Democracy. Until it isn't. Freedom. Until it's not.

It's Canada. So what. Who cares.

But what it makes me think is that *politicians* are usually the same all over the world.

Reading this guy's sob story also reinforces my opinion that diversity and allowing immigrants into this country makes the United States of America a better place in the long run. As someone who grew up among the dim-wit monkeys of southwest Arkansas, I think they need to see more of the world.

As for Trudeau, this article reminds me of an article I just read about how the so-called Justice Department is trampling on Americans with their so-called "National Security Letters".

I feel a great certainty in my mind that many of the mindless drones in the United States federal bureaucracy would abuse their powers to protect such outlandish behavior as Trudeau exhibits. Because I suspect he's a pervert. And that's why he was doing that.

I suspect that the *only* politicians who manage to get through to the higher levels are *all* perverts.

Richard Nixon was *sexually* attracted to defecation.

Ronald Reagan, never caring she said no, was a sexual rapist.

Gerald Ford was a careless drunk.

The list goes on.

George H.W. Bush was a child sex pedophile homosexual closeted.

George W. Bush is a closeted homosexual.

The government will trample over the rights of any United States American who knows the truth.

Only the perverts get through in politics. Because that makes them controllable.

AFTER-POST UPDATE: I just this minute thought to check the birthdate listed for Justin Trudeau. LOOK IT UP YOURSELF! I ain't lying!! ***PERFECTLY*** explains it all.








https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/quotes

IMDb

Outland (1981)

Quotes

Bellows: How much help will he have?

Sheppard: None.

Bellows: You sure?

Sheppard: Yes, I'm sure. No one here will stick their neck out for anyone.








http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093640/quotes

IMDb

No Way Out (1987)

Quotes

CIA Director Marshall: Well, spilt milk.

[Wryly laughing]

CIA Director Marshall: And you can forget about Pritchard. He's homosexual.

Kevin O'Brien: I'll be damned.

CIA Director Marshall: Ah, so will he, if you believe the Old Testament.








https://www.historylink.org/File/10956

History Link

THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY

West, Jim (1951-2006)

West's Gay Sex Scandal

"The Gay.com thing has only been, I can't recall, but it hasn't been very long," West told the newspaper. "I can't tell you why I go there, to tell you the truth ... curiosity, confused, whatever, I don't know. ... I wouldn't characterize me as 'gay'"








https://www.yahoo.com/news/justin-trudeaus-brownface-scandal-bad-130311444.html

Yahoo! News

Justin Trudeau's brownface scandal is bad. But voting him out isn't the solution

Moustafa Bayoumi, The Guardian

The Guardian September 20, 2019

Recently surfaced photos of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface while at an ‘Arabian Nights’ party in 2001 are disturbing on a number of levels. First, if you’ll allow me to point out the obvious, Trudeau is the only person in makeup! The other partygoers who are pictured are barely costumed, yet Trudeau looks like he just walked out of an old Tintin comic book as the stereotypical Arab villain.

It doesn’t end there. The makeup that Trudeau is wearing in the photos is not limited to his face but is liberally applied across his breastbone and completely covers his hands. Imagine how much thought and action (and make up!) must have gone into planning and painting young Justin Trudeau brown.

Third, Justin Trudeau wasn’t young! He was 29-years-old at the time of this party. Like the rest of us mortals (his image in the US notwithstanding), Trudeau is bound to the rules of space and time, which means that, when this party was thrown, Trudeau was not acting in some minstrel show in the American south in 1901. On the contrary, he was 29 years-old, in Vancouver, and living in the year 2001. By 2001, minstrelsy was already recognized as socially unacceptable behavior.

Fourth, Justin Trudeau seems to have a blackface/brownface problem, with earlier examples now coming to light. The now world-famous and debonair Canadian politician has, on at least two occasions, been recorded in blackface, surely disappointing legions of his fans across the globe. Just think about it. While so people in the US seem ready to believe that Melania or Ivanka (or both) are ready to ditch Trump and hitch a universal-health-care ride to Trudeau-land due to the young leader’s good looks and suave manners, Trudeau seems to want to play out some deep-level desire to leave his whiteness behind and become…an Arab.

