees are left homeless, but, this is a “humanitarian mission.” Meanwhile, massive profits are made by the weapons industries that specialize in bloody death and destruction. Their stocks rise on the stock markets of the world and the bloodstained profits of perdition are hailed as “good business” investments. The killing business knows no recession, but its victims suffer not only depression but horrible deaths, others suffer disease and deformity; and those still alive live in despair, searching for water and food.

They manipulate the price of food on the commodity markets of the world. Massive profits are made by “respected” financial firms while deaths occur in many of the poorer countries of the world. The “free marketers” are running amok manipulating the food system. Starvation and hunger is the price that is paid resulting in human misery. Laughter engulfs societies clubs and mansions as another “good day” on the stock market raises them to dizzy heights of optimism. They watch their “investments” increase in value as they speculate on the necessities that people need to survive. Still, this is “respectable” society at “work” and their “hard work” is paying off big time. Meanwhile, the peasants in the poorer lands are cattle to be herded and culled by starvation.

Elsewhere, in the “greatest country in the world” over 40 million of its people are on food stamps. Many have lost their homes to the financial fraud artists who were bailed out by the peoples’ tax dollars. Young men and women are sent overseas to fight in wars because there were supposed to be “weapons of mass destruction.” This turned out to be untrue. Now many of these young men and women are dead. Others have lost limbs or been disabled. Their political leaders live on in luxury, still spouting political nonsense about bringing “democracy” to the world while they consort with communist dictators who suppress freedom and rip the organs from their own people. This then is our high and mighty society at “work.”

Stephen J. Gray
May 8, 2011.

Harper and his people talk about “truth and freedom”

2011-04-25T07:54:00.000-07:00

“We as Canadians have a special vocation, a special responsibility, to speak truth to power. To be a voice for the voiceless,...” [1]
Jason Kenney quoted in The Record of April 23, 2011.

Gee, that really sounds nice, “a voice for the voiceless,” except that Mr. Kenney’s boss says this about the little voiceless innocents slaughtered by abortion: “As long as I am prime minister we are not opening the abortion debate…” (Stephen Harper quoted in Globe and Mail, April 21, 2011). But hey, who cares about human life when there are votes to be gained by making promises to people who will hopefully be converted to the Conservative cause. The Conservatives have promised they will open up an “office of religious freedom” if re-elected. Why did they not do it before, one might ask, as they have been in power for years? But hey, this kind of talk is always good for a number of standing ovations from the faithful ones at their election rallies and good for getting votes. Even though promises can be broken, and the question must be asked can politicians be trusted?

“…voters are never supposed to give absolute trust to anybody,…” [2] Stephen Harper quoted in the Globe and Mail of April 24, 2011.

Meanwhile, some religious people and organizations, such as Knights of Columbus (Kof C), Catholic Insight Magazine, Pastor Stephen Boisson, Chris Kempling, to name but a few have been persecuted and dragged before human rights commissions for daring to exercise their right to free speech and free expression. There is no “office” promised for them.Their freedoms have been attacked and they have suffered financial loss fighting these unelected human rights commissars. Sadly, Harper’s Conservative government talks the talk, but does not walk the walk, as the saying goes, when it comes to freedom. They have intervened against free speech along with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and others:

“The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008).

There is an old saying: “by their actions you will know them,” and the quote above puts it into perspective just where Harper’s government stands on freedom of speech. But hey, we live in a Harper “democracy.” He will keep us safe. He will keep the country strong and watch over us all. He will decide what can be debated! He will tax us on just about everything that moves with the HST. He is the guy who gave the Liberal governments of B.C. and Ontario billions of the peoples’ tax dollars to bring in the Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST). Yet, he is on record as saying, “I don’t believe any taxes are good taxes.” [3]

Still, I guess the true believers love being plundered and pillaged to fill his governments coffers with their own money. What more could they ask for? After all, he has hopes of a majority government and might get it.

The system works like this: First you get all their promises, then once they get elected, you get punished for being a true believer. And that is the “truth” about the “power” that will govern you, then you really will be “voiceless.”

Stephen J. Gray
April 25, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1]http://www.therecord.com/news/elections/article/521237--cheering-conservative-partisans-shield-harper-from-awkward-terrorism-questions

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/article1996853.ece

[3] http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/no-taxes-are-good-taxes-harper/

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Is Stephen Harper a Danger to Democracy?

2011-04-21T12:35:00.000-07:00

“As long as I am prime minister we are not opening the abortion debate,…” Stephen Harper, quoted in Globe and Mail, April 21, 2011

The above quote by Mr. Harper on abortion should surely make people wonder about democracy in Canada. After all, if P.M. Harper can decide he is not “opening the abortion debate,” what’s to stop him from doing this with other important and moral issues? In fact, his government has already intervened along with the Canadian Human Rights Commission(CHRC) against free speech.

“The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008).

The words “reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” have become a weapon to punish decent, law-abiding Canadians for daring to have an opinion in a so-called “free society.” But, our society is not free when one man, the prime minister of Canada can decide what issues will be debated. This, I believe, smacks of a self deluded dictator and an affront to our supposed democracy. Yet, nobody in his conservative party appears to have the courage to challenge him. Here they are running around the country begging for votes and their leader is issuing statements that he will not allow the abortion debate to be opened. Do they not see that debate on any issue should be free and open in a so-called democratic society? Or are they prepared to be whipped into place, like political dogs, that do as they are told and beg for their master’s favor?

As, I said earlier, I believe Mr. Harper is a danger to freedom and democracy. Imagine if he had said, “as long as I am prime minister we are not opening the debate on the environment.” All hell would have broken loose. There would have been huge headlines across the country. The talking heads on TV would have erupted into condemnation about the lack of democracy in Canada, and probably called for his resignation. But hey, we have a double media standard here in Canada, abortion to them is a sacred sacrament and as long as Mr. Harper suppresses any discussion on it, that’s fine with most of them.

Yet, the media are always trumpeting the slogan free speech and free expression must be paramount. Yeah sure, if they believed that they would be challenging Canada’s would be dictator. They are all mostly hypocrites when it comes to the killing of the child in the womb by abortion. Investigative journalism is dead just like the children slaughtered by abortion. And our democracy challenged prime minister I believe cares more about power than moral principles. God help Canada with this kind of dictatorial “leadership.”

Stephen J. Gray
April 21, 2011.

Note: See the slaughtered victims of killing by abortion at: www.AbortionNo.org

The Collapsed Society

2011-04-17T11:12:00.000-07:00

“When illegality rules by law. The rule of reason must withdraw.” - Goethe

The collapsed society did not know it had collapsed. The rot from within had been gradual. The rules of morality, decency, and normalcy--which had been the pillars of society--had been eroded bit by bit. Good had become bad, and bad had become good. The language had become debased and the law debauched. Orgies were now a given, according to the land’s Obscene Court--as long as no “harm” was done. What was once considered abnormal was now declared “normal” and women were “marrying” women and men were “marrying” men. But not to worry, at least the politicians had a “free vote” on this “marrying” absurdity. Thinking people, however, wondered how anyone with any common sense could vote on a piece of baloney which was a ridiculous lie. But hey, this was the collapsed society and those in power did not know or care that principles should come before power, or that they had succumbed to senselessness. Anyone opposed to the present stupidities was denounced by most of the media and declared to be of the “lunatic fringe.”

The real lunatics in the country were the so-called intellectuals who were tolerant of the tawdry and who were promoters of every vice. People speaking of morality and virtues were declared “intolerant” and it was a “hate crime” to criticize a lifestyle that brought disease and death. Free speech was only for those who practiced a disease-ridden “happy” lifestyle. The “happy” ones had the power and those in power capitulated to the “happy” ones. Morality had been perverted and even those in jail who had committed immoral acts were declared “morally worthy” to vote. The pervert’s work had “artistic merit” and the judicial artists were now making the “law.” The law was now acting like an animal called an ass, and it brayed from the benches and spread its filth across the land. The land’s political class had acquiesced to the “lawmakers” on the benches and declared them to be “supreme.”

The supreme document of the land was the constitution interpreted by lawyers now called judges. The constitution had a safeguard written into it called the “notwithstanding clause” which could be used when the judiciary lost their senses. But unfortunately the elites of the political class were afraid to use it. The present leader of the land said he would “never” use it on the “issue” of “same-sex marriage,” thus giving carte blanche for nonsense in “law” to be legitimized. Legitimate concerns of people who were trying to right the collapsed society were treated as irrelevant, irresponsible, and intolerant. Some politicians who still believed in decency and truth were reportedly muzzled by their political leader and told not to speak out on moral issues. This leader who once opposed “gag laws” was now gagging his own followers.

Still, the followers and supporters of people of the same gender “marrying” each other were not gagged and they were vociferous in promoting their “rights” and the “right” to “marry” in “same-sex marriages.” Meanwhile, the abortion train in the collapsed society continued its runaway rampage, killing its passengers the children in their mothers wombs with impunity. Cutting them to pieces or decapitating them was “freedom of choice” and a “human right.” Most of the politicians parroted the slogan “freedom of choice” to kill the child in the womb and the present leader of the land was quoted as saying: “This government will not open, will not permit anyone to open the abortion debate.” The government was also contributing a $100 million of taxpayers' dollars to a new “human rights museum” which some people thought bizarre when the innocent child in the womb had no human rights or protection. Meanwhile, spotted owls, seals, eagles, bears etc had protection. But hey, anything goes when a society has collapsed.

Stephen J. Gray
April 17, 2011.

An Imaginary Political Speech to Friends

2011-04-08T12:48:00.000-07:00

Friends it is that time again for me to seek your support. I have five points to put before you today.

[1] Friends, as you already know we have “same-sex marriage” in this country and I have said I will not bring this matter back before the House. I have also stated, I will not use the not-withstanding clause on that issue. We also gave a large grant of money to the parade of pride, where some people have been known to parade naked. But hey, we support diversity and family values. And surely all segments of society deserve our support even in their nakedness.

[2] Friends, let me also state that, we must protect our children from criminals, and surely that is a laudable stance? I know it has been reported that someone with criminal convictions had worked in my office, but hey, one cannot know everything that is going on! Still, we must have strong law and order. As you all know, I support freedom of choice to kill the unborn children therefore I will not permit the abortion issue to be revisited. The status quo remains, and there is no law on abortion in this land. In fact, who needs a law, when we give the highest honor in the country to an abortionist. What does that say about our principals and values? But, surely, everybody is welcome in our big family values marketplace?

[3] Friends, we live in a great democracy, that’s why we have “human rights commissions,” and as you all know we intervened with the human rights commission against free speech. I know there are some people who say I am a hypocrite and that I once called these commissions totalitarian, but hey, it’s different when one is in power. Some opinions must be suppressed if we are to have a strong controlled democracy. Still, I believe in accountability, and who would argue with that?

[4] Friends, I believe in lower taxes, that’s why I gave billions to two Liberal provincial governments to bring in a tax that some people are calling the Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST). But, I still believe in lower taxes, that’s why I am giving a $6 billion dollar tax break to large corporations.

[5] Finally friends, let me say this. We have weathered the great recession. Taxpayers’ money bailed out the system world wide. I ask you, where would we be without the taxpayers? They are the backbone of our society, and that’s why we are in favor of the HST. The taxpaying stiffs, oops I mean you wonderful friendly people will now be taxed on just about everything that moves and does not move. I like to call this sharing the burden and I am sure my corporate friends who received bailouts and are now getting tax breaks agree with me. In closing, I once again ask for your support as we go forward into the future. If we all pull together the promised land awaits us and hopefully as your great dictator, oops, I mean your great leader, I will still be holding the reins of power.

Respectfully submitted and asking for your support.
Your Friend and Leader.

Stephen J. Gray
April 8. 2011.

They Want Your Vote: Meanwhile the Killing of the Innocents Continues

2011-03-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

Surely the most important issue in this federal election should be the lawless killing of the child in the womb under the banner of “choice." There is no law on this abominable act of slaughter in Canada and the leaders of all the prominent political parties travelling the country are begging for votes. I believe, all are complicit in this atrocity called abortion. Parliament is the place where laws are made and these leaders and others before them chose to ignore the sanctity of human life and instead parroted the banal slogan called “freedom of choice" to kill. And so the massive killing continues at a rate of over 100,000 innocent lives snuffed out yearly in the country’s abortion chambers. Where are their principles on protecting human life? Where are their morals and where are their concerns for the pregnant woman coerced into an abortion?

Only a short time ago there was a vote in Parliament to protect pregnant women from coerced abortion. The vote was defeated and all four leaders voted against protecting these women. And these are the kind of people who want your vote! Still, one should not be surprised at this kind of behavior; after all, they do have the title “honorable.” Though, I wonder what is honorable about allowing coercion, and what is honorable about supporting killing by choice? Still, our “honorable leaders” like to camouflage their words when talking about this atrocity called abortion. Here are some of their statements:

Stephen Harper:
“This government will not open, will not permit anyone to open the abortion debate” (Stephen Harper, quoted in Lifesite News, Sept. 29, 2008: [1]

The above quote by Mr. Harper makes one wonder, whatever happened to democracy and free expression in Harper’s Canada? One wonders what other issues he “will not permit” to be discussed? And this guy is asking the people to give him a majority government! Here is another quote by him on the infamous “right to choose":

“Let me be very clear on the positions I’ve have taken on that. I want there to be no misunderstanding. I’ve said repeatedly, that I will not, that my Conservative government will not be tabling any legislation impacting in any way a woman’s right to choose” (Stephen Harper quoted, June 27, 2006 LifeSiteNews.) [2]

Michael Ignatieff
“Thank you for your correspondence concerning Canada’s abortion laws. It is the longstanding view of the Liberal Party of Canada that women must have the right to choose, and this party will take no step that limits, or opens the door to limiting, access to safe medical services for women across Canada.”
The Office of Michael Ignatieff, M.P. Leader of the Opposition

Jack Layton:
The leader of the NDP, Jack Layton, supports freedom of choice on abortion and had this to say about Canada’s foremost abortionist: “On behalf of the New Democratic Party of Canada, I salute Dr. Henry Morgentaler as one of the 2008 recipients of the Order of Canada” (July 2, 2008) [3]

Gilles Duceppe:
“Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has vowed to bring down any Conservative minority government if it attempts to abolish abortion. [He said that] ‘the position of the Bloc is that we cannot ignore the rights of women in order to keep our seats… I will not accept that the Conservatives abolish the right to abortion.’” (CTV News Jun. 13 2004.)

And before you conclude from Duceppe’s comments that the Conservatives will abolish abortion, note this: “Conservative spokesman Yaroslav Baran was quick to point out his party's official position on the issue in the face of accusations of his party having a hidden social agenda.”

“‘It is certainly not our position that the government should legislate against a woman's right to choose, but it's good to see that other parties are agreeing with our position,’ Baran told Canadian Press” (CTV News Jun. 13 2004.) [4]

Elizabeth May of the Green Party:
"What we’re saying as a party, and what I’m saying as an individual leader, is that any civilized society must provide safe legal access to any woman who needs or wants an abortion... I would never change a thing about the current abortion laws; we must have them." June 7, 2007. MacLeans [5]

“A woman’s right to choose” rolling off the tongues of slippery politicians makes this heinous act of slaughtering vulnerable unborn human beings sound like something on a menu. So what does it really mean? Well, what the politicians don’t like to do is go into detail about this heinous act.

But the reality is, supporting “choice” on abortion actually means cutting the unborn to pieces, suctioning their bodies apart, or injecting potassium chloride into their hearts. Other unborn children are murdered by having the back of their necks pierced by sharp scissors and their brains suctioned out (partial birth abortion). Some have been born alive but are left to die. Barbarity is being practiced and human sacrifices are made. This is the heinous atrocity disguised under the political slogan of a “woman’s right to choose.”

Now these “right to choose” politicians want you to make a political choice to support their party in the federal election. Can any decent, principled, or moral person in good conscience vote for anyone or any party that supports and condones the killing of the unborn child or the coercion of women into killing that child?

Stephen J. Gray
March 29, 2011.

Note: to learn more about what these aforementioned politicians speak of when they parrot the word “choice”, go to www.abortionNo.org and see the slaughtered victims of this unspeakable butchery.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08092912.html

[2] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/060627a.html

[3] http://www.ndp.ca/page/6561

[4] http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040613/bloc_abortion_040613?s_name=&no_ads=

[5] http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070607_145215_12204

A Pompous Political Charlatan Speaks to the International Community

2011-03-20T10:33:00.000-07:00

We esteemed and honorable ones are gathered here today to take action to preserve freedom and democracy. There is a dangerous dictator loose upon the planet that is attacking his own people with fighter planes, guns, tanks, bombs and tear gas that many of us assembled here today supplied him with. He once was our friend, but now, he is an enemy. We must protect freedom, no matter the cost. (a massive round of applause ensues, and the speaker continues)

I see, by the applause, the arms makers, and the arms sellers and buyers in our midst realizes this defense of freedom and democracy is good for business and the economy. It is also good for any of us running for re-election. There is nothing like a good war to energize the masses. But, I digress. The important thing to remember is that we are all in favor of human rights, and hopefully our values are out there for all to see. There can be no compromise where freedom is concerned, even though some say we are hypocrites who have propped up this and other dictators for years. Still, I am sure, the friendly dictators in our midst will agree, one must talk freedom, even as our hypocrisy nearly chokes us, oops, what am I saying. Anyway you all know what I mean. B.S. baffles brains as the saying goes. In fact, one must believe in freedom, when the people are demanding it. Though, sometimes they have to be suppressed, oops, I mean, even though freedom can be a pest. But hey, who ever said running a democracy was easy. (Another wave of applause erupts amongst the assembled, eminent persons, honorable ones, dictators and despots, sex addicts, liars, B.S merchants etc. that make up the international community. The speaker continues.)

Now, where was I? Oh yes, I was talking about democracy and its importance to society. Importance indeed! That’s why we have unelected Human Rights Commissions. In fact the dictator who used to be our friend, but is now our enemy had a representative, as “chair’ on an international “human rights council.” Still, that was in friendlier days, and you know what happens when friends fall out. We start a war, pardon me, I mean a fight for freedom and democracy with all the weapons at our disposal.

Talking about weapons, this will be an interesting little war. We will be firing our weapons at our old friend and he will be firing back at us with the weapons we supplied him with. Wow, isn’t that something. I wonder if that gives new meaning to the saying “friendly fire.” Oh well, at least we leaders of the international community won’t be in the front line. We will be leading from the safety of the rear as always.

Still, all in all, this latest little war of ours is perhaps a blessing in disguise as the saying goes. It helps our people forget about the world recession and the financial fraud on Wall St and other places. In fact, out of evil we can extract some good. Perhaps we should float the idea of an international freedom tax to save the peoples’ everywhere. I believe this is an idea whose time has come. Who will pay for the tax? The people themselves of course they always pay for our guidance and leadership. (A huge thunder of applause is heard and a standing ovation ensues from the assembled herd of leaders whose main expertise in life is taxing their people.) Now let me say one final thing in closing, we are a community of leaders and if we did not lead who would? The people are incapable of governing themselves therefore we in the international community must do it for them under the banner of a new world order.

Stephen J. Gray
March 20, 2011.

Are we seeing political treason?

2011-03-12T16:02:00.000-08:00

Treason: “A betrayal of trust or confidence.” [1]

Can the people of any country have confidence in a government that does not obey the will of the people?

Example: The people of Ireland voted No to joining the European Union. This vote was not acceptable to the elites and the people of Ireland were subjected to another vote that culminated in a Yes vote. Therefore, one has to ask: Why was the No vote unacceptable? Were there other forces behind the scenes determined to subvert democracy and did they succeed? And could one call this abrogation of the original No vote, a case of political treason?

Another example: Some countries now in the European Union never asked their citizens whether they wanted to join. In fact “ Bloomberg Business Week” of June 13, 2008, stated: “Ireland is the only country in Europe to hold a referendum on the treaty.” [2]

Here is an excerpt from an article in the Brussels Journal by Paul Belien, headlined:
“Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship” The man being interviewed is Vladimir Bukozksy….
PB: “But all these countries that joined the European Union did so voluntarily.”

VB: “No, they did not. Look at Denmark which voted against the Maastricht treaty twice. Look at Ireland [which voted against the Nice treaty]. Look at many other countries, they are under enormous pressure. It is almost blackmail. Switzerland was forced to vote five times in a referendum. All five times they have rejected it, but who knows what will happen the sixth time, the seventh time. It is always the same thing. It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted….” [3]

Was that what happened to the Irish vote? They had to vote until the elites got the vote “…the way that is wanted.” Now look what has happened to Ireland, its sovereignty has been superseded by the E.U. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the unelected IMF has imposed austerity measures on the Irish people. They are now prisoners of an E.U. system that they originally rejected.

It is not only the Irish that is being dictated to by the E.U. and the IMF. Greece is also taking austerity orders from the unelected IMF and other countries are submitting their “economic plans” to the IMF. See info below.

“In recent months, G20 countries have submitted their economic plans to the IMF - which would then assess what the net impact would be on the global economy.” [4]
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Well excuse me, but who elected the IMF? And when did supposed parliamentary democracies decide to hand over their “economic plans” to an unelected cabal of bankers? And what is the point in having elections in so-called “democracies,” if politicians and political leaders of various countries are subservient to the unelected moneychangers on financial matters. Is some form of “global governance” in the works?

“The Group of Twenty ("G-20") nations, the new Financial Stability Board ("FSB"), and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") are progressing on two fronts: the monitoring and revision of national and regional economic plans to facilitate global economic governance…” [5]

So there you have it “global governance” is being facilitated. The politicians and the political leaders of various governments appear to be handing over their national sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats and bankers. Therefore, I ask the question: Are we seeing political treason?

Stephen J. Gray
March 12, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/treason

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/europeinsight/archives/2008/06/irish_vote_no_to_lisbon_treaty.html

[3] http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

[4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2010/06/imf_says_g20_could_do_better.html

[5] http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/g20-and-imf-officials-institutionalize-economic-global-governance

The Political Hypocrites Who Sell Arms to Dictators

2011-03-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

Anybody who has been following the unrest in countries in the Middle East must be getting a lesson in hypocrisy. Nightly we have seen politicians and political leaders from various countries bemoaning the fact that people in Libya are being fired upon and killed by Gaddafi’s military thugs. Yet, Gaddafi and his thugs have received weapons supplied from various countries in the so-called “international community.”

