Where the Gaia Worshipers…err, Sorry, “Secularists” Are Taking Us…

They say that university campuses are the driving force behind all the major political movements these days…well at least those on The Left. I was waiting for this to happen though:

Sydney’s Cardinal Pell heavily criticized an Australian medical journal for publishing a professor’s letter calling for a tax on children of $5000 per child and $800 yearly for each child after birth, as punishment for parents who have families larger than two children.

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Dr. Barry Walters condemned Australia’s “baby bonus” program, writing that “showering financial booty on new mothers” encouraged “greenhouse-unfriendly behaviour” and that Australia should adopt population plans similar to those in India or China. Trees should be planted to negate the ecological effect of every child born, he said.

But Cardinal Pell said that anti-human environmental proposals from extremist minorities were the real cause for concern.

Sadly, extremist minorities, the likes of which we saw around here courtesy of Atheism’s American high priest, soon become oppressive majorities after they use their influence in the education system to brainwash enough young voters to militantly support the agenda in question.

Just for the record as well, it’s not like India (whose culture is known to mimic ancient Rome’s and prefer male babies while slaughtering its daughters — feminists? feminists?!) or China export there excess human capital to other nations like our grande immigration scheme in this country likes to imagine. The bodies pile up pretty fast.

This professor’s letter also begs the question of what would happen if expectant parents aren’t able to pay a sickening carbon tax on newborns. Does the state then empower itself to violate the mother physically and abort the child? (Feminists? Feminists?!) The only crime that I can see the armies of The Left truly convicting this professor of is demonstrating modern liberalism’s true agenda of pursuing a Utopian world (which won’t work under real-world circumstances) through means that would make Hitler, Stalin, et al blush in jealousy. At least the ancients, as primative as I’ve been told they were in comparison to our highly evolved brains and culture, were honest enough to admit when all they wanted was a good old genocide to appease their blood-thirsty gods!

The Road to A Harper Majority…

…is paved with the extortion attempts of Natives. Well, not like the majority highway that the Prime Minister is currently paving in Quebec, but consider this: a Liberal Premier is currently allowing a lot of terrorist Natives to run amok in Caledonia, the Conservative government in Ottawa is refusing to break bread with this group and now the Natives are threatening every community along the Grand River — many of which are part of swing ridings in south-western Ontario. Out of these ridings, Kitchener-Waterloo, Kitchener Centre, Brant and Guelph are all held by Liberal MPs and the latter three were all won within reasonably close margins (Kitchener-Waterloo is a distinct beast which likes to stick with an incumbent). Four ridings, 1.3% of our national seats total, could make all the difference if Stephen Harper is able to pick up another 20 seats in Quebec as many speculate he will do; in fact, it could turn a strong minority into a razor-thin majority. The Natives, in their quest to get their way, might consider this before they attempt to extort money and illegitimate taxes out of the half-a-million residents who live along the Grand River.

I’m sorry that they feel that their people got a raw deal from Confederation and in a perfect world, yes, the treaties negotiated over a hundred years ago (and gifts for that matter) were done in bad faith, but a Native today has no more right to rule over this land than an immigrant, a native-born Euro-Canadian or anyone else for that matter. Canada is a U.N.-recognized, politically sovereign entity which calls the shots in its territory. In all fairness, what have any of these mobsters or terrorists now crying crocodile tears done to deserve the very generous tax exemptions, government programs and hand-outs that they get besides winning the genetic lottery? Have all of those perks been considered by these people or should we subtract all of the tax money behind them from the total we are to pay this band for the Grand River territory (IF we even owe it to them post-negotiations!), because it might just turn out that the Natives owe us a nice big fat cheque along with the apology!

Warren Kinsella Weather Balloon

Okay, so Warren excuses his own behavior in the 2000 election, but insists that he believes “we are entitled as society to place reasonable limits on the expression of actual hatred towards religious faiths.” Problem is, I and the other Bible-believing Christians out there that he constantly refers to as knuckle draggers aren’t running for public office. Under Warren’s rules, does this mean that the man should be *dragged* before a “human rights commission”?

Oh wait, when its liberals/Christianophobes doing the talking, it’s only “ridicule”, not hatred, right?

