Tempest In A Chalice
 

 

Catholicism today, to me, doesn't resemble anything like the Catholicism that I grew up with, having been educated by the elementary schools of St. Brigid's, Corpus Christi and, back when I lived near Variety Village, Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Scarborough. I was never picked or asked to be an altar boy (I guess I was too homely), but there was still a magic in what I experienced attending church, taking the sacraments and learning of Christ and His life on Earth. It was a deep, tradition-laden, mysterious and slightly ominous faith that spoke God's praises in Latin, yet filled with hope and reverence for Our Lord.

Today there are two sources in which young people baptized Catholic learn of their faith: in church and Sunday school, and through the elementary schools supervised by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and whoa, are things in a bit of a mess there, sort of like modern Catholicism today (wince). Although I may not practice my faith as diligently as many Catholics do, I still try to observe its spirit and I bristle like an angry cat when I see government messing around in it and when I see anyone try to "update" it by replacing the Latin service's text with English or trying to make it "accessible" to everybody. The reason it is a faith is because of its distinctive, particular rules and liturgy and doctrine.

Many "Catholics" find it important to today to challenge the Pope and the Vatican on matters as left-agenda-ish as women priests, abortion on demand and, of course "peace." On that last one, we expect spiritual leaders like Pope Benedict to condemn war, but the Holy Father isn't the sort of man to go to the wall to back it up further — like, say, why doesn't he just issue a holy command (just like in Islam) ordering Catholics to refrain from participating in war or combat? I'd say it's high time he did, given how much in the past the church has gone after Muslim lands to occupy and convert or wipe out those who refuse to accept Christ; this practice is especially obvious if you study colonial history (more on this later).

On the matter of school budgets and the Ontario Educational Ministry's Kathleen Wynne sticking her schnozzola in to nickel-and-dime the Catholic Board and its' books, well, geez. It's a sad joke and a farce for Dalton McGoofy's Liberals to be worried about that Board's problems when there's a big, steaming, reeking load o' poop (a.k.a. the public school system and boards) that years of neglect and mismanagement of Ontario's educational system have created — violence in schools, zero educational standards thanks to incompetent and militant commie teachers who promote their damned leftist agendas in the curriculum and just love to threaten and take labor action if they don't get their spoiled way, diversity propaganda, deteriorating school buildings and property, no services, no pool access, to name a few of the short-comings of this province's school system. Yet the public system remains virtually untouchable, with the closest anyone getting to accountability taking place when trustees are elected each municipal election.

Oh, these teachers really burn my biscuits with their "anti-war" crap that stops and does a one-eighty to support our troops half a world away shootin' and bombin' to enforce high hemlines, Starbucks joints and women's lib in Muslim lands. How the teachers whine about how tough they've got it while their super-rich brats are living la vida loca on their folks' salary. Yet Kat Wynne can't find anything better to do with herself than playing Columbo to check out an alleged misspent $100,000 by the Catholic Board. As Jerry Lewis would say, HEY NICE LAAADYY! How about those $150,000-plus-each shells our "brave boys": are lobbing at innocents in Afghanistan, "fighting chaos" as those bullshitting Canadian Forces TV recruitment commercials are telling us they do? Why aren't you on your feet in the provincial legislature condemning this USA/internationalist-directed mass murder campaign (now that's a Crusade, lady...think about it)? This kafuffle is all a tempest in a chalice at a time when there are a lot more worthy seedy goings-on that need looking into by all three levels of government.

It's time for people to chill out, butt out and for Queen's Park to stay out of religion, and maybe, for the Catholic establishment both inside and outside its educational boards to get its act together vis-à-vis "modernizing" the faith to the point where it's too liberal/feminist/Marxist and barely recognizable, and to try to preserve what little tradition still is practiced in the Catholic Church with an eye to restoring the rest of its traditions.

Keep the faith, baby...or in more traditional terms, dominus vobiscum, et cum spirit tu tuo (The Lord be with you, and with your spirit).

 

 

"Fair and Balanced"? — That's News To Me!
 

 

You would think in a continent with nine major broadcast networks (six in the USA and three here), hundreds of local stations, not to mention specialty news channels like CNN, Fox News Channel (America' s Election Headquarters!), CTV Newsnet, Newsworld, regional channels like Toronto's Pulse24 and even BBC World, at least one channel could be a reliable source of open, varied, uncensored and wide-ranging coverage of news and unbiased analysis.

Sad to say, that's not the case. Do some channel-surfing sometime. Whether it's the nightly half-hour starring Katie Couric (CBS), Brian Williams (NBC), Lloyd Robertson (CTV) or Kevin Newman (Global), or your local news with the "happy news" team with guys with blow-dried coiffures and women who all seem to have the same hairstyle and wear the same style of suit, news isn't just insufficient; it's downright bland and censored.

