This is kind of a non issue but I just want to comment on it because it relates to the governments position on harmful drug promotion. Recently I was asked to participate in a random nanos survey about putting warning labels on beer and wine like cigarettes. It was done on behalf of the Canadian government.
You know how cigarettes have these hue warnings on them about the harmful effects of smoking? They keep getting larger and more dramatic. Warning cigarettes cause cancer. Warning cigarettes will make you impotent. Warning cigarettes will kill you.
I always thought it was strange how they would make such a big deal about the harmful effects of smoking then turn around and promote drug abuse. How can crack, heroin and crystal meth be safe when cigarettes are harmful? How can smoking pot be safe when smoking cigarettes is not? Pot smoke is unfiltered and is even more cancerous than cigarette smoke.
Then you get young kids claim pot is good for you it's an herb. Pot cures cancer. Pot does not cure cancer. Chemo cures cancer. Pot eases the side effects of chemo. Pot didn't cure Bob Marley or my brother. My brother died of throat cancer. Smoking anything is bad for you. Near the end he had to switch to edibles.
Yet the government keeps pushing the extremes.
Apparently they claim that alcohol causes cancer. I did not know that. I guess everything does. Nevertheless, I don't want to see those kind of warning labels on a nice bottle of wine. When you spend all that money on a really nice bottle of wine, you don't want to see those graphic images. Everyone knows drinking alcohol in excess is bad for you. Everyone knows giving alcoholics alcohol is a bad idea. Everyone knows smoking cigarettes is bad for you. Putting those dramatic warnings on cigarettes, beer and wine while you promote harmful drugs is complete hypocrisy.
The top picture looks like meth mouth. If you brush your teeth I don't think cigarettes will do that but crystal meth sure will. Why don't they put big posters like that up in their lethal injection sites saying Warning crystal meth will give you meth mouth. Warning crack and crystal meth are bad for you. Warning crack and crystal meth will kill you. Why don't they do that instead? That would be part of the four pillars and fall under harm prevention. Crack is a poison we should oppose.
The Times Colonist is reporting that "John Dillon Brown thought he was going to receive money in exchange for dropping a lawsuit for injuries he received in a fight with bikers at the Voodoo Lounge in Campbell River.
Instead, he was shot in the back of the head and stuffed in the trunk of his car, which was abandoned on the side of the road 75 kilometres north of Campbell River. That information was revealed Tuesday on the first day of Richard Ernest Alexander’s trial."
Going to the clubhouse thinking you're going to get paid for dropping a lawsuit after kicking their a*s probably wasn't very smart. I still wanna know if Priscilla capped him with her pink gun. Wasn't Priscilla on Rebel News reading stories to young children? It kinda looked like her.
When I was young, the image I had in my mind when I heard the term Hells Angel was similar to that of a Guardian Angel. I thought these guys were tough. They kept order in hell. Where angels fear to tread. I didn't see them as low life criminals who would steal cars and bully people. I thought one Hells Angel could take on five guys. I didn't think five Hells Angels would jump one guy just because he looked at them the wrong way or objected to them stealing his car and I certainly didn't think they would shoot someone with a pink gun. Priscilla and Rainbow Ricky are absolutely pathetic. So was Odis Garret. The world has changed so it has. We need to face that.
I have two simple points to make and they revolve around the persistent brainwashing Hollywood and the mainstream media is bombarding us with. I've mentioned the Hollywood cesspool and how the Talk was going off about the Grammys. There's nothing wrong with music awards but the whole spirit of the event has been completely hijacked by Hollywood and right now Hollywood is compromised. First let's talk about the Superbowl and how Hollywood is trying to hijack that.
Rihanna performed the half time show while pregnant. All hail. They also sang the black National Anthem. It's a wonderful song. Lift every voice. Doesn't say lift every black voice. The intent of the song is very unifying but the way it's being used is not. Martin Luther King had a dream. His dream was that the Constitution would be more than a nice piece of paper hanging on the wall. His dream was that the Constitution would become a reality and that it has.
Chairman Mao had a different dream and the mainstream media is trying to hijack Martin Luther King's dream and replace it with Chairman Mao's dream. Let's not forget that Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister. Just sayn. Hollywood hates religion. Does that mean they also hate Martin Luther King? They sure hate his dream because they're constantly misrepresenting it.
I just want to remind everyone that the world is not black and white. It's not 50 Shades of Gray either. A few years ago I saw down with a brown friend and showed him the First Nations sacred hoop. It's a circle divided into four colours - black, white, red and yellow. I explained how it represents all the races of the earth working together in harmony.
