The Communists lost The Cold War. they murdered tens of millions and subjugated more than a billion people over the course of decades, all in the name of their failed totalitarian ideology.
You'd think anyone with half a brain would, at this point in time, recognize Communism for the evil that it is.
But there are plenty of imbeciles, motivated by resentment of the success of others and their own stupidity, that cling on to Marx's outdated and demonstrably failed vision, one that invariably leads to dictatorship and repression. These people dominate Public Service and Students Unions across the country, and the blog Karl Marx is Deadis reporting on what they're up to.
"The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) are merging to create Unifor, the largest primarily private sector union in Canada with about 300,000 members."
Gary Engler, who wrote that description quoted above from the neo-Marxist website rabble.ca, is the vice-president of the Local 2000 of the later of those unions soon to merge into the mega-union.
He is also the co-author of something called the New Commune-ist Manifesto which is essentially an argument for communism to dominate labor and politics in our society. In other words, he's another idiot who has learned nothing from the lessons of North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Pol Pot's Cambodia, and the 100 million murders and totalitarian misery that communism has inflicted on humanity since the Russian Revolution.
Canada's Parliament recently voted for union accountability in the form of Bill C-377, which was quashed by the Senate, adding to the many reasons to abolish that anachronistic, useless body of unelected patronage appointees.
Engler's description of his vision for the new Mega-Union is one that does not focus on workplace issues but one that infests the workplace with political and activist issues. That is precisely the cause of the backlash against unions that led to the House of Commons passing Bill C-377. But
someone who is still a communist in the year 2013 is not likely to be someone with the ability to process a great deal of information.
Engler wrote: "The promise of Unifor is in a rebirth of militant union activism." The bad news is that in the short-term, militant radicalism from union fanatics may increase with the birth of "Unifor.`The good news is that if Unifor bosses behave as Engler hopes, and with the government promising to reintroduce Bill C-377, it could be the final straw that breaks the backs of politicized unions in Canada.
Evidently the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) has given up the pretense of being anything but a center of radical, anti-Western indoctrination.
Most recently, this appalling cesspool of neo-Marxist fanaticism made the news when one of its senior academics was arrested for producing child pornography. While that disgraceful distinction is revolting enough on its own, making matters worse is the fact that that same OISE academic, Professor Ben Levin, was responsible for attempting to introduce a hyper-sexualized curriculum for small children in public schools.
That curriculum came with the blessing of OISE, a faculty of the University of Toronto, whose graduates and academics helped design that reprehensible effort to rob children of their innocence.
If you think OISE, which is the most prominent teachers' education facility in Canada, couldn't get any worse, then think again.
Abigail Bakan speaking at a Khomeinist
CASMO al Quds Day event
This month, the institute named the new Chair for its "Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education" Department. That person is Abigail Bakan.
Ms Bakan is a Communist extremist who was a speaker at an al Quds Day event organized by the racist Khomeinist group CASMO. The Canadian Association of Shia Muslim Organizations (CASMO) is comprised of Khmomeinist fanatics who had a public relations fiasco when it became public knowledge that they were posting anti-Semitic videos made by the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. In the spirit of hatefulness that characterized the event, Bakan made the fatuous and despicably slanderous declaration that Israel "is exactly like the apartheid state of pre-1994 South Africa."
Bakan is also one of the five Editorial Board members of a 9-11 conspiracy promoting website called The Canadian Charger, whose founder and her co-Board member is Mohammed Elmasry, who infamously declared that all Jews in Israel over the age of eighteen are 'legitimate' targets for murder.
You might imagine that someone who makes common cause with anti-Semites and people who advocate the murder of homosexuals might not seem the ideal choice as a leader for "Social Justice Education."
But then at OISE, "social justice" isn't about justice at all.
At OISE, Social Justice is a euphemism for hateful detestation of Israel with its implied anti-Semitism of choosing the Jewish people as the one group on earth to whom they would deny national self-determination. Social Justice at OISE means advocacy for communism and totalitarian communist dictatorships, which deprive people of individual liberty.
