Officers assess the evidence markers at the very edge of the Point Frederick peninsula, located at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) at CFB Kingston, where a vehicle entered the water in the early morning hours of Friday, Apr. 29, 2022, resulting in four fatalities. (Kingstonist) Photo by Logan Cadue.
MADD is MAD for a Reason
Does this scenario sound familiar? Four young military men in a car driving around just as the bars are closing, exams have finished and soon they will all be graduating. Then somehow the vehicle goes out of control and flips into the water, all four pronounced dead at the scene.
Officially, the authorities are not going to ‘speculate’ about the cause of the accident but I guarantee the first action at the autopsy will be a Tox screen for alcohol/drugs to determine the driver’s level of impairment.
Meanwhile, everyone is being polite for the sake of the families. The men are being described as ‘on the cusp of graduation, amazing young adults, heroes‘. Everyone through the Royal Military College leadership, CDS, Premier, MND, to the PM are making the polite remarks while eulogizing their deaths. It’s the well-mannered Canadian way.
It’s wrong.
Kingston Fire and Rescue and Frontenac Paramedic Services on scene following the incident at Point Frederick at RMC. (Kingstonist) Photo by Lucas Mulder.
From MADD Canada’s Statement of Beliefs, ‘Impaired driving crashes are not accidents, but rather the direct result of an individual’s conscious decision to drive after drinking or using drugs.‘
Cars do not flip upside down late at night in a low speed zone all on their own. These men do not deserve lionizing, they deserve to be held up as a cautionary tale.
Here is what the taglines should be saying, ‘The driver irresponsibly operated a motor vehicle in a reckless manner which directly caused the deaths of the vehicle’s four occupants. The passengers themselves did not have the fortitude to demand the driver cease his careless behaviour.’
Having spent plenty of years around irresponsible drunks in the CAF, I can vouch that alcoholism causes many issues. To give the CAF credit, they are attempting to tame the rampant drinking and are making some headway with the newer recruits. But there is still a long ways to go to completely rein in irresponsible drinking.
One way to stop more tragedies like this past incident is to stop calling them ‘accidents‘. These are violent crimes which frequently lead to death. Society does not put up with drunks walking around waving a loaded gun. There are no polite noises when someone gets shot, there is condemnation, and rightly so.
Blair is a personification of a ‘Jack of All Trades and Master of None’. He has held several careers and has all the T-shirts. Time to add the title Blogger to the list.
Sea lions are seen inside a fish farm off Tofino, B.C., on Sunday. (Supplied by Clayoquot Action & CBC)
Honesty is What the Saps were Told To Do
They lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.
attributed it to Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There was a recent article being run by the CBC about a group of sea lions decimating a BC West Coast fish farm as the farmers were harvesting the mature salmon. What raised the bile in my throat was the universal hatred in the comment sections against fish farms. These farms are the highest regulated agricultural activity in Canada. People are literally cheering the destruction of these farmer’s livelihood. Even more alarming was that it sounded like the farmers were not even allowed to shoot the marauders. I know what I would be doing to a pack of wolves going after our cattle. Heaven help the asses who even thought about getting in the way.
I realize CBC plays to a particular audience which has been pre-conditioned to virtue signal towards everything in a racist, environmental, intersectional context, the vitriol is nothing new or unexpected. What is angering is how complete the brainwashing has become due to the wildly successful propaganda and misinformation efforts on the parts of the various environmental groups.
NEWSFLASH: THEY ALL LIE!
To clarify, every last government, organization, religion, salesperson, regular folk lie. I would wager that the most successful humans lie more habitually than the few glimpses of honesty which is how they became successful. The only thing which keeps people in check is the consequences to their lying.
This is why there has been such a swing in the power of messaging since the Boomers became political. They wanted to be heard, so they screamed more and more outrageously about the dangers of everything, nuclear power, GMOs, modern agriculture, Carbon Dioxide, plastic bags, polar bears, trees, climate change/warming/cooling/whatever it’s called now, racism, etc. They marched by the millions to support wind, solar, EVs, LGBTQalphabet, Trangenders or a little nothing girl. It’s all a massive mountain of lies.
It’s been pointed out that these progressives who are so protective of the environment are some of the least worried about provoking a nuclear war with the evolving hostilities in Ukraine. How mind damaged do you have to be to even consider nuclear armageddon as some sort of viable option?
Patrick Moore, former founder of Greenpeace Canada, recently released a book entitled, ‘Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom‘. It goes through NGOs typical MO of lying and their propaganda campaigns.
There used to be a time when media, government, or self-governing bodies would step in to shine the light of truth. Legacy media is too beholden to their narratives which generate their revenue. Government used to at least tell the ‘Noble Lie’ which was for the public’s own good, such as during an actual war. Now, their go to response is deny, deny, deny, and rely on the public’s short memories and penchant for being bought off with their own money. Self-Governing bodies like Teachers Unions bleat like scattered sheep over nonsensical issues such as over-the-top Covid restrictions, not out of concern for students but to keep a stranglehold on power.
As for environmental groups, NGOs, or supposed humanitarian groups, the act of outrageous lying is highly successful. It garners them power and riches. Does it make any sense whatsoever that the World should listen to a little Swedish girl about the environment? Why in God’s name have the scuzziest of men been held up as icons of virtue for various humanist movements because they happen to be black? What possesses people, especially feminists, to be okay with letting men dominate women just because they ‘identify’ as a woman today?
The only reason these lies are tolerated is due to the lack of pushback. This is dangerous because reality will crash these ridiculous systems sooner or later and it is the most vulnerable in society who will least be able to weather the shock. Look at the electric bills of those jurisdictions who most firmly embraced wind and solar.
There is a quote from Voltaire, “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Take a look around and start thinking logically about how our most trusted institutions have continuously lied to you, about literally everything. Just one tiny example, who caused more damage to the country, some truckers honking in Ottawa or Justin Trudeau’s interference in the SNC Lavalin Scandal? Who will be most severely held to account?
You know the answer but like a good-trained sheep, you will keep your head down.
Blair is a personification of a ‘Jack of All Trades and Master of None’. He has held several careers and has all the T-shirts. Time to add the title Blogger to the list.
