This, again, is a method of coercion.
Perhaps this is why the big-government leftists and Islamists get along so well…
This, again, is a method of coercion.
Perhaps this is why the big-government leftists and Islamists get along so well…
What was that about government coercion?
And those pesky ‘free markets’?
What was that about government coercion?
Particularly important now…
As the one branch of the US government that actually listens to its people – the NSA – collects information about everyone, many people are saying that if a person is not doing anything illegal, they have nothing to fear from the loss of privacy. If you read this blog regularly, you know my contempt for this mode of thinking, because…
The more you know about someone, the more you know what is important to them and how they make their decisions – the more easy it will be for you to coerce them.
Knowledge is power…always was, always will be. And, even the most innocent things, strung together in certain ways and presented in a spun way, can make a person look guilty of something if the government decides they don’t like the way they are complaining about something.
Milton Friedman has it right – freedom is being free of coercion.
Dependency on government for services – from public transport to medicare to food stamps – opens one to easier and easier coercion, as does the loss of privacy. That is why totalitarians always foster dependence and erode privacy.
And that is corruption of freedom!
Expression: Don’t censor the Internet.
Access: Promote universal access to fast and affordable networks.
Openness: Keep the Internet an open network where everyone is free to connect, communicate, write, read, watch, speak, listen, learn, create and innovate.
Innovation: Protect the freedom to innovate and create without permission. Don’t block new technologies, and don’t punish innovators for their users’ actions.
Privacy: Protect privacy and defend everyone’s ability to control how their data and devices are used.
I sound like a broken record when I start writing about the Human Rights racket in Canada: from tribunals to commissions, from the federal mama-bureaucracy to the provincial daughter-bureaucracies.
As far as I can see, they have completely and uterly failed to achieve the purpose for which they were created – and instead of making the situation better and working towards an equal treatment of all the citizens of our wonderful country, they have worked to striate the society and declare which ‘groups’ were ‘more equal’ than the rest of us. And even though the mainstream media (msm) has begun to wake up to what is going on, most of its members are still too cowardly to actually say so (much less do some serious investigative journalism on the topic).
Perhaps I should not be judging them so harshly: the political indoctrination most acredited journalists got at our ‘places of higher learning’ is hard to break through….and then there is the fear that if they say what they see, they will be out of a job. But, I’m a bit of an idealist who thinks that if one has to lie to keep one’s job, and one does not quit that job but chooses to lie, they are, well, the sort of stuff you scrape off the bottom of your shoe with a stick…
So, I did a double take when I went to the local corner store for some milk (my kids will not drink the ‘supermarket’ milk) and I caught a sight of this headline in the Ottawa Citizen:
Human Rights Tribunal in turmoil: union
Employees describe work environment that has deteriorated ‘to point of toxicity’
Front page, above the fold!
I was impressed!
Coming home, I googled the article and eagerly read on.
More than half of the 25-member staff, including middle and senior level managers, have left, taken sick leave or retired over the past year. At least three have filed formal harassment complaints.
Unions representing workers confirmed they received numerous complaints of abuse of authority, intimidation and personal harassment. They say employees describe a work environment that has deteriorated “to the point of toxicity.”
Kaffir Kanuck is currently serving in Afghanistan as a member of Canadian Forces.
Kaffir Kanuck has a ‘Timmies’ coffee card.
Kaffir Kanuck has been using his ‘Timmies’ card to buy fellow soldiers coffee: a little taste of home away from home.
Natasha, over at Moose and Squirrel, has set up and posted a Pay-Pal button through which all of us can help Kaffir Kanuck in his quest. All the funds donated by August 15th, 2010, will be put into one anonymous ‘pot’ and transferred to Mrs. Kaffir Kanuck, who will then load them onto the’ Timmies’ card that Kaffir Kanuck has right there, in Afghanistan!
So, if you appreciate the good men and women of the Canadian Military, and if you can (and would like to) show your appreciation by buying a cup of coffee for a few of them, here is your chance!
Thank you!
H/T: BCF
Some of the photos are posted here.
Still, there were some excellent signs I didn’t get ‘in there’. So, here are more photos: