Hey! MSM! CTV! CBC! Global! SUNTV! ~ Start Reading a Blog Now And Then, Will Ya?

This morning, "Anonymous" released another video and this one directly 'Attacks' Mr. Toews or at least more directly. I am not sure that it constitutes a personal attack as such. It seems to be dealing with his record as a politician. It talks about real facts. It goes over some of his personal triumphs. the weird part is  that contrary to all the stupid hype by the so-called real media, I see nothing like a "threat" at all! The clumsily synthesized voice is simply revealing real information about the insidious Bills, C-30 and C-10 that started all of this mess. If this is considered a threat then whatever it is e attacking must also be considered rather weak. (see blog posts farther down)

Quick Vic! ~ Call the RCMP!

Hullo? 911?..... “This is Vic Toews Again.....” 

"Anonymous is Threatening me with the Facts!"

I mean seriously why would any of the Conservatives be afraid of the truth?

 What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 

It is ^NOT like any law-abiding Canadian would falsely accuse anyone of associating with or even sympathising with Child Predators without serious proof. I mean really? What kind of a creep would do anything as low-life as that? 

Here is a Great *NEW Facebook Group dedicated to Making Canadian Streets Safer!

Shouldn't we insist that these Cons stop using
notes and talking points All the time?
If they can't think for themselves,
why on Earth do we elect them to think for us? 

I'm a Relatively Bad Poet
but at least I know it.
Vic Toews, on the other hand,
is clueless. Lol!

Old Vic Toews 
he calls us knaves
but we’re not slaves
nor spring from graves.

So as he raves
and misbehaves
stand tall young braves
and make some waves.

So what he craves
is wielding staves
but power depraves
while reason saves.

Our rights he waives.
no streets he paves.
Insist he shaves ....
I'll bet he Caves!
   D. Kim Leaman

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Vic Toews' 'Messy Secret' was No Secret at all ~ But he Plays the Victim.

Dim and Dimmer

 Well, this is a Riddle.

There has been a huge debate over the 'recent' leaking of documents concerning Conservative MP and Minister of Public Safety, Vic Toews' divorce proceedings and the affair with his family baby-sitter as well the motivation and fallout from said divorce. It was released long ago, but some, including Mr. Toews, say that that leak demands to be investigated, some say it was already public knowledge.

The info of course, was released this past week through an anonymous Twitter account, @VikiLeaks30 (now taken down) set up by a secret non-admirer of Mr. Toews. There is however a mirror site with all the content re-issued verbatim and showing all 91 Tweets. 

I went looking for proof that details of it had in fact already been made public and I found it reasonably easily and actually remember having read it back when it was recent news. At any rate, it is only a small reference to the affair with a family babysitter and the subsequent divorce and is contained in this article about rumours that were flying at the time over what looked to be a very suspicious Judicial Appointment for Vic Toews. It is a story worth reading.

By Don Martin

"......But the 55-year-old Toews' public face of self-righteous morality is now clashing with his troubled private life. An MP dubbed the "minister of family values" by Liberals is embroiled in a messy divorce after fathering a child last fall with a much younger woman.

That's his business, frankly, yet it might explain why Mr. Toews was demoted to the Treasury Board and immediately cloaked by invisibility, stewing in question period silence while his junior parliamentary secretary juggles tough questions on election financing irregularities.

But if a judicial appointment is being used to ease a problem minister out of government, it only increases the galling patronage of the appointment.

And if they brazenly go ahead and hand him the $232,000-plus job and announce it in the dead of summer when nobody's looking, it will underline the optics of this government behaving no differently than any other. Justice Vic Toews would be a huge sign this government, even having become thoroughly Ottawashed, is still dirty.

dmartin@canwest.com
© (c) CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc."

The riddle is this: The site offered me the opportunity to be the first to comment there. Seriously? The First? I seized that opportunity, but used it to point out that it did not seem logical that it would have gone without comment for all of these nearly four years and that given the recent furor over the problem of Bill C-30 and the even bigger problem, namely what is to be done with Vic Toews?

Had no earlier comments been made? Were there comments previously that had been removed?

The only comment there now is this:

To View the comment or to add one Click Here

So, now I guess we have to see why this is so. Why were their no comments? A Tweet or two might shed a bit of light on it.

