From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #997 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Friday, November 1 2013 Volume 15 : Number 997 In this issue: FW: MP expense disclosure TORONTO SUN: Condemned senators facing reprieve? Valerie Jarrett gives her unbiased opinion of Choom 1 Dangerous Laws To anyone attending the CPC Calgary Convention N.P. ",,,the most telling fact about this whole scandal — ... Ezra Levant- media party's Senate obsession CALGARY HERALD: Senate crisis is scary for party faithful A SCAM? "gang associate who shot up house gets..." Wpg. Canadian spies dealing with greater numbers of ‘targets’ CBC - CONSERVATIVE Policy resolutions to watch: Gender ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, October 30, 2013 12:13 pm From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: FW: MP expense disclosure From: Canadian Taxpayers Federation [mailto: updates=taxpayer.com@mail15.wdc01.mcdlv.net ] Sent: October-30-13 10:10 AM To: dhyoung@shaw.ca Subject: MP expense disclosure Dear Supporter, If Mike Duffy, Mac Harb, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau had been forced to post their expense claims, including receipts, on the internet back in 2009, they probably would never have gotten themselves into all this trouble – either it would have been caught right away, or the claims never would have been made. Last week, while everybody was watching the Senate, MPs announced new rules for reporting their own expenses. And guess what? They still refuse to let Canadians look at their expense claims, receipts and contracts! These new rules are a step in the right direction but Canadians won’t even get to see any of this new information until September 30th, 2014. How many more expense scandals will it take? Let’s tell our MPs that these new rules don’t go far enough. Canadians want politicians in Ottawa to come clean with their expense claims, receipts and contracts. Step 1: Email the Prime Minister ( pm@pm.gc.ca ) Step 2: Email the opposition leaders ( thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca , justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca ) Step 3: Email your own MP (enter your postal code here for contact info): http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC ) Step 4: Sign our online petition demanding full expense disclosure: https://www.taxpayer.com/resource-centre/petitions/petition?tpContentId=31 Thanks for all you do, - Gregory, Shannon, Scott and the entire CTF team P.S.: Think the work we do is important? Help us keep the heat on our politicians by making a donation today. You can make your financial contribution through our secure website here: https://taxpayer.com/donate Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | Forward to a friend Copyright © 2013 Canadian Taxpayers Federation, All rights reserved. You are receiving this Issues and Action Update because you have either signed a CTF petition, signed-up through our home page or given a donation. If you do not wish to receive further Action Updates please click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this message. Otherwise please add updates@taxpayer.com to your address book. Our privacy policy can be viewed at http://taxpayer.com/about/privacy-statement . The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is Canada’s leading non-partisan citizens advocacy group dedicated to lower taxes, less waste and accountable government. Our mailing address is: Canadian Taxpayers Federation 265-438 Victoria Ave E Regina, SK S4N 0N7 Canada Add us to your address book update subscription preferences | view email in browser Did you get this email forwarded to you from a friend? Start getting these emails directly in your inbox. Sign-up for free at: www.taxpayer.com/join ------------------------------ Date: Wed, October 30, 2013 1:17 pm From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: TORONTO SUN: Condemned senators facing reprieve? Condemned senators facing reprieve? BY MARK DUNN, SENIOR NATIONAL REPORTER - UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013 02:23 PM EDT 13 comments http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/30/condemned-senators-facing-reprieve Conservative hopes for quick end to stalled Senate standoff now all but gone BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OCTOBER 30, 2013 12:46 PM http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/Conservative+hopes+quick+stalled+ Senate+standoff+gone/9102724/story.html Former Conservative MP speaks out about Senate scandal By Slav Kornik Global News - October 30, 2013 http://globalnews.ca/news/935266/former-conservative-mp-speaks-out-about-senate-scandal/ Duffy didn't have to accept the cheques BY BARRY COOPER, CALGARY HERALD OCTOBER 30, 2013 9:07 AM http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/Cooper+Duffy+didn+have+accept+cheques/9098922/story.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:32:07 -0700 From: j davies Subject: Valerie Jarrett gives her unbiased opinion of Choom 1 On 30/10/2013 5:25 AM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > A quote from New Yorker editor David Remnick's 2010 book The Bridge. > "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. > He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . He knows how perceptive he is. He > knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the > ability - the extraordinary, uncanny ability - to take a thousand different > perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he > has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . So what I sensed in > him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary > talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. . . . He's > been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what > ordinary people do." ( senior Obama adviser ) Gaaaaak. I think Hoover should sue. That giant sucking sound surely means some or all of their patents are being infringed. