Rational Radical

Okay, readers of this blog saw some pretty outrageous claims about the York Regional Police: e.g., http://rationalradical.com/2010/11/an-urgent-appeal-to-york-regional-police-officer/

http://rationalradical.com/2010/12/thank-you-amateur-journalists/

http://rationalradical.com/2010/11/maybe-york-region-police-officer-was-on-to-something/

http://rationalradical.com/2010/11/reflections-on-rational-radical/

And then we find out that the one cop so far to be identified at G20 abusing his authority, Scumbag Babak Andalib-Goortani, (http://torontoautostation.blogspot.com/2010/12/hardcore-anti-semitic-islam-and-ontario.html) is from York Regional Police.

Well, the newest G20 story to come out (see the entire story in the COMMENTS section) involves yet another York cop, scumbag, Mark Charlebois, who was caught on tape abusing his authority and saying “This ain’t Canada right now.” But here’s the crazy part: The site linked above re. that asshole, Babak Andalib-Goortani, had another story about yet another York Region cop involved in that crazy Auto Station scam. Guess who that cop was? You got it: Mark Charlebois. And the blog was written nearly one week before the Star story on Charlebois/G20. (http://torontoautostation.blogspot.com/2011/01/attention-if-you-were-contacted-by.html).

On a final note, if you want to see more about this other crazy story involving some apparently mentally unstable and highly unethical/immoral scumbags, here’s the latest blog about the story. I have nothing to do with this site and do not know the person/people involved at all. The only connection is that York Region cops are involved in stories that we’re both blogging about:

http://torontoautostation.blogspot.com/2011/01/curious-case-of-armin-behroozian.html

A York Region police officer confronts a protester on Day 2 of the G20 summit in a video posted on YouTube.

I’ve written before about scumbags who use “charities” for their own personal gains. Most people who get burned by such scumbags learn their lesson and get angry and, if possible, demand their money back. At the very least, they vow never to pay another penny to the scumbag and become cautious about other such creeps. The one exception is religious scumbags.

The COMMENTS section contains a Star article covering an example of clear FRAUD, perpetrated by an evil “man,” Mohammad Ashraf, who has bilked thousands of Devout Muslims of millions of dollars. Read the story and just try to tell me he’s not a scumbag fraudster, using the money for his and his family’s and others’ personal gains. Anyone with half a brain can realize it. Yet, people’s faith and their need to avoid cognitive dissonance—-which happens when people who want to believe they are smart and good end up doing stupid or bad things—-will prevent them from acknowledging this evil fuck’s greed. They’ll desperately look for any questionable piece of “evidence” that he’s innocent, so they can tell themselves that they didn’t waste a lot of money for this asshole to live a lavish life and benefit himself and others for 30 years.

If there is not a revolt at the Islamic Society of North America Canada and and the members don’t demand he be held totally accountable, then I have absolutely no sympathy for them. As the saying goes, “Fools and their money…” And this is never more true than when “faith” in involved.

At the bottom of this link is a PDF file that contains the limited audit:

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/924865–muslim-charity-squandered-money-for-poor?bn=1

Mohammad Ashraf, long-time leader of the Islamic Society of North America Canada, is at the centre of a controversy involving mismanaged charity donations and free perks for family members. (Dale Brazao)

One of the worst things people can do is betray an important trust instilled in them. This site often covers examples of such betrayals. Well, the COMMENTS section contains a story about the latest such example, this time by the RCMP in BC. And here is a link to the story with the video of an officer kicking a helpless, compliant suspect in the face really hard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdareHU4Ik&feature=related

As I’ve said many times, thank god for the prevalence of video, otherwise most of these abhorrent assaults would never be punished, as we’ve learned from the G20 shit storm. And fuck any cop who assaults an innocent person. If a scumbag resists arrest, do whatever you need to do in order to secure him/her. But shit like this has got to stop!

I used to have nothing but respect for Mississauga’s 32-year mayor, the amazing 90 year-old Hazel McCallion. But then she seemed to engage in highly unethical conduct to help out her son and, equally bad, was adamant that she did absolutely nothing wrong. SHAME. Now, she was asked today about using taxpayers’ money to send councillors to a birthday bash for the queen of longevity. What did she do? She tried to tie in a reporter’s question about this waste of money to the fucking massacre last week down in Arizona! You can hear a clip here:

http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10189990

SHAME, McCallion, SHAAAAAME!

And what about Rob Ford, new Mayor of Toronto? The Anti-Miller? He delivered a reasonable budget that included his promises and did not cause any major service cuts (yet). Most importantly, he did exactly what I said he would: He went public against those entitled scumbags who not only refused to cut 5% from their budget as mandated, but who dared to ask for a 3% increase! Fuck them and thank Ford for being the first mayor in a long time to have the balls/ovaries to do such a thing. Moreover, he presented the budget NOW, whereas that idiot Miller would do so four months later, after they’ve already spent a quarter of the year wasting money they had no idea whether they had or not.