The Daily Telegraph U.K. of February 22, 2011 said this: “The shameless courting of the Libyan dictator by Tony Blair and key Labour ministers, despite his track record in financing terrorism, has come back to haunt the party.…” The article went on to state: “The Daily Telegraph revealed in September, 2009, that the SAS had spent six months training Libyan special forces.” [1]

Therefore, when one sees these huffing and puffing politicians talking about “human rights” and “crimes against humanity” one is inclined to think it is a wonder that they do not choke on their own hypocrisy. In fact, you can see these “political leaders” at G8 and G20 meetings shaking hands with dictators and despots and getting their pictures taken, all lined up together, in buddy, buddy mode. Cynical people might call the lineup a political “ rogues’ gallery” of the world!

Now the peoples’ of the world are being told by some of these political hypocrites that they care about “human rights” and “democracy and peace” after they have sold guns, tanks, bombs, aircraft, and tear gas etc. to their dictator friends who they now claim are persons non grata. The Independent, U.K. of February 19, 2011, said this: “How Britain taught Arab police forces all they know...Britain has authorised the export of tear gas, crowd-control ammunition, small-arms ammunition and door-breaching projectile launchers....” [2]

The Daily Mail, U.K. of February 22, 2011, reported this: “It is not wrong to sell arms, says David Cameron as he defends sale of weapons to Middle East…British-made equipment had been used by the Gaddafi regime to suppress unrest in Libya.” [3]

What a bunch of mealy mouthed hypocrites many of these politicians and political “leaders” are! A number of politicians of all political stripes and parties have groveled to this dictator Gaddafi. The National Post of February 22, 2011, in an article by John Ivison headlined, “Embracing Gaddafi was Canada’s shame” stated:

“The Liberal government knew Gaddafi was unhinged when it started playing footsy with him. In 1999, economic sanctions were lifted after Libya made two suspects of the Lockerbie bombing available for trial and agreed to pay compensation to the victims’ families. By 2004, prime minister Paul Martin was in Libya breaking bread with the old pariah in his tent in the desert, while two camels mated noisily outside....” [4]

Now the political mates of numerous dictators are now washing their hands like political Pontius Pilates and telling all and sundry that they no longer support these bloodthirsty regimes. No wonder decent people everywhere have to laugh when they see these political hypocrites mouthing platitudes about “human rights” and “human dignity.” To which one can only say, “ugh!”

Stephen J. Gray

March 2, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8341483/How-Britain-danced-to-Gaddafis-tune.html

[2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/how-britain-taught-arab-police-forces-all-they-know-2219270.html

[3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1359712/David-Cameron-Its-wrong-sell-arms-Middle-East.html

[4] http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/22/john-ivison-embracing-gaddafi-was-canadas-shame/

Has society gone to the dogs?

2011-02-07T06:50:00.000-08:00

Has society gone to the dogs?

Recently there was saturation coverage of the story about the sled dogs killed at Whistler, B.C. The killing of these dogs caused public and media outrage (as it should) and TV coverage and newspaper reporting went on for several days and still does. Global TV News B.C. had a story Feb. 5, 2011, of an organized protest rally against the dog killing. The word “horrific” was used in this report and one person was quoted as saying he was so upset he could not go to work for a few days. CTV news of Feb. 5, 2011 had this headline: “'Funeral procession' held for dead sled dogs.”

The dog story had even flashed around the world it was so doggone awful. What was the world coming to? But hey, this dog story had legs, and everybody was barking in sympathy at this atrocity to animals.

The Toronto Star of Feb. 1, 2011, had this headline: “100 sled dogs killed in B.C. ‘massacre.’”

CTV News of Jan. 31, 2011, had the headline, “100 healthy sled dogs slaughtered in Whistler, B.C.”

These dogs are described as being killed in a ‘massacre,' and of being ‘slaughtered’ and who would argue with that? The whole scene of killing helpless animals is very sad and troubling.

Meanwhile a few miles away in the city of Vancouver, helpless innocent humans are butchered in the local abortion chambers but there are no ‘slaughtered’ headlines for them. No media outrage, no funeral processions, no saturation coverage of the ‘massacre’ of these innocents, no charges laid, and the killings hid from public view. The scene of slaughter is protected by a “bubble zone” so that the work of butchering the innocents can go on without protest. Which begs the question: Does the killing of dogs take on more importance than the killing of tiny humans? Is it okay to have “freedom of choice” to slaughter the innocents in their mothers’ wombs, but not to have “freedom of choice” to kill unwanted dogs? Do the media care more about dogs than about butchered humans? Has the media lost its credibility when it goes into a frenzy over canine carnage but remains mostly silent on the human horror killings in the abortion chambers of the country? Is that not a doggone scandal?

But hey, how can these murderous attacks on human life be a scandal when the country's foremost abortionist receives the highest honor in the country for his “work.” The message in this country seems to be that if you kill dogs and you are reviled, but if you kill humans and you are rewarded! Have we lost our senses? Or has commonsense become so corrupted that we are literally and morally going to the dogs?

Stephen J. Gray

Note: See the horrific slaughter of helpless humans at:

http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca

The Real “State of the Union?”

2011-01-28T16:33:00.000-08:00

None of the big boys in the financial industry have gone to jail despite numerous articles saying fraud was committed.[1] If one googles financial fraud on Wall St. there is “About 10,200,000 results” One has to ask, does crime pay?

There are over 40 million Americans on food stamps and a major bank that was bailed out by taxpayers reportedly makes money off the food stamps issue.[2]

Millions of Americans are unemployed and one report said there are, “no jobs for more than 75% of unemployed Americans.”[3]

Many of their jobs were sent overseas to China [4]
China’s dictator got a huge welcome from president Obama, but hey I guess this is called “change to believe in.” The United States owes a trillion or more dollars to China so when the “landlord” visits the welcome mat goes out!

Meanwhile a huge number of the American people have lost their homes. Some homes have been repossessed by bankers who were bailed out by American taxpayers’ dollars. A headline in the Washington Post said this: “U.S. homes repossessed by banks set to hit record 1 million this year.” [5] The bankers are now having a great time after being “stimulated’ by taxpayers dollars and the ordinary American is wondering why they cannot get bailed out, or stimulated, especially when it is their tax dollars that re-financed the bankers! Still, who said the system was fair or even honest?

But hey, the good old U.S.A. had an anniversary to celebrate recently: “Roe v Wade.” It was reported that over 50 million abortions have been committed in the country since this decision was handed down. One might say that this killing of the innocents by abortionists could be called the “slaughter of the union.” Still, President Obama has reportedly said abortion is a “right.” In today’s mangled language killing the innocents is called a “right.” Is that sick or what?

Meanwhile a huge “march-for-life” was ignored by most of the mainstream media. [6] Which is not surprising, since most of the media are pro-abortion and support the sick slogan, “freedom of choice” to kill the child in the womb. But not only is there a war on the child in the womb. The war in Iraq is costing human lives, human suffering and huge amounts of money considering we now know that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) a headline in the Washington Post said: “The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond” [7] One wonders who profits from the war? Certainly, not the soldiers or those who are disfigured or maimed. It would be interesting to see the names of the corporations and businesses that made money and are still making money but never wear combat gear themselves, and who have a vested interest in war.

We are seeing the results of financial war. People have lost their jobs, their homes and no financial criminals in jail. The other war in Iraq was started on the premise of WMDs this has since been proven false.[8] The only winners being the profiteers in bloodshed and mayhem, and the politicians who never wear combat gear but lead with their mouths. And if some politicians now say they are bringing “democracy” to Iraq, one has to ask the question: why don’t they bring democracy to China? After all it is a dictatorship.

Therefore, in closing, one has to ask: What is the real state of the union?

Stephen J. Gray

January 28, 2011

References:

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0401/Fraud-on-Wall-Street-Where-has-SEC-been

[2] http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-more-americans-that-go-on-food-stamps-the-more-money-jp-morgan-makes

[3] http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7857961-no-jobs-for-more-than-75-of-unemployed-americans

[4] http://www.gastongazette.com/articles/china-49830-american-jobs.html

[5] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/07/us_homes_repossessed_by_banks.html

[6] http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/26/abc-cbs-nbc-new-york-times-all-ignore-march-for-life

[7] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302200.html

[8] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/26/weapons-of-mass-deception-115875-21850852/

The Enormity of Evil

2011-01-23T09:45:00.000-08:00

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci

Surely the greatest unpunished evil in our world today is the murderous slaughter of the innocents under the banner of abortion. This evil atrocity is disguised and camouflaged by using nice-sounding words like “freedom of choice,” or “medical terminations,” or “medical procedures.” Pregnancy is not a disease, but in today’s society it is treated as such by abortionists who have been known to describe the unborn child as a “parasite.”

The language is perverted, as is the law, to disguise the horrendous truth that innocent human lives are butchered by this abominable act. When asked about this depraved act called abortion many politicians and political leaders will trumpet the banal slogan, “I am in favor of a woman’s right to choose.” The choice is never described in detail by politicians or many media, nor is it mentioned that “choice” regarding abortion means killing the child in the womb if she/he is unwanted. Is there anything more evil than having one’s flesh and blood suctioned out, cut to pieces or decapitated in an abortion chamber by an assassin masquerading as a “doctor"?

One of these “doctor’s” was mentioned in the U.K Daily Mail of January 20, 2011. The headline of the article was: “Doctor accused of killing seven babies with scissors after they were born alive in 'House of Horrors' abortion clinic” The article went on to state the following:
“…Prosecutors claim the babies were murdered after they were born alive in illegal botched late-term abortions during the sixth, seventh or eighth months of pregnancy….
“Authorities suspect the physician may have killed hundreds of babies during the course of his 30-year practice. He made $1.8million in one year alone performing the procedures.” [1]

Notice how the paid killing is described as “procedures.”

And the U.K Daily Mail of January 7, 2011, had an article that said this: “A married couple who aborted twin boys the wife was expecting after IVF treatment have gone to court to choose the sex of their next child – because they want a girl.” [2]

This is where this enormous evil called “choice” on abortion has taken us. Human life is treated like disposable garbage if it is unwanted.

Here is another example of our sick depraved and evil world. A woman describes forced abortions in this excerpt.

“Testimony of Wujian”
“Wujian (not her real name) is a victim of forced abortion under China's One Child Policy. She testified before the United States Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on November 10, 2009….”

“About one hour later, the van stopped in the hospital. As soon as I was drug out of the van, I saw hundred of pregnant Moms there – all of them, just like pigs in the slaughterhouse. Immediately I was drug into a special room, and without any preliminary medical examination, one nurse did Oxytocin injection intravenously. Then I was put into a room with several other Moms.
“The room was full of Moms who had just gone through a forced abortion. Some Moms were crying, some Moms were mourning, some Moms were screaming, and one Mom was rolling on the floor with unbearable pain. ...
“The one-child policy and forced abortion policy have killed millions of innocent lives in China. How could this inhuman crime be stopped? When could this inhuman crime be stopped? ...” [3]

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
William Shakespeare

Who could argue with Shakespeare’s statement based on the evidence above? The world is awash in the blood of the helpless innocents and “leaders” almost everywhere condone and support these heinous crimes against humanity, as do those who parrot the devilish slogan, “we believe in freedom of choice.” One wonders what kinds of thinking goes on in their minds when they speak those perverted words. Perhaps it is best summed up in the quote below.

“Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.” –Seneca

And so we have a society today that condones and approves of this enormous evil.

Note: See the slaughtered victims of this evil called “choice” at:
www.unmaskingchoice.ca

Stephen J. Gray
January 23, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348632/Philadelphia-abortion-doctor-Dr-Kermit-Gosnell-facing-counts-murder.html#ixzz1BaueOVbS

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345057/Couple-sons-abort-twin-boys-IVF--try-baby-girl-daughter-died.html

[3] http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

A Bankster Gives Thanks: A Satire

2010-12-20T09:50:00.000-08:00

This being the season of goodwill towards men and women it is appropriate that we banksters give thanks. Therefore,

I give thanks that we are still free after ripping off the financial system.

I give thanks for governments who bailed us out.

I give thanks for the taxpayers everywhere who will pay for our bailouts.

I give thanks for offshore tax havens where we can keep our ill-gotten gains in safety.

I give thanks that we are still in positions of power to advise governments on monetary policy.

I give thanks for the greatest country in the world and to a justice system that has failed to convict us for fraud.

I give thanks that over 40 million taxpayers who helped bail us out are able to get food stamps in the greatest country in the world.

I give thanks that countries which were “living beyond their means” are now practicing austerity.
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I give thanks that some “investors” and “bond holders” are being bailed out with tax-payers’ dollars.

I give thanks that our useless “toxic assets” have been dumped on the taxpayers.

I give thanks for the “free enterprise” system.

I give thanks that the peoples of various countries are accepting austerity and loss of sovereignty.

I give thanks that it is so easy to herd the masses into acceptance of control by us monied, unelected international banksters.

I give thanks for those who believe “We are doing God’s work.”

I give thanks for politicians of all political stripes who do what we tell them.

I give thanks for those who say, “there is no free lunch” (except for us of course).

I give thanks for those banksters who say, “Let the marketplace decide,” but when the market goes bust they accept taxpayer bailouts.

And finally, I give thanks for all the think tanks, economists, experts and propaganda merchants who continue to propagate in our favor by calling the greatest robbery in the history of the free world a “recession.” Their supportive peddling of propaganda helps keep the masses in submission. Still, enough of the negativity, good things are always happening for us banksters, so Ho, Ho, Ho and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all in our grasping, controlling, manipulative hands.

Stephen J. Gray
December 20, 2010

Hypocrisy and Discrimination at Carleton University

2010-11-28T14:20:00.000-08:00

“Tolerance and respect are based on knowledge. Fear and distrust stem from ignorance.”
Roseann O’Reilly Runte president of Carleton University [1]

The words above from the president of Carleton University are surely very nice. But the arrest of pro-life Carleton Students at the behest of the university for daring to exercise their right to free speech and free expression surely makes a mockery of the words “tolerance” and “respect.” I believe the words hypocrisy and discrimination are more apt and should apply to what has happened at Carleton University.

The university had these young pro-life students arrested for daring to show pictures of the slaughter of babies by abortion. The video of this arrest can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJkBQn1-r8

One can only wonder, what is happening in Canada and on a university campus when peaceful, law-abiding students are arrested for having the courage to show the truth about the heinous (legally acceptable) depravity that kills the child in the womb? The perpetrators and supporters of this atrocity, though, like to call the act "choice." Consider the quote below by a representative of the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA):

“CUSA is a pro-choice organization,” said Sam Heaton, CUSA vice-president (student services) in an interview Oct. 18. “We do not fund through our clubs any pro-life or anti-choice material,” Heaton said.[2]

Can you believe the hypocrisy of this CUSA rep? This student organization is funded by the compulsory monies of ALL the students at the university, yet it has the gall to say, “CUSA is a pro-choice organization.” How can this be allowed in a supposedly free society, that students can be compelled and dictated to, and forced to pay money to a student organization that violates the principle of freedom of choice in a democracy? Not only do they support the "choice" to kill the pre-born, but they deny the "choice" of students to pay or not pay student fees--to an organization that takes a position on matters that differs from the very students who pay fees! But hey, based on the evidence, I believe there is no democracy at Carleton University, only hypocrisy and discrimination.

Still, the president of the university tells us in her Globe and Mail article, “Education promotes civic engagement and is essential for democratic governance.” Pardon me while I laugh at her words, because it appears on the evidence that “democratic governance” is a sham at Carleton University. If the university was “democratic” it would not have had its pro-life students arrested. If the university was “democratic” it would take action against CUSA for discriminating against the pro-life students. If the university was democratic, it would not collect the compulsory student monies and hand them over to CUSA.

But CUSA and the university appear to be on the same rotten page. Therefore, one can only conclude regarding what has happened to the pro-life students that hypocrisy and discrimination are rampant at Carleton University.

Stephen J. Gray
November 28, 2010.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/without-access-to-education-wealth-disappears/article1672570/

[2] http://www.charlatan.ca/content/pro-life-group-gets-pulled

Are We Seeing Hypocrisy at the National Post?

2010-10-14T07:15:00.000-07:00

The National Post of October 8, 2010 had the headline: “Do graphic anti-abortion posters cross a moral line?”
The article was raising questions about the use of graphic images by pro-life students at Carleton University. The article went on to state, “The incident raises serious questions about the use of horror and disturbing images as tools for protest and social change. Does one person’s right to free speech trump another person’s right to not be confronted by distasteful and disturbing images? Is it right, even moral, to use bodily remains to make a political point?” Oh really, this is the same National Post which states:

“Editor's note on graphic images from Haiti”

“Posted: January 15, 2010, 12:05 PM by Shane Dingman. Some readers may be offended by our use on the front page of Friday's print edition a picture showing the body of a victim of the Haitian earthquake, or by another picture inside showing piles of corpses in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
“We recognize that these pictures are disturbing. But we think that they are also a necessary — indeed, a central — part of telling this story completely. They communicate in a powerful manner the true horror of what has taken place in that country….” [1] (emphasis added)

The students at Carleton University were trying to show the “true horror” that is taking place in our country and others by showing the atrocities and slaughter committed by abortionists on the innocent victims who are exterminated by “choice.” Yet the National Post had the hypocrisy to talk about “crossing a moral line.” Surely, it is immoral to hide the evidence in any atrocity and any attempt to impose censorship on those who show the truth is surely hypocrisy.

I believe the hypocrisy of trying to make a case for censorship was alive and well in the National Post article of October 8, 2010. The writer of the article managed to find some “experts” who appeared to be in favor of censoring the graphic pictures of the slaughter of the voiceless innocents by abortion. I believe a more honest and truthful headline would have been, “Why does the media fail to show the slaughtered victims of abortion?” The article goes on to quote a “respected ethicist” who is against the showing of pictures of the atrocities. One would have thought that any “respected ethicist” would wish that the evidence be shown of the slaughter of the innocents.

The article then quotes, “John Haas, the president of the U.S. National Catholic Bioethics Center, a pro-life activist” who is quoted as saying, “…use of graphic images raises serious moral issues.” Somebody should tell Mr. Haas that the Catholic Church is full of graphic images of the crucified and bloodstained Jesus, nails driven through his hands and feet, blood pouring from his side and wearing a crown of thorns. Would Mr. Haas censor the atrocities committed on Jesus?

The article then quotes Tony Kerr, advertising program chair at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, who says this about the Carleton students using graphic images, “The students have chosen a low road…awareness is great, but does all this awareness save anyone? If I was their creative director I would tell them, ‘Awareness is not a business plan.’ ”

We are not talking “business plans” here, we are talking about the obscene business of killing by abortion. Still, one must say the writer of this article in the National Post managed to find “experts” who support the continued censoring of the slaughter of the innocents by abortion. The only other “expert” missing was Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s foremost abortionist and Order of Canada recipient, who I believe, would have concurred with the “ethicist”, the “pro-life activist”, and the “advertising program chair.”

Stephen J. Gray
October 14, 2010.

Note: See the innocents slaughtered by abortion at: http://www.AbortionNo.org

Endnotes:
[1] http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/editors/archive/2010/01/15/381547.aspx

The Dictators of Austerity

2010-10-10T15:56:00.000-07:00

“…IMF-imposed austerity runs the real risk of plunging Ireland deeper into depression and deflation.” Financial Times, September 27, 2010.

Austerity measures are being imposed by governments of a number of countries on their populations at the behest of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is an unelected, appointed cabal of bankers that is financed by the tax dollars of the people of various countries. The people of these countries supposedly elect democratic governments to run their systems. Therefore, the question has to be asked: Why are their governments taking orders from unelected bankers? Who are these bankers who seem to have power over the peoples elected representatives? Why are these representatives of the people punishing their own people on instructions from the dictators of austerity?

Austerity is being imposed on the people of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and other countries on instructions from the IMF, which raises the question: why bother electing governments if the International Moneychangers are going to dictate policy? And just what is the policy of the IMF? Are they planning some kind of global governance?

“The Group of Twenty ("G-20") nations, the new Financial Stability Board ("FSB"), and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") are progressing on two fronts: the monitoring and revision of national and regional economic plans to facilitate global economic governance…” [1]

Oh really, the G20 is allowing the IMF “to facilitate global economic governance.” One wonders, how does the taxpayers of all the different countries feel about being “governed” by unelected bankers? And were the people of the countries in the G20 ever asked whether they wanted this scheme for “global governance?” In fact, dare one ask the question: Is this a form of political treason being enacted by some politicians selling out their national sovereignty?
The Managing Director of the IMF is quoted as saying this:

‘I believe the world is ready for a shift to this more “systemic” vision of IMF surveillance.’ [2]

So there you have it an unelected banker believes we are all ready to accept “IMF surveillance.” Many people in the world are starting to believe it is perhaps the bankers who need to be under surveillance. After all, the present financial crisis was caused in part by bankers and financiers peddling useless financial paper and some are even calling it a financial fraud of massive proportions. Then the bankers got bailed out with tax-payers dollars. So if the IMF is into “surveillance” perhaps it should start with taking a hard look at the brotherhood of bankers and central bankers who are running the financial system.

Finally, if it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable. Did you ever see a bigger financial farce than this? Taxpayers of various countries who finance the IMF and whose taxes pay the bankers wages are being punished by these same unelected dictators of austerity! We are already seeing riots in a number of countries, perhaps the time has come to declare the bankers bankrupt and impose austerity on them. Or as one writer put it bluntly in an article headlined, “IMF Article Predicts New World Order”: “The IMF…[has a] history of reducing middle classes around the world to ruin…” [3]

When one sees the ruin and devastation imposed on the populations of a number of countries one can only agree that these dictators of austerity need to be fired before they do any more damage.

