LDS Christians are suffering from the hypocritical intolerance that typifies most leftist liberals. Blaspheming the name of civil rights pro-gay-marriage protesters use vandalism, threats (so far) and defamation in an attempt to deny the civil rights of LDS Christians to engage in the same political debates as everyone else.
Now many Evangelical Protestants and Catholics are speaking up, showing appreciation and support for the LDS allies. If the past is any indicator of the future (and it usually is) they may be all that stand between modern mobs and martyrs.
| Evangelicals Thank LDS for Proposition 8 Work, Call for Christians to Stand Against Attacks |
Though Proposition 8 has caused divisiveness in California and within the Church, one incredible by-product of this campaign has been increased brotherhood and unity among Christian churches. While the LDS Church has been under attack, prominent priests, ministers, and writers—as well as common members—have come out against such attacks and shown their support of the Church.
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So some people actually do get it. A majority even supported tax cuts.
Cut spending to avoid deficit, majority says |
An overwhelming majority of Canadians say Finance Minister Jim Flaherty should slash the federal budget to balance the books, according to a new poll for Canwest News Service and Global National. |
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Freedom crusader Ezra Levant unveils another witch hunt by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. This time a politician was concerned about the fact that Natives made up 8% of the population in his riding but committed 59% of the crime. Is that not a problem that sounds like it should be dealt with?
Not according to the CHRC. To them it is discriminatory to even mention it.
It’s way past time that these kangaroo courts were disbanded, not reformed, but disbanded altogether. There only purpose is to give hateful left-wing demagogues much higher salaries than they could otherwise hope for and with the power of the state with which to clobber their opponents.
Why won’t the government do something about this travesty? Because they are afraid of the power of leftist special interests and their lackeys in the popular press. A true statesman, with the strength of his convictions and confident in his ability to lead would step up to this challenge and be a champion of freedom. Alas, the last political leader we have had with the character of a statesman was Preston Manning and we who were his closest allies let him go. Stupid.
A new low for ‘human rights’ |
Ezra Levant,
National Post
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Published: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
In Saskatchewan, the CHRC is prosecuting a former Member of Parliament for politically incorrect mail that he sent to constituents five years ago. |
Whether or not Pankiw “wins” his trial is irrelevant. He’s already lost, and so have we. The message is loud and clear: The CHRC has ended parliamentary immunity. The fact that it’s a right-wing MP first in the dock is no surprise — the CHRC is led by Jennifer Lynch, a radical feminist who was Joe Clark’s chief of staff. It’s unlikely that a left-wing MP would ever be punished this way — 100% of the CHRC’s “hate” targets to date have been conservative, white or Christian. |
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In this great article, Gerry Nicholls hits the nail squarely on the head. Prime Minister Harper and his party spent an entire election using our tax dollars to tell us what a great leader he is. Now he has to show us whether he is a great conservative leader or a great liberal leader.
So far I have seen nothing to indicate the former but he is going to have about a year of free reign in the House to implement almost any policies he wishes to. If he’s content to just have power but do nothing with it then as a conservative leader he will go down in the history books as a disappointing failure. But if he acts on a true conservative (dare I say even conservative/libertarian) vision then he may prove himself worthy of all those self-congratulatory ads.
We’ll see . . .
Time for Tories to drop incrementalism |
Gerry Nicholls,
National Post
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Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
Who knows, maybe if he implemented a true conservative agenda, Prime Minister Harper might even win his coveted majority government in the next election. Then again, maybe he won’t. But at least he would have accomplished something while in power. |
And isn’t that what politics is really supposed to be all about? It’s got to mean more than just winning elections or holding onto power for the sake of holding onto power. That’s how Liberals think. For conservatives, at least, politics should be about making Canada a freer and better place. |
Margaret Thatcher was a leader. Ronald Reagan was leader. In the last election, the Conservative party kept telling us Stephen Harper was a leader. |
It’s time he proved it. - Gerry Nicholls is a freelance political consultant www.gerrynicholls.com.This column is adapted from remarks delivered at a recent Fraser Institute-sponsored event. |
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As the clip from this article correctly points out, Harper’s campaign placed all the focus on himself - not what he would do. This served to emphasize not his family values but his autocratic ones.
Democracy is not an ideal to this Prime Minister but an obstacle. Accountability, openness, transparency - these are just words, not principles of good government. Almost single-handidly Harper has eviscerated his party’s highly-attractive democratic populist legacy from its Reform Party roots.
Canadians are right to want to keep this guy on a short leash. It’s just a shame that its the likes of his left-wing opponents who get to hold the other end.
Randall Denley,
The Ottawa Citizen |
| Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
One can hardly blame the voters for their lack of enthusiasm. Harper is an autocratic and unloveable figure with no real vision for the country. |
If Harper wants to govern and try again for a majority, he needs to stop trying to be a one-man show. He ran an election campaign that was all about himself and his leadership. Policies were few and slight, his cabinet team scarcely in sight. In this election, voters didn’t say no the Conservative party or to conservative government, they said no to Stephen Harper. Harper has cemented his image as the bully boss who attacks or silences all those who disagree with him. Too many Canadians just don’t like Stephen Harper, and that’s a problem he probably can’t fix. |
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Rather than vote “NO” in each circle on the ballot, why not just pass the ballot right back after receiving it.
How to vote for none of the above |
In elections past, when I could find no candidate I would dream of voting for, I returned my ballot. This right was an ancient part of Canadian electoral practice, or so I still believe. The officer presents you with your ballot and the usual canned smile; you thank him in a well-bred manner. Then, to his horror, rather than walking immediately towards the voting booth, you declare: “I wish to return my ballot.” |
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Real conservatism has arrived.That was the point of the decade-long Reform/PC schism culminating in the Alliance and the alliance between the Alliance and the PCs - the Conservative Party of Canada. All of it was to take the “progressive” (read: leftist) tendencies out of Canada’s conservative party. So the ballots have been counted and the results are in and now finally Canada has a truly conservative government.
Ok, prove it.
Canadians are still among the highest taxed people in all the industrial nations. Despite the government’s minority status its opposition is so timid it’s disgusting. The CPC has and can continue to govern like it has a majority. If it falls it will be re-elected, possibly even with a majority, but if with a minority, so what?
What should the government do with this power? A real conservative government of an overtaxed people would think of doing nothing before dramatically reducing taxes. The means of doing so is suggested in this article.
All it takes is some hand-scrawled gibberish in the form of a complaint to the Human Rights Commission and you face an inquisition in this country where your own fundamental human rights are called into question. The exercise of liberty, such as freedom of speech, can cost you thousands in fines from the tin-pot fascists who accept appointments to these hideous tribunals.
Ezra Lavant is a publisher. He published the now famous cartoons originally published in Denmark to which radical muslims took such offence that they began their usual campaign of physical and verbal violence. In Canada no one was killed, no buildings were blown up, because the Islamo-fascists among us need only sick the state’s thought police on Mr. Levant.
If you haven’t already seen Ezra Lavant’s videos of his inquisition by the ludicrously-named Human Rights Commission you’re in for a treat. Follow this link to Ezra’s YouTube page.
For more written by Ezra Lavant himself visit his site at www.ezralevant.com
