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For shame Barry Wilson, for shame.

With a cry of “None is too many,” Barry Wilson in his best, “let me be the reasonable xenophobic” voice to channel his inner American Republican Presidential candidate in an ill-informed, clearly insulting and absolutely a disservice to his viewership. The Trudeau plan to bring in so many refuges is a humanitarian gesture, long overdue for those suffering, first from the ISIL terrorist establishment, then the long journey to freedom into mainland Europe, and now the long cold winter. Speed is of the urgency. Get those people here, where they too can be safe from terrorists, establish a new home and be warm from the winter, where they too can be forced to listen to Barry Wilson’s poorly thought out excuses for editorials.

Mr. Wilson, should stick to his regular insult to the intelligence of the audience and not try to surpass himself with this latest editorial. None is too many is reference to the same sort of self assured xenophobic rants aimed at the Jews as they fled the NAZI’s of Germany seek to find a new home;  “What’s the rush? You are exaggerating, things are not that bad,” as they were lead, in file, to the death camps.  In the ensuing 80 years, have we learned nothing? For shame, Barry Wilson, for shame!

When we forget our humanity and duty towards suffering souls, we have not merely allowed the terrorism of extremists to win, we have invited them to take control of our agenda.

The NSA (National Security Agency) is reading your emails, and listening to your online Skype calls. In fact, they are searching and following you wherever you go online, to which ever site you are watching, reading or even playing on, right now. Even this one… Yikes! Invasion of my privacy scream the people. Conventional wisdom, screams this is a violation of the American Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights, my U.N. Charter of rights and every other rights guaranteed by various governments. Specifically the right privacy and unlawful search and seizure. The think is this a dastardly plan for world control! The logic of it goes like this; I send you a letter. So long as it has a proper address, postage and is sealed. It cannot be open or intercepted except by a legal court order, legally obtained. Otherwise, it is not lawfully held and people doping it can be arrested for acting outside the law in violation of so many statues that is it not funny. Serious jail time and financial penalties. Similarly, if you plant outside my house, a video and audio surveillance camera, or CCTV type recording device that can film into my residence, in the absences of that magic protection, a court order, anything obtained is unusable and just plain creepy. And there is again all that notion of illegality, jail time and even lawsuits. A man or a woman’s home, is their castle and as such in inviolable except with the valid court order where then anything is permissible with the blessing of a judge. Ok with various nuances of jurisdictions, this is basically the way law works in a democratic country. Certainly in the United States and in Canada.
Following this logic, we turn to the Internet. When I send an electronic mail, email, it should be considered the same way as a snail mail letter. When I go online in the privacy of my own home, you need a warrant to see where i go, or listen to who I speaking with, just like as if you were planting a camera to spy inside my room. Ergo, the matter is solve, case law solves the mater for us and as such this is a closed book. They cannot do this except with a court order. Since there is no such thing as a global court order, all such activities by the NSA is illegal. And must cease and desist immediately. So why is it still going on?
Sadly the logic presented is incorrect. The fact that the law grind slowly but grinds finely is missing. They have yet to enter legal definition of modern technology for the most part. They are not sure if I sign a paper and fax it to you if that is the same force of law as if I signed it in front of you? Who uses faxes today anyways? they are so passe! When was the last time someone used a fax machine? Technology having outstripped the speed of law.
However, the law is not the problem in this case. In fact, the problem is our understanding of the internet. When i send an email it is not like a letter at all. A letter is a singular event. Going from one person hands to another. In the case of an email. it goes to all parts of the internet to ask each one, “Is this for you?” when it gets a no, it moves on. Your email stops when it gets to the right location. The government is able to read it and record it as it comes by without stopping it. Only someone with the resources of a government like the United States can do that, or rather can afford all the equipment to record it all to do that.
So one last thought, that super secret highly encrypted bank account information that was behind so many billion firewalls that it is not funny leading to your bank account? Oh yes that one? Well just as you are reading this on a web page, so too is your bank account. With the right guess you can land on that same bank account. While they code such pages not to be index by site like Google, those pages are as open as google is, if you know the URL. So whatever you thought was private is not on the internet. Welcome to the modern world. Privacy does not exist. It is all in the area where you have no expectation of privacy. So to the NSA who are reading this, carry on. It is perfectly legal to do so. Just as you are allowed to read my emails and listen in on Skype. I am not saying this is right, moral or even needed. However, it is legal.

