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OT: The News Thread

Oh wait.....this is too good to be true......dirty tricks by the Dipsticks....:smilielol5:



NDP hits back at Quebec defector with robo-calls, online petition

The NDP is feeding popular protests against defector Lise St-Denis, encouraging voters in the riding of St-Maurice-Champlain to jam up her phone lines and force her to run in a by-election.

Elected last spring under the New Democrat banner, Ms. St-Denis jumped to the Liberal caucus last week, vowing to serve under her new party colours in the House until the 2015 general elections.

The NDP responded by endorsing an online petition calling for her resignation, and hiring a company to contact every household in the riding with a phone message criticizing Ms. St-Denis’s defection. On the telephone call, people who want to express their disapproval with the move can press 1 and be transferred to her riding office.

The NDP said hundreds of people have used the option so far, and Ms. St-Denis’s office has complained that its phone lines have been jamming up at times.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...th-robo-calls-online-petition/article2305862/
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Montana said:
This thread would be so much better if the adults discussed topics here, and blacksheep and kb bantered back and forth in their own dedicated thread that no one else ever opened.
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you're a buffoon. i havent been on this thread in like three pages, and yet you feel the need to lash out with crap like this. f*ck off.
 
HabsAddict said:
Oh wait.....this is too good to be true......dirty tricks by the Dipsticks....:smilielol5:
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Well you just know political parties will jump all over this and try to score some free propaganda points. Sad that this story will get muddied over and the real investigation will get bogged down with phantom phone callers. Politicians gonna politick.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Don't forget their vilification of the military in their election ads from 2006 when they outright stated that the imposition of a Harper government would result in soldiers patrolling the streets (set to ominous music and shadowy outlines of bayonets). That's far more disgusting than what is being discussed now IMO.
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it ranked right up with Kim Campbell's making fun of Chretien's disability
 
Taking that as a slight against the armed forces is/was silly. The armed forces are the pointy end of the government, and saying they'd do something stupid if told to do so by the current (or a theoretical future) government isn't a slight against the armed forces themselves. It's like taking a critique of mandatory minimum sentences as a slight against judges or police officers.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
No it's not.
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How is implying that the Harper government plans to mis-use the armed forces a slight against the armed forces themselves? How is it any different than implying they're going to mis-use any other government employees, besides the obvious fact that the armed forces have the ability to inflict more harm?
 
It's offensive implying that any party is going to impose a police state when the party making the ads is the only one that's ever done that.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
It's offensive implying that any party is going to impose a police state when the party making the ads is the only one that's ever done that.
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Perhaps, but it still only offensive to the political party, not the armed forces, which was your original contention.
 
HabsAddict said:
The NDP set up a site and is asking fellow dipsticks to come forward if they received a "phone call". With no way to substantiated and no penalties for lying, gee, I wonder how many dipsticks will pick up that "claim". Pure garbage...but it play well on the lefty side of the media and the "victim of evil conservatives" routine.

I should start a class action suit against the Dippers because whenever I hear one, I want to throw up. Direct correlation between my nausea and their babblings, clearly a violation of the Charter Of Rights......


12. Everyone has the right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment...by dipsticks
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I think it's extremely telling that the Tories haven't seen a hit to their numbers nationally in the midst of this scandal.

Which points to what I have suspected all along: the only people who truly care about this whole "scandal" are committed diehard Liberals who are desperately looking for anything to pin on the sitting government.
 
Complaints to EC about phone calls 9 months after the election - 1003. Calls since the "story broke" last week 30,997.

Yea...right...
 
Someone brought up a good example relating to that phenomenon: back in the late 1940s or 1950s there were reports of a few defective windshields in Ford vehicles. Pretty soon thousands of reports, including hundreds of photographs, poured in documenting these perceived "flaws." What it turned out was that most of the perceived problems with people's car windshields were actually just normal wear spots from weather and rain, but because they actually started actively looking at the windshield itself rather than looking through it they began to notice every little anomaly. Once this was brought up as an explanation the number of reports of defects dwindled down to nothing in the ensuing months.

I think that a similar phenomenon is occurring here: people are missing the forest for the trees and being lemmings in following the rest of the herd. And I can confidently state that, as a volunteer on two recent successful political campaigns (Mayor Ford's municipal and Frank Klees' provincial campaigns), that the party campaigners often give out incorrect information or are in possession of inaccurate supporter's lists, and it's not the result of malice or intentional malfeasance.
 
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