The Dithering Duke Paul Martin pleads for his political life on national radio and television in a time-buying effort …begging for a reprieve, one more chance and for credibility because he says they deserve it. HUH???
The words were barely out of his mouth and on the airwaves when opposition leaders of all stripes took snipers’ aim and began focusing their sights …sizing up the target and assessing the best moment to pull the trigger of what will be the ‘kill shot’ for a scandal ridden, tired, arrogant and self-serving Liberal Party of Canada.
Central to Duke Paul’s pleas was an appeal to wait for due process, wait to see what was proven and therefore wait for Judge Gomrey’s decision before passing judgment and taking action against him and his government. No doubt that resonated with a lot of people because Canadians, generally, like to be a fair and even-handed lot.
This particular serf thought “what a lovely double standard (among many others) for the PM to be espousing” when his own hind-quarters are at risk! I further thought about how any politician who loses his job over this in the next election will at least have a pay cheque for the rest of his or her life on the parliamentary pension plan. Nice buffer for malfeasance! The double standard that occurred to me most readily concerns the treatment of serf-level Canadians at the hands of the CCRA. You see, the CCRA can seize income, bank accounts and property based on nothing more than their own suspicions and/or estimates …no proof required, just a rubber-stamped internal document needed for them to take direct action. (Guilty til proven innocent?)
People’s lives have been ruined on account of it, and there is nothing even remotely resembling “due process” involved before, during and after. Even on those occasions where CCRA is proved wrong, the damage (often permanent) has already been done, and the victims have no instant, livable, life-long pension available to them to cushion the blow!
So as the Dithering Duke pleads for compassion, forbearance, patience and the time to allow for ‘due process’, he begs for that which the government does not give in return. (Unless, of course, you’re a pal of the PM with a half-million dollar tax problem!) That is certainly as much a double standard as it is when privileged politicians and bureaucrats avail themselves of private medical attention while forcing (even intimidating) the serf-class to stand in line (painfully) in a failing, mismanaged public health care system!
Using the CCRA model of operation …since that is the example government sets through its own daily actions year after year (a precedent) …is it not then entirely reasonable to boot them out of office now on the basis of what we have already seen and heard in ‘evidence’? Certainly we, the people (serfs), could be making an electoral decision based on far more credible fact than the CCRA usually works with …so the government still gets cut a break …damn it!
Where there is smoke there is fire, it is said. The smoke coming from the Gomrey Inquiry just so far probably qualifies for Kyoto credits and should be sufficient for anyone to understand that the corruption and criminality extended into the highest of offices. All Gomrey will be doing from here on in is filling in the details of who, how and when …NOT determining the ‘if”.
Looking at this whole mess leaves one to wonder if the Liberals have (over time) intentionally watered-down the justice system and encouraged ‘jail as a last resort’ just in case they and their cronies were ever caught …as they now have!
No doubt a lot more will come out of the AdScam inquiries …and its reasonable to assume it will get thicker, stinkier and more outrageous along the way. It would be pure fantasy to speculate that as the inquiry continues, concludes and sums up, that the Liberal party and the governments it has formed will be vindicated, exonerated or excused.
Therefore, why wait? Lets get an election over with and put in place a government with a clean track record (outside of the “national disaster” bleating of Liberal fear-mongering) sooner rather than later. Doing so should also provide a bonus that no one involved with this scandal, right from Lord Chretien down, will be exempt from criminal prosecution just because they still have allies who can pull the right strings …particularly with seven former lawyers who will no doubt be the poster boys for the next level of scandal to be exposed from the sordid “Chretien years”.
Till next time!
The Serf!
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