A single study show that there is a link between diet soft drinks and Diabetes.
(http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/4/688.full)
One explanation offered for this is a rather convoluted one that the gut bacteria is mutated by the soft drinks using artificial sweetener, aspartame as its means into rejecting sugar. Hence causing diabetes.
While I think the link is correct, the user or abusers of diet soft drinks do tend to get type 2 diabetes, the cause is far simpler then that.
When you drink a diet soda you think you are hydrating yourself as it is liquid.
In fact, diet drinks tend to dehydrate you. It is a diuretic, which means you need the bathroom more causing a net loss in water.
Studies show that people think that as it is “Diet”” you can take more and more because it is healthy. (This happens to all foods and drink labeled diet.)
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3137553/How-called-healthy-snacks-harm-good-People-eat-likely-overindulge-avoid-exercise.html)
So when you drink many diet drinks, you dehydrate yourself. And over the long term of excess use of diet drinks you create inside of yourself a long term state of dehydration.
Last link, dehydration causes an increase in blood sugar. Long term increases in blood sugar lead to Diabetes
Conclusion, long term dehydration cause damage to the body such as… Type 2 Diabetes. There Diet drinks as the cause of dehydration can help cause Type 2 Diabetes even if there is no direct link top diet soda, but a link to the life style around it.

Dateline early January 2015

“But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent [person] has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.”

Surat An-Nisa’ 4:112

“Have you killed an innocent person who had killed none? Verily, you have committed a thing “Nukra” (a great Munkar – prohibited, evil, dreadful thing)!”

Surat Al-Kahf 18:74

In the late morning, Paris time, Gunfire broke out in the offices of Charlie Hebdo. Two armed attackers had killed so many people inside while claiming to have avenged the Prophet Mohammed in this act. In the past, this satirical magazine had poked fun at the Prophet and at Islam. The ongoing further events need not concern us here. Who and why are not for us to judge.  We have in two short sentences enough information to reach our goal of a better understanding of Islam and the enemies of God, Allah and the Prophet Mohammed. First, let us assume that the editors had in fact insulted the Prophet and thus was deserving of punishment. Allah is a just God but he is patient and it is his right to reward his followers as well to punish the wicked. It is for him and him alone, when to exact his just punishment from them for their wickedness. So then with their untimely death at the hand of the gunmen, they became the victim. Allah being just cannot punish the innocent, as he would like, Allah is a just God, thus he must offer them succour for their wickedness done onto them. Thus instead of the punishment they had earned with their cartoons, he would have to offer them comfort for having been unjustly murdered. Thus Allah, has had his will thwarted and his justice denied by those gunmen.

Who then could have dared do this to Allah? While in Paris, CSI comb for every clue, picking up all evidence, Allah is all knowing. He knew who has committed this wickedness. He knows why they have done so, for he knows all that is in their heart.  They were not trying to be the true followers of Allah. They were usurping the right of this jealous God to punish the wickedness of men with divine justice. Not mortal vengeance, but absolute eternal justice, that only Allah can meet out.

As such, those two misguided fools have cast themselves into the burning fires of hell. They have not served Allah; they have taken upon themselves to meet out the divine justice of Allah as if this God was not a God but a mere name, a word, a boogie man to scare little children with. So who is the disbeliever deserving of punishment? Who are the innocent, cut down before it was Allah’s will to do so?

In the Holy Book of the Jews, Christians and Muslims, they tell a story of Abraham and his son Isaac. The Jews and Christians say that Abraham was ordered by God to take his son and kill him for God. The age of the child is never mentioned from that of a baby to an adult male, while it is easy to kill a baby in diaper, the obedience to God is better seen if he, the son, is a man. As Abraham drove the blade at the chest of the son, the angel of the Lord stopped him and saved the child’s life. The Qur’an says this is a wicked deed and the dream telling Abraham to kill his son was sent by the devil to trick him. This is why the angel of the lord had to stop him.