America is by far the worst, especially on weekends when they have those Sunday analysis/panel shows like Wolf Blitzer's Early Edition on CNN or that slob George Stephanopolous on ABC's This Week or that twerp Chris Matthews with his own syndicated weekly show, Up here, it's Mike Duffy on CTV Newsnet, who gives new meaning to the phrase "Big man in Ottawa"; I hear his gut is so big it has its own MP. Then there's that talking-head mortician Don Newman on Newsworld's Monday to Friday yawnfest Politics. This guy even had the nerve to use more than once on the air the slogan uttered by Fox's resident ranter Bill O'Reilly, "The spin stops here". The guests on the panels are a non-stop parade of military "bomb-'em-all" jarheads, kosher conservative bigots, feminists, Leftist wing-nuts and mean addle-brains, and all presided over by jerks who can't seem to somehow ask revealing or tough questions.

And as for the stories, well in this crucial US election year, don't get me started: If it's not making early projections on primaries literally seconds after the polls close, it's sanitized "in-depth" coverage of natural disasters, the latest US/Israeli torture and war attacks, bombings, and interviews so polite and bland and bereft of hard-hitting questions, you'd think you were watching Russian state TV.

The "slick-news" format has been en vogue for quite a while now. Back in 1969, CBC ran a two-night news show every Sunday at 10 and right after the hockey game called CBC Weekend. With its jazz music theme, and Star Trek-like set with a podium that slid out from a set wall, the whole show looked more like Wheel of Fortune than a news show. It was quite a change from the shows like This Hour Has 7 Days, with it's bear-pit in which guests were grilled to perfection over issues ranging from unsafe cars to scandals to Vietnam. Just look for that today on TV, and the closest you get is Mister "Just-What-The-Hell-Are-You-Doing" Lou Dobbs of CNN. Then, there is Jack Cafferty, the old curmudgeon on CNN's Situation Room, who alternately amuses and infuriates me with his shirt-sleeved cantankerous look at the world.

And I'm not lettin' the Canadian radio yakkers off the hook. Yes, I'm talking about John Moore, Mike Stafford. Michael Coren and Stephen LeDrew and all you other raspers on AM 640 and Newstalk 1010 and that awful same-five-stories all day on 680 News. The arrogance of these hosts is incredible: I have yet to fathom what it is about siting in front of a microphone, wearing earphones, with your director/engineer on the other side of the booth and suddenly thinking you are the ultimate authority on everything. And when Joe Average calls in to put in his two cents' worth, he's running an electronic gauntlet from the station's receptionist to the show's producer, nowadays always on the lookout for "suspicious" comments in the little pre-interview you're subjected to as a premise for cutting you off; to reaching Mr. High-and-Mighty Man of the People (or in rare cases, woman of the people) who will "debate," toy and bait you until you're ready to hammer home your point. Then with the unseen flick of a finger in the studio and the magic of the few-second-delay, can stop you cold. Great democracy, radio. Oh yeah, unless you're really determined, forget about the "R" word (race) or the "J" or "Z" word (Jews and Zionists) when making your point. In any case, these arrogant "yobs" at the mike will try to roast you and verbally berate you, yell and try to overpower you with just decibels, all so confident and full of themselves.

Up here, there are places to write to you if you've been shafted over the airwaves. Contact the station, both by e-mail and by Canada Post and write to the station manager or the program director. Even write to the parent company. When they try to censor you or are outrightly arrogant, rude or abusive, don't let them get away with it.

Go get 'em!

 

 

Warehousing The Poor
 

 

It is said that a society is judged on how it treats the worst-off of its members. In modern society, it is bad enough that so many live in poverty and miserable conditions (graffiti, bullet-pocked walls, urine and feces-stench filled hallways, but our city has excelled at forcing this on people through the abomination known as government-run public housing.

It's a lot cheaper (in theory) and less bother for a government to shut people away and squeeze them in like sardines in cheaply-made, poorly and not-all-regulated high-rises and other forms of public housing decade after decade. Still, despite the filthy conditions and the war-zone atmosphere of what have become Canada's "Projects," there are so many defenders of this shameful way to house human beings. The Toronto Sun recently published an article on this issue, and it gave an appalling history of how badly and tragically public housing doesn't work. In addition to profiling people both committing — and scarred by — criminal violence, the article outlined how what was former farmland — 91 acres of it purchased as part of a federal/provincial government partnership and dubbed the "Jane Street site" after being set aside for public housing. Five hundred units of housing were authorized for construction. Problem was, from 1961-1971, the area's population of immigrants would swell from 1,300 people to 33,000: an increase of more than 24,000%. With the creation of the Ontario Housing Corporation, an already-bad situation was to evolve into what the Sun called "an urban planning fiasco." The pro-immigration/multiculturalism Liberals who brought so many of the inhabitants here and shoved them into these hell-holes, filled with starry-eyed stupidity that today is manifested in the belief all through North America that every young black man is a potential Barack Obama: now if they can just get that 400-year old chip off their shoulder known as "slavery"...

