Happy vs Unhappy Muslims

Written by Paul Fromm

Friday, 03 August 2012 04:15

*Happy vs Unhappy Muslims* *Many Muslims today are not happy!* *They're not happy in Gaza . They're not happy in Egypt . They're not happy in Libya . They're not happy in Morocco . They're not happy in Iran . They're not happy in Iraq . They're not happy in Yemen . They're not happy in Afghanistan . They're not happy in Pakistan . They're not happy in Syria . They're not happy in Lebanon .* *So, where are they happy?* *They're happy in Australia . They're happy in the UK . They're happy in Canada . They're happy in the US . They're happy in France . They're happy in Germany . They're happy in Italy . They're happy in Sweden . They're happy in Denmark . They're happy in Norway .* *So, they're happy in every country that is not Muslim.* *And who do they blame?* *Not Islam. Not their leadership. Not themselves.* *THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN! AND THEY WANT TO CHANGE THEM TO BE LIKE THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY.* *Excuse me, but have I missed something here?*

 

Attack Terrier Kinsella Smears Mayor Ford

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 02 August 2012 08:26

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp231.net/z0aEIM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attack Terrier Kinsella Smears Mayor Ford Whoosh, that was a close call. Despite an illogical smear "linking" -- what does that really mean? -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to a man who sang in a racialist band 20 -- yes twenty! -- years ago, even the usually prickly Jewish lobby group, the Centre for Israel and Jewish affairs, isn't buying it. Warren Kinsella is a nasty piece of work. In the early 90s, he was a backroom boy in Ottawa, working for Cabinet minister David Dingwall and on Prime Minister Jean Chretien's electoral campaigns. In 200, he was in charge of the Liberal Party war room and devised the mockery and smear of Canadan Aiiiance leader Stockwell Day for his literalistic biblical interpretations about evolution.Can you imagine a political campaign mocking another politician's Jewish or Moslem beliefs? Kinsella boasted about his attack dog role in his book Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (Random House, 2001). For someone so obsessed with people's links, Kinsella has a bit of an odd background: "In his youth, Kinsella was the bassist of the Canadian punk band, 'The Hot Nasties ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Nasties )', In 2005, Kinsella wrote Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk-Rock Manifesto (Random House, 2005), a history of the early days of punk. In 2005, [when he was 45, a little long-in-the-tooth one would think for the punk scene] Kinsella founded a punk rock band named "Shit From Hell", which released a self-titled album later that year on Kicking Ass Records." (Wikipedia) Kinsella somewhat wore out his welcome with much of the Liberal Party. He was always a passionate Chretienite. When 'tit Jean retired, Kinsella backed the leftish Allan Rock against Chretien's arch-rival and heir apparent Paul Martin. During one ferocious battle for delegates in an Ontario riding some of Rock's rent-a-Sikh crowd's credentials were challenged. Kinsella blasted the Martinites as "racists." Now that term might be alright for Martin's pals to toss at then-reform MPs who questioned his cozy position with Tamil Tiger (terrorist) front men in Canada, but for this term to be directed at members of the Liberal family went beyond the pale for many Liberals. Martin won and Kinsella for a while was somewhat out in the cold. Kinsella directed Michael Ignatieff's disastrous 2008 campaign as head of the war room. Later the two fell out. He has also helped Ontario's Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinnty but you get the feel that his once shining star in Liberaldom is somewhat dimmed. Kinsella also authored two political expose books. The first was Unholy Alliances (1992) about the supposed Gaddafi and Libyan connection in Canada, entitled. The second was called Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far-Right Network (1994). This expose of Canada's racial movement was a mish-mash of half truths, facts, distortions and outright errors. Bill Dunphy, in the early '90s, the Toronto Sun's resident expert on the "far-right" and no friend of leaders like Wolfgang Droege and the Heritage Front, whom he simultaneously courted and defamed, counted no fewer than 34 errors in one chapter alone. Kinsella wrote favourably of state censorship to suppress the views of the "far-right": In addition to Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code, the "hate law," Kinsella explained, "the Criminal Code is not the only source of anti-hate remedies. Other tools have been used very effectively against neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the past. The Canadian Human Rights Act, for example prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, religion ...through the vehicle of telephone hate messages. [The now-repealed Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act which was later extended to cover communications on the Internet.]" (p.357) When Brian Storseth's private member's bill to repeal Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, Bill C-304, won third and final reading in early June, a furious Warren Kinsella blogged: " Kike. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) Don’t like that? Too bad. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) Nigger. Faggot. Paki. Chink. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) Don’t like those, either? Again, too bad. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) As of last week, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made it a lot easier for you to be called any of those things — or any number of other racist, hateful epithets — when they killed a key part of the Canadian Human Rights Act. That part, Section 13, prohibited the communication of hate via the telephone or the Internet. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) The section came into being in the ’70s because some neo-Nazi groups were using hate lines to communicate some pretty awful stuff. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act ) ... Then, just this week, a nobody Conservative MP was successful in getting Section 13 killed, making use of the Harper regime’s favoured sleight-of-hand, a private member’s bill. Section 13 was dead. ( http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/08/haters-will-love-changes-to-human-rights-act )" (June 9, 21012) While promoting Web of Hate, Kinsella let it be known that, when travelling, he and his wife would check into hotels under assumed names for "security" reasons. Apparently, he feared skinhead of Libyan assassins hot in his trail. Whether this was just a tale to glamorous himself or not is hard to tell. Unless you have false ID or credit cards, it's hard to check into a hotel under a phony name. "Pss, Miss Check-in Girl, I'm really Warren Kinsella, the famous go-fer for important people like the Prime Minister, journalist and author,and punk band singer. I'm using the name Marcus Flyweather. If you see some dusty dusky man on a camel or some fellow in boots and braces of the short-haired persuasion, please, please don't given them my room number and call CSIS, the RCMP, and the local cops in that order.) At the time, 1994-1997, Kinsella seemed to be unusually thick with the Ottawa police. Several youngsters playing in the park behind his home accidentally flung a Frisbee over his fence. Within a minute or two, Ottawa police descended on the place and closely questioned the youngsters as to their activities and intentions toward Kinsella. [You can never be too careful. Those could have been Libyan agents, shrunk to child size and disguised.] Anyway, I note with a big smirk that some 18 years have passed and somehow those Libyan assassins or malevolent skinheads never managed to catch up with Warren Kinsella. Another self-appointed Nazi hunter, Richard Warman also seemed to revel in the drama queen role of being a potential victim of vengeful rightists whose right to speak on the Internet he was desperately trying to squelch. Warman had actually studied drama as an undergraduate , a mystery to anyone who has ever observed his stiff and wooden performances in Court. Beginning with the Terry Tremaine Tribunal in Ottawa in August, 2006, Warman and the Human Rights Commission prosecutors would be shadowed by private security hired at taxpayers' expense by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Representing Terry Tremaine and Melissa Guille before these tribunals and later in the Marc Lemire case representing CAFE which had intervener status, I repeatedly objected to the prejudicial optics of having "security" protecting one side int he case. In some instances the hearing room was nearly empty and, so, it would appear that Warman and the CHRC lawyer had to be protected from???? In the Melissa Guille case, a 110-pound slight single mother and me? The "security" farce reached its nadir in the Melissa Guille case. There they had a Metro constable sit inside the hearing to assure good behaviour. I had no problem with his. On entering the hearing room, all but special people (lawyers) were searched by rent-a-cops, who, on one occasion quite literally did not know which end of their wand was up. Finally, there were five private bodyguards for Warman and the prosecutor one Ms Kaylee Snider who, almost in tears, argued that security was needed as human rights prosecutions were such stressful and dangerous activities. Boo. Hoo. A burly bodyguard would accompany Warman to the men's room, lest some clever free speech supporter slip an alligator into the pipes to bite the chronic complainer's rump when he sat down to relieve himself. Anyway, back to Warren Kinsella. He apparently got his dirt from an anonymous cowards' website called Anti Racist Canada. I almost never comment on their lies, private pictures, half truths, sneerings and defamation. It's like arguing with anonymous graffiti on a toilet stall wall.