First, as usual, the liberals and their media are continuing their effort today to legitimize being a whore (perhaps because they enjoy their services and want options available to them if and when the Liberals, with the help of Layton’s you’ve got to be kidding party, get their way), by designating it a “trade”—i.e., the “sex trade”, and “sex-trade workers” —as if being a filthy whore is as noble and honorable as being a carpenter or masonry professional. (If the liberals get their way, men and women who need a break from their bothersome families will finally be free to be a “patron” of the “tradeswomen” and with that GST reduction thanks to the Conservatives, will pay less for this “service-sector” service). As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I actually heard a “reporter” on the state-run CBC using the words “street-trade-worker” to describe what we used to call “a prostitute”.
Vancouver sex-trade workers await details of Pickton trial
Neal Hall, CanWest News Service
Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007VANCOUVER – Sex-trade workers and their advocates in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are bracing for the start next week of Robert (Willie) Pickton’s murder trial, and the evidence that will emerge about the women who disappeared from the neighbourhood.
I think it would be more appropriate to call them “prostitutes” rather than using a loaded, agenda-driven term like “sex-trade worker” or “street trade worker”. Well either that, or stop calling the global war on terror the “so-called” war on terror, or “George Bush’s war on terror”. Actually how about both?
Another article today in the National Post makes an “attempt” (wink!) at the most condescending tone possible (without it being just another CBC news story), in their effort to “convince” (wink!) Canadians that conservatives are a joke rather than “serious” (wink!), without actually barfing on the page of the newspaper, if only that were possible:
John Ivison And Paul Vieira, National Post
Published: Tuesday, January 16, 2007OTTAWA – The Conservative government will attempt to convince Canadians it is serious about fighting global warming by making a flurry of policy announcements on the environment in the next few weeks, including short term targets for greenhouse gas emissions and the repackaging of a number of Liberal initiatives that were cancelled when the Tories took office.
(…and it just got worse from there).
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