I hope that, the more and more Ford does things, the more people come to see just how messed up the system was at City Hall under the lefty regime of David Miller and his lapdog cronies. Those idiots at City Hall in Toronto are the worst kind of lefties: the kind that actually act like the stereotypes created about them. To be clear, I consider myself a lefty in many ways, even if some readers might disagree. However, I am a lefty who is also fiscally conservative and who does not feel entitled to waste other people’s money; of course, most righties on Toronto City Council similarly feel that they are entitled to live off the public teet as well, and believe they can show the electorate complete disdain as they have for too many years.

As I’ve said over and over: Love him or hate him, Rob Ford will definitely bring true change to City Hall and will make EVERYONE go out and buy a dictionary to look up those elusive terms, “ACCOUNTABILITY,” “CUSTOMER SERVICE,” and “TRANSPARENCY.”

Unless it’s the scumbag son of a hero cop. Hey, the father must have done something right, as he helped dismantle a gang of heroin traffickers, which resulted in their putting a freaking hit out on his life. Unfortunately, his son thinks it’s okay to have loaded, illegal handguns for god knows what purposes.

So what does this scumbag 20 year old, Andrew Canepa, receive for such a crime? A 12-month stay-at-home sentence. Wow, that’ll really teach the punk. If he thought he was untouchable before because daddy was a cop, it’s only going to get much worse. The COMMENTS section contains the Sun article.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Fuck Canada. Okay, fuck the fuckers who are in a position to do something about our fucked up system yet fail to do a fucking thing (yes, I do enjoy using such a versatile word…).

What’s got me so riled up? This Sun story from today (read the entire debacle in the COMMENTS section) about a “disgraced” senator, Raymond Fucking Asshole Lavigne, who was charged with defrauding taxpayers more than three years ago. As his case has dragged on, he has collected his annual $132,300 paycheque and spent more than $315,355 in office and travel expenses, including $30,789.46 in THREE MONTHS on office, hospitality, living and travel expenses from September 1 to November 30, 2010.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!

I heard about this story near the end of 2009 but have now got a link to an interview with both parties: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/email-snooper-face-jail-time-12552544?tab=9482930&section=1206872&playlist=1887643&page=1

In short, the husband and wife had a bad, cold relationship; most of their correspondence was done via EMail, even though I believe they were living together. She had an affair with her 2nd husband (current husband is victim #3), whom she had left after he assaulted her in front of the child she had with her first husband/victim.

Third husband was worried something was going on—-knowing her past husband, he had a right to be worried, and watching this woman in the video clip, I would be worried too; she’s a selfish, clueless terrible person, IMO—-so he checked her EMail and found out about the affair with assaultive hubby #2. Now he could go to jail for YEARS for a crime that is ordinarily levelled against people who hack into government systems or who engage in identity theft/fraud.

WHAT THE FUCK?! From what I’ve seen (and the clip supports it), they shared their password information and she had a book with that information right beside the computer. Yet the prosecutor is trying to send this guy to jail, and his bit…errr…wife is saying he should just get over his anger and realize they are still a team. Yet she’s trying to send him to fucking jail! Watch the end of the video to see just how clueless and self-serving this “woman” is. Fuck her.

Leon and Clara Walker on their wedding day.
(Courtesy of Clara Walker)

Okay, so in my last blog I discussed a few stories that suggested that MAYBE we might finally start seeing some changes in two very messed up systems in Canada/North America. However, the National Post story in the COMMENTS section helps remind me why I have so little faith in anything that has to do with government services. Of course, there are those on the public payroll who do work hard because they have a work ethic and integrity. But when you read of a douchebag who gets busted for spending up to five hours per day cruising porn ads and sending naked pix via a government address WHILE GETTING PAID BY OUR TAX DOLLARS, yet who keeps his job—with probably no reprimand—you can understand why so many civil servants don’t give a shit about their work.

Readers of this blog know that two topics I’ve covered many times are the “Just-Ass System” and mental health in Canada/North America. Usually I am highly critical of the “powers that be” for good reason. Well, if anyone is interested, the COMMENTS section contains two stories that suggest that we might actually see some changes in thinking within these two fields.

The first story from the Sun is relatively brief and covers the Court of Appeal of Alberta’s addressing of a ridiculously lenient sentence for rape while discussing what’s wrong with the system and why we desperately need to fix it.

The second story is very long and deals with a few psychiatrists who are trying to ensure that the latest “bible” of psychiatrists and psychologists—-the DSM-5—-is actually meaningful and helpful, rather than harmful. The psychiatrist quoted extensively in the article was, in fact, responsible for an earlier version of the DSM that he believes led to a HUGE increase in the number of CHILDREN diagnosed with BIPOLAR DISORDER (Manic Depression), even when they are too young for such a diagnosis. What’s so wrong with this? Well, the increase in diagnoses is correlated with an increase in medications for not only adults and teens but also very young children whose brains could become seriously messed up. And the fact is, the drug companies are behind most of these new diagnoses. Perhaps if more psychiatrists and psychologists wake up and gain some integrity, they’ll join in the fight against over-diagnoses and over-medications.

We can only hope…