Horst's Comments (200)

“How do you know Polanski is a very sick man?”

“Your inadequacies don't seem to discourage you from voicing baseless allegations.”

“yeah Warren Buffett. Found this on another page HP page:

Fortune magazine April 27,2009; Buffett investing in a Chinese battery manufacturer which will supply batteries to a Chinese auto maker which will sell a $5,000 electric car here. The battery manufacturer only uses *MIGRANT LABOR* and houses them in company dortmitories. We use to call these buildings "slave quarters." The battery company wants workers who focus on the job, not owning a house or raising a family....”

“Sad but true. The middle east is a large part of the modern slave trade.”

“I hope the Huffington Post dispatches some other reporters to BC to find out exactly what IS going on in the Great White North....t­his country's nowhere near as innocuous and cuddly as most Americans are aware of.....

Spending on the Olympics has not just impacted housing and human rights; funding for communities and programs throughout BC has been slashed, and public assets put up for sale to pay off the outrageous debts incurred for the two-week Olympic party, and a LOT is going on behind the scenes with the Olympics as a smokescreen. The British Columbia government, i.e. its governing party, is operating as a "rogue state" but because of its lockdown on courts, police and collusion by the big media the Canadian public is being kept from the truth and the politicians and corporations who should be being investigated and charged for wrong-doing are given a hall pass by the RCMP, which doesn't want to investigate or pretends not to see the glaring evidence. Canadian blogdom is doing its best....bu­t maybe it will take US media attention to open up the can of worms that British Columbia has become in recent years.....

One of many related items: the Premier himself is up for fraud, forgery and threats/mi­srepresent­ations in relation to a deal with the Haisla Nation over both resources and Olympics-related programs. You won't find that in the Vancouver Sun or Vancouver Province; you'll find it in the Terrace Daily.....­.”

“Nowhere in Zirin's article does he blame "all of Canada" - your assumption that he does is typical of Canadian paranoias (speaking as a Canadian). The mounting authoritariansm of the Canadian state is the issue, this Olympics-related high-handedness is only one small aspect of it. And in reply to the other poster, it's not how many other American journalists who have been stopped and interviewed, but the number of Canadians who have been harrassed, detained, interviewed in relation to the Olympics.

And Olympics-related security is one of only several issues surrounding the decay of democratic institutions and practices in Canada; the Olympics may be the Titanic but Canadian bloggers are engaged in the "hunt for the Bismarck" - the smoking guns of the suspicious buy-outs of BC government-owned corporations and government agencies and publiclyowned resources by US capital. see http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/2009/11/robin-mathews-gary-bass-unabridged_27.html for a starting point. The Olympics controversies are many, but are only a small part of the climate of corporate/­police/gov­erning party "arrogance" underway..­...for other Olympics related scams, though, I suggest you look into the funding fracas around the Vancouver Athletes' Villages (what amounted to financial blackmail by Fortress Investments and its subsidiary­)....and also the railroading of the Powder Mountain Resort proposal, which involved officials who are now in VANOC and which was where the Nordic Events facility in the Callaghan Valley are to be held......”

“Very true, and funny, but i don't think any one is blaming all of canada.the­y are so non-threatening, with that cute accent, ya betcha !”

“wow another BHL here...sam­e ammo...dif­ferent moikers..j­ust defending polanksi because they have to...”

“While you're in research mode, maybe you should look up "pederast".”

“Horst:
Yes, that's true.
But that's not Polanski.
Also, consider what would the news be if he ever
did it again within the past thirty years? Wow! Tabloid heaven. Extortion abounding!

He's been happily married for twenty of those thirty years now with two children.
He is kind of old to have two young children. He waited a long time to finally have
his own child after 1968. I wonder how they are doing?”

“"The overwhelming majority of pederasts are recidivist­s." Where do I start? Pederast means homosexual so what does it have to do with Polanski? Did you mean pedophile? And where do you get statistics of "overwhelming majority"? Is it official or just your wish? And why do I have to ask myself how many others were victimised by Polanski? Why would anybody? Innocent until proven guilty.”

“Maybe you ought to find out, instead of merely asking yourself. Perhaps, you might want to do a little homework before you imply that Polanski is a recidivist. I'm just saying.”

“Take a second to think about what you're proposing here....”

“BTW if the mainstream papers are saying Olympic debt is $6 billion, rest assured other estimates by independent journalists and bloggers are much higher...t­he Big Papers in Canada are in the business of hyping the Olympics, not genuinely criticizing them despite the occasional bit of negative news like that $6 billion estimate..­..one suggestion for the Huff Post's researchers- have a look at the cost overruns for Olympics security, and the contracting out to US suppliers for some of those services..­..which may or may not have to do with many "private" off-the-record meeings between the BC Premier and Dick Cheney....”

“They don't need to mimic US techniques (though they do); Canadian law and the Canadian constitution and charter of rights do not have the same protections or constitutional rights as in the equivalent US documents. There is no independent judiciary in Canada, no independent legislative branch....­effectivel­y a sitting government can write laws and enact policies to suit itself. There is only a pretense of democracy in Canada, and no political recourse at all to overturn unjust legislation or to go after corruption by politicians and officials. The BC government in particular is noted for campaigning with a set of promises all of which turn out to be, virtually on the day after the election, outright lies; there is no respect for the mandate of the public, and majority power -authoritarian in sweep - can be held by a minority mandate. Canadians are so used to politicians breaking promises that when David Emerson, who was elected to the federal Parliament by Liberal voters in Vancouver, switched sides before even being sworn in (he's now a federal Conservative cabinet minister), there was a sort of grim acceptance that "nothing could be done" to rectify his defiance of his own constituen­ts...there was a lot of bleating, but also a lot of excuse-making and soppy rationalizations as to why it's a good thing.”

“And by the way, have you noticed the way they robotically chant "war crimes and possible crimes against humanity".­.. like they're doing affirmations? Because there wasn't any terrorism preceding those "war crimes and possible crimes against humanity". In fact, the Palestinians are so innocent, they don't even know what terrorism is (unless you're talking about the evil terrorist neo-coloni­alist-impe­rialist Zionist bloodsucker terrorists). And those ten thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; you see, they are actually misunderstood "human rights" advocates. What happened in line at the Dolphinarium, inside the Park Hotel, on the streets of Ramallah, those are all ancient history. But Deir Yassin -- there was a *real* tragedy.

You see, it's all the Jews' fault.”

“Canada has a long way to go before it becomes as insanely paranoid as the U.S. Their border guards are always friendlier when we cross into Ontario, where we were married and are considered equal, unlike in the U.S. where we are 2nd class citizens with fewer rights. And no, I don't want to move there, I want my state and my country to become more equal.”

“Unless there were 100s of thousands of border officials, I stand by my statement.”

“we do try to limit the trampling down to hate speech...b­ut somhow we allow GWB in here to speak freely so I don't know anymore...­.”

“Nice?”

“G.W.Bush had it right then?
You must be joking!”

“Nah, for unless you are talking about re-election, all presidents learn on the job. The thing is, the problem is that Obama shares values with Summers and Geithner. Just like Geithner and Summers, Obama believes in the system, and therefore the system he intends to save.”

“Very simplistic way of looking at things in the Middle East. The current rivalry is well illustrated in Mr. Dajani's article.”

“I am not surprised. I have become a fan of The Huffington Post, which I believe has a basic ideological position, but it has generally given voice to dissenting opinions on its web pages.

I wish I could be as generous in my opinion of the many familiar bloggers who flog their inaccuracies repeatedly in an effort to convince someone...­I don't know who.”

“Does anybody else see the irony in this statement?”

“Racist.”