Today, these remain, reminders of the horrendous row-housing now existing in major English urban centers. And those who live there and near these areas can attest to how miserable life is. Locally, areas like Jane/Finch have become infamous in the news, in documentaries and in books like Cries From The Corridor for being hotbeds of gangs, drugs, guns and casual murder. Yet, we need to remember that the crime so often associated with these buildings comes from and is committed by the souls of those who live in them, not the existence of the structures themselves. Until attitudes change, nothing else will. Besides, we allowed government to put them there and we allowed government to over-fill them with people. So the solutions must come from all of us...including those who have to live in these areas (teaching values to kids, rebuilding the structure of family life and being watchdogs for trouble when it arises). Remember, criminals hit nice places, too (just watch the local news in large American cities; it isn't just in ghettos that criminals strike.

The government needs to get out of the public housing business totally, and to just assist people find affordable accommodations; they should maintain a list of rooming houses and see to it that they are clean, safe and properly maintained and subject to inspection.

This is an opportunity for government to make a difference by withdrawing all involvement with public housing (except of course to make sure it is inspected, clean and safe to live in and enforcing standards toward those goals). And for those who are still coming to Canada to live from other lands, I have one piece of advice: Please leave your anger at our nation's doors. Quit blaming cops and authority for your own misfortune or reacting to poverty by treating it as a license to victimize others.

With any luck, the candidacy of Barack Obama for U.S. President will uplift their spirits. After all, if you are more successful, you'll be more responsible, more moral, and just plain better as human beings.

Bottom line: Stop warehousing the poor. Make living conditions tolerable in Toronto (and for that matter, everywhere else in Canada).

 

 

Multiculturalism’s Cost

 

 

Torontonians love to talk about their city ...or at least they used to. Like any other major city, its citizens also pay taxes, which we expect will be used to see to it that our roads are safe to drive on, our traffic lights work, our garbage is collected and properly disposed of, among many services we take for granted.

Mayor Miller has just announced a $8.2 billion 'balanced' city budget (the first without a shortfall in the amalgamated city's history), along with a 3.75% property tax increase. There's also a one percent surcharge on top of all new properties sold in the GTA, and a tax boost on new car registration of between $60- $100. Really great -- until you look around at streets that are unsafe, with not enough cops to keep the 'gangstas' and punks off those streets, potholes that endanger car travelers, an old and ever-crumbling infrastructure, and more and more homeless and poor, who are subsisting from the pittance they get from their government. (Question to Dave and the councilors: just what else are you doing with all that money we hand over every year besides junkets and 'fact-finding trips' and partying)?

As I've mentioned previously in this space, the amount of dough spent by the City of Toronto, The Province of Ontario and the federal Immigration and Multicultural departments is obscene compared to what little gets spent on our cities. Billions get tossed into everything from Black and Chinese History/Heritage months. So many of us who struggle to pull down survival wages ask: Is it worth it to work so hard and then pay these ever-climbing taxes for a so-called world class city in the condition it's in? Or to put up with the crime that rages in our streets and pray that we or someone we love doesn't catch a stray bullet.

A substantial portion of the City Budget gets forked over to police operations, yet gangs rule supreme in areas throughout the GTA, controlling entire neighborhoods with drugs, killings, robbery and other gang activity, yet it's still a holding operation. And the money is still misspent; why isn't some of it used to get more cops out of their cars and back on foot patrols, as a deterrent and to keep a better eye on trouble spots?

The roads are in abysmal shape, there are plenty of dangerous potholes still to be fixed all over the city. Traffic lights don't work properly while the City spends dough on new "countdown" lights. Fix what's broken first, for heaven's sake! And there'd no help on the graffiti problem either. You call to report tagging or some other abomination and you still get the runaround. The "Graffiti Hotline" isn't enough, City Council. Why can't we just call our councillor or the cops when there's new graffiti and get it erased? Oh yes, and trees: Hardly any new ones getting planted, but plenty of healthy ones getting cut down. Rudeness and apathy are the order of the day for the City Abourer; no help from that department for complaints.

The poor are shafted, as usual. People are collecting bottles and begging, uncared about and neglected while we wallow in our Canadian Idol love-them-arts image. This, to me, is not the Canadian way. It's of no source of pride to have a Mayor or any City Councilor bask with pride over money spent on Diversity Projects and millions on "arts grants" when we've had a crisis of poverty that has just been allowed to get worse.

Every person in this town should write/e-mail their MP and demand that this city be given a proper and generous amount of money to help those on welfare programs in the GTA. After all, money given to people on welfare isn't spent elsewhere, it's spent here, going back into the local economy. And considering the mayhem and misery that multiculturalism has caused this nation, and the destructive failure of nonsense like "Diversity Is Our Strength", the feds owe it to us. Period. We didn't ask for Toronto (or any other city) to be turned into some Canadian version of the Rainbow Coalition, complete with the crime and violence that goes with it. Had Toronto been allowed to remain a homogeneous community, how much money could be spent on helping our poor and really making a dent on poverty and homelessness (which mostly affects whites)?