Stephen J. Gray
October 10, 2010.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/g20-and-imf-officials-institutionalize-economic-global-governance

[2] http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2010/022610.htm

[3] http://www.thedailybell.com/1425/IMF-Article-Predicts-New-World-Order.html

The Hidden Slaughtered Victims

2010-10-09T07:55:00.000-07:00

Note: I wrote the article below in 2005. It is still pertinent today. SJG.

“Things that cannot stand sunlight are not healthful” Harry Emerson Fosdick

An atrocity today that cannot stand the light and is not ‘healthful’ to the victims who are killed by it; is abortion. Anyone daring to show the bloody abused and slaughtered bodies of unborn babies killed by abortion or “choice” - as its proponents call it - are attacked and vilified for showing the truth. (they are even attacked by some so-called ethicists and supposed pro-lifers) We live in a society that pretends “choice” is wonderful and that there are no victims. There are two victims in this atrocity; the mother who is told that what is inside her is “tissue” and is “disposable” and the child who is the victim of “disposable choice.” Disguised as “choice” this “procedure” eliminates over 100,000 human lives a year in Canada. There is a wealth of information available on the humanity of the unborn baby, who can be seen on ultra sound, and is operated on to correct any health problems when the child is “wanted.” When not “wanted” the lie is continually perpetrated that the child is only “potential life.” And that “choice” is good.

The big lie of “choice” is spread by most of the media, and hailed by most politicians as a “right” to be protected, especially at election time. “Choice” is an election slogan, as witness our democratically challenged prime minister trumpeting it in the last election. Yet, “choice” kills. This “choice” propaganda is worthy of Josef Goebbels himself. He surely would have approved of these peddlers of propaganda. Tell the big lie often enough and it attains credibility. Yet, for a lie to remain as a “truth” the lie has to continue to be disseminated. This is why the media will not show the carved up and headless bodies of babies killed by abortion. They have already committed themselves as supporters of “choice” and so one lie begets another. There are no victims in abortion according to the powers that be. Therefore there is no evidence to be shown. Or to paraphrase an old saying lives deemed unworthy of living are called “choice.”

Yet some choices are bad. When somebody chose to kill bald eagles recently, the media gave this story big coverage and even showed the carved up carcases of the eagles. Questions were asked as to who was committing these atrocities and it was stated the police were investigating. The message was: Killing eagles is unacceptable and rightly so. But, in our local slaughterhouses, called abortion clinics, killing babies is acceptable. These places are described as promoting “healthcare choices.” When the language is perverted then anything is possible and permissible. After all “choice” is not horrific is it?

Most people are horrified when they see pictures on TV of baby seals being clubbed to death and the ice flows running red with their blood. Warnings are issued on TV before showing the pictures and we are told the images are gruesome. Imagine if these same TV cameras took us inside the local abortuary where babies are slaughtered, suctioned out, poisoned by a saline solution or in some cases born alive and left to die. The people would then be able to see these grisly medical butchers at work performing “choice” for the nation. Then the truth and the light would be shed on this abominable choice, and the babies killed and mutilated by abortion would no longer be the hidden slaughtered victims.

Note: To see the truth about abortion go to: http://www.AbortionNo.org
Stephen J. Gray
July 29, 2005.

The Hate Crime That Goes Unpunished

2010-09-26T14:39:00.000-07:00

In our society today there are victims who get no justice, no protection from the law, are deemed unwanted, and are therefore candidates for killing. This killing is state sanctioned and carried out by trained assassins who get paid for their grisly work. One of these workers in the fields of bloody human butchery even received his country’s highest award for his “accomplishments.” Some in the media even called him a “hero,” and some decent people who spoke out against this perversion of the political order were vilified for daring to speak out.

Speaking out or daring to show pictures of these innocent butchered hate crime victims can get one arrested or disciplined by the powers that be in this hypocrisy of a “free country.” Still, this country does have a “Charter of Rights” that allows criminals protection who land on its shores, orgies are okay as long as “no harm” is done, the perverts work has “artistic merit” and judges can “read in” words not written in the constitution. Debasement, depravity and distortion have become legitimate; therefore, it should be no surprise that ethics and morality in the land have become twisted judicially and politically.

Politicians bend to the cries of the harridans of “choice” who consider it a “right” to kill the child in the womb. Many of these politicians stand for nothing and will say and do anything to get elected. Most of them boast they are in favor of “freedom of choice” to kill the unwanted child in the womb. One even reportedly said that he would never allow a vote to stop the killing of these innocents who are unwanted. Another politician even described the slaughter of these innocent victims as “safe medical services.” One wonders what is “safe” about cutting to pieces, poisoning by a saline solution, having a sharp knife pierce the brain of the living victim and suctioning out his/her brain? Some of these hate crime victims have even been known to survive the attacks by the medical butchers and have been born alive but are left to die.

This is a country with a dead conscience. Except of course if it is dead slaughtered seals, eagles, whales, owls, dogs, cats, horses, ducks, grizzly bears etc. then all hell breaks loose if it is seen that that these non-humans have been subject to cruel and atrocious practices. (and rightly so.) Numerous written media and TV programmes will display and publicize the attacks and killing of these non-humans. But, the hate crimes against the humans who are unwanted and slaughtered are covered up by the so-called “investigative media.” No pictures are shown, the victims are hidden and this abominable criminal slaughter is called a “choice,” and one might say it is aided and abetted by these phony media who are supposed to be “searchers for truth.”

Truth has become a prisoner and is gagged and bound by those who should be protecting it. There is an evil loose in the land and this evil allows the continued extermination of these voiceless innocents who are unwanted. This hate crime agenda goes unpunished and the guilty roam free in this perverted land.

Note: See the innocent victims massacred by hate crimes at http://www.AbortionNo.org

Stephen J. Gray
September 26,2010.

A Bankster’s Wisdom

2010-08-23T20:53:00.000-07:00

A Bankster’s Wisdom
Satire By Stephen J. Gray

As an honorable member of the financial profession I am fed up hearing snide remarks about financial fraud. Sure, we sold what some are calling “toxic assets” to pension plans, state governments, mutual finds, and everybody and anybody who would buy them. And certainly we were selling ourselves out of these investments while promoting them as a good buy. Some are even calling this misrepresentation, or fraud! Still, some people are hard to please. But, this is how the system works: this was free enterprise at its finest. Instead of criticism we should be getting plaudits for creating and inventing a market for the buying and selling of debt-ridden financial paper.

There are reportedly trillions of this financial paper out there waiting to be snapped up. Who will take it is the problem, but a solution will be found. We are very creative in this business of finance, and that old saying holds true: “there are suckers born every minute.” And we await the suckers, oops, I mean the investors.

Meanwhile, governments invested in our financial problems, and they came through with flying colors, bailing us out with trillions of tax-payers’ cash when we were financially strapped. Some cynics were even calling it corporate socialism. Envy is a terrible thing and all because we were bailed out. The wording is more appropriate now; they don’t call it bailouts anymore. It’s called stimulus funds and I must admit stimulus does have a more respectable ring to it. Some people are calling it rewarding fraudsters, and you know hearing that kind of defamatory comment makes my blood boil. We tried to help people in their investment portfolios and this is the thanks we get.

Okay, the financial system is now in the dumpster and millions have lost their jobs. There are a reportedly 40 million plus on food-stamps in the greatest country on earth, and that is surely good that the system helps the less fortunate. We have a recession right now and everybody needs to practice austerity, except us of course. Money is our messiah, and one of our own did say we were doing, “God’s work.” One does not get higher praise than that. Oh, I know there are those who will say, “tax-payers bailed out you fraudsters with trillions,” and some of these same taxpayers are now unemployed and getting food stamps, but hey we can’t all be winners. There have to be some losers otherwise how would the market survive?

Surviving in the market will be the topic of my next investment seminar and hopefully many people will attend and hear about the buying opportunities now available. But, I digress. Now back to my take on the financial system (It’s offshore).

The system right now is broke, except of course for those who use offshore tax havens. There has to be safe havens somewhere from governments. Government printing presses are running hot trying to keep up with demand for more financial paper, also known as money. I say money is not a problem when there are tax-payers’ monies available to keep the financial system stable. A stable financial system can become unstable if it is used and abused by financial charlatans. Therefore it is people like us that are needed to run the system? After all, who would advise governments on monetary policy? Who would loan people their own money?

I believe we are indispensable to the common good. Still, it hurts immensely when I hear some people calling for jail time and saying we committed financial fraud. But, we will not stoop to the level of our accusers. We are pillars of society who keep the free market functioning and just went through a rough time. Tax-payers’ dollars pulled us through and now we are back to business as usual. In closing, I say thank you to all the taxpayers out there. If you need a loan, please come and see us; after all, it is your money that kept us in business.

Stephen J. Gray
August 23, 2010.

A Report to Stakeholders in the Organized Crime Business

2010-07-22T16:18:00.000-07:00

It has been another eventful year in our business, and even though there is a so-called recession we have escaped unscathed. In fact, we were able to do some good deeds and help out some financial institutions. We were hoping that these good works of ours would remain anonymous, but it was reported in a newspaper that, our drug money saved some banks during the financial crisis. Still, one good deed begets another and some banks have been laundering our drug money for us. This was reported in some media, but hey, nobody went to jail and we should be thankful for that.

There are some worrying things happening though. We used to have the numbers rackets all to ourselves, now governments are into gambling in a big way with lotteries of all kinds. And some of these governments are into online computer gambling as well, and there have been reports that some government casinos were being used to launder money. What’s an honest crook to do when the government muscles in on their territory? Perhaps, we will have to try running for public office and get ourselves the reins of power. Talking about power, have you noticed none of the really big boys in the financial industry have gone to jail over the fraudulent “toxic assets” scam? Times sure have changed at one time hard time was done when massive fraud was perpetrated. Now the respectable villains get bailed out by tax-payers monies and some of them have been known to advise governments.

Many of these governments have adapted much of our ways of doing business. For instance, in the extortion rackets we keep raising the amounts of money that the stiffs have to pay us. Now governments extort huge amounts of money from the people, only they call them taxes, and they dream up new ways to extort more money from the taxpayers, and it’s all done legally. No doubt about it, honesty is the best policy, as the saying goes, but still the taxpayers complain.

Here is another complaint about what is happening to our business. At one time we ran the porn industry, now it has gone main-stream and some of the big corporations and entertainment industry are heavily invested in it. In fact, according to one report annual revenues are in the billions for these pillars of society. Another media report stated that some of the finest financial firms in the world had speculated in food causing massive starvation in poor countries. Notice the contradiction we are vilified in our business, while the admirable speculators who cause starvation are hailed as brilliant and respected financiers! As, I said earlier, what do honest crooks do when their operations are taken over by respectable institutions? Still, I guess that’s free enterprise! But, it makes one wonder; whatever happened to decency, morality and ethics in business? It’s getting harder and harder to understand what is criminal and what is not! Sometimes, I think we are being discriminated against. We got jail time for pushing porn and selling fraudulent securities, now it appears to be acceptable.

I guess we have to accept this is the society we live in today. What was a crime yesterday does not appear to be a crime today. Change is here and we must change with the times. Convergence has arrived and it seems some criminality has become the norm. Therefore, we must put the old days behind us and work within the system that is using our ideas and business practices.

Satire by Stephen J. Gray
July 22, 2010.

Are We Being Ruled By A Travelling Politburo?

2010-06-29T06:51:00.000-07:00

Are We Being Ruled By A Travelling Politburo?

Politburo: “the executive committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of certain other nations”

( http://www.yourdictionary.com/politburo )

We see many leaders of nations travelling to different countries each year to hold meetings. Example: The G20 and the G8, the most recent example was in Toronto, Canada, where many of them congregated to discuss World Policy. In fact a number of media outlets, were calling this gathering a, “World Summit.” Which begs the question: When did the peoples’ of many of these different countries who still have a supposed “parliamentary system” hand over their national sovereignty to a travelling politburo? Are we being conditioned to accept some form of “World Government?” Or is it already here? After all, we have a “World Bank,” a “World Health Organization,” a “World Court,” an “International Monetary Fund,” which imposes austerity programmes on elected governments, so perhaps the world dictatorship has already arrived. But, we did not notice it happening. But, I digress. Now back to questions about the travelling politburo.

Are decisions being made and policies being designed to be implemented without discussion in national parliaments of the free world? Communist China is a dictatorship, yet it was a participant in these discussions by the travelling politburo. In fact its leader was an honored guest at a dinner put on by the Canadian government and attended by some powerful business interests. [1]

And the un-elected President of Europe, Herman Van Rompuy, was also a participant at these meetings. The Brussels Journal had this to say about the European Union (E.U)

“Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state.” [2]

One might ask the question: Are these heads of state giving up some of their national sovereignty? After all, whose interests are being served when these “leaders” of various countries are making decisions outside their parliaments without holding debates in their own countries about policies being enacted at these G8 and G20 meetings? And why are the parliamentary oppositions in all these countries not asking these questions? And one might ask: Why are the investigative media not asking pertinent questions about these meetings? Who is behind them? Who arranged them? Who started them? Are there other forces, unelected, behind the scenes the real powers that be? I believe, we need answers to these questions.

Other questions that could be asked are; why is there no clamp down on offshore tax havens? Another question: are these tax havens the places where many of the financial elites keep their money? We have seen huge amounts of the peoples’ tax dollars being used to bail out, oops, I mean stimulate financial institutions that in fact caused the present financial crisis. And some of these financial institutions have subsidiaries in offshore tax havens. But, instead, these so called leaders are talking about “deficits,” and “paying down the debt,” living within our means,” and all the other slogans they use to put the boots to the taxpayers. Meanwhile, the un-elected banksters are advising them on “monetary policy.”

“In recent months, G20 countries have submitted their economic plans to the IMF - which would then assess what the net impact would be on the global economy.” [3]

And “global economic governance” is now being facilitated.

“The Group of Twenty ("G-20") nations, the new Financial Stability Board ("FSB"), and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") are progressing on two fronts: the monitoring and revision of national and regional economic plans to facilitate global economic governance…” [4]

And so the un-elected “advisers” for “global governance” have their travelling political politburo puppets making the decisions that are contrary to freedom and democracy.

Stephen J Gray
June 29, 2010.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/spector-vision/the-photo-harper-doesnt-want-you-to-see/article1617411/

[2] http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2010/06/imf_says_g20_could_do_better.html

[4]http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/g20-and-imf-officials-institutionalize-economic-global-governance

Further reading and links to articles below:
Bilderberg 2010: What we have learned

A huge agenda of global issues was crammed into four days of 'secret' meetings by a mysterious group of power brokers. But who elected them and why are we paying for them?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jun/14/charlie-skelton-bilderberg-2010

THE BILDERBERG PLANNING SESSION ENDS: WHAT'S IN STORE?

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_323_29027.php

The Political School

2010-06-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

I must say I am encouraged to see that we have a full class for the opening of the political school. For some time I have felt there was a need for this type of school. After all, we have schools for other occupations, such as plumbing, journalism, law, cooking, etc., so why not a political school? Looking at all you students eagerly awaiting training in this political school tells me just how much you all want to be involved in the political management of the country. It is good to see such interest.

I see from your resumes that you all come from various political backgrounds. Some want to be Socialist politicians, others Liberal and still others Conservative, with a small sprinkling of Communists, Greens and others. This is good, for we are a non-partisan school and with the blurring of political ideology, floor crossing, and double-crossing these days, political labels mean nothing. The job is the thing, and of course the remuneration that comes with it. With a starting salary of around $150,000 dollars a year plus expenses, pensions, and perks, this is a dream job (but a nightmare for the people who elected you). That is, of course, provided any of you reach the pinnacle of your political aspirations, which I am sure you will.

Where else can you get a starting salary of around $150,000 a year with no experience needed, no training, and no knowledge of how the political system works? Of course this is where the political school comes in: we will give you the tools to make a success of your political career should you manage to persuade the people to elect you in the party of your choice.

Now let us get down to the first lesson. When running for political office the first thing you must do is make nice sounding promises. Tell the people that you have a vision for the country, that you have a plan. What will your vision and plan be? This is entirely up to you. Visions and plans come in all shapes and sizes. Remember that old saying: “Throw the dogs a bone.” Well this saying holds true for people. Mind you, I am not saying people are dogs (much laughter from the class) but people do like to be fed things especially monetary promises from the taxes they have already paid. So promising them a financial inducement is always good bait in an election. Should you succeed and get into office and be government you can always renege on your promise. This is how politics works. First you ask for a cross next to your name at the ballot box then you double cross the stiffs, oops, I mean the people, once you are elected.

(More laughter ensues and the trainee politicians bang their desks just like the elected politicians do in parliament.) The teacher continues: Wow, I see most of you have learned the desk-banging trick; well done. Now as I was saying before the interruption by your quickly-learned “parliamentary procedure,” a good example of this reneging on a promise is the hated Gobbling Suckers Tax (GST). Now it is accepted and brings in billions of dollars to government coffers, and now there is another tax in the offing called the Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST) But, I digress.

Another important lesson you will learn at our school is Political speak or Poli-speak as I like to call it. I will give you an example, seeing it is your first day, but we will go into Poli-speak at length in your next lesson. Here is an example of words you will have to learn in a crisis situation: “We must move forward in this complex situation, with a measured response, but it is a challenge and challenges are good. We can become better persons because of them and fulfill our hopes and dreams in the process. Read my lips no more taxes.” So what does that all mean? It means nothing, nothing at all. They are just words to use or should I say political B.S. in a crisis situation and something for the media to report and for the masses to read in the newspapers. But the words sound good and that is what I call Poli-speak.

Notice all the words I’ve used are positive, and this is the way you will learn to speak even when, as politicians, you are, as the old saying goes, “caught with your pants down” and in poop up to your eyeballs. But, if you know the right words, all can be made clean. (More laughter ensues, and all the class seem to be enjoying the course.) And so ended the first day of the political school.

Stephen J. Gray
June 26, 2010.

The Political Potentates

2010-06-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

The political potentates from various countries were coming to visit the land. Much preparation had been done in their honor. The host potentate of the honored land was reportedly spending over a billion dollars of the serfs tax money to make them all feel at home. Fences and cameras were installed at the meeting place and it was reported that snipers were positioned on the roofs of nearby buildings. The serfs who were paying for all this security were not allowed near the place of honor, because it was said that there were those amongst the serfs who were not impressed with these would-be “princes” of politics. Still, it was a sign of how much these “rulers” were loved that they had to be isolated for their safety.

Safely ensconced in their rich and opulent surroundings, the new political “royalty” would discuss their solutions to all the problems of the world. Some of them were communist, others capitalists, some could be called dictators and others despots, some were free marketers and others were freeloaders; this was a motley group of state heads—or head cases, depending on one’s point of view. They would issue upbeat press releases to the controlled and over-taxed masses and tell them they were working on solutions and that they were all moving forward in unison to help the people everywhere. “Yeah sure,” thought some cynical people.

A number of the people thought that their political “masters” were a gathering of gossips wasting time with other peoples’ money; but hey, who cared what the serfs thought. This was the “princes of politics weekend” and they were all going to have a ball at the peoples’ expense.

No expense was to be spared for the comfort and enjoyment of the political potentates. A fake lake was even built courtesy of the serfs tax dollars; now the people knew the meaning of that old saying, “money flows like water.” The honored ones would also be watered and fed in a manner fitting their status as political princes. The camp followers of the political potentates would also be part of the extravaganza; some were called “sherpas” and they in turn had assistants called “yaks.” These are the new buzz words of the political elites. After all, “sherpas” sounds better than sycophantic bureaucrats feeding off the serfs tax dollars and “yaks” is a good fit, for there will be plenty of noisy yakking going on as they spend the serfs’ tax dollars.

Big dollars for big personages would be spent to “showcase” the land, and a political flack reportedly said, the gathering of the “great” was worth every penny! Still, some of the serfs were thinking over a billion dollars was a lot of pennies for an orgy of political excess. But, these were considered to be negative people whose only contribution to this gathering of the “greats” would be their tax dollars paying the bills.

Alas, bills are the serfs lot in life, and to be ruled and fooled, and taxed to the max by out-of-control political “princes.” At one time, political leaders used to be described as servants of the people. Now the people are servants, or serfs, of these political potentates.

Stephen J. Gray
June 24, 2010.

Was the Rand Decision a Fix?

2010-06-17T09:58:00.000-07:00

I wrote this some years ago. SJG
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“It cannot be stressed enough that the coercion which unions have been permitted to exercise contrary to all principles of freedom under the law is primarily the coercion of fellow workers” (F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty).

The architect of compulsory union dues in Canada was an appointed judge: Mr. Justice Ivan C. Rand. Judge Rand was appointed arbitrator in the dispute between the Ford Motor Company in Windsor, Ontario, and the United Auto Workers Union now known as the C.A.W. He handed down his decision on January 29,1946, a decision, that made union dues compulsory.

The Liberal politician who helped “bring about his appointment” was Mr. Paul Martin Senior, who wrote in his memoirs, A Very Public Life (Volume 1, pages 395-396),

“Although I knew that Rand’s views on the rights of labour were encompassed within a progressive social outlook, I wondered whether I could convince the cabinet to appoint him…Privately, I knew that the workers were getting fed up and might revolt against the strike leaders if a settlement was not found soon. This I wanted to avoid, for it would set the cause of unionism in Canada back ten years…I encouraged Pat Conroy and George Addes to urge the mass meeting on 14 December to vote for a new ballot. Conroy knew, because I had told him confidentially, that Mr. Justice Rand would be the arbitrator…”

Mr. Paul Martin Senior, a Liberal cabinet member at the time, is also quoted in an article by David Moulton (in the book On Strike, edited by Irving Abella, page 147):

“…Martin, who knew Rand personally, recalls, ‘I talked with him [Rand] about these problems…I knew his views…he was a man who knew the evolution that was taking place in social thinking… he had been thinking about these questions for a long time…and it just happened I was in a position to help bring about his appointment’”

And the union leaders are quoted on page 146 of On Strike as saying:

“…Conroy came up and gave us to understand that the government would pick a strictly impartial person sympathetic enough… they almost told us they would give us some kind of union security…we couldn’t tell the workers that…” [emphasis added]

(Note: Pat Conroy was Secretary/Treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labour at this time.)

