Julian Fantino Gets Stomped

All the earth around laughed from the flashing bronze.
A din went up from the feet of the men.
Homer, The Iliad, Book 19.332-333, Barry B. Powell Translation

After watching Question Period today, the Oracle of Ottawa wonders how long it will be before Julian Fantino, the present Minister of Veteran Affairs, hears of his cabinet demise on the local media, as do all discarded under the bus ministers of the 'Harper Hapless Government' when they are deemed redundant. But the abrasive, dottering, early demented Minister will be able to call it all a hell of a run. From an inspection of the facts Dear Reader, you will also come to the conclusion that this actor has risen far beyond his level of competence. And that is as Christian as the Oracle of Ottawa can put it.   

"befuddled..."

It appears from publicly available information at the time of this writing, that the good Minister has never seen the inside of a high school, let alone a University! It is all pretty shocking to the Oracle of Ottawa that Julian Fantino started out as mall security guard! A plot right out of  The Trailer Park Boys. And yet, was somehow allowed to rise up to the key positions of leadership of Ontario's largest police forces. It all boggles the mind of the Oracle of Ottawa. It is not surprising that a cop could get by for all these years by essentially faking it, and Julian Fantino's life so far is proof it truly can be done.

Now most actors would have quit after rising to the top of the Ontario Provincial Police, which was paying over a quarter million a year! A shopping mall security guard. And  he came from outside the force! Have you checked the requirements just to be a constable in the OPP lately Dear Reader?  Julian Fantino would not have qualified to be a lowly constable on a northern Ontario dirt road. So in true management fashion they made him the chief! And the right wing wacko's bitch when the minimum wage is raised every four years!? And yet we have in Ontario medical doctors and Classics Professors driving cabs! Who runs Human Resources in this country? The Godfather?

The whole bottom line of the story is that you can't treat Veterans like a bunch of heads in a crack house dope raid. Why even the Mayor of Toronto at the time of this writing knows that. The Oracle of Ottawa has mentioned way earlier in this humble blog that this actor just wasn't going to last. And today in Question Period the dark gloom of Hades enveloped the doomed man, when he got called up by Thomas Mulcair. It wasn't pretty, but yet the Oracle enjoyed every moment of it. The video of the most aggressive stomping has been included above. You Dear Reader can be the judge.... 

There comes a time when all the easy low hanging nickels are cut and grasped and saved. Then you reach the point where the cost of removing the next nickel starts to incur unintended costs that far exceed the intrinsic value of the last nickel saved. This is a perfect example... 

Toronto - How Dead Do You Have To Be?

These things happen. We are living in cheap times, and the fast lane is littered with some very expensive wrecks.
Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, p. 228

If it wasn't for a clear headed citizen with his ankle bracelet cell phone, it is very likely that we would have never even heard of the death of  Sammy Yatim. The murder took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada sometime late last Friday night or early Saturday morning. Somehow the youngster slipped his clutch plates and ordered the clearing of a Toronto streetcar at knife point, so the story goes.

Glock 17 - plastic cops plastic gun...

Of course the street car driver hit the hidden panic button and every cop within a radius of God only knows quickly started to appear at the scene. Now if you know any old cops, the first thing that they will tell you is that the most dangerous thing in a cops life is another cop going for the gun too soon. Since 9/11 cops have been getting all the funding beyond their wildest dreams. We always hear about the Ninja like training that they all get today. And we have all heard about the latest body armour that even the most common beat cop gets in any city in Canada.

 So when it comes to disarming a lone nutter you would think that a big burly constable would walk right up to the mental miscreant and deftly disarm and subdue the poor citizen, armed with a knife, gun or both. Haven't any of these cops of today seen any recent movies? And as per the Oracle of Ottawa's view on the matter, it is much more fun to beat the crap out of someone face to face that threatens me then just shoot him from a great and safe distance. But that is just the Oracle, old school macho...

Well if you have seen the video, which appeared to the Oracle on Sunday last as he checked in to his You Tube account and noticed it in the popular now section! So that means that the whole world has or will soon see it. That sure is good for Canadian tourism isn't it? As the Oracle of Ottawa pressed the play button he was floored! Never in his life had he observed a cold blooded murder for real in a Canadian city. But if you watch the video carefully and count the shots fired, it seems that one of Toronto's "finest" emptied the contents of his Glock's clip into the kid. (9 Shots - listen and count carefully...)

 But it gets even worse, upon closer viewing. After all the shots are fired, and the mob of cops enter the bus, to subdue the corpse, you hear that unmistakable sound of a Taser being deployed! (At 1:00 on the video...) It is just unimaginable, but they Tasered the kid after they killed him! Now we all know that most police departments put their recruits through a ton of "wiring" tests before they are hired. Perhaps they should start screening for Dyslexia?

The real ironic, ignorant fact of this whole mess is that it got recorded from more than one angle. There is no way out. It makes the Oracle break into a wry smile. The results of living in our locked down world, that has most of us covered 24/7 as soon as we walk out the door in the morning is that the system is catching more cops than criminals! Do you think there is any information in that fact? Well do ya?