Now I hear that famous American Lou Dobbs wail about the "middle class" being threatened by a poor economy. Those who do suggest that the working poor occupy a 'lower class'. Usually people who howl about the middle class are usually selfish, compassionless people ...with no class.

A letter to your Member of Parliament, for which you don't need a stamp (address it in care of The House of Commons, Ottawa Ontario K1A 0A6) or an e-mail, can go a long way. Write your MP now. And the mayor and your councilors, at City Hall,100 Queen Street, Toronto Ontario M5H 2N2. Tell them to demand proper government funding for Toronto and the people who really deserve it. We can't rely on the trendy and gay communities to keep what's still sparkly and lively about our downtown much longer; if it weren't for them, Torontonians would have fled. turning the core of T.O. into the same bullet-riddled crime-infested areas that have befallen so many other cities in the USA. Already the rash of shootings in our entertainment district have made Canadian news shows like The Fifth Estate.

Let's create a city we can truly brag about by first, redirecting all that 'diversity dough' into helping the poor and fixing the streets and erasing that disgusting graffiti and hitting criminals hard with taxpayer-paid proper law enforcement by police: out of the cars, up close and personal.. And secondly, by making sure that all three levels of government keep Toronto financially strong. That is what truly makes a great metropolis, not having the hip-hop champs of Canada or drooling over Canadian Idol while the poor freeze in their homes and on the streets.

Since apparently our politicians would rather pocket our tax money or blow it on multicult stupidity, it's time for us to fight for our city.

 

 

Cartoons Corrupting Kids

 

 

Cartoons were once a realm of comedy and fantasy, suitable for all ages.

We all remember if not having seen Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear, Underdog, and so many of the harmless stuff of our youth, Then, cartoons became a staple of beyond Saturday morning, moving to prime time and all hours of the day getting more into mindless violence, and kept it up until the FCC in the United States stepped in and told animators to clean up their act.

Fast forward to 2008, where we have now been exposed to South Park, Beavis and Butthead, Pokemon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Xs, and a virtually non-stop parade of cleverly-disguised messages promoting not just mindless violence, but
homosexuality, pedophilia, bad messages an leftist-humanistic role models for kids everywhere.

Bill Cosby can be chosen as a pioneer of this politically-correct toon. His 30-year-old Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which originally aired on CBS and now is in reruns on the Teletoon Retro channel, mixed positive messages for kids like don't steal and don't joyride, with messages of anti-racism, tolerance, women's lib garbage, and others, all wrapped up with cheesy rock songs and an animated feature called The Brown Hornet.

For decades, virtually every animation studio in North America — Disney, Nelvana, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network to name a few — have put out at least one politically-correct series for kids most are incredibly sophisticated in animation, in plots and dialogue. But look carefully: the kids in most of them are disrespectful or sharper than the square/doddering/crazy older generation, and the messages and images of family life aren't as wholesome as Davey and Goliath by a long shot:

Starting with Disney, there is The Weekenders, focusing on a pack of multiracial kids: a Jewish clever girl, a hip, all-knowing Black kid (the only one of them with a normal two-parent family , and two misfit Whites a boy with a dating single mom and a tomboyish blond girl who's always up to something. Next up is the five-year old favorite Kim Possible, a teen spy with a clueless dad who is supposed to be scientist and a freckle-faced Jewish partner. A black kid named Wade is her Internet computer buddy who helps her defeat the mostly-white villains like Señor Senior and Duff McKilligan.

Now we come to Japanese anime, with its grotesque portrayal of how humans look, with misshapen facial expressions, heart-shaped mouths and (For girls) street-level shots up their legs). The plot of these is usually all fantasy, good monsters battling bad monsters (Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon) or Harry Potter sorcery/magic fantasy (Sailor Moon) or some other sort o nonsense (on these shows, there is an absence of parents as well, and the surreal character-design style is being carried over to shows produced in the US like Teen Titans, Jackie Chan Adventures and Jake Long, American Dragon. This last one stars an Asian kid whose entire family including himself, can transform into dragons to save fairy creatures and humans from evil. Like most TV animation teens, his buds look like a UN club.

There are two kinds of families in new cartoons: Single or no parent, and nuclear/dysfunctional. Shows like The Xs, Family Guy, King of the Hill and of course, The Simpsons represent the latter. On Family Guy, the prerequisite dumb dad is joined by his smart wife, train-wreck kids, an alcoholic talking dog, and a gay megalomaniac baby. The creation of one Seth MacFarlane, this show is joined on Sunday nights by American Dad, a fun CIA family man with dysfunctional kids, an effeminate alien, and a Vert Chermann-accented goldfish. Oh yeah, he doesn't like Muslims — until he gets a taste of their matriarchal culture, then is made to look evil when he asserts male authority to his wife while his daughter chases an Arab teen in the episode Stan of Arabia.