It would appear by the aforementioned quotes that arrangements had been made and that the politically correct decision would come down, and it did. A person didn’t have to “belong” to the union, but must pay union dues. Involuntary dues payment was now legalized in Canada.

This decision by Justice Rand was eventually enacted into labour legislation across Canada. Now over 30% of the workforce are compelled into financing and supporting--with their compulsory union dues--socialism, same-sex marriage, abortion clinics, and numerous other issues unrelated to the workplace.

Stephen J. Gray
December 1, 2007

Harper says No to Bank Tax, Yes to HST

2010-06-07T07:50:00.000-07:00

“…the federal government is aiding and abetting the provinces. It plans to pay B.C. and Ontario almost $6 billion to ease the transition to the HST” (CBC News, October 7, 2009).

The Harmonized Sales Tax, or Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST), will be coming into force July 1st 2010, and our tax dollars, from the Harper Tories, will be paying the Liberal governments of BC and Ontario to impose it upon us. Now we know the meaning of that old saying, “Liberal, Tory, same old story.”

This is the same Mr. Harper who is on record as saying this: “I don’t believe any taxes are good taxes.” [1]

Oh really Mr. Harper? Then why is your government handing over “almost $6 billion” of the peoples’ tax dollars to provincial Liberal governments to bring in the HST?

And the Globe and Mail quoted Mr. Harper as saying this:.

“We believe there is no justification for levies on banks and financial institutions,” [2]

Many of these banks and financial institutions have subsidiaries in offshore tax havens. A CBC news story of May 31, 2010, said this:

“CBC News and the Globe and Mail newspaper reported last fall that the CRA probed Royal Bank of Canada Dominion Securities (RBCDS) for information on 15 Canadians, all with alleged links to Liechtenstein. The CRA said that probe ended up confirming the agency’s suspicions.” [3]

And an article in the Guardian newspaper of 13th December 2009 had these headlines:
“Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor”

“Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions” [4]

Mr. Harper does not want a tax on banks or financial institutions. Surely these banks and financial institutions in offshore tax havens should not only be taxed but investigated as well if they are engaged in nefarious activities?

Still, the big activity in Canada will be July 1st Canada Day, and the imposition of the Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST]. This HST will tax just about everything that moves and does not move. It is a politician's dream and the people's nightmare. It’s too bad Mr. Harper is not as good as fighting for the people of Canada as he is for the big banks. He says No to a Bank tax but says Yes to the HST.

Stephen J. Gray

June 7, 2010

Endnotes:

[1] http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/no-taxes-are-good-taxes-harper/

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/economy/canada-eu-at-loggerheads-over-bank-tax/article1557236/

[3] http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/05/27/liechtenstein-banks-tax.html

[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims

Canada’s ‘indentured servants’

2010-05-16T06:45:00.000-07:00

Please note the article below was written a number of years ago, and the misuse of trade union time and money continues...SJG.
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“…the CLC does not allow members of one union to leave and join another. A union member is like an indentured servant.”
Buzz Hargrove, president CAW, page 201 in his book “Labor of Love”

In Canada today union members are bound to and servants of the union. You cannot work unless you join the union and pay compulsory union dues. At one time union dues were supposed to be intended for collective bargaining. Now they are also used for collective coercion. Union members are forced into funding all kinds of special interest groups and causes with their compulsory union dues. Some of these groups are: National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) Abortionist Morgentaler's defence fund, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) …
Note: There is a list of organizations receiving trade union time and/or money on my website at http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2010/03/groups-organizations-and-causes-that.html See article headed: “Groups, organizations and causes that have received union time and/or money.”

The union bosses excuse for the misuse of their members dues is that all these non work issues are decided democratically at conventions. Yet unions are funded by compulsion, so how can you have compulsory democracy? Millions of dollars have been given to the NDP over the years by the union bosses. But, now the federal government funds all political parties according to the number of votes the parties received in the last election. This now means there are lots more compulsory union dues money available for all the special interest groups that unions support. Surely this money would be better off in the hands of laid off union members? After all it is THEIR money. Obviously union dues are to high and union members are paying union bosses to much money when these bosses can be involved in so many non-work related issues.

In fact, one might say that if any other organizations in Canada were using their memberships funds in the way that many trade unions are doing, charges would be laid. Union members have never been individually polled as to whether they want to support all these non work issues. A politically correct few impose their views on the whole membership. A good example of this is the huge amounts of compulsory union dues handed over to the NDP without consulting ALL the union membership.
"There is not a single union in Canada that can claim a mandate from its rank-and- file members for continued financial and political support for the NDP.”
Buzz Hargrove, Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union president, quoted in Vancouver Province, June 13, 2002, page A20.

Brother Buzz states unions have no mandate for giving away all the millions of dollars handed over to the NDP. Then why are the political and judicial authorities not laying charges over the misuse of union funds? Are trade unions a protected species and above the law? I believe it would be a real eye opener to union members across Canada if ALL the union books were opened up and the membership could see all the names, causes and organizations receiving union funding. In fact if the politicians had any guts they would hold an inquiry into where all the union memberships funds are going. But don’t hold your breath on that happening for union bosses appear to be even more powerful than our elected representatives. In fact union boss Buzz Hargrove gets some of the credit for the recent Federal Liberal/NDP budget. “Martin actually tried to tell his caucus last night the budget represented their ideas and vision -- when he knows full well it was concocted in a hotel room with the NDP and union leader Buzz Hargrove….” (Editorial, Toronto Sun, May 20, 2005.)

If this statement by the Toronto Sun is correct then not only are union members ‘indentured servants’ but the Prime Minister and the leader of the NDP appear to be captive to the union agenda as well.

Stephen J. Gray
August 5, 2005.

Pro-abortion propaganda from Vancouver Sun

2010-04-28T08:11:00.000-07:00

I wrote this a few years ago.I believe it is still pertinent today. SJG.
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Good journalism is supposed to be about the search for truth. Yet the Vancouver Sun article of March 15, 2007, headlined, “Rural women still face abortion hurdles” was nothing else but a written advertisement for abortion providers. A real journalist and newspaper would have given all the information on this issue. But instead the writer of the article and the editors at the Vancouver Sun chose to print a one-sided version on this “procedure” that destroys innocent human life. What happens to human life during an abortion? The Vancouver Sun does not tell us. And so, for the information of the “investigative journalist” who wrote the article and the editors at the Vancouver Sun, here is what happens during an abortion (Source for the following information on abortion methods is http://www.lifesite.net/abortiontypes/ ):

Suction Aspiration
This is the most common method of abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. General or local anaesthesia is given to the mother and her cervix is quickly dilated. A suction curette (hollow tube with a knife-edged tip) is inserted into the womb. This instrument is then connected to a vacuum machine by a transparent tube. The vacuum suction, 29 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner, tears the fetus and placenta into small pieces which are sucked through the tube into a bottle and discarded.

Dilation and Curettage (D&C)
This method is similar to the suction method with the added insertion of a hook shaped knife (curette) which cuts the baby into pieces. The pieces are scraped out through the cervix and discarded [Note: This abortion method should not be confused with a therapeutic D&C done for reasons other than pregnancy.]
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Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)
This method is used up to 18 weeks' gestation. Instead of the loop-shaped knife used in D&C abortions, a pair of forceps is inserted into the womb to grasp part of the fetus. The teeth of the forceps twist and tear the bones of the unborn child. This process is repeated until the fetus is totally dismembered and removed. Usually the spine must be snapped and the skull crushed in order to remove them.

Salt Poisoning (Saline Injection):
Used after 16 weeks (four months) when enough fluid has accumulated. A long needle injects a strong salt solution through the mother's abdomen into the baby's sac. The baby swallows this fluid and is poisoned by it. It also acts as a corrosive, burning off the outer layer of skin. It normally takes somewhat over an hour for the baby to die from this. Within 24 hours, labor will usually set in and the mother will give birth to a dead or dying baby. (There have been many cases of these babies being born alive. They are usually left unattended to die. However, a few have survived and later been adopted.)
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Prostaglandin Chemical Abortion:
This form of abortion uses chemicals developed by the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. which cause the uterus to contract intensely, pushing out the developing baby. The contractions are more violent than normal, natural contractions, so the unborn baby is frequently killed by them -- some have even been decapitated. Many, however, have also been born alive.
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Five steps to a partial birth abortion:
1) Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps.
2) The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
3) The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head
4) The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the skull.
5) The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

[End of procedure descriptions as provided by aforementioned link.]

Most people are horrified when they see pictures on television of baby seals being clubbed to death and the ice flows running red with their blood. Warnings are issued on TV before showing the pictures and we are told the images are gruesome. Imagine if these same TV cameras or if The Vancouver Sun took us inside a local abortuary where babies are slaughtered, suctioned out, poisoned by a saline solution or in some cases born alive and left to die. The people would then be able to see these grisly medical butchers at work performing “choice” for the nation. Then the truth and the light would be shed on this atrocity called “choice.” But, don’t expect The Vancouver Sun or its “investigative journalist” to give you the TRUTH on abortion; they prefer the propaganda of “choice.”

To see the truth about abortion go to: http://www.AbortionNo.org

Stephen J. Gray
March 24, 2007.

Blatant Discrimination at University Of Calgary

2010-04-22T07:11:00.000-07:00

Universities are supposed to be bastions of free speech and free expression. Yet, it appears that this is not so at the University of Calgary. The university had threatened to expel some pro-life students for daring to show the truth about abortion. Yet, the future boss of the University, who takes over July 1, 2010, is quoted as saying she believes in the following:

"Active engagement with students, faculty and the broader community. Openness and inclusiveness, these are the promises I make to you today. And I will seek it from all members of the university family…” (Calgary Herald, March 25, 2010).

It sounds very nice doesn’t it? I wonder if she has noticed that the university she is going to be head of is not practicing “openness and inclusiveness” to its pro-life students? One wonders, are these students not part of the “university family?” In fact, these pro-life students might be expelled for having the courage to show the atrocities committed by abortionists. Still, the University of Calgary is a research facility, and one wonders what their "research” shows on the dismembering and cutting to pieces of the human life attacked and destroyed in an abortion. Have they done any?

Notably, the university also receives big tax-payers dollars in grants, and the interim president is quoted as saying this:

“Today’s announcement is another example of the Government of Canada’s strong support for research and a recognition of the important role universities play in driving the economy through innovation and a highly trained work force,” said Dr. Warren Veale, interim President, University of Calgary. “Programs such as the Canada Research Chairs program are critical to ensuring the University of Calgary continues to be among the country’s leading research-intensive institutions” (http://www.ablonczy.ca/).

Yeah sure, the university is a “among the country’s leading research-intensive institutions.” Yet, this same university is attempting to suppress the truthful research shown in gory pictures of the slaughter of innocent lives. Surely this is an “important role” in exposing what is happening in our society today. Yet, the university wants to censor this information. Which makes one wonder, what are they afraid of? Could it be that this heinous crime of abortion has been covered up for so long that even the “institutions of higher learning” are part of the cover-up?

It is appalling that we are seeing these courageous young students being terrorized and threatened with their careers being ruined all because U of C cannot stand the atrocity of abortion being exposed for what it is: the murderous killing of unborn children in the womb, who have no voice to speak out for them. Now the university is attempting to silence the voices of the pro-life students. This is blatant discrimination, and I believe there should be charges laid against the university.

Stephen J. Gray
April 22, 2010.

Note: See the speech by Cameron Wilson, one of the pro-life students at U of C at:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10042105.html

See the Slaughtered victims of abortion at: http://www.AbortionNo.org

The Political Parasites of Taxland

2010-04-14T14:32:00.000-07:00

The political parasites ruled and infested a place called Taxland. This was a land where the people were modern day taxpaying serfs. The serfs over many years had been taxed into submission by the political parasites. The people were now prisoners of a system that was uncontrollable. Political parasites of all shapes, sizes, and genders ruled; and they chewed and munched their way through the serfs tax dollars. There was no escape from the ravenous appetites of the political leeches. These political bloodsuckers took a part of everything the serfs earned, bought, traded or received. Taxes had to be paid on just about everything, and the political parasites aim was to eventually tax everything. Nothing was going to be immune from the parasites and an antidote had not yet been found to control their parasitical infestation into the lives of the people. The people were being literally eaten alive by taxes from these tax addicted creatures of Taxland.

In this land if the serfs bought a new house it would be taxed. If they had to put a new roof on an older house because it was leaking, they were taxed on their misfortune. If they bought clothes or needed clothes for their children they were going to be taxed. If they bought a car they were taxed. If the car had to be repaired they were taxed. If they bought gas for their car they were taxed. If they bought toilet paper they were taxed. If they needed a new toilet it was taxed. There was no escape from these bottom feeding parasites. The taxing list was endless, though there had been a few exemptions. But, now the political parasites had decided to “improve” their system of taxing the serfs. They created a new tax called Hammer the Serfs Tax (HST). This tax would “simplify” the system and tax everything that moved and did not move. This would be a tax feeding bonanza for the political parasites, and the serfs hard earned money would flow like water into the coffers of Taxland. Taxes had become a racket, and gangsters and racketeers everywhere were complaining that the political parasites had usurped their territory and copied their system.

Still, the system was good to the political parasites. They themselves had huge salaries paid for by the serfs. Tax-free allowances, a rich pension plan that the serfs could only dream of. Some of them had limousines to take them from place to place as they went about their taxing business of ruling over the serfs. The serfs were also told by some of the lackeys of the parasites that some of these new taxes would create jobs. And, a big banker reportedly said, “taxes had to be raised.” Which was a rich statement coming from a banker, especially when some of these big banks had subsidiaries in offshore tax havens. Still, this was how the game was played in Taxland, the powerful and the political parasites ganged up on the serfs.

The serfs were being taxed while alive and at death. They were prisoners without chains in a system called a political “democracy.” They voted in these political parasites that fed off them and then they were punished by them. One wondered if the serfs would ever rebel, or were they conditioned into accepting their tax slavery as “normal?” This then is Taxland where political parasites rule.

Stephen J. Gray
April 14, 2010.

The Instigators of Human Rights Commissions (HRCs)?

2010-03-31T08:42:00.000-07:00

The Instigators of Human Rights Commissions (HRCs)?
By Stephen J. Gray

“What a strange place Canada is in 2008,…where fundamentalist Muslims use hate-speech laws drafted by secular Jews,…”
(Ezra Levant, Globe and Mail, January 21, 2008.)

Who were the instigators of HRCs that are the cause of the attacks on freedom of speech and freedom of expression in Canada? According to Ezra Levant who has been dragged before the HRCs it was “illiberal elements.” And he went on to say this: ‘…I blame the Jews. A generation ago, illiberal elements in the "official" Jewish community pressed Canadian governments to introduce laws limiting free speech.’ (Globe and Mail, January 21, 2008.)

Mr Levant went on to say in the Globe and Mail article that the people taking him to the HRCs were, “…using the very precedents set by the Canadian Jewish Congress.”

Which makes one wonder, why would a powerful organization like “the Canadian Jewish Congress” not realize that the very “laws” that they “pressed Canadian governments to introduce” could also be used against Jewish people. After all, what’s sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander, as the saying goes.

But, not only Jewish people are being dragged before the HRCs. Before they came for the Jews, the HRCs came for Chris Kempling, Scott Brockie, Knights of Columbus, Stephen Boissoin, Bishop Henry and others. Now Catholic Insight magazine, the Christian Heritage Party and MacLean’s magazine are now under the guns of the HRCs. Nobody is safe from these appointed interrogators of totalitarian bent. So what can be done to return freedom of speech and freedom of expression to Canadians?

I believe the HRCs must be abolished. Governments appointed them, therefore, governments can disband them. I would also make the suggestion that perhaps “the Canadian Jewish Congress,” who “pressed Canadian governments to introduce laws limiting free speech” now press Canadian governments to disband the HRCs.

Stephen J. Gray
Feb. 6, 2008.

A former conservative M.P. speaks out on Free Speech

2010-03-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

A former conservative M.P. speaks out on Free Speech
By Stephen J. Gray

“…ultimately the judgment of history always sides with free speech, warts and all, with its ability to insult, provoke, challenge and inspire.”[1]

Monte Solberg, former conservative M.P. writing in Toronto Sun, March 29, 2010

Mr. Solberg should tell that to his former boss, Stephen Harper. Mr. Harper’s “conservative” government was an intervenor against free speech.

Consider this: “The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008).

On freedom of speech, Mr. Solberg, now speaks out. But where was he when he was part of Mr. Harper’s government? Was he one of the muzzled minions? Still, it’s good now that he has left politics that he has the courage to speak out.

Speaking out in the “conservative” government for free speech appears to be subject to some kind of censorship.

A Lifesite news article of February 12, 2008, by John-Henry Westen, had this to say about the Conservative government’s stand on Human Rights Commissions: “Internal Memo Tells Canada’s Conservative MPs to be Noncommittal on Human Rights Commissions: Specifies that Conservative MPs are not to stand up publicly for freedom of speech for Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant.”

The article stated: “An internal memo to Conservative MPs sent last week will be sure to disappoint freedom-loving Canadians. The memo, confirmed by LifeSiteNews.com as legitimate, originated from the office of the Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson. The
‘talking points’ memo directs Conservative MPs to remain noncommittal on support for Liberal MP Keith Martin’s motion M-446, which would put an end to the growing and dangerous abuse of human rights commissions….”(see full article here:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08021212.html).

Human Rights Commissions are an aberration in a supposedly free and democratic society. It was politicians that brought these unelected, appointed bureaucratic monsters into being. Politicians, if they had the political courage, could disband them. But, political courage is lacking in Canada today. Witness the recent debacle at the University of Ottawa where the Ann Coulter speech had to be cancelled because of anti-free speech mobs. Still, it is not surprising to see this type of jackbooted behaviour--it is happening on university campuses all the time--in Canada. The thugs know the politicians will not defend free speech, and therefore they realize they can invade, attack and impose their brown-shirted tactics at will. After all, if those who are elected to public office will not defend free speech, but instead interfere against it, who will?

Still, kudos to Mr. Solberg for speaking out, maybe other Harper conservatives will now find their voice in defense of free speech.

Stephen J. Gray
March 30,2010.

Endnote:
[1]http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/monte_solberg/2010/03/26/13372646.html

The Goebbels Media

2010-03-27T14:17:00.000-07:00

I wrote this in 2004, and it is still pertinent today. SJG

The Goebbels Media
By Stephen J. Gray

“The effective propagandist must be a master of the art of speech, of writing, of journalism, of the poster and of the leaflet. He must have the gift to use the major methods of influencing public opinion such as the press, film and radio to serve his ideas and goals, above all in an age of advancing technology.”

Joseph Goebbles

(Source: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb59.htm)

One could argue that the above quote by Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels is effectively being used by the media today. Just look at the issue of abortion to see how our present day media has turned truth into lies. A display by students of the University of Alberta showed graphic pictures of babies cut to pieces by abortion. The students also showed pictures of other atrocities to let people see how human life had been devalued throughout history.

An article in the Edmonton Journal of March 19, 2004 headlined, “ Offensive images” stated this about the students display:

“The University of Alberta has every right to tell an anti-abortion group it can't post graphic and disturbing pictures in the campus' central square.”

Can you believe the hypocrisy of these so-called defenders of free speech and free expression. They support censorship by saying “graphic and disturbing pictures” should be suppressed. What is their problem? Do they find the truth “disturbing?” What are they trying to tell us? Those pictures of little dismembered and butchered bodies should be disturbing. Of course, the media has perpetuated and covered up the big lie on the atrocity of abortion for so long, that they now believe and defend their own propaganda. We can see the child in the womb on ultrasound. Ethical doctors perform surgery on the child in the womb to correct any complications; yet, our propaganda merchants will not print the facts that abortion kills a baby, or show pictures of the slaughter. The propaganda article goes on to say:

“The question at issue here is not the morality of abortion, but rather, the right of people in a community not to be bombarded by offensive material…. The fact that the anti-abortion posters distort reality makes them all the more unsuitable.”

Here we have our media propagandists going into journalistic outrage, saying people are being “bombarded by offensive material.” Which raises the question. What could be more offensive than babies being killed and the media suppressing the information? One has to ask these “investigative journalists” and writers of “truth:” Is killing and cutting to pieces or poisoning by a saline solution the innocent child in the womb, not a “heinous” and severe crime? Some babies have been born alive after an abortion, but are left to die. Our searchers for truth in the media keep these facts suppressed. The article also states:

“Not only are the images stomach-churning in their explicitness, their distortion of the truth might well be offensive to some. The likening of abortion to some of history's most heinous events is, at best, an extreme overstatement. At worst, the comparison undermines the severity of those crimes.”

Note the propaganda words, “distortion of the truth.” Showing pictures of actual happenings is “offensive.” The killing of the defenseless child in the womb is offensive and heinous. History will surely ask the question: How could a civilized society commit these abominable acts on their young and call the act “choice?” These word warriors of propaganda journalism will go down in history as being complicit. The “truth” dispensers then go on to state that the students, “…are doing the pictoral (sic) equivalent of standing in the quad with a megaphone, screaming epithets at passersby.” Well, well, well, if that isn’t a statement of media propaganda and a distortion of the evidence. Herr Goebbels himself would surely award them a prize for that piece of imaginative disinformation. When you don’t like the truth tell a big lie and slander the students. The only “screaming” in this whole affair of suppression of free speech and free expression comes from the so-called “free press,” as can be witnessed by the journalistic frenzy they have worked themselves into.

What we are seeing and reading in this country is a deliberate attempt to suppress free speech and free expression. These attacks are aided and abetted by most of the media. There are a few that tell it like it is, but only a few. The rest feed the people propaganda from their portals of publishing. We have heard people say, about the various atrocities that have happened over the years, “Why didn’t people speak out? How could this be allowed to happen?” These young students should be praised for speaking out and for having the courage to do so. The fact that they have been virulently attacked shows their message is hitting home. The child in the womb cries out for justice.

