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| Posted By: Rob Posted On: Jan 14, 2006 Views: 828 | NDP is for me! As Jack Layton said "We have a choice between corruption and conservitives" Or as I say between Corruption and Americans. Option 3 - The NDP - Is for you and me! |
| Posted By: rotfwl Posted On: Jan 14, 2006 Views: 840 | Is that you? Is that you Mr. Martin? Your name is "Bend over" (obviously directed towards the Canadian citizens) and your suggesting the Liberals have an honest team. Mr. Martin, get back on the mud slinging wagon (tour bus). rotfwl. |
| Posted By: Ben Dover Posted On: Jan 13, 2006 Views: 827 | P/C Party If the P/C;s win a minority Harper will wield the whip,the problem is Solberg, Mills Hanger, they would be like lost sheep. Paul Martin has a good honest team. |
| Posted By: Jose Cuervo Posted On: Jan 10, 2006 Views: 524 | Tough on crime? It's about time. I think we should extend a 10 year mandatory minimum sentence to any police officer, judge, prosecutor and government official convicted (municipal, provincial, federal) of working with any member/associate or organization of criminal enterprise. I believe this would add some strength to these cherished levels of government within a functional society. |
| Posted By: Funny Money Posted On: Jan 6, 2006 Views: 601 | More then two parties. Interesting point of view P. Terry. However the term police state would actually have to apply to the entire province. I think what you are implying is Toronto would be put under Marshall Law? Thats where you would be stopped at roadblocks and questioned (like Ride, have you been drinking, I suspect you have). I'm not sure how you interpret 500 new police into police state but thats why it's a democracy. Anybody with an opinion can put one forward. Good for you for exercising your democratic rights. After all. Apparently all you need is drug money to be a PM for 1.5 years. Cheers. |
| Posted By: P. Terry Posted On: Jan 5, 2006 Views: 598 | Politics Say What, If Stephen Harper is the next so-called leader Toronto will be a Police State. This guy is a LOSER. |
| Posted By: Lawrence K. Posted On: Jan 5, 2006 Views: 512 | Crime/Corruption Rally I would love to attend an anti PM/Crime/Corruption rally in Ottawa. |
| Posted By: Rhetoric is over. Posted On: Jan 5, 2006 Views: 443 | War Measures Act? I believe Canada needs to introduce legislation that allows the Canadian government to treat members + organizations of criminal enterprise as terrorists. They are undermining our legal system, kidnapping citizens, corrupting politicians and draining money from the Canadian economy. We have spent far too long protecting the rights of the criminals in this country and look where it has gotten us. Our country's security could potentially be under attack by any criminal network in the world who sees Canada's non existent legal system, weak military, corrupt government officials and growing disregard of marijuana as an illegal commodity as a source of financing for war and terror around the world. |
| Posted By: Welcome to Canada tourists, RUN! Posted On: Jan 4, 2006 Views: 451 | Columbia? Nope Quebec. Police storm Laval hotel in rescue Tuesday, January 3, 2006 Posted at 11:50 AM EST Canadian Press Laval, Que. Quebec provincial police have rescued a London, Ont., man from a motel north of Montreal, after reports he was being held for ransom. Police officers threw canisters of tear gas and broke down the door to free the 29-year-old man, who had been held against his will since Dec. 30. Sécurité Québec spokesman Jayson Gauthier said seven people have been arrested and face charges of kidnapping and confinement. The police were acting on a tip from police in Ontario and Alberta when they freed the man from the motel in Laval. Mr. Gauthier said the man's brother contacted police and told them his brother was being held for ransom. |
| Posted By: Former Liberal Posted On: Jan 3, 2006 Views: 449 | I think you might want to get that checked out. I think you might want to get that checked out Mr. Martin, that whole habitual lying thing. I guess I can't blame you. You have single handily destroyed decades of quiet corruption that cost the mob millions of man hours. You, your families name, the Liberal party and even Canada is marred by your presence. Mr. Martin said in a speech to a bunch of rich guys on Tuesday January 3rd. I see a Canada we can build on, improve on, move forward, Of course you see a Canada WE can improve on, YOU WERE THE ONE IN POWER. You and Chrétien for the last 12 years? Are you even trying any more Mr. Martin? In the same meeting he helps separate the Conservative party from the Liberal party by adding But (Harper) speaks of moving in an opposite direction, away from all we have achieved together and towards a very different country. Yeah the kind of country I want to live in! The one were the criminals don't continue to grow into a threat not only every citizen in Canada has to worry about, but also foreign countries. Every day Canada continues to finance growing Warlords in Afghanistan. Any idea where the money goes from there? If you support terrorism, vote Liberal. Mr. Martin appears to be trying to turn Canada into a safe house. Somewhere were all criminals can feel free to inject drugs, grow drugs, run guns, force children into prostitution and drain as much from our Canadian pockets for the purpose of adding yet another billion dollars into the pockets of major criminal enterprise organizations. If youre not directly responsible for this Mr. Martin, your poor policies, weak leadership and lack of action are all paramount to you being responsible. You were the one elected to keep us safe from