The department that Bakan will Chair had its only notable distinction in its former incarnation as OISE's Sociology and Equity Studies in Education Department, which has since folded into the new division.
To illustrate their cognitive impairment, it should suffice to say that they live in the most prosperous, egalitarian society in the history of the world, and complaining of its "oppression," these geniuses want to replace it with a system that has invariably lead to totalitarianism, poverty and mass-murder of civilians.
Aside from their many imagined "oppressions," there is something the intensely earnest, humorless egotists of the radical left despise even more. Whet riles them more than anything is when they are exposed as foolish hypocrites. To observe their self-discrediting idiocy, all one has to do is pay a modicum of attention to what they say and do. But the radical left has benefited from the laziness and sympathy of the mainstream media which frequently reports only a fragment of the radicals' activities and omits their most glaring acts of intellectual seppuku.
Which is why they are really, really pissed off at a blogger named Greg Renouf who operates a blog called GenuineWitty.
I've written before about the radical left's animus towards Greg. It seems that their rancor has reached new levels now that Renouf is a regular guest on Ezra Levant's show on Sun News Network. Levant is an outsider who routinely exposes the hypocrisy and stupidity of the leftist fanatics. With the inside knowledge that Greg brings, they have incurred the absolute fury of the radicals by revealing them as clownish objects of ridicule.
Componding the amusement are the pathetic efforts of some leftists to strike back. Filled with prose doused in a melange of sanctimony, vitriol and self-pity, it's hilarious reading.
Patrick Ross at Bad Company provides more detailed background here, but for a great laugh, there's no substitute for the original material at this link.
UPDATE: 25/6/13 - Google cache as well as UnderCover Kitt's blog are now gone for the time being., so links below this update may not work. However, to get an idea of the despicable people behind and involved with OCAP, you can see these posts HERE,HERE,HEREHERE, and HERE
UPDATE: 25/6/13 5:15 pm Good news, everyone!GenuineWitty has archived Undercover Kitty's posts, so you can view the OCAP expose. Here is PART 1PART 2 and PART 3
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OCAP and John Clarke are affiliated with an number of groups including the New Socialists who John Clarke described as OCAP’s “Sein Feinn”, plus the Communist Party of Canada, No One Is Illegal Toronto and other groups such as the Federation of Metro Tenants Associations.
More of Part 1 HERE (UPDATE: UndercoverKitty's blog was taken down by Wordpress under mysterious circumstances. The link to the cached version of Part 1 is HERE)
John Ronald Clarke, who likes the humble title of OCAP organiser, but is their defacto leader and owner. Born May 16, 1954. (Some reports claim he was born on May 26) John emigrated to Canada from England as a sponsored immigrant by his sister. He worked from 1976 to 1982 at the London Westinghouse Plant (Ontario)when he was laid off. His labor union which he was quite active in, hated him would not support him. He subsequently formed the Union of Unemployed Workers and in 1989 created the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. John Clarke was a worker factory, laid off in 1982. After losing his job, he helped form a union of the unemployed. In 1990, this organization helped out in the campaign that led to the formation of OCAP. In the autumn of 1990, the founding conference of OCAP took place. After some debate, it set a course for the organization that committed it to mobilizing poor and homeless people to fight back through militant, direct action
Part 2 is HERE (UPDATE: UndercoverKitty's blog was taken down by Wordpress under mysterious circumstances. The link to the cached version of Part 2 is HERE)
Earlier this month, The Rose, a women’s newsletter issued by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, declared that through its support of Israel, Canada is complicit in “war crimes.”
Alongside claims that “patriarchy was introduced into First Nations cultures through European colonization,” the publication asserts that Canada “is allowing Israel to terrorize occupied people, breach international law, normalize home demolitions … and steal resources.”
