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Invitation to my MP, Pierre Poilievre
March 3, 2011 — xanthippaHi Mr. Poilievre!
As my MP, you have done a good job – I have no complaints.
However, I am having growing doubts as to the direction the Conservative Party is taking…. Doubts which, I know for a fact, are not limited to myself but which extend to a lot of ‘little c’ conservatives in your riding – as well as some very influential ‘big C’ conservatives. I know, because they have told me so.
One of the cornerstones of our political system (and of the conservative philosophy) is that whatever their physical differences, each and every citizen is equal in the eyes of the law.
Unfortunately, this principle had been abused and, frankly, figuratively thrown out the window, in the way that the whole ‘Caledonia situation’ had been handled. Instead of treating all citizens as eaqual and upholding the rule of law, the OPP – under the leadership of Julian Fantino – practiced what could only be described as race-based policing. Now, the Federal Conservatives have not only permitted Mr. Fantino to sit in the House of Commons as a member of your party, he has been given a leadership role!
As a Canadian patriot, I find this highly insulting – and more than a little frightening.
However, I do understand that since what had happened in Caledonia had not been properly covered in the mainstream media, you may be unaware of exactly what it is that has so many people so very upset. Therefore, I would like to invite you to come – as my guest – to an information evening about what had happened in Caledonia. The event is co-sponsored by the Free Thinking Film Society (who recently sponsored the screening of the movie ‘Iranium’) and the International Free Press Society.
Details of the event:
Date: March 22, 2011
Time: 19:00 hours
Place: Library & Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St. (just down the road from the Supreme Court and Parliament buildings)
I truly do hope that as both a partiotic Canadian and as an MP, you will accept my invitation and take the time to learn about this very important threat to our core Canadian values. If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, I look forward to seeing you there!
‘me’,
blogging as Xanthippa
Two Englishmen arrested – for posting videos on the internet
February 10, 2011 — xanthippaA police spokesman said: ‘‘We have investigated a number of incidents across the internet after they were brought to our attention last year. ‘We have yet to analyse what has been seized and will then be in a better to look at what, if any, offences have been committed.’‘
Correct me if I am wrong, but the way I read this is:
- Somebody complained about the videos these guys posted
- the cops arrested them and took their stuff
- only now will they try to look at the evidence to see IF a crime had been committed
Where to start…
Well, perhaps with my yesterday’s post – where, in his speech, John Robson explains the meaning of English common law and how it had been affirmed by the Magna Carta. It looks like the proud Englishmen have turned their back on their heritage…
How corrupt has the system of common law and the liberties it is supposed to guarantee become that something a person says causes him to be arbitrarily deprived of liberty and property?
But, this is even worse…
What about the police officers – how come they are obeying this obviously illegal order?
Because arresting a person and siezing their property first, and only then trying to figure out IF there has even been a crime commited, is contrary to everything the English common law stands for!
What to do?
I don’t know.
Sure, we can all work to post on other people’s behalf and mirror videos and all that, but that is just trying to stick a band-aid over a severed jugular.
But, I have been giving this a lot of thought.
What we need to do, in my never-humble-opinion, is to hold each and every individual police officer criminally and civilly responsible for carrying out orders which are obviously contrary to English common law. And not just in Joly old England, or even the whole Commonwealth: we must do this everywhere where the heritage of English Common Law exists.
Because it is only by making individuals within ‘the system’ accountable can we affect change of the system as a whole!
No, it is not easy.
But is just may be doable.
Let’s try!
Islamic History Month in Canada
October 2, 2010 — xanthippaSo much for the separation of Mosque and State!
Meanwhile, here is an idea how to celebrate Islamic History Month:
UPDATE: Binks, the Webelf, has more on the Canadian Islamic Month.
Was the ‘Koran-burning preacher’ Terry Jones duped by the moderate imam Musri?
September 9, 2010 — xanthippaWhile checking out TheReligionOfPeace, I came across this story.
Instead of trying to simply retell what the article says, let me try to re-construct some plausible approximation of how it might possibly had happened.
First, we have the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’. And, yes – the undercarriage of one of the airplanes that hit ‘The Towers’ on 11/09/2001 actually fell on top of this building and damaged it: this makes the building ‘Ground Zero‘. Imam Rauf, who is building the Ground Zero Mosque cannot, by any reasonable person, be called ‘moderate’ – not with what has been learned about him… and certainly not based on his behaviour.
Anyhow…
Yesterday (Wednesday), imam Rauf is quoted in the linked article as saying that
‘nothing is off the table’ when asked whether he would consider moving the site.
Today, (Thursday), Donald Trump is reported to have offered that he would buy the building from imam Rauf for 25% more than it had cost him: not because he wants the building, but because he would like to end the controversy amicably. Considering that imam Rauf and his gang had paid $4.8 million for the damaged building, Mr. Trump is truly putting his money where his mouth is.
