Visons of the dark side

Re: Grits must serve Meatier gruel Province May 5/2011

The crushing defeat of the Federal Liberals had absolutely nothing to do with meatier gruel or how good or bad a person or Prime Minister Michael Ignatieff would be.
It did however have everything to do with the 3 to 4 year multi-million dollar "end justifies the means" Harper plan to , demonize, persecute, vilify, impugn, cast aspersions on a Canadian that Canadians have every right to be proud of. 

Unfortunately Mr. Harper has seen fit to bring the same dirty, despicable tactics of the extreme right of the American Neo-Republicans to Canada, the worst form of negative politics that the right uses on Barack Obama every day. 

Unfortunately this negative propaganda works on many people as we have seen, they not only managed to totally destroy Mr. Ignatieff personally but also managed to wipe out the whole centre of the political spectrum. 

As the article even admits the Liberal campaign was pretty flawless, but the election wasn’t about policy or reality or even Mr. Ignatieff, it was about tax breaks for corporations and the rich and the relentless obsession of ultimate power for Herr Harper to change Canada into Texas north,  the incessant right wing propaganda worked better than even they suspected. 

Canadians should be very afraid about what they have just witnessed. 

I believe even Jesus Christ could not withstand the years of constant hatred and lies, propaganda cast against Mr. Ignatieff and the Liberals.

Wayne Clark

A moment in time in the natural world

It is most important to read and understand the truth and dangers about what is going on with our endangered wild salmon fishery, and the obvious dangers of fish farming to the wild salmon population. 


In my opinion this is just one more example of crucial mismanagement that tells me the BC liberals defiantly haven't earned the right to form the next government.


It is a cold clear day at the end of Oct.. 2003 and I have taken my dog to her favorite place the dyke on the South Alouette river, really it is one of my favorite places too. The scenery is breath taking, the wind is blowing hard enough to give a sailor a coronary, I walk down to the river which has risen 3 or 4 feet in the last couple of weeks and see 3 dead salmon caught by a log or just floating on the bottom. As I stand there a salmon slowly swam up to the shore, his skin was all blotchy and his fins broken and ragged, he was obviously dying. I was enveloped by a deep sense of sadness watching the death of this noble battered creature, as I watched it swim in slow circles always coming back to the shore, I realized that probably for the first time in his life he had no where to go. As I watched him the sadness was replaced by wonder and respect as I realized the shear heroics and success of this animal's life, it made our lives pale in comparison. In a gauntlet of danger he was the one survivor of a thousand fingerlings that made it to the sea, he traveled countless miles with untold adventures and dangers with only his instinct and a heart as big as a lion to sustain him. When it came time to do his part to perpetuate the species he came back to where he was born with bravery and extreme tenacity, he not only fulfilled his destiny, but made the ultimate sacrifice of his life and flesh to the thousands of creatures, trees and plants that depend on his selfless sacrifice to life. 


I was immediately shamed and humbled at the mostly ignorant, selfish, destructive legacy of my own species to this planet. A species that only takes, possesses and uses, putting nothing back, a species that considers the destruction of Gods work progress and success, but considers the destruction of anything manmade a crime, unless of course you don't happen to like the person or people that built it or own it. 


Can you imagine if mankind with all our brains and promise could achieve even a small percentage of the positive symbiotic relationship with the earth and all its inhabitants that salmon achieve, just doing what comes naturally, it would without a doubt be a much better, healthier biosphere. 
In reality few if any humans contribute as generously or selflessly to the well being of the world and all its inhabitants as any salmon, let alone fulfill their own destiny or achieve their full potential as hundreds of millions of salmon do every year. 


I find it very spiritual to connect with nature. But it pains me to see the true cost of our excesses and narrow selfish, human views on the very world all species including our own needs to survive.               


Its like watching millions of lemmings rushing for a cliff, only knowing full well they are running toward their inevitable destruction, but not having the will or courage to stop their self-destructive behaviour. 


Could it be that mankind does not think it deserves to survive? 


Wayne Clark

50 percent plus one

I recently had a conversation with my American cousin from California trying to explain how a government with 40 percent of the votes could not only govern but have a huge majority, in the end he just couldn’t get his mind around that fact. When it comes down to it neither can I. 

It seems to me if the party’s that enjoy the 60 percent of the vote can put aside their differences and agree to govern for the good of Canada it would save Canadians from a sad trip down memory lane back to the good old days, illegal abortions, gays not being able to marry, capital punishment, a major new destructive costly war on drugs where the impetus is to put all pot smokers in our brand new jails, back to the days when things were done based strictly on ideology, and religious rhetoric, not science and common sense (INSITE, Birth control, Condoms, abortion, global warming just to name a few). 

With Steven Harper and his band of fundamentalist Neanderthals it is not a stretch to see women losing the right to vote, after all it wasn’t that long ago that they did get that right, a Conservative MP actually made that statement, apparently women are to left thinking.

Sadly Canada is no longer a democracy but an Oligarchy, and Steven Harper is just the tip of the insanity he represents.

Mr. Harper is not a man anyone can count on to tell the truth or even be consistent but one thing I believe he said and meant is his statement that             “ you will not recognize Canada after I have finished with it”. 

For the good of Canada and Canadian’s and their traditional Canadian values the NDP, Liberals, Bloc, and the green party have to do what is best for Canada and demand that the Governor General make the only rational decision, that they be allowed to form a coalition government with their 60 percent majority. 

The first thing this government would have to do would be to instal a more democratic proportional Federal voting system, and last but not least reinstate the traditional policy of separation of church and state.

Wayne Clark

The Chosen Few

Re: Tax shift designed to benefit society as a whole. The News May 25/2011

Mr. Smith your letter is a perfect example of the bourgeois apologists that are constantly trying to justify the exploitation of our resources and the unwashed masses of the proletariat of the world.
It seems your version of society as a whole only benefits the rich and giant corporations, basically the top 5 percent, and the rest of us naturally have to be the losers. 

