Paul Martin Liberals Give Our Tax Dollars to Christianophobic Bigots and Won't Stop

Indeed, that's a strong statement. But it's true. That's why I'm posting this information. The Paul Martin Liberals are giving my and your money to hatefully intolerant left-wing extremists yet again and unapologetically so.

The LifeSite reports that Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott discovered, via the Access to Information Act, that the ruling Paul Martin Liberals, via Status of Women Canada, last year granted $27,400 to the BC Pro-Choice Action network (pro-CAN).

Mr. Vellacott sent a letter to Liza Frulla, Liberal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Minister responsible for Status of Women, which states, in part:

Pro-CAN spokesperson Joyce Arthur uses derogatory labels to describe individuals who are pro-life, saying their opposition to abortion, "comes primarily from religious justifications for oppressing women" and a need to "maximize (the Catholic Church's) membership levels to maintain their worldly influence and wealth." Pro-CAN accuses pro-life Christians of being "religious fanatics" who do "little or nothing for children once they are born." She says pro-life Christians are "anti-woman and anti-child," have views which are "uninformed, sexist, cruel," and lack the ability to empathize which "breeds intolerance, hate crimes, and war." Ms. Arthur says that the pro-lifer's attitude towards women is like "the slaveholder's attitude to blacks, and the Nazi's attitude to Jews."

Oh, dear. What an example of ultra far left-wing Christianophobia.

Mr. Vellacott in the letter called for prompt action to curtail all funding to the group and an apology to all Christians:

The government should be taking no part in spreading this sort of bigotry. Please ensure that any current funding to Pro-CAN ceases immediately and that no future taxpayer money be given to this group. And please have your department issue a public apology to all Christians and pro-life Canadians because of your department's financial support of this hate mongering organization.

The report describes Ms. Frulla's response:

In a curt reply dated October 18, Minister Frulla says, "I appreciate being made aware of your concerns." The Minister acknowledges that pro-CAN and the other pro-abortion activist groups mentioned in the letter by Vellacott, "did indeed receive funding under the women's Program of Status of Women Canada."

Frulla suggested she was well aware of the activities of pro-CAN, but found no objection to funding the anti-Christian group with public monies. "Each application is assessed according to a stringent set of objectives and criteria . . . Please be assured that the initiatives cited in your letter, which did indeed receive funding, met all of the above-mentioned objectives and eligibility criteria."

Amazing. The Minister is aware of the hate propaganda of the group, yet deems them fit, according to the Liberals' "stringent set of objectives and criteria" to receive my and your hard-earned and easily taken money. The "objectives and criteria" are what? To be viciously intolerant of Christians? Is that what the Liberal Party of Paul Martin believes to be an example of their pompously trumpeted "Canadian values"?

What if the group instead was opposed to same-sex marriage? We know the Liberals would've told them to go to hell rather than grant them our money. What if they said similarly bad things about Muslims? Then the Liberals would have them charged with criminally intolerant expression against a religious minority, probably.

Yet we see the fascistic double standards of the ultra far left being continued, encouraged and funded (with my and your money) by the ruling Paul Martin "Liberal" regime.

Tell me, is this what the Liberals believe to be an example of their often pompously, patronizingly trumpeted set of "Canadian values", which aren't written anywhere, by the way, and only are whatever the Liberal Party deems them to be whenever they see fit?

Is the Liberal Party of Paul Martin Christianophobic? They're giving our money to hatefully extreme Christianophobes, after all.

No wonder our taxes continue to be so high. Paul Martin and the so-called "Liberals" are always giving it away to the ultra far left!

Rabinovitch Falls off Chair: Captions, Please!

CBC President Robert Rabinovitch fell out of his chair the other day while pouring a glass of water.

How the hell does one fall off a chair onto the floor just pouring a glass of what may or may not be water? Perhaps some disgruntled CBC moonbat slipped the big kahuna of the Communist Brainwashing Commission a mickey? Perhaps the water was spiked? Maybe we should have a Gomery Inquiry into what happened?

This is too good an opportunity to pass up... come on, everyone! Think up a good, funny caption for the photo!

