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As I write about human rights or send letters pleading for the release of some tortured or illegally imprisoned person in far off lands, it is important to me that I not portray some complacent belief in the superior moral righteousness of Canada or the “West.” It is indisputable that Western democracies are in fact morally superior to the dictatorships, petty tyrannies and systematic oppressions of most the rest of the world, from child slavery in Ghana to political prisoners in China. But there is no occasion to be righteous about this greater portion of freedom and human rights we experience. In a later article I will wonder about the demise of habeas corpus in the West and in particular Canada keeping prisoners for years on end without charge or trial. But this installment addresses a matter that has influenced me strongly since I first learned of it in my teens. I am not “a serious student of the subject” but I assert as good an understanding as can be had without years of primary research and secondary scholarship. It is relevant because it is the story of a genocide that happened within the boundaries of current-day Canada. While sincerely working to prevent modern genocides or any abuse of human rights, it is useful and hopefully motivating, to know of the sad history in our own place. A man named Ezra Nawi, already in detention, is about to be jailed by the Israeli government. He has previously been detained and jailed for interfering with state-sanctioned actions such as bulldozing the homes of Palestinians. More recently he has been trying to prevent Israeli “settlers” from using intimidation and personal terrorism to keep Palestinian farmers off their land. The gimmick is that these “settlers” prevent the farmers from working the land for some period of time and then use the failure to use the land productively as the reason for taking the land away from the Palestinians and gifting it to the Israeli gangsters. You might think that Mr. Nawi is just one more Palestinian colouring events to hide his real activity against the innocent state of Israel. You would think wrong. Ezra Nawi is an Israeli citizen, born in Jerusalem. He is one of the few Israelis prepared to put their own lives on the line to protect human rights. Israeli authorities claim that Ezra struck a soldier in the course of that soldier dutifully driving a Palestinian family from their home and making it safe for a bulldozer operator to destroy that home. Only now has Israel decided to ensure the world knows why it needs so much U.S. financial aide. It’s army is so weak, physically and emotionally, that it cannot withstand an old man interfering with the army’s human rights abuses. By the way, Ezra is not a political activist in any normal sense of the word. He’s a plumber. But he cannot tolerate the abuses that are creating another generation of children who will grow up knowing that Israel destroyed their homes. So the mighty state of Israel is afraid of a plumber. Perhaps there is some irony in the fact that the last time the whole of Israel was so threatened by a tradesman it was a Carpenter. But this is not the first time this weakness of Israel has come to international attention. There was the case where a group of infants were being denied access to heart surgery because Israel feared the mothers and one grandmother were a threat to the state of Israel. Out of abject fear of mothers with babes and an old plumber, Israel must ignore human rights. If you think this an exaggeration, you get to judge for yourself. For just as regular people have gotten out images of the persecution in Iran, so too did someone get out of Israel this video of the events leading up to the imprisonment of Ezra Nawi. Take a moment to view it. Now, having seen the actual events, can any reasonable person believe that Ezra, seen with wrists bound in the back of the Israeli transport while the soldiers deride and mock both Ezra and the Palestinian family, that Ezra is the person who should be charged with an offense? Note the comment of one of these barbarians, referring to the fact that he had just destroyed a family’s home and Ezra was bound for bondage, he laughs and says dismissively that he will be going home. Unlike the old plumber and the children put out of their home. Please take note of the faces of the men who committed this crime. We do not have a clear view of the criminal driving the bulldozer but should any of their identities become known to you, it is your duty to ensure the world is aware. Individuals who participate in such direct and obvious crimes against human rights need to learn that they will be known for what they, barbarians who should themselves be jailed. You can show your concern for Ezra Nawi, by joining the campaign at this address. It’s remarkable. The Iranian tyranny over the Persian people seriously believes that official lies can be sustained. The notion of victory through active lying to the people is rooted in the hope that there are sufficient bands of population that do not now and will not later have easy access to external sources of information. For all intents and purposes the satanic Ayatollah cult has written off Tehran. They grasp that in urban centres Persians are sophisticated, resourceful with a real capacity for independent thinking. But the cult believes it and its servants can lie wholesale to the populations outside the major centres, and with those lies, retain the power to oppress the entire nation. Where they rely on the stupidity of the people, it is their own stupidity that is revealed. For this strategy simply cannot work. Assume that the current campaign of murder and brutality is successful. Those seeking a modicum of freedom are driven from the streets, thousands more added to the political prisoner population, and quiet descends on Iran. Will the cult make permanent its isolation of the Persian people from the entire world through its aggressive shutdown of internet and barbaric retaliation against cell phone users suspected of anti-cult communications? To sustain this level of isolation, Iran will have to accept permanent structural damages to its economy. No, eventually the truth will out. The people who