You and all your trickle down economics fans will not be happy until this country is just another third world country with corporations free to plunder Canada’s rich natural resources while contributing nothing to the welfare of the Canadian people or the betterment of Canadian society.
You are quite comfortable with the fact that the rich in Canada just keep getting richer and the poor and what is left of the middle class pay all the bills and get poorer for the effort. 

You are obviously one of the winners or more likely believe yourself to be, but Canada is not here for your personal pleasure, this is definitely not about you and the chosen few, it is about the welfare of the majority of the middle class families and people of BC and that includes seniors and the sick. 

I am glad my letters are hitting a raw nerve I have been called a rabid NDP partizan, a lier, devout NDP, my writing has been described as, very political ( a bad thing I guess ), tirades, rants just to name a few.

Thank you Mr. Smith for doing what you devout NeoConservatives do best,                                 KILL THE MESSENGER.

Wayne Clark

State of the Confederation

RE: Grateful for Tories
Jim Bulpit I really don’t care what you call me as long as it is not a Conservative. To right wing fanatics anyone left of Attila the Hun is either a socialist and or an NDPer.

Canadians have just witnessed the most disgusting example of classic American style Ultra-rightwing negative campaigning in Canadian history. The silence from you, Mr. Kamp and all Conservatives about this insult to Canadian democracy was deafening. 

The years of slimy, contempt, malicious lies, disinformation, slander, character assassination, demonization and multi-millions of dollars of negative advertising took it’s toll and 40 percent of voters bought it, bringing Canadian politics down to the sad state of the politics in America that we watch every day. You managed to destroy the reputation and character of of a good and decent Canadian and the whole centre-right of the Canadian political spectrum in the process.

That you could be proud of this travesty says much about you, any fair-minded decent Canadian even a Conservative that witnessed what just passed for a Canadian Federal election should not be feeling grateful but disgust, or at the very least a little bit of shame.  

What you call a tirade Mr. Bulpit many would call the ungarnished inconvenient truth, but as the Donald just proved once again the fringe right can sure dish it out, but they certainly can’t take it.

Trickle down economics was disproved decades ago, but is still being practiced by your economist Mr. Harper

Prerequisite of being a Conservative is the ability to believe the unbelievable and to deny the undeniable.

Wayne Clark

Propaganda branch of the Harper government of Canada

Re: Late release of oil spill news questionable.

The Canadian people have just witnessed the most expensive propaganda, spin, big lie, propaganda campaign in Canadian history, Canada’s media monopoly or what I now call the  Harper government of Canada's Ministry of Propaganda. This has been going on for years the constant malicious demonizing of the whole Liberal political party and in particular it’s leader Mr. Ignatieff. 


Make no mistake this would have happened no matter who the leader of the Liberal's happened to be.

Years of constant spin, disinformation, lies, character assassination both petty and monstrous, day after day, night after night and we witnessed the results of this unrelenting propaganda smear campaign on May 2/2011 when not only was Mr. Ignatieff destroyed but the wholes centre of the political spectrum. 

This is something that every patriotic, honest, democracy loving Canadian should be ashamed of. 

In our connected world if someone farts in Russia everyone in the world knows about it within hours, but remarkably Canadians did not hear about an oil spill in the tar sands that could have changed the outcome of the election for 5 days, there are so many lies and disinformation, pictures of Mr. Ignatieff with a flak jacket in Iraq when he was never in Iraq, just one of thousands of lies and disinformation, suppression of important real news we have been subjected to over the last few years, all to serve one purpose to protect the billions of dollars in tax windfalls that the Conservatives have given to Corporations like big media.

Every person I talk to is very upset with the way that the right has unfairly and maliciously demonized the President of America Barack Obama, but they fail to recognize that the same thing has been happening in Canada. People tell me that they just don’t like Mr. Ignatieff, but when I ask them why they don’t seem to know why, well I can tell them why they feel that way they have been literally brainwashed. 
Is there anyone out there that actually likes Steven Harper?

Wayne Clark

NATIONAL SHAME

I would like to apologize to a good and decent very smart Canadian citizen Michael Ignatieff, a man that Canadians have every reason to be very proud off, but instead we stood by allowing him to be literally destroyed politically, as well as personally. 


The whole sordid spectacle mirrored the disgusting disrespectful treatment of Barack Obama the first Black U.S. President only instead of not being born in America Mr. Ignatieff had the audacity to teach at probably the most prestigious learning facility in the world. 


It mirrors the small minded Conservative notion that if a Canadian accept’s a job outside Canada and has a child while living and working outside of Canada that child will not be a Canadian citizen. 


The constant lies, half-truths, character assassination, by the NeoCons was classic ultra-right modus-operandi everything from words taken out of context over a lifetime of teaching to pictures of Michael in battle fatigues in Iraq ( all lies). 


Mr. Ignatieff no one including Jesus Christ could survive the amount of money and unbridled hate that was unleashed on you, and many Canadians not only stood by and watched it unfold but many even joined in on an unfair un-canadian exercise that one day many will be ashamed off, as well as regret. 


Sadly these negative NeoCon tactics worked so well on the Canadian voters that the whole of the political centre was destroyed along with Mr. Ignatieff and Canadians are left with the centre left opposition and an ultra right majority dictatorship.


I find it strange that we have truth in advertising laws, but when it comes to politics and campaigning the truth is the exception not the rule and there are literally no consequences for the ringleader other than victory and total power. 


It’s funny I always thought Canadians were to smart or maybe to decent to fall for the same sleazy tactics we see play themselves out in America every day, but obviously I was mistaken. 


Wayne Clark