They don't want us to Unite!!! - B. Marley

Had a rather heated debate with a friend on the activities of my favorite patriotic radio-show host Alex Jones (of infowars.com).  I came across a webpage linking Alex to the Zionists and criticized his friendships and business dealings with certain Jews....The page reeked of White-Supremecy.  While I have no real knowledge of the vocabulary used by anti-semetic commentary...I can use my common sense to discern a smear campaign when I see one.  What was funny to me was another article I read criticizing Alex as being a White Supremecist.  I guess when you can't attack the facts that a person is talking about...you can always attack their character.

Not everything that Alex says, I agree with, but what I can say is that he is very well read, knowledgeable and neutral when it comes to religious affiliation.  Where Alex is not neutral is when it comes to attacking elite individuals who take advantage of the weak and usurping the rights of citizens, and that includes the freedom of speech.  What is ironic is that people like Alex, Lou Dobbs, Ron Paul and others are fighting to maintain the same freedom of speech that those who speak out about the above people enjoy so much.

The debate with my friend will never be about Zionism or White-Supremecy, from my perspective, for I have no opinion about which side is right or wrong...what is important is that the ability to say what we believe is maintained.  The fact that I can argue with my friend and yet still maintain an element of respect between us is truly what is at the core of our freedoms.  This above all else is what must be maintained.  Perhaps if we focused on our commonalities we might be more united than we realize.

Those who want to see the oppression of others continue, will of course defame those who speak out about oppression.  The oppressors want to divide and conquer...and if we can fight amongst ourselves, they just have to sit back and watch the mayhem.  Like Bob Marley said..."They don't want us to Unite!".

Through a scanner darkly...

This morning it was made official, the not so small smalltown of Saskatoon has been scheduled to recieve a full body scanner for it's John Diefenbaker airport.  It did not come as a surprise but was nonetheless dismaying to read about.  "Well, there goes air travel for our family!"  I wondered if there was anyone else, other than my facebook friends, who would agree with me.  Did people know?  I mean, really know just how much of the human body is shown by these things?  I decided to find out by listening to our local talk-radio station.  Well, there were certainly lots of hot comments coming from people who were outraged over the courts decision to let the Saskatchewan Roughriders GM off lightly for his assault on a 16 year old girl.  This is encouraging, I thought!  The whole scanner issue would be sure to ruffle a few feathers.  Boy was I wrong.  I got a very polite intro to the topic I was going to be talking to the host about only to find that I could only get a few comments out before getting cut off.  Wow, well, I guess I know how this is going to go down.  People will, it seems, think it's not ok for the GM of our favorite football team to treat a 16 year old babysitter as a sexual object, but ok to put our wives, mothers, sisters, daughters through a machine that shows their naked bodies to some airport staff members.  Ah, but there's an alternative!  If you object, you can go into a private room for a pat-down. 
Another point of contention is that this so-called terrorist attack occurred in the US.  Whatever in the world made the Canadian government jump on that bandwagon without a proper review?  Oh, right, I forgot...the parliament is currently prorogued...the PM doesn't have to answer to parliament.

For the record, I will drive to visit family from now on..unless I can find an airport that doesn't have a scanner of course!