So far so good.
But things go from good to bad rather fast.
A nutty and, by the sounds of it, somewhat unpopular preacher Terry Jones from Florida got annoyed by something and declared September 11th, 2010, to be ‘International Burn-the-Koran Day’. (No, not a ‘Burn-an-imam Day’ – just destroying some inanimate objects he owns.)
Could it have been the very existence of the Mosque at Ground Zero? Or, perhaps the speed with which it’s breezing through all the building permits while St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, the tiny little churched destroyed as the South Tower collapsed on top of it, appears to be fatally entangled in the red tape which denies its reconstruction? Or was it hearing about the hundreds of bibles burned by Iran?
Perhaps he was expressing solidarity with the Muslims in Iran who have posted this video of themselves, burning the Koran, as a symbol of protest against the oppressive theocracy which is ruining their country? (Thanks, BCF, for digging this one up.)
Perhaps it was a little bit or everything.
Perhaps he was simply exercising his freedom of religion!
Whatever the cause, the fact remains that preacher Jones is well within his rights to destroy his own property, however he chooses to, and nobody has the right to meddle!
Of course, meddle they did.
And this is where it gets rather ugly…
‘Everyone’ has been meddling!
It was just ugly when it was just the usual media lackeys who condemned him.
It was emotional blackmail and just idiotic when people ‘all over’ tried to make him somehow responsible for the potential actions of other people. Yet, that is exactly what happened!
But when General Petraeus, the American Troops top commander in Afghanistan, came out and started telling anyone who’d listen that how a specific citizen of the USA chooses to exercise his Constitutionally guaranteed rights, he’ll be guilty of putting American troops into danger – that is when it gets downright scary!
Since when do we live in a society which permits military generals to dictate who gets to exercise their Constitutional rights, and how? Do we even WANT to live in such a society?
Of course, the media ignored the constitutional rights issue and instead of demanding that General Petraeus be stripped of his position and dishonourably discharged from the military (the minimum reasonable reaction to a general caught bullying civilians out of their civil rights) , they have given the military man a pass and continued to beat up on the nutty preacher. Sad, even if predictable.
Of course, this is not where it ended.
US President Obama – the guy who found nothing offensive in decades of reverend Jeremiah Wright‘s ‘God Damn America’ sermons – condemned his own citizen for exercising his freedom of religion. In this abc piece, Obama is quoted as saying (regarding Terry Jones’s plan to exercise his freedom of religion):
“If he’s listening, I just hope he understands that what he’s proposing to do is completely contrary to our values … this country has been built on the notions of religious freedom and religious tolerance,”
In other words, Obama says that the USofA ‘has been built on the NOTIONS(?!?) of religious freedom’, but believes that exercising them is ‘completely contrary’ to American values. (I am presuming here that when Obama says ‘ours’, he actually DOES mean ‘American’.)
Does Obama really not realize what is coming out of his mouth?!?!?
Last night, the internet provider pulled the plug on the prea
Today, when Secretary of Defense Gates did not only not fire Petraeus, but actually personally phoned Jones up and parroted Obama and the disgraceful general, preacher Jones began to show cracks.
So, let me recap.
So far, we have tons of pressure on preacher Jones to cancel his ‘Burn-a-Koran Day’ day, which he is ostensibly holding as an exercise of his freedom of religion, because he is so annoyed with imam Rauf’s arrogant project which has created so much discord in the American psyche.
We also have imam Rauf claiming ‘nothing is off the table’ when he was asked if he would be willing to move the mosque’s location to a less controversial spot.
Donald Trump takes imam Rauf seriously and offers to buy out the ‘Park 51’ property from him while giving imam Rauf a 25% return on his investment.
In comes the ‘moderate’ imam Musri,reportedly an influential Muslim from Florida.
Preacher Jones meets with imam Musri and comes out of the meeting convinced (rightly or wrongly) that since the Ground Zero Mosque builders have agreed to move their project, he is calling off the ‘Burn-the-Koran Day’!
Yes, he has called the ‘Burn-the-Koran Day’ off!
But, he has done so in the honest belief that the reason for his decision to so publicly exercise his freedom of religion by burning the Koran was no longer there – that the thorn has been removed from his side!
Once the ‘Burn-a-Koran Day’ was called off, the ‘moderate’ imam Musri says that there must have been a misunderstanding: he only promised that the two of them (Musri and Jones) would travel to New York to seek an audience with imam Rauf in order to ask him to, please, be so kind as to consider, may be, perhaps, moving his project elsewhere.
If he’d like to.
Pretty please.
Gee – how could such a misunderstanding have come about?!?!?
On a completely unrelated note – have you ever heard of the Islamic concept of ‘taqiyya’?
Happy Halloween – not ‘black and orange day’!
October 31, 2008 — xanthippaToday is October 31st – HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
It is a most fun day – kids (young and old) plan fun costumes for weeks and decorate their houses. Yet, the ‘Politically Correcet Creeps’ have started casting their shadow over even this innocent fun.
