- Harper: 'Let The Con be With You'

Posted: 8/29/2010 11:22:40 AM
Witness compares veracity of census data to information obtained through torture, Steven Chase, Globe and Mail, Aug. 27, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/witness-compares-veracity-of-census-data-to-information-obtained-through-torture/article1688516/

This article reveals no actual evidence to support that allegation that Canadians lie on the Long Form Census because they are compelled to answer by threat of criminal prosecution to the extent of torture, or to any extent, for that matter.

These 'Con-icisms' smacks of all the neo-rational pseudo-reasons put forth for Canadian consumption by Stephen Harper, Tony Clement and all the other Con's - all hype and no content, designed to appeal to our emotions, to incite, and not to address an issue rationally, to determine the best for all Canadians.

It is so much like the Con's, the only actual example is the same one that was used by Harper earlier this Summer - vis.: " 21,000 Canadians registered Jedi as their religion in the 2001 census"

The answer "Jedi" indicates that exact opposite to someone 'confessing under torture".

It has the hallmark of a joke (unless, of course, the bases of the alleged deception is that it is actually a philosophy and not a religion).

Someone being tortured is not likely to say something that is so obviously a joke - just ask some of the refugees that Canada has accepted over the years who had been tortured and fled their country because of it. There are lots of them around due to Canada's humanitarian policies, pre-Harper, anyway.

With due respect to all those Jedi in the galaxy, giving the answer 'Jedi' is so obviously wrong that it would very likely draw attention to it. This, it is submitted, is exactly the intention by so responding.

I would think the reason people put this is either as a lark (and, hay, it is funny), or, perhaps, a protest, something that they want to draw attention, and is done with very little fear of reprisal (this proposition, one would expect, would be very easy to verify).

When I read this article, one question that comes to mind is, "I wonder if Harper has any more Senate positions, or perhaps, some top government appointment, coming open."

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html