CBC News: 'Canada Reacts to Quebec's Charter of Values'

Source:CBC News- a Quebec man being interviewed about Quebec's Charter of Values.

Source:The Daily Times 

"The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.[4] The English- and French-language service units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively." 

From Wikipedia 

"Organizers are hoping thousands of Quebecers will turn out tomorrow to protest the Parti Quebecois's proposed Charter of Values. The Charter would ban public employees from wearing religious clothing and symbols at work. Today - two federal ministers launched their own form of protest. And the Montreal Board of Trade warned it could harm the city's reputation.

 And people right across the country said the Charter would create a national chill." 

From CBC News

This is what statism from the Far-Left looks like at its worst. And I say this is coming from the Far-Left, because Quebec is an overwhelmingly socialist province. Statism in Canada at least to this extent with government telling people what they can and can’t wear in public. With what I at least would call Fundamentalist Atheism. (Which is what Communists tend to believe) Which is not only anti-religion, but intolerant of religion. And doesn’t believe individuals should be able to make these decisions for themselves.

This State-Atheism philosophy comes from the Far-Left, generally. And had this been a story about Mississippi, an overwhelmingly fundamentalist Christian state in America, perhaps the capital of the Christian-Right in America, I would’ve called this statism from the Far-Right. Of people who tend to be intolerant of non-Christian religions. With Islam being a big target of there’s. But what is going on in Quebec is clearly statism from the Far-Left. And shouldn’t be tolerated, or any type of religious bigotry coming from government.

Canada is obviously different from America. With their own national identity, culture, way of doing things, Constitution and just about everything else. And they’re a bit left-wing, typically to begin with. But Quebec is even further left than Canada as a whole and probably the most socialist of any province in Canada. So they need to figure out these issues for themselves in their own country. Based on their values and Constitution. But this would clearly be unacceptable and unconstitutional in America and thrown out.

BookTV: Robert C. Byrd- 'Child of The Coalfields'

Source:BookTV- U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd (Democrat, West Virginia) talking to CSPAN's Brian Lamb in 1989.

Source:The Daily Times 

"In 2005, Sen. Robert Byrd (1917-2010) appeared on Book TV to talk about his memoir, "Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields."  The book covers Sen. Byrd's life from his childhood years in Stotesbury, WV, through to his election to an eighth term in the U.S. Senate in 2000 (he was re-elected in 2006 for a ninth term).  This event was hosted by the National Archives in Washington, DC." 

From BookTV

Robert Byrd certainly had his flaws like once being a member of the Ku Klux Klan, which he later renounced, but what I respect most about Senator Byrd was his knowledge of the United States Congress and Constitution. Which is what missed most about him in Congress today. 

Senator Byrd was a self-taught Appalachian West Virginian, who literally had to work for everything that he ever received in life. The definition of someone who comes from nothing is almost someone who comes from Appalachia. Perhaps especially West Virginia which might be the poorest and most underdeveloped state in the union, despite its beauty and natural resources, like coal.  

You can say all you want about his Far-Right KKK bigotry of his early years and even into his fifties, which will always be part of his legacy, but he was a lot more than that and a very effective and excellent legislature.

Bob Byrd was a classical legislature and member of Congress, who viewed his role as either a Representative, or Senator, or Senate Leader, as his job to represent West Virginia the state he loved and represented for 56 years in Congress, to represent his state, because his state had so little. 

What other Congressional members , the media and public, would call pork, Senator Byrd saw those infrastructure projects and pork, as tools to advance the state that he loved and represented in Congress, again for 56 years: six in the U.S. House and 50 in the Senate. Twelve years as Democratic Leader in the Senate alone. Six as Majority Leader and six as Minority Leader. 

And Byrd was also what I could call at least a Classical Progressive: someone who didn’t want government to do everything for everybody (which is how Socialists tend to feel) but use government to help people in need and help people could couldn’t help themselves.

