[N_Fiddledog]

martin14 martin14:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The trouble is that there’s no nuance, no middle ground.
Twitter: @DonBraid

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Dippers complaining about no middle ground.

Dat's funny.

And "nuance" Martin. That's the regressive cool word of the moment. That and "problematic." Did the CBC or the Journal get around to saying "problematic." That would disappoint if they didn't. They'd be slipping on their expected jargon.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

Hell, Ezra even paid for the buses that came up from Calgary and Red Deer out of the Rebel bank account.

Well you gotta spend money to make money!

[N_Fiddledog]

I'll pamper Beave for a sec. Beave seemed to be telling us earlier that seeing this anti-carbon tax rally as being about Albertans opposing the carbon tax was being "problematic." Cause if you think a rally is about what it's about you're just not getting the "nuance." Get it?

So here's the rally Beave's guy insists was not that big a deal.



Pay no attention to all those signs opposing the carbon tax. That's not "nuance."

No, what you really need to stress are these two sunglass wearing jokers off in the snowy backlot. The ones nobody in the organization knew anything about, but look like the type you might see policing your friendly neighbourhood, far left, labor, union meeting.



Now that's "nuance." Right Beave?

[uwish]

she doesn't need to be locked up, just needs to get this government punted. Just another 3 long agonizing years of this BS.

[fifeboy]

uwish uwish:

she doesn't need to be locked up, just needs to get this government punted. Just another 3 long agonizing years of this BS.

Wow. Thanks! I was absent that day in Grade 10 Civics.

[Alta_redneck]

Media mocks people’s legitimate tax worries

Postmedia Network

The chattering classes and elite in the media want you to be outraged at a bit of chanting that occurred at an anti-carbon tax rally in Alberta over the weekend.

The supposedly controversial moment happened when Conservative leadership candidate Chris Alexander got up to speak in front of the crowd of a thousand. When Alexander spoke about Premier Rachel Notley, and the NDP leader’s provincial carbon tax, a number of people chanted “lock her up.” They were echoing words President-elect Donald Trump had said about Hillary Clinton.

And ... so what? The people are frustrated. They’re angry. They don’t want a new tax, particularly not one that’s more about green schemes than about delivering quality public services people rely on. We don’t blame them.

Did protesters use language that lacked finesse? Sure. But it’s a chant at a protest, for goodness sake. There’s always a carnival-esque nature to these gatherings.

Yet much of the media pretended to not understand this. They ran shaming articles nationwide, pointing out the “lock her up” chant in their headlines. That’s how desperate they are to say there are Trump-like elements here in Canada. And then they can pat themselves on the backs for climbing up on a high-horse and denouncing a manufactured scandal that was entirely of their own making. This is how they operate.

First of all, this was clearly a cheeky turn of phrase. Notley hasn’t committed a crime. No rational person attending that event actually wanted to see her locked up.

But, more importantly, their chants are actually rooted in genuine frustration. Carbon taxes increase the price of living for regular people. The economy isn’t in the best of shape. People don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. Yet they’re having this agenda imposed on them from the top down.

In Ontario, people are angry over riding hydro rates. In Alberta, people are frustrated about Notley’s carbon tax. Understand it. Don’t mock it.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduces a national carbon tax, families all across the country will be rising up in frustration. What will the government and its pals in the media do then? Mock the entire nation?

Rising taxes is the issue. Not some chant.

[DrCaleb]

And yet, no one ever said lock her up . . for what? What has she done that is a crime?

But I'd expect comments like this from Brian Jean, after all he once lamented that he wasn't able to physically assault Premier Notley. It only makes sense that he'd escalate that to arrest and detention for doing what she was elected to do. Typical leftie tolerance.

And that's why Wildrose will never govern Alberta.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And that's why Wildrose will never govern Alberta.

And Britain will never leave the EU, Trump will never win the primary election, etc.

Anymore I think it's best not to dismiss any potentiality.

[Alta_redneck]

Alberta 'lock her up' scandal is a contrived non-story

Really!? Chants of “Lock her up! Lock her up!” constitute hate speech?

How utterly, ridiculously, totally corrupted by PC thinking do you have to be to think that?

Last Saturday, over 1,000 Albertans rallied outside the provincial legislature in Edmonton to stop the New Democrat government of Premier Rachel Notley from imposing a new $3-billion-a-year carbon tax beginning Jan. 1.

While federal Tory leadership candidate Chris Alexander was speaking to the crowd, he mentioned Premier Notley by name. At hearing the N-word (Notley) the crowd erupted into the same chant U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used to lead his supporters – “Lock her up! Lock her up!” – in reference to his rival Hillary Clinton and her alleged email and fundraising scandals.

The call was vaguely weird in connection with Notley. Still, no one was calling for her assassination or for her to be assaulted. There was no racial undertone. And other than the use of the pronoun “her,” nothing linked Notley’s unpopularity to her sex.

Albertans don’t think Notley is unfit to be premier because she is a woman. They think she’s unfit because she is making a bad economy much, much worse with her extreme environmentalism, taxes and spending.

To demonstrate what a non-story this chanting was – how it failed at the time to register even with reporters from politically correct outlets – not even the CBC mentioned the chanting in its initial reports.