“Expelled”: The Tyranny on Thought

Jason, from Back off Government!, happens to be a very good friend of mine and sent me a link today to a new movie that I had no idea was coming out but will definately be seeing now…

Ben Stein, first made famous in the celebrity world through Farris Bueler’s Day Off, staunch Republican and former speech writer for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, is staring in a new documentary called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” that will be out in theatres this February and tackles the dogma of evolution that is not only harming free speech in our society but also has led to many of the disasters of the 20th century with the greatest death toll. I have searched and haven’t seen any evidence that it will be carried by Canadian chains, but I hope this is just because the movie is still at least a month away from release.

Anyway, watch the trailer here since it’s actually a pretty powerful and moving piece. I hope that everyone who considers themselves to be truly open minded to all the possibilities of science watches this too. As for the commentators on this blog who will simply dismiss both this post and this movie as blind faith, I offer the challenge to you that Stein implies in the above-linked movie: watch the movie, listen to the criticism and respond accordingly. Otherwise, it really begs the question on whether you are really comfortable with your faith in what you have heard about evolution (studies, evidence of, arguments for), or are just paranoid that someone if challenged with a rival theory like intelligent design it will come crashing down. For the trolls (and you know who you are!), I simply offer the original title Darwin gave to his book,

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

,and ask you to explain how such a social (and Holocaust-endorsing) statement can be classified as the title of a purely scientific work — until I get a direct answer to that, I will not respond to any of your inquiries as I haven’t seemed to get much of a response on mine and think I’m overdue!

With that said, let the acid start flying…!

Why Emery Has To Go…

A lot of secular libertarians are talking up a storm this month since decisions are coming down the line now on whether a B.C. businessman, Marc Emery, should be extradited to the United States at that country’s request to face charges over selling marijuana seeds through the internet to U.S. customers. The libers are taking exception to this mainly over the fact that they don’t think that narcotics should be controlled substances, but at least some of them have been making decent attempts to justify their stance outside of just saying *it’s the right thing to do*. (note to all John Tory supporters: take a clue here!)

Among the more reasonable explanations that I’ve been offered are that if the roles were reversed, the U.S. would be laughing right through the primaries at the thought of turning one of its citizens over to a foreign nation to face a criminal charge that it is not willing to make itself, and that Emery is just being used as an example; there are many B.C.-based websites that offer the same service that Emery has, but the U.S. law enforcement agencies aren’t even recognizing their existence.

There are problems though, even with these justifications. First, while it’s true that the U.S. would be more keen on keeping its own safe, I seem to recall many examples wherein the country is willing to extradite American citizens to Europe, or Canada to face charges such as fraud, murder or theft; if I’m not mistaken, many of the recent business scandals that have been recently rocking the U.S. financial world involve execs in just this situation. Irregardless, two wrongs wouldn’t make a right; everyone, including Emery, agrees that he willingly provoked the States and is now facing the consequences. Canadian law is quite reasonable in this case, giving discretion to the Minister of Justice, Rob Nicholson, who has the ability to veto a citizen’s transfer to a foreign country to face charges if he feels that there is the potential that that individual’s basic rights (to a fair trial, to life…) would be violated or that the crime stated is unreasonable (eg. if you are a woman charged with walking down the street sans a male escort). This allows our nation’s officials to get a glance at the situation and make a judgment call. As for why Emery is being singled out, I understand that he’s particularly provocative and even if he isn’t the biggest or more dangerous seed seller out there, it’s the U.S. government’s freedom to decide who and who they will not contact Canada about wishing to prosecute.

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With all of that aside though, let us remember one thing here. Marc Emery knowingly conducted business in the United States. As unfair as it may seem to someone like me, when a site like Pandora, is told that it is not authorized to allow its service into Canada by the music industry, it has to comply lest it is in contempt of the law. Likewise, the U.S. is a playground with different but very specific rules regarding drugs: zero tolerance. Emery does not have an entitlement to sell his product wherever he pleases; whenever he enters a different jurisdiction, be it Vancouver, Saskatchewan, or Chile, he must respect the rule of law as it pertains to that area. I have very little sympathy for the man as he seems to have set up his business in a blatant attempt to fudge the rules, or at least side-step them; if a perfectly legitimate business did this, we would call that evasion and an investigation would follow.

Marc Emery will certainly face a steep sentence if he is convicted in the States, make no doubt about it. However, he knew the risks going into the situation and figuratively thumbed his nose at America’s right to authority as he did so. To cry foul now that the tables are turned is to completely disregard every step he’s taken up until now!

Trash Talk, Hamilton Style!

