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Title: Stephen Harper: A Psychopath in Power?
Topic: Canadian Politics
Written By: Robin Mathews
Date: Tuesday, January 13 at 09:53
Cynical Canadians say Stephen Harper is "just another politician".  They may be seriously wrong.  He may be a psychopath, dangerous to Canada and the world.

Begin at the beginning. From research and observation I conclude that Stephen Harper is a psychopath – a dangerous psychopath, dangerous to Canada and to the world.  Some readers will agree; some will dispute the allegation. But the condition of Canada and the condition of the world is so dire as I write that to refuse discussion of the factors that lead me to the conclusion would probably be a major irresponsibility.
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"Begin at the beginning. From research and observation I conclude that Stephen Harper is a psychopath � a dangerous psychopath, dangerous to Canada and to the world."

First he plays journalist, then lawyer. And now the gasbag is dabbling in psychiatric diagnosis.

"Enright never interviews a solid, intelligent Canadian on the Left."

Still waiting for your invite, oh gas-filled one. It must suck to be too left-wing for even CBC Radio to talk to.

"Since Pierre Trudeau, Canadian prime ministers have been inadequate often, tending towards alliance with the new slave owners, but they have had a residual sense of public service."

By "residual sense of public service", I'm sure the inflated one means that they clung to irresponsible Keynesian pork-barreling, punitive taxation and paternalistic regulation as a means for government to control the economy.

Awww, Robin misses Trudeau. At least someone in Western Canada does.

"Without any reason that can be defended, Harper cut an international arts program to the dismay of a very wide population."

Very wide population? Yeah, I'm sure there were hundreds of thousands of people upset that Avi Lewis couldn't go on his junkets anymore.

"The vengeful, unscrupulous psychopath doesn�t change."

Neither do shrill old buffoons from the loony-left.

   

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You don't need Capitalism to get a psychopathic leader. Ever hear of Joseph Stalin?

   

Robin: Your thesis is powerfully supported by this recent report from the House of Commons, Ottawa. - Mary.


HARPER GALLERY LEAVES MEMBERS SPEECHLESS
Tucked in a cosy lobby of the House of Commons is an homage to the Tory leader, writes Tim Naumetz.

Tim Naumetz
The Ottawa Citizen - January 29, 2008



Citizens who really want a national portrait gallery in Ottawa can rest easy. The government already has one.

All you need to get in is a Commons security pass, a Conservative party membership and a keen desire to view exclusive pictures of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, exclusively.

Conservative MPs confirmed yesterday what Green party leader Elizabeth May and Macleans.ca blogger Kady O'Malley reported on their cyberspace sites.

Photographs of Mr. Harper in various poses, at various sites, are hung throughout the private and cosy government lobby of the House of Commons.

Ms. May and Ms. O'Malley were surprised and a bit speechless when they saw the exhibit recently as guest Commons Speakers during a youth Parliament.

"When you walk in the door, all you see are pictures of Stephen Harper," said Ms. May

"I'd say between every window, in every available space of the wall, at eye level, every available space has a photo of Stephen Harper."

"You've got photos of Stephen Harper, but not of previous prime ministers," she added. "Photos of Stephen Harper in different costumes, in different settings, dressed as a fireman, in Hudson Bay looking for polar bears, meeting the Dalai Lama, even the portrait of the Queen had to have Stephen Harper, but in a candid, behind her."

A press aide to Mr. Harper said he would get back with an explanation, but didn't.

The exposition might not be too surprising, though.

The prime minister's official Christmas card last December portrayed Mr. Harper looking out a living room window adorned with 24 photographs, small to large, of Mr. Harper in various poses.

When the party last year unveiled its election campaign war room, Mr. Harper stared out from campaign posters on every wall.

NDP MP Paul Dewar, who has never seen the interior of the Conservative lobby room, made a joke based on Mr. Harper's admitted preference for running a tight ship and keeping an eye on things. "If you're ever wondering who's in charge, just look at the wall," said Mr. Dewar.

Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger said the Liberal lobby has always displayed portraits of previous prime ministers, even cabinet ministers.

One Conservative said the Harper photos have been up for at least three months.

