Oppression? In Peterborough?
This in the Star, “along with demanding his resignation, Mr. Ma said he will be calling on Mr. Gilchrist to take anti-oppression training.”
Mr. Ma is the ‘co-ordinator of something called ‘Community and Race Relations Committee’, a professional Racism Finder General.
“See we got racism, I say racism, right here, right here in River City”.
Peterborough a hotbed of racial strife? Always seemed a rather multiplayer poker onlineholdem pokerbest online poker sitecredit card debt calculator,credit card debt payment calculator,calculator card credit debt repaymentapplication bad card credit creditcard credit debt statistics teen,card credit debt teencard consolidation credit debt graphcalculator card consolidation credit debtapproval canada card credit instantcredit card account business,citi business credit card,business credit cardno credit card0 advance card cash credit,0 credit card,0 balance card credit life? ?card citibank credit visa,card citibank credit payment,citibank credit cardcard consolidate consolidate credit debtcredit card counseling debt consolidation,card consolidation counseling credit debt texas,card card consolidation counseling credit credit debtbusiness credit card application,application bank business card credit nacard consolidation credit non profitcard consolidation credit debt loansecured credit card canadaamerica bank card credit visacredit card services merchant accountcard credit payment searscheap credit card deal,card credit deal,air mile credit card dealcard credit hsbc philippineshell gas credit card0 balance transfer credit cardconsolidate credit card billbank card credit orchardprovidian credit card,providian national bank credit card,card card credit master providianinstant approval uk credit cardcredit card consolidation calculator,calculator card consolidation credit,calculator card consolidation credit deb ?discover credit card online,card credit discover online paycredit card application online0 card credit interest offer,0 card credit interest rate,0 interest credit cardmbna credit card logincard consolidation credit debt helpcapital card credit one service,capital one credit card servicesaccount card credit merchantcheap credit card ukmy premier credit card accountcredit card debt consolidate itbusiness credit card consolidationbest credit card interest rate,best card credit interest ratediscover credit card phone numbercard credit number valid,valid credit card numbersfirst premier credit card applicationuk credit card applyamerica application bank card creditbank card credit providiange card services online credit dull town to me.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
From George Orwell’s essay, The Prevention of Literature, “Even a single taboo can have an all-round crippling effect upon the mind, because there is always the danger that any thought which is freely followed up may lead to the forbidden thought. It follows that the atmosphere of totalitarianism is deadly to any kind of prose writer, though a poet at any rate a lyric poet might possibly find it breathable”
From George Orwell’s essay, The Prevention of Literature, “At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.”
That was not a press conference in Peterborough yesterday. It was a swarming of unelected spokeprigs of this or that tribe/clan/culture/nation/people/groupABC/ waving their itty-bitty bweeding hearts in order to curtail free and frank discussions in the social domain. It’s bcoming a world in which the only “group” that can be freely, frankly, and slanderingly targetted are USAmericans and old white men.
What a gang-up of righteousness. It reminds me of the gross perversion of the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa became a cess pool of the very disease it decried.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I would think it would be a good thing if the news media and the general public took extended courses in “anti-oppression training” If they did, they would see the jackels howling, “What do we want?” “Justice.” “When do we want it?” “Now.”
MORE PUNISHMENT!
GET GILCHRIST!
MORE PUNISHMENT!
GET THE RACIST!
What a spectacle of conformity.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Years ago, Globe&Mail columnist Richard J. Needham said:
“My definition of a racist is somebody who runs around calling everybody else a racist.”
Mike Ma seems to be exactly what Mr. Needham was talking about.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:09 am
CBC’s ‘Ontario Morning’ just did a big piece on Gordo -managing somehow to ignore the fact that the man is a criminal. That’s the part I really don’t understand. Here’s a trustee responsible for a budget in the tens of millions who was, in 1984, convicted of income tax evasion (along with the apple-who-didn’t-fall-far-from-the-tree -son Steve) while a member of the Mulroney government.
The Globe mentioned his conviction yesterday. It’s also listed on a Parliament of Canada website. Google our Gordo -see if this is a guy you’d let into your house without first making sure the silverware was under lock and key.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Funny, isn’t it? before Conrad got sent up I couldn’t even spell schedenfreud. Now I wallow in it. Gloriously.
See, neither of these two stole a loaf of bread to feed their starving children. That I could forgive. Who couldn’t? But what we have in Gordo’s case is sheer unmitigated greed. The inner urge to be even richer that the rich he already was. It was a Robin Hood kind of thing only in reverse: Gilchrist is a tax cheat. He didn’t want to pay his fair shar. So….he stole from the poor and gave to the rich -himself. And he got caught.