the people you seem to be helping. Mr. Harper has already laid out several of his parties clearly defined goals, plans and policies weeks ago. What do we hear from Mr. Martin? We hear that we are going to start hearing of some 19 days before the election? These issues are expected to be health care, foreign affairs, education and the environment. This is apparently whats left since Mr. Harper and Jack Layton have taken the majority of the dire policys that need immediate action. Let me guess, Mr. Martins solutions will include more money and empty rhetoric. Thats the only thing the Mr. Martin knows. Health care, no problem, its an election, heres more money. Didnt Funny Money Martin pay for private care in Ottawa in the last two years? I dont blame him. I wouldnt want to wait in our hospital system either. Foreign affairs? Hell probably start some bull**** dispute with his Italian diplomat and then tell us we need him because hes the only person who can resolve the issue. On education, why dont you just listen to Mr. Harper and the police Mr. Martin. They will be sure to give you a schooling. Whats left, environment. Ah yes. I am sure Mr. Martin feels strongly about this issue. Funny Money Martin is willing to sell out every Canadian for his friends, I am very confident he cares little about the water supply, clean air, affordable and clean energy and the ecosystem. I dont think you really understand Mr. Martin, about a lot. Canadians are not your ATM. We put you in power and were taking you out. Look out Canada, its high tide for change. Jail sentences are going to be lengthened and there is a crack down on criminals coming. Citizens, politicians, police, judges, lawyers, health care professionals, investment bankers. We're coming and were not going to buy this I was intimidated **** for long. If youve got something worth saying, you better start saying it now. Before karma comes knocking. |
| Posted By: KentuckyFriedCruelty.com Posted On: Jan 2, 2006 Views: 456 | Egg on face Belinda Stronach must be kicking herself right about now. She was manipluated by the Liberals because of her looks and power to leave the Conservative party and now there is a power shift. Too funny. She lost out on both sides of that deal. I guess she's not quite as smart as she thought, perfect fit for the Liberal party. |
| Posted By: Erika A. Posted On: Jan 2, 2006 Views: 449 | Martin the missing link? Stephen Harper is Saying: "A Conservative government will crack down on crime. We will act quickly, we will act comprehensively and we will act decisively to fix our criminal justice system." ------------------------------- Paul Martin Is Saying: According to Martin spokesman Scott Reid, the prime minister is promising to mobilize federal government resources in order to help the province and city crack down on gun crime. Mobilize federal government resources? Quick criminals, RUN. Paul Martin, the premiere and the mayor are going to talk your ear off. Quick, before he starts posturing (well maybe at least one of his spokesmen will posture for him). Funny money Martin is trying to attack a symptom of the problem and not the source. Oh Mr. Martin, you are such a good leader. Good boy. Now go fetch your bribe money. Other aspects of the strategy include developing minimum sentencing for gun-related crime and a handgun ban." No it's not a headline from 100 years ago, this was said on December 31st. I think Paul Martin is trying to put us on par with Afghanistan. At least when it was run by the Taliban. I'm not just saying Mr. Martin's policy's were ones we needed 50 years ago, I'm saying I think we may have found the missing link! |
| Posted By: Lawrence Kobescak Posted On: Jan 2, 2006 Views: 466 | Open Letter to Mr. Harper Mr. Harper, When you are elected into office, please keep your word and your head. All men are created equal, when they do not live as equals, something is wrong. You have four years and a lot of work to get done. We need strong leadership that will do what needs to be done, irregardless of what critics (agitators) may say. We have tried the old way and it didnt work. We need to still have love and compassion, the foundation of a Canadian, but still have enough strict discipline and rules to allow every citizen to live in peace. Many people will tell you that they break the law in Canada, because they can. No one will probably catch them and even if they do, the punishment is lenient. We need sweeping reform. We need to weed out corruption with a heavy fist. We need to strengthen national security. We need to be more involved in the national media, its restrictions and its psychological consequences. We need more government run institutions, such as research and development. We need Canada to encourage education for all. Canada may have even found a new way to generate growth with the construction of responsible government. Do not forget Mr. Harper, you have been elected to be the parent of Canada. What type of parent will you be? We know what happens when the parents are absent. We are human so we all make mistakes, we just need to stop making them. Mr. Harper, responsibility means having power, and using it to better man kind over himself. If other countries have a problem with our military build up, we will be sure to let them know we are not aggressors, we are protectors. We are protecting our citizens from the global threat of terrorism, corruption and drug lords. Congratulations and thank you from all the people who stood up for Canada, the world and its people. Good luck these next four years. You will not be alone. Its as if god has heard are cries. P.S. Watch out for the Liberals at the counting stations. |