The barbarity and the attempts to hide the killing of the child in the womb could be called a conspiracy. Why else would many so-called investigative journalists ignore the scientific and medical facts of the humanity of the unborn child? Why else would any journalists describe these truthful pictures of the killing of these children as “offensive images?” These kinds of words surely give credence to the belief that propaganda pours forth from The Goebbels Media.

Stephen J. Gray

March 28, 2004.

Some info on the Author: Stephen J. Gray is a writer and researcher on various topics. He published a newsletter for 11 years exposing the misuse of trade union time and money.

To see the truth about abortion go to: http://www.abortionNO.org

The Return of the Alien (Part 2)

2010-03-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

More from the Alien, written some time ago. SJG.

The Return of the Alien (Part 2)
By Stephen J. Gray

I am beginning to feel quite at home on planet earth. We were wrong to think that “little green men” and women only existed in our outer space community. They are here on earth. Every day another politician or one of the “eminently knowledgeable persons” on earth proclaim that they are totally “green men and women.” The word green is everywhere and on everybody’s tongue.

Usually people here say to you “have a nice day.” But, the other day I encountered a person who said to me, “have a nice green day.” To which I replied: “You are Dr. Suzuki, I presume?” “No,” he replied. “But, he is my green idol. I am a singer.” To which I replied, “You must be that chap who sings that lovely song: The green, green grass of home. “No.” he said. “But, I like grass.” Then he strode away laughing at some kind of joke only he knew about.

I thought to myself, what is the joke and why is he laughing? I am not aware that humans like grass. Then it dawned upon me, I had met a green dope smoker, a marijuana man, who was on his daily high and a user of this green plant.

Meanwhile, all across this “green” and beautiful land, the green politicians are distributing millions of “green dollars” to “save” mother earth. These millions come from the people’s tax monies. It appears there is plenty of money for “going green” but not very much money for the healthcare of people. People are treated as cows to be milked, except when the politicians are in an election campaign. Then they bribe the people with their own money in the hope of getting elected. Then once elected they milk the people again, and most of their political promises turn out to be lies. Still, it is a “good” system and the people get used, and used to it. This is known as political subjugation or being beaten after the ballot.

Some of the people accept their servitude with servile sincerity, and some even praise these political “green men and women” who lord it over them. These people could be called green masochists or grateful greenies. These grateful greenies do not mind being taxed to the max and the green politicians are so happy that they have these green “useful idiots” amongst the population.

In other news, the population in another country called the Unnatural Kingdom (UK) have been told by their political “leaders” that they will be paying a “green miles” tax if they travel by air. This could be known as the “airing of the green.” Though I hear some in the Unnatural Kingdom (UK) are calling it: “More political pollution from political asses.”

Anyway, these political green asses are in control and their emissions are choking the people. The people are being greened into submission by these little political “green men.”

In fact, one green politician in the Unnatural Kingdom (UK) has called for a green “new world order” to “address climate change.” Though some people are saying the only change needed is to get rid of nutty politicians. And another green political leader in the Unnatural Kingdom (UK) was reported to have “compared the fight against climate change to the battle against fascism.”

Meanwhile, in other Unnatural Kingdom (UK) news it is reported that: “Four-year-olds will get gay fairytales at school” and another U.K news report states that, Unnatural Kingdom “…scientists will be allowed to create part-human, part-animal embryos for research…”

This Unnatural Kingdom (UK) is really going to the dogs or should that be man-dogs now that they are about to “create part-human, part-animal” life.

Life here on earth is getting loonier and loonier, madness has become a virtue and sanity a vice. I am inclined to think there must be a green virus here eating the brain cells of the so-called rulers. This concludes my second report. Till next time I am your faithful alien servant.

A.N. Alien.

Stephen J. Gray
March 14, 2007.

The Return of the Alien (Part 1)

2010-03-24T20:56:00.000-07:00

I wrote this a few years ago. SJG

The Return of the Alien (Part 1)
By Stephen J. Gray

It has been three years since I filed a report on the state of the earth. Therefore, my government in outer space has asked me to return to earth, and update them on some of the latest happenings. After much research by me, here is my report to the outer space community.

The people of the earth are still immersed in wars against each other. The victims of these wars are men, women and children. It is the children who suffer the most in all this warfare and killing. The killing is not only done in wars. The people of the earth are not averse to killing their young while these innocents are still in their mothers wombs. They call this atrocity, abortion or “choice.” Millions of innocents in their mothers wombs are killed yearly under the banner of “choice.”

The consequences of killing millions by “choice,” over many years, has resulted in a shortage of workers, which is now showing up in their economic systems. Though, nobody amongst the elites here on earth will admit that this is the cause. Instead they call this lack of workers the results of “low fertility.” I find this corruption of words quite common here. Nothing means what it is supposed to mean anymore. They camouflage the language to impose unnatural agendas.

For instance, the last time I was here in this place, they were discussing and promoting an issue called “same-sex marriage.” This has now come to fruition. This parody was imposed by three judges, who used to be lawyers. These lawyers who become judges are the real rulers in this country. The politicians did make a law on this after the judges made their decision. They call this rule by appointed lawyers oops I mean judges, the “benefit” of living in a “democracy.”

“Democracy” is enacted in this country every few years. The people are allowed to vote in an election. During this election campaign the politicians of all political stripes promise the people all kinds of good things from the peoples own money, if only they will vote for them. Once elected to office, they punish the people for voting for them, and tax them into submission. As I noted earlier, they call this “democracy.”

This “democracy” in this country is ruled by a document called “the Charter.” The people did not get to vote on whether they wanted this “charter.” It was imposed upon them by the political elites of the day. Yet, very few people here ask the question: “How can this document be legitimate when the people were not allowed to vote individually on its acceptance?” Still, as I noted earlier, they call this “democracy.”

In this “democracy,” drugs are supposed to be illegal. Yet, they give out “free needles” (paid for by taxpayers) to those who want to shoot up dope. The dopes in power even allow, what they call, “safe injection sites,” (paid for by taxpayers) where some of the addicts go to inject this illegal dope into their bodies. One would think a better and more healthy way to help, and clean up these people, would be to take them off the streets and put them into forcible treatment.( They do that with those who have TB). But, that would be against their “human rights.”

“Human rights” are big in this country (except for the children in their mothers wombs, they have none) and a whole bureaucracy revolves around “rights.” They have tribunals called "Human Rights Commissions" and anybody who feels discriminated against lodges a complaint with them. Rights have become an industry for the politically correct. If you are not politically correct you can be in trouble. So people must watch their language.

The language here has certain code words. For example when you don’t like something, or if somebody is critical of you, it is good advice to call or accuse that person of being a scab, racist, homophobic, mean spirited, intolerant, bigoted, sexist and hateful. Or accuse them of lookism, ageism or any other "ism" you can think of. There are many more similar words, but these are the key words used to smear people and ensure that your rights are protected even if you are wrong. People run for cover when these words are used against them.

Anyhow, I must close for the moment. I am living quite close to the office of the Human Rights Police (HRP) and they could be watching me. My next report will be issued when I feel more secure. I have so much information on the happenings in this place that it will take some time to document it all. In the meantime, I have applied for welfare under my phony social insurance number and hope to collect my due at the end of the month. Till next time, I am your faithful alien servant.

A.N. Alien.

Stephen J. Gray
March 3, 2007.

Trade unions “played a critical role” in “same-sex marriage law”

2010-03-22T09:37:00.000-07:00

Another reminder about trade unions. I wrote this a number of years ago. SJG.

Trade unions “played a critical role” in “same-sex marriage law”
By Stephen J. Gray

“With the passage of the federal equal marriage legislation, Canada has taken an important step forward.
The labour movement - from local activists to national leadership - stood united with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and played a critical role in persuading the Canadian government to pass the same-sex marriage law….
The Canadian Labour Congress was a founding member of the broad-based coalition, Canadians for Equal Marriage which led this struggle.”
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/index.php/pride_sol/Its_Time_to_Celebrat

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) has been funding and supporting a myriad of special interest groups for years. It is no surprise to me that they were a ‘founding member’ of the coalition “Canadians for Equal Marriage.” Ken Georgetti of the CLC, when he was president of the B.C. Federation of Labour (BCFL), sent out a letter soliciting funds for abortion clinics. Now that he has graduated to the CLC he is still writing letters, only this time it is in support of “same - sex marriage.” He wrote the prime minister in a letter headlined on CLC website, “CLC Supports Same-sex Marriage” and said this:
“Dear Prime Minister:
I want to express my personal support as well as that of the Canadian Labour Congress for your strong stand in support of the extension of human rights to the area of marriage.”
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/index.php/pride_sol/CLC_Supports_Samesex

The Canadian Labour Congress is the head office of the trade union movement in Canada. It states on its website that: “The Canadian Labour Congress is the largest democratic and popular organization in Canada with over three million members. The Canadian Labour Congress brings together Canada's national and international unions, the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 137 district labour councils.”
The CLC is financed from affiliation fees paid from the compulsory union dues of compulsory union members. To my knowledge neither the CLC nor any other trade union in Canada has ever polled or asked its members individually if they supported so called “same-sex marriage.” This aberration has been pushed by the union bosses and a few activists within the trade union movement. Trade union time and money has been spent promoting and supporting this claptrap.

Another union boss with a politically correct agenda is Buzz Hargrove who wrote the prime minister and stated:
“Dear Prime Minister: Clearly the debate around same-sex marriage is heating up. I am writing once again to offer the support of our union, the Canadian Auto Workers, and to encourage you to hold strong on protection of minority rights through the Charter and press forward with same-sex marriage legislation….”
http://www.caw.ca/whatwedo/pride/letters/martin_jan05.asp

And still another union boss inserted himself into the “same-sex marriage” issue. James Clancy, president of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) wrote the prime minister and sent a copy of it to Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE), among others. Mr. Clancy wrote this to the prime minister:
“Dear Prime Minister,
On behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees, I am writing to extend our support to your efforts to introduce legislation that would achieve equal marriage rights for same sex couples in Canada….Unfortunately, as we both know, a small but highly vocal opposition is becoming increasingly organized and active on this issue….In conclusion, I am urging you and your government to quickly bring in legislation to ensure equal marriage rights for same sex couples. ”

http://www.nupge.ca/news_2005/n01fe05a.htm

Not to be outdone on this letter writing campaign was Ken Neumann, National Director of the United Steelworkers of America in Canada. Who had this to say on behalf of his compulsory members:
“Dear Prime Minister Martin and Minister Cotler:
As the National Director of the United Steelworkers of America in Canada, I am writing on behalf of our 255,000 members in support of your government's proposed legislation to extend the right of civil marriage to lesbian and gay couples across Canada….In closing, the Steelworkers calls upon your government to take immediate and decisive action to ensure passage of the proposed equal marriage legislation,…”
http://www.uswa.ca/program/content/1923.php?lan=en&

Another letter writer on the subject of “same-sex marriage” was the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Deborah Bourque. She wrote the following words to opposition leader Stephen Harper:
“Mr. Harper: … The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) supports the position Prime Minister Paul Martin has taken on same-sex marriage. …Just because marriage has traditionally been a “privilege” only heterosexual couples have been able to access does not mean that the human rights violation should continue.”
http://www.cupw.ca/pages/document_eng.php?Doc_ID=781

And the two big brothers at the headquarters of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) had this to say on pressuring the “federal government” on same sex marriage in this letter to members:
“Dear Sisters and Brothers,…We and our community coalitions can rejoice now that same-sex couples in British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec can legally marry. In the meantime, we continue to pressure the federal government to do the right thing and legalize same-sex marriage so that lesbian and gay couples can marry, no matter where they live in Canada.”
In solidarity,
PAUL MOIST CLAUDE GÉNÉREUX
National President National Secretary-Treasurer
http://www.cupe.ca/www/EqualityPride/9944

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) had this to say on same-sex marriage and its support for “ Canadians for Equal Marriage.”
“The Public Service Alliance of Canada continues to strongly support the extension of access to marriage to same-sex couples. …The PSAC also provides office space and other support to the Canadians for Equal Marriage coalition in Ottawa.”
http://www.psac-afpc.org/what/humanrights/Pride/pride_statement_2005-e.shtml

One could go on and on showing examples of these union bosses claiming to speak for ALL their compulsory members on this invention of words called “same-sex marriage.” The use of union members time and money across Canada on this issue is an affront to democracy itself. Union members in Canada are mature enough to make decisions on this matter individually. They do not need or want union bosses making these political, social and moral decisions for them. If any other organizations in Canada were doing what trade union bosses are doing on behalf of their compulsory members all hell would break loose and charges would be laid. But this is the state Canada is in today where a Labour politburo gets away with the big lie of saying ALL its members support this invented nonsense called “same-sex marriage.”

Stephen J. Gray
Sept 5, 2005

Some info on the author: Stephen J. Gray is a writer and researcher on various topics. He published a newsletter for 11 years exposing the misuse of trade union time and money.

Groups, organizations and causes that have received union time and/or money

2010-03-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

I wrote this some time ago, and the misuse of union time and money continues. SJG.

Groups, organizations and causes that have received union time and/or money
Some of them also receive government grants

POLITICAL CAUSES

*Bloc Que'be'cois
*NDP (millions of dollars)
*Federal Liberals (The party that appointed Judge Rand, the architect of compulsory union dues)
*Municipal elections
*Socialist International
*The Nisga'a Treaty

CAUSES & ORGANIZATIONS

*National Action Committee on Status of Women (NAC)
*National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL)
*Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)
*Vancouver Status of Women (VSW)
*Conventions for Women Only
*Beijing Conference (assisted radical feminists to go)
*Greenpeace
*B.C. Environmental Network (BCEN)
*End The Arms Race (EAR)
*Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA)
*Coalition Opposed to Arms Trade (COAT)
*Canadian Healthcare Coalition
*Ontario Coalition for Social Justice
*Days of Action of Ontario
*Action Canada Network
*Cultural Research
*Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
*CHOICES!
*National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO)
*Council of Canadians (COC)
*Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice (ECEJ)
*End Legislated Poverty (ELP)
*Charlottetown Accord (the "yes" side supported by CLC and B.C. Federation of Labour)
*Peace Caravan
*Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE)
*Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society (NCHS)
*MATCH
*Bolivian Urban Workers' Association
*Cuba Solidarity Committee

MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS

*Angles (gay and lesbian newspaper)
*Briarpatch (socialist magazine)
*Canadian Dimension (socialist magazine)
*Canadian Forum (left-wing magazine)
*Herizons (feminist publication)
*Our Schools, Ourselves
*Our Times
*This Magazine
*Dossier (Action Canada Network newsletter)
*Action Now (NAC's newsletter)
*Kinesis (Vancouver Status of Women newspaper)
*Peoples' Voice (communist newspaper)
*Pacific Tribune (communist newspaper, now defunct)
*Pacific Current (socialist magazine funded by union money, now defunct)
*New Directions (now defunct)
*The Democrat (NDP newspaper)
*The Columbia Journal (left-wing newspaper)

ABORTION & HOMOSEXUAL ISSUES

*Abortion clinics
*Everywoman's Abortion Clinic
*Abortionist Morgentaler's defence fund
*B.C. Coalition for Abortion Clinics (BCCAC)
*Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics (OCAC)
*B.C. Federation of Labour's Reproductive Choice Fund
*Buses for pro-abortion rally paid for by B.C. Federation of Labour
*The Vriend Case, the Canadian Labour Congress was an intervenor
*Court challenges on behalf of same sex couples
*Gay and lesbian kits
*Pink Triangle Committee
*Gay and lesbian support group
*B.C. Teachers' Federation contributed $40,000 to court case on behalf of gay activists.

NOTE: There are many more groups, coalitions and causes that unions are involved with.

This information was compiled by Stephen J. Gray and published in
his Save the Union Movement Newsletter, February 1999, page 2,
Newsletter #27.

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QUOTABLE QUOTE:

"Millions of Dollars Finance Special Interest Groups"

"Unions are unaccountable because they seldom can be unseated and yet they have the power of indirect taxation through union dues which are used to finance elections for those espousing their beliefs."
"Their millions of dollars finance special interest groups whose special interests often have nothing to do with the concerns of rank and file union members."
-Diane Francis, Editor, The Financial Post, May 28, 1992

The Trade Unions’ Intrusion into Social, Moral, and Religious Life

2010-03-13T12:59:00.000-08:00

Note: The article below was written a number of years ago. SJG.

"We are involved in matters which have to do with the social direction of Canada and not just issues at the bargaining table..." -Larry Brown, Secretary Treasurer of N.U.P.G.E. (National Union of Provincial Government Employees) in "The Dossier" of Action Canada Network, Sept.-Oct., 1991.

As the above quote from a union boss indicates, unions are involved in "the social direction of Canada". But should trade unions be allowed to interfere in the personal, social, moral, political and religious lives of their members, considering membership and union dues are compulsory? Any intelligent person would say no! Any free society should say no. But today in Canada, trade unions are allowed to impose their values (which many people would say are immoral) on their forced membership.

Union Agendas

Unions receive their certification for collective bargaining and this has progressed into collective coercion. Trade unions pay no taxes and have a money machine to pursue and finance agendas that are incompatible with personal freedom and democracy in Canada. Here are some examples of the trade unions’ agendas:

Union Support of Abortion

The B.C. Coalition for Abortion Clinics stated in its brochure that "the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress, along with other labour organizations have long supported women’s right to choice on abortion, free-standing abortion clinics and medicare coverage for abortion."

The BC Federation of Labour (BCFL) is also on record as soliciting funds for abortion clinics. And Ken Georgetti, former President of the BCFL, and now President of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), had this to say in a letter to union members on raising funds for an abortion clinic:

"in a short time, funds have been raised to pay the down payment on the $237,000 medical clinic." He goes on to say "the Executive Council urges all affiliates to send donations, consider loans or monthly pledges. . .."

Why are we compelled to pay for this kind of leadership? Is it any wonder union dues keep increasing? The Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics (OCAC) has also infiltrated the labour movement; it is stated in the book Social Movements, Social Change, The Politics and Practice of Organizing (funded by our tax dollars) that "at various labour conventions in 1982 and 1983, OCAC activists were involved in garnering support for choice." The book also states that "many unions have contributed financial and material support to OCAC."

The Ontario Federation of Labour has donated money to Canada’s foremost abortionist. In fact, it is stated in the book The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada by Michael Mandel, page 301, that "...the Ontario Federation of Labour has donated thousands of dollars to the Morgentaler defence. . ."

Might union members ask the question: What does abortion have to do with collective bargaining? And why are unions allowed to get away with this misuse of the memberships’ time and money?

Support of Homosexuality

"Healthcare" unions are some of the biggest supporters of the "gay rights" lifestyle. For example, the Hospital Employees Union (HEU) has already been to court on behalf of "same sex spouses" and Angles (July, 1991), Vancouver’s gay and lesbian newspaper, said this court case received "financial and moral backing from the Hospital Employees Union (HEU)". The B.C. Nurses Union has set up a "gay and lesbian rights ad hoc committee". And, according to the B.C.N.U. Update, October/November 1996 issue, "the committee made its presence felt in the Gay Pride Parade in Nelson, marching under the B.C.N.U. banner."

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) launched a court action on behalf of "same sex pensions". An article in CUPE Quarterly (October 1992) stated that "the Canadian Union of Public Employees leads the labour movement in it’s support of lesbian and gay issues". The Vancouver Sun (November 28, 1995) had an article headlined "CUPE Files a Grievance" that said a "journalism teacher" has been suspended and that this teacher "has written that sex between children and adults shouldn’t be illegal". The teacher also works "occasionally as a prostitute". The article goes on to say that "the Canadian Union of Public Employees plans to file a grievance over the suspension."

And the communist newspaper, the "Peoples Voice" (April 1-15, 2001) had this to say in the article "CLC Solidarity and Pride":

"The second ‘Solidarity and Pride’ conference called by the Canadian Labour Congress will be held June 24-27 at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel in Surrey, British Columbia.

"A letter from the CLC points out that since the first such meeting in 1997, ‘there have been many legal victories and gains for lesbian and gay workers at the bargaining table, an increased recognition of our issues in our unions, and ongoing, growing support from union leaders and members at all levels.’"

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) was also an intervenor in "The Vriend Case" that went to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Trade Unions and Religion

Parents send their children to independent schools because they want their children taught certain values. A Catholic school in Fort St. John has been closed by the Bishop because the trade union which represents the teachers - the B.C. Government and Service Employees Union (BCGSEU) - had problems with a "Catholicity Clause." The Vancouver Sun (July 1, 1999) said, "Talks stalled over a ‘Catholicity clause’ requiring staff to act according to Catholic teachings both inside and outside the school."

The Globe and Mail (July 13, 1999) said, "the union also wanted an independent adjudicator, not the bishop, to resolve disputes over Catholic lifestyle issues such as divorce, sex outside marriage, and abortion."

The Bishops are the teachers of faith and morals in the Catholic Church. And here we have the union saying "an independent adjudicator" should decide these moral issues. The BCGSEU is affiliated with the B.C. Federation of Labour (BCFL) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC); both of these organizations support abortion, homosexuality, radical feminists, etc. It is hypocrisy of the union to suggest an ‘independent adjudicator" when the unions have already taken positions (which contradict those of the Catholic Church) on these moral issues.

Even if a "Catholicity clause" was signed and the union was in the school, some of the Catholic teachers’ union dues would still go to support these controversial issues, through affiliation fees to the BCFL and CLC.

One wonders if there is a union agenda regarding Catholic Schools and others. First you get the union organized in the school. Then the union refuses to sign a "Catholicity clause." The union knows the Bishop will close the school without the clause. Thus, the children will have to go into the public school system, which in turn will need more teachers. This will result in more union dues to help finance all the politically correct causes of the unions.

BCTV News (July 28, 1999) reported a dispute between the BCGSEU and the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army wants its employees to demonstrate a "Christian Lifestyle," which the union objects to. This news report went on to say that the Salvation Army might close down this operation rather than give in to the union. A union official was quoted in the National Post (July 29, 1999) as saying, "This attitude [of the Salvation Army] is not only outrageous, it’s unconscionable." The question must be asked: Why should a Catholic school, the Salvation Army, or any other institution have to agree to a trade union’s version of morality?"

