LONDON CITY COUNCILLORS FORCED TO GO FOR "SENSITIVITY TRAINING" TO GET THEIR BRAINS S

Written by Paul Fromm

Tuesday, 01 February 2011 07:45

LONDON CITY COUNCILLORS FORCED TO GO FOR "SENSITIVITY TRAINING" TO GET THEIR BRAINS SCRUBBED How fragile are our freedoms? How completely minority whipped and dominated are we in Canada? If you look at London, Ontario, the answers are not encouraging. A controversial London city councillor discovers a friend who, he says, had access to his Facebook had posted something -- the prissy press won't tell us exactly what -- that is "inappropriate." The councillor immediately takes it down. Somebody sees it. This busybody, we're not told who, complains about it. We're not told why. London City Council sucks in its breath with collective shock and all enrol to have their brains scrubbed; that is, to subject themselves to a day-long sensitivity training, mass struggle session. "London’s entire city council must take sensitivity training after a racy song was posted on one councillor’s Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/>page. *The Free Press* has learned a programme focusing on women abuse and family violence, which all city workers already must take, is now mandatory for council — the fallout of an online flare-up that’s ensnared Coun. Stephen Orser.'I apologize to anyone who was offended by it,' Orser said of a YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/> music video, titled *The Pussycat Song*, he says was posted by a female friend who had access to his Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>page'“(The friend’s) sense of humour is a whole different ball game than mine. As soon as I saw it, I removed it.'The song, full of not-so-subtle double entendres, was only posted briefly, Orser said. But at least one person who saw it on Orser’s personal Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>page — on which he identifies himself as a city councillor — complained to city hall. City manager Jeff Fielding spearheaded the anti-abuse program that was launched last year at city hall, where there’ve been some ugly incidents in the past. While he wouldn’t discuss Orser’s Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>posting, Fielding said he spoke to Mayor Joe Fontana, who agreed council should get the training. 'I’m going to praise the mayor for taking the necessary steps,' Fielding said Wednesday. 'Personally, I think this is very beneficial.' The city launched the program last January. It’s designed to train all 3,000 city employees to better recognize and react to abuse and other forms of violence in the workplace, at home and in the community. (*London Free Press*, January 7, 2011) It's as if some anonymous kid had written a bad word on naughty little Stevie Orser's notebook. The teacher had found out and kept the whole class of innocent kids in after school to write out 100 times: "In politically correct Canada, we must not write naughty words that offend some thin-skinned minority on some other student's notebook." "*Double entendres*"? Say it's not true. We're hyperventilating! What is the matter with these witless politicians? None of them is responsible, except Orser who removed the offending posting or song as soon as he saw it. Why should the others, led by Joe Fontana, a former Liberal MP, subject themselves to a day of politically correct preaching, which, almost certainly the taxpayers will have to pay handsomely to provide? Should they not let their constituents be their moral guides? Would their time not be better spent and the money of the taxpayers, who pay their salaries, about the city's business than being the passive audience of a cultural communistic mass democracy struggle session? Speaking of "sensitivity" wouldn't "sensitivity traning" be better directed at Third World immigrants to explain that practices like head to toe *burkas *or *niqabs *or the demand that male Sikhs be entitled to carry their daggers (kirpans) when Majority members are not allowed to carry concealed weapons are offensive to the founding/settler Majority in Canada. What about sensitivity to OUR feeliings for once? 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Stephen Orser (Free Press file photo)] Coun. Stephen Orser (Free Press file photo) London’s entire city council must take sensitivity training after a racy song was posted on one councillor’s Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/>page. *The Free Press* has learned a program focusing on women abuse and family violence, which all city workers already must take, is now mandatory for council — the fallout of an online flare-up that’s ensnared Coun. Stephen Orser. “I apologize to anyone who was offended by it,” Orser said of a YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/>music video, titled *The Pussycat Song*, he says was posted by a female friend who had access to his Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> page. “(The friend’s) sense of humour is a whole different ball game than mine. As soon as I saw it, I removed it.” The song, full of not-so-subtle double entendres, was only posted briefly, Orser said. But at least one person who saw it on Orser’s personal Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>page — on which he identifies himself as a city councillor — complained to city hall. City manager Jeff Fielding spearheaded the anti-abuse program that was launched last year at city hall, where there’ve been some ugly incidents in the past. While he wouldn’t discuss Orser’s Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/>posting, Fielding said he spoke to Mayor Joe Fontana, who agreed council should get the training. “I’m going to praise the mayor for taking the necessary steps,” Fielding said Wednesday. “Personally, I think this is very beneficial.” The city launched the program last January. It’s designed to train all 3,000 city employees to better recognize and react to abuse and other forms of violence in the workplace, at home and in the community. The training requires a full-day course for city managers and a half-day for all other employees. With Orser bracing for a backlash over the Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/>posting, the misstep again underscores the risks posed by social media to politicians and anyone with a public profile. Last month, a man appointed to the London Transit Commission board resigned after tweeting a vulgar insult at a city councillor — coincidentally, the target was Orser. No stranger to controversy, Orser encountered a few potholes during his first term on council. Despite that — and notwithstanding a thorny relationship with proponents of Old East Village, a part of his ward — he was re-elected handily Oct. 25. Orser says he has no problem with the training. He maintains a friend who had access to his Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/> profile posted the controversial song during a small gathering at Orser’s home. “I’ve learned one thing — nobody else goes on my computer,” he said.