HMCS Toronto - Taxing Kim Jong-un's Dope?

I am too wasted to eat my bread.
Psalm, 102:4, NRSV

It was with great interest and wondrous amazement that the Oracle of Ottawa greeted the news of HMCS Toronto's huge Arabian Sea drug bust of over half a ton of pure heroin! They say on the CBC that the street value is somewhere in the vicinity of 100 million dollars. But where the hell would a half a ton of heroin originate from? The CBC news story hinted that it could be from Afghanistan. And this, to the Oracle of Ottawa, just doesn't sound right. Does it sound right to you?

HMCS Toronto

Now the only thing that is going to be wilder than this feat of high seas policing is the first day back in Halifax when the Mounties try and walk the drug sniffing dogs through the lower decks! The damn critters will be going totally nuts. Try and picture it. The dog(s) will be more confused then Herring Cove on Fathers Day! 

Could you imagine a shrewd Afghanistan tribal leader putting such a huge load all in one place? The Oracle of Ottawa doesn't see it either. From the Oracles sources, the warlords move their junk in small batches over land to Iran and then on through to Turkey.  And even more interesting than where the load came from, one should ask where the blazes it was going. After some thought the Oracle of Ottawa has come up with another plan.

Could it possibly be that the HMCS Toronto has intercepted a wholesale load from North Korea Could this huge load have once been the property of one Kim Jong-un? He tried this, (or was it his Dad?), with a much larger ship to Australia, and all was going well until the Aus cops seized a mere fifty bricks of heroin and then sank the ship! 

'Harper Government' - Immigration Push - The Real Reason...

If you lose the dullards back in the dust, you don't want them anyway.
William Zinsser, On Writing Well, p. 26

It was with the greatest relief that the series entitled "Our Time To Lead" finally ended in the Globe and Mail newspaper, once Canada's national paper. It just hasn't been the same since that unnamed large telecom got it's corporate whore hooks into it, upon getting a minority percentage stake a while back. The only thing that was missing from the copy was that little header in small type at the top of the page that says "Advertisement Feature"!

Ottawa - 2025??

The spin doctors and fart catchers assorted of the 'Harper Government' Bund pulled out all the stops on this one, didn't they? One million new Canadians a year until the population of Canada is up to 100 million! Please! The Oracle of Ottawa has already dealt with this utter propaganda lie already. With Canada's present population and present growth, we will have 100 million people by the end of this century anyway. And where are you going to get one million people every year, let alone this year to come from? Now we get to the heart of the matter, the nut of the problem, so to speak...

Canada was an awesome place once, up to about 2006. Since then it has been going all to hell sure and steady. We sure wouldn't be able to get 1,000,000 new immigrants from the European Union or Scandinavia for all the remaining years of this century. And those immigrants are the last people that the 'Harper Government' would even want in Canada. You see dear reader, it is not about bodies, it is all about changing Canada forever.

Brampton - 2025??

Where in heavens name would you get 1,000,000 immigrants without end of the supply from now to the end of this century?  Well, that's easy, isn't it? China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Sub Saharan Africa for the stragglers. All these people have several characteristics that the 'Harper Government' just loves. These are people that come from patriarchally predominate societies of clans and / or tribes. Only the headman have a choice, the rest of these people will live their whole lives without a choice, especially the women. And they are all tightly socially knit. They will all move to and stay put at wherever the 'Harper Government' tells them to go. And that of course is all the old Liberal "beachhead" ridings in Ontario and Quebec! Only the white people will even get near the tar sands in Alberta!

Again, dear reader, it is not about numbers, it is not about population growth, it is about choice. It is about that you still have choices. The 'Harper Government' will not tolerate this. They are prepared to utterly destroy the social liberal culture of this nation once and forever. By bringing in 1,000,000 tribal clansmen per year until even on one election day, in your lifetime, you will no longer even have the choice of throwing the bums out...

And all those other issues while we are at it. Do you see the pattern? You had a choice, that is being taken away, one step at a time, until you don't....

Bill C-30 - Canadian Tourism Report

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy — everything.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four, Part III, Chapter 3

If the Oracle of Ottawa was a high end European Union or British Commonwealth tourist contemplating a trip to Canada in the near future, I would honestly have to advise you to give it a pass. You see, well, how can I explain this? Canada is under social deconstruction at the present time. It has been a slow and gradual process starting in 2006. But the progress was not very quick at that time, due to the Harper Government only holding a minority in the House of Commons. Of course, as you no doubt know, in 2011, they finally achieved through an utter fluke of democracy and the knotty bits of the first past the post electoral system, their long dreamed of stable majority Conservative government.

Welcome to Canada!

The process of social deconstruction has really gathered steam. The long-gun registry and all the files that went with it are history. Many long lived and very socially equitable institutions such as the Canadian Wheat Board have already been dismantled. All of our most cherished social programs are now in the line for future dis-assembly. Old Age Security has been designated as the next big thing to be gone. Along with our treasured one tier, no exceptions, health care system is no doubt next.