There is also this story from the Summer of 2008

This was in 2008. As it turns out these 4 years later,
many of us are in fact quite worried

And oh, by the way, in case you had missed it above, the entire text of the @Vikileaks30 Tweets is still available on Twitter at a newly minted Mirror Account.  

Vic Plays at Being the Helpless Victim

An Open Letter
"To My Constituents

          Dear Constituents,

Over the last few weeks I have been subjected to an extensive personal attack by my political opponents as a result of certain legislation that I have introduced in the House of Commons on behalf of the federal government.
These attacks, which have included criminal acts and threats of criminal acts against me and my family, have been referred to the police for investigation. Any further criminal activity or threats of criminal activity against me or my family will also be referred to the police.
As my constituents I would like you to know that the personal attacks, criminal acts and threats of future criminal acts against me will not dissuade me from carrying out my responsibilities as an elected Member of the House of Commons and as the Minister of Public Safety for Canada.
The personal attacks against me are based on allegations contained in affidavits filed in the course of my divorce proceedings a number of years ago. The affidavits are on the public record and filed with the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench. These allegations have been the basis of prior personal attacks against me and I assume they will form the basis of attacks against me for many years to come.
I want you to know that I have never responded publicly to the specific allegations made in these affidavits nor will I ever do so. I will be fully accountable for any responsibility that I bear for the breakdown of my previous marriage but that accountability is not something I owe to the public generally or to my political opponents in particular. It is a personal accountability which I cannot avoid nor do I seek to do so.
However, I do want you to know that I have a spouse and a young son who I love more than life itself.
The other night, while I was reading my favourite poet, William Butler Yeats, I came across these lines:
‘Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.”
No words could ever describe my love for my young son and my spouse any better. What a fortunate man I am to have them in my life. 

Sincerely,
Vic Toews
MP for Provencher " 

 And just to set the record straight, I responded to a usually sensible blogger who has let Vic Toews off the hook ~ based it appears, solely on this somewhat soulless letter!

WOW! Just when you think it is all over... This Just In!

"A "gag order" written into the government's proposed Internet snooping bill makes it an offence for telecommunication companies to tell customers whether their personal information has been handed over to investigators, police or government, according to one privacy lawyer.

The contentious and dense piece of legislation intends to make it easier for government and law enforcement authorities to get warrantless access to personal information of any Canadian using the Internet, under the pretence of protecting children from online predators."


Last Word:

I am still wondering if Vic Toews is actually getting the message.  I wonder if he knows that Twitter is a public domain open to any with an account?  I wonder if he gets that it is possible to follow all of his Tweets, or address any Tweet to him or use a hash-tag to chat about him endlessly. he actually changed the name arbitrarily on a piece of legislation that he apparently never read, what are the chances that he even knows how twitter works.

So, good old Vic, after taking a full day to lick his wounds and write that letter, or have it written for him, is right back on Twitter today Twittering away all by himself. 

All the while, people from all over the world are still addressing him over and over through his handle: @ToewsVic and using the Hash-Tag #TellVicEverything as he ignores it all and acts as if all is right in his world. It is obviously not.

According to his Account: He follows 72 other accounts. And also according to Twitter, many of them Are Just Like Him, lol! Sadly that is the truth and a search of this blog using the word Amygdala will explain all of that. 

See Who Vic Toews is Following

He is now saying that he is being threatened and the RCMP have been called in. It really never seems to stop.

I Am Worried for Vic Toews ~ He Really Needs a Rest!

Just keep on a Readin' Varmit!
There is a Test at the End.
~ A Con-Test

Vic Toews is quickly becoming someone that those of us who are already openly opposed to Stephen Harper's Government look to every day and find for yet another reason to stop the insanity that is Harper Land. Vic, as a leader of men is a failed experiment to say the least. He is ill cast to carry the burden of the role of Sheriff of Harper Land. Like Yosemite Sam here, he lacks the wits or the temperament needed to be successful as our protector.

Things are always odd in Harper Land to say the very least, and it is obvious to those of us who are really paying attention that the Treasury board Chairman is a threat to the Treasury, the Minister of the Environment is a threat to the Environment, the Minister in charge of Immigration is a threat to our Department of Immigration, etc. In fact it is painfully obvious that in Harper Land, any minister currently in Charge of any and all departments is counter productive and this amateurish and indolent government are failing miserably to manage any of them. So, how you holding up, eh?

