Harper Henchman

[Liberalman]

Stephen Harper's election team is so fearful of losing the election they have resorted to bully tactics at Conservatives rallies and for CDNBear's insistance of links here it is David Akin's On the Hill :: The Harper campaign bubble: Students, vets tossed or barred from rallies

 

[petros]

When does Harper come to Regina? I want to be banned too.

 

[Unforgiven]

All these things add up to make the big picture. Some people refuse to step back and take a look.
Imagine Harper with a majority government where he wasn't forced to make nice with others. Yet if you said
that a Liberal majority would allow the Liberals to change the laws and get rid of these right wing assholes, though policy and dirty tricks, there would be outrage at the unfairness of it all. A clear case of "Do as I say, not as I do" if ever there was one.

 

[petros]

So much for democracy.

 

[Unforgiven]

So much for democracy.

Nothing wrong with democracy, just Harper don't like it is all.

 

[mentalfloss]

When pandering to your audience goes too far.

 

[JLM]

Stephen Harper's election team is so fearful of losing the election they have resorted to bully tactics at Conservatives rallies and for CDNBear's insistance of links here it is David Akin's On the Hill :: The Harper campaign bubble: Students, vets tossed or barred from rallies

The polls say otherwise. I'm not particulary a fan of Harper's but playing head games won't help. :smile:

 

[petros]

Polls say Canucks will win the Stanley Cup too.

 

[mentalfloss]

And that Harper doesn't need to resort to bully tactics to win this election.

 

[DaSleeper]

The polls say otherwise. I'm not particulary a fan of Harper's but playing head games won't help. :smile:

The only time we have a democracy is under a minority government.....any other time, it's an elected dictatorship for four years, no matter the party in power.
Such is Parliamentary democracy.....which is why some prefer a republic.

 

[petros]

Politicians should be on yearly renewed peformance based contracts.

 

[taxslave]

Politicians should be on yearly renewed peformance based contracts.

Right now they are on a four year performance based contract. An election every year would be too much.

We should cancel their golden handshake though.

 

[petros]

Right now they are on a four year performance based contract. An election every year would be too much.

We should cancel their golden handshake though.

Why elect? Just hire and fire like you would for any other Corporation. Either it's run right today, now or it never will be.

Politicans aren't afraid of the electorate anymore.

 

[Cliffy]

Right now they are on a four year performance based contract. An election every year would be too much.

We should cancel their golden handshake though.

All most of them deserve is a golden shower.

 

[petros]

 

[CDNBear]

Stephen Harper's election team is so fearful of losing the election they have resorted to bully tactics at Conservatives rallies and for CDNBear's insistance of links here it is David Akin's On the Hill :: The Harper campaign bubble: Students, vets tossed or barred from rallies

I don't insist on links, I insist you stop lying and making stuff up.

And I actually find the Harper teams actions as abhorrent as your malicious slanderous story fabrication.

 

[YukonJack]

The only time we have a democracy is under a minority government.....any other time, it's an elected dictatorship for four years, no matter the party in power.
Such is Parliamentary democracy.....which is why some prefer a republic.

Any system where a lawfully elected Member of Parliament can not vote either according to his/her conscience or the wishes of his/her constituents, but must be a non-thinking and obedient stooge of the Party leader, is, by definition, flawed and has no resemblance to democracy.

 

[Jack_Of_Spade]

The only time we have a democracy is under a minority government.....any other time, it's an elected dictatorship for four years, no matter the party in power.
Such is Parliamentary democracy.....which is why some prefer a republic.

I totaly agree with that statement and I wish other poeple would come to realise this!

 

[El Barto]

The only time we have a democracy is under a minority government.....any other time, it's an elected dictatorship for four years, no matter the party in power.
Such is Parliamentary democracy.....which is why some prefer a republic.

Not interly true .... Harper still managed to get things done his way. As much I don't like him I have to admire how he kept things going as a minority government ...usually they never last more than 6 months.

 

[jgarden]

Top Mountie wasn't involved in Carson clearance: source
Wed Apr. 06 2011

OTTAWA — A senior intelligence official denies the RCMP commissioner green-lighted a security clearance for Bruce Carson, despite his criminal past.

News reports late Tuesday said William Elliott, now the top Mountie, approved Carson's Secret-level clearance in 2006, paving the way for his job as a top adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

At the time, Elliott was national security adviser in the Privy Council Office.
But the senior security source, speaking to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity -- both before and after the reports surfaced -- said Elliott was not involved in the file.


..... The Canadian Press reported Sunday that Carson was convicted on five counts of fraud -- three more than generally known -- and received court-ordered psychiatric treatment before becoming one of Harper's closest aides.

Harper says he never would have hired Carson had he known the full extent of his past.
During his PMO stint, it was publicly known that Carson had been jailed and disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the early 1980s for two counts of defrauding clients.

But court documents uncovered by The Canadian Press show he had another run-in with the law in 1990, while he was working as a researcher for the Library of Parliament.
He was charged with defrauding a rental-car outlet of a 1989 Toyota. He was also charged with defrauding two banks of sums exceeding $1,000 each.

In June 1990, Carson pleaded guilty to all three counts and received a suspended sentence and 24 months probation on condition that he continue treatment at the Royal Ottawa Hospital - a psychiatric institution - and make restitution of $4,000 within 23 months to the car-rental company.

The disclosures raised new questions about Harper's judgment in taking Carson on as his chief policy analyst and problem-fixer, roles he held until 2008.

The PMO asked the RCMP last month to investigate Carson after a probe by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network alleged the 65-year-old may have illegally lobbied the federal government on behalf of a company that employed his girlfriend, a 22-year-old, one-time escort.

http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/l...n-clearance-110406/20110406/?hub=MontrealHome

The irony is that while Harper operatives are screening Facebook for any Canadian citizens seen at a "coalition" rally, Bruce Carson who was convicted 5x for fraud during the 1990's, received a security clearance to become the prime minister's top advisor. The initial claim was that William Elliott, former national security advisor to the Privy Council and current head of the RCMP provided Carson's security clearance but sources close to him deny it. Stay tuned!

Picture of Bruce Carson (65) and his fiancée Michele McPherson (22).
http://www.calgaryherald.com/aide+former+prostitute+bawling+crying+over+scandal/4499577/story.html