tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post330634860425816834..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Oh Yes, Another Scandal, Another Line CrossedThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-75112596962685728722013-06-04T22:54:08.929-07:002013-06-04T22:54:08.929-07:00@kootcoot.
It's fear. fear breeds blind part...@kootcoot. <br /><br />It's fear. fear breeds blind partisanship and a love of power. Feeling small inside and being afraid the world is out to get you leads to this bizarre chest thumping tribalism. Decking oneself out in the trappings of military gives on a feeling of power over the things out to get you. <br /><br />If those things happen to be aged, injured returning vets, and this particular 'out to get you' happens to be asking for benefits and in the process making your tribe (which you depend upon to feel bigger and stronger than the rest of the world) look bad... well... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-1668868239891541732013-06-04T17:06:40.158-07:002013-06-04T17:06:40.158-07:00Didn't Pete and Steve sic investigators on the...Didn't Pete and Steve sic investigators on the veterans that were complaining about their treatment regarding benefits? Didn't they accuse them of being opposition shit disturbers, only to have it become clear that they were lifetime Conservatives, tho hopefully they will reconsider being HarperCons!<br /><br />What is it with these Reich Wingnuts that love to dress up like soldiers, make war and act tough, but then treat returning, often injured, vets like crap?kootcoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344208424209840730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26959667258648153242013-06-04T12:19:14.969-07:002013-06-04T12:19:14.969-07:00Sorry to be flippant MOS. I agree that the Mountie...Sorry to be flippant MOS. I agree that the Mounties are well on the way to becoming the political police for the neocons. One federal election, one provincial election.<br /><br />The problem is that everytime I thinke of Belinda and the sad spectacle of potato pete begging foe sympathy I laugh.rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-49804030616517632452013-06-04T08:39:03.722-07:002013-06-04T08:39:03.722-07:00If only it was so benign, RF. It's not. Ther...If only it was so benign, RF. It's not. There is no room in a democracy for partisan political secret police agencies. <br /><br />We have already seen evidence of the emergence of a Royal Conservative Mounted Police and the secret pipeline police/intelligence agency. In any government there is a tendency to blur lines but these are lines that are broken, not simply bent.<br /><br />Unless the RCMP and the armed forces remain apolitical they become a threat to democracy and one that has to be taken very seriously and, by whatever means necessary, corrected. They have to recognize they serve the country, not a political party, not a prime minister, not any cabinet minister. They have to submit to political direction but, above all, they serve the country and that distinction is critical.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65467888252386759112013-06-04T08:28:52.073-07:002013-06-04T08:28:52.073-07:00So Pete had the boys dig deep for information and ...So Pete had the boys dig deep for information and all he got was small potatoes. How embarassing.<br /><br />Oh!Oh! Am I in trouble? Will a little tin hat grneral be knocking at my door?rumleyfipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346146988416679423noreply@blogger.com