The next time, a true follower of Allah is told to kill anyone in the name of Allah for some crime against Allah, remember this story of Charlie Hebdo, and the Qur’an. For in them you will have your answer. It was wicked to kill those people. It is wicked to take the place of Allah. And by doing this wickedness, you are taking upon yourself the sin of others and must pay for their crimes with your eternal life.

In Baghdad, Iraq, in order to fool security forces, two retarded children, aged 11 and 13, were kidnapped and put in a car bomb. No one would ever think to look in such a car with two very innocent little girls in it. As the driver fled on foot, the bomb exploded killing many in the market place including those intellectually challenged little girls. When faced with such a thing, can we all agree, Jew, Christine and Muslim, that this is an evil act? For if we cannot, then this world is already in a hell, no God would be cruel enough to make themselves.

A Sadomasochism abusive relationship where a bully tortures the submissive in a constant stream of physical suffering, belittling their intelligence, ability and any source of pride they may have ever had, but enough of CBC’s programming cutbacks, I am here to talk about the Jian Ghomeshi being fired from the same CBC. When I first heard of he was on a break from his job, I was puzzled. First, I had to remember who he was, then to care a fig about his show, his programming or CBC. But then he was fired and while I was almost moved to care, almost. It turned out to be gas. But then, then! Jian posted his misses defending himself because he was fired for having sex. Which considering the prudish, puritanical behaviour of that corporation made so much more sense. Except, I still did not give a fig, fart or fluff. Even noted Green party Commandant Elizabeth May chimed in to support him. Could someone, anyone else have cared? With the sole exception of ex-Green Party deputy leader Georges Laraque whose very serious legal troubles actually registered on the who cares scale above both May and Ghomeshi for the briefest of seconds. This would be including his entire NHL hockey career such as it was. The whole drama it seems to me, aside from being purely Canadian and purely boring, was that anyone having sex at the CBC was to be fired. For the first clause of their contract to work there, is that anyone thinking of having fun was to be sufficient grounds for termination. Noting that they in fact had stolen the line from Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary about Puritans “The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, might be happy.”

But then a miracle occurred. When the dark puritanical empire strikes back and release the kind of sex Ghomeshi was having. Not simply into spanking and light D&D. No this was outright brutality. Punches in faces were a turn on? Oh, ok then… Nothing even remotely hot about that. Or interesting. But the door was opened. And a producer was fast to tell her tale of how when she yawned in Ghomeshi’s meeting once, rude much? He said some crudity that hurt her feelings. She alleged that he wanted to “hate f–k” her to wake her up,” she says. I merely thought she had misheard being half asleep that would “Hate like f–k for her to wake up. Either or does not amount to much. I remember once, where a vice president in serious need of anger management lost it in a meeting and when on a yelling rant for 20 minutes. When he was done, he, himself, realised just how badly he had lost it and checked himself into anger management classes. (Come to think of it, he works at the CBC now. No sex please but screaming is allowed. Or is it?)Linden MacIntyre claims that being a bully is the norm at CBC indicating both Peter Mansbridge, CBC new anchor and the late Peter Gzowski are and were also bullies. As if being the final word was being a bully. It was their name on the show, so toughen up already.
The last note sounded in the sadly Canadian story of silliness when Toronto police arrested Ghomeshi for various criminal offences. And at least, it seemed that this story was indeed real. It was no longer merely the stuff of late night talk show host comedies. It had left from being the joke after Rob Ford to now being a legitimate news story and a criminal prosecution. Except for the massive media coverage. The mere fact, this was about sex and a legitimate Canadian superstar albeit on CBC and the media went all a flutter. Not nearly as much as Ford’s own media circus but this was a legitimate news story no longer fit for the tabloids but real journalist could report on it now. Oh wait, after all this, I still don’t care, So much to do about nothing
To be sure, criminal behaviour is illegal, Sexual assault should be reported to police immediately and being a jerk seems to be the norm at CBC along with its Puritanical over moralistic better than thou Goody Prynne behaviour. All of which is nothing new or even remotely interesting. Except in Canada, where the news media starved for anything to ever report is forced to report this as hard news. When at best fit only for the back pages of some low down, back alley scandal rag.