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:37:23 -0700 From: Len Miller Subject: Dangerous Laws Dangerous Laws Are we losing our freedom? Are we, as a society, losing our ability to distinguish between what we don't like and what ought to be criminal? Every day, we see some glorious scheme being proposed to make us all safer, healthier, or wealthier, or to give us whiter teeth. To evaluate whether violating that law ought to be a crime, we need to ask: "Are you really willing to shoot someone over that?" Mises Daily: Monday, May 14, 2001 by Ray Haynes Even further, what if they refuse to allow the police in their home, or refuse to pull over their car when the officers try to arrest them? What if they are so tired of being nitpicked to death by nanny-statism that they just snap and refuse to be taken alive? Oops. At some point, somewhere along the way, if something is made a crime, someone ay have to shoot somebody to enforce the law. Of course, most people dismiss this argument as unrealistic and far-fetched. But a couple of weeks ago, this premise was proved right (again). Before you say, "We're not going to be shooting anyone for smoking in public/not wearing a seatbelt/not wearing a helmet/not hiring the proper demographic in his office; we're only talking about a $50/$100/$250 fine!" think: "What if they won't pay their fine?" The response, "Then they'll have to appear in court, and the court will make them pay." The reply, "But what if they still refuse to comply with the court order?" "Then they'll be thrown in jail." You probably heard about the man who was shot in Cincinnati in April by the police. This incident spawned several days of racial unrest and rioting. Do you know what the underlying reason for the death of this young man was? He wasn't wearing his seat belt. Of course, it wasn't quite that simple. He had received several seat-belt violations and hadn't paid any of his tickets. He had refused to respond to court orders. So, when they pulled him over on that fateful day, all the police knew about him was that there was a warrant for his arrest. They didn't know at the time that it was for seat-belt violations. As for the man, we don't know what he was thinking, exactly, but he clearly didn't want to be arrested by the police. He took off in his car and led the police on a high-speed chase, which ended in his own death when the police thought he reached for a gun and shot him. He died over the seat-belt law. This is not to blame the police. They didn't know why he had a warrant out for his arrest. They also say they believed their lives were in danger at the conclusion of the chase. This also isn't designed to make a hero out of the young man. I sincerely doubt that he was a conscientious objector to the nanny state. More likely, he just didn't like seat belts and couldn't afford to pay the tickets. When his unpaid tickets rose to warrant status and the police spotted him, he panicked. In the end, however, he died because someone thought it was a good idea to force people to wear seat belts. Was it worth it? No matter how innocuous or well-intentioned a law, it has to be enforced with the full force of the police powers. If it isn't, then the law is useless. When rules aren't enforced, that breeds contempt for the law itself. According to George Washington, "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." No matter how high-minded a law sounds, its only power comes from the business end of a gun. The next time something annoys you and you want it stopped, or you come up with a good idea to improve everybody's life and you want to make sure everybody has to do it, you need to stop yourself and ask this question: "Am I really willing to shoot someone for this?" Well, you needn't bother asking . . The vancouver police will . * * * * * Ray Haynes represents the 36th Senate District in California. senator.haynes@sen.ca.gov. This piece was originally published in the Orange County Register. "The state, the social apparatus of coercion and compulsion, is by necessity a hegemonic bond. If government were in a position to expand its power ad libitum, it could abolish the market economy and substitute for it all-round totalitarian socialism. In order to prevent this, it is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights, and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty." Ludwig von Mises, ------------- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:17:28 -0700 From: "Clive Edwards" <45clive@telus.net> Subject: The real reason behind big government.... .follow the money. http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34703/Richard-Ebeling-Keynesian-Eco no mist-Who-Wanted-to-Sidestep-the-Constitution/ "The traditional purpose of constitutions has been to restrain and specify the powers of government. The presumption is that government is the enemy of liberty and prosperity. Unbridled government threatens