["Susy is a slut." Should I argue with the anonymous scrawler: "No, she's not. She's joined Mother Teresa's order of nuns to help the diseased and dying in Calcutta"?) Anti-Racist Canada seems to be claiming they dug up the dirt for Kinsella: "Hey, Warren....You might not know us, but you owe ARC members a beer for this ( http://warrenkinsella.com/2012/07/the-toronto-mayors-far-right-friend/ )." "This" turned out to be a photo from the Mayor's annual New Year's Levee which is open to everyone. There the Mayor shook hands with and posed for a photo with John Latvis who used to be a member of the racialist band RAHOWA. The Canadian Press reported: " A prominent Liberal strategist has managed to give Toronto's mayor the kind of publicity every politician likes to avoid. Warren Kinsella posted a picture on his blog of Ford posing with a man the Liberal strategist claims has links to white supremacists. Kinsella titled his blog entry 'The Toronto Mayor's Far-Right Friend." He claims Jon Latvis was a member of the band RAHOWA, widely identified online as an acronym for racial holy war. The Facebook picture shows Latvis wearing a military style uniform with a tag that reads: 'Me meeting with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford to get an endorsement for the Latvian Homeguard.' Ford issued a statement saying the picture was taken at the 2012 New Year's Levee at Toronto City Hall and that he poses for pictures with hundreds of people at these events." (Canadian Press, July 26, 2012) So, what's the story? The Mayor spoke briefly to Mr. Latvis and did not endorse his cause of promise him anything. Actually, Latvis is a Facebook name. This individual, whom I knew years ago, actually has another surname. The mayor meets and poses for vanity pictures with hundreds of people at such events and seldom knows who they are or what they might have done. In anything like a free and democratic society, he can't be expected to know the people he greets. Surely, even racialists have the right to participate in society or does Mr. Kinsella challenge that? In the mid-1970s, a photo surfaced of President Jimmy Carter's wife Rosalyn posing with John Wayne Geacy the notorious bugger, pedophile and mass murderer. The picture was taken sometime before his capture when he was still a stalwart precinct captain in the Chicago Democratic Party's political machine. No one would seriously suggest that Rosalyn Carter or her husband supported buggery, pedophilia or serial killing? Anyone who so suggested would be seen to an irrational partisan. The same might be said of Warren Kinsella. Mayor Ford actually need not have responded at all. However, according to the Canadian Press, " The two men talked briefly, but the[Mayor's] statement says the discussion centred on public transit. 'At no time was the Mayor aware of allegations that this individual had made racist, hateful or otherwise offensive comments, nor were any such comments made during his meeting with the Mayor," said the statement. 'Mayor Ford is a strong supporter of Toronto's Jewish community and strongly deplores anti-Semitism in any form.' ... The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs also issued a statement saying it understands Ford's officials can't screen every person who attends a public event like a New Year's Levee and considers the Toronto mayor a true friend of the city's Jewish community." Rob Ford is pretty much what he seems to be. He's a rarity -- a penny pinching opponent of waste of taxpayers' money. He's a bit of a rough diamond, but no one can seriously believe Ford has a hidden agenda. He has an open door policy for constituents and, unlike many politicians, scrupulously returns phone calls. That may have explained his solid popularity as a councillor. He is, in many ways, conventional. During his campaign, he visited numerous Jewish institutions to raise funds and press the flesh and pledge his support for Israel. A good supporter of mine called him during the campaign to complain about so many businesses being open on Sunday and forcing their workers to work on their day of worship.The reputedly traditionalist Ford