I had a dentist appolntment this morning. I have a myriad of details to address. Everyday I'm worried I'm missing something. Calls comer in from everywhere. Everyone is complaining it takes so long to see me. Pharmacies want everything yesterday. Beurocrats and lawyers put 'URGENT" across the top of their communications. I'm seeing patients who don't come back the next week because they're dead. I feel I have 15 minutes to make a difference. All that training in motivation therapy, all the inspirational work, all the 12 step facilitation therapy learning, DBT and CBT and I don't know if I'm getting through.
I remember being in Jerusalem when the Palestinians were attacking the Israelites. They'd blown up something and burned down something and there was gunshots happening in that other part of the city, over there. Where I was it was business as usual. It's estimated 3000 will be dead locally by the end of this year. That's an epidemic. A thousand dead already. But there's this sense it's 'over there'. I looked out my hotel room and saw the smoke a few dozen blocks away. I'm sitting here now in Suburbia planning on leaving for another shift in the DTES this afternoon.
A hospital administrator said we don't need more doctors and nurses. Canada has 20 times th administration of the German health care system. Doctor ratios are much the same the world over. Where there's more than 1 to 500 to a 1000 costs go up where there's less deaths go up. Administration is excessive and bloated in peace time. Everyone and their family at the public trough. No one able to find their ass with both hands. Pot heads like arrogant communist Justin Trudeau giving money to enemies and foreign nations corruption is greater than Quebec Canada as hard as that is to conceive. It's wearying . The media no longer sells news. It's always propaganda with a spin. I remember when there were facts but not there's just money talk. It's all above my pay grade. But I don't think they see the addiction. They're looking at cashing in on the victims like the tobacco companies that still make great deals. They're now getting into marijuana big time.
I don't like the news. I reacted to the lies of Justin Trudeau. His personal attack on freedom of speech and favouritism of religion by promoting the harrowing lie of Islamophobia. It's like calling my patients "Rapaphobics'. I see to many Shiites and Sunnis who aren't Wahhabi. Trudeau likes the Saudis. I like Tarik Fatah. There's a fatwa on his head but not on Trudeau's. Terrorists love Trudeau.
I'm half Irish but I didn't like the IRA bombing. I know that government's won't deal with moderates without the threat of the extremists. Were it not for the Black Panther Martin Luther King would have not been someone government would deal with. It's about positioning.
I'm tired. I don't sleep before dental appointments or breaks from routine. I stayed up late reading. I've been enjoying reading these days. I have been an avid reading all my life. Mostly it's heavy. Texts and science. I just reviewed a dozen journals. I'm skim reading for the new. So much is old for me now. I like the immunological treatments of cancer. There are paradigmatic shifts. Even in my field the understanding of relationships. So much of the intellectualism of the sterile Marxist ideology is passé. We're listening more to Victor Frankl than Freud in some ways. The magic bullets remain.
I have difficulty living at times. I'm worn down by the constant criticism, the constant failure, the never good enough, the messages daily of decreased income, more taxes, less resources. Someone gets rewarded. It's not doctors. The administrators are high on the hog or perhaps we should say say sheep because even bacon one of the great joys of life is under attack. Everything is bad for you and only the government is to be trusted but there's this pot head at the top who refuses urine testing and I just don't know when he's with us. Who is doing the talking
Multiple Personality Disorders were studied and addiction was seen as an abbreviated condition, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The two administrators on the same computer. Who on. It's like the Twin Spirited in the Bisexual world or the Transexuals who are au femme and au drab. There's the stoned and unstoned. The trouble with drugs is they are psychoactive for long periods in some cases in the human body. Pot acts on an individuals brain for weeks. Not like alcohol whose effect was days at most. Of course there were the daily drinkers and we knew them as 'functional alcoholics' but most of the pot smokers , the ones who smoke once a week or once a month are addicted too and best described as 'functional addicts'. But the question Tom Waits raised was who was writing the songs. He wrote the amazing song "The Piano has been drinking' and said he quit drinking because he thought the booze might be writing the songs. That's the question I ask of this government. Which drug is running Ottawa.
But it's a distraction. There's sunshine here. The dog is rolling in dirt beside me. I've just read this exciting book about sex in men's and women's prisons and the effect of transexuals on the group dynamics there. It sounds a bit like Gr 8 and 9 with all the hormones but certainly a difficult job with few guards and more division. I'm also reading about Oxford, remembering times in the city, punting and checking out the libraries, staying in Magdallen College. I hope to return. There's a conference of doctors I'd like to attend. Then there's Aberdeen where my grandfather lived and I've not been there so I've got a book on that area of Scotland.
I lunched with John Wylie the great author and finished one of his historical fictions books recently. I had lunch that same day with Diana Garabalden and bought her book on audio tape listening to it while I drove my truck about the back woods on Vancouver Island looking for suicidal deer. I just finished Cry Wolf by Wilbur Smith , the story of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. I have been following the persecution of the Coptic Church, in Egypt and Sudan and reading about the cliff churches in Ethiopia. For years I've wanted to go there. My friend is a missionary in South Sudan. I enjoyed reading of Churchill's days with sword on horseback in his autobiographical book, River War.
With travel the world has grown smaller but this summer I've been most enamoured with the back yard. Gilbert and I have so enjoyed it here. But time to head to work.
My mind is a muddling mess. I'm glad for work and focus. Since Zuckerman took over Facebook to pollute it with his brand of advertising and his left wing elite propaganda I'm subjected to this political nonsense daily and find myself forwarding the Alt. News because everyone seems to be selling the kool aid and drinking it. After glancing through Facebook, not my friends shares, but the stuff Zuckerberg algorithms generate I'm definitely begging Scotty, "for the love of god beam me up!"
But I'm thankful for coffee and yoghurt and work and dentists and especially Gilbert my little joyful one eyed partner. Thank you Lord.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Laura's Internet Cafe
I’ve spent a $100 extra some months on cell connections and communications. I have hi speed internet in my office, have paid for wifi hubs, tengointernet for trailer park camping, airport internet and cellphone sticks and cell connections just to be in the ‘net’ and on the ‘grid’ . I ‘need’ to have instant convenient communication. I am on 24/7 call 6 days a week and actually occasionally this year for the first time get paid for this connectivity, not all of it by any means. It’s thousands a year and the office ‘write off’ portion is only a little.
Everywhere I go these days my phone picks up Shaw. Laura has Shaw cable. The plan was to get Shaw Internet here so we can both use Shaw on the Go around the city. The big screen TV was a gift from me to her for our mutual entertainment. She got the Shaw. I think I paid for the hook up as I’ve now done for the Wifi. We’re both using it. It’s operating now. When I called out I was ‘in’ , Laura called back. “I’m a wifi cafe now!” $50 a month compared to the Tengointernet $40 a week coupled with the other service which worked just great for $10 a month with a $100 hub till computer upgrades made the hub obsolete and the company stopped providing that ‘connectivity’. With shaw I expect to get rid of everything but the Telus office. No more cell phone charges for going over the ‘plan’.
“I like when you write here.” Laura said. She’s so sexy. I imagine smart sensitive women the world over saying things like that to their gullible egoistic men, “I like when you game on the internet at my place”. “I like when you read Facebook at my place’. They reel the men in. The fact is Laura, like a lot of men loving women, just like to see the guys happy. She’s making me another coffee right now in Laura’s Internet Cafe. She’s been giving Gilbert treats all morning. She likes me because I bring my dog over. The guys come to visit.
George is the big blond male cat I got Laura one day at the Pet store. He was on display from the SPCA, like a slave in the window. Mean bastard. Looked so cute in the window. Got him home and he shat on the bed and scratched everyone and tried to bite me. He was almost feral a week later, isolating and hiding from us till I forced ‘socialization’ on him pulling him out from his hiding place and barring the under the bed from further escape. The hermit took to the cupboard above the fridge. Hi rise view. Basement dwelling causes surliness. His paranoia slowly lifted as he watched from on high and saw that we weren’t eating cats and beating them and doing awful things to him. Laura’s love its irrisistible. Everyday she cooed and talked and brought him treats. When I came he looked at me like I was some sort of evil monster. He didn’t know what to make of Gilbert.
Days and weeks and months went by. I gave him tweets every visit. Gilbert dropped his ball in front of him when George ventured down to the ground. It wasn’t long before Laura noticed that George was roaming about the place when she wasn’t there. Then there was the time he slept on her bed.
He’s a suck now. He waits outside the washroom when she has a bath. He pokes at the ball when Gilbert rolls it to him. He runs under my feet to get to the perch by the window. We’ll never know what happened to him before he came to Laura’s but other than a little social distancing you’d never know. He just loves Laura and accepts us.
Laura’s Internet Cafe has it’s regulars. Laura’s family visits and she’s glad they’ll have the internet to keep in touch with other family.
We’ve become dependent on this connectivity.
I’ve got the family and friends I know in real life. I’ve got some casual acquaintances that I’ve come to know a whole lot better thanks to the internet. Facebook has even introduced me to some strangers who I’ve come to truly enjoy because our values and interests and political and spiritual leanings jive. I want to meet them in real life some day. I remember my parents once calling up old neighbours and going for coffee with them. It ’s that kind of thing.
Then there’s the whole ‘internet cafe’ . Another third space beyond the library. It’s a place I ‘ve just loved. I’ve sat at my computer in my home. I ‘ve carried this lap top everywhere a distant cry from my old writing notebook but nonetheless related.
And now here I am, Laura’s Internet Cafe. The little dog has climbed up on the bed beside me and is leaning against me. I love the feel of his body when he does that, affection. I don’t like the internet cafe’s much since I’ve got a dog. I don’t like anywhere my dog isn’t welcome. We don’t go to restaurant’s much as a result. I always liked to eat at home in front of the tv though there was a time when I had so many dinner parties for dozens and dozens of friends. Another time of connectivity. That’s infrequent now. Neither Laura or I have ‘dining rooms’ anymore .
We have had parties in restaurants. That’s what people do a lot in bigger cities like Vancouver. The little apartments are glorified bed rooms and everything else is outside in the city. It’s a bit limitted in the winter but the summer with the beaches and parks makes this work well. There’s winter third space in the malls. Old people and young seem content to take up space on the benches meant for resting shoppers. Shoppers don’t rest. They are frenzied consumers so third space seekers are moving into those bench spaces. They’re like the rats and coyotes moving into the rest of the city. There’s always been the restaurants and cafe’s, but so often they encourage consumption. More and more there are coffeeshops like Europe which simply enjoy ‘regulars’ and get by with that.
Now there’s here. Laura just brought me some quiche. I ‘m going to stop and eat. I can upload this immediately. Next I’ll surf the web and read Facebook seeing if anyone else is looking for a political argument or has a picture of a really cute dog. Facebook is bipolar that way these days.
It’s snowing outside. I walked Gilbert. He sniffed the other early risers signs. A man was out shovelling. A young couple were climbing into their car. I’d say they were going out for breakfast. Adventurous in this Winnipeg winter in Vancouver. Schools closed . Buses unable to get up hills. Fender benders. A few inches of snow. Now it’s a mix of drizzle and snow. Mild. Slushy.
It’s nice to be in the warm with Laura. She’s very beautiful. Gilbert and I are blessed to have such a friend and now I really must get to that Quiche. I want to follow up on my nephew Graemes adventure in Costa Rica. I can do that in real time thanks to all this connectivity. I do remember the rotary phone and black and white tv. The things other people take for granted. The young don’t know shit.
Everywhere I go these days my phone picks up Shaw. Laura has Shaw cable. The plan was to get Shaw Internet here so we can both use Shaw on the Go around the city. The big screen TV was a gift from me to her for our mutual entertainment. She got the Shaw. I think I paid for the hook up as I’ve now done for the Wifi. We’re both using it. It’s operating now. When I called out I was ‘in’ , Laura called back. “I’m a wifi cafe now!” $50 a month compared to the Tengointernet $40 a week coupled with the other service which worked just great for $10 a month with a $100 hub till computer upgrades made the hub obsolete and the company stopped providing that ‘connectivity’. With shaw I expect to get rid of everything but the Telus office. No more cell phone charges for going over the ‘plan’.
“I like when you write here.” Laura said. She’s so sexy. I imagine smart sensitive women the world over saying things like that to their gullible egoistic men, “I like when you game on the internet at my place”. “I like when you read Facebook at my place’. They reel the men in. The fact is Laura, like a lot of men loving women, just like to see the guys happy. She’s making me another coffee right now in Laura’s Internet Cafe. She’s been giving Gilbert treats all morning. She likes me because I bring my dog over. The guys come to visit.
George is the big blond male cat I got Laura one day at the Pet store. He was on display from the SPCA, like a slave in the window. Mean bastard. Looked so cute in the window. Got him home and he shat on the bed and scratched everyone and tried to bite me. He was almost feral a week later, isolating and hiding from us till I forced ‘socialization’ on him pulling him out from his hiding place and barring the under the bed from further escape. The hermit took to the cupboard above the fridge. Hi rise view. Basement dwelling causes surliness. His paranoia slowly lifted as he watched from on high and saw that we weren’t eating cats and beating them and doing awful things to him. Laura’s love its irrisistible. Everyday she cooed and talked and brought him treats. When I came he looked at me like I was some sort of evil monster. He didn’t know what to make of Gilbert.
Days and weeks and months went by. I gave him tweets every visit. Gilbert dropped his ball in front of him when George ventured down to the ground. It wasn’t long before Laura noticed that George was roaming about the place when she wasn’t there. Then there was the time he slept on her bed.
He’s a suck now. He waits outside the washroom when she has a bath. He pokes at the ball when Gilbert rolls it to him. He runs under my feet to get to the perch by the window. We’ll never know what happened to him before he came to Laura’s but other than a little social distancing you’d never know. He just loves Laura and accepts us.
Laura’s Internet Cafe has it’s regulars. Laura’s family visits and she’s glad they’ll have the internet to keep in touch with other family.
We’ve become dependent on this connectivity.
I’ve got the family and friends I know in real life. I’ve got some casual acquaintances that I’ve come to know a whole lot better thanks to the internet. Facebook has even introduced me to some strangers who I’ve come to truly enjoy because our values and interests and political and spiritual leanings jive. I want to meet them in real life some day. I remember my parents once calling up old neighbours and going for coffee with them. It ’s that kind of thing.
Then there’s the whole ‘internet cafe’ . Another third space beyond the library. It’s a place I ‘ve just loved. I’ve sat at my computer in my home. I ‘ve carried this lap top everywhere a distant cry from my old writing notebook but nonetheless related.
And now here I am, Laura’s Internet Cafe. The little dog has climbed up on the bed beside me and is leaning against me. I love the feel of his body when he does that, affection. I don’t like the internet cafe’s much since I’ve got a dog. I don’t like anywhere my dog isn’t welcome. We don’t go to restaurant’s much as a result. I always liked to eat at home in front of the tv though there was a time when I had so many dinner parties for dozens and dozens of friends. Another time of connectivity. That’s infrequent now. Neither Laura or I have ‘dining rooms’ anymore .
We have had parties in restaurants. That’s what people do a lot in bigger cities like Vancouver. The little apartments are glorified bed rooms and everything else is outside in the city. It’s a bit limitted in the winter but the summer with the beaches and parks makes this work well. There’s winter third space in the malls. Old people and young seem content to take up space on the benches meant for resting shoppers. Shoppers don’t rest. They are frenzied consumers so third space seekers are moving into those bench spaces. They’re like the rats and coyotes moving into the rest of the city. There’s always been the restaurants and cafe’s, but so often they encourage consumption. More and more there are coffeeshops like Europe which simply enjoy ‘regulars’ and get by with that.
Now there’s here. Laura just brought me some quiche. I ‘m going to stop and eat. I can upload this immediately. Next I’ll surf the web and read Facebook seeing if anyone else is looking for a political argument or has a picture of a really cute dog. Facebook is bipolar that way these days.
It’s snowing outside. I walked Gilbert. He sniffed the other early risers signs. A man was out shovelling. A young couple were climbing into their car. I’d say they were going out for breakfast. Adventurous in this Winnipeg winter in Vancouver. Schools closed . Buses unable to get up hills. Fender benders. A few inches of snow. Now it’s a mix of drizzle and snow. Mild. Slushy.
It’s nice to be in the warm with Laura. She’s very beautiful. Gilbert and I are blessed to have such a friend and now I really must get to that Quiche. I want to follow up on my nephew Graemes adventure in Costa Rica. I can do that in real time thanks to all this connectivity. I do remember the rotary phone and black and white tv. The things other people take for granted. The young don’t know shit.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
World Politics, Facebook and Media
I am hooked on politics these days. It's an addiction that I hadn't really noted until I realized it was the Grey Cup and I'd missed it. I haven't watched a single football game since the Trump Hillary sports extravaganza began. I didn't miss hockey. As a Canadian, missing hockey would be seriously uncultured.
I sometimes think that the ancient Greeks and Italians nvented their Gods to comment on politics. For most of the history of humans, Politicians have arranged for anyone who criticizes them to be killed or locked up. It's only in Democratic Countries which have 'free speech' and 'liberty' that the State doesn't control the media. In most countries of the United Nations 'journalism' is 'propaganda' like we have seen in the CBC.
Canadians call the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News , the Communist Broadcasting Corporation just like Americans and even the BBC call CNN, the 'Clinton Network News'. The Winnipeg Free Press, once a non partisan source of facts and news is long dead. In it's place the journalists of the world have opted for Pravda.
The fact is,all of this is way above my pay scale.
Justin Trudeau is a millionaire. Hillary Clinton is a multi millionaire. Donald Trump is a billionaire.
The very thought that any one of these actually caring for me personally is grandiose. They are politicking about what's best for themselves and their friends but trying to convince everyone they care for the little guy.
The oldest law of the world is the Chinese Law of the Fish. There are Big Fish and There are Little Fish. Little Fish must be fast and numerous.
'
I'm slowing down. I'm getting older. I'm not numerous. I'm just a fairly anxious little Canadian watching the government tax my income year after year until with all my best work years gone, I'm wondering now about the security of old age realizing that all the promises about working hard and being taken care of in old age are probably no more likely to come true than all the other promises of politicians. There is however horrendous government waste and mismanagement.
But the government employed love their high incomes, low work load and great benefit packages. I don't blame them. But they don't realize that without Don Quioxtes like me and the Deplorables, they couldn't exist in their smug arrogance and luxury life styles. Oh to be a fatuous fat cat yuppie again!
The Serenity Prayer goes - God Grant Me the Serenity to ACCEPT the Things I CANNOT Change, the COURAGE to CHANGE the Things I CAN and the WISDOM to know the difference.
There is determinism or fate and there is free will. I don't really feel powerful like the Activists and Television Personalities. I don't even know if these new Gods and Goddesses of Celluloid are real. We 'assume' so much reality.
Each day I awake and truly have this 24 hours of likelihood.
What I 'cannot change' seems more considerable. I have hope and plans and goals and it all seems to go slowly forward most days, maybe 'slouching towards Bethlehem' or 40 days in the Desert or 2 steps forward and one step back. To paraphrase St. Paul it's mostly, 'what I don't want I do and what I do want I don't do' .
It really is quite possible that EVERYTHING is beyond my capacity to CHANGE it. Free will may well be an illusion. This THING may be a COMIC STRIP.
Listening to Justin Trudeau I feel like I am in a nightmare of karmic proportions. I'm old enough to remember his father. I'm watching him mouth his father's mistakes. I'm seeing myself when I was naive and young thinking Pierre, with his red carnation as 'hip, slick, and cool'. I was so 'smart' back then and actually thought everyone over 30 was likely an idiot.
I fear My punishment is to see Pierre's son doing the same communist totalitarian wasteful spending and swaggering that so offended my parents. Now I'm older I'm seeing the son do the same shit. What's changed is my perception. I'm being 'tortured' seeing the errors of my past. I'm having to confront the folly and arrogance of my youth. Everything that Pierre Trudeau introduced to Canada seems obscene to me today. And here I am old watching his son in this Twilight Zone/Black MIRROR fixed loop nightmare. I don't seem to have any control of it.
Meanwhile the Trump and Hillary fight it out like the Greek and Roman Gods of yesteryear. I see Trump triumph and feel after a year of the Political Verbal GAME there will finally be PEACE in the VALLEY no it's not over till January when Trump will be inaugurated. It's overtime. And the show gets crazier by the moment.
But all I have to change is MY PERCEPTION. It's clearly not a TRAGEDY. IT's a COMEDY. At Least a TRAGI COMEDY. Trudeau is a joke. The HILLARY OBAMA SIT COM is coupled with the Trump Family Show.
I can't change it. It doesn't really affect me today anyway. I could be hit by a bus tomorrow before the next episode..
Facebook is propaganda. Zuckerberg has admitted he's skewed the reporting left. All the mainstream mead 'cheated' with Hillary. People who are losers 'cheat'. These are losers, but who cares, its just ENTERTAINMENT and distraction. It's Carne and Magic and Politics. It's money and power.
Donald Trump is President Elect. Trudeau is Prime Minister. Neither of them is here in the Downtown Eastside Vancouver where I'm seeing patients. None of them are here helping me convince my patients to stop leaving this present reality for unreality. Every patient I see has missed a possible death of heroin.
I don't blame my patients their wanting to escape this reality. Any escape from TV /Facebook/Media Reality may well be worth it. I expect that Media is the cause of much of the rise in drug addiction in the world. That and the Climate Change fear mongerers. Everyone is pushing fear and fear's consumer antidotes.
World Politics is a new form of Sports. It's just another media event. Climate Change is just the weather girl on steroids shouting for attention. The corrupt UN wants more money for their segment of the NEWS.Merkel wants money. Trudeau wants money for his jet setting life style. It's all taxation, high costs, graft and promises. But it's not real.
Real is what I think it is. Real is my feet and hands. Real is this day. Real is my family and freinds. Real is this computer and my dog at my feet. Real is the really good soup I had today at the Heatley.
I will say the Serenity Prayer and hope to have the wisdom to focus on what I can change. I am the VOICE OVER on this COMIC STRIP.
I can change the VOICE OVER. I believe that the WORLD IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD. I believe in a loving God who wants the best for me.
Everything else is way above my pay grade.
God is real and God is love. Thank you Jesus!
I sometimes think that the ancient Greeks and Italians nvented their Gods to comment on politics. For most of the history of humans, Politicians have arranged for anyone who criticizes them to be killed or locked up. It's only in Democratic Countries which have 'free speech' and 'liberty' that the State doesn't control the media. In most countries of the United Nations 'journalism' is 'propaganda' like we have seen in the CBC.