Paul Martin Liberals Give $2.9 Million of Our Money to Anti-Israel Coalition

From Canada Free Press:

The social justice missioned KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives has received $2.9-million from CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) during the past two years.

KAIROS, which has 25 years of experience in supporting human rights and peace building in the Middle East, states on its literature that "Until a Palestinian state is realized, Israel is an occupying power in the Palestinian Territories and must respect international law as specified in the Fourth Geneva Convention."

Note the group's assertion, without basis given, that Israel is "occupying" the "Palestinian Territories". This is false, as, in fact, Israel won the territories in the war of 1967 in which it was attacked, unprovoked, by the former owners of the territories, Egypt (which owned the Gaza Strip, which was actually given to the Palestinian Authority recently) and Jordan (which owned the West Bank). Therefore, there has never been any occupation of these territories by Israel. In fact, they are actually occupied by the Palestinian Authority, which has never declared statehood over said territories, which makes the popular (politically correct, actually) belief that there's actually a real state called "Palestine" incorrect. There is no reason for KAIROS to issue such a declaration, other than prejudice against Israel, in my opinion. But then again, leftists are usually prejudiced against Israel, no doubt.

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KAIROS public forums on Israel divestment are being hosted over a two-day period in Toronto-based United Churches.

Representatives expected to attend tonight’s free forum at Bloor Street United Church include the Canadian Arab Federation, Zatoun: Fair Trade Olive Oil from Palestine. Palestine House Educational & Cultural Centre, World Affairs Committee of Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada and the Muslim Canadian Congress. among others.

KAIROS and friends are calling on companies and corporations to divest from Israel. According to an Internet declaration, KAIROS considers that "earning money through investment in companies whose products and services are used in such a way as to violate international law and human rights is equivalent to profiting from unlawful acts and from the oppression of others."

To KAIROS, "investment in such companies can be seen as condoning the harm of innocent civilians under occupation and the illegal Israeli settlement policies that lead to human rights violations."

"Investment in such companies enables the government of Israel to sustain the ongoing violation of human rights of innocent civilians and "continuing such investments, once the facts are brought to our attention, constitutes deliberate condoning of the evil practices," claims KAIROS.

Note the membership of the group: basically the leftist-oriented United Church and Arab/Muslim groups.

Note also the declaration that Israeli settlements are "illegal". Again, no basis given for this claim. "Human rights violations" are alleged. Also without proof. And to top it off, KAIROS slurs Israel as having "evil practices".

Oh, my. That's a whole bunch of terrible, baseless, bigoted propaganda. The group wishes to intimidate people and businesses to stop investing in Israel based on this? KAIROS disgusts me and should be ashamed of itself. Their stench is revolting.

Oh, and, did I mention that the ruling Paul Martin Liberals funneled $2.9 million of my and your tax dollars to these extremists via CIDA? This is an outrage. The Liberals are giving our money to far-left anti-Israeli activists. Through the CIDA, which is supposed to promote development, not divestment, with respect to other nations. The Liberal pigs' revolting stench gets worse and worse the more we learn how they waste our hard-earned tax dollars.

Be certain to read the whole article.

Is it Toronto or is it Iraq? Gun Violence Galore! What are the Liberals Doing?

We've all heard about the daily violence and slayings going on in Iraq for a long time now.

But now it's time to look more closely at Toronto. The mainstream media (MSM) hasn't been doing a very good job of bringing to our attention the extent of the endless gun violence in The Big Smoke of late.

See a chronological listing of the shootings in Toronto here for yourselves.

And then try to tell me that the multibillion dollar Liberal long gun registry has worked to reduce gun violence and homicides in Canada. With a straight face. If you can.

I would repeat the saying: "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."

Therefore, if the state cannot get rid of guns, particularly handguns used by street scumbags, by harassing law-abiding sport hunters, who only use long guns anyway, not handguns, it is necessary to do something about the people who perpetrate the gun violence. I would suggest life without parole, ever, for murder committed with a handgun. Plus, for possession of a concealed illegal firearm, twenty years in prison without possibility of parole.

