Smoking is bad for you. And yet people smoke. Saturated fats can kill you and yet people eat saturated fats. Liberals are corrupt and arrogant and socialist and yet people vote for them.
I suspect that for years, we’ll all be dancing around this issue like marionettes controlled by mainstream media bent on protecting liberals and Paul Martin. It seems obvious to a monkey that Paul Martin knew what was going on regarding the Liberal Party sponsorship corruption (must label the scandals since there’s more than one Canadians are concerned with).
But Canadians love to dance. We have to dance this silly dance pretending there’s still a question as to whether or not Martin knew what was going on.
Imagine running for office on a platform of being ignorant, uninformed, out of the loop, dumb, and so stupid you couldn’t figure out what was going on. That’s what we’re asked to do by this arrogant spinner, with the full expectation that we’ll buy it. Liberals always speak as if everyone in the room agrees with them.
And millions of Canadians will do just that. “Yup, our leader was in fact so stupid—so ignorant or willfully blind, that he knew nothing. Vote Liberal”. “OK you bet I will”.
Canadians’ compulsion to call a spade a pointy shovel when it comes to liberals astounds me. The fact that nobody except me calls all liberals on this point amazes me next as much. Liberals should all be embarrassed and hiding in the corner yet they’re out there dancing like drunk chimps.
It’s particularly galling that Canadians are so brainwashed and suckered by liberals and liberal media that they have absolutely no compulsion to hold back when it’s about a conservative. Suddenly they’re deadly serious, sober, and dancing is taboo. It’s insults and speedy final judgement with no appeal and condemnation with no parole when it concerns a conservative.
Lorne Gunter of the National Post clearly isn’t as impatient as I am with this tedious little dance, as he writes donning a pure white three-piece suit and slick hair.
During the Watergate scandal, protestors used to taunt U.S. president Richard Nixon with the chant, “What did he know? And when did he know it?”
In light of Prime Minister Paul Martin’s cornball apology last Thursday, in his nationally televised address on Adscam (that “I am sorry … I wasn’t more vigilant”), perhaps Canadians should take to the streets calling, “What should he have known? And when should he have known it?”
Frankly, I’m convinced Mr. Martin must have known of the rot and corruption for years before the stench reached Canadians’ nostrils. And if he didn’t, then it wasn’t from lack of vigilance, but rather from wilful blindness.
Take the letter sent to him by Akaash Maharaj in February, 2002. Mr. Maharaj was at the time national policy chairman of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Mr. Maharaj wrote in his capacity as a senior party official and asked Mr. Martin to conduct an internal investigation “regarding the issue of Groupaction and the federal sponsorship programme [sic].” He explained that at meetings he was holding with provincial and territorial policy chairs the subject was already coming up. It had been raised openly at a Liberal policy conference in B.C. As well, he added, “I am receiving an increasing number of e-mails from party members at large on the subject.”
Recall that the Auditor-General was not called in on the Adscam file for the first time until March, 2002—a full month after Mr. Maharaj’s letter—so Mr. Martin was warned even before the A-G began her first, tiny investigation.
Even then, Sheila Fraser examined only allegations of fraudulent billing by Quebec ad firms. She did not investigate the possibility that sponsorship money was being squeezed from ad agencies and kicked back to the Liberal party.
But Mr. Maharaj was already hinting at such a scheme. So Mr. Martin had warning of both at least three years ago.
“There are persistent and growing rumours that funds from the sponsorship programme [sic] are being diverted to partisan purposes,” Mr. Maharaj cautioned, particularly “partisan purposes connected with the 2000 general election campaign in Quebec.”
How right he appears to have been.
Swing your partner.
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