Canadians call the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News , the Communist Broadcasting Corporation just like Americans and even the BBC call CNN, the 'Clinton Network News'. The Winnipeg Free Press, once a non partisan source of facts and news is long dead. In it's place the journalists of the world have opted for Pravda.
The fact is,all of this is way above my pay scale.
Justin Trudeau is a millionaire. Hillary Clinton is a multi millionaire. Donald Trump is a billionaire.
The very thought that any one of these actually caring for me personally is grandiose. They are politicking about what's best for themselves and their friends but trying to convince everyone they care for the little guy.
The oldest law of the world is the Chinese Law of the Fish. There are Big Fish and There are Little Fish. Little Fish must be fast and numerous.
'
I'm slowing down. I'm getting older. I'm not numerous. I'm just a fairly anxious little Canadian watching the government tax my income year after year until with all my best work years gone, I'm wondering now about the security of old age realizing that all the promises about working hard and being taken care of in old age are probably no more likely to come true than all the other promises of politicians. There is however horrendous government waste and mismanagement.
But the government employed love their high incomes, low work load and great benefit packages. I don't blame them. But they don't realize that without Don Quioxtes like me and the Deplorables, they couldn't exist in their smug arrogance and luxury life styles. Oh to be a fatuous fat cat yuppie again!
The Serenity Prayer goes - God Grant Me the Serenity to ACCEPT the Things I CANNOT Change, the COURAGE to CHANGE the Things I CAN and the WISDOM to know the difference.
There is determinism or fate and there is free will. I don't really feel powerful like the Activists and Television Personalities. I don't even know if these new Gods and Goddesses of Celluloid are real. We 'assume' so much reality.
Each day I awake and truly have this 24 hours of likelihood.
What I 'cannot change' seems more considerable. I have hope and plans and goals and it all seems to go slowly forward most days, maybe 'slouching towards Bethlehem' or 40 days in the Desert or 2 steps forward and one step back. To paraphrase St. Paul it's mostly, 'what I don't want I do and what I do want I don't do' .
It really is quite possible that EVERYTHING is beyond my capacity to CHANGE it. Free will may well be an illusion. This THING may be a COMIC STRIP.
Listening to Justin Trudeau I feel like I am in a nightmare of karmic proportions. I'm old enough to remember his father. I'm watching him mouth his father's mistakes. I'm seeing myself when I was naive and young thinking Pierre, with his red carnation as 'hip, slick, and cool'. I was so 'smart' back then and actually thought everyone over 30 was likely an idiot.
I fear My punishment is to see Pierre's son doing the same communist totalitarian wasteful spending and swaggering that so offended my parents. Now I'm older I'm seeing the son do the same shit. What's changed is my perception. I'm being 'tortured' seeing the errors of my past. I'm having to confront the folly and arrogance of my youth. Everything that Pierre Trudeau introduced to Canada seems obscene to me today. And here I am old watching his son in this Twilight Zone/Black MIRROR fixed loop nightmare. I don't seem to have any control of it.
Meanwhile the Trump and Hillary fight it out like the Greek and Roman Gods of yesteryear. I see Trump triumph and feel after a year of the Political Verbal GAME there will finally be PEACE in the VALLEY no it's not over till January when Trump will be inaugurated. It's overtime. And the show gets crazier by the moment.
But all I have to change is MY PERCEPTION. It's clearly not a TRAGEDY. IT's a COMEDY. At Least a TRAGI COMEDY. Trudeau is a joke. The HILLARY OBAMA SIT COM is coupled with the Trump Family Show.
I can't change it. It doesn't really affect me today anyway. I could be hit by a bus tomorrow before the next episode..
Facebook is propaganda. Zuckerberg has admitted he's skewed the reporting left. All the mainstream mead 'cheated' with Hillary. People who are losers 'cheat'. These are losers, but who cares, its just ENTERTAINMENT and distraction. It's Carne and Magic and Politics. It's money and power.
Donald Trump is President Elect. Trudeau is Prime Minister. Neither of them is here in the Downtown Eastside Vancouver where I'm seeing patients. None of them are here helping me convince my patients to stop leaving this present reality for unreality. Every patient I see has missed a possible death of heroin.
I don't blame my patients their wanting to escape this reality. Any escape from TV /Facebook/Media Reality may well be worth it. I expect that Media is the cause of much of the rise in drug addiction in the world. That and the Climate Change fear mongerers. Everyone is pushing fear and fear's consumer antidotes.
World Politics is a new form of Sports. It's just another media event. Climate Change is just the weather girl on steroids shouting for attention. The corrupt UN wants more money for their segment of the NEWS.Merkel wants money. Trudeau wants money for his jet setting life style. It's all taxation, high costs, graft and promises. But it's not real.
Real is what I think it is. Real is my feet and hands. Real is this day. Real is my family and freinds. Real is this computer and my dog at my feet. Real is the really good soup I had today at the Heatley.
I will say the Serenity Prayer and hope to have the wisdom to focus on what I can change. I am the VOICE OVER on this COMIC STRIP.
I can change the VOICE OVER. I believe that the WORLD IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD. I believe in a loving God who wants the best for me.
Everything else is way above my pay grade.
God is real and God is love. Thank you Jesus!
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Facebook Follies and the Asylum Cafeteria
I used to be a psychiatrist in an asylum. After much thought I’ve concluded that FACEBOOK is as close as one can get to a virtual reality asylum cafe for staff and mentally ill.
The only way you could be really sure who the staff were is the uniforms and keys. In one study the psychiatrists terrified of the idea of not wearing ‘white lab coats’ showed up carrying ‘stethoscope rabbit ears’ in their jacket suit pockets. In another study some ‘normal’ students who slipped over the wall of the asylum were recognized as ‘normal’ by the patients but not by the staff.
The cafeteria was the most interesting place because pedophiles, murderers (not responsible by reason of insanity), psychotics, drug addicts detoxing, and depressives and staff going through their temporary , supposedly. life disruptions all mixed.
When I went for lunch I’d stop with my tray and look around. Sometimes I’d sit at an empty table alone or sit at a table already occupied with one or two others.
Sitting at a table alone represents when I post something on my own timeline. My posts and my time line are like my table. In virtual reality ‘comments’ are like the people who ‘join’ the table. In comparison when I join another discussion it’s like I’ve joined someone else’s table.
Commonly the patients would join a table for safety where a staff person was sitting alone while a lot of the time the insane would group together mostly by way of common insanity while the staff would sit apart.
What we as staff knew was that by working in the asylum we were daily exposed to the very people that the world had excluded. I’ve known prison guards who have the same realizations. Those who work in leper colonies are stigmatized as the ones with the disease and indeed ‘pick up’ traits and mannerisms of those they associate with most even if our ‘role’ is different.
So in Facebook I am always interested and truly enjoy those comments of the friends I know personally. I think of them generally as more like the ‘staff’ but they may just be other recovered folk like me or Christians or neurotics but because we are ‘friends’ on Facebook we have a commonality.
Where FACEBOOK gets really funky is when a friend of my friend, a stranger to me sits down at my table or joins me at another of my ‘friends’ tables. In ‘boundary’ and transactional language these relationships might be referred to as ‘once or twice’ removed.
In the asylum there were always interesting groupings. Schizophrenics usually preferred to be alone avoided sociopaths but might have a pedophile as a friend. Not being a child the schizophrenic had nothing to fear from the pedophile and no reason to talk about children. Sociopaths because of their inferiority complexes by contrast are always trying to control or hump others like male dogs or female bitches in heat. They’re far less predictable than pedophiles or schizophrenics and often get called bipolar because they swing from nice to not nice dependent on their believe that they are getting their way. Sociopaths are always trying to measure ‘are you with me or agin me’ so tend also to avoid schizophrenics who usually don’t want to be with anyone. Meanwhile they dominate pedophiles.
Staff in asylums have as a principal role stopping people from hurting each other. So they intervene usually only when people are actually suicidal or homicidal.
In the cafe other patients are as likely to intervene as staff when a patient becomes threatening, bullying or suicidal. Homicide and suicide are just different sides of an attention seeking coin. One upmanship and one downmanship. Psychological mindedness is the ability to tolerate the tension of opposites.
I was very popular in the cafe at the asylum. In high school I spent a couple of years being ‘political’ and was named ‘Mr. Popularity”. Popularity is a marketing skill coupled with charisma. Buddha and Hitler have been equally popular. Certainly Marx and Shakespeare are equally popular.
The asylum cafeteria therefore is an interesting place where people are being essentially ‘political’ or ‘social’ in a relatively ‘free for all’ common ground. Lots of people are off their meds and lots of other ones there are doing drugs or drinking while typing at their computers. It doesn’t take much training to recognize ‘pot talk’ and ‘drunk talk’. The ones off their meds are a bit harder to spot.
The reason the staff and patient cafeteria was mixed was to allow staff to observe patients and adjust meds in the supposedly more ‘natural’ setting. Ironically I mostly wanted to put a couple of my colleagues on meds or wished they weren’t hung over. We also had a nurse stealing opiates and using them so her speech was often suggestive of her problem but she got angry at everyone who questioned anything and was for ever pointing fingers at others and jumping all over the patients to distract attention from her criminal behaviour. I don’t know what my colleague was doing and he’d probably say the same thing about me. He was a real nut bar.
Institutions and hospitals are places were the newest staff and immigrants and those with problems are likely to work. Staff members with problems rarely can succeed independently and the authorities who may be watching them prefer them in groups where they can be observed until their behaviour is deemed not a threat to the authorities or patients and other staff.
I’ve always had an anti authority streak, knowing history, and watching how frequently great countries have had leaders who fluctuated as differently as Bill Clinton and Ronal Reagan.
So in Facebook when I post something ‘controversial’ (which is always except for the dog and camping pictures) my friends are aware of my variety of interests and positions so are themselves interested and never offended. I have a couple of old lovers (only in years we have known each other) (they remain as gorgeous and sexy as the day I met them) who ‘chide’ me routinely on my ‘taste’. I’ve friends from elementary school on Facebook and they even raise an eyebrow or challenge me. All of these people have ‘earned’ the right by years of association and time. A couple of women from decades back befriended me when we were both very different people. We have watched each other move back and forth across ideologies and have seen each other through life threatening disease. I was there for their cancer and they were there for my cancer. Thier’s was worse. My friends have had radiation, chemotherapy, lost husbands, and wives, had children die. I’ve been hospitalized. Basal Cell Carcinoma got me too but was quickly caught in the making while I’ve taken a whole lot of injuries that have lead to chronic pain and sometimes tears. Divorces have taken their toll and we’ve stood by each other.
If any of these people and some are family , sit at a table with me and says anything , it doesn’t really matter because we’re soul brothers and soul sisters. One of my dearest longest most loved friends is one who we physically fought together intent on murdering each other as kids and had we weapons more than our fists we might well have. Today I love him as no other.
But I don’t like a lot of my friends friends. I’m sitting at the table in Facebook kibitzing with an old friend or lover and this unknown stranger sits down and pulls one of those triangulation stunts.
Often people are in recovery.
It’s a good rule to remember that it takes a bout a year off drugs and alcohol before you can be honest with yourself and actually truthfully recall and report what you said yourself hours or days earlier. It takes two years (PAWS) to be able to actually truthfully report what you said and what the other person said in a conversation especially where there were opposing views. It’s usually only in the third year of recovery that people can actually divide the discussion in which three people conversed and remember and report accurately what each person said. It’s a Piagetian thing developmentally as well.
Further when two people are together their relationship can be any of the following
Mother-daughter; Father-son; Mother-son; Father-dauther;brother-brother;sister-sister; brother-sister; etc out to aunts and nephews etc. Our secular relationships with strangers are based on the original template of relationships.
When two friends are conversing the conversation is ranging through all the relationships with an incredible oiled smoothness. My friend and I are both doctors in different fields. She is a phd and I’m an md. Having years of university experience with a multitude of ‘experts’ and ‘egos’ we defer easily to each other in our areas of respective strengths. We have nothing to prove to each other and enjoy learning and working together.
When a stranger joins they really are like a kid coming into our now “mommy and daddy’ circle.
How they ‘enter’ the conversation is most telling. This is called ‘process’ in psychiatry. It’s not ‘what people say’ but rather how they say it in ‘process’. Marshall McLuhan said, as well, the medium is the message. So in the asylum cafe or in Facebook the medium is also the message. “Linked in” by contrast to Facebook doesn’t have the ‘bar room” or ‘asylum cafe flavour’ that Facebook has. I’d say that’s because Facebook is a ‘social media’ whereas “Linked In” is more a ‘business media”.
What’s even more telling is the way “Friends of Friends of Friends’ enter discussions on Facebook. I and another person may have a relationship with the original poster but a third person sitting down at the table may have no relationship with anyone but has in fact chosen to sit down at what is now ‘our’ table when in fact they can sit at their table.
To get a flavour of these different ‘intrusions’ one can of course look at ‘who’ and what are their ‘relationships’ on their own timeline.
Socialization refers to how well people ‘succeed’ in broader society. A lot of people in the world today simply ‘lack socialization’.
In countries with conscription this is not true. In more technologically primitive countries people also had to be better mannered. In ancient times “manners’ were means whereby ‘men’ avoided ‘hostility’. Shaking hands, the sword hand, was a declaration of peace.
Today our society is immensely isolated and many people have not socialized with strangers since high school In their workplace they are often separated and ritualized in their relationship with a task or tool and then socialize only with people who share their biases. Team sports are a means whereby people have traditionally been socialized and as women increasingly involve themselves in team sports they become increasingly adept in a way so many lacked skills in previously. Families are a natural socialization mechanism and where parents stay together the family socialization mechanism was one of the best. Overall usually parents are better socialized than single men and women. Those who have never had long term relationships are usually the most under socialized and commonly are designated as having a personality disorder in the social science literature.
Because many Liberals are limited to their minority of relationships they often are angry and offended by the Conservatives who are similarly limited to their minority of relationships. Increasingly people are not socialized by being members of churches or communities or political parties but don’t realize that without this ‘socialization’ their ‘emotional intelligence’ is sadly lacking. This is most difficult for those who are ‘idiot savants’ in the sense that they have done well in a particular area of society, such as ‘money making’, job status, or surviving a life threatening disease, or making a transition to a new country. Emotional intelligence comes with depth and breadth of relationships and experience and not book learning or luck at the lottery.
CBC shut down it’s ‘comments’ pages because it found that it’s own minority ‘liberal’ elite position was at variance with a swath of the comments page which was admittedly ‘under socialized’. Yet CBC, a publicly funded broadcasting corporation, has an obligation to all who contribute to it’s forum so interestingly made a ‘mommy’ decision and shut out the ‘bullies’. Comments pages and FACEBOOK are falling to a fallacy which is called the ‘ends against the middle’. The idea of a ‘silent majority’ got a bad rep because of political abuse of this idea by both the right and the left. Tyrants of either ilk always claim to represent the middle when to be a leader they must be de facto “other’. Leaders are always ‘the minority’ position.
So FACEBOOK has attempted to introduce some ‘reality’ to it’s ‘virtual reality’ game, by ‘Blocking” , “Reporting”, and “Unfollowing”. and “Unfriending’. I can’t help but think adolescents are having a whole lot of learning and fun with these ‘features’. Reporting is like calling 9-11 at a family dinner. The Communist regimes the world over have made winning off the various ‘anonymous tip’ lines and rewarding people who prefer the ‘outside state’ authority to the ‘inside family or community authority’ . I’ve been a ‘whistleblower’ and must always remember that by ‘reporting’ I become what is the lowest phenomena in the ‘prison population’ which is by another name called ‘a snitch’. Loose lips sink ships so the ‘elite’ don’t welcome transparency and maintain their privilege by ‘secrecy’ the same way the black market works. Often the two worlds mirror each other. But G7 doesn’t have reporters in their meetings and don’t even record discussions any more than the Hell’s Angels, Yukuso, or Mafia do.
In Facebook and other ‘comments’ sections of todays media an ‘individual’ can ‘be heard’. There was a time when all media was controlled by the country leadership and in most of the world today that is the case. In western demcracticed capitalist societies the leadership allow a tightly controlled and propagandized ‘freedom of speech’. The greatest ‘freedom of speech’ in the world today remains in the USA. European and Canadian countries and Australia and perhaps even Britain actually believe they have ‘freedom of speech’ but in fact that freedom is very restricted by ‘political correctness’ , ‘hate legislation’ etc etc. Muslim countries have no freedom of speech by comparison nor do communist countries. Certainly, for most of the world the ‘secret police’ control overtly or covertly what people dare to say.
FACEBOOK ‘reporting’ will respond. I’ve been ‘silenced’ repeatedly because it is now a ‘tactic’ of ‘opposition’ to ‘report as ‘spam’ anyone who disagrees with a political position of their opposition. So as a Christian I have been ‘silenced’ by the opposition ‘reporting’ me to the authorities. I speak with the authorities and they apologize. Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for the Left doing this to the right and middle. As a “Centrist’ I’ve been repeatedly reported by the Left. The Left sadly today is the enemy of the middle and the right of society and increasingly represent a minority elite that falsely maintains their claim to represent the ‘middle’ or ‘lower’. Both leadership of right and left are serving the elite’. Politics is really about choosing the least bad alternatives. No man is a God and Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I truly believe Donald, Hillary, Bernie, Stephen, Justin, and Tom were all really nice kids. Their deviance probably showed first in high school. Now they’re leaders. Even Adolph and Joseph and Winston were likely delightful children before they deviated.
‘Crying wolf’ is todays new ‘bully tactic’. Society is struggling with false accusations and the courts are playing catch up. Facebook apologises more often than Canadians.
In the actual face book feeds I ‘block’ and ‘unfriend’ people almost daily. These are people who ‘enter a comment feed’ aggressively. They’re usually vulgar. Most often they have not read the feed but believe that being ‘opinionated’ is a virtue. They ‘attack’ me and frankly I never backed down from a ‘bar fight’ or a ‘debate’ or a ‘Facebook fisticuffs.” With friends and usually friends of friends we have rather useful discussions. But I don’t like bullies of any gender or disposition and have a life time record of defending persecuted people and indeed myself when I have been attacked.
In a discussion the ’subject’ of the discussion is separate from those who are the ones discussing. In debate , I used to do this at universities’ back when I actually fenced and competed in things as well, the minute a person ‘attacks the messenger’ they ‘forfeit’ the debate. It’s like playing golf with someone and they pull out a gun and shoot you. Obviously they’ve lost the golf game but they, being psychopaths, sociopaths, or just under socialized or emotionally unintelligent might well tell their friends they won the golf game against Tiger Woods but fail to mention that they used a 9 mm Glock in the game.
The unfriend button is like everyone ‘avoiding’ the ‘dangerously insane’ man or ‘hysterically psychotic woman’ in the cafe asylum. They’re just angry and looking for someone to unleash their anger on. They never contribute to discussion and there’s no learning and no fun. They don’t want to ’talk’ but would rather ‘fight’.
I don’t like to fight. I hospitalized a number of people in my youth and even when I won and the other guy was being taken away by ambulance I found my jaw or my hand hurt for days. Once I learned ’surgery’ and began playing guitar and lived by my ability to have hands to write and type and touch I have avoided ‘fights’ because that’s all ’thugs’ do. I actually prefer countries where I can have a gun so I don’t have to get into a ‘bludgeoning’ exercise with a young guy who never made anything with his hands and only used his hands to hurt people.
So Facebook has an ‘unfriend’ and an ‘unfollow’ button. However I lived in an apartment where my dope addicted drug dealing welfare recipient neighbour played heavy metal in the middle of the night and I had been delivering babies so was very tired. I asked him nicely to turn down his music. When he persisted persisted I called the landlord and did all the ‘right’ things to address his ‘vulgarity’ and ‘bullying’. It was a week or so later he surprised me and put a knife to my throat and held me off a balcony for a half hour spitting in my face. I called the police and they talked to him but I had to live the next two weeks and not be able to sleep in my apartment for fear that he’d attack me. He was evicted but I left that apartment too and had only survived by sleeping in the on call hospital rooms.
With the ‘liberalization’ of what the ‘middle and lower classes’ have , the rich live in gated communities, have armed body guards and multi million dollar mansions, the White House isn’t cheap and Justin and Sophie Trudeau complain that their multi million dollar accommodations are not glamorous enough. So now a day doesn’t go by that some one isn’t telling me about a ‘violent neighbour’ or a ‘bully’. I was fascinated to follow a two year process where a social housing complex suffered before they evicted this sex offender who grabbed women in the hall, a psychotic who raged night after night, a bully who had physically assaulted people, and a thief who had broken into other peoples homes in the complex. Weeks at a time I hear people crying telling me of how no one is protecting them and that these aggressive loud people are barging into their lives. Just this year my girlfriend had a psychotic drug addict banging on her wall screaming at her to shut down the music. I was sleeping at her place when this began so ‘confronted’ this truly crazy professional lady’ and she was evicted that week though she was screaming in the hall (thankfully in front of witnesses) that I was ‘raping her’. She’d come to our door to tell my little lovely girlfriend to ‘shut up’ but being a light sleeper I’d woken and gone to the door. Fascinating moments in Canada. Apparently an everyday occurrence in Detroit now and increasingly normal in Surrey. Communities are developing ‘block protection’ and “Vigilantism’ is on the rise because of the failure the of the existing authorities to ‘protect’ individuals without adequate wealth to be elite.
The other ‘offensive’ attack behaviour so common on ‘FACEBOOK “ is the ‘assumption of superiority’. All these are ‘personalized ‘ comments. I make a statement, i.e. Having babies young is associated with reduced cancer in women and another person responds with ‘you’re full of shit’ or that’s ‘conservative bullshit.” There are actually ‘trolls’ and different groups are paying people much like they did with ‘robocalls’. I’ve been targeted by these ‘computer’ generated programs on several occasions. My computer hacker friends have enlightened me to them.
In a ‘discussion’ the question is ‘relevance’ and people will also say ‘get to the point’. Indeed there are mechanisms now in business which address these ‘disruptors’. In the Navy Seals one technique is to ask the most junior to comment first so that they will not be ‘silenced’ by their superiors. The fallacy of the ‘appeal to the authority’ is addressed ironically in this case. The Climate Change Cult are actually silencing opposition by threatening lawsuits against anyone who disagrees with their particular insanity. Thank God the planet is in a warming phase. We have been since the last ice age. The question is the degree of contribution of man and the various ways of addressing that contribution. To question these latter highly erroneous propositions gets one faced with a lawsuit or at very least being called a ‘denier’. This was what the soviet union did when anyone disagreed with their ‘scientific’ position called Marx’s historical presumptions. . People who disagreed with the now wholly defunct marxian ideology akin to leeching in medicine was put in a psychiatric asylum. I know because I belonged to the “Psychiatrists against Political Abuse of Psychiatry’ an organization dedicated to science and keeping politicians from doing what the Climate Change Cult of the UN is doing now.