Emboldened by David Miller’s tenure as Mayor of the Centre of the Universe TM, many of Ontario’s other mayors and city councilors have recently gone on a spending binge, with budgets full of pet projects and good intentions.

On the latter note, we’ve seen such bright lights as a ban on two-garage houses and on pellet guns here in Kitchener recently (with another wise-guy idea to ban windows that open more than a foot wide to prevent saps like me from falling out of apartments on the way, although balconies are still perfectly legal…), now it’s Hamilton’s turn to show that they too can take their stupid pills with the best of them! Tonight, Hamilton city council is debating a motion to limit garbage to one bag per household. As my 16-year-old sister quickly pointed out, there’s some very nice fields around Hamilton (seriously, they exist!) that can and will become insta-landfills if this bylaw goes through — memo to councillors: Captain Planet would be proud!

But while Hamilton’s representatives are debating whether they should limit garbage to one or two bags, clear or black plastic, coffee, tea or Sega, might I also point out that we’re talking about Hamilton here guys! The poor performance of the local football team this year is only a reflection of the malaise that engrosses this city; that is why many, like yours truly, simply leave at the first opportunity! I did come back though to enjoy the expressway that the city finally managed to build, after only 50 years of trying too!

Back to the garbage issue, I ask what is stopping the limit from backfiring with, say, students at MacMaster University and Mohawk College who would see piling garbage on the street curbs regardless of whether it gets taken or not as part of their duty to add to Hamilton’s breathtaking (literally) charm? Are we really so certain that these young citizens, known for their loud house parties, poor house maintenance and minimal loyalty to the larger community will so giddily comply with such a restrictive law, especially when they live with 5-6 other adults typically?

What is also stopping someone from, say, dumping some trash in somebody else’s pile? Or just on the street as is. I know the environazis and eggheads down at City Hall have to think that this is sheer brilliance but as soon as you lower the limit to something ridiculously low unless you’re single or a very clean couple then grey areas will start to appear among the green. On that note, speaking of green that is, I must’ve missed council’s debate over the tax reductions 500,000 Hamiltonians will see next year now that they’re having a major service cut back!

Five Multicultural Obstacles to Civic Betterment

Just as the most recent findings of Robert Putnam regarding trust and ethnic diversity were first becoming public, Steve Sailer wrote about the difficulties of fixing up a public park in a multicultural neighbourhood. Many of us like to see this sort of anecdotal flesh added to the bones of quantitative studies like Putnam’s:

Fifth problem: the fundamental difficulty in making multiculturalism work, namely, multiple cultures. Getting Koreans, Russians, Mexicans, Nigerians, and Assyrians (Christian Iraqis) to agree on how to landscape a park is not impossible. Yet it’s certainly far more work than fostering consensus among people who all have the same picture in their heads of what a park is for.

For example, Russian women like to sunbathe. But Latin American women want to stay in the shade, since their culture discriminates in favor of fairer-skinned women. So do you plant a lot of shade trees or not?

Canada: Extradition Laughingstock

For how much longer is Canada going to be played by this goon?:

The German news media hasn’t yet shown much interest in Schreiber’s headline-making activity in Canada in recent weeks.

What really surprises Germans is how Schreiber has managed to avoid extradition from Canada for so long, he said.

“I just know that everyone is confused by the Canadian procedure.”

In other words: Germans think that Canada has no cajones. They would be right.

The Picayune Liberal Attention Span

Hey everybody, keen observers of Liberal Party of Canada alarmism are wondering whatever happened to that whole “In and Out Scandal”? Don’t know what that is? Why, it’s a, “story of massive proportion,” and, “the largest political scandal in Canadian history” [!]. Or at least it was until, you know, a foreign citizen awaiting extradition to Germany to face fraud charges bought the Liberal Party and employed it to his own legal ends.

The Australian on Herouxville

The Australian on “reasonable accommodation” and the heroic town of Herouxville:

Canada, the country that invented multiculturalism more than 30 years ago, has been consumed with another doctrine in recent weeks. Canadians call it “reasonable accommodation of minorities”. Translated into Australian, the question becomes: at what point should we tell minorities “You’ve had a fair go, pal, now stop asking for special favours”?

…when a small town in Quebec does the talking, it is depicted as insular, racist hicksville by Canada’s left-leaning media. When respected academics such as Francis Fukuyama say more or less the same thing, even keen multiculturalists will slowly nod their heads and concede there may be something to this argument about realigning the unruly rights debate.

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