It's amazing how so many of these high level cons think they're above any accountability.
Flaherty is attacking other cabinet ministers for actually being concerned about the effect the Ford fiasco is having on our reputation and international standing and in the absence of any real leadership in Canada this national sliming just goes on. Maybe Harper can bring back Wright on a limited contract to manage this scandal that has conservative written all over it.
"I'm going to eat your box", "Yes, I smoked crack(and lied about it for months), "yes, I drive drunk" and so much more from a mayor that has close associations with criminal figures, who knows he may have even been involved in some of the violence that has already happened around the men who were trying to sell the video of him smoking crack.
This is from the man who Harper credits with bringing the breakthrough in the TA that helped win the cons majority.
So much for family values.
When you look where so much of modern conservative "thought" comes from, people like Ayn Rand who based her superman on a serial killer:
Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer: Ayn Rand and William Hickman | Michael Prescott
In her journal circa 1928 Rand quoted the statement, "What is good for me is right," a credo attributed to a prominent figure of the day, William Edward Hickman. Her response was enthusiastic. "The best and strongest expression of a real man's psychology I have heard," she exulted. (Quoted in Ryan, citing Journals of Ayn Rand, pp. 21-22.)
At the time, she was planning a novel that was to be titled The Little Street, the projected hero of which was named Danny Renahan.According to Rand scholar Chris Matthew Sciabarra, she deliberately modeled Renahan - intended to be her first sketch of her ideal man - after this same William Edward Hickman. Renahan, she enthuses in another journal entry, "is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should."
Sound familiar, both Ford and Harper show this same lightness in not having to worry about what other people think or feel because they lack the ability to actually care...and somehow this is supposed to be a virtue?
How about Tom Flanagan who was very influential in the early Harper years, he doesn't have a problem with people viewing child porn, as if in the making of it the vast amount of damage caused is someone else's problem.
Tom Flanagan okay with child pornography. - YouTube
That's the problem with these "people", their solution is pretty destructive for any real notion of civil society.
If we're seeking the end of Canada we're going about it the right way.
Which is entirely in line with this, why give a damn about people when you can marginalize them to the point where they just eventually cease to exist...which seems to be the whole Harper philosophy.
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