In my office I have a native ‘talking stick’. This is a means whereby everyone in a group gets a chance to speak. If a person wants to be ‘heard’ they can pick up the stick and as long as they are holding onto it they are not interrupted. When they are finished it gets passed back and forth or passed on. When I played chess we had a little machine that limited ‘stalling’ and ensured the ‘game’ went on rather than something else occurring.
The 12 step programs around the world have attempted to teach the very brain injured addicts and socially inept early recovery folk with a simple ‘no cross talk’. What this does is encourage people to ‘introduce’ new material rather than seeing their ‘role’ as the ‘critic’.
Today everyone is a ‘critic’. Especially pot smokers’ They sit on the couch and read the internet and watch tv and never actually do more than ‘criticize’ other peoples ideas and actions.
“Microanalysis” of contributions in corporate board rooms separate the ideas offered on ‘spread sheets’ because commonly another tactic of the ignorant is to rephrase an already stated opinion.
Robert’s Rules of Order was introduced to politics to ensure that ‘discussion’ preceded ‘vote’. Most people in the ‘comments’ sections see ‘comments’ as their ‘voting’ space rather than just ‘liking’ or ’not’. . “Fucking Right”. “Bullshit” etc are not discussion or even ‘comment’ but rather ‘colourful ‘ ‘votes’.
Further I’m an old guy with lots of experience so when some young inexperienced little shit especially an easily offended ‘critic’ takes a swipe at me in the ‘process’ way by ‘presumptive’ superiority or ‘disrespectful’ subtle ill mannered behaviour I, like the old dog, enjoy snapping the upstart down. To the external observer they might not see that this ‘junior’ person is indeed being offensive ‘intentionally’. The separation of heavy weights and light weights and gender and various forms of ‘weaponry’ is that there is no advantage to the superior in ‘unequal’ contests. Yet invariably a person will play ‘foul’ in a game and then do the ‘drama queen’ game removing the focus from the ‘discussion’ which they have obviously lost by this ‘antic’ or ‘gambit’ but now ‘personalizing’ the discussion to be about them and their being ‘offended’.
It’s one of the reasons today that you simply can’t have a ‘feminist’ or ‘racist’ or a 'sexist’ screaming ’self proclaimed ‘ referree or ‘mommy boy’ or ‘daddy girl’ in a conversation because they’re always waiting to be ‘offended’ to gain ‘centre of attention’ Being offended in their only ’skill’ and they ‘derail’ all ’society’ and all ‘conversation’ today by this means. Watching a soccer game today is painful with all the ‘fouls’ . There though, the ‘referee’ is the ‘agreed’ ‘foul caller’ whereas there increasingly are these genetic mutants who like idiot savants lack all other skills but this one and bark ignorantly all day, ‘look at me “i’m offended’.
In the asylum while there were people who wanted to sit alone at their table there were a lot of people who didn’t but were equally unable to ‘attract’ friends so always ‘barged’ in on other tables. The beauty of ‘theatre’ is that ‘actors’ learn not to ‘upstage’ each other and also how to ‘modulate’ their responses. I loved improvisational theatre and did this for years with a group of friends. It was a fascinating ‘social game’ much like when I played in a blues band and we all ‘jammed’ together.
Facebook is a relatively ‘unstructured’ setting. I mostly like it for puppies and inspirational messages. At the same time I sail and though only a few of my friends are sailors I like to share sailing posts. Not surprisingly my friends who share hockey posts have never been thuggish and arrogant or ignorant about my sailing posts.
It was once a truism of ‘success’ to “Never discuss Religion or Politics” My friend who lived in a Moslem country but wasn’t muslim said ‘we all learned to whisper’. He laughs at my openess and believes Canadian experiments in transparency will fail when we have the imminent civil war he predicts. .
When I became a professional my superior at the university said that I must learn ‘boundaries’. It’s what the College of Physicians and Surgeons teaches more and more these days. At the time he said you must only have friends who are in your ‘class’ . What he meant by that was that I only associated with other ‘professionals’ and other’s with ‘university degrees’. An English psychiatrist greatly admired for his apparent liberalism told me, as helpful advise, ‘don’t discuss anything important with women or the enlisted. The world is like a big army. We are the officers and the upper classes. The poor can never be trusted to understand and the women can never be trusted to keep their mouths shut.”
The principle way people ‘get along’ is by not associating with others who are different from them.
When it comes to religion I do extremely well in my Christian church. My muslim friend shines at his mosque. My jewish friend is a leader in his synagogue. My atheist friend is a leading communist teaching dialectics. My Hindu friends and Buddhist friends are equally admired.
On Facebook the usual ‘dangerous person’ is someone who really doesn’t know a person or associate closely with people who have different beliefs or religion or politics. I’m closely involved with a vast diversity of people and am very thankful to have friends who I admire even in the dastardly Liberal Party with that much maligned goofball Trudeau. I have this Liberal Leader friend who I enjoy discussions with and we’ve both corrected each other on history and significant points. What I thought Mulroney had done was indeed done by Martin.
My Palestinian Christian friend tells me all the persecution of Palestinians by the Jews and my Jewish friend tells me about being bombed by the Hamas.
But Facebook like conversations in asylum cafes never touch this ‘level’ of communication. I admire mostly my orthodox jewish friend not for their zionist beliefs but because I’ve seen them as a doctor taking incredible risks with their own life to save a Muslim patient’s life with a horrible infectious disease. I’ve been blessed to be with doctors and nurses who daily overlook differences to see the similarities and constantly are risking their lives and wealth on behalf of others. I like my policeman friend with his right wing views because I know how much he loves and cares for his children. I know my family for their years of sacrifice and love and cares of each other.
I love my friends but the strangers I meet on Facebook are such assholes as to threaten me….a fellow just said he looked forward to seeing me dead and another person attacks my family for their association by blood with me. I’ve even had people complain to my work because I held an opinion different from theirs. They were liberal and i was conservative and they complained against me saying that with my views I shouldn’t be allowed to practice medicine. They were 20 and I was 60 and I only had a fleeting thought of suicide when I got called by the authorities about this ‘offended’ young ‘girl’ who feels that people who aren’t ‘feminists’ should be jailed.
I’m pro life. Given the misinformation in the liberal media no one seems to know how persecuted the ‘pro life’ people are. I recommend anyone stand outside an abortion clinic silently for a day and find out what my 80 year old friend found out when she did just that. It’s never covered in the Canadian papers because Canada is dominated by death.
Facebook is dying. Freedom of speech and indeed freedom is no longer understood by the young. License is not freedom. Freedom comes with accountability. I have paid a terrible price from my beliefs. Defending Israel has had my family threatened. Defending homosexuals has brought me as much hate as defending heterosexuals. I learned long ago ‘if you stand up you make yourself a target’.
Canadians are polite and apologetic and nice because as my friend from the US said, they’re ‘snow niggers’. They’ve lost their rights and freedoms and live ‘lives of quiet desperation’. What’s amazing is that people who disliked their lack of freedom in their countries have moved to this once ‘wild’ country with all it’s opportunities. My grandparents came as much to escape the restrictions of Europe as for any other reason.
Facebook is like an asylum cafe. By contrast my blog is a booth along the side of internet metropolis. Though I really have stated what were very ‘offensive’ opinions to some the ‘comments’ on my blog have never been the level of FACEBOOk. Indeed the comments on blog pages are generally rather considered by comparison. I’ve over a half million hits on the blog with redistribution in the millions and despite that I’ve never been so ‘personally attacked’ as I have been on Facebook. Something inherent in the FACEBOOK formula as with the ‘comments’ section of CBC is inherently flawed. Something to do with Anonymity is inherent in this insanity. The Asylum Cafe is like a bar, people go their to be ‘insane’ or to get ‘drunk’. Facebook is such a place.
It’s at the level of ‘cross talk’ too. Something in ‘texting’ , the irritating ‘editor’ and the one finger jabbing on the iPhone makes the conversation like a distracted road rage experience in a crowded freeway. Sound bites about something more complex. There’s Paul Johnson’s book called the “intellectuals’ which showed that the ‘ideas’ of the great 18 to 20th century only ‘worked’ as communication because no one knew about their personal life. Today Charles Mason might well put forward a ‘great philosophy’ but quickly we’d ignore it because his life is despicable. Similarly Robert Picton the pig farm cannibal might have an idea or an opinion and no one cares for it. Yet Pickton and Manson can speak their minds on Facebook. it’s a dark space. FACE BOOK, before the ‘no smoking’ signs. The interesting thing is how the worlds spill over and in a positive sense I’ve gone for coffee with a person whose ideas I enjoyed on Facebook. I so love my friend Carol’s humour that I look forward to next time seeing her.
But I don’t like when people attack my friends and family in that adolescent ‘packing’ ‘whose in or whose out’ ‘selective’ misinformation way to ‘win their lost argument’.
"How can you have a friend like that?” a pedophile said to my friend, when I said his opinion ‘sounded like a pedophile’. I’d met so many pedophiles and heard their logic that I happened to say this without knowing he was one. Well, boy did that ‘lady protest too much’ . I found out from my friend their history and how none of the family allow them around children. We are as ‘sick as our secrets’. I was very thankful that he blocked me, unfriended me and complained to Facebook about me and wrote a Rate Your Doctor criticism because frankly he doesn’t really celebrate his preference for sex with children. Kill the messenger and a reminder of his being caught in the past clearly annoyed him. Yet as I typically tell people, an offence is human but the ‘cover up’ and the ‘reaction’ really do ‘out’ the truth.
But life is, as I get older, more and more like that asylum cafeteria. Facebook is really just one section, a very very tiny one in the much much larger cafeteria.
I have to go. We’re off to White Spot to have lunch with real friends in the real world.
The only way you could be really sure who the staff were is the uniforms and keys. In one study the psychiatrists terrified of the idea of not wearing ‘white lab coats’ showed up carrying ‘stethoscope rabbit ears’ in their jacket suit pockets. In another study some ‘normal’ students who slipped over the wall of the asylum were recognized as ‘normal’ by the patients but not by the staff.
The cafeteria was the most interesting place because pedophiles, murderers (not responsible by reason of insanity), psychotics, drug addicts detoxing, and depressives and staff going through their temporary , supposedly. life disruptions all mixed.
When I went for lunch I’d stop with my tray and look around. Sometimes I’d sit at an empty table alone or sit at a table already occupied with one or two others.
Sitting at a table alone represents when I post something on my own timeline. My posts and my time line are like my table. In virtual reality ‘comments’ are like the people who ‘join’ the table. In comparison when I join another discussion it’s like I’ve joined someone else’s table.
Commonly the patients would join a table for safety where a staff person was sitting alone while a lot of the time the insane would group together mostly by way of common insanity while the staff would sit apart.
What we as staff knew was that by working in the asylum we were daily exposed to the very people that the world had excluded. I’ve known prison guards who have the same realizations. Those who work in leper colonies are stigmatized as the ones with the disease and indeed ‘pick up’ traits and mannerisms of those they associate with most even if our ‘role’ is different.
So in Facebook I am always interested and truly enjoy those comments of the friends I know personally. I think of them generally as more like the ‘staff’ but they may just be other recovered folk like me or Christians or neurotics but because we are ‘friends’ on Facebook we have a commonality.
Where FACEBOOK gets really funky is when a friend of my friend, a stranger to me sits down at my table or joins me at another of my ‘friends’ tables. In ‘boundary’ and transactional language these relationships might be referred to as ‘once or twice’ removed.
In the asylum there were always interesting groupings. Schizophrenics usually preferred to be alone avoided sociopaths but might have a pedophile as a friend. Not being a child the schizophrenic had nothing to fear from the pedophile and no reason to talk about children. Sociopaths because of their inferiority complexes by contrast are always trying to control or hump others like male dogs or female bitches in heat. They’re far less predictable than pedophiles or schizophrenics and often get called bipolar because they swing from nice to not nice dependent on their believe that they are getting their way. Sociopaths are always trying to measure ‘are you with me or agin me’ so tend also to avoid schizophrenics who usually don’t want to be with anyone. Meanwhile they dominate pedophiles.
Staff in asylums have as a principal role stopping people from hurting each other. So they intervene usually only when people are actually suicidal or homicidal.
In the cafe other patients are as likely to intervene as staff when a patient becomes threatening, bullying or suicidal. Homicide and suicide are just different sides of an attention seeking coin. One upmanship and one downmanship. Psychological mindedness is the ability to tolerate the tension of opposites.
I was very popular in the cafe at the asylum. In high school I spent a couple of years being ‘political’ and was named ‘Mr. Popularity”. Popularity is a marketing skill coupled with charisma. Buddha and Hitler have been equally popular. Certainly Marx and Shakespeare are equally popular.
The asylum cafeteria therefore is an interesting place where people are being essentially ‘political’ or ‘social’ in a relatively ‘free for all’ common ground. Lots of people are off their meds and lots of other ones there are doing drugs or drinking while typing at their computers. It doesn’t take much training to recognize ‘pot talk’ and ‘drunk talk’. The ones off their meds are a bit harder to spot.
The reason the staff and patient cafeteria was mixed was to allow staff to observe patients and adjust meds in the supposedly more ‘natural’ setting. Ironically I mostly wanted to put a couple of my colleagues on meds or wished they weren’t hung over. We also had a nurse stealing opiates and using them so her speech was often suggestive of her problem but she got angry at everyone who questioned anything and was for ever pointing fingers at others and jumping all over the patients to distract attention from her criminal behaviour. I don’t know what my colleague was doing and he’d probably say the same thing about me. He was a real nut bar.
Institutions and hospitals are places were the newest staff and immigrants and those with problems are likely to work. Staff members with problems rarely can succeed independently and the authorities who may be watching them prefer them in groups where they can be observed until their behaviour is deemed not a threat to the authorities or patients and other staff.
I’ve always had an anti authority streak, knowing history, and watching how frequently great countries have had leaders who fluctuated as differently as Bill Clinton and Ronal Reagan.
So in Facebook when I post something ‘controversial’ (which is always except for the dog and camping pictures) my friends are aware of my variety of interests and positions so are themselves interested and never offended. I have a couple of old lovers (only in years we have known each other) (they remain as gorgeous and sexy as the day I met them) who ‘chide’ me routinely on my ‘taste’. I’ve friends from elementary school on Facebook and they even raise an eyebrow or challenge me. All of these people have ‘earned’ the right by years of association and time. A couple of women from decades back befriended me when we were both very different people. We have watched each other move back and forth across ideologies and have seen each other through life threatening disease. I was there for their cancer and they were there for my cancer. Thier’s was worse. My friends have had radiation, chemotherapy, lost husbands, and wives, had children die. I’ve been hospitalized. Basal Cell Carcinoma got me too but was quickly caught in the making while I’ve taken a whole lot of injuries that have lead to chronic pain and sometimes tears. Divorces have taken their toll and we’ve stood by each other.
If any of these people and some are family , sit at a table with me and says anything , it doesn’t really matter because we’re soul brothers and soul sisters. One of my dearest longest most loved friends is one who we physically fought together intent on murdering each other as kids and had we weapons more than our fists we might well have. Today I love him as no other.
But I don’t like a lot of my friends friends. I’m sitting at the table in Facebook kibitzing with an old friend or lover and this unknown stranger sits down and pulls one of those triangulation stunts.
Often people are in recovery.
It’s a good rule to remember that it takes a bout a year off drugs and alcohol before you can be honest with yourself and actually truthfully recall and report what you said yourself hours or days earlier. It takes two years (PAWS) to be able to actually truthfully report what you said and what the other person said in a conversation especially where there were opposing views. It’s usually only in the third year of recovery that people can actually divide the discussion in which three people conversed and remember and report accurately what each person said. It’s a Piagetian thing developmentally as well.
Further when two people are together their relationship can be any of the following
Mother-daughter; Father-son; Mother-son; Father-dauther;brother-brother;sister-sister; brother-sister; etc out to aunts and nephews etc. Our secular relationships with strangers are based on the original template of relationships.
When two friends are conversing the conversation is ranging through all the relationships with an incredible oiled smoothness. My friend and I are both doctors in different fields. She is a phd and I’m an md. Having years of university experience with a multitude of ‘experts’ and ‘egos’ we defer easily to each other in our areas of respective strengths. We have nothing to prove to each other and enjoy learning and working together.
When a stranger joins they really are like a kid coming into our now “mommy and daddy’ circle.
How they ‘enter’ the conversation is most telling. This is called ‘process’ in psychiatry. It’s not ‘what people say’ but rather how they say it in ‘process’. Marshall McLuhan said, as well, the medium is the message. So in the asylum cafe or in Facebook the medium is also the message. “Linked in” by contrast to Facebook doesn’t have the ‘bar room” or ‘asylum cafe flavour’ that Facebook has. I’d say that’s because Facebook is a ‘social media’ whereas “Linked In” is more a ‘business media”.
What’s even more telling is the way “Friends of Friends of Friends’ enter discussions on Facebook. I and another person may have a relationship with the original poster but a third person sitting down at the table may have no relationship with anyone but has in fact chosen to sit down at what is now ‘our’ table when in fact they can sit at their table.
To get a flavour of these different ‘intrusions’ one can of course look at ‘who’ and what are their ‘relationships’ on their own timeline.
Socialization refers to how well people ‘succeed’ in broader society. A lot of people in the world today simply ‘lack socialization’.
In countries with conscription this is not true. In more technologically primitive countries people also had to be better mannered. In ancient times “manners’ were means whereby ‘men’ avoided ‘hostility’. Shaking hands, the sword hand, was a declaration of peace.
Today our society is immensely isolated and many people have not socialized with strangers since high school In their workplace they are often separated and ritualized in their relationship with a task or tool and then socialize only with people who share their biases. Team sports are a means whereby people have traditionally been socialized and as women increasingly involve themselves in team sports they become increasingly adept in a way so many lacked skills in previously. Families are a natural socialization mechanism and where parents stay together the family socialization mechanism was one of the best. Overall usually parents are better socialized than single men and women. Those who have never had long term relationships are usually the most under socialized and commonly are designated as having a personality disorder in the social science literature.
Because many Liberals are limited to their minority of relationships they often are angry and offended by the Conservatives who are similarly limited to their minority of relationships. Increasingly people are not socialized by being members of churches or communities or political parties but don’t realize that without this ‘socialization’ their ‘emotional intelligence’ is sadly lacking. This is most difficult for those who are ‘idiot savants’ in the sense that they have done well in a particular area of society, such as ‘money making’, job status, or surviving a life threatening disease, or making a transition to a new country. Emotional intelligence comes with depth and breadth of relationships and experience and not book learning or luck at the lottery.
CBC shut down it’s ‘comments’ pages because it found that it’s own minority ‘liberal’ elite position was at variance with a swath of the comments page which was admittedly ‘under socialized’. Yet CBC, a publicly funded broadcasting corporation, has an obligation to all who contribute to it’s forum so interestingly made a ‘mommy’ decision and shut out the ‘bullies’. Comments pages and FACEBOOK are falling to a fallacy which is called the ‘ends against the middle’. The idea of a ‘silent majority’ got a bad rep because of political abuse of this idea by both the right and the left. Tyrants of either ilk always claim to represent the middle when to be a leader they must be de facto “other’. Leaders are always ‘the minority’ position.
So FACEBOOK has attempted to introduce some ‘reality’ to it’s ‘virtual reality’ game, by ‘Blocking” , “Reporting”, and “Unfollowing”. and “Unfriending’. I can’t help but think adolescents are having a whole lot of learning and fun with these ‘features’. Reporting is like calling 9-11 at a family dinner. The Communist regimes the world over have made winning off the various ‘anonymous tip’ lines and rewarding people who prefer the ‘outside state’ authority to the ‘inside family or community authority’ . I’ve been a ‘whistleblower’ and must always remember that by ‘reporting’ I become what is the lowest phenomena in the ‘prison population’ which is by another name called ‘a snitch’. Loose lips sink ships so the ‘elite’ don’t welcome transparency and maintain their privilege by ‘secrecy’ the same way the black market works. Often the two worlds mirror each other. But G7 doesn’t have reporters in their meetings and don’t even record discussions any more than the Hell’s Angels, Yukuso, or Mafia do.
In Facebook and other ‘comments’ sections of todays media an ‘individual’ can ‘be heard’. There was a time when all media was controlled by the country leadership and in most of the world today that is the case. In western demcracticed capitalist societies the leadership allow a tightly controlled and propagandized ‘freedom of speech’. The greatest ‘freedom of speech’ in the world today remains in the USA. European and Canadian countries and Australia and perhaps even Britain actually believe they have ‘freedom of speech’ but in fact that freedom is very restricted by ‘political correctness’ , ‘hate legislation’ etc etc. Muslim countries have no freedom of speech by comparison nor do communist countries. Certainly, for most of the world the ‘secret police’ control overtly or covertly what people dare to say.
FACEBOOK ‘reporting’ will respond. I’ve been ‘silenced’ repeatedly because it is now a ‘tactic’ of ‘opposition’ to ‘report as ‘spam’ anyone who disagrees with a political position of their opposition. So as a Christian I have been ‘silenced’ by the opposition ‘reporting’ me to the authorities. I speak with the authorities and they apologize. Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for the Left doing this to the right and middle. As a “Centrist’ I’ve been repeatedly reported by the Left. The Left sadly today is the enemy of the middle and the right of society and increasingly represent a minority elite that falsely maintains their claim to represent the ‘middle’ or ‘lower’. Both leadership of right and left are serving the elite’. Politics is really about choosing the least bad alternatives. No man is a God and Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I truly believe Donald, Hillary, Bernie, Stephen, Justin, and Tom were all really nice kids. Their deviance probably showed first in high school. Now they’re leaders. Even Adolph and Joseph and Winston were likely delightful children before they deviated.
‘Crying wolf’ is todays new ‘bully tactic’. Society is struggling with false accusations and the courts are playing catch up. Facebook apologises more often than Canadians.
In the actual face book feeds I ‘block’ and ‘unfriend’ people almost daily. These are people who ‘enter a comment feed’ aggressively. They’re usually vulgar. Most often they have not read the feed but believe that being ‘opinionated’ is a virtue. They ‘attack’ me and frankly I never backed down from a ‘bar fight’ or a ‘debate’ or a ‘Facebook fisticuffs.” With friends and usually friends of friends we have rather useful discussions. But I don’t like bullies of any gender or disposition and have a life time record of defending persecuted people and indeed myself when I have been attacked.
