Publication ban partly lifted

[kimmy]

CBC story

CTV story

CBC: Brault's testimony in depth

Certainly fascinating reading.

-kimmy

[CAGERATTLER]

Here's how the tories do things when they are accused of wrong doing!

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2005/...986316-sun.html

Tories threaten to sue

By BILL RODGERS, OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF, SUN MEDIA

Immigration Minister Joe Volpe will be slapped with a lawsuit if he alleges a Conservative MP obtained or sought money from B.C. constituents seeking temporary residence visas for relatives and friends. "I would say to the immigration minister and anyone else with the kind of cloud (the Liberals) are under, they should be very careful," Tory Leader Stephen Harper warned.

See the difference? Too narrow minded to see the difference?

[willy]

Here's how the tories do things when they are accused of wrong doing!

Hey smart guy, the key is falsely accused.

Volpe is making allegations and spinning. The warning was against slanderous comments.

Yes, the great Liberal defense. Yelling from the mountain tops that everyone else is corrupt as well so it is okay that they are thieves.

[willy]

Here's how the tories do things when they are accused of wrong doing!

Hey smart guy, the key is falsely accused.

Volpe is making allegations and spinning. The warning was against slanderous comments.

Yes, the great Liberal defense. Yelling from the mountain tops that everyone else is corrupt as well so it is okay that they are thieves.

[CAGERATTLER]

Seems you missed the point here.

The point is not that anyone is guilty of any wrong doing here!

The point is when accusations of any kind are brought against the Conservatives they are very very quick to threathen to sue!!!

It's the Conservative way. Mulroney sued also REMEMBER?

[willy]

I didn't miss the point.

I was referring to Volpe specifically.

He was making statements to obfuscate the facts and make it appear as something it was not. This is slander and he should be careful or he will be sued.

[kimmy]

Judy Sgro is also suing somebody over accusations about her election campaign. Anne McLellan threatened to sue Diane Ablonczy just a couple of weeks ago over accusations about the sponsorship scandal.

-k

[I miss Reagan]

What say we ask Greg to change Cagerattler's name to 'Strawman'.

[Argus]

It's the Conservative way. Mulroney sued also REMEMBER?

Yes, and won, because there was no evidence linking him to any criminal wrondoing. He was slandered by the government. Theoretically, he could have sued anyone who called him a crook or made accusations of illegal activities, including you. Because there never was any evidence.

[bbacon]

Cagey are you a civil servant or work for an ad firm?

[Argus]

Here's how the tories do things when they are accused of wrong doing!

I'm guessing CAGERATTLER is either in late high school, or early college, and has read or taken a course or two in political science. Somewhere in a book he read (probably on dirty politics) was something about distracting people from your mistakes, screwups and problems by launching accusation after accusation. This, in fact, is something the Liberals have been doing for many years.

In any event, the theory is that if your opponents are too busy answering allegations against them, defending themselves against accusations, rounding up evidence (or in this case cites) to disprove your allegations, then they won't have time to either speak about their platform or attack you and yours. It's also possible that if you make the accusations often enough you'll distract attention away from your problems and focus all the attention on the "allegations" against them. Which can only be good. In any case, if you keep making allegations often enough some of the mud is bound to stick, at least in the minds of some people.

CAGERATTLER is trying to do that. Even if it involves petty accusations about minor issues, or braying about opposition politicians who haven't been involved in politics in many years. He's continually trying to shift the topic from the thievery, lies, corruption, fraud, bribery and racketeering of the Liberals onto any allegation he can make against the Tories.

He wants people talking about alleged Tory misdeeds, even from a decade or more back, rather than the real Liberal crimes. It's a classic propaganda ploy. But it generally only works on those not paying a lot of attention, those who only catch bits and pieces of the news, and those who aren't very bright.