The slogan of abortion supporters is "freedom of choice", yet union members in this country have no "freedom of choice"; they are compelled into supporting abortion and homosexuality and a myriad of fringe groups. Democracy is a dirty word in the union movement and freedom is a farce. Big Brother and Big Sister in the Labour Movement dictate to union members, and compulsion is their instrument of power. If you don’t pay union dues you do not work.

Union members’ social, moral, and religious life has become the domain of union bosses and their supporters. Unions many years ago were oppressed and many people suffered and died to get decent wages and working conditions. But now the wheel has turned full circle and the oppressed have become the oppressors.

Pope John Paul II in his Encyclical Letter "On Human Work" had this to say about unions:

"However, the role of unions is not to ‘play politics’ in the sense that the expression is commonly understood today. Unions do not have the character of political parties struggling for power; they should not be subjected to the decision of political parties or have too close links with them. In fact, in such a situation they easily lose contact with their specific role, which is to secure the just rights of workers within the framework of the common good of the whole of society; instead they become an instrument used for other purposes."

Stephen J. Gray

How a Newspaper Can Gut a Letter

2010-02-16T07:09:00.000-08:00

I sent a letter to the National Post on February 15, 2010. Below is the original letter I wrote and below that is the letter the National Post published.

Letter to Editor

National Post

February 15, 2010

Dear Editor, re: your article headlined, “Smitherman, husband approved for adoption,” National Post, February 15, 2010. I believe this adoption by two men is wrong. A child should have a mother and a father. No matter how those in our politically correct society try to describe this adoption, I believe, it is not normal for the child. As to your description of one man being the “husband” of the other man in this article, one can only say, nobody in possession of their senses would describe any man as the “husband” of another man. Still, I guess I should not be surprised at this perversion of words by the National Post, was it not your “newspaper” that described the pride parade, where men and women have been known to parade naked as a “family friendly” affair?

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http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2569049

Not pleased by gay adoption

National Post

Re: Smitherman, Husband Approved For Adoption, Feb. 15.

I believe any adoption by two men is wrong. A child should have a mother and a father. No matter how those in our politically correct society try to describe this adoption, I believe it is not normal for the child.

This article also describes one man as being the "husband" of the other man. I guess I should not be surprised at this perversion of words by the National Post. Did your newspaper not also describe the Gay Pride Parade as a "family-friendly" affair?

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2569049

Abortion: Today’s Plague

2010-02-12T09:38:00.000-08:00

Note: I wrote this over 9 years ago. SJG
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"In the 1300’s, a form of bubonic plague called The Black Death destroyed a fourth of the population of Europe."( The World Book Encyclopedia )

We have our own plague today killings millions of lives worldwide. It is called abortion and it is being spread deliberately throughout the world. This plague could rightly be called today’s “final solution.”

It was the so called "advanced" countries, like the United States and Canada that made abortion "legitimate" in North America. Court decisions like Roe v Wade (1973) in the United States and the Morgentaler decision (1988) in Canada loosed this judicial plague upon the populace. Judges had now given credibility to the crimes of the abortionists. The child in the womb was considered a danger "to security of the person." The law had become a voice for lawbreakers. The plague dog of abortion was legally set loose and the killings began in greater numbers.

There are approximately 46 million abortions annually across the world.

(www.abortionNO.org)

There have been: " Over 40 million abortions in U.S. since 1973" (www.nrlc.org/abortion)

There have been: 1,829,761 abortions in Canada from 1970 to 1995(www.abortionfacts.com)

Since the Morgentaler decision in 1988 the abortion numbers continue to rise. The latest figures for Canada show there are over 100,000 abortions yearly.

An article in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 26) entitled, "Where have all the babies gone," said "Canada’s fertility rate hit a record low in 2000, driven down by the 10th straight annual decline in the number of births." It doesn’t take a mathematical genius to know where all the babies have gone. The article stated there were "327,882" births in the year 2000 and we know there are now over 100,000 abortions a year in Canada.

The problems from abortion are not limited to North America. Europe is also suffering from this plague of killing by choice.

"Today in seventeen European countries, there are more burials than births, more coffins than cradles."

Pat Buchanan in his book, "The Death Of The West" page 9.

Russia has a high incidence of abortion and "two of every three pregnancies in Russia are terminated before birth." (The Death of The West, page 18.)

Great Britain is another country with a declining population: " The English are not having enough children to reproduce themselves."

(syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts quoted in The Death Of The West, page19.)

According to legend, animals called Lemmings head to the sea and drown themselves in large numbers. We have become like the Lemmings. Only we head to the abortion chambers. We are committing societal mass murder by killing off our young.

This has resulted in a growing elderly population. Which will inevitably lead to cries for some sort of "solution." Witness the push for euthanasia or the killing of the aged. What started with the slogan "choice" begets another slogan "death with dignity." Holland has already gone down this path of death and many of its old people are killed in hospitals.

We have a scarcity of young people, and the media call this "low fertility. Though if they were being honest they would look at the huge numbers of abortions. The media use the code words "low fertility" to disguise this fact. The "final solution" -- death -- brought about by abortion is allowed very little discussion in our "investigative media," except to promote that banal slogan "freedom of choice" in an attempt to hide the killing.

While killing by abortion always existed, it was, in saner times, considered a horrific act and subject to criminal penalties. People who did them were outcasts. Now we call this act a "choice" even though the child in the womb has no choice and is poisoned by a saline solution or cut to pieces. Sometimes the child survives the abortion but is left to die.

What kind of society puts on a voluntary blindfold and pretends that abortion is anything other than the killing of the child in the mother’s womb? One wonders where are our "human rights" advocates, the justice system and most of our "choice" supporting media?

With today’s technology we can see the child in the womb, and we can operate on him or her, yet the politicians, the judges and the media continue to propagate the big lie of "freedom of choice."

The November 11, 2002, Canadian edition of "Time" magazine had on its front page a picture of the child in the womb. The headline was "Inside The Womb." The article inside tells us: "The List Of Potential Threats To embryonic life is long. It includes not only what the mother eats, drinks or inhales..." The article goes on to say: "But of all the long-term health threats, maternal undernourishment- which stunts growth...may top the list." Ah, the politically correct media are at it again. No mention of abortion as a "threat" and abortion surely "stunts growth;" it should definitely be on the "list."

This societal plague called abortion has not only infected numerous countries but has infected the brain cells of our so called "intellectuals." Why else would the cover up of this abominable crime continue to be sanctioned?

Abortion is big business and a whole industry "lives" off it. Except of course the child in the womb who is slaughtered by it, under the banner of “choice.” The consequences of killing the child in the womb are starting to show up in our society. An aging population, a disrespect for life, talk of human cloning, experimentation on human embryos and euthanasia. We are reaping what we have sown. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. Life is a commodity to be used and abused. The plague is upon us, a societal plague called abortion.

Stephen J. Gray

November 21, 2002.

See the victims slaughtered by abortion at: http://www.AbortionNo.org

Are Some of the Media Hypocrites?

2010-02-05T11:14:00.000-08:00

CHBC a TV station in Kelowna, B.C. has refused to show a pro-life ad after originally accepting it. The excuse for their refusal was that the ad was too graphic. CHBC is an affiliate of Global TV which in turn is part of the Canwest Global Communications, which states on its website: “Canwest Global Communications Corp. is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, Canwest is Canada's largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers…” [1]
Its newspapers includes the National Post.

The National Post of January 15, 2010 had this to say about “graphic images from Haiti.”
“Some readers may be offended by our use on the front page of Friday's print edition a picture showing the body of a victim of the Haitian earthquake, or by another picture inside showing piles of corpses in the streets of Port-au-Prince.

“We recognize that these pictures are disturbing. But we think that they are also a necessary — indeed, a central — part of telling this story completely. (emphasis added ) They communicate in a powerful manner the true horror of what has taken place in that country.” [1]

Yet here in this country, one of their corporate affiliates CHBC refuses to show the horror of a baby’s severed hand by an abortionist. A picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, and let’s people see the atrocities suffered by many victims. Unless of course it is a picture of an aborted baby-- or the hand of an aborted baby that was in the pro-life ad censored by CHBC TV. These TV stations and other media have shown the bloodstained bodies of victims killed in wars and terrorist attacks, but when it comes to the showing of pictures of the innocents slaughtered by abortionists these so-called “searchers for truth” suppress the evidence, and say it is too “graphic.” Why is this, is it because so many of them have been promoting the big lie of, “freedom of choice” for so long, that to show the truth would make a lie of the propaganda parroted on abortion by “investigative journalism?”

Journalism is supposed to be about the search for truth. Instead it is engaged in suppressing the truth about abortion. The refusal of CHBC to show the pro-life ad shows the hypocrisy of most of the big corporate media. Yet some of these media consider themselves the “nations most trusted and well-respected.” Which raises the question, if the CHBC is part of a media conglomerate that claims to be“most trusted and well respected,” why would they suppress an ad that shows the truth about the horror called abortion? Dare we call them hypocrites?

Stephen J. Gray
February 5, 2010.

Note: The Pro-life ad can be seen at: http://www.prolifekelowna.com/
Endnotes:

[1] http://www.canada.com/aboutus/index.html

[2] http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/editors/archive/2010/01/15/381547.aspx

Will You Vote For This Evil Called “Choice?”

2010-02-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

[Note: I wrote the article below in 2008, Michael Ignatieff is now the leader of the Liberal Party and here is their position on abortion: “Thank you for your correspondence concerning Canada’s abortion laws. It is the longstanding view of the Liberal Party of Canada that women must have the right to choose, and this party will take no step that limits, or opens the door to limiting, access to safe medical services for women across Canada.”
The Office of Michael Ignatieff, M.P. Leader of the Opposition]

Will You Vote For This Evil Called “Choice?”

Surely, the most evil act in Canada today is the killing of the unborn child under the depraved slogan, “freedom to choose.” These words are a corruption of language.

“Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.” -Seneca

We are in the midst of another federal election and we will be hearing numerous speeches from the leaders of the main political parties. All of these leaders are in favor of “freedom of choice,” which is a slogan that has corrupted our language in an attempt to disguise the killing of the innocent child in the womb. This evil act called “choice,” kills off at least 100,000 innocent lives yearly in Canada, and the leaders of the main political parties and many of the politicians are supporters of this bloody butchery. Here are the main political leaders’ words on this issue:

Stephen Harper: “Let me be very clear on the positions I’ve have taken on that. I want there to be no misunderstanding. I’ve said repeatedly, that I will not, that my Conservative government will not be tabling any legislation impacting in any way a woman’s right to choose” (June 27, 2006 LifeSiteNews.com http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/060627a.html).

Jack Layton: He supports freedom of choice on abortion and had this to say about Canada’s foremost abortionist: “On behalf of the New Democratic Party of Canada, I salute Dr. Henry Morgentaler as one of the 2008 recipients of the Order of Canada.” (July 2, 2008 http://www.ndp.ca/page/6561)

Gilles Duceppe: “Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has vowed to bring down any Conservative minority government if it attempts to abolish abortion. [He said that] ‘the position of the Bloc is that we cannot ignore the rights of women in order to keep our seats… I will not accept that the Conservatives abolish the right to abortion.’” (CTV News Jun. 13 2004. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040613/bloc_abortion_040613?s_name=&no_ads=)

And before you conclude from Duceppe’s comments that the Conservatives will abolish abortion, note this: “Conservative spokesman Yaroslav Baran was quick to point out his party's official position on the issue in the face of accusations of his party having a hidden social agenda.”
“‘It is certainly not our position that the government should legislate against a woman's right to choose, but it's good to see that other parties are agreeing with our position,’ Baran told Canadian Press”
(CTV News Jun. 13 2004. (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040613/bloc_abortion_040613?s_name=&no_ads=)

Elizabeth May of the Green Party: "What we’re saying as a party, and what I’m saying as an individual leader, is that any civilized society must provide safe legal access to any woman who needs or wants an abortion... I would never change a thing about the current abortion laws; we must have them." June 7, 2007. MacLeans

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070607_145215_12204

Stephane Dion: “… I believe in the rights of women to choose…” (National Post, August 22, 2008 http://www.nationalpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=740563)

“A woman’s right to choose” rolling off the tongues of politicians makes this heinous act of slaughtering vulnerable unborn human beings sound like something on a menu. So what does it really mean? Well, what the politicians don’t like to do is go into detail about is this. But the reality is, supporting “choice” on abortion actually means cutting the unborn to pieces, suctioning their bodies apart, or injecting potassium chloride into their hearts. Other unborn children are murdered by having their skulls pierced by sharp scissors and their brains suctioned out (partial birth abortion). Some have been born alive but are left to die. Barbarity is being practiced and human sacrifices are made. This is the heinous atrocity disguised under the political slogan of a “woman’s right to choose.”

Now these “right to choose” politicians want you to make a political choice to support their party in the federal election. Can any decent, principled, or moral person in good conscience vote for anyone or any party that supports and condones the killing of the unborn child?

Note: to learn more about what these aforementioned politicians speak of when they talk about choice, go to http://www.AbortionNo.org

Stephen J. Gray
September 12, 2008

A Criminal Makes a Plea from Jail

2010-01-16T13:52:00.000-08:00

To whom it may concern in the justice system:

I am presently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. The crime I was imprisoned for was securities fraud. While doing my hard time in jail, I have been reading the financial news and this makes me very unhappy and upset. I now believe I was falsely convicted as today’s justice system appears to me to be more forgiving of marketplace indiscretions.

I have been reading that some respected financial firms were promoting dubious financial securities as a great investment while at the same time selling themselves out of these investments they were promoting. Could this be called “misrepresentation” in legal parlance as “misrepresentation” is the word used to describe securities fraud? I also read that these respected firms sold these questionable securities to pension funds, mutual funds, state governments and everybody and anybody they could suck in. They even charged large fees for moving, pushing and recommending this financial toilet paper. Some of these blue chip firms were even given taxpayers' monies in something called stimulus packages, as some of them claimed they needed this money to continue in business (and that if they did not get it the financial system would fail and everybody would be in the dumpster). This makes me wonder if this was a form of financial blackmail.

Quite frankly, I never thought I would see the day, when what used to be considered outright thieving and fraud would become legitimized. I certainly feel I am missing out in the opportunities now available in the free market system and the access to unlimited supplies of taxpayers’ dollars. I do not believe it is fair that I am presently imprisoned while others like me are running free and some are advising governments how to save the financial system after selling it short.

I feel that I should be out there in the financial world working within the free market system and using my talents to buy and sell and make an honest dollar, and perhaps even help the country get out of recession. I can move securities with the best of them and I believe my expertise is being wasted here in jail. I know how the system works out there and I sincerely believe I can be of help. I believe the country needs me and I would be willing to take only a small fee for helping sell these rotten securities that are still available to whatever suckers I can find. I am sure I would be welcomed back with open arms by my colleagues who have never yet been in jail and who are always looking for new ideas and new ways to profit from these types of products in the financial market.

In closing, I ask that you consider my offer of help and perhaps free me immediately. Times are changing and we must change with the times. What was a crime yesterday does not appear to be a crime today. Hoping you will consider my plea and let me loose once again into the financial system, home once more amongst friends in the financial world and working at what I do best.

Sincerely
Unfairly Convicted Criminal Number 999.

Satire by Stephen J. Gray
January 16, 2010.

Fictional Correspondence between a Bailed out Banker and an American Taxpayer

2010-01-11T06:37:00.000-08:00

The American Taxpayer: “Dear sir, I would like to apply for a loan of $10,000 from your bank to tide me over. Can you help?”

The Bailed out Banker: “Dear taxpayer, what is your financial situation at this time? Do you have a job? Own a house, or a car, or any other securities?”

The American Taxpayer: “I lost my job when my firm went bankrupt after buying lousy securities from your bank. I lost my house after I lost my job. My house has since been repossessed by your bank. I also lost my car which was also repossessed by your bank. I am now on welfare.”

The Bailed out Banker: “I am very sorry to hear about your misfortune, but, in our business we only lend to good credit risks.”

The American Taxpayer: “Pardon me if I sound upset, but your bank was bailed out by billions of taxpayers dollars, some of them were mine and now you have the cheek to preach to me about ‘good credit risks.’ Do you know the meaning of hypocrisy?”

The Bailed out Banker: “Please do not get sarcastic with me. We are a reputable banking firm, who do not, I repeat, do not, lend money to welfare cases. We believe in free enterprise, getting government out of the marketplace, and honesty in the financial system. I suggest you start looking for a job and repay your welfare money.”

The American Taxpayer: “I have had it with you guys. You are the biggest welfare bums in society today. You were bailed out with taxpayer dollars which in my mind constitutes corporate welfare. You even gave yourselves bonuses courtesy of the taxpayer, after being bailed out. Now you have the gall to tell me to get a job. It is taxpayer money, some of it mine, that is keeping you in a job!”

The Bailed out Banker: “Please do not write me anymore. I am ending this correspondence after this reply to you. This bank did not get a bailout it got a stimulus package to enable it to keep the financial system stable. We will continue to operate on free market principles and let the marketplace decide. There will always be winners and losers in the free market financial system, and I remind you once again, we don’t lend to, or bail out losers.”

Stephen J. Gray
January 11, 2010.

A Financial Tale

2010-01-03T07:56:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time in the land of free markets, there was a street called Wall Street. This was the street where all the free marketers came out to play.
Playing, buying and selling in the market were many reputable and respectable financial firms and bankers. A number of these bankers and blue chip firms were engaged in selling debt packaged as assets. They had nice and impressive names for this debt. Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs), Collaterized Debt Obligations (CDOs), and Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCPs).

This debt described as assets was given Triple A ratings by some of the respected rating agencies. These debt ridden assets were sold to other financial institutions, banks, pension funds, mutual funds, state governments and everybody and anybody who was gullible enough to believe these debts were really assets. The financial system pigged out on this useless paper and charged big fees for buying and selling it.

Some big reputable and respected financial firms were advising people to buy this useless paper, while they themselves were selling themselves out of it. Could this be called criminal fraud? Of course not; after all, these were the crème de la crème of Wall St. and Wall St. is the pillar of our free market society. So the people are in good financial hands.

In fact, some of these “clean” financial hands even run a government, so they are in great positions to advise and help with the massive bailouts; pardon me, I mean stimulus packages of taxpayers’ dollars to save the free market system from collapse after the massive fraud—oops, I mean massive mistakes selling useless paper disguised as assets. There were some cynical critics who complained that this was wrong to be bailing out those who had corrupted the financial system. But, this type of criticism was uncalled for. After all, one banker did say that they were doing “God’s work,” and surely there is no higher recommendation than that.

Anyway, we are now told that the financial system has now stabilized. Trillions or billions of taxpayers’ dollars were the antidote needed to save the free market. The bailed out bankers are receiving huge bonuses. The government is being advised and helped by those who corrupted, pardon me, I mean used the financial system to peddle debt. Profits made by some were sent safely offshore to tax-free havens; after all, you don’t expect smart financiers to use their own country’s banks, these are just for the ordinary people who pay the bankers’ bills.

Picking up the bills for all this financial chicanery will be the taxpaying public in the land of the free. After all, the free markets must remain free and the perpetrators of what some are calling financial fraud are still running the system, because where would we be without them?

Stephen J. Gray
January 3, 2010.

Conlibs and Libcons

2009-12-01T13:11:00.000-08:00

I wrote this in 2007. SJG.

As the latest politician scurries across the floor from the Liberal camp to the Conservative camp one has to wonder: does it make any difference who the people vote for? We have seen politicians voted into office as Liberals then cross the floor to become Conservatives. We have seen other politicians voted into office as Conservatives then slither across the floor to become Liberals. Is politics just becoming a rotten game played by political cheats?

Do the people need a safeguard against these political swindlers, who have betrayed the trust of those who voted for them? After all, these politicians who claimed to be Conservatives then became Liberals, and vice versa, are really political con-men and con-women. So should we call them Conlibs and Libcons? And since the leadership of both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party both seem to accept this untrustworthy behavior, would it not be better if both of these two parties changed their names?

They could call themselves the Conservative Liberal Party (CONLIB) and the Liberal Conservative Party (LIBCON) that way the people would know that no matter who they voted for they would at least know they were voting for a Conlib or a Libcon at voting time. After all, con-men and con-women (I’m practicing equality here by naming both genders) have no principles. The people are being conned by floor crossers who pretend to be of one political persuasion to get elected, then cross over to another political persuasion where there is more power.

Of course power corrupts as the saying goes. We see that in these power-seeking politicians, who discard any principles they might have had, for power in the ranks of those they once opposed. They commit political adultery and bed down in their new political homes as if they had done nothing wrong. Then they pretend they did it for their constituents or their country. These political carpetbaggers can justify anything. Or as one of them has said lately: “Politics makes strange bedfellows,” and he could have added, “We screw the people who voted for us” and who would argue with that truism?

Truth has become a casualty in politics today. The people are lied to at election time by these floor crossing double-crossers and democracy becomes a prisoner of political mountebanks. Fawning press releases are then issued from the Conlibs or the Libcons praising the “character” and resolve of the double-crossing floor crossers and their abilities to “improve” the political landscape. It’s all so much political dung, issued without shame and a prime reason why the people of the land hold politicians in such low esteem, and do not trust any of them anymore. The truth is, these floor crossers are devoid of political principles and have in fact lied to the people who elected them. That’s why these two main political parties should be renamed CONLIBS and LIBCONS.

Stephen J. Gray
January 7, 2007.

Harper’s “Conservatives”

2009-11-27T09:51:00.000-08:00

I wrote this in October 2008. SJG.

“He [Harper] can be slippier [sic.] than a greased pig” (Paul Wells, Maclean’s Magazine, September 17, 2008).

Conservative leadership is the buzz word of the election campaign. And Mr. Harper is being touted as a “leader.” So let us examine what Mr. Harper the leader says and does on a number of issues:

Free Speech: “Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society,” says Stephen Harper, president of the National Citizens' Coalition. “It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.” [1]

Yet, the Harper government intervenes against free speech: “The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28).

