The Twain is Moving ~ But only Sorta-Kinda, Eh?

Well, only the author is moving, but that should be OK. Onwards and upwards. I am only Recalibrating! Lol! I am making plans. Please bear with me. As it turns out, Harper has a hold on us. Big 'Bother' is Watching us!

Food for thought: In Vancouver just last week, while we all watched the city go a little nuts after the Big game, those who were not participating  in the turmoil, were gleefully pumping video to the internet. So, we are now big brother?

I'll be back. ~ I'm recailibrating ~ Social media Rocks!

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Senate Page Disrupts Throne Speech ~ A Page Outta Harper's Book?

Brigette Marcelle ~ AKA ~ 'Brigette Depape'

bravely gives up her job as a page in the Senate of Canada (AKA 'The Harper Senate of Harperland') to get out her simple message during the reading of Harperland's first Throne Speech!

Brigette Depape Holds a Sign which simply says:

STOP
HARPER

No Shrinking Violet, Marcelle (Depape) had a press release all ready to go:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, June 3, 2011

" Senate Page disrupts throne speech and says "Harper's disastrous agenda needs to be stopped with creative action and civil disobedience".

Ottawa -- During the reading of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's throne speech today, a young page was yanked from the Senate Chamber as she tried to hold up a stop-sign placard reading "Stop Harper."

"Harper's agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation," Brigette Marcelle says. "We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases, and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate. Most people in this country know what we need are green jobs, better medicare, and a healthy environment for future generations."

Brigette Marcelle (aka Brigette DePape), 21 and a recent graduate from University of Ottawa, has been a page in the Senate for a year, but realized that working within parliament wouldn't stop Harper's agenda.

"Contrary to Harper's rhetoric, Conservative values are not in fact Canadian values. How could they be when 3 out of 4 eligible voters didn't even give their support to the Conservatives? But we will only be able to stop Harper's agenda if people of all ages and from all walks of life engage in creative actions and civil disobedience," she says.
"This country needs a Canadian version of an Arab Spring, a flowering of popular movements that demonstrate that real power to change things lies not with Harper but in the hands of the people, when we act together in our streets, neighbourhoods and workplaces." "

Trending in Canada as 'Stop Harper'
and as 'Brigette Marcelle' and both
ahead of 'Throne Speech'

Her opinion is a commonly held one and it is obvious that she is not alone in this protest. As I type this there are some 15 Facebook pages springing up and growing. Where will it end? I am not sure, but it is at least a heartening gesture on her part. Gee, I wonder what's on her mind? Or has she been reading mine? News spread quickly and ten minutes later it was a trending topic on Twitter in Canada and briefly in the world.
The campaign to stop Harper is not a new one as you will see from this 2008 video in which Rick Salutin describes Harper and his right winged views and his Tourettes-like habit of blurting out Right winged ideological rhetoric, his teflon and why, even though most of us fear him, he gets to sneak up the middle, by splitting the vote. He discusses the difficulties of strategic voting and the grassroots nature of the movement.

Jeremy Dyer Human Rights Activist

We have not had a young hero like Brigette Depape since Jeremy Dyer refused to shake Harper's hand in July of last year. He was protesting against Harper's duplicity and his arrogance. Harper had made a mockery of Human Right's and then helped open the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg last July. Ryan, a young N.L. human rights activist was also invited to the event. Ryan had not agreed to meet Harper and when he found himself face to face with him, he used the opportunity to have his views heard.

“It was such a degrading experience. I felt so tokenized,” he said. “I feel like they took something so huge away from me that weekend. So huge.”

There is not a lot on the web that is directly attributed to Jeremy Dyer, but there is this lone comment on a blog by Montreal Simon that Jeremy left regarding the human rights of Omar Khadr.

This Video was shot from a concerned citizen's TV obviously. Sadly, CBC.ca and Evan Solomon do no share videos. It matters not that they are made using Taxpayer money, they simply do not share them. Neither does Evan Solomon share the intellect of the young Depape. He tries to shame her, she is not ashamed. Shame on you Evan, and the rest of the MSM who do not care about things as flippant as democracy, pay attention, you could learn a lot from Canadians who do care.



Of course these are early days in Harperland and this story will take a day or two to get a real handle on, but at least this shows that Canada still has a pulse. I can only hope it also means that Canadians are starting to suffer 'buyers remorse' for buying in to the Harperland experiment. I sure hope it does, please feel free to comment.

Afterthought: As I was pondering the confusion surrounding her name. The confusion was that at First it was reported as Brigitte Marcelle, then Brigette Marcelle and then a bit later as  Brigette DePape and also De Pape. After some digging I found this. It answers several questions or at least suggests that DePape is  her stage-name, and that in spite of the ramblings of the anonymous and right winged commenter below, that she is obviously ^NOT stupid. It is also obvious that she is ^NOT shy and ^NOT always quiet.  At least she is no longer anonymous!



I am tired of both Cowards and Cowardice. I suspect that Brigette DePape, or whatever she prefers to call herself, feels somewhat the same.
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