Almost immediately, Jewish groups issued condemnations of the three-page document as “a racist propaganda tool filled with half-truths,” according to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
Representatives from all three major parties joined the chorus, with the most colourful coming from Liberal leader Bob Rae: “I continue to be astonished by the extent to which ideas which should be on the ‘loony tunes’ margins of politics have now been adopted by a union which represents thousands of its members.”
From a review of The Trial of Christopher Hitchens in the moronic, neo-Marxist website rabble.ca, published by the same-sex spouse of NDP Deputy Leader Libby Davies:
Immediately after the September 11 attacks, he spoke of caution, of not veering into overreaction, yet soon he was picking fights with anyone who dared question U.S. reaction or even contextualize the attacks as "Anti-American" or worse. His early smears of Noam Chomsky and many others allowed for the entry -- even into some quarters of the Left for a short time -- of talk of loyalty and patriotism.
Hitchens became the patron saint of what some came to call "The Decent Left," those who signed the "Euston Manifesto." Seymour’s first book, The Liberal Defence of Murder, gives a history and analysis of this tendency, and is well worth the read. But Hitchens went far beyond even the "decent left" in his calls for civilizational warfare, his shocking and even genocidal Islamophobia (stating that he refused to share a planet with this "enemy"), even, tragically, his disavowal of his early and stalwart anti-Zionism.
The review is peppered with the predictable vapid Marxist jargon; reactionary, comrades, revolutionary socialism, McCarthyist and so on...
A handful of Natives along with a bunch of oddball white folk who like to pretend they have native roots, plus some of the usual, bitter suspects from the perpetually-aggrieved left are planning a protest against Sun Media this coming Saturday.
Ostensibly, the cause of their ire is alleged anti-First Nations "racism" from Sun Media, but that is rather clearly a ruse for the attention-whores involved with the protest. What has really got their goat is how Sun News has exposed the corruption, waste and malfeasance occurring on many Native reserves that is being funded by the Canadian taxpayer.
Sun has also led the way in showing that the preposterous Idle No Move protests are staged nonsense. When its icon, Theresa Spence, went on a so-called hunger strike, it was Sun News that showed how she is actually taking in more calories during her supposed fast than the average Ethiopian on a regular day. The links between the union-funded, withering Occupy movement and Idle No More has also been something people affiliated with the later group were enraged at Sun News for having exposed.
Among the participants who have so far signed up on the protest's facebook page are public service union honcho John Baglow, who operates the blog Dr. Dawg. Baglow was the plaintiff in a libel suit he launched, and lost, because his feelings were hurt in a rancorous online debate.
Another particiant is a reporter from the fanatically radical, neo-Marxist website rabble.ca, the operating budget of which is mainly funded by unions and is published by the spouse of NDP Deputy Leader Libby Davies. Krystalline Kraus is rabble.ca's resident Indian-o-phile whose facile writing refers to North America as "Turtle Island," a pseudo-Native sounding term that was invented by white leftist activists in the 1970's and has no history of use by Native tribes in North America. Of course, there is no evidence to suggest that First Nations ever believed the North American continent was an island. It took stupid white leftists to invent that version of history.
Kraus actually credulously reported, evidently based on wishful thinking and delusion, that a defrocked, discredited United Church Minister and fringe Native movement hanger-on named Kevin Annett "performed an exorcism rite in St. Peter's Square, which was followed 12 hours later by a tornado - almost unprecedented in that time and place - which devastated central Rome and the Vatican."
For similar stupidity and a collection of unhinged weirdness, you can watch the protest Saturday afternoon - the details are at the group's facebook page.
When civic officials hold Community Consultations, the process is often misleading and disingenuous. Bureaucrats have spent many hours and a lot of expense in formulating policies and proposals that reflect their goals. "Community Consultations" usually only occur after that work has been done and frequently are there to give the false impression that they are paying attention to what the public wants. But the result is that they only hear those comments that validate their pre-formed plans and discard the rest.
But politicians and government apparatchiks are sensitive to opinion, if only in self-interest and in the face of overwhelming public outcry will sometimes alter their grand visions for the sake of their careers.
