Harper 's Mandate ?

What mandate ? The majority of the electorate voted against him last time and they will again. Don't you Conservatives get it, we think he's a weasel. He says he's done more in three years than anyone could have. Absolutely, he's turned Canada from being a respected world speaker into a mascot for the international Bush League. That's called followership not leadership, and you can climb into the handbasket again with him all you want, because we're not catching the hell bound train with you or him or your republican advisors.

Tough on Crime

It's time for Canadians to get tough on crime and insist that if Americans demand the right to place themselves beyond the reach of international law, then they need to vigorously enforce their own constitution. Bush and Cheney are criminals by all standards, petty and profound, and if Americans don't deal with them then the rest of the world must.

Harper - Leadership ?

So, our Bush League cheerleader PM is campaigning on his leadership abilities ! Steve-o is neck and neck with George W in the race to become the last man on the planet to notice the environmental disaster heading our way. His leadership style is that of a one man policy wonk who works solely for the interests of corporate Canada, that most treasonous and treacherous of all sectors of the political economy: he's a republican conservative who helped destroy genuine Canadian conservativism, and his only international ally is on his way to disgrace and impeachment for his many crimes against humanity. Harper is just one more phony law and order con man who works for some of the most highly organized criminals on the planet. The majority of Canadians voted against him last time, and they will again.

Bikers and Girlfriends and Leadership

Even though I write books about organized crime I don't pretend to be an expert on international gangsters, bikers or their political or financial associates, but I suspect the Prime Minister is following his former cabinet minister into dumb and dumber rather than leading the nation.

Apology Aside

I don't spend a lot of time absorbing media so I was interested to see the Globe give Jack Layton credit for forcing the Prime Minister to apologize to Canadian Natives now and not in five years time when the truth and reconciliation report will be filed. I guess that's what Gloria Kovach's old slogan 'Leadership' was referring to, forcing reactionaries like the PM to do the right thing first and not when the truth is detailed down to the last incontrovertible iota. As for National Voices, apparently Tom King was in Ottawa for some of the last minute discussions about the Natives' day in Parliament, a day the PM didn't want either. Gloria was still being cutesy on the cover of the Trib while all this was going on.

Take Heed Huck Farper.

The lying liars behind you: the anti-carbon tax
Republican oilagarch falsifiers
from Washington who keep you in Ottawa and who
speak untruth with impunity
are not Ezras of the Right but Lyin' Brian branch plant bosses, Tory descendants
of Irish Stuart feudalists, 16th century reactionaries who become modern global privateers, contemporary frontmen for financal racketeers,

and in the house of our commons you rose to preach a place
reached by everyone else decades earlier, a rendition of apology
about the missionary position when natives were schooled by
Anglo-Irish/Franco governing classes.

Apologize for your party, for the ancestors of your friends
in high places, but if you presume to speak for me and this nation
then know that the sword of Truth will sheer you of the company
of your American overlords and your chorus of liars.
And then we will see you for who you really are, who you never were.

The Right is Less than Half

Speaking of arms, the Right is less than half a human, just as the Left is also less than half, but even when you add the legs of soldiers the human heart remains in the torso, in tune with the head, aware that right and wrong may be just words to the strong. As you do unto others you do unto I, Thou and us, bound to mercy through convalent weaknesses, our backs covered, or not. Let ancient shepherds speak to me of the Blood of the Lamb, and poets and psalmists, from everyone else's lips the words are the title of a list of do's and don'ts, manifest cant posted by the hard hearted.