Schools have started to ‘replace’ Halloween with ‘black and orange day’!
Children are discouraged (or actively forbidden) from wearing costumes, Halloween-related activities are not happening, the spark of joy is being choked out of yet another beautiful tradition.
Why?
Because, we are told, some ‘Wiccans may be offended because it is a religious holiday for them’….
Well, I know many active Wiccans – and every single one of them is offended that Halloweeen should be replaced by ‘black and orange day’!!! It may be a cross-quarter day – but the fun festivities and celebrations that everyone partakes in according to their taste and likes enriches the holiday experience for everyone, not takes away from it – in the eyes of Wiccans.
After all, it is not a religious holiday for others, so why should it bother Wiccans how they celebrate it? They’re happy people are finding time to have a little fun, because Wicca teaches that joy and sharing and finding pleasure in the ‘big and little things’ is a very important part of life!
‘Sanitizing’ all forms of fun – THAT is offensive!
Deciding FOR the Wiccans that they ‘ought to’ be offended – then censoring everyone else to spare them this offence –THAT is offensive!
Sorry, I just loose it when I see bullies, banning and censoring everyone around them, claiming to do it ‘on behalf of’ someone else….without actually caring what that ‘other one’ thinks, because it really is just a convenient vehicle to drive their own agenda and nothing else… Ok, so I don’t like bullies in any shape or form…and people who bully others and are not even aware they are doing it (or try to dress the bullying up so that they hope you will not realize you are being bullied) – well, they drive me mad.
So, what about other reasons being used to sour this sweet holiday?
Bad nutrition…. Yeah, pull the other one!
My kids LOVE ‘getting’ candy on Halloween! It is fun, exciting and they spend hours with their friends trading this tid-bit for that one…. and, I usually throw 90% of it out during Christmass cleaning… I honestly don’t know anyone who actually eats ALL the Halloween candy and chips they get!
Though, I have seen many kids donate sealed ‘semi-nutritious’ snacks to their schools’ ‘forgotten lunch pantry’ – where kids who forget their lunch can get someting to tide them over. And, since my older son is too old to trick-or-treat, but he does walk his brother through the neighbourhood for safety, my younger son automatically splits his loot between them when they get home! So, in effect, getting rid of ‘trick-or-treating’ is going to reduce our kid’s ability to be charitable and sharing, from things that are their own. ‘Wonderful’ lesson…
Oh, but costumes are too expensive for some families.
OK, here is what I paid for my son’s costume: $1.99 for face paints (Enough for a few kids’ faces), $2.00 for 2m of fabric (bought on sale at a fabric store for $1.00/m). $0.99 for an elastic waistband. That’s it. I already owned some thread, a needle, some scissors…. And, some years in the past, we used ‘outgrown clothes’ for materials to make the costumes out of. One year, we made a fancy cape by ‘borrowing’ a tablecloth and 2 pillows….once through the wash, all were ‘good as new’!
Plus, sewing costumes is ‘OK’ for boys, as well as girls! So, now my boys have acquired a skill… not that they boast of it. But, they HAVE it!
My first Halloween in Canada (I was too old to ‘trick-or-treat’, but a few of us dressed up to chaperone my friend’s younger brother as he went around. I was MOST impressed that my friend’s step-mom had also dressed up – and unabashedly had fun! That was most excellent – it was OK to be silly!
I had a ball! But, my family was VERY short of cash then….so I had to borrow some makeup (my friend’s step-mom had fun ‘doing me up) and I used our curtains and drapes to make a ‘fancy ghostly gown’ for an evening, uning clips (no cutting, no sewing, no pin-holes allowed)! Cost? $0.00. Fun? 100%!
Which brings me to the last major objection: immigrants might be unfamiliar and alienated.
As an immigrant, who was completely unfamiliar with this Halloween custom prior to arriving in Canada, let me put these fears to rest. THEY ARE NONSENCE!
Halloween was EXCELLENT for me! By teaching me about it, and helping me get my costume together, I got WAY closer to the people who would eventually grow to be my friends! It was ‘an opening’ to talk to me – an opportunity to talk about more than just math homework… My classmates felt good telling me all about Halloween. Doing this, they were including me – all the while they were proud to show off this most fun holiday – and now I was PART of ‘IT’!
It was just what was needed for this awkward, shy immigrant kid was to no longer just keep her head burried in a textbook and watch everyone from the sidelines – people MADE me PART of the celebrations! I had fun!
I truly felt included!
If anything, NOT celebrating Halloween will REDUCE the oppotunities for newly arrived immigrants to socialize, to make friends, to successfully integrate! And it will suck another bit of enjoyment out of living…
So, what do I have to say to those who would erode yet another cultural icon?
Quoth Xanthippa: NEVERMORE!
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