Kinda like Conrad except he stole from gamblers. So I’m a little less sympathetic to his victims. But, as one of Gordon Gilchrist’s victims (ie: somebody who pays their fair share of the tax burden and who certainly ain’t rich and never will be), I dob’t forgive him. I don’t trust him and I don’t think he should be allowed anywhere near public money. Ever.
March 8th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Yes, yes, of course.
GET GILCHRIST!
PUNISH HIM FOR LIFE
GET GILCHRIST
HE DID A BAD THING A QUARTER CENTURY AGO
MORE PUNISHMENT
GET GILCHRIST
Don’t get me wrong, I understand your deep need to pillory another human being. It’s easier once he is demonized as a career criminal.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Yeah….and I’m not even affected by his plans for a gravel pit in the Shelter Valley area. Nobody forces me to shop at the Wal-Mart he brought to Cobourg. And, other than the deteriorating level of maintenance his company, Southfork, inflicts on the portion of the 401 it’s responsible for, I guess he’s not much of a threat to me personally or anyone else, is he? Nah, you’re right -he’s just an ordinary Joe doing what ordinary Joe’s do: Sticking his fingers in every pie that comes along, getting rich as stink doing it and keeping every penny he can get his hands on to himself. Yeah, you’re right, we need more shining examples like Gordo, corporate freebooters and tax cheats our kids can look up to.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Nah, you’re right -he’s just an ordinary Joe…”
Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Yeah, you’re right, we need more shining examples like Gordo, corporate freebooters and tax cheats our kids can look up to.”
Please note, I am removing those words out of my mouth that YOU had placed there and shoving them up the hole in your argument.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Years ago, late 60’s, Richard Needham visited Cobourg. Read all about it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8039250@N08/2039319890/sizes/l/
March 8th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
How wonderfully Cohen-ish:
“Give me crack and anal sex/
Take the only tree that’s left/
And shove it up the hole in your culture.”
Er….what words did I place in your mouth exactly? Or anyone else’s for that matter?
March 8th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I`d recommend a reading comprehension course since you feign ignorance.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I’m not feigning ignorance -I AM ignorant. I haven’t got the faintest idea of what you’re talking about. I don’t think you do either. Why not knock off the riddles and simply explain yourself?
March 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Sigh!
March 10th, 2008 at 7:41 am
No. No. That’s not what I asked for. I’ll try again: Please indicate where I put words in your already-overcrowded mouth. Kindly direct me to what you accuse me of. Show me, and everyone else, the transgression of which you accuse me.
A ’sigh’ is just a sigh. But the fundamental things still apply. Either I did what you say I did or I didn’t. Now which is it?
March 10th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Nah, you’re right -he’s just an ordinary Joe…”
Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Yeah, you’re right, we need more shining examples like Gordo, corporate freebooters and tax cheats our kids can look up to.”
Now you show me where I asserted that Gordon Gilchrist is “just an ordinary Joe”
Now you show me where I asserted that Gordo was a shining example of anything.
It’s a weary technique of making up strawpersons (I have my eye out for the politically correct cops) to knock down. The hole in your arguement is the size of the Holland Tunnel
March 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
While we’re waiting can I get anyone anything? Coffee maybe? Some cheese-n-crackers? A little brie perhaps?
March 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Poor baby, feel stood up?
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Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Nah, you’re right -he’s just an ordinary Joe…”
Daniel J. Christie asserts, “Yeah, you’re right, we need more shining examples like Gordo, corporate freebooters and tax cheats our kids can look up to.”
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At no time did I contend that Mr Gilchrist is “just an ordinary Joe”
At no time did I lobby for “more shining examples like Gordo, corporate freebooters and tax cheats”.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I would have responded much more quickly Your Highmess, but I was waiting for my nails to dry — I use organic polish.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
That’s “putting words in your mouth”? Well, maybe in your book it is. In mine it’s sarcastic facetiousness. Or satire if you will.
Putting words in someone’s mouth is, quite simply, attributing to them a quote they never spoke. Capice?
Sheesh…it isn’t just your nails that need a protective coating. A full body exo-skeleton wouldn’t hurt either, especially if it was guaranteed to ward off perceived slights. Try e-Bay.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
No slight.
Just keeping MY record straight from your exerpts from I DON’T HAVE ANY FACTS SO I’LL MAKE UP FICTION AND PASS IT OFF AS SZARCASTIC FACETIOUSNESS, VOLUME 16.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Check your caps key. Looks like it might be stuck.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Check your wit. It’s become as dull as a sinking frink debate.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
That’s better.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:37 am
So “Gordo” did whatever, whenever. The issue here is freedom of speech. Is it a human right or not? Do we deny it to income tax evaders?
March 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
It might interest those to know that the Press Conference a.k.a. Two Minutes Hate, at which Gordon Gilchrist was the target of hatred by the righteous, can be found on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gordon+gilchrist&search_type=
If that url does not work, then put GORDON GILCHRIST into the search box.