 

THE KING'S SPEECH -- WHAT IF, ASKS FORMER CANADIAN DIPLOMAT IAN MACDONALD

Written by Paul Fromm

Monday, 31 January 2011 04:53

*THE KING'S SPEECH -- WHAT IF, ASKS FORMER CANADIAN DIPLOMAT IAN MACDONALD* ** Editor *NATIONAL POST *Toronto Dear Sir The King's Speech Christopher Hitchens (*NP* January 26) should confine his twisted opinions (on British foreign policy leading to WWII) to his small circle of like-minded, fanatical Anglophobes where he is less likely to be greeted with derision and dismissed as a crackpot, or worse.. Of course, King George VI championed Chamberlain's efforts to avoid war, just as would any knowledgeable Briton with his country's best interests at heart and mindful of the recent horrors of WWI from which Britain had not yet recovered. If the price of peace was no more than the restoration to Germany of land stolen by her vengeful enemies at Versailles, it would have been immeasurably preferable to a fratricidal war against a highly-civilized, powerful, Christian, natural ally who served as a bulwark against the increasingly ominous threat from the East where the genocidal tyrant Stalin was plotting the conquest of Europe, if not the world. Hitchens ridicules and condemns Edward VIII as pro-German, as if this attribute had negative connotations. In fact, had the German-speaking Edward remained King, in all likelihood Britain's relations with Germany would have improved to the point that war would have become unthinkable, and a NATO-style alliance of Christian nations formed which would have enabled Germany to end the Bolshevik menace and liberate Stalin's terrified subjects. Instead of this eminently sound, productive solution (which would have been warmly embraced by Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister at the time, who was an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler and all his works) venal British politicians, spurred on by the war-mongering, war-criminal-in-waiting Churchill and an avenging, German-hating media, committed Britain to an egregiously masochistic European civil war, the outcome of which could in no way serve British interests and would inevitably accelerate sharply the decline of Western Christian Civilization, ensuring perpetual conflict. Had the "stupid, selfish, vain" Hitler-friendly Edward remained on the throne and war averted, the world today would be much happier and certainly much more secure place. A hundred million lives would have been spared, Soviet citizens would have had their freedom and productivity restored, China would have evolved along Taiwanese lines (saving at least 30 million lives), the Korean, Vietnamese and virtually all other wars would not have happened, the Third World would have avoided chaotic, premature decolonization, there would be no costly turmoil in the Middle East, no Palestinian problem, no socially-disruptive mass migrations from the Third World and, best of all, no Zionist lobbies and international banksters subverting Western democracies and bribing corrupted politicians to act against the best interests of their own countries in favour of a small, unpopular, duplicitous, racist, thieving, destabilizing, aggressor nation that has become a world centre for criminal activity in all its forms. An educated, objective observer surely would find Hitchens' description of Edward VIII to apply more accurately to himself. At a minimum, Hitchens, as an historian, is a bigoted ignoramus. As ever, Ian Macdonald