Update March 24, 2016: Jian was found not guilty on all criminal charges.

The question presented after last week’s tragedy, must be how to prevent it in future. The Prime Minister feels that additional power to security services and arming CSIS, (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) is the right way to go. For the fear is not that other groups will infiltrate and act in a mass assault, but single, one person sprees of violence will occur. Similar in nature to both of last week events, but echoed around the world. Such as an ax welding maniac attacked police in New York City, or the school shooting on the Left Coast or any number of previous such innocents. Even the FBI is claiming that such events are on the increase. Sadly, read the newspaper and it is true, there is no escaping the problem. There is also, to date, no effort to understand the problem either. Thus far, the issue has been that of law enforcement, bravado and big speeches of “We shall fight them on the beaches” not seeking solutions or even answers except in that narrow focus. All of which grab headlines and fuel ratings. They do nothing to sort out and solve the problem. And until they do, you can be sure more and more such incidents will occur. And no amount of new powers or adding weaponry to any agency will curtail or stop.

It earns votes for a politician to be tough on crime, and promise more punishment and better service to protect people. The TV stations love such events; they cancel programming and go straight to on the scene of the events. “Live” as the manhunt continues. Report rumour and events as fast as things occur, glue viewership to their screens and radios all day. Even the average citizen, seeing such events, root for the good guys to catch the evil doer and then demand extreme forms of punishment for said entertainment. Sadly, this is nothing more than a modern day Inquisition, to ferret out the false evil doings and bring them to God’s Judgment, (as if she needed any help to do that) only now they can win the ratings war or get re-elected to boot. Win, win for all concerned. Except for all the people hurt. The killer is killed, His victim is dead, and at least one man shall burden his soul with the taking of a human life, no matter how legitimate, and necessary it is, it shall always remain a burden that will wake him at night. Oh and the self radicalization? Happens not in some dark room with voices from hell? No, it happens on TV, right in the same living room. These people are using ad hoc weapons they have access to and going wild from what they see on TV and movies. If the lone wolf is at this point where TV is going to generate their copy-cat attack, then we have already failed them.

So then what the solution? It is not sexy and won’t win any votes, ratings or anything but it will solve the problem. The lone wolf is not alone. They are in the community and with a little help from government using scarce tax payer resources could provide additional medical help and intervention, as well as counselling and crisis centers, we could take care of most of the mental health issues. In fact, the more of these events, the more the common denominator is the person was bipolar. Their break from reality while, tragic, is entirely predictable and treatable with the right training and resources. Mental illness however is a taboo topic, shunted to the side and left in the closet rather than front and center to help solve the problem. This is a medical health issue, not law and order. We need Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby, M.D. and Dr Mark Green not Rambo, James Bond or Joe Friday.

Medical treatment would uncover the lone wolf before they grow teeth, and proper treatment would remove them from the path to radicalisation simply by treating the underlying issue. By offering treatment not judgment, the people who might “go off” like a destructive whirlwinds, may be prevented from their insanity, thus saving lives in the long run including their own. But sadly, present government efforts are not geared to help solve the problem; it is about new powers to police, guns for CSIS, re-election of government, and TV ratings.

Response one (Thanks M)
So many Lone Wolfs are not necessarily mentally ill as mush as they are “Outcasts” from society. They do not fit in so it must be the existing society that is at fault, not them. A poor mindset is not mental illness as currently defined and not treatable.

