JOHN CHUCKMAN

POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL

“Ottawa allows RCMP, border agency to use torture-tainted information”

Our country is being dragged down to the lowest ethics by this shabby, shabby government.

I almost can’t believe that a thoughtful person would announce such a policy, but then there are many things done by this gang of grovelers to America and its interests that I almost cannot believe.

You talk of forgetting the past?

This is forgetting the centuries of immense and bloody struggle in the Western world to establish human and democratic rights.

Tossed overboard overnight by an unblinkingly militaristic government in the South, and it makes no difference there who holds office because they all serve the same interests.
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It won’t be long before Harper signs us up to free access to American authority on every level.

We’ll have armed thugs darting in and out of our country to enforce their laws and interests.
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“I don’t care how it was obtained. Use it to save lives.”

Save lives?

What an utterly foolish thing to say.

Who is doing most of the killing today all over the world?

You’re wrong if you say Muslim extremists.

The latest detailed study of American drone attacks – several thousand killings – shows that for the period covered, more than 70% of the victims in Pakistan were innocent civilians.

And of course, even the intended targets are indeed innocent under our law and the law of the savages carrying out these operations.

And did you know that now the thugs running this killing machine have adopted the tactics of American anti-abortion terrorists?

The hellish practice is that a second attack is made as soon as emergency response and families and neighbors begin heading for the first attack site.

Truly, what better example of terror do we have in today’s world?
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We are being turned into Israel without consultation or consent by this extremist government, and Israel, as polls regularly show, is one of the least admired countries on the planet.

 

 

 

JOHN CHUCKMAN

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL

My perception is that Harper’s government has precisely one competent and respectable senior minister, Jim Flaherty, and even he has his shortcomings.

He remains the only one in international exposure that is not an embarrassment to the country.

Harper’s list of clowns and weasels is long and may well serve as further evidence for the demonstrated principle that extremely conservative views are associated with lower intelligence.

Peter Kent, Bev Oda, Peter MacKay, Leona Aglukkaq, Vic Toews, and, in the past, Helena Guergis, Maxime Bernier resemble a skit from Monty Python on government. We’ve never been so low in public esteem.

I’ll add John Baird who, although intelligent, has the manner of a savage ultra-orthodox Israeli settler shooting at Palestinian children and bulldozing olive groves.

How do you “sweep” with toxic material like that?
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“Amazing – after 4 elections the Harper party is still talentless.”

Yes, pretty well talent-less so far as ministers.

But you cannot call Harper talent-less.

His set of redoubtable skills is a dark one, truly Machiavellian . Canada has not seen anything quite like him in my lifetime.

He has a thick hide, little or no respect for opponents and even disappointing associates, and, while mouthing slogans, his whole direction shows virtually no respect for democratic values or genuine human rights.

He displays many qualities that might fairly be described along the lines of an intelligent, manipulative, sociopathic personality.