tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post4650574540141876011..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: The Pitbulls And The StatesmanOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-49657312917735502282012-04-19T16:28:19.419-04:002012-04-19T16:28:19.419-04:00You sound a little confused. . .You sound a little confused. . .Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-31294202259002338142012-03-29T20:38:14.151-04:002012-03-29T20:38:14.151-04:00Desperate people are dangerous people, Kirby.
Do...Desperate people are dangerous people, Kirby. <br /><br />Don't expect those in charge to understand that fact. They've never been desperate.<br /><br />However, they will use the power they possess to protect their bunkers.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-17851082355999385932012-03-29T19:14:22.358-04:002012-03-29T19:14:22.358-04:00thwap is correct - we are in the midst of class-wa...thwap is correct - we are in the midst of class-warfare and the elites have turned our society into an armed camp of desperation for many and we are going down the road back to the nineteenth century. I don't think people will really wake up to this until the streets are running with blood.Kirbycairohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17528654183160305877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-85265166522646506272012-03-29T14:20:09.972-04:002012-03-29T14:20:09.972-04:00I understand, thwap. And, the truth is that, event...I understand, thwap. And, the truth is that, eventually, these folks will have to stand in the docket. <br /><br />The news from Marc Mayrand today -- that election fraud appears to have happened in over 200 of our 308 ridings -- should be a wake up call to all Canadians, regardless of their political stripe.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-33230343234058361682012-03-29T13:06:16.125-04:002012-03-29T13:06:16.125-04:00Don't get me wrong Owen. I WISH Canadians coul...Don't get me wrong Owen. I WISH Canadians could talk.<br /><br />I WISH protesters' concerns were treated with respect rather than with disdain and criminal suppression.<br /><br />I would like our governments and our elites to respect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, or at least our rights as citizens in a Parliamentary democracy.<br /><br />But the other side appears to instead endorse torture, kettling, arbitrary arrest, and, in the case of Obama, arbitrary executions.<br /><br />Oh, and add debased elections to that mix.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-44757071603369214682012-03-29T12:04:37.795-04:002012-03-29T12:04:37.795-04:00Perhaps it had to come to this. Perhaps I am a foo...Perhaps it had to come to this. Perhaps I am a fool to wish we had more respect for a civil society as things become more uncivil, thwap.<br /><br />Canadians used to be able to talk through their problems. We proved that in two referendums.<br /><br />I'm not sure we could do that again.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-28737312477491999422012-03-29T11:03:56.124-04:002012-03-29T11:03:56.124-04:00"There is still something to be said, though,..."There is still something to be said, though, for the mushy middle. Otherwise, politics will be warfare, twenty-four hours a day."<br /><br />It is warfare, 24-7. It's class warfare. It's gender warfare. It's race warfare.<br /><br />The mushy middle is dwindling because the forces that allowed it to exist are re-aligning.<br /><br />How can the mushy middle be expected to prosper when the social-economic situation is polarizing?<br /><br />That's why things are becoming so much more angry and ugly. On the one side, you have the "conservatives" who are either the sleaze-balls of the oil and financial sector or their stupid chump attack dogs, and on the other side you have us leftists and people who only realize that their employers are treating them like crap, their governments are ripping them off, and who have the sense to realize that it can't all be blamed on feminists, brown people, unions and welfare recipients.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-63812629385895653682012-03-29T10:05:25.059-04:002012-03-29T10:05:25.059-04:00It's by no means certain, thwap, that the Libe...It's by no means certain, thwap, that the Liberal Party will survive. And if it dies, it will reap what it has sown.<br /><br />There is still something to be said, though, for the mushy middle. Otherwise, politics will be warfare, twenty-four hours a day.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-65651713506854429502012-03-29T09:48:23.772-04:002012-03-29T09:48:23.772-04:00Rae might be a nice guy, but he's drunk from t...Rae might be a nice guy, but he's drunk from the neo-liberal Kool-Aid and is irrelevant.<br /><br />The NDP is calling for a return to the tax fairness of Brian Mulroney basically.<br /><br />If that's too "radical" for the Liberal Party of Canada, then the Liberal Party of Canada is an anachronism that can't justify its continued existence.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.com