Europeans don't fare well on new cartoons. Relegated to mostly freak/villain status or objects of ridicule. The newest version of Scooby-Doo (Teletoon/CW), Get A Clue! has an opening title montage of Scooby and his buddy Shaggy (two males) dancing close together, chased by a German alternately-goose-stepping/Russian dancing bad dude named Phineas Phibes. Don't trust white guys with accents, kids, they're bad or nuts, is the message here. On Nickelodeon's The Xs, the whole family serves the government as spies. Like gays on TV? Well, never mind all the rear-end exposure on shows like The Simpsons, or Liza Minnelli-inspired show tune-singing on Family Guy. On Johnny Test, there's Dukey, a talking latte-swilling canine who gives new creepy meaning to the phrase gay dog, especially his scenes with his adolescent master.

Transformers, and its many TV and movie spin-offs (some produced right here in Canada, not only is a half-hour toy commercial, but also tries to tell us that somewhere in prehistory, there were advanced robotic, computerized races who had a tiff and now fight among us primitive humans, some of them protecting all humanity,

Bigotry is okay on TV if you're not white. On Fox's King of the Hill, Texan Hank Hill contends with an arrogant Laotian family (immigrants from a hilly nation who look down at their Texas neighbors as hillbillies and whose daughter is a violin virtuoso) and a paranoiac gun nut who does not know his Indian son has actually been fathered by one John Redcorn making whoopee with his blonde bombshell wife.

History also gets a unfactual play on cartoons check out Disney's The Emperors New School: You never saw such a hipper ancient Mesoamerican type in all your life (I didn't know David Spade could trace his roots to that time, or for that matter, Eartha Kitt, who plays the villainous sorceress principal at the school where his character Kuzco has to take his emperor lessons before ascending his throne).

Is there any cartoon safe to watch? Even innocuous old ones like Inspector Gadget have single-authority bumbler figures. And considering they're all over the place: TV, DVDs movies, the Internet, how do you stop them? Well, how about shutting off the TV and spending a little quality time with the young'ns? A trip somewhere, fishing? Give them a dose of real, healthy family life, not the crud that gets pumped out to them 24/7 on the box.

And talk to your kids: teach them respect and help them separate and be warned about the fantasy and dangerous messages being beamed into their brains courtesy of Family Channel, YTV, Kids WB, Teletoon, et al.

 

 

No Such Thing As “Youth Culture”
 

The 1950s and 1960s are decades that many of us think of as a turning point in society: rock and roll, Woodstock. the so-called Sexual Revolution, women's lib, and the beginnings of what has evolved into something called "youth culture". In reality, what happened was not a youth "culture" but a separation of the generations, carefully crafted and orchestrated by the controlled media's TV, radio, movies, video games and music industries that has led directly into an attitude among so many adolescents in which life has no meaning, violence is fun, parents, family and tradition are to be ignored and rebelled against, and every now and then, murdered.

So much has come together and collided in a sneaky, calculated effort of propaganda involving films that have become more disturbing in content, steadily more graphically violent and filled with gore and mayhem, like the serial killers of the Halloween, Saw and Scream films, to name a few. Then there's the Harry Potter films (a new one is being readied for this summer), and TV series like Charmed, Bewitched, and Reaper, all starring "good witches", wizards and on Reaper, a teen forced into being a bounty hunter for Satan, TV all brought to you by networks aiming for that "youth" demographic to sell sneakers and fast food (more on this in a bit). The desensitization process these shows and films accomplish have a side benefit for North American governments: Take a teen immune to emotion from killing, couple him with a recruiting ad for the armed forces teaching him how to be "Army Strong" or be part of "The Few, the Proud, Marines" or even in Canada, to join the armed forces and "Fight Fear", and you've got a killing machine: just aim and fire at whoever you want to conquer (Just go online at any recruiting page for North American armed forces and you can get your jollies with everything from job opportunities, simulated games and even a "Support Our Troops" wallpaper).

In any store you can buy graphically violent video games like Grand Theft Auto, despite packaging "recommending" age appropriateness (yet the only ones you hear advertised on TV are relatively harmless ones like Nintendo's Wii and the on-the-border supernatural games like Warcraft and Ratchet and Klank). Entire TV networks try to glorify so-called "youth culture": YTV, Muchmusic, MTV, Razer, Nickelodeon and the U.S. "N" Channel; while some have fallen like the WB and UPN, others have risen like Fox Broadcasting and The CW to take their place, still pumping out the sex and gore.

Then there's the music, everyone from Alice Cooper to Marilyn Manson to Ozzy Osborne's bat-eating antics, to scary, hideous "glam rockers" like KISS and the multiple-busted-for child pornography Gary Glitter. Since the 50's, rebellious rock gave way to the 1960's abomination known as the Beatles, who had the colossal nerve to declare themselves more popular than Jesus (later Mark Chapman proved that John Lennon wasn't as immortal). Later on, we had Woodstock and the manifestation of the "free love" tripe among the hippies who later showed a mighty big chip on their shoulders when it came to order and tradition, and ended up raising a new generation of no-values, no-morality, no-respect for life unruly monsters-to-be. And long with that free love came broken marriages, switching of partners and confused kids, more destruction of the traditional nuclear family and the massive violence, suicide and depression that followed.