currently support the cult will see for themselves that what they witnessed on Iranian state television or read in cult-controlled newspapers were all lies. They will see that it was not a few hundred or a few thousand, but millions of their fellow Persians who took to the streets. They will see that those in the demonstrations were peaceful and did not commits the acts of violence claimed by the government. They will learn that when there was violence or misdeeds, it was initiated by the servants of the cult trying to derail the free exercise of the people. The audio and visual record now being husbanded outside Iran will find its way back into Iran. The friends, relatives and neighbours of those who have been murdered, injured or taken hostage will retain their memories and their memories will spread within Iran. The millions of direct witnesses to the actions of the Iranian gestapo will retain their memories and their memories will will become the news of others throughout Iran. It really is just stupid to believe that you can sustain a lie on the scale of this lie. And in the long run, your own supporters get that nagging feeling in their brain that if the government has to lie to us, what was really going on? But pressing such an obvious lie so hard and so widely, the cult has increased the distrust that even its own supporters will feel. The truth shall set Persia free. While the oppression in Iran captures the world’s concern, the Israeli government is quietly escaping notice of its bizarre “peace” policy. Benjamin Netanyahu made a formal statement of his position, which must be taken as the position of the Israeli people as it is after all a democracy, that peace will only come if there is a pseudo-state of Palestine, but never a true sovereign state of Palestine. His one and one half state solution is a subject government running Palestine, without sovereignty over airspace, without the means to deal with organized armed threats with a …Continue reading Time to sanction Israel? There should be no surprise that self-loathing latent homosexual Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refuses to free the Iranian people. But it cannot all be left at the feet of this fellatious sociopath. The oppression of Persia springs from the diseased minds of the small cult of Ayatollahs who hallucinate that they are actually hearing God direct them to the slavery, torture and murder of His people. Remember it was this same cult that tortures and murders women like Zahra Kazemi, whose only crime was to be a reporter, of gentle disposition, who so loved her native Persia that she would not renounce her Iranian citizenship even after becoming a Canadian. Zahra’s reward for loving the land and people of Iran was a painful and brutal death at the hands of the minor demons of the Ayatollah. As you watch video being smuggled out of Iran, observe that there are men beating people, men inflicting wounds. These men are the petty demons Ayatollah cult. Without their willing brutality neither the deviant Ahmadinejad nor his satanic masters in the Ayatollah cult could prevail. These vile servants should know that when the people of Iran one day claim their freedom, and they will, there will be an accounting of those who delivered the blows, fired the bullets, chained the people. When the masters are tumbled their servants shall also fall. If you have any doubt that the Iranian election was a fraud, consider simple common sense:
These facts are the evidence of the fraud. If there really were a massive majority in favour of continuing the reign of evil, it would be unnecessary to forbid communication, a waste of resources to attack peaceful demonstrations, and folly to provoke an insubstantial minority with arrests and murder. Only if there is a need to protect a lie are any of these things meaningful. The following video was smuggled onto the internet at the risk of the recorder’s life. He is being hunted even now by the Iranian Gestapo. Let all people of good will hope that his identity remains secure and that his work for freedom may continue. In a private submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, I argue that if Parliament wishes to see transaction fees for using credit cards, debit cards and other transaction methods go down there is a very, very simple solution: You can read the full letter to the Committee here, but the central idea is not difficult to grasp. Right now a lot of people are paying for features they do not receive, while a lot of others, including me, receive the benefits of features for which we do not pay. Consumers are not upset at the arrangement because they are prevented from seeing it happening. That is because these fees are charged to the merchant, not …Continue reading Are you being robbed by credit card companies? Sunday May 17, 2009 Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin BY E-MAIL: cimm@parl.gc.ca RE: Temporary Foreign Workers I write on my own behalf and represent no client or interest other than myself as an individual. I have followed the work of the Committee in some detail. A repeating theme is the inability of the national government to exercise meaningful jurisdiction to assure temporary foreign workers are adequately protected by minimum working, health and safety standards. I suggest this is not a fully factual assessment. There is one existing mechanism that the federal government could use to protect temporary foreign workers and there is a second, more substantive mechanism that would require regulatory amendments. Currently there are two elements of the TFW process: the prospective employee’s Wired Web Press Canada » Recession has opportunities with the pain In this article on the Wired Web Press Canada site, I argue that there are significant opportunities for Canada arising out of the recession and the U.S. response. A critical component is to make good use of the time that the American xenophobes and Congressional protectionists are providing to Canada to build a network of bilateral free trade agreements before the U.S. locks up the all the benefits. The essay concludes Canada can emerge as stronger and more economically independent by following four strategies:
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