Which is why as many people as possible who are concerned about the direction public education is veering should attend the Toronto District School Board consultation meetings coming up next week and later in the month.
The TDSB is soliciting public input on their "K-12 strategy" and many people following the news about public schools have been alarmed at how their strategy so far has included celebrating communist, totalitarian mass-murderers, encouraging teens to develop relationships by inserting vegetables in their anuses, encouraging transvestism and converting school space into gender-segregated mosques. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. From the educrats perspective, schools are as much a place for social engineering as they are for education. A Marxist-informed curriculum featuring a very particular and peculiar concept of "social justice" characterizes your children's daily experience and that should be a cause of grave concern.
The next public consultation is on Tuesday, November 13, 7 PM, at Central Technical School for those people who live in Toronto's downtown Ward 10.
Other consultation dates and locations can be found at this TDSB web page.
What would normally be a quiet Sunday evening in a central downtown section of Toronto a five minute walk from Lake Ontario was unsettled by a mob of dingy, hostile would-be revolutionaries. A smattering of about two hundred and fifty professional protesters comprising local anti-capitalist, Trotskyite, anti-Israel and New Democratic Party-linked Marxist groups converged on Toronto's downtown Royal York Hotel to protest against Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
This was distributed at the protest
The occasion was an irresistible opportunity of expressing hostility towards two of their most hated objects, the Conservative government and the Jewish state, as Kenney was being honored by Israel's Haifa University.
According to a leaflet they distributed, the loud, unhappy throng was there "in outrage." There was nothing illuminating in that disclosure, since outrage, anger and resentment are the only emotions such miserable, envious malcontents ever seem to channel.
The mainstream media, either through laziness, their own disdain for Harper's Tories, or sheer ignorance of the issues they are covering (which is common for Canadian journalists) whitewashed the event as a group of citizen protesters.
Agents of state oppression ensuring protesters are
protected from oncoming traffic
In fact, many if not most of the protesters were non-citizens, like Marxists Syed Hassan and Sakura Saunders, attached to the lunatic extremist organization No One is Illegal, which wants to do away with all immigration regulations, while providing full tax-funded benefits for anyone who steps foot on Canadian soil. They and the other groups and individuals at the protest were anything but a cross-section of typical Canadians. They represented extremists including members of the Black Bloc, anarchists, radical Trotskyites, pro-regime Iranians, Mohawk Warriors, pro-terrorist Palestinian advocacy groups, Omar Khadr supporters, the violent anti-capitalist group Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and an array of others.
Down with Capitalism! Hooray for terrorists and terror states!
Blogger Laura Rosen Cohen has catalogued the vast cornucopia of organizations involved in the disturbance, which would be impressive were it not for the fact that the radical fanatics involved keep creating three or four new groups for every new cause they approach, with almost all of them having cross memberships. Indeed there were almost as many protest groups "endorsing" the gathering as there were actual protesters.
Some of the chants at the protest the consensus media did not report included "one, two, three, four, this is class war!" " the only solution is revolution," and "F**k the police!" The latter was all the more ironic and preposterous as the police were ensuring the safety of the bedraggled grousers from traffic while protecting their right to democratic dissent as the protesters were insulting the "agents of state oppression."
The cacophony from the usual suspect groups with their hodgepodge of idiotic grievances had its expected effect; no clear message was conveyed other than their hatred for Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney.
The one unfamiliar addition to the assembly was a group of Romas, who were shunted to the rear of the protest by the organizers. They were there to express anger at Kenney's refusal to view Hungary as an oppressive country from which Roma need refuge. I spoke with one who was carrying a bizarre sign that said "Our ashes are mingled" and showed Nazi concentration camp ovens used to cremate murdered inmates. The point, the fellow told me, was that Jews and Gypsies suffered together from racism in Europe and they should be standing together in solidarity here in Canada.