In a discussion the ’subject’ of the discussion is separate from those who are the ones discussing. In debate , I used to do this at universities’ back when I actually fenced and competed in things as well, the minute a person ‘attacks the messenger’ they ‘forfeit’ the debate. It’s like playing golf with someone and they pull out a gun and shoot you. Obviously they’ve lost the golf game but they, being psychopaths, sociopaths, or just under socialized or emotionally unintelligent might well tell their friends they won the golf game against Tiger Woods but fail to mention that they used a 9 mm Glock in the game.
The unfriend button is like everyone ‘avoiding’ the ‘dangerously insane’ man or ‘hysterically psychotic woman’ in the cafe asylum. They’re just angry and looking for someone to unleash their anger on. They never contribute to discussion and there’s no learning and no fun. They don’t want to ’talk’ but would rather ‘fight’.
I don’t like to fight. I hospitalized a number of people in my youth and even when I won and the other guy was being taken away by ambulance I found my jaw or my hand hurt for days. Once I learned ’surgery’ and began playing guitar and lived by my ability to have hands to write and type and touch I have avoided ‘fights’ because that’s all ’thugs’ do. I actually prefer countries where I can have a gun so I don’t have to get into a ‘bludgeoning’ exercise with a young guy who never made anything with his hands and only used his hands to hurt people.
So Facebook has an ‘unfriend’ and an ‘unfollow’ button. However I lived in an apartment where my dope addicted drug dealing welfare recipient neighbour played heavy metal in the middle of the night and I had been delivering babies so was very tired. I asked him nicely to turn down his music. When he persisted persisted I called the landlord and did all the ‘right’ things to address his ‘vulgarity’ and ‘bullying’. It was a week or so later he surprised me and put a knife to my throat and held me off a balcony for a half hour spitting in my face. I called the police and they talked to him but I had to live the next two weeks and not be able to sleep in my apartment for fear that he’d attack me. He was evicted but I left that apartment too and had only survived by sleeping in the on call hospital rooms.
With the ‘liberalization’ of what the ‘middle and lower classes’ have , the rich live in gated communities, have armed body guards and multi million dollar mansions, the White House isn’t cheap and Justin and Sophie Trudeau complain that their multi million dollar accommodations are not glamorous enough. So now a day doesn’t go by that some one isn’t telling me about a ‘violent neighbour’ or a ‘bully’. I was fascinated to follow a two year process where a social housing complex suffered before they evicted this sex offender who grabbed women in the hall, a psychotic who raged night after night, a bully who had physically assaulted people, and a thief who had broken into other peoples homes in the complex. Weeks at a time I hear people crying telling me of how no one is protecting them and that these aggressive loud people are barging into their lives. Just this year my girlfriend had a psychotic drug addict banging on her wall screaming at her to shut down the music. I was sleeping at her place when this began so ‘confronted’ this truly crazy professional lady’ and she was evicted that week though she was screaming in the hall (thankfully in front of witnesses) that I was ‘raping her’. She’d come to our door to tell my little lovely girlfriend to ‘shut up’ but being a light sleeper I’d woken and gone to the door. Fascinating moments in Canada. Apparently an everyday occurrence in Detroit now and increasingly normal in Surrey. Communities are developing ‘block protection’ and “Vigilantism’ is on the rise because of the failure the of the existing authorities to ‘protect’ individuals without adequate wealth to be elite.
The other ‘offensive’ attack behaviour so common on ‘FACEBOOK “ is the ‘assumption of superiority’. All these are ‘personalized ‘ comments. I make a statement, i.e. Having babies young is associated with reduced cancer in women and another person responds with ‘you’re full of shit’ or that’s ‘conservative bullshit.” There are actually ‘trolls’ and different groups are paying people much like they did with ‘robocalls’. I’ve been targeted by these ‘computer’ generated programs on several occasions. My computer hacker friends have enlightened me to them.
In a ‘discussion’ the question is ‘relevance’ and people will also say ‘get to the point’. Indeed there are mechanisms now in business which address these ‘disruptors’. In the Navy Seals one technique is to ask the most junior to comment first so that they will not be ‘silenced’ by their superiors. The fallacy of the ‘appeal to the authority’ is addressed ironically in this case. The Climate Change Cult are actually silencing opposition by threatening lawsuits against anyone who disagrees with their particular insanity. Thank God the planet is in a warming phase. We have been since the last ice age. The question is the degree of contribution of man and the various ways of addressing that contribution. To question these latter highly erroneous propositions gets one faced with a lawsuit or at very least being called a ‘denier’. This was what the soviet union did when anyone disagreed with their ‘scientific’ position called Marx’s historical presumptions. . People who disagreed with the now wholly defunct marxian ideology akin to leeching in medicine was put in a psychiatric asylum. I know because I belonged to the “Psychiatrists against Political Abuse of Psychiatry’ an organization dedicated to science and keeping politicians from doing what the Climate Change Cult of the UN is doing now.
In my office I have a native ‘talking stick’. This is a means whereby everyone in a group gets a chance to speak. If a person wants to be ‘heard’ they can pick up the stick and as long as they are holding onto it they are not interrupted. When they are finished it gets passed back and forth or passed on. When I played chess we had a little machine that limited ‘stalling’ and ensured the ‘game’ went on rather than something else occurring.
The 12 step programs around the world have attempted to teach the very brain injured addicts and socially inept early recovery folk with a simple ‘no cross talk’. What this does is encourage people to ‘introduce’ new material rather than seeing their ‘role’ as the ‘critic’.
Today everyone is a ‘critic’. Especially pot smokers’ They sit on the couch and read the internet and watch tv and never actually do more than ‘criticize’ other peoples ideas and actions.
“Microanalysis” of contributions in corporate board rooms separate the ideas offered on ‘spread sheets’ because commonly another tactic of the ignorant is to rephrase an already stated opinion.
Robert’s Rules of Order was introduced to politics to ensure that ‘discussion’ preceded ‘vote’. Most people in the ‘comments’ sections see ‘comments’ as their ‘voting’ space rather than just ‘liking’ or ’not’. . “Fucking Right”. “Bullshit” etc are not discussion or even ‘comment’ but rather ‘colourful ‘ ‘votes’.
Further I’m an old guy with lots of experience so when some young inexperienced little shit especially an easily offended ‘critic’ takes a swipe at me in the ‘process’ way by ‘presumptive’ superiority or ‘disrespectful’ subtle ill mannered behaviour I, like the old dog, enjoy snapping the upstart down. To the external observer they might not see that this ‘junior’ person is indeed being offensive ‘intentionally’. The separation of heavy weights and light weights and gender and various forms of ‘weaponry’ is that there is no advantage to the superior in ‘unequal’ contests. Yet invariably a person will play ‘foul’ in a game and then do the ‘drama queen’ game removing the focus from the ‘discussion’ which they have obviously lost by this ‘antic’ or ‘gambit’ but now ‘personalizing’ the discussion to be about them and their being ‘offended’.
It’s one of the reasons today that you simply can’t have a ‘feminist’ or ‘racist’ or a 'sexist’ screaming ’self proclaimed ‘ referree or ‘mommy boy’ or ‘daddy girl’ in a conversation because they’re always waiting to be ‘offended’ to gain ‘centre of attention’ Being offended in their only ’skill’ and they ‘derail’ all ’society’ and all ‘conversation’ today by this means. Watching a soccer game today is painful with all the ‘fouls’ . There though, the ‘referee’ is the ‘agreed’ ‘foul caller’ whereas there increasingly are these genetic mutants who like idiot savants lack all other skills but this one and bark ignorantly all day, ‘look at me “i’m offended’.
In the asylum while there were people who wanted to sit alone at their table there were a lot of people who didn’t but were equally unable to ‘attract’ friends so always ‘barged’ in on other tables. The beauty of ‘theatre’ is that ‘actors’ learn not to ‘upstage’ each other and also how to ‘modulate’ their responses. I loved improvisational theatre and did this for years with a group of friends. It was a fascinating ‘social game’ much like when I played in a blues band and we all ‘jammed’ together.
Facebook is a relatively ‘unstructured’ setting. I mostly like it for puppies and inspirational messages. At the same time I sail and though only a few of my friends are sailors I like to share sailing posts. Not surprisingly my friends who share hockey posts have never been thuggish and arrogant or ignorant about my sailing posts.
It was once a truism of ‘success’ to “Never discuss Religion or Politics” My friend who lived in a Moslem country but wasn’t muslim said ‘we all learned to whisper’. He laughs at my openess and believes Canadian experiments in transparency will fail when we have the imminent civil war he predicts. .
When I became a professional my superior at the university said that I must learn ‘boundaries’. It’s what the College of Physicians and Surgeons teaches more and more these days. At the time he said you must only have friends who are in your ‘class’ . What he meant by that was that I only associated with other ‘professionals’ and other’s with ‘university degrees’. An English psychiatrist greatly admired for his apparent liberalism told me, as helpful advise, ‘don’t discuss anything important with women or the enlisted. The world is like a big army. We are the officers and the upper classes. The poor can never be trusted to understand and the women can never be trusted to keep their mouths shut.”
The principle way people ‘get along’ is by not associating with others who are different from them.
When it comes to religion I do extremely well in my Christian church. My muslim friend shines at his mosque. My jewish friend is a leader in his synagogue. My atheist friend is a leading communist teaching dialectics. My Hindu friends and Buddhist friends are equally admired.
On Facebook the usual ‘dangerous person’ is someone who really doesn’t know a person or associate closely with people who have different beliefs or religion or politics. I’m closely involved with a vast diversity of people and am very thankful to have friends who I admire even in the dastardly Liberal Party with that much maligned goofball Trudeau. I have this Liberal Leader friend who I enjoy discussions with and we’ve both corrected each other on history and significant points. What I thought Mulroney had done was indeed done by Martin.
My Palestinian Christian friend tells me all the persecution of Palestinians by the Jews and my Jewish friend tells me about being bombed by the Hamas.
But Facebook like conversations in asylum cafes never touch this ‘level’ of communication. I admire mostly my orthodox jewish friend not for their zionist beliefs but because I’ve seen them as a doctor taking incredible risks with their own life to save a Muslim patient’s life with a horrible infectious disease. I’ve been blessed to be with doctors and nurses who daily overlook differences to see the similarities and constantly are risking their lives and wealth on behalf of others. I like my policeman friend with his right wing views because I know how much he loves and cares for his children. I know my family for their years of sacrifice and love and cares of each other.
I love my friends but the strangers I meet on Facebook are such assholes as to threaten me….a fellow just said he looked forward to seeing me dead and another person attacks my family for their association by blood with me. I’ve even had people complain to my work because I held an opinion different from theirs. They were liberal and i was conservative and they complained against me saying that with my views I shouldn’t be allowed to practice medicine. They were 20 and I was 60 and I only had a fleeting thought of suicide when I got called by the authorities about this ‘offended’ young ‘girl’ who feels that people who aren’t ‘feminists’ should be jailed.
I’m pro life. Given the misinformation in the liberal media no one seems to know how persecuted the ‘pro life’ people are. I recommend anyone stand outside an abortion clinic silently for a day and find out what my 80 year old friend found out when she did just that. It’s never covered in the Canadian papers because Canada is dominated by death.
Facebook is dying. Freedom of speech and indeed freedom is no longer understood by the young. License is not freedom. Freedom comes with accountability. I have paid a terrible price from my beliefs. Defending Israel has had my family threatened. Defending homosexuals has brought me as much hate as defending heterosexuals. I learned long ago ‘if you stand up you make yourself a target’.
Canadians are polite and apologetic and nice because as my friend from the US said, they’re ‘snow niggers’. They’ve lost their rights and freedoms and live ‘lives of quiet desperation’. What’s amazing is that people who disliked their lack of freedom in their countries have moved to this once ‘wild’ country with all it’s opportunities. My grandparents came as much to escape the restrictions of Europe as for any other reason.
Facebook is like an asylum cafe. By contrast my blog is a booth along the side of internet metropolis. Though I really have stated what were very ‘offensive’ opinions to some the ‘comments’ on my blog have never been the level of FACEBOOk. Indeed the comments on blog pages are generally rather considered by comparison. I’ve over a half million hits on the blog with redistribution in the millions and despite that I’ve never been so ‘personally attacked’ as I have been on Facebook. Something inherent in the FACEBOOK formula as with the ‘comments’ section of CBC is inherently flawed. Something to do with Anonymity is inherent in this insanity. The Asylum Cafe is like a bar, people go their to be ‘insane’ or to get ‘drunk’. Facebook is such a place.
It’s at the level of ‘cross talk’ too. Something in ‘texting’ , the irritating ‘editor’ and the one finger jabbing on the iPhone makes the conversation like a distracted road rage experience in a crowded freeway. Sound bites about something more complex. There’s Paul Johnson’s book called the “intellectuals’ which showed that the ‘ideas’ of the great 18 to 20th century only ‘worked’ as communication because no one knew about their personal life. Today Charles Mason might well put forward a ‘great philosophy’ but quickly we’d ignore it because his life is despicable. Similarly Robert Picton the pig farm cannibal might have an idea or an opinion and no one cares for it. Yet Pickton and Manson can speak their minds on Facebook. it’s a dark space. FACE BOOK, before the ‘no smoking’ signs. The interesting thing is how the worlds spill over and in a positive sense I’ve gone for coffee with a person whose ideas I enjoyed on Facebook. I so love my friend Carol’s humour that I look forward to next time seeing her.
But I don’t like when people attack my friends and family in that adolescent ‘packing’ ‘whose in or whose out’ ‘selective’ misinformation way to ‘win their lost argument’.
"How can you have a friend like that?” a pedophile said to my friend, when I said his opinion ‘sounded like a pedophile’. I’d met so many pedophiles and heard their logic that I happened to say this without knowing he was one. Well, boy did that ‘lady protest too much’ . I found out from my friend their history and how none of the family allow them around children. We are as ‘sick as our secrets’. I was very thankful that he blocked me, unfriended me and complained to Facebook about me and wrote a Rate Your Doctor criticism because frankly he doesn’t really celebrate his preference for sex with children. Kill the messenger and a reminder of his being caught in the past clearly annoyed him. Yet as I typically tell people, an offence is human but the ‘cover up’ and the ‘reaction’ really do ‘out’ the truth.
But life is, as I get older, more and more like that asylum cafeteria. Facebook is really just one section, a very very tiny one in the much much larger cafeteria.
I have to go. We’re off to White Spot to have lunch with real friends in the real world.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
FACE BOOK AND THE POLITICS of SPECIAL STATUS
I like the connection with friends on Facebook It’s been enjoyable to reconnect, if only in that flat unidimensional, phone call type way that is Facebook. It’s been fun. I love that I am in touch with my family. My brother since has created a circular email. Opening that is now more enjoyable than Facebook. I’m thinking of leaving Facebook. It’s timely. I love the humour. It’s was my only connection with the ‘news’ and I enjoyed the ‘diversity’ of opinion till the last election. Then the sociopaths came out. The AD HOMINEM attacks took their toll. All the hate speech against the Prime Minister, a man I admired. Now I continue to express my loathing for the present regime. The leader offends so much I believe in and aging I want death rather than to live in HIS CANADA. My Canada is a place of freedom and meritocracy. HIS Canada is ENTITLEMENT and bureaucracy and waste, partisanship, corruption and CHARM. I have found myself in debate after debate only to be pilloried and condemn constantly by ‘name calling’ trolls. It’s wearying after the work I do and the threats I live with. Those who ‘fight’ my ‘opinion’ because Justin Trudeau and the Liberals say they want ‘diversity’ but the fact remains the Political Correct ‘want no opinion but their own’. The left is totalitarian and their views are more religiously held than any others. We can’t even ‘agree to disagree’ because they demand my ‘conversion’. I don’t agree.
Then there was the ‘lets all smoke pot’ agenda. I mourn the countless hours of free pro bono time my health care friends and I put into arguing against the rich psychopathic ‘smoke’ Tobacco companies. Now the rich psychopathic ‘smoke’ Marijuana companies with their billions of tax free money and crime association constantly mis inform and promote their product. I’m a prophet crying in the dessert. The same groups said cocaine was not addictive. So more and more on Facebook when I put forward a medical fact, share an interesting new thought in an area where I’m a specialist, addiction, I’m literally hammered with AD HOMINEM. Nasty name calling. I’m beginning to feel like I’m back in an abusive marriage with Facebook. All the trauma of all the cutting remarks and put downs and attacks and viciousness that caused me to walk away seem here once again with this multiple personality disorder Facebook persona.
I love the humour. I love the puppy dogs. I love the cats. I love the inspirational messages.
But when Obama and Merkel and Justin Trudeau said bringing in hundreds of thousands of immigrants was good and safe, I said, ‘whoa’. Excuse me. All my University level study of Sociology and Anthropology says that large movements of people quickly into other groups is the basis of civil war and societal destruction. So I said, heck, what’s the rush. And then the leaders lied. “Islam is a religion of peace.” That’s like saying ‘China is a country of Civil Liberties” or “Russia and US are countries of peace’. These are bald faced lies. The tragedy is if you tell a lie enough times people begin to believe it. Further these same bullies and diabolical fiends began to rewrite history. Christians were the enemy and Muslims were defensive. The stupidity of so many Canadians it appeared is that they didn’t know the history of the crusades and didn’t wish to study the history of the muslims. So I systematically, already having a masters of divinity, already having many muslim friends and having trained with muslims and studied muslims studied their religion. I’d read the Koran already but I took the time to study really study history and the Muslim religions. Everyday I’d listen to university audio tapes driving to and from work, learning about the teachings and the variety of disputes. I’d ask all the many muslims I knew and loved about their religion. I’d travel to Turkey and hire a professor of religion and history spending every day walking through mosques asking questions reading at night about the ideas. I thought as I always thought as education has taught me to think, maybe I ‘m wrong, maybe I’m missing something.
The conclusion was the Justin Trudeau and Obama are lying. Islam is no more a religion of Peace than America as a nation of peace. Good advertising. Good marketing but the truth is far different. Fundamentally Mohammed was a war lord and a killer and pedophile. Jesus was son of God, teacher, healer, non violent. The New Testament, the Gospel teaches love. the Koran, like the Jewish Torah, is a mix of tribal history and guerrilla warfare teaching coupled with passages of peace and love. Mohammed said war was the ‘lesser jihad’ whereas peace was the ‘greater Jihad’ of Islam. Islam is a religion of war. Now the greatest, and fewest of muslims, like Rumi know that all physical language refers to the spiritual paradoxically. So the war that is central to Hindu texts is about the war in each of us between right and wrong. The war between Jesus and Satan is the war within each of us between right and wrong, love and fear. I am ‘interpreting’ this but those who have a ‘mystical’ idea about any religion are the extreme minority. Even Buddhists are killing each other in a war over a temple in Thailand.
So Rumi, Buddha, Gandhi, Jesus, Martin Luther, may all ’teach’ peace but their followers and all the elites of the world who want power and have great greed and lust will and do use religion as a weapon for their own agenda, self aggrandizement. The only relevant atheist political expression to date is Communism and it killed more people more efficiently than any religious based nations state in history. Islam is no more a religion of peace than Judaism is a religion of peace. That doesn’t mean there are not a whole lot of peaceful Jews and Muslims.
The trouble is, Nazis were a very small minority of Germany and this minority lead Germany to war. Napoleon did the same in France. Justin Trudeau has only about a third of actual Canadian support but he insists on grandiosely speaking in the ROYAL WE. WE, CANADIANS. CANADIANS WANT. I am constantly excluded by his words. Like all communists his language is language of exclusion. If you don’t agree with me you are not a Canadian.
This is difficult for me because “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” I’m not a high self esteem guy. I’m at best an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. I have courage, which means that I do the right thing despite the incredible terror I feel. I get up go to work, eat, sleep and participate in Canada but Justin Trudeau and the Liberals say I am not a Canadian. The message I hear from him every day is ‘if you don’t agree with me , get the fuck out’.
Now on FACEBOOK I have had to hear repeatedly:
“Get the fuck out of Canada."
“Shut the fuck up"
“You are ignorant."
“You are uneducated."
“You don’t know what you’re talking about"
“You’re wrong”.
I heard enough of this when I was married. I remember my marriages as he said she said. We’d disagree and then the name calling would begin. I have always been ‘defensive’. I played defence in hockey. I have been in a number of street fights but never hit first. I actually avoid fights to the best of my ability because “first strike defence’ is the paranoids mantra. And today everyone it feels “entitled” to attack because they are the victim.
I’m a white male. White males aren’t allowed to be individually victims.
There is a flavour of the month victim board somewhere.
All my life these groups were the designated victims
1) Children - I’ve never hit a child but I’ve been cut and bruised by rock throwing gangs of children. I’ve been punched by children. Teen agers up to the age of 18 , maybe 21 are considered children. The law has had a special status for children as victims. So a gang of 18 year olds out of the blew surround and try to attack me coming home from the theatre with my wife. As I chase these knife wielding Canadian children off I am fully aware that my police and courts that I pay half my income, and the media in Canada will condemn me if I hurt one of these little angels. But because I put up a good resistance they flee. My liberal wife is upset with my ‘language’. ‘Did you not see the fucking knife!” Yes but did you have to say you’d rip off their limbs and feed them to their mother….you frightened me. “ My wife was as silly as Margaret Trudeau who said Morocco was perfectly safe for western women when I was staying in the rooms of a western woman murdered that week and the posts in the city had countless posters of lost blond american and canadian and european girls kidnaped for the sex trade. Margaret Trudeau failed to notice or mention that the Australian Rugby team was her companions in Morocco. The princess is always so self absorbed that she never even notices her parents or the men or servants who make her life ‘safe’. So maybe 99% of children and teen agers are victims but maybe just maybe .001 % of children and teen agers aren’t.
2) Women - all my life women have been the victim. I was brought up in a home and Christian community where ‘chivalry’ and protection of women was central. In the cowboy dogma of my youth a man “never hit a woman’. I was a women’s liberationist and even a feminist. I was immersed in all the propaganda of the ‘woman as underdog’ and man as the abuser. Then it got personal. All men are rapists. All men hate women. This sloganeering just didn’t jive with me my father, my brother or my friends. I knew individuals but then I lived in a country where the most privileged person was our QUEEN. QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS NOT A VICTIM. QUEEN ELIZABETH was a woman. So the delusions of the leftist feminist ideology wore thin in time. A half dozen women physically hit me. I walked away. I had excuses for that. Women didn’t handle their drink. Women would apologize and say they hit me because their last boyfriend hit them. Women asked me to hit them. Women asked me to shit one them. I refused. I got hit really hard trying to escape from violent women. “You can’t leave me!” she scream. “No man has ever left me!!” I ‘m growing deaf in the left ear. I put it down to shooting rifles but it could well be the cauliflower ear I was given by the woman bashing me as I tried to get out of the door.
