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On Fri, 6 May 2005 16:23:07 -0400, "Basilic" <Basilic@no.thanks>
wrote:

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==>I also agree that prisoners are a drag on our system, it just costs too
==>much. But that is a system which we have in place, so shooting the messenger
==>for the content of the message will not change anything. We have to change
==>the prison system, put those people to work for at least 8 hours a day. Make
==>products to sell at profit,

		Interesting point.

		But you apparently don't know that almost wherever
		it's been tried, business has screamed that having
		prisoners produce "products to sell at profit"
		constitutes unfair competition by cutting into
		business's God-given right to restrict profit-making
		to businessmen.  That's the only reason prisoners
		are not engaged in profit-making ventures, and you are
		dreaming if you think this would change under a
		business-worshipping Conservative Reformed/Alliance
		Party (C.R.A.P.) government.

==>reduce the gastronomy and get back to Kraft
==>Dinners,

		Oh, yeah, that's a good idea.  Not only lock people
		up, but feed them junk, too.  Perhaps we should make
		them drink out of their toilets, as well.  Save water
		costs.  Typical brain-dead, hostile gibbering from a
		brain-dead C.R.A.P supporter.

		Let's see now . . . prisoners, women, immigrants,
		homosexuals -- is there anyone I've left out?  Who
		else's rights does the C.R.A.P. want to restrict?



--
"Human rights commissions as they are evolving, are
an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the
basic existence of a democratic society.  It is in
fact totalitarianism.  I find this is very
scary stuff."
(Stephen Harper, quoted in B.C. Report
Newsmagazine, January 11, 1999)

"Universality has been severely reduced: it is
virtually dead as a concept in most areas of
public policy.  These achievements are due in
part to the Reform Party."
(Harper, in a speech to the Colin Brown Memorial
Dinner, National Citizens Coalition, 1994,
explaining his pride in having helped to
deny some Canadians affordable medical care.)

"Canada appears content to become a second-tier
socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly
about its economy and social services to
mask its second-rate status."
(Harper explains why he thinks Canada is a
"second-rate" country, quoted in the National Post,
Dec. 8, 2000).

"Handing over the reins of government to a man
who has contempt for his own country would be a
catastrophic mistake. Scandal or no scandal,
Canadians need to keep their eye on the prize: the
future of their country."
(Murray Dobbin, commenting on Harper in The Tyee.)

"I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think
we should work closely with the Americans."
(Harper explains why he thinks Canada should march
in lock-step with the predatory torturer nation to
the south, even if it doesn't understand why it is
going somewhere to kill people.
Quoted in Report Newsmagazine, March 25 2002).

"We support the war effort and believe we should
be supporting our troops and our allies and be
there with them doing everything necessary to win."
(Harper, explaining why he is enthusiastic about
an illegal U.S.  campaign of aggression that almost
the entire rest of the world deplores, Montreal
Gazette, April 2, 2003)

"This party will not take its position based on
public opinion polls."
(Harper, quoted in Hansard, January 29, 2003).

"The public will tell us. We're listening to them,
and . . . at some point, they'll say, 'pull the
plug, drain the swamp, let's go.'"
(Senior Conservative MP John Reynolds tells CTV
News, April 17, 2005)

 "As soon as we get back, I will be asking our
caucus to put this government out of its misery at
the earliest possible opportunity."
(Harper, in a televised speech from Amherstburg,
Ont., April 27, 2005, after public opinion polls
showed the Tories slightly ahead.).