You can see evidence of the I-don't-care generation everywhere: A 12-year-old beats his brother to death with a bat for crying to loud. A group of Edmonton teens kill a cat with a microwave oven. Kids killing their parents with the casualty of eating a snack. A 16-year-old Muslim girl is killed by her father over her turning away from the religious practice of wearing the Muslim hijab.

Look to their idols: Just-arrested (again) mini-whore Britney Spears, Spoiled out-of-control trollop Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, Hooker-in-training Hannah Montana -- these are young teenagers and young girls' "role models" these days, heaven help us. The over-sexification of TV, movies and other media, where promiscuity and "freedom" (including the dating aspects of multiculturalism) sends dangerous messages to young girls, a theme that has carried on and on since the 1980s on shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and carries on today on Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill. Trying to follow the lifestyles of these characters has led to tragedy for families time and time again.

Music in history can be a force of unification and true cultural expression, but when "youth culture" took root in North America and England in the 1950's and 60's, and guys like Alan Freed and Murray (the K) Kaufman promoting rock and roll with phrases like "progressive rock' (like "progressive jazz"; just noise, with no beat, but plenty of decibels), the seeds of family and generational division were sewn by radio stations and record companies. Today, the few mega-companies like Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music still left rake in millions on CDs and "artists" still preaching the destructive gospel of hopelessness, nihilism and destruction. And the subtle and overt themes of separating the families and generations continues unabated.

Bottom line: "Youth culture" doesn't exist — it is a false religion peddled by the media worldwide and used to seduce generation after generation into drugs, violence, race-mixing and ridicule of tradition, family, religion and real culture itself. It remains as an entity, a still-growing danger now facing a backlash from those fed up with what 40 years of it has done.

Nest time you watch TV, grab a pen and paper and copy down the names of sponsors of shows you find objectionable, or whose messages you find disturbing or inappropriate. Then write to the advertisers and send copies to the stations, networks and the CRTC in Ottawa.

Being a parent is a hard job. But it's still your job. You can do your own part in fighting the controlled media's war on the family by taking an active interest in your kids' lives. Keep an eye on what they watch and access on the Internet. And if they object, remind them that you are the parent, and you're just doing your job.

Oh yeah, and don't listen to Bill Cosby. His liberal preaching to kids on his now-rerunning Fat Albert cartoon is also a contributor to a lot of this mayhem.

 

 

Ode to Canadian Patriots
 

 

This Canada Week, just for a change, instead of the usual fare
I thought I'd reflect on our progress up here
And the good people who got us there.
"The only thing needed for evil to win,
is for good men to do nothing (at all),"
Those were the words of Edmund Burke,
and his namesake's Society's call;
Always our rock, always our leader, who led us from Day One
Till racial awareness was a household word
Don Andrews got the job done.
From the EBS to the Western Guard, to the Nationalist Party's epoch,
He was there to man the trenches in front
He talked the talked and he walked the walk.
In a hotel, he, and music teacher Leigh Smith,
and Paul Fromm were the original three
laid the EBS groundwork, for a group that would fight
For a Canada independent and free;

And later, in Ottawa, clad in green
Donna Upson caused quite a stir,
Running for Mayor in the nation's capital
Was the one they called Baby Hitler.
Let us pause in respect for fallen Wolfgang Droege,
Led the Heritage Front, then was gone
And the HF's Jim Dawson, and Ken Barker,
They was a big men in more ways than one.
Young Geza Matrai, from Hungary,
and his daring feat, 'twas quite grand
Jumping onto commie Kosygin's back,
and cried freedom for all captive lands.
And John Ross Taylor, wise to the enemy's ways, of their deeds and cunning he'd preach;
Longtime enemy of the reds and the Zionists,
to them, quite a lesson he'd teach;
He cornered them in the courtroom, with the truth that glowed like light;
"Truth cannot be a defense" said these weasels;
To his last hour he'd not relinquish the fight;
There's the man of Allan Gardens,
William John Beattie by name
When first he hung out the swastika here,
free speech would ne'er be the same.

And the Latvian gent Armand Siksna, who would tolerate none who were rude
Jim McQuirter, budding Klansman, quite famous
As a racist and a Sunshine Dude.
Hats off to all the early stalwarts,
serious Joe Genovese and Jaanus Proos;
And to the ones who came later like Max French, who was
alternately staid and footloose;
Mel McCready, from the Isle of Erin, irrepressible iron-willed boy
Pete Metrewski and the crew of young skinheads
Who made the reds and ARA holler "oy!"
There was stoic and wary Jim Simpson,
Bob Ruminski, with a grin ear to ear
Leo Jutting, the Australian adventurer,
who knew the good life, good art and good beer;
Gerry "Mad Dog" Doyle, a great friend
A hero to the White Nationalist cause,
Limey Stephen Hammond, now known as "Andrea"
He's just not the man he once was.