“Women are never violent unless they have been attacked’ was the halcyon cry of the Canadian courts.
I’ve been attacked when I said “I’ve got to get some sleep, I work in the morning’ and the woman has been screaming for four hours and wants to keep screaming. I’ve got up to go to a hotel to get some sleep so I don’t kill a patient in surgery in the morning and have been hit leaving the room.
I remember another woman telling me , ‘you can’t go to the hospital. you can’t leave me because you’re on call. you tell them you can’t come . if you cared for me you’d stay’. That was the end of that relationship.
All my life men have been called the persecutors. First chivalry then feminism then radical feminism and then the insanity of sexist women today, angry violent and lying, always claiming the victim role a bit like Israel in every interaction with the Palestinians.
And personally, I HAVE NEVER HIT A WOMAN. I HAVE been hit several times by women. Women have threatened my life. Women have had their boyfriends hit me because my wives have pissed them off. I’ve fought a couple of low brows and hurt these thugs because their girl friends thought my wife was ‘disrespecting them’. I can say I’ve not felt good punching a stupid sick brute who is only trying to please his mommy girlfriend.
I’ve never raped or sexually assaulted a woman. But I was raped as a young man. Sexually assaulted for sure. I even had a woman ‘take advantage of me’ sexually when i was comatose at a party too drunk and stoned to move. She undressed me and fondled me and climbed on top of me and was angry because I ejaculated immediately. I didn’t feel good about that. I know I am supposed to. She was older. I know she had sex with several other men that night so it’s probably wasn’t ‘assault’ and at best it could be said ‘she took advantage of me’ . I know if a man did that to a woman it would be rape. Then I’ve had to live with double standards all my life. Mostly I have been afraid to question them because when I do my freedom is threatened, violence is threatened, and I’m verbally abused to say the least.
But I’ve seen the dangers that my wives and girlfriends had had to face and the threats to them physically that they’ve known so I do appreciate their ‘vulnerability’. When I was young I fought three guys trying to pick on a physically littler guy. Most of the women I ‘ve known are physically littler and with rare exception most of women I’ve known have been physically incompetent to defend themselves. It’s saddened me. I’ve only admired the few mature women I’ve known who were competent in martial arts and weapons. I love the women I know who can take care of themselves personally. My grandmother could take care of herself. I liked working in the country because generally the women were so much less dependent than their city sisters. The country women could shoot and ride horses. My ex wife, a city girl, was highly competent physically, a good shot and horsewoman, sailor and physically canny in Canada though out of Vancouver she was forever getting us in dangerous situations. She’d piss off women native to their countries and the women would talk to the men and the men would threaten my life telling me to ‘control’ my wife. She wasnt easy to control when she was sober let alone when she was drunk. The wives and girl friends who drank and did drugs weren't very lady like, not that I 'verbally' was a gentleman. What canadian woman is controllable either. So I’d get pushed around. I remember three guys pushing me about after my drunken wife had hit one of their wives. Women do that sort of thing but you aren't supposed to talk about it. Domestic violence studies show that 50% or more of the violence is female generated but that's not what the politics and courts say. SPECIAL VICTIM STATUS. One female judge in Canada found 350 plus cases consecutively against the man.
Still, maybe 99% of women are victims ,but maybe just maybe .000001% aren’t always and ever victims. Just maybe.
A(n RCMP just knocked on the door. Gilbert had a marvellous time barking and defending the home. I had to throw on pants and go out side. A woman had been sexually assaulted walking alone in the woods at night. They were going door to door showing us pictures of this scruffy guy. The chivalry part of me came on board. I have seen the damage first hand of sexual assault specially from the pedophiles and hate that the girls of Cologne and Rothingham are being raped and silenced. It’s so sad. I just don’t know. I look at the picture. I look at the young cop. )
I don’t want to be around children and I don’t feel safe around women though. I don’t know. I was falsely accused by a crack cocaine addicted ex prostitute of sexually harassing her. All she said was lies. She was trying to extort $5000 told me she’d ‘accuse me of sexual assault if I didn’t give her $5000”. I’d caught her stealing. I wanted her to leave. The lawyer who cost me $10,000 told me ‘this happens all the time, we always recommend men pay”. I talked to dozens of men in business and learned that everyone of them had been ‘shook’ down at some point. They all laughed at me because ‘the going price is ‘$2000”. “When ever we fire women they do this.” “It’s happened a dozen times in our firm”. A million dollars in time and energy, thousands of dollars later, I was exonerated but she got the money in the end because the bureaucracy all on salary all committed to the ‘innocence of all women’ and ‘all men are rapists’ and ‘solidarity with women’ simply could not accept that one man might be innocent.
“Women never lie about sex, “ said the College of Physican Assistant Registrar, a female physician.
The Vancouver police said, “when we sent an officer to get the stuff she’d stolen, she said "of course she'd taken it and no she wasn't giving it back and further t4hat our officer had sexually harassed her. We’re sorry we’ve closed the file. “ Cowards. Or smart. I've been involved in a half dozen or more false sexual assault cases, and mostly it's been women who have stopped the lying psychopaths. In one case though it was the police coroner who was at the site of the crime and diagnosed the woman had faked her wounds. She admitted to me she'd lied about being raped over and over again for money ,for revenge. "It was easy."
Still maybe 99% of women are victims but maybe .00000000001% aren’t. My mother was a saint like Mary so it’s always hard for a man especially one who is divorced and knows he failed his marriages to think it's not his own inherent failure as a human. ‘ The judge said ‘you should give her everything. You can’t expect 50%. You didn’t care for her enough. A man shouldn’t expect anything after a divorce.”
That song, “Id rather be a hammer than a nail’ rings in my ears at times like that.
And the Christian white male in me says, “you’re a sinner.’ And Noblesse oblige. And ‘I tried. I did my best’. “Your best isn’t good enough’. ‘I never meant for her to cry’. “It doesn’t matter what you wanted. She’s crying. You’re responsible for women crying.’ “it’s all your fault’. I’d been brought up that way. So I blamed myself. I curled up in a fetal position and waited till the kicking stopped.
I was poor.
I was homeless.
I was without food.
I was hungry.
I couldn’t work.
I accepted church charity.
I was on disability.
I was in jail.
I was in the psychiatric asylum.
But never was I told it wasn’t my fault. Always I was blamed. Always people were angry with me and always there was punishment with a smile. If ever I said to my mother or to any one, “she….’ I was told to shut up or was hit.’ If ever as a child, and I remember 6 years old, said ‘But he did….” i was told and hit and said’ It doesn’t matter what he or she did, you had no right to ‘react’. You’re a man.
So when the female teacher stripped me in class in kindergarten and caned me naked , she was the victim. When the principals caned me I was the evil one. When my mother or father hit me they said, “You make us hit you. If we don’t hit you the teachers or police will hit you harder and they may hit us so we’re doing this for your own good.” And when I ran away as a teen ager my parents were told that they didn’t hit me enough and that they should lock me up like a dog. I heard the police chief telling my dad that and saw how sad my gentle father was to be told he had to hit and imprison his son. The teacher had knocked me out with a wooden hammer thrown at my head and I’d had an egg the size of a golf ball in my forehead. My crime was I didn't stop what I was doing quick enough and he was making an 'example' of me. When my parents objected they were told that the teachers all agreed that ‘Billy Hay wasn’t beaten enough’ and that ‘his parents should beat him more’. I lived in terror that year and didn’t so much want to run away from my home, where I knew my parents loved me, but from Canada. I wanted to go to California but changed my mind. It was winter and I didn’t want to upset my mom and dad. So I came home but my parents had contacted the police and they came in and talked to my dad. I’d only been gone a few hours but it was winter in Canada and the adults knew a 16 or 17 year old kid might die alone in winter. They cared in their own way.
But maybe only women are victims. Maybe only feminist women are real victims. Anally raped I wasn’t really raped because I wasn’t vaginally raped. I never could be a victim with a woman. They had that all sewed up. it was their “SPECIAL STATUS” and men weren’t going hone into their FRANCHISE or move in on their BRAND.
Still, maybe 99% of women are victims but what if maybe .00000000000001% aren’t. That thought is still going to be the death of me. I’ve already gone through so much ‘sensitivity training’. The doctors and men in general are forever getting told we're not good enough and that we're neanderthals and that we have to change. It just hasn’t taken. I don't want to live anywhere where there are women and children. I understand those adults only and especially those elder adults only living places because the old men just aren't safe today. Like the Climate Change pseudoscientist position that ‘the consensus of scientists agree with the UN so this topic is closed and no one can question it or we’ll send them to jail’. Huh?!
I’m just too radical. “You are either with us or agin us” I”ve been told over and over again. “All or nothing’. No maybe. No middle of the road. All or nothing. YES or NO?
Lie, you idiot. Fuddle Duck, say Fuddle Duck, my Liberal friends say. Lying always works for the left. I just don't do it. It's a character flaw. I am truth teller. I'm working on discernment. I'm trying desperately to avoid people and places where lying is the fashion.
3) Quebec - all my life Quebec has been the VICTIM. Quebec and the French ngrates have been telling me about their mistreatment since Waterloo and the Plains of Abraham. All my life as an Western English Canadian I’ve been told that the French have “SPECIAL STATUS” and that I am am their victimizer. Even after they got countless billions of dollars from Western English Canadians they bite the hand that feeds, threaten to leave and call us all stupid shits. Fuck you English.
I have been required to learn French. I’ve paid for everything French and then one day in Montreal the French took down all the English signs. There was no social justice in Quebec. There was no level playing field. Further as a Canadian I learned that I couldn’t get work in Quebec because my 12 years of high school French didn’t make my ‘language’ strong enough. Further I was disenfranchised as a Western Canadian because I could never speak both languages well enough for the French ‘language police’. Indeed I was never welcomed in any of the Federal government positions because I was ‘linguistically disabled’. But this ‘disability’ was considered ‘offensive’ and ‘punishable’ and I suffered a great deal by being told I’d never be able to lead in Canada because my English accent ‘offended the ears of the Quebec’. My St Boniface room mate was humiliated in Quebec by their ridiculing him for his St. Boniface accent. If he, a fully bilingual person was to be inadequate there was little hope for me.
So maybe 99% of Quebec are victims, what about the .0001%?
3) Jews - Jews have always been victims as long as I’ve been on the planet. AUSCHWITZ gave them pride of place. And really I supported them and supporting my Jewish friends my life and my families life was threatened. There is antisemeticsm. But when a group of Jews were caught for theft and claimed that they were ‘victims of antisemiticism’ it seemed a bit far fetched. And over time I saw that the Auschwitz Brand competed with the Rwanda Brand and the Cambodia Brand and the SUDAN brand. This was a marketing issue not a humanitarian issue. Then there was the day that the Israelis invaded a ship at sea and claimed they were the victims but I’m a sea captain. And I couldn’t really identify with the Israeli air gunships and machine guns because as a ship captain I identified with the ship captain whose ship was invaded by pirates. So I had problems with Israelis as always the victims especially when I heard my Palestinian Christian tell me how her Christian people were persecuted. So yes the Jews are victims 90% of the time but 10% of the time maybe not. I was called ‘anti semiotic ‘ when I voiced this thought. So maybe 99% of the time and .001% maybe?
I remembered my wife shouting at me, “you will agree with me when I’m wrong’. True, loyalty is important and we don’t need each other’s loyalty as much when we’re right. Thankfully most of my jewish friends were moderates whatever that means to a Jew. I suspect mostly I’m not considered a threat because I’m irrelevant. My Jewish friend says he’s considered ‘irrelevant’ by the Jews that matter. We are the marginalized but ‘we’re not allowed to be victims’. We don’t get “SPECIAL STATUS” . Victimship does get Special Status. There is a major competition for ‘special status’ too because it’s not only lucrative but it’s powerful.
4)Indians/aboriginals/indigenous/first nations - all my life the aboriginals have been victims. What more can I say. White man is the oppressor of aboriginals though elsewhere black men oppressed the aboriginals and brown men and red yellow men oppressed the aboriginals as did red men oppress red men. So while it’s ‘racist’ to single out the white man as the oppressor it’s acceptable for a black woman to oppress a brown man. In Canada with it’s multiculturalism and liberalism all this wasn’t complicated but then it was. With immigration the competition for victim status heated up. Further the French , notorious oppressors of aboriginals, because they were oppressed didn’t have to deal with the issue of oppression till recently when it was recognized French Canadian men were indeed white and according to the Marxist play, white men rape women. Now Quebec is an oppressor of aboriginals and the rising number of aboriginals and the increasing wealth of aboriginals makes them a major powerful lobby competitive with the Jewish Lobby, The Quebec Lobby and the Women Lobby.
I’ve never hit an Aboriginal. My cousins are aboriginal. I grew up defending aboriginals and have given millions of dollars of my time pro bono to aboriginals. I’ve been threatened by aboriginals. Aboriginals tried to kill me when I was saving the life of an aboriginal. When I tried to stop an aboriginal woman being raped in a back ally she shouted at me, “I’d rather be raped by an Indian than saved by a whitey”. At that moment a group of guys ,aboriginal (we called them Indians back then) f came around the corner and I had to run for my life grabbing my girlfriend who’d said ‘aren’t you going to do something’ when we saw the girl being pushed down on the sidewalk. Later she’d say, “why did you get involved, you almost got me killed. You know how frightening that was for me.”
When an Indian was shooting at me screaming ‘kill the whitey’ one day and bullets were flying by my head because he mistakenly thought I was on aboriginal land when I shot a grouse I didn’t feel like a victimizer.But maybe his great great grandfather was victimized by someone else's great great grandfather and I was getting the hand me downs. My great great grandfathers were getting the shit kicked out of them by the English in Ireland or Culloden. But no one can mention Culloden. Irish Slaves and Culloden don't fit the PC Narrative.
But other than my Metis cousins, despite helping countless natives for decades, I’ve always had the uncanny feeling that natives would not help me. Indeed I have challenged my native friends about how they only beg and demand for themselves and never help others. I’ve pointed out that Jews help all manner of underdogs as I myself have. My French Canadian room mate would have given his life to protect me. With the Jews I expect that there may be an element of Marxist wisdom in keeping perpetual warfare going so they as a minority group can take advantage of the never ending war. The women I've always helped seemed to take it as 'entitlement'. I've given fortunes to women and they've always just laughed at what a sucker men are. My mother loved me more than anyone and my aunts were jewels so I really should be thankful. I've had great female friends.
Other Jewish and Muslem and secular friends, the physician and psychiatrist friends , are just as stupid as me . We admit we’d take a bullet out of Jesus, Mohammed, Hitler and Stalin and Obama and Justin Trudeau and Nixon and Buddha. We’re an indiscriminate lot as physicians and none of my friends who aren’t physicians understand why I’m so concerned that the Bahrain doctors were imprisoned for treating partisans and non partisans. It challenges my fundamental belief system and makes me wonder if I became a doctor because we never have to choose sides. But today all countries are targeting the red cross and in Vancouver the rioters attacked the ambulances. So I m beginning to think that doctors and nurses need to be issued hand guns because increasingly we’re being attacked. I've been threatened with guns and knives and struck in my office or at the hospital. I’ve been attacked a half dozen times in my work and never have the authorities cared. They’re in rank denial about the danger of the front line care givers all the while they cowardly stay as far as humanly possible from the real work and heavy lifting of front line medicine and surgery.Beaurocrats in general lead from behind. Like the Communists who shot the soldiers from behind to get them to go forward. Corporate ship captains these days are demanding to be the first to leave their sinking ships.
So I don’t know, it’s just that I now know Aboriginal Millionaires. My aboriginal lawyer friend is arrogant, obnoxious, pompous and vengeful. Meanwhile my aboriginal leader friend with countless grandchildren had two of his houses burned down by his own people but is as close to Martin Luther as anyone I know, a truly loving peaceful quiet elder . His successes have helped so many aboriginal people he’s become envied by those he helped. The TALL POPPY syndrome is very much alive in Canada.
It still seems though that while 99% of aboriginals are victims maybe .0001% aren’t.
5) Blacks; I grew up with all manner of immigrants around. Mom and Dad travelled and befriended people from other countries. So our friendship network included poles, ukranians, filipinos, blacks, chinese, catholics,even, jews, americans, just about anyone who was competent. If you worked and weren’t a ’shirker’ you were alright with the family. Part of that was being Baptist. There was only one Jew and one black person and one chinese person in my neighbourhood growing up. As protestants we thought the Catholics were the ‘other’. If someone accused my Irish mother of being “Caholicphobic’ they’d be right on because Grandad was an orange man and he’d left Ireland because he got tired of Catholics blowing things up. He came to Canada because it was peace fl.Then the Immigrants brought their wars with them. And the East Indians blew up the Canadian air plane. Dukabors burnt down houses. Dad just shook his head and said the people should leave their wars behind.
My friend is black. He’s an American Canadian immigrant. He loves Canada. When he talks about the Southern States he’s pretty angry. I’ve never thought he thinks I’m white. I’ve only started thinking about him as Black when I began getting called RACIST for questioning Muslim Syrians being fast tracked to Canada with all the evidence of riots in Europe, hundreds of women attacked in Cologne, the Muslim pedophila rings in Britain and the Angry Muslem men in Eastern Canada shouting at Canadians about their right to have sex with 9 yo girls while the LIBERALS are supporting SHARIA LAW courts for Muslems to complement the ABORIGINAL COURTS for aboriginals. I didn't even think of the Syrians as a 'race'. I certainly wasn't Islamophobe because I've never had anything but admiration for the Sufi's. A couple of my greatest mentors were Egyptian. They were psychiatrists. I might have thought less of them if they were surgeons but I never thought of them as 'other'.
I know some really rich and important black people in Canada and they don’t seem like Victims to me. I suppose EVERY MINORITY IS A VICTIM according to PC but I just don’t see it individually. The richest family in Canada is apparently Scottish but individually he’s not personally helped me though I accept I’ve been blessed to have been born in Canada. I'm eternally grateful that I wasn't born elsewhere. Being a Toronto Maple Leaf fan I was abused for years and only became accepted in the sporting world when I moved to Vancouver and started supporting the Canucks. The fact is black hasn’t been part of my world except for a couple of black friends. I’ve never fought a black . I grew up with a black doctor who was the best doctor a boy could have when he was desperately sick. I just missed out on the black thing. The media is full of blacks that sure haven't missed out on the white thing. The white thing is all they seem to talk about. I have to admit I really like the Black guys called the Black criminals and wankers on their shit. Like the one guy who said 'how can it help the black people if black people take every opportunity to have a riot so they can break into black people's stores and steal their cvs'. Reason doesn't affect the irrational emotional sensationalist PC Leftist crowd. They don't listen to anything but their VICTIM mantras.
It also doesn’t mean that complete strangers don’t call me “RACIST WHITE SHIT” all the time not even knowing me.
And I’ve put my time , my money and my work into helping people regardless of race and as a physician I’m poor today because I worked with the poor and marginalized. You get rich by being a doctor to the rich. it’s not rocket science. The richest doctors are the cosmetic plastic surgeons because they don’t help the sick, they help the rich and well. Doc Holiday might well do a little work in a burn unit but the money is where the rich and powerful and well are. I’ve always worked in the dark alleys of this world with the needy. That doesn’t count at all.It certainly doesn't pay.
Activists are a special group like journalists and critics in general. They are above looking at facts. They just talk and make money off criticizing everyone. I’ve lost money off helping people . I did years of pro bono work only to be condemned time and again in the rich Canadian courts for helping people who the courts clearly wanted to be denied ‘their day in the courts’. Journalists have attacked me for my pro bono work helping women in recovery. Whole columns have been written against me for years of pro bono work. I’ve been condemned by my colleagues even for helping schizophrenics. R.D. Laing the great defender of Schizophrenics was pilloried by his society. It’s not new.
If you stand up you make yourself a target. I know I'm not alone too. Just stupider than my colleagues.
If you are a ‘good samaritan’ in Canada you are running a risk of being destroyed along with those you help. When you get to heaven , St. Peter asks you, “show me your scars’. If you have none, he says, “didn’t you find anyone or anything worth fighting for. Didn’t you learn how to love.”
So again, I ask what if 99% of Blacks are perfect and only .00001% are maybe questionable. And then if there is a bad black like Idi Amin, say a black man is a murdering rapist, do I have to call him a RADICAL BLACK to be politically correct? And like, duh, the Queen of England and Canada is a woman and Obama is black. He’s the President of the most powerful country in history.So they're victims right, and because I'm a poor old white guy I'm the bad guy, right.? I just want to know if I've got this straight.
6) Gays, Lesbians, Transexual, Non Binary, Transvestites - I’m a male transvestite. I wear kilts and have even worn gowns but w’ere persecuted as perverts. My strictly gay friends are now ‘accepted’ victims’ . Gays and Lesbians have higher special status in the Sexual Victim Registry with the Transexuals vying desperately to catch up and get the same perks but it still happens that Transwomen are rejected by the biological women and transmen by the the biological men and both by gays and lesbians. But the transvestites they’re ridiculous. They're Monty Python and Benny Hill material.
When I got dressed up for the famous Vancouver ball, a group of men , drove down Davie street shouting obscenities and threats at all of us. I felt really vulnerable in high heels and felt a lot of sympathy for women then. Men dressed as women. Women dressed as men that night. It’s a very funny charity fund raiser. The drag queen ball. I’ve also done the Rocky Horror Picture show in lingerie with my toilet roll ready in my hand. I do dress up for Halloween too and wore a diaper once but mostly preferred pirate attire. All women in the west are Transvestites. Still when I put on a kilt for Robby Burns night I get asked by Asians, “why are men dressing like women tonight.?” So as a tainted heterosexual , once raped . you are an outsider. At best you get to be a bisexual. Then bisexuals are the most outside in the sexual world, not homosexual enough or heterosexual enough and thoroughly stigmatized. Asexual isn’t too good either since the priests ruined it for the monks and hermits. Wanker is the most acceptable slur today. Calling a person a masturbator is still fair game. I’ve been called every sexually negative word by someone sometime and never has it related to sex. When my ATV was stolen, the thief said, “Of course I stole the homos’s ATV” Of course the police and courts didn’t do anything because ‘sexual status’ isn’t quite there yet as I learned helping AIDS patients. In a game of Victim STATUS chess the lowest one is still a pedophile. But all the other sexual deviants including the S&M crowd are fair game. The SODOMITES are a particularly bad lot. And watching Porn of any kind still costs men their jobs all the time, but women can watch erotica. 50 Shades of Grey, a more disgusting book than any Penthouse letters ever was is okay because the billionaire has his lawyers get the virgin to sign a consent form before he whisks her off in his helicopter.
