tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post8600915257766253871..comments2024-03-28T03:24:03.551-04:00Comments on MYRANT: SRBissettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426874992235196378noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-78555989480480540302007-08-03T08:30:00.000-04:002007-08-03T08:30:00.000-04:00Hi Steve!!! It's Jack :-). Just read this new arti...Hi Steve!!! It's Jack :-). Just read this new article and just saw your blog for the first time!! EXCELLENT!!<BR/><BR/>About Jay Stephens, here's how it works. It's a setup all the way down the line, but you know have to SCREAM if you want your constitutional rights upheld. If you're Canadian, well you're fucked.<BR/><BR/>We need some light shined on that bullshit, which I'm grateful you're doing.<BR/><BR/>Many blessings to this wonderful blog, I can't remember having my brain scratched so nicely. Of course, you always have that effect on me with your writing.<BR/><BR/>Looking forward to regular visits.<BR/><BR/>JackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-50903542663476177132007-07-20T11:07:00.000-04:002007-07-20T11:07:00.000-04:00To Jean-Marc:I agree that Jay's experience was hor...To Jean-Marc:<BR/><BR/>I agree that Jay's experience was horrible and illegal. I just wanted to point out that there are some similar precedents, and that things have gotten exponentially worse since 9/11. How in Hell anyone could try to maintain Jay was entering the US illegally just shows how far things have degenerated.<BR/><BR/>Keith LoganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-7756110854579887182007-07-20T10:03:00.000-04:002007-07-20T10:03:00.000-04:00Well, radio talk show host Alex Jones and his crew...Well, radio talk show host Alex Jones and his crew were detained by Canadian border officials and held over night without access to a lawyer or any other form of recourse. <BR/>Canadian federal agencies are using "anti-terrorist" pretexts for a lot of previously impossible actions, like the imprisonment and deportation of Ernst Zundel, a "Holocaust Revisionist".<BR/>My point is that governments everywhere are absuing these new forms of power that the "war on terror" has made "necessary". So much so that you begin to wonder if terrorism isn't beneficial to them. Hmm. <BR/>Anonymous- There is not modern government that doesn't have oppression, abuse and terror in its history somewhere. I'm not saying that's at all okay, I'm saying it's disengenous to single out the USA in that regard.<BR/>When you relate it to modern forms of oppression; war, terror, economics, etc., it's pretty clearly a Globalist consortium that benefits from it and sets the agenda for it. <BR/><BR/>btw- RONPAUL2008.com !!!Luke P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00768711827543625706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-84303984231885661172007-07-20T03:45:00.000-04:002007-07-20T03:45:00.000-04:00To Keith Logan:But in this case, it doesn't matter...To Keith Logan:<BR/><BR/>But in this case, it doesn't matter if Jay is allowed in the US or not., I mean, jobwise.<BR/><BR/>The show is/will go on. Jay can "supervise" it (though less conveniently) from Toronto just as well. <BR/><BR/>And the "big bucks" (episodic royalty) is paid to him in Canada anyway.<BR/><BR/>The DHS officer looked at his contract. All this was easily ascertained.<BR/><BR/>There was no reason:<BR/>a) to deny him entry as a business visitor, and<BR/>b) worse: charge him with trying to enter the US illegally which will now impact his future.<BR/><BR/>Even if you think, hypothetically, that he should have had a work visa, then it was enough to deny him entry.<BR/><BR/>Somewhat off-topic Steve hasn't mentioned the other case I know of where a young American woman researching Medieval Lit in Paris has been told she's on a no flight list and can no longer return to her own country. (Or by boat perhaps?)<BR/><BR/>This is shameful.<BR/><BR/>JM LofficierAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-38725324935391888552007-07-19T22:50:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:50:00.000-04:00Hemlock, i sympathize with the cynicism, but grant...Hemlock, i sympathize with the cynicism, but granting that the nature of America was not fundamentally better when Steve was a kid than it is now, i wouldn't dismiss as pointless the simple act of recognition that things are not as they SEEMED, back in the day. Honestly, if we put the focus on how things were never so great and never will be, we're kind of deflating a bit of positive momentum. feeble and tiny as the hope for significant change might be, a rising awareness that there is a gap between the way things are and the way they ought to be is pretty much the starting point for any forward motion. <BR/>and since that goes for motion towards crap as well as motion toward universal well-being, i greatly encourage the line of thinking that says "jeez, this doesn't feel like the land of the free so much anymore" as opposed to lines of thinking such as: "jeez, things were sure better before all them longhairs and minorities and women started complaining about shit".