to enslave the people through controls, regulations, and prohibitions. Unlimited government power to tax and spend undermines the ability of the people to plan their own lives and peacefully interact with their fellow citizens for mutual improvement. Keynesian economics and popularizers of its policy prescriptions like Lawrence Klein were major contributors to our continuing trend toward larger and ever more intrusive government. They persuaded more than a generation of students and economists that the free market is untrustworthy of supplying either jobs or justice. They rationalized the need for unbounded political power in the name of economic stability and distributive fairness. They weakened the belief in the importance of constitutional limits on power. If freedom is to be restored, part of the task will have to be a thorough overthrow of the Keynesian concepts that have been so deeply imbedded into public thinking and government policy-making by people like Lawrence Klein." 45clive ------------------------------ Date: Wed, October 30, 2013 6:50 pm From: "mikeack" Subject: To anyone attending the CPC Calgary Convention I have no doubt the politicians will tell us anything they think we want to hear in order to get us off their backs. Do NOT in any way accept some dangling carrot that will only be acted upon after the next election. We have already been suckered once by that ploy. The CPC has had the time and the power to fix this mess ever since the last election. They have chosen not to. They still have the time and the power to fix this NOW. They will run out of time in less than six months. The anti's always make sweeping changes to attack our lifestyle. Their abusive laws always seem to go from the newspaper headlines to the Criminal Code in just a few months. I see no reason why a sweeping change cannot be used to restore sanity, respect and fairness to the firearms file. As always, we lawful firearms owners remain willing to work with any individual or organization to effectively deter and repel criminal assault. We expect and demand, however, that any policy that is adopted will actually work to deter and repel violent assault, have evidence to back it up, and will not needlessly destroy our cultural heritage or self defense rights just to symbolically appease a bunch of hand-wringing knee-jerkers. We also expect that after 4 decades of failed restrictive policies, some honest attention should be paid to creating less restrictive policies that actually encourage people to enter the shooting lifestyle, to think about, train and equip for unexpected danger, and to regain that wonderful mutually respectful amicable relationship the firearms owners once shared with the police. Keep their feet to the fire, boys and girls. Remember they are our employees. They work for us. -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:13:43 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: N.P. ",,,the most telling fact about this whole scandal — ... ...which is the fact that Harper and his PMO acted as if they owned Mike Duffy"? Jonathan Kay: A modest proposal to purge our Senate of Duffys I think this quote sums the real scandal which is the integrity and independence of Senators. ========================= ======================= Jonathan Kay | 30/10/13 | Last Updated: 30/10/13 8:26 PM ET When the Mike Duffy scandal broke earlier this year, many observers (including me) saw a silver lining: At last, Canadians would be awakened to the need for Senate reform. Unfortunately, that debate now has been overshadowed by the more sensational question of whether Stephen Harper lied about Duffy’s (attempted) removal from the Senate. I have no idea if Harper lied. But from a policy perspective, it doesn’t matter. Whoever was or wasn’t in the know about Duffy’s two-part, $104,000 payoff, it doesn’t change the most telling fact about this whole scandal — which is the fact that Harper and his PMO acted as if they owned Mike Duffy. No matter whom you believe, Harper, Duffy, Marjory LeBreton, or Thomas Mulcair, that basic element of the narrative doesn’t change. For Senators of the Duffy type, the job is a sinecure. Since they really have no professional or moral claim to it — having never been elected — they are expected to persist in an attitude of abject gratitude to the (elected) Prime Minister who chose them, out of all the other hacks, to sit in the Red Chamber. Duffy’s financial sin, claiming expenses not owed to him, is just an allegation. But his political sin, disobeying his bosses in the PMO, is an agreed-upon fact in Conservative circles. The episode shows that the whole idea of the Senate as an “independent” body (as it actually is in, say, the U.S. system) is a total farce. The PMO effectively hired Duffy as a senator in 2009, and then the Conservative party literally rented him out for partisan campaign errands during that period. When he was no longer useful to the Conservatives, because of his inability to keep onside of even the generous accounting standards applied to senators, that same PMO believed they could, effectively, fire him. When Duffy had the gall to push back against his Conservatives superiors, they got mad and started playing hardball with him — expecting that he would quit when professional life became unbearable. And when that didn’t work, the PMO got the Conservative Senate leadership to do the deed directly. Note that this is exactly how many large