But what if we agreed 99% of the perverts are saints is it possible that .000001% of this group could be wrong maybe once? Maybe once.
7) Immigrants - My grandfather’s and grandmother’s were immigrants and I didn’t hear them ever whine about Canada. They were critical about the British Empire but would have fought as Canadians if called up to do so. Certainly my father joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served in World War II as a bombardier. He was scared he told me but never shot at. He was scared of the stupidity of the officers and the things that were expected of soldiers. He described a few occasions when he nearly died doing something that looked good on a map but didn’t take into account ravines and cliffs and such. Military ’timelines’ were myths that humans were expected to be superhuman to meet for the sake of officers who were good and bad. Dad’s most important lesson he learned in the military he said, was “Never Volunteer’. His best camaraderie though was with ex service men or the men he worked with.
Canada is a country of immigrants. All my life I’ve been surrounded by immigrants. Even though my best friends have been French Canadians and other Immigrant Canadians, I’m called XENOPHOBIC and RACIST constantly simply because I question our immigration board letting in a 3 time drug dealer murderer from Cuba who has done time in Cuban and US Jails and tells me he thought the people he killed needed killing. I wonder what this guy is doing in Canada. When I ask this question i'm called a XENOPHOBE. The scares even me and I’m attacked for asking the question. Really, verbally attacked.
Always my ‘license to practice medicine’ is threatened whenever I say anything ‘POLITICALLY INCORRECT”. Where physicians were once the voice of reason in politics now all my colleagues, all those I know, say, “I can’t afford to get involved in politics. The College of Physicians and Surgeons would have my license.” “Look what happened to…….and the list goes on”.
The beauorocratic attack politically is never direct. it’s always indirect. The COMMUNISTS were the best. When I was with the Psychiatrists against Political Abuse of Psychiatry, I learned how the game worked. It’s standard operating procedure in guerrilla warfare. “FIND SOME DIRT ON HIM and if you can’t find dirt on her, make it up”.
But I’m tired of defending my Grandfather and Grandmother as immigrants. The issue was never about immigration. Pierre Trudeau changed the laws regarding immigration to discourage the ‘needed’ immigrants and encourage those who were sick My black doctor friend said, “I only came to Canada because my parents needed dialysis. We wanted to go to the states but we couldn’t afford to pay for dialysis. That’s why all my friends came to Canada because they have sick or disabled family who were costing them too much in our country. Now as a doctor here myself I can’t appreciate that the free health care system means I get paid very little and pay exorbitant taxes. In the end it’s better than where I came from."
8) Vegetarians/Anti Vaccers/Scent Senstives…etc etc…etc.
I am a hunter and a fisherman. I was a strict vegetarian for years and then an egg and fish guy then an egg fish and fowl guy then a bloody moose ,venison and bear loving Canadian who is the scum of the earth because while I’ve shot my food with a bow, shoot deer with bow and arrow, and hunted pigs with spears (scariest thing I’ve done;the pigs all got away and I ran away) I’m the enemy of all. I’m the evil one. I’m a chicken killer. All those whose families have ever in the history of the world, in all 100,000 years who have ever eaten meat are suspect and abusing the poor vegetarians and their pure food diet people. I’m to be outlawed. The stigma against me is so great that I have to pay a fortune for the rifles I own and have been put in special registry of dirty bad Canadians who are watched 24/7 by the law because they are evil. Anyone who has killed an animal is SATAN. The poor vegetarians are victimized by our presence in their midst. They line up on streets showing pictures of chickens being killed. I noticed they’re wearing leather and things like that but that just inflames them . I been spat on by people who have told me that ‘people like you need to be killed so the plants can live’. I say I’m killing the deer to save the plants and they look at me with disdain and chant ‘killer killer killer’. Vegetarians are holy.
The fact is I find it hard to kill animals and when I raised chickens I found it really hard to kill the chickens I raised. I don’t even like killing fish. But then I felt sentimental about pulling up carrots. I am a big sissy and I’ve been called a sissy countless times. I’ve been called a killer and a sissy and an old white guy and all manner of horrible hate names. These are just the english terms. I’m sometimes interested in what I overhead when two people were pointing at me and calling me something as I was walking by. Just walking down the street in Canada or some other country, and much to my surprise,s I’ve looked up the word and I’ve learned that there are countless words in other languages that translate roughly to something like ‘nigger’ would in our english language. But it’s okay for people to use those words , words like ‘smuck’ or ‘round eyes’ but it’s not okay if they’re translated. My French friend told me just some of the french canadian "hate language"words for the English. Oddly they seemed to have some religious slur thrown in. But the vegetarians seem to get all the venom needed in ‘meat eater’.
I guess ‘cannibal’ doesn’t need a lot of dressing on it. If my neighbour ate my child and I was trying to be wholly inclusive and avoiding hate speech I might slur ‘cannibal’ at them even knowing the ‘PC speech police’ might not care if the guy ate my kid but certainly would be there to arrest me for saying ‘cannibal’.If I didn't want to go to jail, I'd have to remember to say something like "YOU RADICAL CANNIBAL!"
Oddly my Immigrant vegetarian friends don’t care that I eat meat. It’s only the white Canadian female vegetarians from wealthy families with private school education that have called me filthy names for being a meat eater and objecting to them blocking the sidewalk with their demonstration and signs. A lot of my life I’m just trying to get to and from my work as a physician and I have to go through all this drama and I’m tired. I broke up a fight once between three white guys and three black guys in front of my apartment and then all six of them were going to beat me up. I’ve had all these white girls angry with me because I just want to walk down the street and they’re angry I’m not caring for the chickens they’re holding up pictures about. it didn’t help that I told them I killed Bambi to protect the vegetables. I know I’m wrong. I know I’m the source of all evil in the world. My ex wives made it very clear that I’m the source of all evil. I am a total and utter failure . So I understand why vegetarians would hate me. But…..all ….100%.
But what if 99% of vegetarians and all the other folk are right, is it possible maybe that .00001% are wrong? Maybe?
8) Refugees. One of my favourite psychiatrist friends came as a refugee. My first wife came as a refugee. Obviously I love refugees. I love that people who are persecuted in their country can come here. I love that my refugee friends who lvoe Canada and compare Canada so favourably with their country of persecution.
I’ve helped countless refugees.
I’ve raised an eyebrow though when increasingly ‘political refugees’ who have come to Canada because their lives were in danger in their country once they get citizen status and are on disability return to their country. It happens more and more and has caused me some concern. There have been reasonable explanations. Regimes have changed. It’s all above board most of the time but occasionally it’s the DISABILITY INDUSTRY that has attracted patients who turn out later not to be ‘at risk’ in their country. But one bad apple…… They’re rare in the range of things though I’ve noticed that the Canadian government doesn’t rectify matters when these same people turn out to be doing a variety of criminal activities here. They seem to have SPECIAL STATUS.
Increasingly as a Canadian I’ve thought ‘if i did that’ I’d be arrested.
But I know of no country where an Immigrant of a minority religion gets to be the MINISTER OF DEFENCE. We have Mr. Singh and we had Dr. Hedy Fry who I campaigned for and yet travelling around the world I notice no CANADIAN Immigrant to other countries being made Minister of Defence. I know of no Muslim Country where a Christian could be Minister of Defence. I know too that Syria had a law that said ‘only a Muslim could be President”. Further, travelling I found that there were restrictions on foreigners buying land all over the world and so many restrictions to me as an immigrant. Mexico our friendly neighbour even had restrictions against me as a Canadian.
The whole idea of ‘fair play’ or ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ or ‘level playing field’ or ‘equal opportunity’ are all meaningless to a whole lot of people of other religions and nationalities. I begin to worry playing soccer doesn't teach people to be good sports like playing hockey does.
When I questioned the decision to have ‘25000 refugees’ brought into Canada in a month because of political showboating and suddenly we were going to accept refugees from a country who were the allies not of our ally America, but rather of our former enemy Russia, and were of a religion that promoted death to infidels (Christians, Secularists, and Canadians in general) I expressed my heart felt ‘fear” . In stead of being told ‘we understand your fear’ I was called a RACIST. "I was called an Islamophobe" (It was as bad as when I questioned yet another tax , the CARBON TAX, a tax on breathing, on top of all the taxes we already pay as Canadians and how useless the government increasingly is, having multi million dollar parties and giving billions of dollars to the UN, I was called a CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER> i.e. "YOU're Psychotic!!! to question more Taxation by your Liberal Good Government. I
was lied to by my leadership and was attacked verbally in the most offensive way. Indeed I was threatened. I continue to be called RACIST and XENOPHOBIC. People tell me to get the fuck out of Canada if you don't like Justin Trudeau and his plan to bring in hundreds of thousands of immigrants willy nilly at billions of dollars cost when all day long I see homeless people and can't get supplies for my patients and haven't any resources and am chronically tired of saying no to patients who can't understand why they've paid for services and can't get anything.
(Now Canada has a history of having had refugees and immigrant women from the Congo. These Muslem women were sent to Canada by their warlord husbands. Each husband had 4 to 10 wives. The men sent their wives here to collect disability. The women collected disability here and sent 9/10 of the money back to the Congo. American soldiers wondering who was paying for the ammunition which the Muslim terrorists were shooting at them found out that the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT was Paying for the AMMUNITION and Weapons to supply terrorists by this little African muslim women's scam).
Having lived in America I know that the terrorists that attacked America came through Canada so I have some anxiety.
I was bombed when I lived in London by the IRA. I evacuated buildings a dozen times. My life was often threatened. My wife was caught in a bomb blast. Her face was torn up by flying glass. She cried in her sleep. We were scared. Our parents wanted us to come home because it was so dangerous. A plane I was boarding was found to have a terrorist on board. I’ve had my close calls. I’m not known for crying wolf.
But when I expressed concern I was condemned. I was called a RACIST. I was called countless obscenities.
I recently was called IGNORANT. I was called UNEDUCATED. I WAS CALLED WHITE. I WAS CALLED OLD MAN. The number of slurs and character assassinations and hate speech directed at me in the last few months is incredible. And though I never ‘started’ any of these visious violent interchanges I might well have contributed to their escalation. As a Christian I’m taught to ‘turn my cheek 70 times 70 times so I keep count and when the right number pops up I confess I do take a certain delight in retaliating which I recognize is a character flaw but I’ve also found that bullies will bully until you hit back.
An Israeli leader just got in deep shit saying that the only thing that stops a muslim terrorist is the threat to rape their daughter. Naturally as an isralei in the world of real politick he’s probably had the life of his daughter threatened. RAPE is indeed a recognized act of war in the history. The RAPE of the SABINES wasn’t at all sexist but biological. By ‘raping the wives of your defeated’ you could ensure that they had a generation delay in the production of another army. But SEXISTS only see rape through their discrete lens i.e. about women. Boys and men have been raped in the past too but they don’t count. Still it’s all ‘barbaric’ but when Mr. Harper tried to stop the genital mutilation of children with his law against ‘barbaric practices’ he was condemned a dirty old white man despite the law being proposed by muslim and hindu canadian woman.
The fact is a REFUGEE is a VICTIM all the time.
I have this problem because when I was in italy the refugees who were attacking girls there were former soldiers from Africa. I got mugged and called an‘INFIDEL” as my cross was torn from my neck by a muslim gang, ex military. The Greeks were incensed at the Afghanistan and Iraqi young men attacking Christians and stealing their silver and gold crosses to sell because they didn’t care for the wider ramifications these attacks had on the Greek Tourist trade. So my friend who rescues ’snakes’ says that no one wants to put money into saving ‘reptiles’ but the SPCA has a booming trade in cuddly kittens, puppies and bunnies. Sentimentalism and Emotional Reasoning reign.
But to even question if a refugee might be a psychopath is to break the rules. This is despite the fact that we have major crime problems in Vancouver because of Immigrant or Refugee TONG Gang Members from the East and Russian Gangsters from the west. To even suggest that a Middle East refugee might be a serial murderer or a serial rapist or GOD FORBID, Isis or a Jihadist, may get you arrested. Justin Trudeau was more angry with a refugee being pepper sprayed than he was when Canadians living here were murdered by terrorists. He certainly didn't get very concerned about police being killed. There’s that double standard.
But what if 99% of refugees are saints and only .0001% of refugees are dangerous psychopaths, is that reason for concern. Or should we be, claiming we want to hear from all Canadians, but shut up any Canadian who expresses ‘fear’ and ‘anxiety’. I heard once that a woman being raped was criticized for screaming. Ironic because we're normally condemned for not screaming.
An American soldier told me that a beaurocratic message had been sent round advising the soldiers to remember that they may be being filmed when they are wounded and that profanities negatively affect the war effort. So don’t say ‘fuck’ when you are shot, please.
Don’t you just love POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!. We can all kill and maim and lie and cheat just as long as we maintain the proper grammar, speak with proper sentences, wear suits, smile that lizard like way.
I’ve helped countless refugees get into Canada. I’ve done thousands of dollars of ‘volunteer’ ‘pro bono’ work for refugees getting them the letters and referrals needed for them to get resources and assistance they need.
So maybe 99% of refugees are perfect but what about that .0001%.
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I don’t know where it stops.
As a Christian I’m taught that I must ‘get down off the cross, we can use the wood’. There’s a song, ‘were you there when they crucified the lord’ and it teaches us that we weren’t just spectators but that we were shoving the spear in his side. That’s the message of Sinners.
It’s a joke when the therapists did ‘past life regression’ therapy and the hypnotists looked at ‘past lives’. Everyone was Cleopatra or some King or Queen. But no one was Hitler or Stalin or Jack the Ripper. It’s just ‘not nice’.
Now some of the SPECIAL STATUS ‘victims’ are Christians too so I wonder ‘what their part was in killing Jesus’ because as Christian’s we are taught to believe that we are all Sinners. Even Peter denied Jesus. In the history of Martyrs all one generally had to do was say, alright I’ll worship the Emperor. Okay the lions don’t get fed with a Christian today, The same with witch trials . Mostly people just had to say, okay I’m a witch and they didn’t get burnt. The big problem is the truth tellers and those inflexible sorts that won’t lie. Jesus, they are a royal pain in the ass. Personally, I’m not a very good Christian because I don’t think I’d insist I was if one of my friends or family were threatened. Hell, threaten my dog and I’m jelly. I know because my cat was killed when I took a stand against something earlier in my life.I regretted what I had done. It didn't seem to warrant the death of my cat. She was an innocent and I couldn't protect her.
The problem arises for me today is the HIERARCHY OF SPECIAL STATUS. If a brown refugee man rapes a jewish aboriginal women which counts more especially if one is from Quebec and one is from Western Canada and both have a history of drug abuse and lying but the judge is a Liberal or an atheist, whose the more victim.
It’s just incredibly confusing for me. I really don’t know what the law is any more. I know ‘thou shalt not kill’ but even ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is gone in Canada because everyone’s lives are ruined with only the accusation and then FACEBOOK gossip columns do the rest.
Finally I’m suffering from a disease which makes me tend to be prone to self pity. I spend all day convincing myself life is good. I do prayer and meditation and force myself daily to see that the glass is half full or all full. Hell I know that the problem is me. My friend Milton, a marvellous black Christian used to tell me he had a sentence on his mirror that said “you’re looking at the problem’.
So I know that. Justin Trudeau is probably Jesus Christ incarnate. Obama is probably Einstein. Putin is for sure Mother Mary. I love Leonard Cohen. I am the KY Jelly.
But I know I’m not supposed to think like this, especially now. I am warned by the threats and the verbal abuse.
It’s just every day I want to run away from Canada because I don’t belong here. I have no home. I sailed away once and it was good. More and more people come to me agoraphobic and social phobic. The number of people who are anxious is incredible. Everyone I know is afraid to talk openly now.
I loved when my Indian friend told me ‘we all had to learn to whisper’ .
Now I’ve been told to leave Canada. That I’m not a Canadian. Every time Justin Trudeau or a liberal speaks for Canadians I know they’re not speaking for me so I’m utterly and fully excluded. So I really want to leave. I’m tired of the hate speech. I’m so tired of AD HOMINEMs. I’m so very tired of being told I’m IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED, STUPID, SEXIST, ISLAMAPHOBE, RACIST, WHITE and OLD and the names go on and on. I could take it but not when the leader of the country and his leading party and his followers are constantly calling me names anytime I disagree with something they say. I spend all day dealing with people who I tell that they’re better than the names they’re called. I am all day long hearing people talk about their abuse in this country. Then I go to FACEBOOK and I hear it all night.
I thought to make a job of it. I try to give it back . You hit me. I hit you back.
But I’m just too tired.
FACE BOOK doesn’t want me.
CANADA doesn’t want me. I’ve been told too many times to Fuck off . Get out of Canada. If you don’t like it leave. It’s where I was born. No other country wants CANADIANS. I can’t claim refugee status in any other country. Most of Africa won’t have me because I’m a wanker. Blacks don’t masturbate or have sex with other men or women with women so most black countries kill people like me who admit to it. Muslim countries don’t want Christians. Buddhist countries don’t want Christians. Everyone thinks that as a doctor I should be able to go anywhere but it’s not like that. There are barriers to doctors all over the world. I have a dog. Dogs are discriminated against everywhere in Canada and as a dog owner I’m discriminated everywhere in churches, in AA meetings, in stores. The only reason I’m willing to go to heaven is they take dogs. Generally I’ve learned too that if a place doesn’t want my dog they’re eventually going to hurt me. It was even better when I had my cat. Generally speaking people who don’t like pets don't like pet owners and don’t like me. Weird. I have fish too. It’s too much baggage so no one wants me. The Landlords hate us and no one cares about us but we don’t have any SPECIAL STATUS. I pay more in all the hotels and I”m excluded everywhere even though my dog is a THERAPY DOG.
So I don’t know where to go. Somedays I just don’t go out. I’m afraid to talk to people because I might say something that might offend them. I lived with wives who were depressed and everything I said offended them so now I’m in a country where I’m feeling like those last years when their parents had died and they were depressed and everything I did was offensive and I spent years walking on egg shells until I accepted I was the problem and ran away. I’m always running away. Soon all I’ll have to run away to death but that’s okay.Death looks better than Canada some days. Especially if Heaven is like Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's heaven.
I’m a dinosaur. I’m extinct.
I don’t have a SPECIAL STATUS category. I can’t even complain about being bullied.
I don’t even have a country any more. I’m not a Canadian. CANADIANS don’t think like I do.
Reminds me of when Paul Simon wrote the song about ‘going off to look for America’. I guess that’s what I m going to have to do soon.
I miss my sailboat. Sometimes I could find Canada standing by the mast smashing through big waves heeled over in a storm. Sometimes I found Canada riding on my motorcycle through the mountains. It’s been raining for days. Maybe when the tulips come back I’ll get some hope. Maybe even have some faith.
It just seems bleak. Life is suffering unto death, Kierkegaard said.But he was Dutch. He never was a Canadian.
Then there was the ‘lets all smoke pot’ agenda. I mourn the countless hours of free pro bono time my health care friends and I put into arguing against the rich psychopathic ‘smoke’ Tobacco companies. Now the rich psychopathic ‘smoke’ Marijuana companies with their billions of tax free money and crime association constantly mis inform and promote their product. I’m a prophet crying in the dessert. The same groups said cocaine was not addictive. So more and more on Facebook when I put forward a medical fact, share an interesting new thought in an area where I’m a specialist, addiction, I’m literally hammered with AD HOMINEM. Nasty name calling. I’m beginning to feel like I’m back in an abusive marriage with Facebook. All the trauma of all the cutting remarks and put downs and attacks and viciousness that caused me to walk away seem here once again with this multiple personality disorder Facebook persona.
I love the humour. I love the puppy dogs. I love the cats. I love the inspirational messages.
But when Obama and Merkel and Justin Trudeau said bringing in hundreds of thousands of immigrants was good and safe, I said, ‘whoa’. Excuse me. All my University level study of Sociology and Anthropology says that large movements of people quickly into other groups is the basis of civil war and societal destruction. So I said, heck, what’s the rush. And then the leaders lied. “Islam is a religion of peace.” That’s like saying ‘China is a country of Civil Liberties” or “Russia and US are countries of peace’. These are bald faced lies. The tragedy is if you tell a lie enough times people begin to believe it. Further these same bullies and diabolical fiends began to rewrite history. Christians were the enemy and Muslims were defensive. The stupidity of so many Canadians it appeared is that they didn’t know the history of the crusades and didn’t wish to study the history of the muslims. So I systematically, already having a masters of divinity, already having many muslim friends and having trained with muslims and studied muslims studied their religion. I’d read the Koran already but I took the time to study really study history and the Muslim religions. Everyday I’d listen to university audio tapes driving to and from work, learning about the teachings and the variety of disputes. I’d ask all the many muslims I knew and loved about their religion. I’d travel to Turkey and hire a professor of religion and history spending every day walking through mosques asking questions reading at night about the ideas. I thought as I always thought as education has taught me to think, maybe I ‘m wrong, maybe I’m missing something.
The conclusion was the Justin Trudeau and Obama are lying. Islam is no more a religion of Peace than America as a nation of peace. Good advertising. Good marketing but the truth is far different. Fundamentally Mohammed was a war lord and a killer and pedophile. Jesus was son of God, teacher, healer, non violent. The New Testament, the Gospel teaches love. the Koran, like the Jewish Torah, is a mix of tribal history and guerrilla warfare teaching coupled with passages of peace and love. Mohammed said war was the ‘lesser jihad’ whereas peace was the ‘greater Jihad’ of Islam. Islam is a religion of war. Now the greatest, and fewest of muslims, like Rumi know that all physical language refers to the spiritual paradoxically. So the war that is central to Hindu texts is about the war in each of us between right and wrong. The war between Jesus and Satan is the war within each of us between right and wrong, love and fear. I am ‘interpreting’ this but those who have a ‘mystical’ idea about any religion are the extreme minority. Even Buddhists are killing each other in a war over a temple in Thailand.
So Rumi, Buddha, Gandhi, Jesus, Martin Luther, may all ’teach’ peace but their followers and all the elites of the world who want power and have great greed and lust will and do use religion as a weapon for their own agenda, self aggrandizement. The only relevant atheist political expression to date is Communism and it killed more people more efficiently than any religious based nations state in history. Islam is no more a religion of peace than Judaism is a religion of peace. That doesn’t mean there are not a whole lot of peaceful Jews and Muslims.