<BR/>With Steve B. i say: this isn't the country most of us thought we were growing up in. i hope here and now we find ways to make things better. no way we can make them perfect but every bit helps.<BR/>Thinking more about Hemlock's statement: I guess it IS helpful to increase historical awareness and decrease naivete,<BR/>but total defeatism is out of place in the context of Steve's rant. there are things out there that may be hopeless and we may just have to accept. we don't have to accept the kind of officially sanctioned harrassment that Jay Stevens was exposed to. like Steve B. said, not too long ago this incident would NOT have happened. Let's hang on to that notion at least: we don't have to resign ourselves to the current level of fear-based dysfuncionality.stefano gaudianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482798551260728950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-14321357402595992772007-07-19T22:18:00.000-04:002007-07-19T22:18:00.000-04:00Land of the free and the brave. Since Bush came in...Land of the free and the brave. <BR/><BR/>Since Bush came into office you are no longer free, and with terrorists warnings, gut feelings, and Bush and gang always keeping the population on the edge of their seats in case of another 911, wonder how brave the country can be.<BR/><BR/>Britain suffered under IRA terrorists bombings in the 60's and 70's and you did not see human rights and violations of democracy taking place as you do now in North America. Personally I would rather live 1 day free than all my life with my freedoms taken away. <BR/><BR/>This has become past a joke, it is now that America must impeach this President and Vice PresidentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-6789503692013961292007-07-19T19:39:00.000-04:002007-07-19T19:39:00.000-04:00As someone quite farther to the Left than you, I h...As someone quite farther to the Left than you, I have to disagree and say that this is definitely the same America in which you grew up. We (the USA) have pretty much always destroyed and raped and murdered with unassuaged abandon. This nation is based on rampant mass murder and the unbridled exploitation of the natrual resources contained within (and without) its borders.<BR/><BR/>Our current Monster-in-Chief has mass murdered something around 700,000 Iraqi men, women, children, and infants. This is a paltry sum compared to the three to four million Vietnamese we mass murdered in the 1960s and early 70s.<BR/><BR/>The USA was based on the mass murder of the native peoples from whom we stole everything, and it was based on the backs of Africans forced into slavery, and it has been and will continue to be based on the fact that we are adept at exploiting other nations to enrich our plutocratic elite.<BR/><BR/>So they're spying on us more obviously, and committing war crimes and civil rights violations more openly and blatantly. This is your nation, dude. It always has been and always will be until some country bigger and badder kicks our collective asses. Americans damned sure aren't going to do anything about it. We never have and quite obviously never will.James Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281049641681225389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-66172161053820331172007-07-19T13:03:00.000-04:002007-07-19T13:03:00.000-04:00As a Canadian, I think this whole atmosphere of fe...As a Canadian, I think this whole atmosphere of fear and Big Brother is scary. That said, could it also be that the US government has a secondary agenda about keeping US jobs in the US?<BR/><BR/>A very similar thing happened to a boss of mine back in 1987. He was a manager in Montreal for a carpet cleaning firm, whose head office was in New Jersey. When asked by a customs official for the purpose of his visit and he said a business meeting, he was refused entry to the US because he had no work visa. Circumstances much like Jay's.<BR/><BR/>Of course at that time there was no homeland security, so he was merely refused entry and not detained, fingerprinted, and flagged. But I wonder if there is not that "keep jobs in US" thing at work in this case as well; you know, try to make it as hard as possible to have outside players earn those American bucks.<BR/><BR/>Keith LoganAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861891.post-74574754538998030292007-07-19T09:41:00.000-04:002007-07-19T09:41:00.000-04:00I'm on top of it!http://jabberous.blogspot.com/200...I'm on top of it!<BR/><BR/>http://jabberous.blogspot.com/2007/07/to-arms.htmlMark Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799399359022340724noreply@blogger.com