| Posted By: Get out of my country! Posted On: Jan 1, 2006 Views: 457 | Words of wise Even in peace, nation ravaged by killings Homicide rate tops that of some years in civil war as gang members targeted Jan. 1, 2006. 01:00 AM GINGER THOMPSON NEW YORK TIMES GUATEMALA CITY, GuatemalaThere were 52 new bodies at the morgue on a recent Monday morning; 52 new chances for Guadalupe Diaz to find her son, Mario Toscano. He was no angel, Diaz said of her son. The 20-year-old Toscano, known around the neighbourhood as Chespy, was the leader of the violent Mara 18 street gang. And his mother long feared he might wind up dead, but not disappeared. Toscano has been missing since Aug. 27, Diaz said, when he was abducted at a convenience store by three gunmen. Diaz said that when neighbours tried to intervene in the kidnapping, the gunmen pulled out their weapons, identified themselves as police officers, warned the neighbours to move back, then loaded Toscano into an unmarked car and drove away. Since then, Diaz, a maid, stops at the morgue on her way to work most every Monday. "To see them," she said of examining so many bodies, "I get chills." A neighbour named Rosa Morales, 71, said her 15-year-old grandson, who was not a member of a gang, had been kidnapped by the same kind of mob two months ago. When asked who she thought was responsible for the attacks, she raised an evil from the past. "The people say it's the death squads that are disappearing the people," Morales said, sobbing. "What gives them the right?" Nearly a decade after the end of a civil war that left 200,000 people dead or missing in this country of 14 million people, a new wave of violence has hit Guatemala and it looks a lot like the old one some say worse. Guatemalan authorities said an estimated 4,325 people had been killed in the first 10 months of this year. That is one of the highest per capita murder rates in Latin America, and far more than the average annual killings in the last decade of this country's armed conflict. Even in peace, governments across Central America have said violence remains the principal threat to stability. Here, as in neighbouring Honduras and El Salvador, the violence comes with rape, torture kidnappings and killings. And now, as they did during the civil war, human rights investigators have raised concerns about a clandestine "social cleansing campaign," led by rogue police officers and vigilante mobs. This latest cycle of violence began five years ago, when street gangs with roots in Los Angeles especially the Mara 18 and the Mara Salvatruchas, known as MS-13 began to spread across Central America and southern Mexico, creating the same kind of havoc in poor neighbourhoods here as they once did in places like Compton and Watts. Then in the past year, men and boys suspected of being members of street gangs began to disappear in much the same way suspected guerrillas did during the 1980s: abducted from busy streets or ambushed in their beds, and forced into unmarked cars with tinted windows and no licence plates. Almost none of those kidnapped turn up alive. Some never turn up at all. When they do, they are often not in one piece. Beyond the attacks against gang members and youths suspected of being gang members, international human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have expressed concern about a disproportionate increase in the killing of women. The Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman reported that from 2002 to 2004, killings of women increased by almost 57 per cent, while the killings of men increased 21 per cent. Adriana Beltran of the Washington Office on Latin America said many of the killings were committed with unusual cruelty, involving the kind of rape and mutilations that occurred during the country's armed conflict. "This is a society that is rotten from the head down," said Jairo Gonzalez, 47. His daughter, Flor, a university student in graphics design, was abducted one night in July and found raped and shot to death the next morning. "The criminals have the arms," he said. "They have the money. They have the power. The people have no power to fight back. Millions stay silent, because of impunity." The people of La Esperanza, Spanish for hope, live at the centre of the storm. "On June 16, they found a head in a bucket right there," said Elubia Velasquez, pointing toward a tortilla shop while walking along the main street of La Esperanza. "The hands were found near a light pole where you met me this morning. And farther down that way, under the bridge at Bucaro, they found the body." Velasquez, born and reared in La Esperanza, said the neighbourhood was once terrorized by the Mara 18. She said the gang members demanded so-called war taxes from merchants, bus drivers and delivery crews and killed several people who refused to pay. The gang members, she said, had also raped dozens of girls, robbed countless homes and turned schoolchildren into drug addicts. In the past year, however, she said, most of the gang members were either dead or in hiding. The leader of the Mara 18 in Villalobos, known as El Quince, Spanish for 15, was abducted a year ago. His body was found a day later, with his hands and feet tied and with several gunshot wounds to the head, Velasquez said. A gang member known as Gaspar had been strangled to death, other residents said. He was found with a heavy stone tied with wire around his neck. The root causes and perpetrators of the violence have been so obscured by government cover-ups and corruption that they are often impossible to identify. In the cases of the killing of women, for example, fewer than 12 of the more than 1,800 murders since 2001 have been resolved, according to the non-profit Center for Legal Action on Human Rights. Relatives of the victims, especially the relatives of dead gang members, said in numerous interviews that they believed that police officers and private security guards had led much of the kidnapping and killing in a secret campaign of state-sponsored "social cleansing," aimed at the young and the poor. Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann flatly denied those accusations in an interview last month. Unlike the governments in Honduras and El Salvador, which adopted tough laws that made it a felony to belong to a gang, the Guatemalan government has launched a softer war against gangs that focused on recreation and rehabilitation programs. Vielmann said the government had also taken important steps to root out corruption in the police force by punishing dozens of officers responsible for abuses, upgrading equipment and training and co-operating with the United States in vetting a special community policing unit that had had some success at decreasing the violence in a neighbourhood with heavy gang activity, Villa Nueva. Still, Vielmann acknowledged corruption remained rampant among the officers of the National Civil Police. And he said he suspected that some of the secret security structures created during the civil war had become instruments of organized crime. The interior minister attributed much of Guatemala's violence to fighting among rival gang members, and he included in that category much of the violence against women, who he said have become increasingly involved in street gangs and dealing dope. But he did not reject the theory that some of the attacks had been committed by rogue police officers and citizen vigilantes, many of them frustrated by the government's inability to deliver justice. "I am not going to guarantee you that agents of state security forces or of private security forces have not in some moment committed an excess and killed someone," Vielmann said. "But I can tell you that this is not a policy of the state. And we would never allow this to be the policy of the state. "There are parallel groups that kill just to destabilize, or create problems for the government," he added. "They kill to kill." In a crime-plagued neighbourhood called El Mezquital, people said some of the killing had brought relief. Guadalupe del Carmen Alvarado, a resident there, said that after gang members had killed a couple of merchants and bus drivers who had refused to pay war taxes, the other merchants and bus drivers pooled their money to hire gunmen to "eliminate the gangs." "We don't like to see bad things happen, but to be sincere, when they started to kill the gang members, I gave thanks to God," Alvarado said. "The gangs are like living with a lion, and we know if we don't kill it, it is going to eat us." Elubia Velasquez acknowledged that "the gangs made a lot of enemies" in El Mezquital. But she said she worried that innocent youths had fallen victim in the fighting. "Now it's not only gang members who are disappearing," Velasquez said. "Now they are taking teenagers who don't have a single tattoo. Being young and poor in neighbourhoods like this one has become a crime." |
| Posted By: Rich white dude Posted On: Jan 1, 2006 Views: 457 | Mr. Martin, put the crack pipe down. CTV writes: "Leaders declare war on gun crimes, criminals" Funny isn't it? The story is about the liberals. Canadians are looking for a "Leader" (of course to steer us away from our current corruption, not continue with it) and we are demanding a war on criminals (Only because they declared a war on us first. You know, when they flooded our streets with drugs, started to systematically intimidate the police, the doctors, the social workers, the EMS staff, the lawyers, the politicians. Don't forget the politicians, especially the three who have declared war on gun crimes. What are you going to do Mr. Martin? Are you going to start arresting people who shoot other people? Why all of a suddent now? Is that your action plan, rederic? Guns aren't the problem, warlords are the problem. Are you just going to use this as an oppourtunity to learn what information the police have on your friends? You can't even catch the people that got away from the last shooting, you know, the one in the middle of a downtown intersection. They even caught the ****ing train. Of course as soon as I say that, some patsy will be 'found' within days, maybe even a nice photo op of Paul Martin spanking the misguided youth. What are you going to do Mr. Martin? Are you going to create more social programs that can be plundered by your criminal buddys? Or make guns illegal? Aren't they already? Or just take more guns off the streets to defend ourselves with as these criminals get deeper and deeper into our country. Of course, how deep would you have to be in the country if your Mayor, Premiere and Prime Minister were already corrupt? Did you ever hear the story about a U.S. president getting shot by his own government because he was implemented by the mob? Maybe that was just a T.V. story. Funny how much violence is on T.V. Thank god T.V. doesn't translate to the streets Mr. Martin. Somebody could get hurt. How's the weather in Ottawa Mr. Martin? Is it raining? Or is it sunny? Or is it hot as hell? I wouldn't know. I work in one of those big buildings in Toronto. Good luck Mr. Martin with the whole I sold my soul thing. I hope it works out for you. But despite how angry I may be at how spineless you are. I will still pray for your soul. Because no one should have to suffer what kind of pain you and your friends have caused us. Signed, Rich white dude |
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