I recommend Ottawa and the provinces use some of any proposed "infrastructure" cash to build new prisons. Boot-camp, no-bullshit prisons where inmates have to behave as civilized adults or suffer sanctions. It seems the state has been letting murderers out ridiculously early, like Karla Homolka, as perhaps Canada has run out of cells in which to house dangerous offenders. Scrap the gun registry and use the cash instead to warehouse murderers for life. Then I guarantee the violence will be drastically curtailed.

But will the left-wing extremist ruling Paul Martin Liberals do the right thing and crack down on this terrible, regularly-occuring gun violence by doing as I've prescribed above? Not a chance. They'll instead seek to win far-left votes away from the NDP and Bloc Quebecois by maintaining the status quo as they haven't a prayer of winning away votes from the Conservatives, as intelligent, ordinary conservative Canadians would rather eat dung than put up with the "Liberal" mob any longer.

I Wonder if Toronto Mayor David Miller has the balls to do what it takes? Will he do his job? Will he beef up law enforcement and give them new, more serious orders to take down the evildoers on the streets? What's more important to him, colorful but unnecessary parades or protecting the safety of innocent citizens from those who wish them harm? If he fails, he'll drive away business, residents and tourists. He'll lead Toronto into a depression if he tolerates the shootings.

For more, go to Small Dead Animals and to Stephen Taylor.

Cdn Terrorists Go to Iraq to Fight America; Liberals Do Nothing

It has recently been disclosed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that Canadian terrorists have been and are planning to fight, along with other Jihadist "insurgents", the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, which is there to aid the newly liberated and democratized Middle Eastern nation in its transition to a modern constitutional democracy.

Remember, these Jihadist "insurgents" have vowed to prevent the democratization of Iraq and wish to fully, radically, fundamentally Islamicize the nation as well as the entire Middle East. This would, if permitted, be a disaster for humanity and for the world. After all, Iraq's not-really-democratic neighbor, Iran, is itself brutally controlled by a bloody, fundamentalist Islamic group of individuals committed to international terrorism , including possibly of the nuclear kind, and is obviously not the sort of template that Paul Martin's Liberals would want to quietly encourage by their allowance of their own countryfolk to go forth and help these evildoers achieve their terrible goals.

Apparently, the ruling Paul Martin Liberals in Canada have no concrete idea of what, if anything, they will do with such individuals who have and would go and commit acts of terrorism anywhere in the world. Justice Minister Anne McLellan simply claims the government will deal with such terrorists to the "fullest extent" of the law. But...

As it currently stands, Canada has no law against going abroad and commiting acts of terrorism, believe it or not.

This is unacceptable as it demonstrates once again how the ruling Paul Martin Liberals do not care at all about appropriately dealing with Canadian citizens and others who would be terrorists or even those who have or are currently engaged in acts of terror abroad.

After all, the avowed Al Qaeda Khadr family is permitted to walk freely and openly among us by the ruling Paul Martin Liberals. Kind of like allowing pitbulls to roam the streets without a leash and without the presence of the owner.

What other terrorists have been and will be unleashed upon Canada and the world by the political-correctness-obsessed "Liberal" government of the famously-dithering billionaire Paul Martin?

Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals has more.

Tax Relief, Not Transfers, for Have-Nots: Report for Ont. Gov't

The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, in a report prepared for Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government in Ontario, has declared that the answer to economic development in less-prosperous provinces in Canada is that the federal government should, instead of transfers, offer tax relief in order to stimulate private-sector investment, thus increasing productivity.

The report explains that currently, overtaxation-caused federal budgetary surpluses are not reinvested in ways that promote future prosperity, but rather are simply spent or redistributed for immediate spending by citizens, mostly in less-prosperous areas, like Atlantic Canada.

In other words, the Liberals under Paul Martin are blowing our tax dollars on the present to buy votes rather than using them to ensure a more prosperous future. Rather than, for example, using the year-end surplus to reduce the federal debt and provide real, broad-based, long-term stimulatory tax relief for the coming years, they have simply gone on year-end and pre-election spending sprees, practically eliminating the surpluses we would have had if they had behaved like the fiscal conservatives Paul Martin has always claimed they are, but obviously are not, certainly not anymore.