I inquired about the Roma groups attendance at the rally, since I had heard they had dissociated themselves from it, as it was filed with anti-Semitic groups. His response suggested the Roma group had been duped by the organizers of the protest. He had said they were planing to stay away because they were pro-Israel and did not want to be interpreted as anything else, until the Roma were convinced by the organizers that Jewish groups were attending. It was inconceivable to the Roma man I spoke with that Jews could be anti-Israel. While I understand his perspective, it could also be inconceivable that some Jews would have collaborated with the Nazis. Yet some did, just as groups like the so-called Independent Jewish Voices and the Monty Pythonesque-soundingUnited Jewish People`s Order collaborate now with groups that support the murderers of Jews.
No One is Illegal organizer Syed Hassan
I met up with Greg Renouf, who operates the blog GenuineWitty at the demonstration. He has expended innumerable hours investigating and exposing the radicals involved in the socialist far-left in Canada. He has found links between the radical fanatics in the Black Bloc and No One is Illegal that ties not only to unions like Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), but to the highest echelons of the federal New Democratic Party.
Renouf feels that their behaviour resembles that of cult members, who lacking in intelligence and analytical skills are left only with the ability to mindlessly chant slogans.
He observed that the fools we were watching were incapable of accomplishing anything of substance. He is right, but it appeared to me such events aren't actually meant to accomplish anything other than to give the leaders of such gatherings an excuse to exercise their leadership and maintain the personality cults they have established for themselves.
More worrisome was the involvement of pro-regime Iranians, who evidently are attempting to make inroads with the native community and prepare terrorist action in the event of a war with Iran.
While the misfits and cretins that comprised the protesters outside the Royal York are unlikely to ever affect change through discourse, events in the recent past have proven that it only takes a handful of such miscreants to make a devastating impact through terrorism and for that, Canadian need to remain vigilant.
The other side of the leaflet distributed at the protest:
The Black Bloc hoists the Palestinian flag
A handful of protesters infiltrated the Royal York by disguising themselves as normal human beings.
Since
our tax dollars are helping to subsidize the ridiculous paranoia and vapid concepts disseminated by the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education (OISE), it's only fair all of us paying for it should derive some
benefit.
Fort Stupid on Toronto's Bloor Street
The
Institution has entire departments devoted to nonsensical ideas, like that of gender being a psychological
construct and that racism is OK for some but not for others, as well as an
innumerable slew of crackpot theories, so it's unlikely any yield will ever emerge from OISE advancing the field of Education.
However,
at least they can give us some laughs.
Today's
amusing bit of stupid from OISE is supplied by Professor Shahrzad
Mojab of their "Leadership, Higher and
Adult Education Department" (Reading what they produce, I figure
the emphasis is on working to get higher than Harold and Kumar). One of Ms Mojab's areas of focus is women's rights in the less developed parts of the planet.
Now, when it comes to the erosion of women's rights in
the Middle East, Asia and Africa, you might come to the natural conclusion that has something to so with the latest spread
of Islamism and its repressive misogyny in those regions.
More
fool you then, if Ms Mojab is to be believed. She writes the real culprits are
western governments, which are "in concert with large
charitable foundations and corporations to actively suppress and dismantle
social movements, including the women’s movement."
That's
right, you got it; repression of women in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Palestinian Territories is is not due to Islamism, but is part of an evil western capitalist
conspiracy.
How
silly to think it could be anything else! If you are experiencing
any disbelief of Ms Mojab's assertion, it must undoubtedly be due to the
globalizing mind control drugs the capitalists are sneaking into Coca-Cola, so
get over it!
It's
really all so obvious, as she explains:
"International
donors working with the political elites, shifted resources away from the
highly political women’s movement toward absorbing women leaders into
ministries. Another shift was removing funding away from organizations
whose goals were political transformation and the national liberation struggle toward
organizations that fit into the framework of state-building. "
Ah,
those clever, wicked capitalists!