Bilingualism: “As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.” (Stephen Harper) [2]

Now Mr. Harper says this: “My friends, for me a prime minister should speak French,” Harper said, calling French “the founding language of this country” (Source: The Gazette, Sept 8, 2008 [3]).

Same-sex marriage: “I don't see reopening this question [of same-sex marriage] in the future.” (Stephen Harper, CTV News Dec. 7, 2006 [4]).

Sexual orientation and its illegitimate offspring “same-sex marriage” were never in the Charter, yet we had the silly spectacle of a supposedly “conservative government introducing a motion on this that they knew would be defeated. A government with principles would have used the not-withstanding clause to return sanity to this country. But unfortunately Mr. Harper is on record as saying, regarding this nonsense called same-sex marriage, “I will never use the notwithstanding clause on that issue” (Lifesite News December 16, 2005, [5]).

The Status of Women: This group achieved increased funding under the Harper Conservatives as witness the following quote from a minister’s speech: “As a demonstration of our firm commitment to the success of Status of Women Canada, Budget 2007 provided $10 million in funding to the Agency, bringing the total budget to $29.9 million, a record for Status of Women [emphasis added] Canada” (Speech for The Honorable Josée Verner, P.C., M.P., Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, on the occasion of an appearance before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, House of Commons, Ottawa, February 5, 2008, [6]).

Abortion: “The Conservative government won't be initiating or supporting abortion legislation, and I'll use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn't come to a vote…” (Stephen Harper, [7]).

And we thought we lived in a democracy? Or is it a hypocrisy?

And talking about hypocrisy, based on the evidence we have seen from Mr. Harper’s government, are they really a conservative government? Or is it back to the days of the Red Tories and the Mulroney government? A former Reform party member and MP had this to say about Mr. Harper: “he will be remembered as an opportunistic, masterful tactician who, in the course of only three years completely purged the Conservative party of its Reform ideals and restored the Mulroney model of government.” (Lee Morrison, former Reform M.P. in the Calgary Herald, September 14, 2008 [8]).

Furthermore, a former Mulroney supporter is now in “charge of various files…” Read this:

“[Senator] Ms. LeBreton is one of the women Mr. Harper put in Cabinet and trusts. She was a staunch Progressive Conservative, most closely tied to Brian Mulroney, and made it into Mr. Harper's inner circle despite her vocal opposition to his vision to unite the right (the former Reformer Party/Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives). Mr. Harper appointed her Conservative leader in the Senate and put her in charge of various files,...” (National Post, September 22, 2008).

This makes one wonder, is Ms. LeBreton now in charge of the abortion “file?” Ms. Breton has said this on abortion:

“… there are certain issues, particularly those that concern women and children, and those of particular concern to women, and here I will use the abortion issue as an example, where even if 99.9 per cent of the members of my party were going one way, I would not support any policy that did not give women the right to choose” (http://www.parl.gc.ca/infoparl/english/issue.htm?param=147&art=983).

And on the “right to choose,” Mr .Harper is on the record as saying this: “Let me be very clear on the positions I’ve have taken on that. I want there to be no misunderstanding. I’ve said repeatedly, that I will not, that my Conservative government will not be tabling any legislation impacting in any way a woman’s right to choose” (June 27, 2006, LifeSiteNews, http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jun/060627a.html).

Mr. Harper is heading for a majority government. But on moral issues is there really any difference between the “conservatives” and the other parties? Are we now immersed in “throw the dogs a bone politics” where we are being promised all kinds of goodies with our own tax dollars and moral issues are not even discussed? Are we back to what a former Reform M.P. called in his Calgary Herald article, “Liberal, Tory, same old story?” And will social conservative people buy the “story” that we have a “conservative” party to vote for and allow themselves to be fooled a second time by the Harper “conservatives?”

For, as Andrew Coyne wrote in MacLean’s of September 10, 2008,
“…Harper's whole time in office has been spent reassuring the public he has no plans to lead them anywhere, that under a Conservative government nothing much would change — they would govern much like the Liberals,…” [9]

Stephen J. Gray
October 6, 2008.

Endnotes:
[1] B.C. Report, magazine article by Terry O’Neill) http://www.axionet.com/bcreport/web/990111f.html

[2] http://gerrynicholls.blogspot.com/2008/03/bilingualism-harpers-new-god.html

[3] http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5cc31fca-80a5-448b-ab5b-ffce081a7502
[4] http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061207/samesexmarriage_vote_061207/20061207?hub=TopStories

[5] http://www..lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/05121606.html).

[6] http://www..swc-cfc.gc.ca/newsroom/news2008/0205_e.html

[7] http://www..lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011707.html

[8] http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story..html?id=55305055-5bff-4b78-8427-7f3c15bcd213

[9] http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080910_115261_115261

Tax Addicted Politicians

2009-11-23T16:20:00.000-08:00

There are dangerous tax addicts ruling our land. The junkies are politicians of all political stripes who are hooked on confiscating money from the people. The people are being burdened by all kinds of taxes, the GST and the PST are some examples, and now the latest one being proposed is the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).

The Ontario and B.C. Liberal governments intend to impose this new tax on July 1, 2010. This Hammer the Serfs Tax, pardon me, Harmonized Sales Tax will be a tax-grab of massive proportions.

An article by CBC news of October 7, 2009 said this:
“…the fact is the federal government is aiding and abetting the provinces. It plans to pay B.C. and Ontario almost $6 billion to ease the transition to the HST.” [1]

So there you have it, “$6 Billion” of our tax dollars are being handed over to the Liberal governments of Ontario and B.C. by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “conservative” government to bring in the HST. Could this be called political bribery paid with our own tax dollars?
And Stephen Harper, leader of the “conservative” government, is on record as saying this: “I don’t believe any taxes are good taxes.” [2]

Mr. Harper is not the only politician to say one thing than do another. CanWest News Service, June 4, 2007, had this headline: “No taxes if re-elected McGuinty promises, honest” the article went on to say, “Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promised Sunday that he won't raise taxes if he is re-elected this fall and insisted he really means it this time.

“The premier, who ran on a no-new-taxes platform in the 2003 election and then introduced one of the largest income tax increases in provincial history, said Ontarians should believe him now ‘because I'm in charge.’” [3]

The Liberal government in Ontario is not the only government to say one thing then do another.

The Liberal Government of B.C., which some people are calling deceitful, are also going to bring in the HST. Yet, they reportedly said this during the election campaign:

“The [B.C.] Liberals provided written statements during the spring campaign to restaurant owners and home builders that they had ‘no plans’ to implement the controversial HST.”
(Journalist, Kent Spencer, in the Province newspaper of July 28, 2009.)

Still, they had an excuse for this change of plans after being elected.
Gordon Campbell’s finance minister said this about the HST: “It was not on our radar before the election…” Isn’t it amazing how this plan to impose the HST just appeared on their “radar” after being elected? A cynic might call this political deceit.

We have reached a stage in this country that no matter who is in power, we cannot trust any of the political class. They are tax addicted, and we are their victims. They are stiffing us every chance they get for more and more taxes. We are being held in political bondage by taxaholics. Sooner rather than later we have to break free. These political parasites are feeding off everything we buy or sell. They have infested the system; therefore, one has to ask: can we afford the money-seizing habits of tax addicted politicians?

Stephen J. Gray
November 23, 2009.
graysinfo@gmail.com http://graysinfo.blogspot.com

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/06/f-hst-tax-0106.html

[2] http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/no-taxes-are-good-taxes-harper/

[3] http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=fd2c231b-1a71-4a2a-a2e4-94a469be0688&k=45702

Too Big to Fail: Too Powerful to go to Jail?

2009-11-19T07:55:00.000-08:00

Based on the evidence available regarding the financial mess created by those who were literally selling junk packaged as assets, one has to ask the question: should some jail time be in order? Or are some of those who run the “financial order” too powerful to go to jail? Do they in fact run and control the system? There were those in this system who were giving triple A ratings to this junk. They were also getting paid big fees for giving it an excellent rating. Which begs the question: How could “respected” rating agencies do such a thing? After all, these people are the so-called experts in the ratings field.

Meanwhile out in the muddied financial field, the brilliant financial minds were selling this manure as safe and solid investments. These “investments” were sold to pension funds, mutual funds, numerous investors and anybody and everybody who would buy this financial dung. Some of the dung-sellers were paid millions in bonuses, proving that old saying rings true: “where there is muck, there is money.” Unfortunately, the people getting the muck were those who bought the useless waste from the money changers and the money changers got their money.

Big profits were made by some of these financial sharks who were touting this financial toilet paper as a good investment, and some of them were selling themselves out of this “good investment” and passing it on to others. One wonders, does this constitute a fraud? Or was this an “honest fraud,” whatever that means, in today’s society of mangled language? Still, one banker did say they did “wrong.” He also said they were doing the work of God. Which makes one wonder, how can one do wrong and be doing God’s work?

Meanwhile, the “working” political elites are travelling around the world at taxpayers’ expense, holding talks on fixing the monetary system. The solution is staring them in the face. They could start by jailing these paper-passing fraud artists and try finding out just how much money is stashed away in their offshore banking and tax-free havens and confiscate it all. But, that will not be done; the powerful are too powerful and the politicians are their dumb lackeys who have provided taxpayers' dollars to the exploiters of the system. Bailouts of billions of taxpayer dollars, called stimulus packages, were handed over to these manipulators of money. Now, the taxpayers everywhere will be paying and suffering for years and years while those who benefited from their tax dollars are allowed to walk away free.

These financial con artists are responsible for people losing their jobs, their homes, their savings, their investments and their peace of mind. In my mind, I believe, a fraud of massive proportions has been perpetrated. The fraud artists have been compensated with taxpayers’ dollars and the losers are the decent people everywhere who believed in the honesty of the financial system.

Stephen. J. Gray
November 19, 2009.

An Open Letter to the “conservative” Party

2009-11-14T13:33:00.000-08:00

I recently received a letter from you asking for a donation. Quite frankly, I have to say I thought your letter was an insult to those of us who believe in the sanctity of human life, the traditional family and freedom of speech. This so-called “conservative” government of yours has intervened against free speech and sided with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and other powerful special interests against free speech. (The Lemire Case) Yet, your “leader” before he came to power said this:
“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society … It is, in fact, totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff” (Stephen Harper)
It would appear, your “leader” says one thing then does another. Dare one, call this hypocrisy?

On another matter the killing of the unborn child by abortion, your leader is on record as saying this: “The Conservative government won't be initiating or supporting abortion legislation, and I'll use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn't come to a vote…” (Stephen Harper) [1]
So much for democracy in “conservative” Canada!

Another example of, “conservative values” is this:
Your government recently gave $400,000 dollars to the Toronto Gay Pride parade where men and women have been known to march naked and make obscene gestures. The Gay and Lesbian newspaper Xtra of Toronto June 16, 2009 said this:
“In what is surely an effort to make Toronto's Pride festival as fabulous as possible Canada's federal government has announced a plan to dish over $400,000 to Pride Toronto.”

The leader of your government says he believes in “family!” He and his government did not have the courage to defend the traditional family on the nonsense called, “same-sex marriage.” Oh sure, he and most of his government voted against it in a lukewarm motion in Parliament. The truth is so-called “same-sex marriage” was never in the Charter and is an invention of nonsensical words. Mr. Harper and his government could have used the not-withstanding clause. But, he is on record as saying the following regarding this nonsense called same-sex marriage, “I will never use the notwithstanding clause on that issue” [2] (Lifesite News December 16, 2005.)
It takes courage to stand up and do the right thing, this I believe, is sadly lacking in the “conservative” party and its leadership.

Still, your “leader” is on record as saying this:
“Individual freedom is something Conservatives value…
What exactly are those conservative values?
I think we all instinctively recognize them when we see them, although it is sometimes difficult to define them. I like to summarize my idea of conservatism in three "Fs" --freedom, family and faith.” (Stephen Harper )

In closing, I have had enough of politicians who I believe are hypocrites, and are a danger to democracy. Please do NOT send me anymore letters asking for donations. I do not believe there is a “conservative” party in Canada.

Stephen J. Gray
November 14, 2009.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/jan/06011707.html

[2] http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/dec/051216.html

A Grateful Financier Thanks the Taxpayers

2009-11-11T08:31:00.000-08:00

Dear Taxpayers,

As I languish by the pool, martini in hand, in my favorite offshore tax haven, I want to give you the ordinary people, the backbone of society, some recognition. You taxpayers are paying to keep our free market system afloat and the financial industry in business. Your hard earned tax dollars were there for us in the financial system when we needed them most, and for that we are eternally grateful. I know many of you have lost your jobs and your pension funds are in the dumpster. Some of you have lost your homes and are in debt to the banks. Still you soldier on amidst all these negatives. But do not worry, be happy, the day of recovery is coming soon, and once again it will be back to business as usual in the market.

The market as you all know had a bad and troubling experience. We were all selling loads of useless paper throughout the financial system. Some beneficiaries of our selling expertise were; your pension funds, state governments and everybody and anybody we could suck in. We were selling this crap, oops, I mean collaterized debt opportunities like there was no tomorrow. But, unfortunately tomorrow arrived and you the taxpayers are picking up the bill for our free market fraud, pardon me, I mean errors. Mistakes were made and some of us, the greedy ones, were left holding this useless lousy paper that we were selling. Now it is being called “toxic paper,” though some of our marketing experts are calling it “troubled assets,” in the hope that it can be sold at a later date when the market recovers. And make no mistake the market will recover as long as there are politicians out there to bail out, oops, I mean stimulate the system, with your tax dollars.

Dollars are important in the financial system, and your tax dollars have been a boon to us. A press of a button and we can move money offshore to our tax free haven. As I sit here, and write this, I think of all you wonderful people who are giving up so much to keep us in the style we are accustomed. Without your help, we might all be broke, just like some of you. But hey, you came through for us and I am sure you will again, when the time comes, as it will, and the market once again plunges after we take our profits.

Profits are good and a blessing to us all. That old saying: “profit from your mistakes,” comes to mind. A good example is some of the bankers who made “mistakes” selling the “toxic paper,” I mean, “troubled assets,” now they are profiting from the bailouts, pardon me, I mean stimulus packages of your tax dollars. Big bonuses are being handed out by them, courtesy of your tax monies that helped them stay in business. So we are all raising a glass in your honor and toasting our successes.

Success is important to us all, and I include you the taxpayers. Without successful bailouts, I mean stimulus packages of your tax dollars, we moneychangers would be devastated. Now we are all stimulated and watered and fed by your generosity. So thank you for all you have done for us. Keep smiling, keep faith in the market, think positive and know that we financiers depend upon you for our bread and butter. I will close by quoting one of our esteemed banker friends, who said just the other day that: “We are doing God’s work,” though I am sure that some cynical people will say the false God Mammon is more appropriate. Anyway, thank you all for your assistance in keeping the “free market” functioning and I hope to see some of you at my next investment seminar.

Sincerely,
Mr. B.S. Baloney c/o Cayman Islands

Stephen J. Gray
November 11, 2009.

The Paper Shufflers

2009-11-08T14:32:00.000-08:00

I wrote this over a year ago SJG.

They shuffle their paper around the world
Betting on commodities, “free market” banners unfurled
Speculating on food to make a profit
While the poor go hungry and starve because of it

Boosting the prices in many a nation
This is the game of commodities speculation
Fortunes are made in the wink of an eye
And the price of rice goes sky high

The “free marketers” in food are making a killing
People are dying, while the speculators are living
These financial vultures in their luxury office towers
Are “money managers.” Oh what a shower!

No sweat, no labour: These are societies non-producers
Manipulating currencies and betting on futures
These are the rich and the present day “street people.”
In the French revolution they hanged them from a steeple

But that was in the time of barbarism
Now we call it capitalism
“Let the marketplace decide,” they cry
And if there are losses the taxpayers are standing by

The peoples taxes will bail out any losses
And huge salaries are paid to the financial bosses
These are the new rulers of all they survey
And their motto is: “Make the people pay.”

For financial manipulation is “honest toil?”
And they keep betting up the price of oil
The people will have to learn to survive they say
For this is the paper shufflers day

Stephen J. Gray
June 8, 2008.

The “Good” Corporate Citizens

2009-11-05T10:45:00.000-08:00

I wrote the article below in 2007. SJG
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Do some of the “good” corporate citizens have no conscience, no morals, no ethics and no principles?
Examples: They invest in countries like communist China where slave labour has been used. They shut down plants in democratic countries in order to take advantage of cheap labour in communist China. Polluted and poisoned goods from China have been exported to other countries. The communist dictators in China brook no dissent. Dissidents have reportedly been tortured, and a one child policy in China results in forced abortions. Some Chinese people have been forced from their homes for the 2008 Olympic Games, but hey, this will be a good venue for the “good” corporate citizens to advertise at, and also celebrate.

Some of the “good” corporate citizens also like a “good” celebration in North America. Their company logos can be seen in “parades of pride” where men have marched naked and some in the parade can be seen making obscene gestures. One “good” corporate company was even going to give a pornography service on their cell phones. (which they later withdrew after protests by decent people.) Some also sponsor TV programs that promote pornography.

“The once underground pornography industry is now very much aboveground and impossible to avoid.”
“Profiting from that industry now are major corporations and mainstream entertainment companies. Annual revenues for the porn industry are estimated at about $10 billion a year.” [1]

Still, these “good” corporate citizens must believe they are providing a “good” public service?

Some other services the “good” corporate citizens have provided over the years has been investing in the communist Soviet Union before the fall of communism. While they were telling all and sundry about the dangers of communism.

“There is no incentive to place optimistic bets on the future when the companies who are today most committed to the [communist] East are the very same which cooperated with the Nazi system.” [2]

But hey, the corporate communists/fascists have to make an honest dollar somewhere! And during the second world war some of them even had business interests with the Nazis. But, money has no conscience: The Financial Post of December 28, 1996 had a headline, “BIS received Nazi gold stolen from Belgium- and knew it,” the article goes on to say: “The Bank for International Settlements received clearly marked bars of Belgian government gold stolen by Nazi Germany during the Second World War and refused to return it to Belgium unless all future claims for stolen assets were renounced,…”

Money has no allegiance to any country that’s why many “good” corporate citizens use offshore tax havens. There are no tax havens for the working people of today’s society. Sure, they get miniscule tax breaks on their tax returns, but the offshore outlaws get a free lunch at taxpayers expense. ‘…Tax havens are the seedy back street bars of the financial world, where corporations and multi-millionaires huddle in shadowy corners to pursue their business out of sight of respectable citizens.’ [3]

Citizens of many countries supposedly elect democratic governments and expect their political representatives to pursue good policies for their countries. Yet, are we seeing “good” policies? These elected rulers are allowing the “good” corporate citizens to proliferate pornography. They allow them to manipulate the tax system through offshore tax havens. They even bail them out with taxpayers dollars as witness the sub prime mortgage debacle in the United States. And some politicians after leaving politics finish up on corporate boards where they become a part of the “good” corporate citizenry

Stephen J. Gray
August 31, 2007.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=705

[2] Charles Levinson in his book,“Vodka-Cola” page 207.)

[3 http://www.uniset.ca/microstates/g_taxhavens.htm

(Books worth reading): “Vodka- Cola” by Charles Levinson and “Trading with the Enemy” by Charles Higham)

The Debasers and the Destroyers of Freedom in Canada

2009-11-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

To understand how freedom is being debased and destroyed in Canada one has to go back a number of years to the beginning.

Trade Unions

The loss of personal freedoms in Canada had its roots in a decision by an appointed Supreme Court judge. His name was Ivan C. Rand. This judge was the instigator of compulsory union dues by a decision he made in 1946, this was known as “The Rand Decision.” A person did not have to “belong” to the union but must pay union dues for collective bargaining.

Now collective bargaining has evolved into collective coercion, and compulsory union dues are being used by the trade unions for all kinds of causes and policies unrelated to the workplace. Some of these issues are as follows: abortion clinics, so-called same-sex marriage, socialism, the abortionist, Morgentaler, National Action Committee on the Status of Women and numerous other organizations unrelated to collective bargaining. Trade union leaders keep insisting that these non-workplace issues are decided “democratically” at conventions. Which begs the question: How can one have COMPULSORY democracy: when the so-called Charter of Rights and Freedoms lists, “freedom of association” as a “fundamental freedom?”

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms

This Charter was imposed by the political elites of the day. The ordinary people who are ruled by it did not get to vote on whether they wanted this Charter of Pierre Trudeau’s.

“…the Charter was a ruse. Trudeau wanted to consolidate power in the Supreme Court of Canada and weaken Parliament.” [1]

And weak parliaments have now succumbed to rule by appointed the judges. Here are some examples.

The judges say the Charter is a “living tree” and the people have to live with the rotten fruit it produces.

Then from the “living tree” come the great new “rights” found in the charter.

An abortionist who consistently broke the law was finally given clearance to ply his abominable trade of killing the child in the womb, after a majority of judges struck down the abortion law. Now the country has no law on abortion and the killing of the innocents is declared a “choice.”

Another judge declares that anyone arriving on the shores of the country be they criminals, terrorists, drug dealers or whatever have “rights” under the charter.

Another judge states that criminals are “morally worthy” to vote.

Another “learned” judge has a hallucination and “reads in” words not written in the Charter.

A judicial threesome then “discovers” a “right” in the Charter that men can “marry” men and that women can “marry” women. The politicians then tell the people that under the charter “same-sex marriage” is a “right.” Of course this nonsense was never in the Charter, but what’s a big lie amongst the elites.

Another judge states that orgies are okay as long as no “harm” is done. And the country is now open for orgies everywhere. These are just some examples of the abominations imposed by judges and accepted by politicians as “normal” for the country.

Human Rights Commissions (HRC)

These HRCs have no place in a free society. They have become another form of insidious dictatorship where free speech can be called a “hate crime.”
The Canadian Jewish News of 29 October, 2009 said this:

“The federal anti-hate law that ‘official Jews’ lobbied for and got passed has, 32 years later, backfired, sowing the seeds for political correctness, media chill and censorship…” [2]

And the Canadian “conservative” government has been an intervenor against free speech.

“The Attorney General of Canada, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and B'nai Brith Canada will be
intervening in the Lemire case in support of Section 13, arguing that it is a reasonable restriction on freedom of speech” (Canadian Constitution Foundation Letter of April 28, 2008.)