corporations with unionized environments get rid of troublesome employees. (By this metaphor, Duffy’s defenders in the Senate are the union shop stewards who are insisting that he be allowed to exhaust his various grievance procedures before getting turfed out.) Political scandals often emerge in the seams of public life — in particular, the seam that separates the true public interest from partisan self-dealing. In the case of the PMO’s handling of Duffy, the scandal arose in another kind of seam: the one that separates the independent, noble-seeming theoretical character of our Senate, and the actual reality that many of its members (though by no means all) are hacks who owe their entire livelihoods to an appointed position that everyone knows they don’t actually deserve. Which brings me back to Senate reform — and the myriad options that have been put forward to improve the Red Chamber. I’ve argued my favourite plan in these pages before. But to be honest, I don’t really care what reform plan goes forward, as long as it satisfies one single, important criterion, which is this: Canadian senators must have some independent moral claim to their jobs. I don’t care if that claim comes from an election, a federal council of experts, or nominations from professional bodies. What matters is that they are not in the pathetic and unstable position of owing their entire status in life to a Prime Minister who sits in what, according to our Constitutional scheme, should be a separate component of Parliament. It is this flaw in the current structure of the system — this divergence between Senate theory and Senate reality — that truly is at the heart of the current scandal. And if it is not remedied, I guarantee that Mike Duffy will not be the last senator to humiliate himself and his party. jkay@nationalpost.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:37:23 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Ezra Levant- media party's Senate obsession Have you been hoodwinked by the media party? Only one journalist has read the Audit of Senator Duffy's expenses. What did it say that Duffy owed? http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/media-party-senate-obsession/2781632327001 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, October 31, 2013 8:09 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: CALGARY HERALD: Senate crisis is scary for party faithful Corbella: Senate crisis is scary for party faithful BY LICIA CORBELLA, CALGARY HERALD OCTOBER 31, 2013 6:55 AM http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/Corbella+Senate+crisis+scary+party+faithful/9104059/story.html Coyne: Harper is not responsible, even for answering questions about his responsibility in this affair BY ANDREW COYNE, CALGARY HERALD OCTOBER 31, 2013 6:23 AM http://www.calgaryherald.com/Coyne+Harper+responsible+even+answering+questions+about+responsibility+this+affair/9105480/story.html It may be in Nigel Wright’s power to destroy Stephen Harper: Hébert Is Nigel Wright, the prime minister's former chief of staff, the evil mastermind behind a scheme to cover up Mike Duffy’s controversial expenses? By: Chantal Hébert National Affairs, Published on Wed Oct 30 2013 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/30/it_may_be_in_nigel_wrights_power_to_destroy_stephen_harper_hbert.html CBC - Wright-Duffy cheque affair: Harper’s explanations changing by the day Senate expenses scandal defies PM’s efforts at message control By Chris Hall, CBC News Posted: Oct 31, 2013 5:06 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 31, 2013 7:52 AM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wright-duffy-cheque-affair-harper-s-explanations-changing-by-the-day-1.2289226 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:11:53 -0400 From: Bill Subject: A SCAM? It would seem they gleaned all the email addresses from the digest postings.. They made a slight change to the return email address hoping that no one would notice the change. I got one of these as well, and notified Peter.. I'm sure he has received several by now.. I also sent a "Nice Try A-hole' response to the scammers reply address.. Others on the Digest will probably receive similar letters begging for money. They are ALL scams.. Bill ------- REMEMBER: If you don't fight for your rights NOW, you may not have the right to fight for them later! On 10/30/2013 6:50 PM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:28:49 -0700 > From: "Clive Edwards"<45clive@telus.net> > Subject: A SCAM? > > I Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to LUGANSK (UKRAINE) and had my > bag stolen from me with my passport and personal effects therein. The > embassy has just issued me a temporary passport but I have to pay for a > ticket and settle my hotel bills with the Manager. > > I have made contact with my bank but it would take me 3-5 working days to > access funds in my account, the bad news is my flight will be leaving very > soon but I am having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager > won't let me leave until I settle the bills, I need your help/LOAN > financially and I promise to make the refund once I get back home, you are > my last resort and hope, Please let me know if I can count on you and I need > you to keep checking your email because it's the only way I can reach you. > > Peter > > ---- > > Just got the above email, ostensibly from Peter. I have had other such > emails from people I have known, and relatives I have never heard of. I'm > certain Peter would never make such a request. > > The fact that Russia is mentioned is another red flag. Russia is one of the > foremost locations of internet scams, stolen credit card scams and the like. > If you weren't scammed into helping the Nairobi finance minister's Christian > widow get stolen money out of the country, you shouldn't fall for this. > > Anyone personally acquainted with Peter should knock on his door and let him > know how his good name is being misused due to malicious software on one of > our computers. > > Clive Edwards > 2648 - 13th Street > Keremeos, BC V0X 1N6 > Cel: 604-250-7910 > 45clive@telus.