Saturday, March 18, 2006

Several Updates

First, I was just looking through some of my past posts and noticed a couple of changes. Blackberry is here to stay they have solved their suit with NTP (such as it was) for 612 million dollars (give or take a couple hundred thousand). That is just a side note compared to what I have today however. This story also comes from Canada (Blackberry is owned by Research in Motion a Canadian company for those who don't know).
A Canadian senator, which is not elected but appointed for life (till age 75 at least) by the prime minister has shot back a rather rude article to a family in Minnesota. According to the article from CBC.ca a family living in Minnesota wrote to all the Canadian senators decrying the Atlantic Seal hunt (for more info on the Seal hunt from CBC click here. Senator CĂ©line Hervieux-Payette, who claims to be the only senator to respond says (quoting from the article) in her letter back to the family, that they have no right as Americans to decry the seal hunt when there is "the daily massacre of innocent people in Iraq, the execution of prisoners – mainly blacks – in American prisons, the massive sale of handguns to Americans, the destabilization of the entire world by the American government's aggressive foreign policy, etc."
This brings up two points. One, what the hell is a senator doing saying things she obviously knows nothing about. I live in the United States but I was born and raised in Canada. I've been here long enough to know that there aren't any massacres of innocent people in Iraq (I'm not saying the war is right, I'm just saying that many of the deaths are not civilian but military). I know that the death penalty is applied to whites as well as blacks (the good Senator might want to look a prison stats and find out what percentage of the prison population is black and compare those numbers instead). I know that there are a lot of gun sales in the US but come on Senator, it's written in the constitution. The United States doesn't go around telling Canada that it should allow certain things it bans. And what the hell is she saying about destabilization of the entire world. Ummm...excuse me but if there is any destabilization it is in the middle east. I think, while the US government isn't perfect, that it has actually kept the world together, with things like taking the war out of the west and keeping where it belongs with the people who started this whole thing. You want someone to blame Senator, blame the exteremist muslims who think that it's their way or no way. Blame the extremeists who are raising a fuss over a cartoon because it shows their "holy" prophet (that's another subject for another time, someone remind me to write on that). Destabilization of the world, I don't think it has anything to do with American foreign policy but hey, that's just my opinion. Thanks.