Insolitus Vicis

I am laying John Ball's Ghost to rest (temporarily) and will be focusing my unfortunately limited energy on a new blog that will be a little more focused on local Canadian issues as well as more personal input. I may update JBG from time to time but for now most of my thoughts will be going to the new blog.

While You are Enjoying Watching the Olympics....

....Remember they are being hosted by a Chinese Communist government whose origins come from the ashes of the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese after the rise of Mao Zedong.....Tianamen Square Massacre......government control of the internet and free speech, government control of families vis a vis the one child only policy....the murder and sanctioned elimination of Tibetan nationalists, repression of Uighur Muslims in the far West of China, and the list goes on and on.
The Chinese government is an organ of the elite.

Despite what the mainstream media tells you, and how they continually dismiss and try to minimize the crimes of the Chinese government, this is a repressive, backwards, murderous group of thugs and control freaks whose crimes are applauded in the smoky backrooms of the New World Order and the Corporatist Elite.

For these reason I refuse to watch or acknowledge these Olympic Games, as I view China's hosting of the games as an abomination of justice and a slap in the face to the millions who have died under the thumb of Marxist Leninism and its various tentacles. Let me add that this is not an attack on the Chinese people, but rather an attack on their repressive, backwards, New World Order government, which has kept the Chinese people from flourishing as long as they can remember.

Chinese police beat Tibetan Protestors

Internet 2: Say NO to Internet Censorship

Say NO! to corporate and government control of the Internet. Say NO!, to the ever slowly tightening grip that government has on our freedom of speech.
If we all stand together and say ENOUGH. NO MORE.

It is time to take a stand now or lose our freedoms later.

Thinking for Yourself makes you an Enemy of Government

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable."~H. L Mencken

I Swear

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."~Thomas Jefferson

Sunday February 17th 2008...Reverse Midas Touch

Todays Videos
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee lets loose on the Bush Administration during the FISA debates.
markfiore.com........Snuggly the Security Bear
War Made Easy.....reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin....an hour long but well worth watching.


Todays News
Frighteningly, the incompetent US Government, who have proven themselves to be monumental fuckups with a reverse Midas touch, will shoot down the spy satellite that has become disabled.
Those who know stuff call them on their bullshit.
This is a military manouever.

Israeli Senator Lieberman on waterboarding: "It's not like we are burning people with hot coals"
The UN's top humanitarian affairs official said he was shocked by a "grim and miserable" situation he encountered during a visit to impoverished Gaza
Pakistan election eve violence kills 45 people.

Todays Articles

Iran the "warmonger"?........Iran’s defense expenditure per capita remains among the lowest in the Middle East region despite having the second highest population behind Egypt, according to the new publication of Military Balance.
Israels military expenditure, per capita, is 17 times higher than Iran. Israels percentage of GDP towards military expenditure is twice that of Irans. Which nation is the real threat to peace and stability in the Middle East?

The Internet poses a major security threat to Canadian soldiers fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a ranking Canadian military official says.
I believe the REAL reason for floating this idea is that too much information is going to get out once Canadian soldiers really start dying in Afghanistan, for no real reason other than American Empire. This is a pre-emptive strike against free speech by members of our military. It is utter nonsense that pictures home are "logistic threats". The Afghani rebels know where are the NATO operations are taking place.

"I received a rather bizarre and unpleasant note from a person at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. This person is apparently a member of the U.S. military, probably from Army Intelligence.
Fort Huachuca hosts the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM)/9th Army Signal Command and the United States Army Intelligence Center.
This means that a person using U.S. military computers is reading Rumor Mill News and responding to me at U.S. taxpayers' expense. The note that I received contains ignorant and strong anti-Islamic sentiments."
Journalist Christopher Bollyn recieves anti-Islamic hatemail from US Army Intelligence?


On January 7, 2008, Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and the founder/director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence at the University of Rochester, wrote two paragraphs on the Washington Post blog, On Faith, titled “Jewish Identity Can’t Depend on Violence.” Within three weeks, Gandhi was forced to resign as Director after a storm of criticism that he was anti-Semitic by pro-Israel groups such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee, and by pressure from the President of the University of Rochester, Joel Seligman. Why did these two paragraphs cause the resignation of Gandhi, a respected and renowned public figure who has worked for years to promote non-violence and inter-faith understanding, study racism and prejudice, and who grew up with the daily abuses of the apartheid regime in South Africa?
Oppose the censorship and intimidation of Arun Gandhi. Link to the petition.
I sent an email and everyone else should do likewise. The intimidation tactics are becoming outlandish.