Justin Trudeau wants to be me.

I’m joking, of course, to make a point. I doubt Trudeau wants to be an Arab man or a black man or an Indian man, though he has dressed up as all three. But what such racial pantomimes do is exaggerate the distance between white people and non-white people for the amusement of the dominant culture. Nothing underlines whiteness more than a white person temporarily and exaggeratedly leaving whiteness behind and acting like a person of some other race.

Why? Because racial pantomimes are not really about costumes or humor but are about power, the power to degrade the people of another race, the power to ridicule the manners of another ethnicity, and the power to make racism look like it’s all just good fun.

Nor is this kind of racism limited to the politicians in Canada. I grew up in Canada (I hold both American and Canadian citizenship) and what I see in these photos feels personal. I remember very clearly the bullying and taunts that the few non-white kids, myself included, routinely faced in school. As a Muslim kid, I was forced to leave my elementary school classroom and wait in the hall while the Lord’s Prayer was read aloud over the school speakers. As a brown kid, I was constantly told by other kids that I was dirty because my knees and elbows were a darker color than the rest of my skin. In my high-school gym’s locker room, I was regularly ridiculed and beaten because I was a “Paki,” and any brown kid in Canada when I was growing up was pejoratively called a “Paki.” My feeble response at the time was to tell my attackers: “I’m not from Pakistan.” That would sometimes elicit a pause. Then a chuckle. Then the beating would continue.

Now, it’s true that things have improved in Canada since I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, but it’s also true that Canadians still aren’t all that good at confronting their own racisms. This is partly because the American behemoth to the south had for a long time convinced many Canadians that racism was limited to the anti-black bigotry of the American variety. Today, many Americans (and a few Canadians) still believe the myth of a non-racist Canada. But Canadian racism is real, and it’s still as pernicious, systemic and psychologically damaging as any other. Indigenous communities in particular are still forced to battle Canadian racism in the most profound ways conceivable. And until there is a real movement to confront and eliminate it in all of its varieties, racism will live on in Canada and these incidents and injustices will keep occurring.

The immediate question in front of us is what Canadians should do today. Trudeau and his Liberal Party are now in the final weeks of a re-election campaign, and the main challenger, the Conservative Party, headed by Andrew Scheer, is already exploiting the scandal. Scheer has called Trudeau “not fit” to be prime minister. But just days earlier, Scheer was excusing the rampant and excessive racism and homophobia found among members of his own party. And while the Liberals have disappointed indigenous communities on several fronts since assuming power, the Conservatives haven’t even offered an indigenous policy or strategy.

Which leads us to the clear answer. Justin Trudeau’s racist pantomimes are reprehensible. But let’s make sure that what we are examining is not only Trudeau but also Canada and its racism. Otherwise, the solutions we come up with will be not even skin deep but simply made-up.

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of the award-winning books How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America and This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.








https://www.yahoo.com/news/secret-fbi-subpoenas-scoop-personal-190940830.html

Yahoo! News

Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies

The New York Times

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries ,The New York Times

September 20, 2019

The FBI has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.








https://www.yahoo.com/news/intelligence-whistleblowers-face-a-dangerous-path-to-congress-223155785.html

Yahoo! News

Intelligence whistleblowers face a dangerous path to Congress

Jenna McLaughlin National Security and Investigations Reporter, Yahoo News

September 20, 2019

A key danger for the whistleblower is that, by going out on their own, they will not be protected and could in fact be labeled a leaker for sharing classified information improperly.








https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=688

U.S. House of Representatives

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Press Releases

Chairman Schiff Issues Subpoena for Whistleblower Complaint Being Unlawfully Withheld by Acting DNI from Intelligence Committees

Washington, September 13, 2019

Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a subpoena to the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire to compel the production of a whistleblower complaint that the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s (IC IG) determined to be credible and a matter of “urgent concern,”



- posted by Kerry Burgess 04:10 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 09/21/2019