seemed unsympathetic and said a friend of his was Jewish and would resent not being able to shop on Sunday. The Jewish lobby clearly knows this and even they ignored Kinsella's "expose". Warren Kinsella belongs to a breed who arrogantly assumes that Liberals are the natural ruling party, The demise of their federal candidates in the last three elections has left this sort embittered. They dislike and resent a Rob Ford who is a conservative of sorts with none of their politically correct pretensions. Ford won't even attend the Gay Pride Parade. I suspect it is this spiteful resentment that lies behind the silly smear Kinsella put out. Kinsella's new book has a title that suggests near hysteria at a changing political world: Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse Kinsella pronounced himself pleased with his handiwork in his smear of Mayor Ford: "Anyway, yesterday’s post attracted a fair bit of attention. Ford is a 24/7 human gong show, and this is just one more episode in a series." (Kinsella blog, July 27, 2012) What exactly is Kinsella suggesting that the Mayor and his staff should have done at the levee? Kinsella wrote (July 27) "As I said to a Globe reporter yesterday: 'If a guy wearing a white hard hat, with a German accent and looking a lot like Ernst Zundel showed up at your political event, claimed to be John Smith, and said he was interested in discussing health care, wouldn’t you be a bit wary?' . ... As I told that Globe reporter yesterday, the job of staff is to ensure these types of incidents don’t happen. Someone should lose their job over this."So, in Kinsella's world should people with strong racial views or people who are historical revisionists or people who once played in a racialist band not be allowed to greet and shake the mayor's hand? Or even to lobby the mayor for a cause dear to them? What sort of control-freak tyranny is he suggesting? Oh, and speaking of "links" perhaps politicians he's worked for, say, like Dalton McGuinnty should be asked whether they endorse the anti-democratic preachings of their supporter Warren Kinsella. Paul Fromm Director CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION Jewish group satisfied about Toronto mayor's explanation of controversial photo at 22:23 on July 26, 2012, EDT. The Canadian Press Share on facebook ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National )Share on twitter ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National )Share on email ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National )Share on print ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National )More Sharing Services ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National )0 ( http://home.mytelus.com/telusen/portal/NewsChannel.aspx?ArticleID=news/capfeed/national/19538875.xml&CatID=National ) TORONTO - A prominent Liberal strategist has managed to give Toronto's mayor the kind of publicity every politician likes to avoid. Warren Kinsella posted a picture on his blog of Ford posing with a man the Liberal strategist claims has links to white supremacists. Kinsella titled his blog entry "The Toronto Mayor's Far-Right Friend." He claims Jon Latvis was a member of the band Rahowa, widely identified online as an acronym for racial holy war. The Facebook picture shows Latvis wearing a military style uniform with a tag that reads: "Me meeting with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford to get an endorsement for the Latvian Homeguard." Ford issued a statement saying the picture was taken at the 2012 New Year's Levee at Toronto City Hall and that he poses for pictures with hundreds of people at these events. The statement from Ford's office said the man requested a meeting with Ford, but identified himself under a different name than the one used on Kinsella's blog. The two men talked briefly, but the statement says the discussion centred on public transit. "At no time was the Mayor aware of allegations that this individual had made racist, hateful or otherwise offensive comments, nor were any such comments made during his meeting with the Mayor," said the statement. "Mayor Ford is a strong supporter of Toronto's Jewish community and strongly deplores anti-Semitism in any form." Latvis did not immediately respond to emails. The story has been widely posted online by a number of media outlets. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs also issued a statement saying it understands Ford's officials can't screen every person who attends a public event like a New Year's Levee and considers the Toronto mayor a true friend of the city's Jewish community. _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp231.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgjyjgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

