"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who
mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives"--James Madison, the fourth President
of the United States (1809-1817)
We are living difficult times where our realities are the spinned
realities. The only way we can discern the real reality from the
spinned reality is to change our copycat behaviour to blindly follow
fads and logos and brands as pushed by the biggest economic
suppliers of goods and services. In short, we must go back to being
ourselves and think for ourselves.
Language is part of our behaviour, and the simple word "lie"
which at one time had some significance has lost its original
meaning, and in fact we all live in a world spun by the big
corporate media, by the big multinationals, by the focus groups, by
the economic gurus, by our sold out politicians.
On Saturday I understand that the Bush campaign digitally altered
a TV ad[1] and that the Bush administration has been spinning the
theory that the missing 360-380 tons of explosives from the Al Qaqaa
storage facility had been removed prior to the American invasion of
Iraq.[2] In the meantime we have a study supporting the conclusion
that some 100,000 Iraqis, mostly women and children, could have been
killed since the invasion of Iraq.[3]
It is my understanding that we cannot ever have a progressive
democracy by letting authoritarian people continue their spinning of
whatever is the truth while common people keep dying. One way to
uncover these authoritarian people is to refer to their language,
and in fact these spinners re-write history and specifically blame
something else for their own faults. For example, Saskatchewan
Justice David Wright has found that Saskatoon constables Larry
Hartwig and Brad Senger had the young Neil Stonechild in their
custody on the night in 1990 when he was last seen alive.[4] Yet
Saskatoon police association president Stan Goertzen has stated
"I don’t believe any member of the Saskatoon Police Service
specifically picked Neil Stonechild up and caused his death."[5]
The spinning in this case is the insignificant certitude that those
two policemen didn’t specifically pick up Stonechild and cause his
death.
The Fraser Institute has just released a study which finds
Saskatchewan as the province with the longest waiting time for
medical surgery. Saskatchewan Health Minister John Nilson has
downplayed the institute’s finding and has responded "The numbers
from Saskatchewan should be viewed with great skepticism. It depends
what procedure it is."[6] The spinning here is the insignificant
certitude that there would be a Saskatchewan procedure which
experiences shorter than average waiting time. Further, in 1999, I
was quoting Martin Zelder of the Fraser Institue as saying "Look
at Saskatchewan... that province had the second-highest government
health spending per person in 1999 and the longest total waiting
time of all the provinces." [7]
I find it really incomprehensible that the Saskatchewan
Government sponsors fraudulent statistical correlation studies[8]
and at the same time obfuscates the common understanding of the
behavioural correlation between police corruption, business
corruption, political corruption, and justice corruption.
This government blew $35 million into the failed Spudco potato
deal and it dragged a related lawsuit from investing farmers through
two provincial elections. The government has just settled this
lawsuit for $7.9 million but few months prior to this settlement the
governmental lawyer Fred Zinkhan charged the investing farmers for
fraud and counter sued for $10 million.[9] At the same time farmer
Bob Tullis accused the government lawyer of having "called us a
bunch of dumb farmers."[10] Crown Management Board Minister Pat
Atkinson has negated that such a comment was ever made and Fred
Zinkhan has insisted that he didn’t call the investing farmers a
bunch of dumb farmers. We must understand that Fred Zinkhan’s law
firm Olive, Waller, Zinkhan and Waller is too cosy with the
Government of Saskatchewan; that Pat Atkinson was the former Health
Minister who in 2000 attributed Saskatchewan longest waiting times
to the departure of medical specialists for "personality
conflicts," also, Fred Zinkhan is the same lawyer who in
cooperation with my supposed lawyer Bill Herle was purporting to
represent the governmental contractor Gronnerud & Associates with
whom I was litigating at the time.[11]
Note: Most of the innumerable daily opinion polls which are taken
daily by the big media reinforce the misleading understanding of
freedom of expression while at the same time they provide the
misleading understanding of scientific certitude.
References
1. Associated Press TV ad October 28, 2004 http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1028bush-ad28-ON.html
2. MoveOn.org Administration Misleads on Missing Explosives
October 28, 2004 http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df10282004.html
3. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Iraqi Civilian
Deaths Increase Dramatically After Invasion October 28, 200 http://www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/Press_Releases/PR_2004/Burnham_Iraq.html
4. Burton, Randy Inquiry confirms worst about police October 27,
2004 The StarPhoenix http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Stonechild_Neil.shtml
5. Adam, Betty Ann Cops Suspended: No doubt Stonechild in custody
of officers, Wright says October 27, 2004 The StarPhoenix http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Stonechild_Neil.shtml
6. CBC Saskatchewan Study shows embarrassing results: opposition
October 20, 2004 http://sask.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/wait_lists_041020.html
7. deSantis, Mario Saskatchewan Health Care: Confirmation Of The
Most Mismanaged System In Canada October 14, 2000 Ensign
http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2000_200/desantis238/healthcaremismangement.html
8. Mario deSantis The Incredible Abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault
Insurance May 31, 2000 Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis173/nofaultPt1.html
9. Mandryk, Murray Inquiry vital to provide answers October 16,
2004 The StarPhoenix, Page A16
10. Wood, James Gov’t urged to dump law firm October 22, 2004 The
StarPhoenix, Page A3
11. desantis, Mario Baring our truths and taking back our rights:
Our lawyers in a world where Might is Right April 14, 2003 Ensign
http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_700/desantis785/mightvsright.html |