Not since Trudeau's most socialistic spending era has Canada seen such tax-and-spend insanity. Paul Martin has destroyed his once carefully-crafted image of a serious, careful-with-spending finance minister and lately has made of himself a hedonistic, wasteful election-buyer.

Not only that, he has committed the government and us, the taxpayers, to spend much of this extra money not just once, but each coming year, during which there will be no guarantee of cash being available for such ratcheted-up spending. How many times have they made announcements of "...over five years, ...over seven years..." and so on? It's impossible for ordinary folk to keep track. No wonder each year the budget skyrockets a la Trudeau's most flamboyant Seventies' spending spree. Paul Martin is, therefore, driving us full speed ahead towards deficit spending, and he obviously doesn't care!

This behavior will help no province, least of all the less prosperous ones. The report by the Insitute also explains that it simply takes some of the prosperity away from the haves and gives it as a handout for current consumption to have-nots.

This continues the endless cycle of socialistic redistribution and dependence that only serves to foster resentment and alienation in the West, particularly Alberta, and in Ontario, which also loses far more than it receives back from Ottawa. What this does is not only hold back the have-nots, preventing them from achieving their economic potential, but it also limits the haves' prosperity due to the redistribution of their income.

Therefore, the prosperity of Canada as a whole is less than it would be if the economy were freer, less-planned and -controlled via federal red tape and if there were a focus more on tax relief than on redistribution.

With this in mind, it's particularly disturbing that in addition to the Liberals' misguided, unworkable, socialistic economic policies, they continue to cavalierly waste our tax dollars throughout the federal government, its departments, agencies and institutions with reckless abandon and without accepting accountability. This is, after all, a party in power illegitimately, having ignored a Parliamentary non-confidence vote and a vote ordering the government to start an Air India Inquiry this past spring. We see no evidence of genuine measures being taken to end the corruption, wasteful spending or unethical conduct. How has this come to be?

How much longer can this astonishing corruption continue? The world over, regimes such as Paul Martin's Liberal one have fallen not only by devastating landslide defeats, but by way of revolution by the population. Does Paul Martin care how his government falls? Does he care at all?

The future of the federation is actually at stake, not just the economy. Does Paul Martin care? Let him prove it.

I'm not holding my breath for Paul Martin.

Of course, read the whole article!

Rules Broken, Money Wasted at DFO

Here we go yet again. Here's a report detailing some examples of rulebreaking, tax dollar-wasting and general mismanagement at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Is there anything that the Paul Martin Liberals haven't corrupted? Have they corrupted the entire government? How far and how deep does it go?

Where will the corruption turn up next?

Why wait? Vote them out of office in a landslide and the Conservatives will find out fast and stop the bleeding.

H/T: Bourque

Layton Dictates Terms for Supporting Libs

NDP leader Jack Layton has declared that unless Paul Martin's ruling Liberals agrees to his terms, he'll have his party vote against the government in confidence votes in November. The terms are:

Demonstrate support for public health care and stop what
the NDP calls increased privatization.

Take action on climate change.

Get the U.S. to address the softwood lumber issue.

Protect workers' pensions.

Address ethical issues.

Tall order, in my opinion. Unless Mr. Layton accepts Mr. Martin's trademark empty rhetoric as promises to be kept rather than concrete legislation enabling the above demands, then Mr. Layton will have to make good on his threat and move to topple the Liberals.

I just don't see the Libs doing anything concrete with respect to the above points. If Mr. Layton is serious, then we'll be into an election this late fall. But if Mr. Martin again simply throws around billions of our hard-earned tax dollars yet again with mere promises of direction attached without any specific binding legislation, and Mr. Layton accepts this as sufficient, then, I wouldn't be surprised if he again supports the government. As for the US "addressing" the softwood lumber issue, all that is needed would be a promise from the Americans to "address" it and Mr. Layton will be happy. This is my prediction based on my past observations of Mr. Layton's lack of seriousness and resolve and his willingness to be bribed with oodles of tax dollars and worthless Liberal promises from Mr. Martin.

Our money is most likely about to be tossed into the wind with reckless abandon, as is Liberal tradition.