Even with Robert Byrd's KKK membership and beliefs that minorities weren’t equal and not deserving of the same rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution in his early career in Congress, Bob Byrd was always a Progressive. Not that progressivism is about bigotry, because of course it isn’t, but he always believed that government could be used as a force for good not to manage people’s lives for them, because again he wasn’t a Socialist. 

Senator Byrd as a West Virginia Progressive, believed government could be used to help people in need in and outside of West Virginia. And use to empower people to get themselves on their own feet. With things like infrastructure, education, job training and a real safety net for people who truly need it. People who didn’t have the skills and education to financially support themselves. Who needed short-term assistance to get those skills and help them get those skills. So they could eventually make it on their own. So in this sense at least, Senator Byrd was one of the best Progressives to ever serve in Congress.

Black Blog: 'Robert Byrd- Former Terrorist'

Source:Black Blog- A younger Robert Byrd? 

Source:The Daily Times 

"Video about Robert Byrd and his ties to the terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan." 

From Black Blog

The Ku Klux Klan, of course is a terrorist organization, that Robert Byrd was a member of this organization while he was still Congress up until I believe the 1970s when he became a Leader of the Senate Democrats. First serving as Assistant Leader in the mid 1970s and then became Leader of the Senate in 1977. And served as Democratic Leader until 1989.

But to be a member of a terrorist organization and actually be directly involved in terrorist operations, are two different things. And there hasn’t been any evidence reported that Bob Byrd was directly involved in KKK terrorist activities. As a member of that organization. 

What we know, is that Byrd was dues paying member of the KKK even while in Congress in the 1950s and 1960s and went to Klan meetings. But that is different from being involved in terrorist activities. Like blowing up African-American churches and murdering African-Americans simply because of their race.

Bob Byrd, was against the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. And just didn’t vote against the civil rights laws that Congress passed in the 1950s and 60s, but was one of the leading filibusters in the Senate. Along with Senator Strom Thurmond, Jim Eastland, Dick Russell and several other Southern Democrats or Dixiecrats in Congress. 

Senator Byrd's opposition to the civil rights movement are very big stains on otherwise a very good Congressional career that Senator Byrd put together both in the House and Senate. But that is different from actually being a terrorist.

Sam Seder: 'Federal Judge Blocks 6-Week Abortion Banning Bill'

Source:The Majority Report- pro-choice activists on abortion.

Source:The Daily Times 

"A federal judge in North Dakota has issued a block on the country's most restrictive abortion law, the "fetal heartbeat" ban, stating it is unconstitutional...

This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at:The Majority Report." 

From The Majority Report

I don’t love it, but I do find it amusing, even sadly so when I hear people who call themselves fiscal Conservatives, who claim government is too big and spends too much money and yet they spend taxpayer dollars on bills that if they don’t know that they’ll get thrown out on constitutional grounds, their lawyers at the very least are smart enough to know that. And yet taxpayers still have to pay for the costs of them writing their bills and paying for staff’s work and everything else. North Dakota and their anti-abortion bill, that bans abortion after six-weeks of pregnancy, is a perfect example of that.

If you can forget about the unconstitutionality and big government aspects of the bill, with the state stepping in to make health care decision for competent women, you can also dislike the bill for the waste of tax dollars that come with it. Money that could be used to pay for schools, roads, hospitals, law enforcement, jails, prisons, or lowering property taxes, is being spent to pass a bill that will eventually get thrown out. And that is before you add up the costs of what it will take to defend the unconstitutional law in the first place. 

But the politics and politicians don’t take positions too many times to be consistent and accurate. But to meet short-term political goals. Which is why they're not leaders, but sheep trapped in herds instead.

RBG Street Scholar: James Baldwin and Dick Gregory- 'Baldwin's Nigger (1969)'

Source:RBG Street Scholar- about James Baldwin's 1969 documentary.