The trouble is, Nazis were a very small minority of Germany and this minority lead Germany to war. Napoleon did the same in France. Justin Trudeau has only about a third of actual Canadian support but he insists on grandiosely speaking in the ROYAL WE. WE, CANADIANS. CANADIANS WANT. I am constantly excluded by his words. Like all communists his language is language of exclusion. If you don’t agree with me you are not a Canadian.
This is difficult for me because “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.” I’m not a high self esteem guy. I’m at best an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. I have courage, which means that I do the right thing despite the incredible terror I feel. I get up go to work, eat, sleep and participate in Canada but Justin Trudeau and the Liberals say I am not a Canadian. The message I hear from him every day is ‘if you don’t agree with me , get the fuck out’.
Now on FACEBOOK I have had to hear repeatedly:
“Get the fuck out of Canada."
“Shut the fuck up"
“You are ignorant."
“You are uneducated."
“You don’t know what you’re talking about"
“You’re wrong”.
I heard enough of this when I was married. I remember my marriages as he said she said. We’d disagree and then the name calling would begin. I have always been ‘defensive’. I played defence in hockey. I have been in a number of street fights but never hit first. I actually avoid fights to the best of my ability because “first strike defence’ is the paranoids mantra. And today everyone it feels “entitled” to attack because they are the victim.
I’m a white male. White males aren’t allowed to be individually victims.
There is a flavour of the month victim board somewhere.
All my life these groups were the designated victims
1) Children - I’ve never hit a child but I’ve been cut and bruised by rock throwing gangs of children. I’ve been punched by children. Teen agers up to the age of 18 , maybe 21 are considered children. The law has had a special status for children as victims. So a gang of 18 year olds out of the blew surround and try to attack me coming home from the theatre with my wife. As I chase these knife wielding Canadian children off I am fully aware that my police and courts that I pay half my income, and the media in Canada will condemn me if I hurt one of these little angels. But because I put up a good resistance they flee. My liberal wife is upset with my ‘language’. ‘Did you not see the fucking knife!” Yes but did you have to say you’d rip off their limbs and feed them to their mother….you frightened me. “ My wife was as silly as Margaret Trudeau who said Morocco was perfectly safe for western women when I was staying in the rooms of a western woman murdered that week and the posts in the city had countless posters of lost blond american and canadian and european girls kidnaped for the sex trade. Margaret Trudeau failed to notice or mention that the Australian Rugby team was her companions in Morocco. The princess is always so self absorbed that she never even notices her parents or the men or servants who make her life ‘safe’. So maybe 99% of children and teen agers are victims but maybe just maybe .001 % of children and teen agers aren’t.
2) Women - all my life women have been the victim. I was brought up in a home and Christian community where ‘chivalry’ and protection of women was central. In the cowboy dogma of my youth a man “never hit a woman’. I was a women’s liberationist and even a feminist. I was immersed in all the propaganda of the ‘woman as underdog’ and man as the abuser. Then it got personal. All men are rapists. All men hate women. This sloganeering just didn’t jive with me my father, my brother or my friends. I knew individuals but then I lived in a country where the most privileged person was our QUEEN. QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS NOT A VICTIM. QUEEN ELIZABETH was a woman. So the delusions of the leftist feminist ideology wore thin in time. A half dozen women physically hit me. I walked away. I had excuses for that. Women didn’t handle their drink. Women would apologize and say they hit me because their last boyfriend hit them. Women asked me to hit them. Women asked me to shit one them. I refused. I got hit really hard trying to escape from violent women. “You can’t leave me!” she scream. “No man has ever left me!!” I ‘m growing deaf in the left ear. I put it down to shooting rifles but it could well be the cauliflower ear I was given by the woman bashing me as I tried to get out of the door.
“Women are never violent unless they have been attacked’ was the halcyon cry of the Canadian courts.
I’ve been attacked when I said “I’ve got to get some sleep, I work in the morning’ and the woman has been screaming for four hours and wants to keep screaming. I’ve got up to go to a hotel to get some sleep so I don’t kill a patient in surgery in the morning and have been hit leaving the room.
I remember another woman telling me , ‘you can’t go to the hospital. you can’t leave me because you’re on call. you tell them you can’t come . if you cared for me you’d stay’. That was the end of that relationship.
All my life men have been called the persecutors. First chivalry then feminism then radical feminism and then the insanity of sexist women today, angry violent and lying, always claiming the victim role a bit like Israel in every interaction with the Palestinians.
And personally, I HAVE NEVER HIT A WOMAN. I HAVE been hit several times by women. Women have threatened my life. Women have had their boyfriends hit me because my wives have pissed them off. I’ve fought a couple of low brows and hurt these thugs because their girl friends thought my wife was ‘disrespecting them’. I can say I’ve not felt good punching a stupid sick brute who is only trying to please his mommy girlfriend.
I’ve never raped or sexually assaulted a woman. But I was raped as a young man. Sexually assaulted for sure. I even had a woman ‘take advantage of me’ sexually when i was comatose at a party too drunk and stoned to move. She undressed me and fondled me and climbed on top of me and was angry because I ejaculated immediately. I didn’t feel good about that. I know I am supposed to. She was older. I know she had sex with several other men that night so it’s probably wasn’t ‘assault’ and at best it could be said ‘she took advantage of me’ . I know if a man did that to a woman it would be rape. Then I’ve had to live with double standards all my life. Mostly I have been afraid to question them because when I do my freedom is threatened, violence is threatened, and I’m verbally abused to say the least.
But I’ve seen the dangers that my wives and girlfriends had had to face and the threats to them physically that they’ve known so I do appreciate their ‘vulnerability’. When I was young I fought three guys trying to pick on a physically littler guy. Most of the women I ‘ve known are physically littler and with rare exception most of women I’ve known have been physically incompetent to defend themselves. It’s saddened me. I’ve only admired the few mature women I’ve known who were competent in martial arts and weapons. I love the women I know who can take care of themselves personally. My grandmother could take care of herself. I liked working in the country because generally the women were so much less dependent than their city sisters. The country women could shoot and ride horses. My ex wife, a city girl, was highly competent physically, a good shot and horsewoman, sailor and physically canny in Canada though out of Vancouver she was forever getting us in dangerous situations. She’d piss off women native to their countries and the women would talk to the men and the men would threaten my life telling me to ‘control’ my wife. She wasnt easy to control when she was sober let alone when she was drunk. The wives and girl friends who drank and did drugs weren't very lady like, not that I 'verbally' was a gentleman. What canadian woman is controllable either. So I’d get pushed around. I remember three guys pushing me about after my drunken wife had hit one of their wives. Women do that sort of thing but you aren't supposed to talk about it. Domestic violence studies show that 50% or more of the violence is female generated but that's not what the politics and courts say. SPECIAL VICTIM STATUS. One female judge in Canada found 350 plus cases consecutively against the man.
Still, maybe 99% of women are victims ,but maybe just maybe .000001% aren’t always and ever victims. Just maybe.
A(n RCMP just knocked on the door. Gilbert had a marvellous time barking and defending the home. I had to throw on pants and go out side. A woman had been sexually assaulted walking alone in the woods at night. They were going door to door showing us pictures of this scruffy guy. The chivalry part of me came on board. I have seen the damage first hand of sexual assault specially from the pedophiles and hate that the girls of Cologne and Rothingham are being raped and silenced. It’s so sad. I just don’t know. I look at the picture. I look at the young cop. )
I don’t want to be around children and I don’t feel safe around women though. I don’t know. I was falsely accused by a crack cocaine addicted ex prostitute of sexually harassing her. All she said was lies. She was trying to extort $5000 told me she’d ‘accuse me of sexual assault if I didn’t give her $5000”. I’d caught her stealing. I wanted her to leave. The lawyer who cost me $10,000 told me ‘this happens all the time, we always recommend men pay”. I talked to dozens of men in business and learned that everyone of them had been ‘shook’ down at some point. They all laughed at me because ‘the going price is ‘$2000”. “When ever we fire women they do this.” “It’s happened a dozen times in our firm”. A million dollars in time and energy, thousands of dollars later, I was exonerated but she got the money in the end because the bureaucracy all on salary all committed to the ‘innocence of all women’ and ‘all men are rapists’ and ‘solidarity with women’ simply could not accept that one man might be innocent.
“Women never lie about sex, “ said the College of Physican Assistant Registrar, a female physician.
The Vancouver police said, “when we sent an officer to get the stuff she’d stolen, she said "of course she'd taken it and no she wasn't giving it back and further t4hat our officer had sexually harassed her. We’re sorry we’ve closed the file. “ Cowards. Or smart. I've been involved in a half dozen or more false sexual assault cases, and mostly it's been women who have stopped the lying psychopaths. In one case though it was the police coroner who was at the site of the crime and diagnosed the woman had faked her wounds. She admitted to me she'd lied about being raped over and over again for money ,for revenge. "It was easy."
Still maybe 99% of women are victims but maybe .00000000001% aren’t. My mother was a saint like Mary so it’s always hard for a man especially one who is divorced and knows he failed his marriages to think it's not his own inherent failure as a human. ‘ The judge said ‘you should give her everything. You can’t expect 50%. You didn’t care for her enough. A man shouldn’t expect anything after a divorce.”
That song, “Id rather be a hammer than a nail’ rings in my ears at times like that.
And the Christian white male in me says, “you’re a sinner.’ And Noblesse oblige. And ‘I tried. I did my best’. “Your best isn’t good enough’. ‘I never meant for her to cry’. “It doesn’t matter what you wanted. She’s crying. You’re responsible for women crying.’ “it’s all your fault’. I’d been brought up that way. So I blamed myself. I curled up in a fetal position and waited till the kicking stopped.
I was poor.
I was homeless.
I was without food.
I was hungry.
I couldn’t work.
I accepted church charity.
I was on disability.
I was in jail.
I was in the psychiatric asylum.
But never was I told it wasn’t my fault. Always I was blamed. Always people were angry with me and always there was punishment with a smile. If ever I said to my mother or to any one, “she….’ I was told to shut up or was hit.’ If ever as a child, and I remember 6 years old, said ‘But he did….” i was told and hit and said’ It doesn’t matter what he or she did, you had no right to ‘react’. You’re a man.
So when the female teacher stripped me in class in kindergarten and caned me naked , she was the victim. When the principals caned me I was the evil one. When my mother or father hit me they said, “You make us hit you. If we don’t hit you the teachers or police will hit you harder and they may hit us so we’re doing this for your own good.” And when I ran away as a teen ager my parents were told that they didn’t hit me enough and that they should lock me up like a dog. I heard the police chief telling my dad that and saw how sad my gentle father was to be told he had to hit and imprison his son. The teacher had knocked me out with a wooden hammer thrown at my head and I’d had an egg the size of a golf ball in my forehead. My crime was I didn't stop what I was doing quick enough and he was making an 'example' of me. When my parents objected they were told that the teachers all agreed that ‘Billy Hay wasn’t beaten enough’ and that ‘his parents should beat him more’. I lived in terror that year and didn’t so much want to run away from my home, where I knew my parents loved me, but from Canada. I wanted to go to California but changed my mind. It was winter and I didn’t want to upset my mom and dad. So I came home but my parents had contacted the police and they came in and talked to my dad. I’d only been gone a few hours but it was winter in Canada and the adults knew a 16 or 17 year old kid might die alone in winter. They cared in their own way.
But maybe only women are victims. Maybe only feminist women are real victims. Anally raped I wasn’t really raped because I wasn’t vaginally raped. I never could be a victim with a woman. They had that all sewed up. it was their “SPECIAL STATUS” and men weren’t going hone into their FRANCHISE or move in on their BRAND.
Still, maybe 99% of women are victims but what if maybe .00000000000001% aren’t. That thought is still going to be the death of me. I’ve already gone through so much ‘sensitivity training’. The doctors and men in general are forever getting told we're not good enough and that we're neanderthals and that we have to change. It just hasn’t taken. I don't want to live anywhere where there are women and children. I understand those adults only and especially those elder adults only living places because the old men just aren't safe today. Like the Climate Change pseudoscientist position that ‘the consensus of scientists agree with the UN so this topic is closed and no one can question it or we’ll send them to jail’. Huh?!
I’m just too radical. “You are either with us or agin us” I”ve been told over and over again. “All or nothing’. No maybe. No middle of the road. All or nothing. YES or NO?
Lie, you idiot. Fuddle Duck, say Fuddle Duck, my Liberal friends say. Lying always works for the left. I just don't do it. It's a character flaw. I am truth teller. I'm working on discernment. I'm trying desperately to avoid people and places where lying is the fashion.
3) Quebec - all my life Quebec has been the VICTIM. Quebec and the French ngrates have been telling me about their mistreatment since Waterloo and the Plains of Abraham. All my life as an Western English Canadian I’ve been told that the French have “SPECIAL STATUS” and that I am am their victimizer. Even after they got countless billions of dollars from Western English Canadians they bite the hand that feeds, threaten to leave and call us all stupid shits. Fuck you English.
I have been required to learn French. I’ve paid for everything French and then one day in Montreal the French took down all the English signs. There was no social justice in Quebec. There was no level playing field. Further as a Canadian I learned that I couldn’t get work in Quebec because my 12 years of high school French didn’t make my ‘language’ strong enough. Further I was disenfranchised as a Western Canadian because I could never speak both languages well enough for the French ‘language police’. Indeed I was never welcomed in any of the Federal government positions because I was ‘linguistically disabled’. But this ‘disability’ was considered ‘offensive’ and ‘punishable’ and I suffered a great deal by being told I’d never be able to lead in Canada because my English accent ‘offended the ears of the Quebec’. My St Boniface room mate was humiliated in Quebec by their ridiculing him for his St. Boniface accent. If he, a fully bilingual person was to be inadequate there was little hope for me.
So maybe 99% of Quebec are victims, what about the .0001%?
3) Jews - Jews have always been victims as long as I’ve been on the planet. AUSCHWITZ gave them pride of place. And really I supported them and supporting my Jewish friends my life and my families life was threatened. There is antisemeticsm. But when a group of Jews were caught for theft and claimed that they were ‘victims of antisemiticism’ it seemed a bit far fetched. And over time I saw that the Auschwitz Brand competed with the Rwanda Brand and the Cambodia Brand and the SUDAN brand. This was a marketing issue not a humanitarian issue. Then there was the day that the Israelis invaded a ship at sea and claimed they were the victims but I’m a sea captain. And I couldn’t really identify with the Israeli air gunships and machine guns because as a ship captain I identified with the ship captain whose ship was invaded by pirates. So I had problems with Israelis as always the victims especially when I heard my Palestinian Christian tell me how her Christian people were persecuted. So yes the Jews are victims 90% of the time but 10% of the time maybe not. I was called ‘anti semiotic ‘ when I voiced this thought. So maybe 99% of the time and .001% maybe?
I remembered my wife shouting at me, “you will agree with me when I’m wrong’. True, loyalty is important and we don’t need each other’s loyalty as much when we’re right. Thankfully most of my jewish friends were moderates whatever that means to a Jew. I suspect mostly I’m not considered a threat because I’m irrelevant. My Jewish friend says he’s considered ‘irrelevant’ by the Jews that matter. We are the marginalized but ‘we’re not allowed to be victims’. We don’t get “SPECIAL STATUS” . Victimship does get Special Status. There is a major competition for ‘special status’ too because it’s not only lucrative but it’s powerful.
4)Indians/aboriginals/indigenous/first nations - all my life the aboriginals have been victims. What more can I say. White man is the oppressor of aboriginals though elsewhere black men oppressed the aboriginals and brown men and red yellow men oppressed the aboriginals as did red men oppress red men. So while it’s ‘racist’ to single out the white man as the oppressor it’s acceptable for a black woman to oppress a brown man. In Canada with it’s multiculturalism and liberalism all this wasn’t complicated but then it was. With immigration the competition for victim status heated up. Further the French , notorious oppressors of aboriginals, because they were oppressed didn’t have to deal with the issue of oppression till recently when it was recognized French Canadian men were indeed white and according to the Marxist play, white men rape women. Now Quebec is an oppressor of aboriginals and the rising number of aboriginals and the increasing wealth of aboriginals makes them a major powerful lobby competitive with the Jewish Lobby, The Quebec Lobby and the Women Lobby.
I’ve never hit an Aboriginal. My cousins are aboriginal. I grew up defending aboriginals and have given millions of dollars of my time pro bono to aboriginals. I’ve been threatened by aboriginals. Aboriginals tried to kill me when I was saving the life of an aboriginal. When I tried to stop an aboriginal woman being raped in a back ally she shouted at me, “I’d rather be raped by an Indian than saved by a whitey”. At that moment a group of guys ,aboriginal (we called them Indians back then) f came around the corner and I had to run for my life grabbing my girlfriend who’d said ‘aren’t you going to do something’ when we saw the girl being pushed down on the sidewalk. Later she’d say, “why did you get involved, you almost got me killed. You know how frightening that was for me.”
When an Indian was shooting at me screaming ‘kill the whitey’ one day and bullets were flying by my head because he mistakenly thought I was on aboriginal land when I shot a grouse I didn’t feel like a victimizer.But maybe his great great grandfather was victimized by someone else's great great grandfather and I was getting the hand me downs. My great great grandfathers were getting the shit kicked out of them by the English in Ireland or Culloden. But no one can mention Culloden. Irish Slaves and Culloden don't fit the PC Narrative.
But other than my Metis cousins, despite helping countless natives for decades, I’ve always had the uncanny feeling that natives would not help me. Indeed I have challenged my native friends about how they only beg and demand for themselves and never help others. I’ve pointed out that Jews help all manner of underdogs as I myself have. My French Canadian room mate would have given his life to protect me. With the Jews I expect that there may be an element of Marxist wisdom in keeping perpetual warfare going so they as a minority group can take advantage of the never ending war. The women I've always helped seemed to take it as 'entitlement'. I've given fortunes to women and they've always just laughed at what a sucker men are. My mother loved me more than anyone and my aunts were jewels so I really should be thankful. I've had great female friends.
Other Jewish and Muslem and secular friends, the physician and psychiatrist friends , are just as stupid as me . We admit we’d take a bullet out of Jesus, Mohammed, Hitler and Stalin and Obama and Justin Trudeau and Nixon and Buddha. We’re an indiscriminate lot as physicians and none of my friends who aren’t physicians understand why I’m so concerned that the Bahrain doctors were imprisoned for treating partisans and non partisans. It challenges my fundamental belief system and makes me wonder if I became a doctor because we never have to choose sides. But today all countries are targeting the red cross and in Vancouver the rioters attacked the ambulances. So I m beginning to think that doctors and nurses need to be issued hand guns because increasingly we’re being attacked. I've been threatened with guns and knives and struck in my office or at the hospital. I’ve been attacked a half dozen times in my work and never have the authorities cared. They’re in rank denial about the danger of the front line care givers all the while they cowardly stay as far as humanly possible from the real work and heavy lifting of front line medicine and surgery.Beaurocrats in general lead from behind. Like the Communists who shot the soldiers from behind to get them to go forward. Corporate ship captains these days are demanding to be the first to leave their sinking ships.
So I don’t know, it’s just that I now know Aboriginal Millionaires. My aboriginal lawyer friend is arrogant, obnoxious, pompous and vengeful. Meanwhile my aboriginal leader friend with countless grandchildren had two of his houses burned down by his own people but is as close to Martin Luther as anyone I know, a truly loving peaceful quiet elder . His successes have helped so many aboriginal people he’s become envied by those he helped. The TALL POPPY syndrome is very much alive in Canada.
It still seems though that while 99% of aboriginals are victims maybe .0001% aren’t.
5) Blacks; I grew up with all manner of immigrants around. Mom and Dad travelled and befriended people from other countries. So our friendship network included poles, ukranians, filipinos, blacks, chinese, catholics,even, jews, americans, just about anyone who was competent. If you worked and weren’t a ’shirker’ you were alright with the family. Part of that was being Baptist. There was only one Jew and one black person and one chinese person in my neighbourhood growing up. As protestants we thought the Catholics were the ‘other’. If someone accused my Irish mother of being “Caholicphobic’ they’d be right on because Grandad was an orange man and he’d left Ireland because he got tired of Catholics blowing things up. He came to Canada because it was peace fl.Then the Immigrants brought their wars with them. And the East Indians blew up the Canadian air plane. Dukabors burnt down houses. Dad just shook his head and said the people should leave their wars behind.
My friend is black. He’s an American Canadian immigrant. He loves Canada. When he talks about the Southern States he’s pretty angry. I’ve never thought he thinks I’m white. I’ve only started thinking about him as Black when I began getting called RACIST for questioning Muslim Syrians being fast tracked to Canada with all the evidence of riots in Europe, hundreds of women attacked in Cologne, the Muslim pedophila rings in Britain and the Angry Muslem men in Eastern Canada shouting at Canadians about their right to have sex with 9 yo girls while the LIBERALS are supporting SHARIA LAW courts for Muslems to complement the ABORIGINAL COURTS for aboriginals. I didn't even think of the Syrians as a 'race'. I certainly wasn't Islamophobe because I've never had anything but admiration for the Sufi's. A couple of my greatest mentors were Egyptian. They were psychiatrists. I might have thought less of them if they were surgeons but I never thought of them as 'other'.
I know some really rich and important black people in Canada and they don’t seem like Victims to me. I suppose EVERY MINORITY IS A VICTIM according to PC but I just don’t see it individually. The richest family in Canada is apparently Scottish but individually he’s not personally helped me though I accept I’ve been blessed to have been born in Canada. I'm eternally grateful that I wasn't born elsewhere. Being a Toronto Maple Leaf fan I was abused for years and only became accepted in the sporting world when I moved to Vancouver and started supporting the Canucks. The fact is black hasn’t been part of my world except for a couple of black friends. I’ve never fought a black . I grew up with a black doctor who was the best doctor a boy could have when he was desperately sick. I just missed out on the black thing. The media is full of blacks that sure haven't missed out on the white thing. The white thing is all they seem to talk about. I have to admit I really like the Black guys called the Black criminals and wankers on their shit. Like the one guy who said 'how can it help the black people if black people take every opportunity to have a riot so they can break into black people's stores and steal their cvs'. Reason doesn't affect the irrational emotional sensationalist PC Leftist crowd. They don't listen to anything but their VICTIM mantras.
It also doesn’t mean that complete strangers don’t call me “RACIST WHITE SHIT” all the time not even knowing me.