I reply
From Norway, Anders Behring Breivik (Norwegian greatest mass killer ruled insane) to the Unibomber, Ted Kaczynski, to nearly all the other people, lone wolves in the headline news, they all show symptoms of being bipolar, and in fact many have been seeking treatment, had treatment or even in treatment. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear of such an attack is, “that guy is crazy” and in fact that is where we need to deal with this problem. Not that they are outcasts but why they feel this way. Once they becomes a police issue, it is too late! There is a crime done, someone is hurt or property damage. if we can take care of the mental health problems and keep in on that level, then we eliminate 85-90% of the lone wolves, a good first step. If we arm police more… what good is two pistols per cop, isn’t one enough? And isn’t their response is only after the grenade went off? A doctor with medication, need not wait for anything to go off, but ask any of them; they need more people, more resources, and more money… you can spend that tax dollar only once, the cops already have the guns and have failed thus far. Not for want of trying, but a failure to grasp the scope of the problem. Lets try something new. It may not help but we will not be repeating the same experiment over again, which is Einstein’s definition of insanity.

Response 2 (Thanks F)

The many events with the U.S. Postal Service which they coined the phrase of “going postal“ … include the Oklahoma Massacre by or the Columbine shootings, the Sandy Hook shooting etc. The list goes on. Where it stops, no one knows, but clearly more bad law wont help, since the many laws we have now are not able to help. “Lets try something new. It may not help but we will not be repeating the same experiment over again, which is Einstein’s definition of insanity.”

It has been the sort of week that demands reflection. Not one but two good men, were cut down for no other reason then doing their duty. The first, run down for daring to wear his uniform to get a coffee. Injuring a second man in the process, who will, thankfully, live. Sparking a second even more vicious attack, that ended with a Hollywood style leap into the air, twist and firing before Kevin Vickers landed to kill the suspect, worthy of John McCain of Die Hard fame. And all the praise thus forth received. Why did he feel such a need to risk his own life? In past times, they would have waited for a surrender, but a suicide vest and he would take out half of the house of Parliament. The Threat had to be stopped at any cost. Another man, and his team, who risked his life to save others. Sadly the first man, doing his duty, was not so lucky.

At the Ottawa War Memorial, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, was shot in the back and killed in a cowardly ambush. Let us shed no tear for him, he would ask for none but let us offer all praise and celebrate him and his life of duty. For this was what he wanted to do. What he was most proud of doing, and to his his end, he died doing his duty. Guarding fallen comrades that he would all too soon join was his post. He stood his post to the last. When told he was selected to be there, I am very sure, that he leaped for joy, This is the kind of duty that is given only to the best of the best. Getting it, said in the eyes of his superiors, he was worthy of such an assignment. Basically getting the military gold medal. An honour in itself to be selected to serve in this fashion, to guard, all compete fiercely for the honour. Yet with all duty, they bring a burden. His post was to guard and so he did, to the end of his life. A life now fitting to be the first name added to our Hall of Hero’s, where his gunman met his end, not soon enough for Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, but his end did come.

The assailant, Michael Zahaf-Bibeau, bipolar, self medicating his condition with drugs saw the earlier events and snapped. He was not getting help or treatment so he would force them to treat him. In a very destructive version of a child acting out, one man was killed and a nation in shock. Yet some conclusion must be drawn.

First, in what can only be seen as the greatest irony since John Lennon, “Happiness is a warm gun” was killed by said gun violence. The open question is where did he get such a weapon as the long gun he carried. The irony is, the answer might well be in the long gun registry abolished by the same government that he may have been trying to kill.

ISIL, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed him as their revenge. So as I understand they wish to send bipolar, self medicating druggies, to ambush and back shoot in the most cowardly of ways as their harbinger of vengeance? I suspect that says more about their methods and organization then anything about Canada.

Lastly, the repercussions of it all upon our nation. First, all the grand theater and Churchillian Rhetoric, “We shall stand on the back bencher’s, we shall stand in the Red Room, We shall never surrender,” left aside. This was no attack upon Canada. This was no vengeance mission from a far off place. This was merely a tragedy for all involved. Keven Vickers, took a life. Never a burden one would want to carry. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo killed before his life could fulfill its promising start and last Michael Zahaf-Bibeau, a life devastated from his start by his malfunctioning mind.

The Canadian military has ordered that no persons should wear uniform unless on official business, to prevent further attacks. Uniformly, (SIC) they have obeyed their orders but expressed defiance of it.
So I declare that this Remembrance Day, November 11, 2014, all people wear Camouflage of any sort to say, we will not be cowed, we will not run, and we will not be intimidated.