Saturday, December 12, 2009

Richness of the Day

Several posters at Macleans Blog have been following their brethren in the MSM in serially posting on the Afghan Prisoner issue. I've been asserting that this is a pet left wing issue that doesn't move everyday Canadians.

The latest post at Macleans is one mocking Hillier's quote in the post title: "I Haven't Followed It". How fitting for all the wrong reasons. You see, Macleans has a feature on the right side of the blog page, which tracks the "most read" posts.

Notwithstanding the incessant coverage on this issue there, not one Afghan prisoner post is among the most read. It seems Macleans readers' response would be the same as Hillier's:

"I haven't followed it".
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3 comments:

  1. Can't help but notice that Gayle is in there like a dirty shirt and WOW, 22 comments. Kate gets that in 22 seconds providing the intellectual brilliance of Climategate analysis.

    The cheap digs from posters like her, are astonishing but it gives one hope that if the Climate fanatics get their way ( God help us), people like her will likely be forced out of their cushy tax payer funded, civil service job. Alberta, will cease to exist as SHE knows it but then that is her warped desire, isn't it? What frightening things occur when one choses not to even look at the other side of a debate.

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  2. Biff, notice how the Afghan detainee issue is not getting any ink right now.
    Imo, for 2 reasons.

    1)the Libs and their media do not want Canadians to know the details in Shoe-Gate.
    They would just shake their head and laugh.

    2) Warren Kinsella handing secret Afghan detainee docs to Tom Clark on PP, while at the same time Opps are insisting they can be trusted with secret docs remaining secret in their hands.

    Shoe-Gate
    on the ground version here:

    ''...On June 14, 2006, a Canadian Military Police officer who was working with the Afghan National Police was on the scene when the ANP stopped a van leaving a battle.
    The ANP said one of the three men inside was definitely a Taliban.

    The MP photographed the man and wrote his name down, but agreed to let him travel with the ANP back to Patrol Base Wilson.
    It was a 15-minute trip.

    Back at the base, the MP dutifully checked on the fellow and found the ANP beating him with their shoes. (voila, Shoe-Gate)
    The MP then took the man back and made him an official detainee.

    The event was reported, but was considered by everyone to be a minor, low-level battlefield incident...''

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/our-soldiers-could-teach-mps-a-thing-or-two-about-duty-and-honour/article1398233/
    .......

    Kinsella releases secret docs, ( CTV does not reveal the contents)

    http://watch.ctv.ca/news/power-play/dec-11/#clip245414

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  3. "The event was reported, but was considered by everyone to be a minor, low-level battlefield incident...''

    And so it was. The more pertinent question would be what happened to other detainees sent into Afghan custody which we didn't happen to check on later on. And, uh, yeah:

    "The ANP said one of the three men inside was definitely a Taliban."

    Welcome to police rule, I suppose...

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