H/T: Bourque

Update: Norman, OK, Bombing: More Myopic Media Denial

Well, here's a little bit of mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the apparent attempted-terror bombing in Norman, Oklahoma, that killed Joel Hinrichs III outside a football stadium full of over 80,000 people.

However, this article, from the Wall Street Journal (online), in my opinion, merely continues the irresponsibility of the MSM in its treatment of this obviously serious incident which certainly warrants greater scrutiny than do many of the fluffy stories the MSM has preferred to follow instead.

The article discusses the treatment accorded the incident by us bloggers as well as the MSM treatment.

Be sure to read the article to get the whole picture.

Now let's scrutinize this example of MSM "information". The WSJ states the following:

To that unsettling set of facts, blogs and local Oklahoma TV stations added several apparent inaccuracies, including: that Mr. Hinrichs was a Muslim and visited the mosque frequently; that he tried to enter the stadium twice but was rebuffed; that he had a one-way airplane ticket to Algeria; that there were nails in the bomb and that Islamic extremist literature was found in his apartment.

None of these claims are true: Mr. Hinrichs's family, university officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation say Mr. Hinrichs suffered from depression, and the explosion was an isolated event.

Ah, so these are the sources cited by the WSJ. I see. Hinrich's family? It's almost a foregone conclusion that his family would prefer not to believe that he was a terrorist; that he was just depressed and committed suicide. Understandable, of course, and I feel bad for the Hinrich family. But the MSM treats family public statement as absolute fact, therefore that's proof that there was no terrorism? Nope, I'm afraid it won't do.

The article continues:

The FBI's investigation is nearly complete. On Oct. 4, the FBI issued a statement saying, "At this time, there is no known link between Hinrichs and any terrorist or extremist organization(s) or activities."

Ok, so we also see the FBI being used as a source. Two points the WSJ seems to not grasp:

One, the FBI used the phrase, "...at this time...", therefore there cannot be any conclusion of no-terrorism.

Two: the FBI does sometimes have to downplay or hold back information from the MSM for various reasons. It's certainly true that this may very well be the case for the Normal bombing. Again, no possibility of conclusion of no-terrorism.

Here's where it gets fascinating:

In an interview, David L. Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma and the former senator who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that while most news reports have been responsible, there has been a "feeding frenzy of false rumors" on blogs and in some local TV stations. On Friday, he said in a letter to students and staff that investigators had found "no evidence of a conspiracy involving others which creates an ongoing threat to our OU community."

Notice he summarily dismisses the blogs and local tv stations as promulgating "false rumors" without backing up his claim with any evidence of anything being a rumor? Further, how exactly does he know there's been no evidence found by "investigators"? That's the question, which, unanswered, casts a pall of uncredibility over his statements.

Now, Mr. Boren is an interesting character, as we see in this report by Doug Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network, and is hardly one who can be considered a reliable source, once one learns some disturbing information Mr. Hagmann gives us on Mr. Boren's past activities and the circumstances surrounding them.

I urge readers to read the whole Hagmann report, as always. But here's a taste from the report itself:

In the fall of 2001 and in the shadow of 9/11, BOREN went to great, inexplicable and near criminal lengths to protect one of his students. That student, Mohammad Yaseen HAIDER of Pakistan and former President of the O.U. Pakistan Student Association, was indicted by a federal grand jury which accused him of sending an anthrax threat by e-mail. HAIDER was also at the center of controversy for reportedly making false accusations of "hate crimes" against two other O.U. students, accusations that were ultimately dismissed. As HAIDER'S accusations began to fall apart, what did the master of Spin BOREN do? He gave HAIDER a job at O.U.'s Parkview Apartments - the same apartments, by the way, occupied by 2005 bomber Joel Henry HINRICH III. Interestingly, HAIDER continued to work as a clerk at Park View until he was arrested by INS. It gets better, however: two of HAIDER'S Park View neighbors, Hussein Al-Attas and Mukkaram Ali, prior students of Islamic ideology, were also arrested due to their association with terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui, arrested for his involvement in the 9/11 attacks on America.