Urgent -- Speak Up!: Fill in the Immigration Level Survey on-line

Written by Paul Fromm

Thursday, 02 August 2012 08:24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp231.net/zNMk6k -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Urgent -- Speak Up!: Fill in the Immigration Level Survey on-line The Department of Citizenship and Immigration is conducting a consultation this summer as to immigration levels for 2013. If you live in Canada, it is vital that you respond and speak up. You are encouraged to read a background paper on-line before answering the survey. The CIC website explains: The consultations will explore a number of issues related to three main questions: 1 What is the appropriate level of immigration for Canada? Should the number of immigrants per year change? 2 What is the appropriate distribution – or mix – between the number of economic immigrants, family class immigrants and refugees? 3 Economic immigration is recognized as a key immigration objective for Canada’s long-term economic growth. What role can immigration play to support Canada’s economy? Go on the CIC website, peruse the background report and fill in the questionnaire. We strongly urge you to recommend zero immigration for 2013. With 7.2 per cent official unemployment -- real unemployment levels are much higher as the official figure counts only those still receiving Employment Insurance benefits -- there is no justification for any immigration at all. A newcomer will do one of two things; take an existing job that should go to a Canadian, thus throwing that person on to EI or welfare, or be unable to find a job and become a charge on the Canadian taxpayer. Either way, Canada loses. The future "labour shortage" is speculative. Jobs should go to the unemployed and only when we have full employment and should there actually be a labour shortage in the future, ought there to be any consideration of further immigration intake. Canada's founding/settler people are being replaced by government policy. With present immigration levels (85 per cent from the Third World), people of European descent will be a minority by 2050. This ethnic replacement is unacceptable. One way to slow it down is to demand that, at least in this present era of high unemployment, no further immigration be considered at this time. The on-line consultation closes at the end of August. Fill out the survey now at http ( http://cic.sondages-surveys.ca/s/immigration2013/ )://cic.sondages-surveys.ca/s/immigration2013/ ( http://cic.sondages-surveys.ca/s/immigration2013/ ) Paul Fromm Director CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE Here are some excerpts from the backgrounder. Clearly, the government wants support for high immigration levels but wories that recent immigrnts have had neither the language or jobs skills to do well. GOVERNMENT OF CANADA PRIORITIES AND COMMITMENTS Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2012 is focused on jobs, economic growth and prosperity. The Prime Minister has also made it clear that economic immigration is a key priority for the Government of Canada. . CURRENT AND FUTURE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN CANADA Canada’s immigration system must be flexible enough to both help meet today’s skill shortages in a timely manner while also ensuring that it anticipates tomorrow’s labour market needs, by attracting the appropriate skills and talents for the changing economy. CAPACITY OF THE ECONOMY AND WELCOMING NEWCOMERS Many in the business sector and provinces and territories are calling for higher immigration levels to meet existing and anticipated job shortages. At the same time, the analysis of data for immigrants who are already here suggests that they are experiencing higher unemployment rates and lower earnings relative to Canadian-born individuals. . (le français suit) Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) would like to invite you to participate in an online consultation ( http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/consultations/immigration-levels-planning-2013/index.asp ) on immigration levels planning. The purpose of this consultation is to seek your feedback on immigration to Canada, specifically on the total number of new permanent residents Canada should welcome and how this overall total should be distributed among immigration categories. The consultation will explore a number of issues related to three main questions: * What is the appropriate level of immigration for Canada? Should the number of immigrants per year change? * What is the appropriate distribution – or mix – between the number of economic immigrants, family class immigrants and refugees? * Economic immigration is recognized as a key immigration objective for Canada’s long-term economic growth. What role can immigration play to support Canada’s economy? * * Prior to completing the questionnaire, please read the following background document ( http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2012/2012-07-31.asp ) (which is also attached for your reference). This serves to give you a sense of some of the challenges and realities we face as we strive to best answer the difficult questions involved in managing Canada’s immigration system. The full questionnaire is attached if you wish to view and/or print the document to plan your responses before submitting your feedback online. Please note that this attachment is included for reference purposes only; responses must be submitted using the online questionnaire. A report on the consultations, including a summary of responses to the online consultation questionnaire, will be available on our website in fall 2012 or winter 2013. More information about this consultation process is available on the CIC web site at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/consultations/index.asp. The online consultation will be available from July 31 to August 31, 2012. We invite you to forward this email to other organizations or individuals you feel would be interested in participating. Thank you in advance for your input _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp231.net/ugmjhqsqgsgbbqgjymgguewwmw Powered by YourMailingListProvider