Evan Jones, who was a great seamster,
Klan robes were his own specialty,
And Armin Aurerswald, who graced both our land and our race
With his own sizable family.
Dr. George Zapparoli, a noble man
of quiet bearing, and a Lombard by birth
And Chris Greenland, never short of ideas
And also considerable girth;
Norm Smith, who had a sad ending,
a perennial, soon, he too was gone;
And the Odinist Norwegian Paul Hartmann,
Keen of brain, large of heart and of brawn.

Let us also salute James Brookman, who won a
following in a councillor race;
Brenda Kildey and her boundless energy, who
could never stay in one space.
Belorussian Kastus Akula, whose books spoke
of his nation's pain;
And Estonian Arnie Polli, who never tired of
the political game;
From Lithuania came Gil Urbonas,
a man of his place and his times,
And a quiet, Irishman who came here from the U.K.,
John Coutts, A.K.A. James Grimes.

And let's pause to also mention George Burdi
An activist and reverend too,
In the flesh, and online and in print
He remained a white racist guru.
There was Rod Young, who was there from the earliest days,
Henrich Van Windt, also along
Captain David Astle, a movement pioneer,
Newshound David Sloan too, did belong,
And from the sun-drenched British Columbia coast
Fred Woodward sent occasional dispatch,
And in typing and spelling and clerical finnesse
Janice Solary was truly unmatched.

There was John Godfrey, John Jewell, old-timer
Bill McPherson.
There was Bert Hiltz, who we called "Country" ;
And two others, a couple who were into spy games
Also part of the movement's history,
They were Hector the Albanian, rumoured CIA man, and
Anne Burton, who hated fluoride;
There was Jurgen Neumann, his skill with cameras evident
In his productions he exhibited with pride.

There was a master of metals, Horst Gobbels,
With a blowtorch, created beauty,
There was young and sarcastic Tom Druery and
Romana Andrewchuk, a Ukrainian cutie
There was Janice Arsenault, the Acadian,
The HF's Chris Newhook, tough as can be,
Dawyd Zarshansky, A.K.A. "Tarzan",
His tough guy image fitted him to a "T";

There were the three Daves, Sutton, Carpenter, Franklin
The first two from hamlets quite small,
Dave Franklin, he was a lover of the fish
In his tank, and cared for them, one and all.

Let's not forget all the ladies, who joined in the activity
Many of them were as tough as the men of the fight
And just as sharp, I'm sure you'll agree.
There's Ann Ladas from Greece, a credit to them
Danube Swabian Rose Perri, too;
And Straight Talk assistant Veronica "Ronnie" O'Hare,
whose tongue cut down morons and fools;

And Victor and Wendy, the Ians, McDonald and Chalmers,
And Ken from Mississauga, friend true.
And also these name shall go into the trome
Those of Grant Bristow and Robert Toope

From Canada's London, there is Martin K. Weiche
A man we would occasionally come see,
And Al Overfield, the only one of our band
Who could trace his line back to Tecumseh;
There was Jeff Goodall, civil servant
And the electronics whiz Michael Doyle,
There was Donna Elliott and husband Wayne, a tree surgeon,
made his living with saw, and in soil;
And baseball-capped Jimmy Spearin, with a vision he would apply,
A white traffic signal man, his idea;
"White man says go" was his cry.

Of the intellectuals, there was Xavier,
Who could converse on any topic at hand;
And our Hollow Earth theorist and cat-lover Ivan Boyes
Still waiting for the Venusians to land;
And John Percy, who adopted a punk style
Before punk was seen to be cool
John Globus also contributed, and
"El Gusano (worm)" Frank DeMarois, too;
Merill Orr and his portable respirator
Always a breath of fresh air
Reliable Frank Andrews, call a meeting
And you knew he would always be there.
There was Francis Walsh, nicknamed "The Funkster,"
Al Brown, his camera always near.
And Tom Reade, as at home talking politics,
As with his motorcycle and a beer.

There was wrestling's Masked Marvel, Mr. Jack Prins,
A kind man, and who always was heard
And his spirited wife, Sabina,
Who went sky-diving and soared like a bird;
Gary Schipper, who played axe and railed
of "hippie-crites", his passion would burn,
And Gerry Lincoln, eclectically interested
In cats, computers and in Howard Stern;
And while we are talking performers,
There's Rob Livingston and Janice and more
Flamenco guitarist John Thomas, who knew
Classic Spanish music down to its core:
There was Peter ("The Actor") Herod;
Actor and male model Bob Mann contributed, too;
There was Ilmar Kitsas and Urmas Toming
Proud Europeans both, through and through.

