Thinking of going to a Harper rally....

[dcbogey]

check your facebook profile first.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ies-a-staff-issue-harper-says/article1971383/

" The London Free Press has reported the story of Awish Aslam, a 19-year-old University of Western Ontario student who said she was reduced to tears after being expelled from Mr. Harper’s April 3 rally in London. She told the paper that a friend had registered online before the rally with the help of her father, a card-carrying Conservative.

About half an hour after she’d arrived at the event, she and her friend were asked to follow an official out of the rally. He then ripped off their name tags, tore them up and told them to leave.

“He said, ‘We know you guys have ties to the Liberal Party through Facebook’,” Ms. Aslam told the London Free Press. “He said … ‘You are no longer welcome here’.” "

 

[wet_suit_one]

What a load of horseshit this is! Like WTF is this? Nazi fucking Germany (yes I know, I killed the thread with that comment, sorry...)?

Jaysus Cripes!

Not gonna fucking vote for this freedom hating goon! At least Chretien had the decency to silence the crowd with his own two hands before the cameras so we could pass judgment. WTF is Harper trying to pull with this shit?

 

[moviefan]

Gilles Duceppe had the best line:

He said Harper should have invited Bruce Carson to one of his rallies. That way, Carson would have been properly screened.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...nce-for-hiring-of-pmo-adviser/article1970891/

 

[red]

Gilles Duceppe had the best line:

He said Harper should have invited Bruce Carson to one of his rallies. That way, Carson would have been properly screened.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...nce-for-hiring-of-pmo-adviser/article1970891/

thats funny. i may not like the bloc but i like duceppe

 

[dcbogey]

What a load of horseshit this is! Like WTF is this? Nazi fucking Germany (yes I know, I killed the thread with that comment, sorry...)?

Jaysus Cripes!

Not gonna fucking vote for this freedom hating goon! At least Chretien had the decency to silence the crowd with his own two hands before the cameras so we could pass judgment. WTF is Harper trying to pull with this shit?

While I share your "displeasure", I don't think it will make any difference in the big scheme of things. Harper and the CPOC know what they can get away with - pretty much anything it seems- and they will continue to do so as long as those Canadians that vote let them.

 

[peteeey]

I guess I'm not welcome at his rallies. I belong to this group:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Can-this-Onion-Ring-get-more-fans-than-Stephen-Harper/282298836447

 

[hentai915]

Why would someone who partakes in the hobby vote Conservative when the Harper government wants to overturn the Ontario judgment that decriminalizes prostitution?

 

[someone]

Why would someone who partakes in the hobby vote Conservative when the Harper government wants to overturn the Ontario judgment that decriminalizes prostitution?

Given the liberals in Ontario also want to overturn it, that does not leave much. Unfortunately it is a position that any government would likely take.

 

[dcbogey]

And anyone that votes for or against a particular candidate on ONE issue is... well not that bright, imho.

 

[train]

As always we are only being presented with one side of this story and even then it may not be factually correct. Does anyone honestly believe that someone researches every attendant at a rally to check political affiliation? Particularly a 19 year old female student. C'mon give your head a shake. You guys are the most naive group I think I've ever seen. Prepared to believe anything , no matter how illogical, if it supports your predisposed positions.

 

[rld]

Why would someone who partakes in the hobby vote Conservative when the Harper government wants to overturn the Ontario judgment that decriminalizes prostitution?

Because they are not a one issue voter and they may think the hobby is not the most important issue facing their nation?

 

[slowpoke]

As always we are only being presented with one side of this story and even then it may not be factually correct. Does anyone honestly believe that someone researches every attendant at a rally to check political affiliation? Particularly a 19 year old female student. C'mon give your head a shake. You guys are the most naive group I think I've ever seen. Prepared to believe anything , no matter how illogical, if it supports your predisposed positions.

I see no reason to believe anything beyond what the newspaper articles have reported. And, yes, those who attend are being checked. They have to pre-register which means Harper's operatives can fairly easily conduct batch searches on Google, Facebook etc. Many who attend those rallys are known to the CPOC so they only have to check the names of those who are unfamiliar. I wouldn't be surprised if the RCMP were doing part of this in the name of security. He is the PM after all....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ign-off-main-street-on-script/article1972543/

..."A handful of incidents in which party operatives have asked people to leave rallies – based on checks of Facebook pages and bumper stickers – have fuelled opposition criticism that Mr. Harper is campaigning in an overprotected bubble defended by partisans. The Tories play down the incidents as aberrations, and argue that Canadian voters care little about such “process” stories."...