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:22:05 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "gang associate who shot up house gets..." Wpg. This reminds me of how gun control and gangs have been closely associated in the history of New York City. Manitoba, heavily gang infested, and ruled at present by the politically correct, anti-gun NDP, gets what it voted for. http://blackrod.blogspot.ca/2013/09/gang-associate-who-shot-up-house-gets.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 05:49:36 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Canadian spies dealing with greater numbers of ‘targets’ Canadian spies dealing with greater numbers of ‘targets’ Stewart Bell | 31/10/13 9:31 PM ET More from Stewart Bell | @StewartBellNP National Post GraphicsCSIS warrants Canada’s intelligence service was busier last year, with a greater number of “targets” under investigation, the Security Intelligence Review Committee says in a report released Thursday that highlights the agency’s expanding role overseas. The report says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had 496 targets in 2012-13, up from 410 the year before. The number of warrants issued to monitor suspected threats to Canadian security were also up to 236 from 206 the previous year. While the report does not explain the increases, it says CSIS was doing more to keep watch of targets who had travelled abroad. The reported spike came as dozens of Canadians were making their way to Syria to fight, some with extremist groups. “Overall, we are satisfied with CSIS’s performance of its mandated duties and functions,” said Chuck Strahl, chair of SIRC, which oversees the operations of CSIS. “However, we identified some areas of concern and have made recommendations to address those issues, most notably on information-sharing.” One concern stemmed from sharing with the Five Eyes — the electronic eavesdropping partnership of Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. CSIS has been relying heavily on the alliance to track suspects who have left Canada, the report says. The agency began doing this in 2009, when the Federal Court authorized it by issuing warrants to intercept the communications of targets who had left the country. During the period reviewed by SIRC, 35 such warrants were issued. But the report warns that the reliance on Five Eyes could cause problems should one of the allies, in its own national interest, decide to act alone. The targets could be detained or harmed based on information provided by CSIS, it says. “SIRC found that while there are clear advantages to leveraging second-party assets in the execution of this new warrant power — and, indeed, this is essential for the process to be effective — there are also clear hazards, including the lack of control over the intelligence once it has been shared,” the report says. The report says Canada had started putting caveats on its shared intelligence that require allies to notify CSIS if any action is to be taken, but the Review Committee called them a “work in progress” and urged the agency to increase the use of “caveats and assurances.” The highly secretive work of the Five Eyes has faced increasing scrutiny since former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began leaking sensitive documents suggesting the alliance had engaged in massive spying against friendly governments. National Post ------------------------------ Date: Fri, November 1, 2013 11:14 am From: "Dennis R. Young" Subject: CBC - CONSERVATIVE Policy resolutions to watch: Gender ... ...selection, guns, union finances CBC - Gun safety courses deal with surge in registrations [VIDEO] End of federal long gun registry cited as one reason more people are taking up hunting, shooting CBC News Posted: Nov 01, 2013 7:40 AM AT Last Updated: Nov 01, 2013 7:40 AM AT http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gun-safety-courses-deal-with-surge-in-registrations-1.2324913?autoplay=true CBC - CONSERVATIVE Policy resolutions to watch: Gender selection, guns, union finances By Kady O'Malley, CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2013 8:20 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 30, 2013 8:20 PM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/policy-resolutions-to-watch-gender-selection-guns-union-finances-1.2288156 FOR THESE AND OTHER FIREARMS AND OUTDOORS NEWS SUBSCRIBE TO THE NFA's DAILY MEDIA REPORTS: news@nfa.ca From: Canada's National Firearms Association [mailto: news@nfa.ca ] Sent: November-01-13 10:10 AM To: dhyoung@shaw.ca Subject: NFA Media Report - November 1, 2013 Canada's National Firearms Association Daily Media Report ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #997 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)