They were using women's groups to support women in
underdeveloped countries by helping them attain roles in
critical decision making mechanisms like government. Oh, those crafty, devious
capitalists! They have devised a sinister plot to assist women by directing funds to enable them to gain leadership roles in their societies rather than by financing Communist or Islamist revolutionary groups! The fiends!
Here's
some more hilarious gobbledygook from Perfesser Mojab:
“The Marxist-feminist analytic guides us
to relate the suffering and resistance of women in imperialist wars and
reconstruction projects to the local/global and particular/universal whole
instead of fragmenting or isolating them. It is often the fracture in
this continuous whole which lends itself to culturalist analysis, which is
interested in notions of the war of civilizations/religions or privileging the
Western ethics and morality over the rest. My argument is that an
anti-imperialist feminist critique is necessary for any interrogation of the
continuity of the imperialist project as it is infused with post-conflict
reconstruction projects, funding schemes for women’s NGOs, and building
peace. It also helps us to expose the war/peace binaries as two opposites
of one unity; the masculine-imperialist peace is the continuation and
reappearance of the masculine-imperialist war. Given this, I insist that
feminists need to be cautious and critical of the ways in which the women’s rights
agenda benefits from imperialist rule. The point is that the gender agenda
attached to masculine-imperialist post-war reconstruction, development, or even
peace building, often operates with the approbation and collaboration of many
forces within neo-liberal, racist, and patriarchal agenda.”
(If you have the time you might enjoy reading all of her 4 page paper - it'll just seem like 83- available
through this
link.)
A couple of years ago a Toronto cop trying to provide some self-protection tips to women after a string of sexual assaults at York University tells them no to "dress like sluts" if they are walking around alone late at night. A poor choice of words to be sure, but the incident became distorted into a shrill "he's blaming the victim!" trope. An elderly person has a right to walk around the dangerous projects at Jane and Finch with money hanging out of their pockets, but that too is a bad idea, given the realities of the world. There are bad people out there and it is sensible to take measures to protect yourself from them.
The issue should have gone away, but some enterprising, self-promoting lefty women decided a marketing scheme could be spawned of this and the SlutWalk was born, along with its official t-shirts, water bottles and buttons, all sold at a handsome profit.
So for two years now, in Toronto and other cities,an addle-minded sisterhood march occurs punctuated with a few lamprey-like, soppy, pathetic men who feign sensitivity and compassion while hoping to meet some genuine sluts. As a matter of principle, the gathering of people to denounce sexual violence and the right of women to walk the streets safely is admirable, but is far from a new idea; Take Back The Night walks have been around since the mid 1970's. The SlutWalk twist is the angle that women have the right to be sluts, but only with whom they choose. While that right is indisputable (at least in civilized western countries) the idea of taking to the streets to declare it is another manifestation of narcissistic activists self-promoting than any tangible blow for women's rights or safety.
While there's no evidence that the SlutWalks have prevented a single sexual assault or altered anyone's views towards promiscuity, they have garnered some measure of attention for the event's founders and organizers. Unfortunately for them, they have fallen into an easily-set trap that shows that they are not-to bright and hypocritical.
That exposure came about through the publicizing of a Toronto Muslim street preacher's call for legislation forcing women to wear modest clothing in order to, in the opinion of Al-Haashim Kamena Atangana, prevent their being raped.
While Atangana is not a person of great significance within the Muslim community, when pronouncement became a news item, it more or less forced women's organizations to take a stand. Virtually all those contacted by The Toronto Sun, which first reported the matter, condemned the preposterous proposal.
The notable exception was SlutWalk's founders and organizers, who decided that they were more as outraged with Sun News than they were with Mr. Atagana. Histrionically accusing Sun News of misogyny and the same type of "blame the victim" mentality as the preacher, SlutWalk's spokespeople revealed their vapidity and politically-correct hypocrisy.
Coming from the Marxist school of thought that divides the world into a binary equation of oppressor and oppressed, SlutWalk's organizers are more fearful of being accused of "Islamophobia" than of seriously being pro-women's rights.