Monday February 11th 2008......your papers please citizen.....

Today's videos
"On January 20, 2008, I was seized for a third time at a Southern Arizona internal suspicion less homeland security checkpoint." DHS checkpoint.....your papers please citizen.
WeAreChange confront Robert Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations chairman and former Treasury Secretary.
A New World Order......
Vietnam Veterans and families of MIA's want to know why John McInsane has been obstructing the search for their loved ones.


In Todays News
The post "surge" horror continues in Iraq.
CIA man can "take down" White House over torture.
Pelosi & AIPAC to Kucinich: drop impeachment bid & you can keep your seat in Congress



Todays Articles
Toronto Sun columnist Alan Shanoff believes speech should be regulated.

Adrian Hamilton of The Independent makes the case for NATO (that means Canada too) withdrawal from Afghanistan-"What the hell is a North Atlantic alliance doing in a north Asian country at all?"

The European Union plans biometric entry for all non-European citizens.

Police Militarization Roundup. SWAT run amok.

The mainstream media is nothing more than a tool of the corporations who own it. Amidst a virtual blackout of coverage of a horrific war, a global ecological crisis and an advancing economic collapse, what passes for the mass media is itself in collapse.

Tyranny

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy~James Madison, 4th US President and Founding Father.

Canadian Thought Police Strike Again

A man the Canadian Jewish Congress came to know as "Exterminance" on the Internet has been given a hefty sentence after being convicted of willful promotion of hatred against identifiable groups, a CJC spokesman said yesterday.

Keith Francis William Noble, 32, was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Prince George to six months in jail.

Mr. Justice Glen Parrett said that was the appropriate sentence for Mr. Noble's actions, but he gave the Fort St. John resident two months credit for 40 days spent in custody before and during the nine-day trial.

Three years of probation will follow.

Len Rudner, Ontario regional director for the Canadian Jewish Congress, said the congress first became familiar with Mr. Noble when the organization found some of his writings on the Internet, where he called himself Exterminance.

"I was aware of him in that fashion, but it was only after we were approached by the RCMP and asked to comment that I had the opportunity to study his work more closely," said Mr. Rudner, who testified at Mr. Noble's November trial.

Mr. Rudner said he doesn't know precisely what the word means because it is not in the dictionary. He said Mr. Noble made the point on the Internet that his name did not suggest a need to exterminate.

"I suppose Mr. Noble hates or dislikes anybody who does not fit his vision of what the perfect human being is, namely white with a heterosexual orientation."

What made Mr. Noble "special" for the CJC, said Mr. Rudner, is that he was not only attempting to promote hatred but also trying to recruit people.

"One of the pages that was associated with him there was an explicit call for skinheads to get in touch with him."

Judge Parrett ordered all computer equipment that police found in Mr. Noble's apartment forfeited to the Crown for destruction.

During the period of probation, Mr. Noble may not own a computer or access the Internet or go to any establishment where Internet service is the primary business.

Mr. Noble's website, court heard, had links with white-supremacist groups in Texas.

The Criminal Code section against willful promotion of hatred exempts views expressed in private conversation.

But Mr. Noble published his views through the Internet where millions can read them and interested people almost anywhere may copy and republish his comments.

Judge Parrett said it is impossible to conclude Mr. Noble meant his communications to be private.

On his website, Mr. Noble attacked Jews, blacks, homosexuals and parents who allow their children to marry members of other races. He also expressed sympathy with Ku Klux Klan views, court was told.

Let me first make one thing very clear. I am NOT defending Nobles viewpoints. I abhor racism and discrimination of any kind, it is contrary to my own personal views that every single human on this planet is born free and equal.
In this case, what the Canadian Jewish Congress is doing, is SEEKING OUT HATRED. They are scouring the internet looking for "hatred" and ways to muzzle the views of supposedly free Canadians. Again, as abhorrent as I and you may find his views, who has Noble "hurt" with his postings and his opinions? Who decides what is hateful? Are we on a slippery slope where ANY FORM OF CRITICISM of certain groups will land you in jail?
Are we headed towards a Big Brother society, where someday expressions against government or certain countries governments (Israel comes to mind) are considered "hate", and liable to see you land in jail? Where does it all end?
The end of the road, ladies and gentleman, is THOUGHTCRIME, right out of an Orwellian nightmare.

Secondly, the hypocrisy of the CJC is astounding. When it comes to criticism of Islam, or the enemies of Israel, the CJC is stone silent. Where was the CJC when Michael Coren was able to print this outrageous piece of hatred against Persians calling for an attack on Iran, in the Toronto Sun no less?
I suppose the CJC will now go after The Happy Heretic, here calling for the banning of the Koran as "hate speech", since such a view is hateful towards Muslims? I doubt it.