But the worst thing so far, and it is really scary, has been the introduction of Bill C-30. This is essentially  a reintroduction of the ancient English Star Chamber. Its main purpose is given as something else, but its real purpose is to crush any and all dissent concerning the wonderful and new improvements of the 'Harper Government'. The main piece that is causing an incredible uproar in Canada is the possibility of warrant less searches by the police at the behest of the 'Harper Government' and / or any of its minions, at any time, for no particular reason. The Oracle of Ottawa has tried to find the exemption for foreign nationals on vacation in Canada in the proposed bill, but as of yet, I have yet to locate the clause that states the exception. It therefore falls upon the Oracle of Ottawa to warn any and all tourists that any and all of your communications could be monitored and offered back to your home government as a favor and / or leverage.Just thought you should keep that in mind.

Once I lived in an equitable, benevolent, Just Society... Now? I have no idea where this is all going to end up....

Please XXX - Don't Write That Blog...

How can despotism abide with honor?
Baron Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Book III, Section 8

It is not often that Canada gets like this. There are those handful of occasions in the Oracle of Ottawa's lifetime when you can just feel in Ottawa the whole country writhing in utter rage and agony. Those times when you wonder if the Canada that you have known and loved will even survive. The FLQ Crisis, Meech Lake, and all the Quebec Referendums come vividly to mind. But the days of late with the introduction of Bill C-30, Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act , and the insane pronouncements of the Minister of Public Safety; Vic "The Dic" Toews, this is one of those occasions. Possibly the worst one ever, so far, in our lifetimes.

Vic Toews - Minister of  Panic

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Geez! You know it's bad when even Sun News starts sounding like Liberals!  Brian Lilleys journalistic balls finally drop! I really hate to admit it, but a hell of a good piece. Listen carefully...

Rob 'Creosote' Ford - Done Like Dinner?

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, than it is likely that no one will listen closely. 
B. W. Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light, p. 92

It seems to the Oracle of Ottawa, the one certain way to sign up for a 24/7 colonoscopy , is to be the newbie mayor of the largest city in Canada and then sneak out a 1000 man police force layoff notice to the press in the dog days of summer so that the Chief of Police will hear second hand on the six o'clock news! Now the Oracle of Ottawa has never had the pleasure of elected office, but if he did, this is one thing that he would certainly not risk! And by the look of the picture of the Toronto Police Chief in today's Globe and Mail the Oracle of Ottawa is more right than wrong yet again!

"Robina"  rocks the Casba...

I am sure that the people of Toronto will be very pleased with the 2,500 new ex "mall cops" who will no doubt replace the thousand sworn members, now soon to be unemployed! Don't you wish you could see the method here? Oh! There is no method? Well...

Video I

All that is left to wonder about I guess is who is going to get the tax farm concession for the municipal property taxes? Maybe that nice Swiss accounting firm, that seems to know everything about Toronto...Maybe Rob will pay another visit to Dalton and try to get the Province of Ontario to do it for nothing? It is always worth a try, especially if a lot of the press show up and take pictures and all. One shudders in the realization that Jane Jacobs was probably right after all, and we are all doomed.

Video II

Forgive this 'umble blogger, but I just couldn't help but notice the incredible similarities of the two "actors" in Video I and Video II.

Sun News TV - Yes, You Didn't See It! - Constable Styles Funeral Outrage -

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. 
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Section 1, paragraph 18, lines 12-14

The Oracle of Ottawa had hoped to cover many varied and interesting subjects in this humble blog. But just as soon as I think I can forget about Sun News TV finally, they shock with an even greater travesty then the one that preceded it! Today at 2:57 p.m. another new low was hit.

Canadian Police Memorial

 Today was the funeral of Constable Garrett Styles. It was carried on all three Canadian News Networks. Two of these networks did it with the greatest respect. One of these networks did not. There are certain times and occasions in Canada and especially in Ontario when the "bottom line" goes out the window. Premier Dalton McGuinty made time to address the assembled mourners. The under funded "state broadcaster" CBC, and CTV News Net run the whole length of the funeral without commercial interruption. Sun News TV did not. At 2:57p.m. as the casket of the slain officer was being carried down the steps, Sun News TV decided that the running of a two minute Doctor Ho commercial was more important... A quick check between channels indicated the integrity of the other two national news carriers, who stayed with the event coverage.

It's no picnic out there...

 At three p.m. sharp it was the standard entrance of the celebrated on air personality Krista Erickson   replete in her customary skank party dress, complete with her usual "shits and giggles" demeanor. The only thing that this viewer thought was missing was the street light...A quick check to the other two national carriers indicated that they stayed with the funeral, missing their top of hour advertising points, which this viewer was very impressed by. I just couldn't believe what I saw.

This was the exact two minute commercial run by Sun News TV at 2:57p.m. (E.S.T) as the casket of Constable Garrett Styles was being carried past his Honour Guard. I have no doubt that the "Thin Blue Line" have their own ways of dealing with this incredible diss'.