Women's rights are routinely assailed within Islam, even in progressive Toronto, yet SlutWalk 's attention seekers are firmly ensconced among the useful idiots of the left who go after the soft, safe targets of government authority while turning a blind eye to the real threats that face women.
So they are more interested in launching shrill attacks against The Sun's columnists like Anthony Furey, who wrote about their hypocrisy. Though what Mr. Atangana proposed is far more egregious and draconian than anything Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti said that instigated the Slut Walks, the brand has now become the issue for SlutWalk, and we can now see that the brand stands for nothing.
Rather than actually doing anything tangible to fight for women, SlutWalk is content in showing their supposed moral superiority through tiresome hysteria towards Daniel Tosh, who made a joke about rape. Tosh's joke was in poor taste, but was as genuine an advocacy of rape as a joke about Luka Magnotta is a genuine advocacy of murder and cannibalism.
None of this, of course, is in any way surprising. After all, it would be silly to expect anything but ditziness from people who would create something called a Slut Walk. The only surprise is that people would expect anything other than that from them.
Instead of slamming Islamist cleric who blames women for getting raped, @SlutWalkTO's Heather Jarvis tells @TheTorontoSun. "F... you Sun"
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) July 17, 2012
The ridiculous website rabble.ca is a favorite target of this blog for a variety of reasons, and not just because its writers are so radical, vapid, and histrionic that they make easy subjects for mockery (although that certainly is the case).
But the site itself is, in one place, the manifestation of a destructive, stupid and hateful strain in Canadian politics and social engineering policy that has influential support in parliament, organized labor and the media.
Rabble was founded by anti-Conservative fanatic Judy Rebick. Rebick started her public life as a feminist activist in the long gone days when lascivious curiosity seekers would attend rallies in the hopes of seeing a flash of skin through the orange flames of a bra-burning. Now many decades later with all the feminist battles won, Rebick and her cohorts still leech onto any number of far-fetched grievances, like the vapid Occupy movement, in the hope of regaining long-lost relevance.
These unions and radical organizations keep rabble.ca afloat
Lately, it is to one Kim Elliott, the same-sex partner/spouse of NDP Deputy Leader Libby Davies, to whom the reins of rabble.ca have been passed. The website is financed almost entirely by Labor Unions and NDP- linked advocacy organizations like the Council of Canadians and the Centre for Policy Alternatives. So it is no surprise to find that all rabble's articles essentially act as advocacy pieces for them. In fact, in their online discussion forum, called babble, users can and do get barred for making anti-union (or pro-Conservative, Republican and Israel) comments. Rabble is not influential outside of its narrow circle, but it is indicative of the thinking of the neo-Marxist elements in Canadian political, academic and other spheres..
Under the guise of being crusaders for progressive politics, rabble pushes backwards policies that are more reflective of Soviet statism than liberal democratic values.
Indicative of the regressive attitudes they would impose on the whole of the Canadian public are three articles published in rabble last Tuesday.
One comes under the very telling title, Why progressives want to turn the clock back. It was written by rabble.ca columnist and Board of Directors member Duncan Cameron. Naturally, the era to which progressives want us all to regress is to the socialist paradise of Pierre Trudeau in which government grasped at more and more domination of every segment of society and culture. Trudeau had the wisdom to pronounce that `government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation.` Regrettably, that was the only place Trudeau felt that government shouldn`t be able to dominate every aspect of people`s lives.
It would obviously be wishful thinking to expect the failures of EuroSocialism like Increased taxation, spending and deficits, government control of commerce and industry to have taught anything to people so ideologically indoctrinated that they still have faith that Karl Marx will someday be recognized as the enlightened savior of mankind. Instead, they want a return in Canada to the type of policies that have sent Europe teetering on the precipice of economic ruin. The rest of us need to learn that this is the company kept by the some of the senior echelons of our Official Opposition, and is what lies in store for us if the Canadian public ever makes the catastrophic mistake of ever making them a federal government.