Let's Start with This: Vic Toews just last week, blithely reported to the members of the House of Commons that he had already advised the Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (CSIS) that it will be OK in the future to use information that has been gathered through the imposition of torture. And this is just a start!

"I paid my two-bits
ta see a high divin' act
and Ima Gonna
see a High Divin' Act" 

So what has he done lately that adds to the list of incompetence and drudgery that is the Harper style of governance? Well for one thing he is denying that an internal report is clearly saying that the termination of the long gun registry is a huge mistake, and that it will result in a lot more illegal guns in Canada and on the streets. He has also come out on the side of armed citizens having weapons at the ready to defend life and property. Yeeeee Haaa! Texas Lives! 

Vic Toews, Our Public safety Minister, has just made Canada a hell of a lot less Safe. Like I said above, not only are these guys bad at what they do, they each are thriving while doing actual harm in their own field. Never has such a group of Dullards and amateurs had so much clout anywhere in the world. It is almost hard to imagine the collective lack of talent in the Harper Regime.

   

               And Today, (Feb 14th) It Got Even Worse.

 He is Having a Very Hard Week!

OTTAWA ~ The government says anyone who opposes federal plans to make electronic surveillance easier for police and spies is siding with child pornographers.

It’s the first salvo in a battle that will resume Tuesday when the government reintroduces legislation that would expand online monitoring powers.

The issue pits the desire of intelligence and law-enforcement officials to have easier access to information about Internet users against the individual’s right to privacy.

Asked Monday in the House of Commons about the coming bill, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told a Liberal MP he could either "Stand with the Government or Stand with the Child Pornographers" 

What on Earth is your Point?

Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has warned against simply resurrecting a trio of previous federal bills to expand surveillance powers, citing several shortcomings.

Of particular concern to the privacy commissioner are provisions that would allow authorities access to Internet subscriber information without first getting a court’s go-ahead.

Toews’ office has assured  that the government will strike a suitable and  appropriate balance between the necessary investigative powers and the protection of privacy. Personally I am not sure that I imagine that really happening. And certainly not with the outspoken and intellectually over-matched Teows calling the shots. 

Opposition MPs were Alarmed by his Inane Comments.

“Apparently if you care about civil liberties in this country you obviously side with child pornographers, murderers. You’re the worst form of scum if you believe the charter’s an important instrument for the rule of law in this country. I'm horrified by this kind of rhetoric. It demeans us all.” ~ Elizabeth May.
"Stupid" was the word that Bob Rae used to describe the Statement and the Minister. I will provide a link as soon as I inherit a secretary. Lol!

Ahhh, here is something.

Note that Bob Rae is only referring to 'Hitler' because it had come up in the HOC just a day before when one of the the Cons inappropriately and absurdly compared a statement by former Liberal MP, Allan Rock with Adolf Hitler. 

Vic Toews has never taken any responsibility for anything that this government has done. 

This is not new, but it illustrates his 
innate ability to put up a smoke screen. 

 
Vic Clears the whole thing up!


How Crazy was it? ~ CTV

Rick Mercer Really Appreciates 

Vic Teows' Attitude

                

It is my real Hope
that if you take a close enough look at
Stephen Harper's Caucus
you might start to see that he is just
a Head with It's Chicken Cut Off!

Stephen Joseph Harper ~ A man Who Inspires Both the Carrot and the Stick!

Does This Man Not Inspire You?

Apparently he Provides Inspiration to  Carrots and Sticks Alike 

The followers of the Cons are inspired by him and have a very interesting theory about this odd statement. Watch this slightly longer longer version and that fact should be apparent. They are claiming that it proves that he is human.

Seriously? Five years into his primeministership, and even his followers feel that his being human still requires proof? How very odd that seems. But they have a point in a way, because the jury is still out on that issue. 

I have often said that he was inhuman, not because he is not a human, but because he has so very little empathy for others. I have called him a robot, not because he does not possess a heart, but because he so rarely uses it. He appears for the most part to act as a slave to his programming. I call him a puppet, not because he is inanimate without a ventriloquist, but because he so easily says what it is that is expected from him by his handlers. Even when the names of those puppeteers change from time to time. 

That is no doubt a very dangerous circumstance and we can but hope that a year from now I am not writing of  the very odd direction he gets while on the lap of Mitt Romney.

