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| SharynS |
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:28 am
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Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2941 Location: the 'puter |
Four hundred years later, British Columbia's MLA's are demonstrating that you don't need explosives to incapacitate a parliament. Political cynicism and the indifference of the public and the press are succeeding where Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators failed.
read more... _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie |
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| SharynS |
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:23 am
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Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2941 Location: the 'puter |
Talking to or communicating with these people is like talking to robots. They're stuck like glue and commited to protect the system that takes such good care of them. I have little faith that one day any one of them will break with tradition and err on the side of real and natural justice.
_________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie |
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| wm pasz |
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:44 pm
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Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 1219 Location: Toronto |
What's more shocking than changing the law on the quiet which is exactly what's happened here, is the steadfast way in which everyone from BC's politicians to the Attorney General's office has been ignoring the issue.
It goes to show you how institutions cooperate "no matter what" if the alternative is to acknowledge that the people have been screwed and that the institutions have been caught out. The fact that the law that was changed was one that gave workers some small assurance that they will be treated fairly by their unions, is not a coincidence. It's very important to all of our institutions that workers be kept down. Now that they're getting smarter, the institutions are working harder (and more surreptitiously) to keep them down. This is the corporatization of our democratic processes slipping into high gear. Its all about deception and institutional arrogance. These institutional representatives are treating Chris like he doesn't exist and like they aren't hearing what he's saying. Guess we'll just have to turn up the volume on them. _________________ Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X |
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| gbuddy |
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:23 am
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Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 77 Location: Vancouver |
One thing of which I am very confident is that time is on our side with this case. In January I finally got a meeting with my elected representative whose first comment, before admitting that I might have a very serious case, was that the government's priority would be to avoid any liability.
He has since sent me a brief letter saying the matter is closed because the government had the right to make the change it did. However, I don't think he or anyone else actually believes that, and I have told him and the Attorney General's office that we are going to test that theory in court with a lawsuit for misfeasance in public office. The government's biggest problem is that the provision remains on the books and the LRB is still relying on it (even if they do not explicitly say so the Labour Code actually compels them to use it). Having spoken to quite a few of the other victims of this illegally engineered law (who number in the hundreds), I anticipate having little problem conscripting some of them to join me as co-plaintiffs, and I believe that pursuing this without legal counsel should not be a problem. |
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| SharynS |
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:03 am
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Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2941 Location: the 'puter |
Quote: was that the government's priority would be to avoid any liability. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie |
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