..."There is no question Conservatives are closely controlling access to their leader. Those attending Mr. Harper’s rallies must pre-register and then produce identification at the door. Mr. Harper is not doing any door-knocking or main-streeting, where he might meet voters who don’t support him. National media travelling with Mr. Harper on the tour are limited to asking him roughly four questions each morning, with a fifth allocated for a local reporter in whatever city or town he’s visiting."...

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...campaign-marches-woman-out-of-rally-in-london

Yet it is becoming a pattern. Last Thursday an advocate for homeless veterans was turned away when he attempted to attend a campaign event where Harper was speaking in Halifax. This, after several unsuccessful attempts by Jim Lowther to contact the Tory leader about the plight of once-proud Canadian soldiers now living on the streets.

Lowther later joined both Ignatieff and NDP Leader Jack Layton on campaign podiums as they announced their promises to provide better benefits to vets.

The incidents highlight the different campaign styles, particularly of the Tory and Grit leaders. Harper’s morning announcements are held at secure locations with adoring local partisans. To attend his evening rallies, people must pre-register with the local candidate’s campaign headquarters. As Aslam’s experience proves, those names are investigated to ensure opposition trickery does not obscure Harper’s message of stability and security for the nation.

“I just think when you get to a situation where people can’t come to a public meeting in Canada . . . because they have a Facebook friend from another party, you’re in a bad place,” Ignatieff said Tuesday. “You’re in a very bad place, you’re in a very un-Canadian place.”

 

[train]

Slowpoke did you realyy just say

I see no reason to believe anything beyond what the newspaper articles have reported

I think you just proved my point. You take the prize for being the most naive.

 

[fuji]

Yes, train, it's much better the way you do it--just making shit up left right and center and claiming it as fact without any reason. Apparently the facts reported in the paper are only true if 'train' agrees with them, and then there are a whole bunch of more facts that are true, that nobody has ever reported, just because 'train' says it must be so.

 

[Big Sleazy]

And anyone that votes for or against a particular candidate on ONE issue is... well not that bright, imho.

Hypothetical question. Let's say a Political Party wants to pass a law that say's there going to neuter anyone caught hobbying. Would you vote for them ?

BS

 

[moviefan]

I'm thinking this latest student who says she was banned is pretty hot, at least in this picture:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...ent-barred-from-conservative-party-rally?bn=1

Maybe the campaign staff were worried that Harper's eyes might start to wander during his speech.

 

[alexmst]

I'm thinking this latest student who says she was banned is pretty hot, at least in this picture:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...ent-barred-from-conservative-party-rally?bn=1

Maybe the campaign staff were worried that Harper's eyes might start to wander during his speech.

The 21-year-old environmental science student at the University of Guelph immediately went online to the local Conservative candidate’s website and signed up to attend the event.

All she had to do was provide her name, address and email address. Everything looked in order.

But when she arrived Monday at the Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre where Harper was scheduled to speak, her registration in hand, MacDonald was informed she was not welcome.

Why? An unidentified Conservative Party official told her that her name had been “flagged.”

“I was told the RCMP had done a screening and that perhaps my name was affiliated with something on Facebook or the Internet,” MacDonald told the Star. “Something that made me unfit to enter. They wouldn’t say what it was.”

MacDonald says she has never been affiliated with any political party. Nor has she participated in any anti-government or anti-Conservative rallies.

“I was shocked. This had never happened to me before, so I didn’t really know how to deal with it.”

When she pressed officials further, she was asked if she had ever been involved with any on-campus clubs. When MacDonald replied that she had been involved with various environmental groups — including one advocating for the removal of bottled water from the university grounds — she said the official responded, saying: “Well, that’s probably why.”

 

[slowpoke]

Slowpoke did you realyy just say

I think you just proved my point. You take the prize for being the most naive.

Here is what you said earlier.

As always we are only being presented with one side of this story and even then it may not be factually correct. Does anyone honestly believe that someone researches every attendant at a rally to check political affiliation? Particularly a 19 year old female student. C'mon give your head a shake. You guys are the most naive group I think I've ever seen. Prepared to believe anything , no matter how illogical, if it supports your predisposed positions.

Just because you don't get how easy it is to check a batch of names from a handy pre-registration list doesn't mean it's unlikely or far fetched. You obviously don't know enough about it so you've made a knee-jerk assumption that those reports about name checking are "illogical". Thanks for your assumption but I find the newspaper's account far more "logical" than yours.

While it is true that some newspaper articles are untrue, incomplete or one-sided, it is also true that many are accurate and straightforward. You can't reasonably dismiss every article as untrue, incomplete or one-sided. You must give them the smell test and sometimes they smell like the truth.

 

[blackrock13]

Harper's warm and fuzzy duet gets pulled from internet because of copyright threat from Lennon's widow. LOL!

 

[Possum Trot]

Thgis sort of reminds me of Dalton's aids in the last Provincial election.