Hollyweird and Politics – Judicial Activism
Shut Up and Sing: Celebrity and Politics Don’t Mix
The last couple of weeks our friends over at the Drudge Report have highlighted stories on musicians taking on the Bush Administration over the war in Iraq. A week or so ago, Drudge highlighted Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters’ anti-Bush message painted on a flying pig and yesterday pushed the story about George Michael making some anti-Bush statements at a recent concert. Drudge smartly presents these items in a way that gets his readership, and allied media outlets, fired up and chatting about the appropriateness of celebrities speaking out on political issues.
http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/26/shut-up-and-sing-celebrity-and-politics-dont-mix/
John Stossel: Fabulously Rich Celebrities Celebrate Socialism
Famous actors recently made a commercial proclaiming that “democratic socialism” creates some of the best parts of America. It’s “your kids’ public school” (says Susan Sarandon), the “interstate highway system” (Rosario Dawson), “public libraries” (Jay Ferguson), “EMTs” (Ethan Embry), “workers who plow our streets” (Max Carver) and “scientists” (Danny DeVito).
Wow. I guess every popular thing government does is socialism.
The celebrities conclude: “We can do better when we do them together.”
There is sometimes truth to that, but the movie stars don’t know that America’s first highways were built by capitalist contractors. They also probably didn’t notice that the more popular parts of government — public schools, EMTs, snow plowing, libraries, etc. — are largely locally funded.
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/celebrities-endorse-socialism-john-tosses/
Canadian Armed Forces aims to fix its recruitment system to foster diversity
Canada’s military is going all out to erase its reputation for intolerance and misogyny, aiming to recast itself instead as welcoming to Canadians of all races, religions and sexual orientations.
The effort — driven by several factors, including a need to bolster its dwindling numbers — includes a comprehensive effort to connect with and recruit women, new citizens and even members of the LGBT community.
Dangerous: The Trudeau Government Is Injecting Identity Politics Into The Canadian Military
The Trudeau Liberals have now spread the social justice warrior virus into the Canadian Armed Forces, through ‘diversity is strength’ rhetoric and arbitrary ‘diversity’ quotas.
While all of society should be as meritocratic as possible, that’s more important in the military than anywhere else.
As an institution that could literally hold the life or death of our nation in its hands in the case of a war, the military must be based on a ruthlessly meritocratic system.
For much of history, that has been the case, since it was simply common sense.
Judicial Activism is destroying Canadian society
According to one reviewer Judicial Activism, “shows how an unelected, unaccountable Supreme Court has usurped legislative powers and taken the lead role in imposing an ethos and legal system unfriendly to religion, and morality. In particular, this aggresssively secualr ideology is undermining the family, the basic cell and therby threatening the viabilty of Canadain society itself.” We agree. We believe our courts are slowly destroying democracy in Canada. However, It’s best to read the book and decide for yourself.
http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.com/2014/05/judicial-activism-is-destroying.html
Racism should factor in sentencing of Black offenders, judge rules
Systemic racism and discrimination should be taken into account when African Canadians are sentenced, a Toronto judge said Monday, in order to address the issue of their over-representation in the criminal justice system.
But Superior Court Justice Shaun Nakatsuru declined to apply the approach used in sentencing Indigenous people to the sentencing of African Canadians such as Jamaal Jackson, who is Black.
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