tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post4784505079077678514..comments2023-11-03T08:33:10.119-04:00Comments on JAMES LAXER: Over My shoulder: I see Stephen HarperJames Laxerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16581079200019338423noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-24424689086642744622011-12-06T13:53:31.158-05:002011-12-06T13:53:31.158-05:00it is a great philosophy and I hope that he can ac...it is a great philosophy and I hope that he can accomplish it. It would make the difference.safemedshttp://www.safemedspharmacy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-74718606879889332022011-04-14T13:44:57.692-04:002011-04-14T13:44:57.692-04:00"Throughout the ages, fear-mongering has alwa..."Throughout the ages, fear-mongering has always been a weapon of choice of those we need to fear."<br /><br />"Beware the half smile on the face of the man behind the glasses."<br /><br />I really would have expected better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-9260778852969746612011-04-11T10:42:57.640-04:002011-04-11T10:42:57.640-04:00Prof. James:
There are areas where people do live...Prof. James:<br />There are areas where people do live in fear. But higher penalties for crime isn't the answer. It's Harper's answer, but it isn't the answer. Often, the remedies are simple: willing witnesses and witness protection plans; block parent groups. In short, people taking an interest in the area where they live. That's not Harper's way. He wants high minimum Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-50923451180570702202011-04-11T09:46:13.220-04:002011-04-11T09:46:13.220-04:00Orwell warns we will be overcome by an externally ...Orwell warns we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. <br /><br />As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.<br /><br />Huxley v. Orwell: comic strip where you can actually read everything<Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-34105784410819953802011-04-11T09:46:04.819-04:002011-04-11T09:46:04.819-04:00Foreward to Neil Postman's 1985 book, Amusing ...Foreward to Neil Postman's 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death.<br /><br />We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.<br /><br />But we had forgotten that Nadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-20274864510559838682011-04-10T22:51:27.580-04:002011-04-10T22:51:27.580-04:00I walk around in my city's 'bad neighbourh...I walk around in my city's 'bad neighbourhoods', and though I've seen a few things I wish I had not, it sure as hell is no Chicago. But if we get as tough on crime as Harper wants, as irony would have it, that reality won't be too far off...westwoodhttp://gapingwhole.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-53585196080591663402011-04-10T15:46:28.750-04:002011-04-10T15:46:28.750-04:00You and the rest of us who detest Harper and his p...You and the rest of us who detest Harper and his party's policies keep trying to apply reason against his appeals to fear and other base emotions. It's not going to work, is it?Bill Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011994572197226528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-2051289161134775462011-04-10T15:22:11.937-04:002011-04-10T15:22:11.937-04:00My only fear is giving Power to these guys who a...My only fear is giving Power to these guys who are about to destroy the Canada I love and Cherish ..... and sometimes the unpredictable mentally ill people what is a health care issue very poorly addressed ...<br /> Harper is poor replica of Stalin or even Hitler ...Damehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15548065189088501935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30617754.post-46652994064617032132011-04-10T10:59:26.651-04:002011-04-10T10:59:26.651-04:00Hi James. Jack here living in the GTA after having...Hi James. Jack here living in the GTA after having lived in the Detroit area for most of my life. (born in Windsor).<br />I have seen firsthand what really murderous neighborhoods look like and the GTA doesn't even come close, thank God. That idiot harper and his neo-con wannabes are taking ALL their cues from the 'merkan far-right wing for corporate tax breaks (the better to plead Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com