Another, Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai, was a bit reluctant after question period to talk about the exhibit, possibly because another Tory, Secretary of State Jason Kenney, happened to be walking by just at that moment.

"Well, this is the Harper government," said Mr. Obhrai.

   

I've written Harper off as a psychopath the first time I saw his photo in his Reform Party days.

Look at the man's eyes. I've seen those expressionless, predator eyes many times under Totenkopf and Red Star caps.

I don't wish anything bad for him, only to go back to his lobbyist job with the National Citizens Coalition.

But of course, our resident collectivizer propagandist just loves him, as he must have loved Mulroney.

If Harper ever get any majority, Canada will disappear in two years.

Ed Deak, Big Lake.

   

I think Trudeau was a psychopath too. Evoking martial law over one abduction? What was up with that???

   

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... d84cf8f174
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada ... id=1159861

   

The first article linked above is just further proof of how devious and seriously corrupt Harper and his minions are and makes me wonder how much the ones attacking Robin Mathews are being paid by Harper and his gang of psychopaths.

The second article above only further supports the clear, undeniable and abundant evidence supporting what Robin Mathews has reported...Canadians are facing a recession and seriously hard and uncertain times, including that it's just been reported that more than 70,000 Canadians are out of work as a result,with many more expected to lose their jobs, and Harper and his gang are spending 274 million dollars on new vehicles for the military and awarded this major contract to an American company, and when it was reported on the radio this morning that there is in fact a Canadian company qualified to handle this contract but didn't get it because Harper's government choose a US company over this Canadian company.
Yeah, Harper is looking out for the best interests of Canadians...if you count that he and some of those he's in bed with, clearly not all, are Canadians, but clearly that's where it ends.

   

He is a psychopath, in my view and no less dangerous, in bed with the Amerikans. (Though his preferred "same sex" lover is about to be ousted from the marital White House political bed.Apparently, he actually preferred, John McCain.)

And if we need any further evidence of that over his term in office to date, he is reported to date as saying in the Globe and Mail this morning, in words to the effect that we need not be concerned about the just released US policy position paper which challenges and lays claim to this country's sovereignty over the northern Northwest passage.

In a pigs goddamn eye we don't have to be concerned about US claims to the right of use of any of our historical territory! The global historical record is, from the time of their Indian Wars, or even the later Spanish_American, down to the present, that when the US claims a "right of privlege", and or any other self-serving right and challenge of anyone's territory and resources, it should be taken bloody seriously. (And there is no doubt that Amerikans see themselves as having a special place and rights in the world.) And I do mean "bloody" seriously. Cuba still has not recovered Guantanamo since it was taken as a spoil of war in the Spanish-Amerikan War, and a great many other countries in Latin America still live under the lash of the Yanqui claim of being part of their "security backyard", to say nothing of the poor Palestinians through the US Empire proxy of Zionist Israel, and increasingly obvious, ourselves. (Deny we them seriously, access to this sovereign Northwest Passage water of ours, or say, their demand for "equal access" under NAFTA to our oil, other fresh waters and resources, we should know by now, save only for the bootlick ignorance of our US Empire Loyalists in this country, the struggle we had better be prepared for. Like we'd better, for starters, have our military forces serving the US Empire cause in Afghanistan, brought back here where we will really need them in defence of our sovereignty.)

Only a psychopath with a delusional love for our greatest enemy would fantasize otherwise-, unless he has S&M obsessions too, and loves to be whipped and beaten, and dumped penniless in a back alley.

Long past time for this country as well, as a whole, to end its "colonial mindset" delusions about Amerika, and begin to assert ourselves and our sovereignty, as called for by Premier Floyd Roland of the NWT, rather than as Harper would have us do, simply spread our butt cheeks to them. That, while we mobilize like hell, to be better positioned to actually defend our own greater national interest, if need be, here, rather than always serving the US interest, there on the other side of the world. (Though hopefully, going forward in relatively short order, under the weight of economic collapse and eventual defeat everywhere in the Middle East, and even the possibility of revolt at home, the US and its citizens will be brought around to their senses.)

