NeoCon Fantasy

Re: Multinational corporations provide good jobs The News October 26/2011

Either Cherryl Katnich doesn’t know how many 0-s are in a billion or she is suffering from Anncoulteritis a syndrome which is contracted by binging on to many Ann Coulter DVDs and or cramming to many of her books, this turns the brain into a void like pablum that eagerly aborbs any and all right wing silliness thrown at it, it is diagnosed by the following symptoms, the sudden enlarging of the adams-apple, the uncontrollable urge to spontaneously regurgitate verbal diarrhea (otherwise know as ultra-rightwing rhetoric), the irresistible urge to write volumes of unbelievable political science fiction. This embarrassing disease is not to be confused with the similar affliction Lushlimba syndrome which is similar but is also accompanied with a pronounced swelling of the stomach and an acute craving for prescription drugs as well as the total inability to say you are sorry or could have been wrong. 

Last but not least it could be that debilitating degenerative disease Glenbeckons disorder which is very similar but sufferers also have an irresistible urge to preform bizarre religious rituals and believe vast conspiracy schemes. 

Surely Mrs. Katnich is not claiming the average Canadian union wage of $20.36 an hour or what amounts to a $42,348.80 annual income is closer to the 1 percent that are billionaires than they are to the poor, that truly would be silly .

Wayne Clark

Tough on Crime

We all know people that never seem to learn the lessons not only from their own mistakes but others peoples mistakes either. 


It is quite clear that Steven Harper is one of those individuals that can not learn from statistics, documented facts, others peoples and countries experiences and failures or even just good old common sense. 


Mr. Harper is getting flack from the poster child of failed crime legislation, Texas a state that has gone about as far out on "tough on crime as humanly possible", having one out of twenty of it’s citizens behind bars, on parol, or probation, it still has the death penalty and they use it liberaly. In spit of this failed draconian states past crime legislation the state has had double the crime rate of other states for three decades. 


This policy has cost Texas so much money they finally have had to face the fact that this so called tough on crime just does not work and accomplished quite the opposite of making Texans safe and literally bankrupted Texas's economy. 


Since changing to a new direction with drug crimes channelling money from incarceration and mandatory sentencing to treatment, harm reduction and probation Texas has seen a double-digit decline in both prison incarceration rates and most importantly the crime rate, at one-tenth the cost. 


Unfortunately our Mr. Harper is guided more by ideology and keeping his ReligiCon base happy than any old dry facts, statistics, or others countries mistakes and experiences, so he will probably do as he always does, whatever he wants with his Conservative majority, common sense be dammed.


Wayne Clark

Municipal election

So far I have 3 candidates that I will definitely be voting for Corisa Bell, Carly O'Rork, and Christian Cowley I am particularly anxious to remove some of the old crowd that are steeped in particularly obvious conflicts of interest such as Al Hogarth.

My choice for mayor will have to be Ernie Daykin as I do not think it would be a smart move to elect a mayor that is for all intents and purposes a lobbyist for the exploitation of the Albian agricultural land reserve. Let the developers pay for their lobbyists.

I am still in the process of working on my slate of candidates.

Wayne Clark

Change is in the Wind

A fresh spring breeze is about to liven up the municipal political scene in our beautiful Maple Ridge.

We all know Corisa Bell, she is the brave affable young wife and mother of two children that stood up front and centre for us in the fight against an un-mandated, unjust, unpopular HST government tax grab and won, not only surprising a whole lot of people but making history in the British Commonwealth by doing so.

Regardless of your stance on the HST, you have to admire the political courage and freshness of someone willing to stand up for what they believe in. 

I first met Corisa Bell in the fight against the HST and was immediately impressed by Corisa’s winning personality, boundless energy, drive and high moral standards that even stops her from taking campaign contributions from businesses, all because she does not want to owe someone that could become a conflict to her high ethical code. 
Corisa is smart, attractive, articulate and not afraid to speak her mind, comfortable in a position of responsibility and wants more than anything to serve the people of Maple Ridge to the best of her ability, which we have already seen is quite considerable.

It is my opinion that Corisa would be a most valuable asset as a Maple Ridge councillor for the citizens of Maple Ridge.

In the coming weeks get out and meet Corisa or you can read her website CorisaBell.com and if you like what you see and hear, support her in the coming municipal elections.

I certainly know my X will be going next to Corisa Bell in the next municipal election and I expect great things out of Maple Ridges council because of that decision.

Wayne Clark
Maple Ridge

The definition of Insanity

Never mind the millions spent fighting Insight the Vancouver harm reduction site, forget the 6000 mile white elephant fence to be built between Canada and the U.S., forget all the money to be spent building and maintaining 16 billion in new prisons to house our many drug users, recreational and otherwise. 


I have just seen pictures that prove beyond a doubt the absolute futility of our present drug policy. 


A raided Mexican drug lords mansion contained over $22 billion, yes thats BILLION dollars in boxes of cash scattered about the home, and enough gold plated assault weapons to wage a large war, there are reported to be at least 27 other fortresses just like it in Mexico alone, these people can afford to buy armies bigger than the government, buy politicians, judges, police departments whatever they need. 
One Mexican cartel reportedly has an incredible 250,000 soldiers.


To put this into prospective Canada could buy it's 65 F35 stealth fighter jets and a brand new Nimitz class aircraft carrier and still have change left over, how can you fight this kind of money. 


You have the same situation all over the world from Afghanistan, Columbia to name a couple, there is just to much money in drugs to control it, prohibition never worked with alcohol and it has obviously not worked with other drugs. 


I know the hardheads, knuckle draggers and religious fanatics as well as the gangs and other criminals that reap the rewards of this destructive business will never change but the rational citizens of north America have to wake up and stop this failed insane social engineering experiment. 


People have always used drugs and most do so with little or no harm, there will always be those that have addiction problems, and you can become addicted to almost anything it does not have to be a drug, and there should be education and human harm reduction treatment for those who suffer from any addiction, it is after all a health problem not a legal problem. 


We have to move to a rational, workable system to not only take the obscene profits out of drugs and put control and profit of the drug markets back in government hands where it belongs and can be regulated. 


Albert Einsteins definition of Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Wayne Clark