Wow- think about that. Should anyone who bends over backwards for someone of such character and connections be considered a reliable source in this case by anyone, be it the MSM or the blognet? I don't think so.

Once again the MSM has blown its credibility and demonstrated its worsening irrelevance with respect to the blognet. At least we serious, concerned bloggers (not all bloggers are, but there are good ones amongst us) are doing the people a selfless service whereas the MSM cavalierly dismisses any possibility of terrorism in the face of compelling evidence and in the post-9/11 world.


October 14 2005 Update:

WorldNetDaily reports that Oklahoma University has tightened security for the football stadium outside which Hinrichs blew himself up.

Why would they do that after going to the trouble to downplay the bombing and discourage any thinking that it may have been a terror attempt and that there was no threat to security? Truth be told, security everywhere tends to be increased following a perceived threat or threats, therefore the University must perceive a threat of a terrorism nature despite statements to the contrary.

Read the WND article for yourself. It also contradicts some of the dismissive claims made by the WSJ article above.


October 17 2005 Update:

Michelle Malkin has more here: "The OU Bomber's Suicide Note".

The Jawa Report has a post similar to this one here.

Jet Plane Stolen in Florida; Lands in Atlanta: Trial Run for Terror?

Photo from http://www.netjets.com/Fleet/Cessna_Citation_VII.asp

h/t: Michelle Malkin/Photodude

Again, I find myself praising Michele Malkin for providing valuable information and links so I can help inform my own readers on incidents that could reasonably be suspected as being terror-related. There have been many in recent days and it's actually becoming hard for one to keep track, so I'm certainly glad I have this blog, TCS.

From Ms. Malkin's post, entitled "A STOLEN JET IN GWINNETT COUNTY" (scroll down to find it), we're alerted to the following information:

The jet, of the type pictured above, was stolen in St. Augustine, Florida and landed, with no trace of the thief, at Gwinnett County Airport-Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville, according to the gwinnettdailypost.com, via Malkin:

Crime scene technicians scoured the interior of the Cessna Citation 7, a 10-passenger aircraft owned by Pinnacle Air of Springdale, Ark., after airport personnel located it on the tarmac about 1 p.m. Monday. The flight crew responsible for the plane was on a chartered flight to St. Augustine. Crew members discovered the jet was missing when they went to check on it Monday morning, said Sgt. D. Mattox of the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Whoever stole the jet didn’t file a flight plan, which authorities said is somewhat unusual for that size of aircraft. The jet suffered damage to the front edge of one wing, but it was not disabled. Police believe the suspect is an experienced pilot who has flown through Gwinnett in the past.

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“It had to be somebody that knew or had experience with this type of aircraft,” Mattox said. “You can’t just walk over from one of these smaller planes and fly this.” Mattox said planes are easy to steal if you know how to fly them, because they usually don’t require a key to start the engines.

(...)

The Gwinnett Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force were also dispatched to investigate the theft as a precaution, but Mattox said there was no indication terrorism was involved.

Ok, so Mattox has to say that there's "no indication" of terrorism here.

But we, the people, can certainly absorb the actual facts and put them into perspective with respect to other suspicious incidents recently reported here on TCS and many other sources, mainly in the blognet. We can also remember the hijacked planes of 9/11 and put this event into perspective with respect to that.

My analysis:

It is certainly plausible and probable, in my view, that the theft of the plane in question could indeed have been used as a sort of test by a terrorist. See how easy it was to steal a jet of that size, undetected, fly it undetected and land undetected, walking away undetected?

If indeed this was a terrorist trial run, it was a resounding success, unfortunately, and that is cause for alarm. Very ominous indeed. Imagine next time that happens, instead of landing at an airfield, the pilot directed the plane right into a massive crowd at, say, a football stadium of tens of thousands of spectators... see how easy it is?

It must not be easy at all! And this principle must also apply to Canada! Does it, in practice? I doubt it.

Time to tighten airport security further, this time on the runway.

By the way, you can also find from Laura Mansfield, via Malkin, that Briscoe Field is where Mohammed Atta, the 9/11 ringleader, as well as two other terrorists, trained to fly.

Think about that.