 

Paul Fromm Warns Montanans of Threats to Free Speech on the Internet

Written by Paul Fromm

Saturday, 29 January 2011 01:06

*Paul Fromm Warns Montanans of Threats to Free Speech on the Internet* * * *KALISPEL, MT. January 19, 2011*. Canadian Free speech activist, Paul Fromm, warned a Montana audience tonight of cross-border threats to freedom of speech on the Internet. “The thought control fanatics are the same on both sides of the border in their efforts to stop dissent,” he said. Mr. Fromm explained the sorry Canadian experience with hate laws. “The Canadian Jewish Congress started lobbying the federal government for restrictions on free speech back in the 1930s,” the former Canadian educator explained. By 1965, they had a sympathetic ear in Ottawa. Lester Pearson appointed a stacked seven-man Royal Commission on Hate Propaganda., including the chairman Maxwell Cohen and Saul Hayes, both former presidents of the Canadian Jewish Congress. They joined an upstart leftist Quebec academic, soon to shoot to national prominence, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, an ardent admirer of Mao (he co-authored *Two Innocents in China*) and Castro.. The Cohen commission faced several problems. One was that there was very little “hate propaganda” in Canada and what little there was involved a few newspapers like the Thunderbolt from the U.S. – hardly the stuff of a major problem demanding restrictions on such basis rights as freedom of speech. Somehow the Commission had to justify such restrictions to a far more homogeneous society that took personal freedoms seriously. So, they commissioned a report from an obscure Jewish psychologist at the University of Toronto, Frederick Kaufman. His report, even then described as “highly theoretical” rather than empirical, argued that “hate propaganda” had a bad effect on minorities,. Making them doubt themselves, not want to be themselves, leading them to withdraw from society and finally in extremes hit the booze and the pills. Here was the “justification” needed for the restrictive measures, the Commission was looking for. “Politicians. react to headlines. To justify repression, there had to be some apparent danger,” said Mr. Fromm. Miraculously, in the spring of 1965, as the Cohen Commission was is session along came John Beattie and his Canadian Nazi Party. His seven man “party” consisted, Mr. Fromm explained, of one dupe – Beattie who was convinced by Jewish agents to name his anti-communist group the Canadian Nazi Party, rather than the British People’s League -- one possible National Socialist from Holland and five agents of the Canadian Jewish Congress,. For one heady spring, Beattie’s every word was front page headlines. Beattie was eventually entrapped by his head of security, a private detective working for the CJC, to commit several acts of trespass which led to a savage six months sentence and the demise of the CNP. However, the headlines provided justification for repression. See, censors cojuld argue, here we have home-grown Nazis led by a young, Canadian born man. We need speech controls. And, so Canada got its “hate law”, Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code. It was enacted in 1971 just in time to put a chill on discussions of the results of another of the huge changes in 1965 – the abandonment of Canada’s traditional British/European immigration policy, in favour of throwing the doors open to the Third World with the goal of eventually replacing the European founder/settler people. Other forms of repression followed like Sec,. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act which now controls the Internet and under which neither truth or intent are offences. “The Canadian Association for Free Expression has spent 14 years fighting this law. With Marc Lemire’s victory in 2009, where this law was declared unconstitutional, we finally began to roll back censorship in Canada,” Mr. Fromm said. “Dr.. Michael Persinger, a neuropsychologist testified that the Kaufmann report on which the Canadian Supreme Court relied in upholding the hate law” and Sec. 13 in 1990 was, in fact, junk science., Critical speech has no such evil effects on groups named. “It may seem a little harsh to call Canada ‘Burma North,’” Mr. Fromm explained, “but in both countries opposition to powerful ruling groups – the aging ugly generals in Burma, powerful minority groups in Canada – can bring jail time, job loss, hefty fines and years in the immensely costly judicial system, where the ordeal really is abuse BY process.” The Lemire case has dragged on for six years and has been extended further by the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s appeal to the Federal Court, hoping to overturn thbeir loss. Mr. Fromm’s visit was organized by activist April Gaede whom he interviewed on his VOICE OF REASON RADIO show.