For anyone labouring under the illusion we are free in this country, remember, you are free to say what you want, provided your viewpoints are approved by Len Rudner. You are free to do as you are told, and you are free to end up in jail if your opinions are contrary to those of the approved government censors. But feel free to follow the lead of Michael Coren and Ezra Levant and others, and bash and express hateful viewpoints towards Islam, Arabs, Palestinians and Persians in major newspapers read by millions of people.

Friday February 1st News

Maverick Liberal MP Keith Martin has tabled a bill calling for the repeal of internet censorship as a target for the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Lets hope the Tories do the traditional conservative thing and support this bill. And kudos to Keith Martin for recognizing the importance of free expression.

A Toronto-area man has been posting messages on the Internet supporting attacks against Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil, drawing the attention of RCMP national security investigators.Police have advised the Bangladeshi-Canadian that he is under investigation for incitement and facilitating terrorism after he repeatedly called the killing of Canadian troops in Canada "legitimate" and "well deserved." The full story here.

In Kingston, Ontario, the police cars apparently have "Support Our Troops" stickers on them, and, horror of horrors, someone has been putting anti-war magnets over top of them. One such magnet had the message: "War is hate. War is greed" scratched into it.
Good for them. The best way to support out troops is to bring them home from Afghanistan and stop using them as cannon fodder to support the American Zionist Empire.

News shows often have an implicit bias that may motivate the portrayal of facts and opinions in misleading ways, even if the information presented is largely accurate. Nevertheless, by becoming familiar with how spokespeople can create false impressions, media consumers can learn to ignore certain claims and thereby avoid getting duped. We have detected two general types of fallacies—one of them well known and the other newly identified—that have permeated discussion of the Iraq War and that are generally ubiquitous in political debates and other discourse..........Getting Duped-How the Media Messes with your Mind.

A couple youtube videos......Montel Williams absolutely lambasts the liars at Fox News in this clip, which apparently has cost him his job. Notice the rest of the presenters actually try to defend their poor record of journalism. Montel Williams is a brave man and a true patriot for speaking truth to power.

Ron Paul with an uplifting speech at the University of Washington.
Ron Paul slams the Republican warmonger twins at the recent California debate here.

Security

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security-Benjamin Franklin

Why I am Quitting Digg.com

The self-proclaimed digital democracy Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.

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It appears this blog will be switching over to reddit.com. Any other suggestions are more than welcome.

Open Letter to Ezra Levant (Zionist) of the Western Standard

You must be quite proud of yourself for appearing on the blogosphere as some kind of crusader for free speech and free expression. Those of us following along know you are nothing more than another hardcore Zionist hate monger whose only goal is to demonize Islam in Western societies, thus furthering your collective goal of Clash of Civilizations. The same disgusting ilk as the fake, so called Christian Michael Coren, who is nothing more than a peddler of war and destruction. Your agendas are crystal clear.
Where was the Western Standard while the B'nai Brith was railroading Ernst Zundel into solitary confinement for thought crimes, as abhorrent as they may be? Where was the Western Standard when David Akehnew was being attacked by the Canadian Jewish Congress for expressing his opinion about Jews and WW2, as abhorrent as they may be?
Nowhere to be found. Complete and utter silence.
In other words, you are advocates for free speech provided that free speech targets your enemies.
I will defend your right to free speech, since there those of us who truly believe in free speech want real free speech for all Canadian citizens, not just free speech against approved Zionist targets like Islam and Ernst Zundel.
Until you come out in support for real free speech for all topics of discussion, including legitimate criticism of Zionism and Israel, your lame attempts to come across as a trailblazer are laughable at best.

Monday Morning Mish-Mash #2

Canadian Jewish Congress attempts to muzzle criticism of Israel here.

Meanwhile, hardcore Zionist, war drummer and publisher Ezra Levant is made out to be some kind of hero for free speech here.
Remember folks, if the vitriol is directed to Muslims, it just an excersize in free speech, but if its directed towards Israel or Zionism, then it is "hate". One question for Mr. Levant: Where were you while other Canadians were being dragged through kangaroo courts for their views? Either you support free speech or you don't.
I am by no means condemning Ezra Levant. He should be able to print and say anything he believes. However, as long as a double standard exists, where attacks against Muslims are trumpeted in the Zionist media as "free speech", while the Canadian Jewish Congress attempts to shut down penny newspapers for thought crimes against Israel, I will not condone him either. If Levant starts speaking out firmly in his publications for free speech for ALL VIEWPOINTS, including those in opposition to Israel and radical Zionism, then I will consider him a true crusader for free speech.
That being said, I believe all free speech is a right and not a privilege, and the Canadian Human Rights Commission is a joke.
That being said, however, it seems some free speech is more equal than others.