And don't give me the bleating, chickenshit, bleeding heart excuses of our US Empire Loyalists, that it can't be done, we are too puny. If Cuba can do it, and little Venezuala, and a growing number of small states in Latin America and elsewhere, then we can sure as hell take at least as good a run at it. Though it will take some smarts and cajones, over that of these same eunuchized US Empire Loyalists of ours, as appear here from time to time, trying to pass themselves off as "individualists, for example. (What a joke that brand of "individualism" is. Too metro-sexual ambiguous for me.)

The evidence is, that Harper is a psychopath, as Robin claims, and, I would say a "traitor", but for it might be censored out as bad form by VIVE editorialists, so I won't... but at least a US Empire Loyalist.

   

Wow coyoteman...I think I have the smarts but I'll need to work on the cajones...but I'm with you 100%

   

There is no doubt you have the smarts, Scout.

As for cajones, there is also no doubt that vaginal smarts is at least its equal. And I will be sure to mention it as well from this time forward. (A woman friend of mine once told me that "maracas" in this context reference, was probably a better descriptive metaphor than "vagina". Maracas being a seed pod, I believe, a better parallel for the ovaries(?), more accurately the female equivalent of the "cajones", not? We males are really such naive innocents in such matters. )

Coyote

   

Amerikans? Are you stuck in the 60's?



Harper has been very diligent and upfront about defending Canada's northern sovereignty. I know someone as hopelessly biased you can't be truly balanced, but you should at least try to be fair.



Oh? Have you asked any "Amerikans" yourself if that's the case, or are you generalizing based on stuff you've read or the comments of certain individuals? You and Mathews seem very much alike, although he'd probably consider you an colonized American wannabe because your left-wing politics veers more to the libertarian side that he likes.



Why do Russia and China get to have security backyards, but not the US? Or did I miss your posts attacking Russia's invasion of Georgia?



Greatest enemy? Man, you really are starting to sound like Mathews...or David Orchard. Canada's greatest enemy is Quebec separatism. Canada's greatest *foreign* enemy is France, so supporting Quebec separatism for so many years. Our other great foreign enemy is the same one that all other Western liberal democracies have at the moment - militant Islamic fundamentalism.



Chavez is a joke. He thinks he's the next Castro, but he's more likely to be the next Mugabe. Except he'll be Mugabe with oil, so it will take much longer for him to run Venezuela into the ground than it did for Mugabe to do so to Zimbabwe.

If believing in free enterprise, free trade, individual rights, consumer choice, the work ethic and the merit principle and admiring US culture makes me a "US Empire Loyalist", then so be it. Better that than some left-wing statist nationalist dinosaur stuck in the Trudeau era.

   

I don't know, he really doesn't advance any serious arguments over mere right wing ideological assertion here. Little of which makes much sense anyway.

I don't see any serious need to really respond much to this guy. He is hanging, swinging in the breeze off his own petard. Which is where I will leave him.

Coyote

   

So Dr. Caleb, was the Pavlog thing just meant as a swipe at me, or also at those (Deak and Peyoteman, the only missing one this time was RickW) who respond to my posts just as reflexively as I do to those of Mathews?

I find Mathews a particularly objectionable figure on here because I believe (based on what he's written) that his hatred of the US, its culture and its citizens is so over-the-top and extreme that if he were talking about *any other* country or identifiable group, he'd be labeled a bigot by many of the same people on Vive who now nod their heads and heap admiration on this nasty, bitter man. I also find his disdain for any form of private enterprise or libertarian philosophy (left or right) and his unapologetic advocacy of state power to be also extreme and just plain unreasonable.

Most Canadians do not want either the state or the workers seizing the "means of production". Most Canadians cherish the right to own property and the opportunity to work towards their own material prosperity. Most Canadians want hard work, ability and well thought out risk-taking to be rewarded. Most Canadians want to be able to choose between at least two brands of a particular product when they go to the store. Most Canadians want to be free to speak their mind without the political correctness police cracking down on them. Most Canadians regard the US as a friend and ally, even if the relationship is occasionally problematic.

In short, most of us don't want what Robin Mathews is selling. That doesn't make us "compradors", "sell-outs", "traitors", "US Empire Loyalists" or whatever other slurs the nationalist left can make up for us.

   

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