A Longer Version of the Same Statement.

Art Has Always Imitated Life
It seems that he inspires this carrot and the People who bring us V8 Fusion
That may be the Reason that there is such an 

Uncanny Resemblance:

Am I the only one to notice this eery resemblance?

Does this man Inspire You so far?

It seems that Mr. Harper  inspires the man weilding that big stick above. 

But the best and most recent example of his ability to inspire the use of excessive force 

comes from idiot Minister of Public Safety

Vic Toews.

Neither the Public Safety Department

Nor Minister Would Comment on Monday.

In an emailed statement, the department said the 2010 directive "provides greater clarity to CSIS" and that "all CSIS activities, including sharing information with foreign agencies, comply with Canada's laws and legal obligations." 

Added Mike Patton, a spokesman for Toews: "Our government will always take action that protects the lives of Canadians."

Canadian law enforcement and security agencies should focus on getting rid of information that bears the taint of torture, not on carving out exceptions for when it can be used, said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada.

"The bottom line is that as long as torturers continue to find a market for the fruit of their crimes, torture will continue," he said. "Firmly rebuffing torturers when they offer up information extracted through pain and suffering is a critical plank in the wider campaign to eradicate torture once and for all."

CSIS's ~Tahera Mufti ~ No Comment
Of Course We Stopped Well Short of Water-Boarding them. 
You Really Need to Draw that Line in the Sand  
to Call Yourself Free and Democratic.

Meet the First Harperland Cabinet ~ A Simple Photo Opportunity?

Mark My Words Folks, the next four years are ^NOT going to be good years for this country. Not on your life. Late last year, back in Canada, when it was announced that the name of the government was being changed, I was against formally calling 'The Government of Canada', "The Harper Government" and made myself heard on the subject But this new twist, this strange new twist, has me thinking that I would be very much in favour of renaming this Great Country, so long known as the Dominion of Canada, to the more appropriate "Harperland". Welcome fellow Harperlanders (it's OK you'll get used to it) to the first few days of a Harper Majority. Hold onto your hats, hide the silverware, and remember:         Take ^Notes.

 
       So, WELCOME TO HARPERLAND!

No, I haven't completely lost it, ( just yet) but I want it to be easy to keep this four and a half years separate from the first one hundred thirty four years of Canada's proud history, at least in people minds. I want everyone to know that this is ^NOT the Canada of Diefenbaker. This is not the Canada of; Pearson, Trudeau, Clark, Campbell, Mulroney, Chretien, Stanfield, Martin and this is not the Canada of the "Minority Harper Government".  No, this is a brand new entity. This is ^NOT Canada as I recognize it.

Neither am I suggesting that we forget the lessons learned during the Minority Harper Government, as it is obvious that these lessons were never really learned. The information is still there though, and even the over zealous Stephen Harper will ^NOT be able to hide it. He will however, double, re-double and again re-double his grip on Harperland and most of that in the next 100 days. I will be doing my best to chronical at least some of this huge undertaking.


The New Harperland cabinet was announced today, may 18, 2011, although a lot of it, was released last night, as harper was bursting at the seams like the suitcoat he bought last fall is now bursting at the seams, to get the Good News out there. (see the previous blog post, just below)

                         ~ The first Harperland Ubercabinet ~
        ~ A Photo-Opportunistic Adventure in Pomp & Metaphor ~ 

I have just got to admit that I see pure metaphor in the image behind this group of Harperland's Founders.  In this beautiful bewitching painting (see below for details) the local people are gathering, coming from all directions, from far and wide, their mouths agape, their innocent faces turned upward, on an up hill climb, staring awestruck at the huge figure of a big blue Bird, who is itself being seemingly adored by another closer, darker group. Am I reading too much into it? I sure hope so.

If you are new to this, start with this smaller group:

        So, Keep busy, Stay awake, Take notes, Hide the silverware. I'll be back!


But, Before I go, I want to reassure you that although I have no real faith in Harper or anyone in his cabinet, I am aware that there are still real heros in the world. And that brings me back full circle to the Painting behind the man behind the curtain!
(thanks to Karen C for the reminder)

This painting was done by a man who never set foot in Harper land. He spent his entire life as a Canadian and he was a beautiful Canadian. He was an amazing painter.

please have a look.


Seriously, I'll be back. thanks.