So many of those in the vanguard
Were men with lady friends who pitched in
There was Victor Pataki and his friend Wendy Forbes
Geza's friend Maria, proud Hungarian.

There was a funny old guy named Bill Colimay
Who'd lived quite a colorful life,
owned a mine and drank his coffee two cups at a time and
Asked us to pray for him and his wife,

Imprisoned Brad Love, and Ernst Zündel,
Caged men whose spirits are still free;
Our Dale Gribble, John Morgan and also Russ Varey,
Who amused with his flim-flammery.
Let us not forget, let us mention honorably
Other stalwarts who should not be missed,
Mr. George Barkhouse and Mr. Verner Cinis,
the Latvian and anti-Communist.

And all those from the seventies who helped with Straight Talk
The premiere Racial Awareness magazine
Those who contributed prose and who sold
and produced it and placed it to be prominently seen;
Stefan Lustofka and his brother,
Quebec's James Phillips wrote articles galore
And brave men like Mike Brown, Hamilton's Len Gilliard,
Sold S.T, on the street by the score,
And in its pages we were to read of our news and the views
The birth of the White Confederacy:
The trials, the heroism, forever in print,
The struggle for true democracy.

There was the charming Marian McGuire,
Who gave our image more polish and class
George Keeping and his brother, always ready for action
And willing to kick commie ass;
Let us also remember Jack Morrison,
From Social Credit's Ontario days
And the "Chosen One" novelist Eric Thomson;
Was he really in the CIA's pay?

And let us include in this list Marc Lemire
and Barbara Kulaszka, here, too
Who hung in against Orwellian tribunals and
Would not flee at the enemy's first 'boo';

And let's give a few lines in salute here,
To the western heroes who had fought the good fight:
Alberta's James Keegstra, Battling barrister Doug Christie,
Who knew telling the truth was just right;
Joining them, persecuted Bill Noble,
To the tyrants a dangerous brain,
Professor Terry Tremaine, the "Mathdoktor"
Targeted in tolerance's name.
Tom Winnicki, four years ago sentenced,
To four months in the dungeons for "hate"
And Chris Kemperling, against gay agendas,
Lost his livelihood, a punishment great;
Also we honor here Melissa Guile;
Al Kulbashian, Peter Kouba, Glen Bahr,
Ciaran Donnelly, were more of the many the law said
Carried Freedom of Speech way too far.
There was Jessica Beaumont, Bob Wilkinson,
Alexandro di Civita, and
Craig Harrison whose names we also add to
The hounded of the so-called fair land.

We cannot forget comrade Terry Long,
Fought for freedom and truth without fear,
Stared down JDL thugs, defied federal bugs,
After starting Aryan Nations here.

And Darcy Hopkins, another man fallen
An unshakable spirit to the end
And "Kick-ass" Kevin, and Tony and his proudly white crew
Many times the white race they'd defend,
And more ladies to mention, Nicola, Vicki, Karen,
Diane, Kathleen, Roxanne, thanks to you all;
And "The Baron" from Sweden, rich in money and spirit.
In his own way, helped when given the call.

There are so many worthy of mention;
names faded in time and in space
And those I've left out, they will understand,
their contributions cannot be erased.
The many nations of Europeans who helped us,
Communities diverse. big and small,
the young and the old, the rich and the poor,
were the ones, the most helpful of all:

Ukrainians. Romanians, Croats, Serbs, Italians
Hungarians and Bulgars as well,
Belorussians, Czechs, Slovaks, many from the oppressed
who knew to first-hand, the meaning of hell;
Men from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania too,
Eastern Europeans, strong-willed and proud,
Whose bretheren lived under Red Russia's cruel boot, and
Pleaded in voices passionate and loud;
Let's also remember the people of small-town Ontario
Unforgettable in character and name
Specifically, Swastika and also Kaladar,
site of many a weekend's war game.

Those of us who are part of the white people's tribe
Owe them all a heartfelt "thank you";
And no, I'm not modest or bashful,
But I'm in that list somewhere, too.

Oh the many activities, projects and groups
A few men who loved freedom produced,
The tyrants had no idea of the resistance, defiance
When those who craved real freedom were turned loose
The White Confederacy, European Heritage Week
Singular ideas like no other
And when black crime begat the White Peoples' Vigilantes
Toronto's politicians and mayor all took cover.
We can't thank the koshers, we can't thank the cops,
Or the media or print's fourth estate;
It's they who kept putting fuel on the fire,
Slandered white race survival as "hate";

As we pause now to dwell of the good in this land
Let us all in unison celebrate
What they all did to make our race proud, make it wise, just and good
What they all did to make our race great.

Every one is a flag for our racial identity
A credit to our race and our nation,
And each one of these heroes truly deserves
a "Real Order of Canada" commendation.

Let us raise a one-handed salute to them all,
Each, a woman or man of the hour
For all, in one way or another helped uphold
White survival, white pride
and White Power!

 

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