It’s been hard to pin down all the weasels in the weasel farm that is the Chretien/Martin Liberal Party corruption circle of theft, crime spree-o-rama, and sundry liberal cross-promotion dance festival (and Nanaimo Bar Bake-Off!). A well-designed rip-off requires that the weasels are hard to pin down. It’s how you judge the quality of the crime. Well that and the payoff—the cash—which in this case is unique not only in its sum (untold millions or billions—but the source of the funds—which is the very taxpayers who are paying to fill the perps’ pie holes. Such gall may not ever have been displayed anywhere ever before, except in banana republics and the U.N. (all largely the same thing).
In a typical organized crime family, it requires members who are sworn by blood and the threat of death and who are encouraged by yummy riches. In a political corruption spree, it requires lots of well-paid people who lack values and any notion of “love of country”, favoring instead “cash” and “power”—and in this case the added disgrace that the “power” would largely be power over people that gave you your job and pay you. It sounds very much like an African nation to me. In liberal-left circles, there is no shortage of such people in politics, the huge labour unions that support them, and the liberal intelligentsia, not to mention people who simply favour a lifestyle of depravity and a Mo Liberal Canada. And the pool of cash to pay off these people was/is deep—it came (and perhaps even continues to come) right out of the pockets of the people they swore to serve honorably.
But when Martin keeps claiming he knew nothing, and a top Liberal advisor (Warren Kinsella) testifies under oath that not only did he believe Martin knew, but that he was one of the people who told him—well that sort of settles it in the mind of sensible people. Kinsella was and remains a member of the Liberal family. I mean unless you believe Kinsella is lying, which, being a Liberal, is entirely possible. A bunch of lying weasels all in one room struggling to save their red butts and confound the electorate, contradicting even their own words one day, contradicting other people’s words another day—sounds like another day in liberal Ottawa, or in an African nation, or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, pre-freedom and democracy. It all sounds exactly right to me.
The National Post has this take on it:
Martin under fire: Kinsella alleges PM knew about ‘rigged’ contracts
Paul Martin knew about claims of “bad behaviour” involving public-opinion contracts for a firm closely tied to his leadership campaign but threatened to quit his job as finance minister if his top advisor was disciplined, a former Liberal aide testified yesterday.Warren Kinsella, a former advisor to Jean Chretien and a vehement political foe of Mr. Martin’s, said the then-finance minister was aware of allegations that contracts in the mid-1990s had been “rigged” to favour the Earnscliffe Strategy Group.
“He absolutely had knowledge of these things,” Mr. Kinsella told the House of Commons public accounts committee during hearings into a 2003 Auditor-General’s report that looked at how the government handled contracts for polling and other public opinion research.
Mr. Kinsella said that, as then-aide to Public Works and Government Services minister Dave Dingwall, he wrote to Mr. Martin’s office to express his concerns about money flowing from the Finance department to a firm so closely affiliated with Mr. Martin’s leadership ambitions.
He called this “bad behaviour—I considered it inappropriate that you cross-subsidize using the public treasury.” […]
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