Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Legislature Raids

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

BC Rail … a footnote

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From today’s Speech from the Throne which opens a fake session of the BC Legislature, the people’s railway is mentioned:

New accountability and transparency will be brought to BC Ferries as it continues improving services with new ferries, terminals and amenities.

BC Rail will be brought into government and wound down as a Crown corporation.

Question: does this mean that all the BC lands owned by BC Rail are now … ah, er … sold off? given away?

These questions won’t be answered. Nor will the exquisite irony of this occasion be examined as it should be … unless the International Press is watching.

You couldn’t make up “news” like this. The Reform guy who doesn’t like the way democracy is working in Ottawa has shut down the House of Commons. The Reform guy in Victoria doesn’t much care for democratic accountability either, so he shut down the BC Legislature.

But today the red carpet is out on the front steps of the BC Legislature because [no, I am NOT making this up] the Ottawa guy wants a legislative forum someplace in Canada where he can speak his mind. Or some such thing.

Just why did Stephen Harper want Gordon Campbell to pry open the BC Legislature, anyway?

The Legislature Raids.

February 9th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

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