The headline on Mother Corp’s first online story, posted Saturday evening, was “More than 1,000 rally against carbon tax at Alberta legislature.” Had there been the tiniest whiff of “ism” or “phobia,” you can bet the headline would have been “Right-wing Alberta rally degenerates into Trump-style hate-fest.”

There was some social media reaction to the chanting on Saturday and Sunday, much of it driven by NDP supporters such as Kirk Heuser, a failed NDP candidate who has been hired by the NDP government to run its climate change communications office. (Ironically, Heuser accused the ralliers and organizers of being partisan.)

But the true vortex of hysteria didn’t get going until Monday when both NDP Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman and House Leader Brian Mason stepped before microphones, pressed the backs of their wrists to their foreheads and fairly swooned while claiming the chants constituted “hate speech.”

You have to think Mason’s and Hoffman’s comments were plotted attempts to garner sympathy for their increasingly unpopular government. But much of the media bit – and bit hard.

Oooh, this event was so ugly, Monday morning commentators began saying: Gasp; Canada should resist the importation of Trump-style hate politics. OMG, this marks the beginning of a new and hateful era for Canadian politics.

Really!? Like that whole “Harper has a hidden agenda,” if Harper gets elected there will be soldiers with guns on our streets restricting our freedoms. That wasn’t equally or even more outrageous?

People, we have to start seeing these sorts of allegations for what they are: passive-aggressive attempts to use political correctness to shut up the liberal-left’s opponents. 

They are an attempt – like “fact checking” and “fake news” – by one side in our politics to delegitimize every point of view but their own by insisting opposing views are hateful, inaccurate or deceitful.

Unfortunately, the right in this case played right along. Chris Alexander rushed before CBC cameras on Monday to insist he was “mortified” by the chants (even though at the time he said and did nothing). Even the leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition, Brian Jean, claimed the chants were inappropriate and backed away.

The time to give in to speech bullies masquerading as victims is over.

lgunter@postmedia.com

[Alta_redneck]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And yet, no one ever said lock her up . . for what? What has she done that is a crime?

But I'd expect comments like this from Brian Jean, after all he once lamented that he wasn't able to physically assault Premier Notley. It only makes sense that he'd escalate that to arrest and detention for doing what she was elected to do. Typical leftie tolerance.

And that's why Wildrose will never govern Alberta.

What are you doing even bringing his name into this, he wasnt there when it happened, the protesters had been standing around for a couple of hours and tried to warm up a bit. WTF happened there............SFA

[DrCaleb]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And yet, no one ever said lock her up . . for what? What has she done that is a crime?

But I'd expect comments like this from Brian Jean, after all he once lamented that he wasn't able to physically assault Premier Notley. It only makes sense that he'd escalate that to arrest and detention for doing what she was elected to do. Typical leftie tolerance.

And that's why Wildrose will never govern Alberta.

What are you doing even bringing his name into this, he wasnt there when it happened, the protesters had been standing around for a couple of hours and tried to warm up a bit. WTF happened there............SFA

Is he not the leader of the Wildrose Party? Is this thread not about the Wildrose Party? Any person who has the gut reaction to beat women they disagree with is perfectly capable of also locking people up for simply disagreeing with him.

Except, he finally saw the political advantage of disavowing himself from this chanting at the protest, and yesterday separated himself from the chanters. Too little, too late.

[BRAH]

$1:

When "lock her up" gets more attention & outrage than record unemployment & a job killing carbon tax

[DrCaleb]

BRAH BRAH:

$1:

When "lock her up" gets more attention & outrage than record unemployment & a job killing carbon tax

I find it hard to comprehend that people see that it's wrong for police to kill people, but then don't see the severity in calling for those of the opposite political spectrum to be locked up . . .just because.

Unemployment isn't a crime, and the fall of oil prices isn't controlled by the Alberta Government. And how many oil companies are actually calling for a carbon tax?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-ind ... -1.3083832

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/big-oil ... -1.3084357

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n ... carbon-tax

But, hey! We don't like what she is legally doing in accordance with her political views because it differs from ours, so we'll just pull an Erdoğan and lock her up for disagreeing with us.

Give your head a shake!

[uwish]

fifeboy fifeboy:

uwish uwish:

she doesn't need to be locked up, just needs to get this government punted. Just another 3 long agonizing years of this BS.

Wow. Thanks! I was absent that day in Grade 10 Civics.

another useless comment. well done!

[BRAH]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BRAH BRAH:

$1:

When "lock her up" gets more attention & outrage than record unemployment & a job killing carbon tax

I find it hard to comprehend that people see that it's wrong for police to kill people, but then don't see the severity in calling for those of the opposite political spectrum to be locked up . . .just because.

Unemployment isn't a crime, and the fall of oil prices isn't controlled by the Alberta Government. And how many oil companies are actually calling for a carbon tax?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-ind ... -1.3083832

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/big-oil ... -1.3084357

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n ... carbon-tax

But, hey! We don't like what she is legally doing in accordance with her political views because it differs from ours, so we'll just pull an Erdoğan and lock her up for disagreeing with us.

Give your head a shake!

Give your head a shake I was there and it was chanted out of frustration with the Government. No one really wants her locked up but hey that didn't matter to the Left, MSM and Snowflakes who moved the goal posts instead of focusing on the real issue of record unemployment and a job killing carbon tax.