And I’ve put my time , my money and my work into helping people regardless of race and as a physician I’m poor today because I worked with the poor and marginalized. You get rich by being a doctor to the rich. it’s not rocket science. The richest doctors are the cosmetic plastic surgeons because they don’t help the sick, they help the rich and well. Doc Holiday might well do a little work in a burn unit but the money is where the rich and powerful and well are. I’ve always worked in the dark alleys of this world with the needy. That doesn’t count at all.It certainly doesn't pay.
Activists are a special group like journalists and critics in general. They are above looking at facts. They just talk and make money off criticizing everyone. I’ve lost money off helping people . I did years of pro bono work only to be condemned time and again in the rich Canadian courts for helping people who the courts clearly wanted to be denied ‘their day in the courts’. Journalists have attacked me for my pro bono work helping women in recovery. Whole columns have been written against me for years of pro bono work. I’ve been condemned by my colleagues even for helping schizophrenics. R.D. Laing the great defender of Schizophrenics was pilloried by his society. It’s not new.
If you stand up you make yourself a target. I know I'm not alone too. Just stupider than my colleagues.
If you are a ‘good samaritan’ in Canada you are running a risk of being destroyed along with those you help. When you get to heaven , St. Peter asks you, “show me your scars’. If you have none, he says, “didn’t you find anyone or anything worth fighting for. Didn’t you learn how to love.”
So again, I ask what if 99% of Blacks are perfect and only .00001% are maybe questionable. And then if there is a bad black like Idi Amin, say a black man is a murdering rapist, do I have to call him a RADICAL BLACK to be politically correct? And like, duh, the Queen of England and Canada is a woman and Obama is black. He’s the President of the most powerful country in history.So they're victims right, and because I'm a poor old white guy I'm the bad guy, right.? I just want to know if I've got this straight.
6) Gays, Lesbians, Transexual, Non Binary, Transvestites - I’m a male transvestite. I wear kilts and have even worn gowns but w’ere persecuted as perverts. My strictly gay friends are now ‘accepted’ victims’ . Gays and Lesbians have higher special status in the Sexual Victim Registry with the Transexuals vying desperately to catch up and get the same perks but it still happens that Transwomen are rejected by the biological women and transmen by the the biological men and both by gays and lesbians. But the transvestites they’re ridiculous. They're Monty Python and Benny Hill material.
When I got dressed up for the famous Vancouver ball, a group of men , drove down Davie street shouting obscenities and threats at all of us. I felt really vulnerable in high heels and felt a lot of sympathy for women then. Men dressed as women. Women dressed as men that night. It’s a very funny charity fund raiser. The drag queen ball. I’ve also done the Rocky Horror Picture show in lingerie with my toilet roll ready in my hand. I do dress up for Halloween too and wore a diaper once but mostly preferred pirate attire. All women in the west are Transvestites. Still when I put on a kilt for Robby Burns night I get asked by Asians, “why are men dressing like women tonight.?” So as a tainted heterosexual , once raped . you are an outsider. At best you get to be a bisexual. Then bisexuals are the most outside in the sexual world, not homosexual enough or heterosexual enough and thoroughly stigmatized. Asexual isn’t too good either since the priests ruined it for the monks and hermits. Wanker is the most acceptable slur today. Calling a person a masturbator is still fair game. I’ve been called every sexually negative word by someone sometime and never has it related to sex. When my ATV was stolen, the thief said, “Of course I stole the homos’s ATV” Of course the police and courts didn’t do anything because ‘sexual status’ isn’t quite there yet as I learned helping AIDS patients. In a game of Victim STATUS chess the lowest one is still a pedophile. But all the other sexual deviants including the S&M crowd are fair game. The SODOMITES are a particularly bad lot. And watching Porn of any kind still costs men their jobs all the time, but women can watch erotica. 50 Shades of Grey, a more disgusting book than any Penthouse letters ever was is okay because the billionaire has his lawyers get the virgin to sign a consent form before he whisks her off in his helicopter.
But what if we agreed 99% of the perverts are saints is it possible that .000001% of this group could be wrong maybe once? Maybe once.
7) Immigrants - My grandfather’s and grandmother’s were immigrants and I didn’t hear them ever whine about Canada. They were critical about the British Empire but would have fought as Canadians if called up to do so. Certainly my father joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served in World War II as a bombardier. He was scared he told me but never shot at. He was scared of the stupidity of the officers and the things that were expected of soldiers. He described a few occasions when he nearly died doing something that looked good on a map but didn’t take into account ravines and cliffs and such. Military ’timelines’ were myths that humans were expected to be superhuman to meet for the sake of officers who were good and bad. Dad’s most important lesson he learned in the military he said, was “Never Volunteer’. His best camaraderie though was with ex service men or the men he worked with.
Canada is a country of immigrants. All my life I’ve been surrounded by immigrants. Even though my best friends have been French Canadians and other Immigrant Canadians, I’m called XENOPHOBIC and RACIST constantly simply because I question our immigration board letting in a 3 time drug dealer murderer from Cuba who has done time in Cuban and US Jails and tells me he thought the people he killed needed killing. I wonder what this guy is doing in Canada. When I ask this question i'm called a XENOPHOBE. The scares even me and I’m attacked for asking the question. Really, verbally attacked.
Always my ‘license to practice medicine’ is threatened whenever I say anything ‘POLITICALLY INCORRECT”. Where physicians were once the voice of reason in politics now all my colleagues, all those I know, say, “I can’t afford to get involved in politics. The College of Physicians and Surgeons would have my license.” “Look what happened to…….and the list goes on”.
The beauorocratic attack politically is never direct. it’s always indirect. The COMMUNISTS were the best. When I was with the Psychiatrists against Political Abuse of Psychiatry, I learned how the game worked. It’s standard operating procedure in guerrilla warfare. “FIND SOME DIRT ON HIM and if you can’t find dirt on her, make it up”.
But I’m tired of defending my Grandfather and Grandmother as immigrants. The issue was never about immigration. Pierre Trudeau changed the laws regarding immigration to discourage the ‘needed’ immigrants and encourage those who were sick My black doctor friend said, “I only came to Canada because my parents needed dialysis. We wanted to go to the states but we couldn’t afford to pay for dialysis. That’s why all my friends came to Canada because they have sick or disabled family who were costing them too much in our country. Now as a doctor here myself I can’t appreciate that the free health care system means I get paid very little and pay exorbitant taxes. In the end it’s better than where I came from."
8) Vegetarians/Anti Vaccers/Scent Senstives…etc etc…etc.
I am a hunter and a fisherman. I was a strict vegetarian for years and then an egg and fish guy then an egg fish and fowl guy then a bloody moose ,venison and bear loving Canadian who is the scum of the earth because while I’ve shot my food with a bow, shoot deer with bow and arrow, and hunted pigs with spears (scariest thing I’ve done;the pigs all got away and I ran away) I’m the enemy of all. I’m the evil one. I’m a chicken killer. All those whose families have ever in the history of the world, in all 100,000 years who have ever eaten meat are suspect and abusing the poor vegetarians and their pure food diet people. I’m to be outlawed. The stigma against me is so great that I have to pay a fortune for the rifles I own and have been put in special registry of dirty bad Canadians who are watched 24/7 by the law because they are evil. Anyone who has killed an animal is SATAN. The poor vegetarians are victimized by our presence in their midst. They line up on streets showing pictures of chickens being killed. I noticed they’re wearing leather and things like that but that just inflames them . I been spat on by people who have told me that ‘people like you need to be killed so the plants can live’. I say I’m killing the deer to save the plants and they look at me with disdain and chant ‘killer killer killer’. Vegetarians are holy.
The fact is I find it hard to kill animals and when I raised chickens I found it really hard to kill the chickens I raised. I don’t even like killing fish. But then I felt sentimental about pulling up carrots. I am a big sissy and I’ve been called a sissy countless times. I’ve been called a killer and a sissy and an old white guy and all manner of horrible hate names. These are just the english terms. I’m sometimes interested in what I overhead when two people were pointing at me and calling me something as I was walking by. Just walking down the street in Canada or some other country, and much to my surprise,s I’ve looked up the word and I’ve learned that there are countless words in other languages that translate roughly to something like ‘nigger’ would in our english language. But it’s okay for people to use those words , words like ‘smuck’ or ‘round eyes’ but it’s not okay if they’re translated. My French friend told me just some of the french canadian "hate language"words for the English. Oddly they seemed to have some religious slur thrown in. But the vegetarians seem to get all the venom needed in ‘meat eater’.
I guess ‘cannibal’ doesn’t need a lot of dressing on it. If my neighbour ate my child and I was trying to be wholly inclusive and avoiding hate speech I might slur ‘cannibal’ at them even knowing the ‘PC speech police’ might not care if the guy ate my kid but certainly would be there to arrest me for saying ‘cannibal’.If I didn't want to go to jail, I'd have to remember to say something like "YOU RADICAL CANNIBAL!"
Oddly my Immigrant vegetarian friends don’t care that I eat meat. It’s only the white Canadian female vegetarians from wealthy families with private school education that have called me filthy names for being a meat eater and objecting to them blocking the sidewalk with their demonstration and signs. A lot of my life I’m just trying to get to and from my work as a physician and I have to go through all this drama and I’m tired. I broke up a fight once between three white guys and three black guys in front of my apartment and then all six of them were going to beat me up. I’ve had all these white girls angry with me because I just want to walk down the street and they’re angry I’m not caring for the chickens they’re holding up pictures about. it didn’t help that I told them I killed Bambi to protect the vegetables. I know I’m wrong. I know I’m the source of all evil in the world. My ex wives made it very clear that I’m the source of all evil. I am a total and utter failure . So I understand why vegetarians would hate me. But…..all ….100%.
But what if 99% of vegetarians and all the other folk are right, is it possible maybe that .00001% are wrong? Maybe?
8) Refugees. One of my favourite psychiatrist friends came as a refugee. My first wife came as a refugee. Obviously I love refugees. I love that people who are persecuted in their country can come here. I love that my refugee friends who lvoe Canada and compare Canada so favourably with their country of persecution.
I’ve helped countless refugees.
I’ve raised an eyebrow though when increasingly ‘political refugees’ who have come to Canada because their lives were in danger in their country once they get citizen status and are on disability return to their country. It happens more and more and has caused me some concern. There have been reasonable explanations. Regimes have changed. It’s all above board most of the time but occasionally it’s the DISABILITY INDUSTRY that has attracted patients who turn out later not to be ‘at risk’ in their country. But one bad apple…… They’re rare in the range of things though I’ve noticed that the Canadian government doesn’t rectify matters when these same people turn out to be doing a variety of criminal activities here. They seem to have SPECIAL STATUS.
Increasingly as a Canadian I’ve thought ‘if i did that’ I’d be arrested.
But I know of no country where an Immigrant of a minority religion gets to be the MINISTER OF DEFENCE. We have Mr. Singh and we had Dr. Hedy Fry who I campaigned for and yet travelling around the world I notice no CANADIAN Immigrant to other countries being made Minister of Defence. I know of no Muslim Country where a Christian could be Minister of Defence. I know too that Syria had a law that said ‘only a Muslim could be President”. Further, travelling I found that there were restrictions on foreigners buying land all over the world and so many restrictions to me as an immigrant. Mexico our friendly neighbour even had restrictions against me as a Canadian.
The whole idea of ‘fair play’ or ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ or ‘level playing field’ or ‘equal opportunity’ are all meaningless to a whole lot of people of other religions and nationalities. I begin to worry playing soccer doesn't teach people to be good sports like playing hockey does.
When I questioned the decision to have ‘25000 refugees’ brought into Canada in a month because of political showboating and suddenly we were going to accept refugees from a country who were the allies not of our ally America, but rather of our former enemy Russia, and were of a religion that promoted death to infidels (Christians, Secularists, and Canadians in general) I expressed my heart felt ‘fear” . In stead of being told ‘we understand your fear’ I was called a RACIST. "I was called an Islamophobe" (It was as bad as when I questioned yet another tax , the CARBON TAX, a tax on breathing, on top of all the taxes we already pay as Canadians and how useless the government increasingly is, having multi million dollar parties and giving billions of dollars to the UN, I was called a CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER> i.e. "YOU're Psychotic!!! to question more Taxation by your Liberal Good Government. I
was lied to by my leadership and was attacked verbally in the most offensive way. Indeed I was threatened. I continue to be called RACIST and XENOPHOBIC. People tell me to get the fuck out of Canada if you don't like Justin Trudeau and his plan to bring in hundreds of thousands of immigrants willy nilly at billions of dollars cost when all day long I see homeless people and can't get supplies for my patients and haven't any resources and am chronically tired of saying no to patients who can't understand why they've paid for services and can't get anything.
(Now Canada has a history of having had refugees and immigrant women from the Congo. These Muslem women were sent to Canada by their warlord husbands. Each husband had 4 to 10 wives. The men sent their wives here to collect disability. The women collected disability here and sent 9/10 of the money back to the Congo. American soldiers wondering who was paying for the ammunition which the Muslim terrorists were shooting at them found out that the CANADIAN GOVERNMENT was Paying for the AMMUNITION and Weapons to supply terrorists by this little African muslim women's scam).
Having lived in America I know that the terrorists that attacked America came through Canada so I have some anxiety.
I was bombed when I lived in London by the IRA. I evacuated buildings a dozen times. My life was often threatened. My wife was caught in a bomb blast. Her face was torn up by flying glass. She cried in her sleep. We were scared. Our parents wanted us to come home because it was so dangerous. A plane I was boarding was found to have a terrorist on board. I’ve had my close calls. I’m not known for crying wolf.
But when I expressed concern I was condemned. I was called a RACIST. I was called countless obscenities.
I recently was called IGNORANT. I was called UNEDUCATED. I WAS CALLED WHITE. I WAS CALLED OLD MAN. The number of slurs and character assassinations and hate speech directed at me in the last few months is incredible. And though I never ‘started’ any of these visious violent interchanges I might well have contributed to their escalation. As a Christian I’m taught to ‘turn my cheek 70 times 70 times so I keep count and when the right number pops up I confess I do take a certain delight in retaliating which I recognize is a character flaw but I’ve also found that bullies will bully until you hit back.
An Israeli leader just got in deep shit saying that the only thing that stops a muslim terrorist is the threat to rape their daughter. Naturally as an isralei in the world of real politick he’s probably had the life of his daughter threatened. RAPE is indeed a recognized act of war in the history. The RAPE of the SABINES wasn’t at all sexist but biological. By ‘raping the wives of your defeated’ you could ensure that they had a generation delay in the production of another army. But SEXISTS only see rape through their discrete lens i.e. about women. Boys and men have been raped in the past too but they don’t count. Still it’s all ‘barbaric’ but when Mr. Harper tried to stop the genital mutilation of children with his law against ‘barbaric practices’ he was condemned a dirty old white man despite the law being proposed by muslim and hindu canadian woman.
The fact is a REFUGEE is a VICTIM all the time.
I have this problem because when I was in italy the refugees who were attacking girls there were former soldiers from Africa. I got mugged and called an‘INFIDEL” as my cross was torn from my neck by a muslim gang, ex military. The Greeks were incensed at the Afghanistan and Iraqi young men attacking Christians and stealing their silver and gold crosses to sell because they didn’t care for the wider ramifications these attacks had on the Greek Tourist trade. So my friend who rescues ’snakes’ says that no one wants to put money into saving ‘reptiles’ but the SPCA has a booming trade in cuddly kittens, puppies and bunnies. Sentimentalism and Emotional Reasoning reign.
But to even question if a refugee might be a psychopath is to break the rules. This is despite the fact that we have major crime problems in Vancouver because of Immigrant or Refugee TONG Gang Members from the East and Russian Gangsters from the west. To even suggest that a Middle East refugee might be a serial murderer or a serial rapist or GOD FORBID, Isis or a Jihadist, may get you arrested. Justin Trudeau was more angry with a refugee being pepper sprayed than he was when Canadians living here were murdered by terrorists. He certainly didn't get very concerned about police being killed. There’s that double standard.
But what if 99% of refugees are saints and only .0001% of refugees are dangerous psychopaths, is that reason for concern. Or should we be, claiming we want to hear from all Canadians, but shut up any Canadian who expresses ‘fear’ and ‘anxiety’. I heard once that a woman being raped was criticized for screaming. Ironic because we're normally condemned for not screaming.
An American soldier told me that a beaurocratic message had been sent round advising the soldiers to remember that they may be being filmed when they are wounded and that profanities negatively affect the war effort. So don’t say ‘fuck’ when you are shot, please.
Don’t you just love POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!. We can all kill and maim and lie and cheat just as long as we maintain the proper grammar, speak with proper sentences, wear suits, smile that lizard like way.
I’ve helped countless refugees get into Canada. I’ve done thousands of dollars of ‘volunteer’ ‘pro bono’ work for refugees getting them the letters and referrals needed for them to get resources and assistance they need.
So maybe 99% of refugees are perfect but what about that .0001%.
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I don’t know where it stops.
As a Christian I’m taught that I must ‘get down off the cross, we can use the wood’. There’s a song, ‘were you there when they crucified the lord’ and it teaches us that we weren’t just spectators but that we were shoving the spear in his side. That’s the message of Sinners.
It’s a joke when the therapists did ‘past life regression’ therapy and the hypnotists looked at ‘past lives’. Everyone was Cleopatra or some King or Queen. But no one was Hitler or Stalin or Jack the Ripper. It’s just ‘not nice’.
Now some of the SPECIAL STATUS ‘victims’ are Christians too so I wonder ‘what their part was in killing Jesus’ because as Christian’s we are taught to believe that we are all Sinners. Even Peter denied Jesus. In the history of Martyrs all one generally had to do was say, alright I’ll worship the Emperor. Okay the lions don’t get fed with a Christian today, The same with witch trials . Mostly people just had to say, okay I’m a witch and they didn’t get burnt. The big problem is the truth tellers and those inflexible sorts that won’t lie. Jesus, they are a royal pain in the ass. Personally, I’m not a very good Christian because I don’t think I’d insist I was if one of my friends or family were threatened. Hell, threaten my dog and I’m jelly. I know because my cat was killed when I took a stand against something earlier in my life.I regretted what I had done. It didn't seem to warrant the death of my cat. She was an innocent and I couldn't protect her.
The problem arises for me today is the HIERARCHY OF SPECIAL STATUS. If a brown refugee man rapes a jewish aboriginal women which counts more especially if one is from Quebec and one is from Western Canada and both have a history of drug abuse and lying but the judge is a Liberal or an atheist, whose the more victim.
It’s just incredibly confusing for me. I really don’t know what the law is any more. I know ‘thou shalt not kill’ but even ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is gone in Canada because everyone’s lives are ruined with only the accusation and then FACEBOOK gossip columns do the rest.
Finally I’m suffering from a disease which makes me tend to be prone to self pity. I spend all day convincing myself life is good. I do prayer and meditation and force myself daily to see that the glass is half full or all full. Hell I know that the problem is me. My friend Milton, a marvellous black Christian used to tell me he had a sentence on his mirror that said “you’re looking at the problem’.
So I know that. Justin Trudeau is probably Jesus Christ incarnate. Obama is probably Einstein. Putin is for sure Mother Mary. I love Leonard Cohen. I am the KY Jelly.
But I know I’m not supposed to think like this, especially now. I am warned by the threats and the verbal abuse.
It’s just every day I want to run away from Canada because I don’t belong here. I have no home. I sailed away once and it was good. More and more people come to me agoraphobic and social phobic. The number of people who are anxious is incredible. Everyone I know is afraid to talk openly now.
I loved when my Indian friend told me ‘we all had to learn to whisper’ .
Now I’ve been told to leave Canada. That I’m not a Canadian. Every time Justin Trudeau or a liberal speaks for Canadians I know they’re not speaking for me so I’m utterly and fully excluded. So I really want to leave. I’m tired of the hate speech. I’m so tired of AD HOMINEMs. I’m so very tired of being told I’m IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED, STUPID, SEXIST, ISLAMAPHOBE, RACIST, WHITE and OLD and the names go on and on. I could take it but not when the leader of the country and his leading party and his followers are constantly calling me names anytime I disagree with something they say. I spend all day dealing with people who I tell that they’re better than the names they’re called. I am all day long hearing people talk about their abuse in this country. Then I go to FACEBOOK and I hear it all night.
I thought to make a job of it. I try to give it back . You hit me. I hit you back.
But I’m just too tired.
FACE BOOK doesn’t want me.
CANADA doesn’t want me. I’ve been told too many times to Fuck off . Get out of Canada. If you don’t like it leave. It’s where I was born. No other country wants CANADIANS. I can’t claim refugee status in any other country. Most of Africa won’t have me because I’m a wanker. Blacks don’t masturbate or have sex with other men or women with women so most black countries kill people like me who admit to it. Muslim countries don’t want Christians. Buddhist countries don’t want Christians. Everyone thinks that as a doctor I should be able to go anywhere but it’s not like that. There are barriers to doctors all over the world. I have a dog. Dogs are discriminated against everywhere in Canada and as a dog owner I’m discriminated everywhere in churches, in AA meetings, in stores. The only reason I’m willing to go to heaven is they take dogs. Generally I’ve learned too that if a place doesn’t want my dog they’re eventually going to hurt me. It was even better when I had my cat. Generally speaking people who don’t like pets don't like pet owners and don’t like me. Weird. I have fish too. It’s too much baggage so no one wants me. The Landlords hate us and no one cares about us but we don’t have any SPECIAL STATUS. I pay more in all the hotels and I”m excluded everywhere even though my dog is a THERAPY DOG.
So I don’t know where to go. Somedays I just don’t go out. I’m afraid to talk to people because I might say something that might offend them. I lived with wives who were depressed and everything I said offended them so now I’m in a country where I’m feeling like those last years when their parents had died and they were depressed and everything I did was offensive and I spent years walking on egg shells until I accepted I was the problem and ran away. I’m always running away. Soon all I’ll have to run away to death but that’s okay.Death looks better than Canada some days. Especially if Heaven is like Mark Twain's Captain Stormfield's heaven.
I’m a dinosaur. I’m extinct.
I don’t have a SPECIAL STATUS category. I can’t even complain about being bullied.
I don’t even have a country any more. I’m not a Canadian. CANADIANS don’t think like I do.
Reminds me of when Paul Simon wrote the song about ‘going off to look for America’. I guess that’s what I m going to have to do soon.
I miss my sailboat. Sometimes I could find Canada standing by the mast smashing through big waves heeled over in a storm. Sometimes I found Canada riding on my motorcycle through the mountains. It’s been raining for days. Maybe when the tulips come back I’ll get some hope. Maybe even have some faith.
It just seems bleak. Life is suffering unto death, Kierkegaard said.But he was Dutch. He never was a Canadian.
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