Gandhi's grandson blasts the Israeli government and radical zionism here.

Excellent Eric Margolis article regarding the US election. Eric Margolis has always tells it like it is, his analysis is bang on, truthful and more mainstream news media journalists could take some lessons from him. He puts most journalism hacks to shame.

More on the Sibel Edmonds cover-up, she is starting to name names, and of course, the story is being met with silence by the mainstream media.

The Japanese Senate hears a presentation regarding the 911 cover-up.

The Western Press: Pretending to be "Free"

I was reading the Toronto Star online this morning and came across this article in which the writer, now an assistant professor at University of King's and a former Star journalist, Kelly Toughill, tells us how the Russian government has clamped down on free journalism and "free speech", and how she struggled to explain to the oppressed Russian students how unfree they actually were. My jaw almost fell to the floor as I read to this hypocritical and patronizing reporter ask the Russian student at the end of the story if she wanted a "free press".
A biblical quote is the best response to this assumption by Professor Toughill: first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Professor Toughill would do better to look right here in her own country before she starts looking elsewhere for oppression dragons to slay.
I don't have enough knowledge about the situation in Russia within the media to judge whether or not the atmosphere there is particularily repressive, or whether or not this meme seems to be a smear campaign against the Putin government by the former Zionist oligarchs whom he removed from power, in a ruthless fasion. Is this power bloc of wealthy men, whom Putin has made enemies with, contributing to and encouraging this assumption through their various media outlets?
That being said, I do not believe that the model of news reporting and mainstream information dissemination here in Canada and the West comes anywhere close to "freedom of speech" or a "free press".
Where has the Western press been on such topics as the attacks on 911, which have studiously and purposefully ignored the thousands of anomalies, lies, and facts which frankly, on the face of things, do not add up. Stories have been suppressed and ignored in what can only be assumed to be silent editorial policy. Journalists and mainstream reporters who live in journalistic ivory towers and fear for their livelihoods in the event they should actually release suppressed information. How free is our Western press when reporters working in the mainstream media are too cowed or too afraid of losing their livelihoods, to actually confront some of these many topics?
Take for example World Trade Centre #7. Ask your friends and family how many towers collapsed on 911 and most of them will tell you that only two collapsed, when, as we know, there were three collapses that day. Why has the so called "free press" not done a thorough investigation of this story, and why is this fact not common knowledge? There are literally thousands of examples, post 911, of how the "free press", both here in Canada and particularily in the United States, has buried 911 under a shroud of misinformation. Evidence, good evidence, exists that not only is the Western media distorting these events, but is actually complicit in covering them up. I myself have written various reporters in the mainstream media in the last 7 years, addressing these issues, but have never once recieved a reply? They are simply too afraid to address these issues, and this fear has contributed to the cone of silence.
Lets talk for a moment about a situation here in Canada, in which men are sentenced to prison in Germany, deported from Canada for what can only be termed as thought crimes regarding the holocaust. In the case of Ernst Zundel, where was the mainstream "free press" when it came to defending his right to free expression, a right which is so often trumpeted when justifying hatred against the Muslim world? As abhorrent or disgusting one may feel his views are, not one mainstream, free, non suppressed Western journalist here in Canada addressed this issue or rose to his defense, for fear of the silent oppression of free expression and loss of reputation and livelihood. The fact of the matter is that we in Western society are labouring under the illusion that we are free, and that our press is free to report and let you decide what is right and what is wrong. Thoughtcrime flourishes in Canada.
In the United States congress there is currently a bill, HR 1955, designed to attack "homegrown terrorism" and radicalization, and, of course, the "free" Western media is completely silent.
For anyone in the Western press to point fingers at the Russian government for their oppression while we langish under this cone of silence right here in Canada is laughable at best. There is hope, however.
It is quickly becoming apparent, from the awakening on the blogosphere regarding voter fraud and Ron Paul, to grassroots efforts to expose the lies of 911 that this silence, this oppressive vacuum of information, that the efforts on the part of the mainstream media to ignore the obvious are becoming futile.
Thank God for the internet and the New Media, and all the people devoting their time to fighting this oppression and bringing us real, true freedom of speech.

Free Speech: Quotes

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Voltaire

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
H. L Mencken

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Free Speech

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