Freedom of expression is a right guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; yet, the Attorney General of Canada along with others is an intervenor in the Lemire case. Free speech is either FREE or it isn’t. We already have laws on the books if people defame or libel other people, why do we need these HRCs?

We may not like what people say but in the words of Voltaire, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” In Canada today, we are seeing the death of free speech. People are being harassed, and dragged before these undemocratic, appointed HRCs. Some of those who have been persecuted are: Mark and Connie Fournier of the Free Dominion website, Chris Kempling, Scott Brockie, Knights of Columbus, Stephen Boissoin, Bishop Henry, Fr. De Valk, editor of Catholic Insight magazine, the Christian Heritage Party and MacLean’s magazine among others. Nobody is safe from these appointed interrogators of totalitarian bent. Anything you say may be taken down and used against you and reported to unelected, appointed, Human Rights Commissars (HRCs). Those dragged before these Stalinist tribunals have to pay for their own lawyers and their own defence. Meanwhile, their accusers are given a free ride, and the politicians sit back and allow this perversion of democracy.

University Campuses

Free speech on Canadian campuses is constantly under attack; that is, if pro-life people dare to attempt to present the evidence of abortion. Anyone daring to show pictures of the killing of the innocent child in the womb, or to even talk about it, is often subject to having their presentation disrupted, destroyed, broken up, or shouted down by the little jackbooted brown shirts who masquerade under the banner of “choice.” These are so-called students who are in favor of “freedom of choice,” but when it comes to showing the victims of choice, that choice is denied.
See these two videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eulKIaVM9DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTXw6zIHRQ

Universities are supposed to be places of higher learning where free discussion and opinion are supposed to exist. But, they do not exist in most of the universities in Canada, if anyone dares to show or speak the truth about abortion. This state of affairs has been going on for years.

The Politicians

Politicians brought HRCs into being and gave them legitimacy. Now the politicians sit back and allow these Human Rights Commissars which they created, to run roughshod over us all. Which makes one wonder just who is really running the country? And why do we bother having elections? Oh, I forgot, we live in a “democracy,” Yeah, sure!

In summing up, one has to say, the people of Canada are being forced to ride along with this motley gang of unelected appointed judges and human rights commissions; trade unions with compulsory membership and jackbooted thugs on Canadian university campuses, and cowardly politicians who will not defend freedom. There is no freedom if you are not politically correct. The so-called Charter of Rights is a farce. This farcical Charter has become a judicial monster that devours freedom, morality and decency and vomits compulsion, filth and depravity. We now live in a pretend democracy, and we are seeing the continual debasement and destruction of freedom in Canada.

Stephen J. Gray
November 3, 2009.

Endnotes:
[1] Joe C.W. Armstrong, in his book “Farewell the Peaceful Kingdom” page 75.

[2] http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17912&Itemid=86

The Last Free Man: Is This What is to Come?

2009-10-27T10:32:00.000-07:00

Charlie was thinking, where did it all begin? How had freedom become lost?
As a child, his parents had had a chip transplanted in his body to save him from kidnappers, and all the “experts” said this was a good thing, because he could be tracked and traced. Later it had become normal for everybody to be chipped. There were chips in one’s driving license, chips in all the credit cards, chips in the medical cards; people were tracked everywhere. Everybody had a number as well as a chip. But, WHO was in charge. WHO was The World Healthy Organization and it now had more power than governments. The WHO had a mandate to declare a pandemic and everybody had to be vaccinated in an emergency. Now there were emergencies all the time and the people were lining up to be inoculated. There were even fights in some places by people jumping the queue and clamoring to get the needle. Charlie thought so many vaccinations over the years has conditioned us to accept the WHO declarations.

Every time there was a WHO declaration of a pandemic, the big multi-national drug companies salivated at their corporate mouths. And the people, now conditioned to accept whatever they were told, considered the latest needle their saviour. The “news” propaganda machines also worked overtime every time a pandemic was declared and the people lined up to get the needle. After all, the vaccine was FREE they were told by the corporate media. Of course this was a big lie, because the taxpayers everywhere paid for this “free” vaccine.

The vaccines were “safe” the people were told, and everybody wanted to be safe. Safety was now a WHO needle. Some rebellious people had complained they did not trust the WHO about the vaccinations, but they were classed as a danger to society and unpatriotic. Many were shamed into acceptance or reported to the Human Rights Commissions for endangering the rights of others.

Some others had fled into the hills to escape the WHO but were tracked down because they were already chipped and numbered. There was no escape from the WHO. Charlie had thought of escaping, but where could he go? The land was a peaceful prison. To flee the country needed a passport and every passport had to be stamped as having the latest WHO needle and the WHO controlled most of the “free” world. This really needled Charlie and was causing him to think that he was a prisoner of the system.

Stephen J. Gray
October 27, 2009.

The Disruptions of Free Speech on Canadian University Campuses

2009-10-26T16:17:00.000-07:00

Free speech on Canadian campuses is constantly under attack; that is, if pro-life people dare to attempt to present the evidence of abortion. Anyone daring to show pictures of the killing of the innocent child in the womb, or to even talk about it, is often subject to having their presentation disrupted, destroyed, broken up, or shouted down by the little jackbooted brown shirts who masquerade under the banner of “choice.” These are so-called students who are in favor of “freedom of choice,” but when it comes to showing the victims of choice, that choice is denied.

Universities are supposed to be places of higher learning where free discussion and opinion are supposed to exist. But, they do not exist in most of the universities in Canada. today, if anyone dares to show or speak the truth about abortion. This state of affairs has been going on for years.

In November 1999, pro-life students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) held a Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) display; this was attacked and trashed by three pro-abortion students on campus. One of the leaders of this assault on the GAP display was a “founder of Students for Choice, a group formed in opposition to GAP…” (The Ubyssey magazine, November 26,1999). This incident was captured on video and can be seen here:
http://www.abortionno.org/GAP/violence/violence.html

These students who trashed the pro-life display were taken to court by the pro-life students who were awarded damages of $5000 against them. To this day none of these pro-abort vandals have paid up and the pro-life students had to pay their own court costs. This is justice in Canada?

Another disruption by the supporters of “choice” was at Saint Mary’s university in Halifax, where a presentation by Jojo Ruba of the Canadian Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) was shouted down by student thugs. (See article here: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/mar/09030208.html )

A video of these pro-abort thugs can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eulKIaVM9DE

Another invasion by pro-abort thugs happened at McGill University on October 9, 2009. Jojo Ruba again had his presentation destroyed and was told to “f-ck off.”
See video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTXw6zIHRQ

These are just some examples, there are many more, of what is happening on Canadian campuses today. The campuses are in the hands of jackbooted young thugs, who want to suppress any free discussion or free debate of the abortion issue. I believe there needs to be an investigation into just who is supporting these young thugs, and their intolerant behaviour must not be permitted to continue.

Stephen J. Gray
October 26, 2009.

Note: See the slaughtered victims of abortion that many people want to suppress at this link: http://www.AbortionNo.org

The “Recovery” after the Robbery?

2009-10-18T07:11:00.000-07:00

Was it the biggest robbery in the history of the planet? Many of the inhabitants had seen their pension funds and investments lose some, or nearly all their value, some had seen their jobs destroyed, their homes repossessed, all blamed in the name of the “recession.”

How did the robbery, oops, I mean “recession” happen? It happened, when the money changers and the financial “experts” packaged and sold “assets” which were really debt. They sold this debt under nice sounding names to various financial institutions and each other. Then these financial “experts” proceeded to sell this debt to the workers pension funds, local governments and other funds that people had invested in. Other investors were also persuaded to accept these toxic assets, oops, I mean “troubled assets.” After all, these were the finest minds in the financial system selling them, and who would not trust the money changers?

The money changers charged fees for selling this debt and the financial system was swamped with this worthless paper. The toxic paper manipulators, the movers and shakers of the financial system of the planet; many of them have subsidiaries offshore in tax free havens. Therefore, the question must be asked: Did some of them transfer their monetary gains from these “troubled assets” to their offshore banking accounts? After all, would they really put their money in banks that they knew would soon need taxpayer bailouts. Some had even received huge bonuses for presiding over this financial debacle. And the citizens of the world were left holding the empty bags of their looted economies in these times of change.

There was no spare change left in the money system. So, what could be done? Some governments were now being advised by those who had broke the system, no pun intended, and so it was decided that the tax dollars of the people would be used to bail out, oops, I mean “stimulate” the system. After all, stimulate sounds better than bail out. But, I digress.

Bailout packages, I mean “stimulus packages” of taxpayers trillions were given to some of the elite money changers. Cynics were thinking, was this robbery, without violence, of taxpayers dollars? The same people who had caused the “recession” were now being rewarded. But hey, who better to fix the system than those who had robbed it, I mean, broke it?

But, good news had now arrived. The word was out that the “recession” was now over. It would be a “jobless recovery.” And how true that statement was. Unemployment was rising and was reportedly the highest in years in some of the world’s countries. But it was not all gloom and doom. The money changers were back in “business.” Some of the bailed out, oops, I mean stimulated financial institutions were now handing out huge bonuses, after being stimulated by taxpayers dollars. The only losers were the taxpayers, but hey, somebody has to pay to keep the money changers afloat in this sea of financial toilet paper.

Now there was talk of flushing out the system by the peoples’ governments. Of course, this was just talk to appease the masses. After all, what could governments do? The same financial elites who crashed the system were now advising these same governments. The financial foxes were in the political henhouse, and the chickens might be plucked once again, at the appropriate time.

Anyway, at this point in time, the good news is, the greatest robbery, oops I mean greatest “recession” in the history of mankind is now in “recovery” mode. But, be cautious, don’t bank on it.

Stephen J. Gray
October 18, 2009.

The Tax Slaves

2009-09-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

The Tax Slaves

Slave: “a person entirely under the domination of some influence…” [1]

In the middle ages the ordinary people were called serfs and literally taxed unto death. The rulers of the serfs were kings and queens and the nobility class who ruled over various fiefdoms.

Now fast forward to the present day where we have a political class ruling over us. They may not have the title king or queen or be of the nobility class, though some believe they are political nobles, but they impose taxes upon us and their titles are “right honorable” and “honorable. The only changes from the days of old are that our “rulers” no longer ride horses or live in castles or wear strange attire. Instead, they wear suits and dresses and some have chauffeur driven limousines and they rule from what have become, “Houses of ill Repute.” From these houses they levy crippling taxes upon the modern day tax slaves who gave them power.

This power is achieved not by the brute force of olden days, but by the political force of unbridled power. The political powers promise the tax slaves some of their own money back if they vote for them in an “election.” Then, after being elected, they proceed to punish the people by imposing upon them more taxes.

The ruling class, appetite for taxes is voracious. One tax imposed by them is the “Goods
and Services Tax” (GST) whose more realistic name should be the Gouging for Services
Tax (GST). This tax was imposed by one government and another government promised to get rid of it, if elected. They did get elected, but guess what, they kept the gouging tax. So much for political honesty! But hey, can the people expect any honesty from tax addicted politicians?

Another tax imposed by some of the political barons is the “Provincial Sales Tax” (PST).
A more apt name for this tax would be Punish the Slaves Tax (PST). And now, the political parasites have dreamed up another tax, called the “Harmonized Sales Tax” (HST), where just about everything purchased will be subject to this tax. The
real name of this tax is Hammer the Slaves Tax (HST) and the peoples’ resources are being sucked dry by these political parasites who literally feed off the peoples’ taxes.

Taxes have become the weapon by which the people are being hammered into submission. We live in an age of political bondage where the people are prisoners of an out of control tax system. This system is lorded over by political charlatans who have become tax tyrants, just like the rulers of olden days, and thus, the people are prisoners of a structure imposed by politicians that has turned them into tax slaves.

Stephen J. Gray
September 15, 2009.

Endnote:

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slave

Politicians Don’t Lie: Do they?

2009-09-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

There are those who say politicians lie; surely this is not true? After all, they do boast the title of “right honorable” and “honorable.” And surely anyone who bears the title, “right honorable” and “honorable” would not lie? Here in B.C. there is a public outcry over the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), which will be brought in by the Campbell government in July 2010.The Province newspaper of July 28, 2009 said, “The [Campbell] Liberals provided written statements during the spring campaign to restaurant owners and home builders that they had ‘no plans’ to implement the controversial HST.”

Yet, Scampbell, oops, pardon me, I mean Campbell and his government after being re- elected, plan to bring in the HST. Some cynical people are calling this about face lying, but hey, “honorable” politicians do not lie, do they? In fact Campbell’s finance minister said this about the HST, "It was not on our radar before the election," (The Province, July 30, 2009.)

So there you have it, it just appeared on their “radar” after the election. Which raises the question, do they have faulty radar? Was there a malfunction of their equipment? Or is this just an excuse for stiffing the people with another tax? Still, politicians are “honorable” people, are they not, and they would not cheat or lie to the people, would they?

The politicians will be reaping a tax bonanza from this Hammer the Suckers Tax (HST). Just about every dollar people spend will be hammered with this tax. Some might call it political robbery by deceitful politicians, but hey, politicians are called “right honorable“ and “honorable,” therefore political banditry and deceiving the taxpayers are surely wrong words to use? After all, these are “honorable” members of the political class, and what really happened was a malfunction of their “radar.”

And talking about faulty “radar,” Premier Scampbell, oops, I mean Campbell, and his finance minister, appear to have miscalculated the deficit. The Vancouver Province of September 2, 2009 said, “Finance Minister Colin Hansen admitted Tuesday the 2009/10 Budget deficit will be $2.8 billion — five times greater than the $495-million projection in February that Premier Gordon Campbell claimed was a ‘maximum’ deficit during the May election campaign.”

Hey, an election campaign is all about good news. Hammer the Suckers Tax (HST) was not on the “radar” during the election and the deficit was only going to be a projected “$495-million.” Now it will be “$2.8billion.” Not to worry, Hammer the Suckers Tax (HST) will be a goldmine for Scampbell’s oops, I mean Campbell’s government. And during the next election, four years down the road, they will be boasting once again about how they managed your tax dollars. I wonder then if the people will realize at this time how much of their hard earned money was confiscated by these “right honorable” and “honorable” politicians and re-elect them one more time. After all, politicians don’t lie…do they?

Stephen. J. Gray
September 9, 2009.

Did Campbell’s Liberal Government Deceive the People?

2009-08-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

“Leadership requires for people to be up front.” [1]
Gordon Campbell, Premier of B.C. during televised debate.

Was Gordon Campbell “upfront” before the election about bringing in the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)? I believe the answer is NO. So what kind of “leadership” are we getting from this guy?

Journalist, Kent Spencer, in the Province newspaper of July 28, 2009 said,
“The Liberals provided written statements during the spring campaign to restaurant owners and home builders that they had ‘no plans’ to implement the controversial HST.” [2]

Journalist, Michael Smyth writing in the Province of August 9, 2009 in his article headlined, “How a GST rebel turned into the HST thief” wrote this,
“Remember back when Gordon Campbell was a tax-fighter? The guy who said your money was better off in your own pocket than in the slush funds of government?
Now he's the guy who loves the GST so much that he's merging our provincial sales tax with it and slamming it on dozens of PST-exempt goods and services….
Oh, how the worm has turned! Now he is the tax-grabbing politician turning a deaf ear to the people.”[3]

I believe he is doing more than “turning a deaf ear to the people,” he is going to confiscate more of our hard earned money and savings. But hey, we are told it’s “revenue neutral.” Yeah sure, there is nothing “neutral’ about another tax grab by tax hungry, less than truthful politicians. Why did he not have the courage to bring this HST before the people during the election campaign? Was he afraid he would be defeated? Did he care more about deceiving the people to get their vote, rather than being honest with them on the election trail?

Journalist Tom Fletcher writing in the Abbotsford News of August 12, 2009 had this to say, “Much has been written about Premier Gordon Campbell and Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s bald-faced effort to convince voters that they had a sudden conversion to a harmonized sales tax after the election. This is just as believable as Hansen’s last fart in the elevator….” [4]

I believe this harmonized tax smells of polluted politics, and the people getting suffocated are the taxpayers of BC. We need a mechanism to rid us of untrustworthy politicians who say one thing then do another. Politicians should have to sign a conditions of employment, and if they violate it, they should be instantly dismissed. Waiting four years for another election should not be an option. If you deceived your employer at work you would be fired on the spot; therefore, the people should be able to fire politicians when they deceive them. They are supposed to serve the people, but instead make the people into tax paying serfs. HST may be the name politicians call it to make it sound nice, but the people are not in agreement with it. The real name of this regressive tax is Hit the Suckers Tax (HST) and people are fed up being played for suckers by deceitful politicians.

Stephen J. Gray
August 16, 2009.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.straight.com/article-218179/ndps-carole-james-delivers-spellbinding-performance-leaders-debate

[2] http://www.theprovince.com/news/Liberals+they+didn+break+promise+just+changed+their+minds/1834571/story.html

[3] ] http://www.theprovince.com/travel/rebel+turned+into+thief/1875052/story.html

[4] http://www.bclocalnews.com/fraser_valley/abbynews/opinion/53072607.html

The Red Tories, oops, I mean “Conservatives” Win Media Approval

2009-08-13T09:08:00.000-07:00

“The Conservatives have made themselves electable by making themselves indistinguishable from the Liberals.” (Columnist Richard Gwyn, The Toronto Star, 22 March 2005.)

Gee, isn’t it grand to know the Red Tories, oops, I mean the “Conservatives” are now “electable?” So what does it take to get “electable” and media approval? First of all you must state clearly that on the issue of abortion you will not pass a law. Then the abortion supporting media will give you praise for getting rid of an “extremist” principle and being on the proper road to becoming government and being a “mainstream” alternative to the Liberals.

Don’t you love this liberal media? They criticize pro-life people for being “one issue” people yet as soon as Harper and the Red Tories, oops, I mean “Conservatives,” say they will not legislate on abortion they go into ecstasy mode and declare the “Conservative” convention a success. A Quebec paper had this to say about the Tory convention: “They also appeared moderate enough to govern, on most of the contentious issues on the floor, none more so than abortion. Harper supported a resolution that a Conservative government would not introduce abortion legislation, and when it passed, another resolution to ban late term abortions became moot.” (The Gazette, Montreal, March 21, 2005.)

Still it’s not only the liberal media that is back on side, even old Progressive Conservatives are filled with Red Tory joy. A Tory Senator had this to say: “Senator Pierre Claude Nolin boasted that members from Quebec had helped draw the party to the centre of the political spectrum, to a point where it is not far from his former party, the Progressive Conservatives.” He went on to say: "The things we adopted suit me, and I consider myself pretty progressive," he said.” ( National Post, March 21, 2005. )

Wow, it really is a relief to know that the Senator is on side. Can they now expect a “Conservative” landslide in Quebec in the next election after this endorsement? This is starting to sound like a Red Tory love in! Perhaps we’ll get approval from Joe Clark next? Where are you Joe now that they need you? They need your political expertise and confirmation that things are now “pretty progressive.” This would really seal the full meal deal. Anyway it’s good to know Quebec is on side. It was a good idea to hold the convention there, it lets them know that this is not an “intolerant” or “bigoted’ party. A Quebec delegate had this to say: "We've finally put the whole social conservatism thing to rest, and we have a strong, moderate policy platform to build on, this has been a good convention for us all around," said Dany Renauld, a long-time Tory organizer and one of 500 Quebec delegates.” ( The Toronto Star, 21 March 2005 )

Quebec was also at the forefront on the abortion issue: “ Quebec-based Tories were mostly buoyant at the convention's end. The reason? Delegates from the province mustered their troops to lobby hard - and successfully - in ensuring the party opposed legislating on abortion.” (The Toronto Star, March 21, 2005.)

With Quebec on side the next election should be a walkover. Who needs those silly western policies like recall and referendum anyway? Bury them, and they did: A Quebec newspaper article said this: “Two basic tenets of the old Reform movement, recall and referendums, were given an unceremonious burial.” The article went on to say: “The Quebec delegates, mostly remnants of the former PCs, got what they demanded from Harper's office to organize a provincial wing. They also got what they wanted in one resolution recognizing the fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces, and another supporting official bilingualism.” ( The Gazette, Montreal, March 21, 2005.)

Well, isn’t that nice and good to know that official bilingualism will still be maintained even though its costing the taxpayers billions over the years it has been in operation. Still, it is money well spent, isn’t it? And that’s what counts, eh? Now the Red Tories, oops, I mean “Conservatives” cannot be accused of being fiscal conservatives when they endorse expensive official bilingualism. Heck, the way they are trashing all the “neanderthal” populist policies they used to have; “same-sex marriage” is the only one keeping them from being “mainstream.” The Toronto Star had this to say: “As for his opposition to same-sex marriages, it's fair to guess that Harper has only adopted this stance as a sop to his considerable number of ex-Reform/Alliance social conservatives. In exchange, he's been able to abandon the party's opposition to abortion and to junk all its Reform-type populist notions, such as voter recall and citizen-initiated referendums.” (Toronto Star, 22 March, 2005.)

In summing up these are great days to be a Red Tory, oops, I mean “Conservative.” Everything went almost smoothly at the convention except for a bit of a blow up over “equality of ridings”, but this was solved after the Deputy Leader of the party stuck to his Red Tory “principles.” And a resolution went down to defeat that would have given clout to ridings with more members. This resolution was: “The one the PC wing of the party needed to win, and the one Harper passed the word it must win, was the defeat of a resolution tying riding representation to the number of members, rather than all ridings being equally represented.” ( The Gazette, Montreal, March 21, 2005.)

A cynic might say this was how the West got done, and delivered to the Red Tories.

Anyway the “ Conservative family” is back together again. Brian even sent best wishes and Senator Pat was on stage at the end of the convention. Most of the media are on side and it is all systems go. The Red Tories, oops, I mean “Conservatives” are, according to a media pundit, “indistinguishable from the Liberals.” So the “Conservatives” are in “good” liberal shape, to have won media approval.

Stephen J. Gray

March 29, 2005.