The other two articles are about something that on the surface is so absurd, it should be the subject of comedy routines. It has to do with outrageously outspoken Sun News Network host Ezra Levant`s rant against the anti-Canadian policies of the Chiquita Banana corporation. Levant infamously ended his invective against the company by telling, on air, one of it`s executives to `chinga tu madre`which is the colloquial Spanish way of inviting him to have carnal relations with his mother.
A complaint was made to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (SBSC) by rabble.ca columnist David Climenhaga about Levant' supposed "lack of civility." While claiming membership is voluntary, the CSRB is a regulatory body that non-government broadcasters are compelled to join in order to secure a broadcast license. The motive for Climenhaga's complaint seems to be a vendetta against the "right wing" Sun network, since by his own admission, he didn't see the broadcast on TV, but in an online video which is not covered by CSRB guidelines. But aside from the hypocrisy of the complainant whose demands for civility appear to be only directed at those with whom he disagrees, it points to the deplorable, totalitarian, censorious nature of the union-beholden NDP cheering squad in radical media.
Climenhaga makes a laughable, self-contradictory claim that his complaint " is obviously not a call or censorship, but merely for the enforcement of minimal standards of civility on a publicly owned resource. "
In other words, Clininhaga wrote that obviously he doesn't want censorship, but for a government-affiliated panel with the power to enforce rules and impose penalties to be able to prevent broadcasters from saying things that he doesn't like. Which, as anyone but an imbecile would realize, is censorship.
In the same day's posting on rabble,a transgendered woman named Mercedes Allen parrots Climenhaga's mantra by writing, "freedom of speech also comes with a responsibility to maintain some civility and decorum."
The radical left, whose marketable skills are limited to the part time food serving jobs some may have held while picking up Equity Studies degrees, are our contemporary Blanche Doboises, dependent on the kindness of strangers (or in some cases cronies) who hand out tax-funded government grants.
And in that spirit, Ms Allen, in the true nature of the mindset of rabble's writers, lets us know what censorship really is, accusing the Harper government of "waging an economic stifling of speech through the defunding of environmental science, Status of Women groups, Aboriginal advocacy and human rights organizations."
Among the self-indulgent, cultish, dimwits who populate the pages of rabble, censorship has a different definition than a rational person.. or adictionary. This is a consistent theme among socialist leeches. They want government commissions to be able to tell you what you cannot say or publish and that's not censorship, that's civility. But in their minds, censorship is when the government doesn't hand out large tax-funded grants to subsidize their radical causes, including supporters of terror groups, that are in direct conflict with government policies.
That kind of upside-down idiocy may sound too preposterous to take seriously. Yet if nothing else, the petty totalitarians at rabble.ca trying to remake Canada into a warped Trotskyite vision are very serious about want they want.
It's convention time at the Ryerson University campus on the weekend beginning tomorrow.
A collection of idiots will celebrate the ideology that crushes individuality and individual rights and was responsible for the oppression of Eastern Europe for 6 decades as well as 100 million murders in the 20th Century.
Among the notable buffoons speaking at Marxism 2012 in Toronto this weekend will be:
Abbie Bakan, an Israel-hating socialist, editorial board member of terror-supporting, 9-11 conspiracist magnet The Canadian Charger, founded by Elmo "let's kill all the Jews in Israel" Elmassry
Brigitte de Pape, a former Senate page, whose crowning life achievement was to hold up a sign she made with crayons, and is known for bubble-headed pronouncements like "Canada needs an Arab Spring."
James Clark, useful idiot of the Iranian regime and buddy of the vicious hatemonger Zafar Bangash
Carolyn Egan, Steelworkers Union boss, which may help explain why local steel manufacturing is virtually nonexistent.
And a couple of token Native leaders and Islamists, just to feebly try prove that the virtually all-white event isn't just a bunch of over the hill white folk.
For the list of other clowns who want to bring totalitarianism to Canada, you can check it out here
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