Source:The Daily Times 

"RBG-James Baldwin and Dick Gregory Baldwin's Nigger (1969)" 

From RBG Street Scholar

James Baldwin’s message seems to be about individual empowerment and individual freedom, that African-Americans should empower themselves and standup for their own lives and take charge of their own lives. And perhaps even stop complaining. Not forget about all the injustices that came to this community before, but for this community to move forward, they need to take control of their own lives and build their own lives and communities.

James Baldwin, who what I’ve heard from him, sounds more like Martin King, then Malcolm X, when it came to the civil rights movement, or the Black Power movement. Someone who not only believes in non-violence, but believes in social democracy and democratic socialism when it comes to solving the problems of the African-American community. In this speech, sounds more like Malcolm X. Talking about personal responsibility, to go along with individual freedom and empowerment.

In this Baldwin speech he seems to be arguing that African-Americans, should stand up and take their freedom and build their own community. And not expect others to do that for them. Sounds very much like Malcolm X. Fighting violence with violence, which is essentially what Malcolm X preached when it came to racist Caucasians who abuse African-Americans, would’ve not of accomplished what was needed to end racist laws and state-sponsored racism. Because it wouldn’t have brought other communities to support the African-American freedom fighters. 

But individual freedom through education and economic development and infrastructure in underserved communities, would give African-Americans the tools that they need to live in freedom.

George Carlin: 'Jon Stewart interviews George Carlin'

Source:George Carlin- being interviewed  by fellow comedian and political satirist Jon Stewart, in 1997 or 99.

"Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin from HBO 40 Years of Comedy."

From George Carlin:

What separates George Carlin from let's call them other counter-culture satirists and comedians on the left (let's say) who critique American society and culture, is that for one George Carlin is often more right than his other colleagues. But he also doesn't have a political agenda that he's pushing. He's not trying to get government to do this or that for the country. 

Also George Carlin's satire is bipartisan, he doesn't critique politicians in both parties just to look fair, but he critiques politicians that he disagrees with. No mater their political or ideological affiliations.

Carlin is a classical rebel in the sense that he's against the establishment whoever it.  Because he doesn't have a political agenda of his own. His real political message (if he has one) is about education and that the people need to educate themselves and stop reelecting people that keep the same system in place and that we should take responsibility for our own lives. 

Carlin didn't believe in blaming people that we elect and reelect for giving us the system that we have or where we are in life, but the people who elect and reelect the politicians who give us and maintain the current system. It's not Carlin's consistency that I admire so much, but that he's consistently right. 

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PBS: NewsHour- 'Five States Move to Restrict Access to Abortion Services'

Source:PBS NewsHour- Ilyse Hogue from National Pro-Choice America. 

Source:The Daily Times 

"The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.[6] It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as American Experience, America's Test Kitchen, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Between the Lions, Cyberchase, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downton Abbey, Elinor Wonders Why, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, The Magic School Bus, Masterpiece Theater, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Nature, Nova, the PBS NewsHour, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Keeping up Appearances and This Old House." 

From Wikipedia 

"Five states have moved to adopt tighter abortion regulations, including North Dakota, which has the nation's strictest abortion regulation, outlawing abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life and Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America." 

From the PBS NewsHour

All of these abortion restriction laws are coming in red states that like to complain about big government and government interfering in our lives and so-forth and yet they write laws that do exactly that. And interfere with the most personal of decisions that Americans will ever make which get’s to our healthcare.

In this case women’s healthcare and who decides whether women give birth or not after being pregnant. Apparently big government in red states is government they do not like mainly as it relates to the economy. But big government that they do like as it has to do with our personal lives is okay, because: “It’s in our national interest to have government making these decisions for us. Rather than individuals have the freedom and responsibility to make these decisions for ourselves.”

And then you get to the constitutional and legal aspects of this where these laws will be ruled unconstitutional. Because of the rock solid pro-choice majority on it. And you have states defending laws in court with taxpayer funds that will be ruled unconstitutional. Money that would’ve been spent for other things that would not get thrown out.