He took one look at the diagram and said yeah, well I'm brown so I'm not included in your little club. I looked at the diagram in shock and then said I think you're missing the point. It means all the races of the earth working together. Of course you're included. He didn't feel included.
On the weekend when I took the Skytrain back to Surrey I saw a poster with a white member of the Vancouver Canucks advertising Black History month. I'm all for studying history and I'm all for black inclusion. It's just that I look at the poster and then look at the train and see so many different races other than black or white and I wonder how it makes them feel. Do they feel included? I have absolutely no doubt that Martin Luther King's dream included everyone.
The world is not just black and white. The world has a rainbow of different ethnicities. It is a magnificent mosaic tapestry. Yet we are constantly being bombarded with racism and victimization by the mainstream media. It's so Chairman Mao to rewrite history and completely misrepresent it. What happened at the Tienanmen Square Massacre again? Oh right, Google erased that event from the Internet in China. Google is burring and erasing a lot of true information in North America as well. As Candace Owens pointed out it all has an agenda.
Communism lies to every group under the sun trying to trick and trap them into slavery. There are no LGBT rights in Communism because in Communism no one has any rights. Before the pandemic it was all Black lives matter. However, as soon as Black Lives Matter were marching beside the police in New York protesting vaccine mandates, not a word was spoken about it in the mainstream media. Black lives only matter to them if it fits their agenda. A lot of black people in New York didn't trust the vaccine for good reason. Now they are vindicated.
Yet now that the vaccine thing has died down, the fake news is starting to push black lives matter again. They are determined to politicize everything and divide us. It's kind of like my blog. We always have trolls trying to lead us astray.
Likewise, everywhere we go in life people are passionately trying to lead just astray. Like I said in the theme for the New year, the struggle between good and evil continues because it's always misrepresented.
There's also the constant erosion of our morals. The book 50 Shades of Gray is the perfect example. S&M is not erotic. That is deranged. Yet look at how the mob ate it up. We've talked about their determination to keep coming back with Minor Attacked Persons as they strive to normalize pedophilia. They shock us with the absurd then pull back with public outcry only to keep coming back over and over again until we are no longer shocked and accept what is morally unacceptable. That is the erosion of our morals. The road to hell is paved with immorality.
CTV is reporitng that "Embattled RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is stepping down, saying that she is leaving knowing she did her best.
In a statement announcing what she called a "personal decision," Lucki said she has decided to retire ahead of reaching five years in the role. Her last day will be March 17, 2023." Well, well well, isn't today full of surprises.
I think having a woman at the helm to address the chronic sexual harassment in the RCMP was a step forward but her using the Nova Scotia false flag as a justification for gun control was deplorable. None of the firearms used were legally obtained. Why did the RCMP pay the shooter all that money?
Why did 2 RCMP officers shoot up a fire hall that was protecting civilians?
Thanks to the fake inquiry, we will never know.
Clinton is right. They're just going to hire another Liberal.
Vancouver is Awesome is reporting that "The B.C. government has successfully seized three Hells Angels' clubhouses, including the one in Kelowna. More than two and a half years after Justice Barry Davies ruled against B.C.'s Director of Civil Forfeiture in the case – a culmination of nearly 13 years of proceedings – B.C.'s Court of Appeal has overturned the previous ruling and found in favour of the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office." Wow! The appeal process worked.
"The three clubhouses which will now be seized by the province are located on Ellis Street in Kelowna's North End, along with properties in Nanaimo and East Vancouver. The proceedings began back in 2007, two years after the Civil Forfeiture Act became law in B.C., with the province seeking to seize the Nanaimo property. In August 2012, police raided the club's Kelowna clubhouse, and the province began forfeiture proceedings against it and the Hells Angels' East Vancouver clubhouse several months later.
The clubhouses have continued to be used by the Hells Angels, although the assets have been frozen since 2016." What about Shakerz?
Other than shock, I have mixed feelings about this. It shows you how important it is for prosecutors to appeal bad decisions because judges are not infallible. I think the Kelowna clubhouse was a given because they were caught doing a lot of criminal activity. However, that was under the previous leadership so I almost feel sorry for them.
The East Van chapter was involved with a whole lot of criminal activity but the real problem in the DTES now are the Wolf Pack and their farm teams from Edmonton.
Naniamo was a bit border line. I know they were involved with some but it was pretty minor. I was told there was something dodgy going on about the government's desire to attain that specif parcel of property but I can't remember what it was. Naniamo has many members and they don't all sell drugs.
That brings us to the idealistic attempt to balance the extremes. The Aging Rebel, God rest his soul, closely followed the US government's attempt to seize the Mongol's patch in court. I thought that quest was a bit extreme as well as concerning. One thing we've all learned from the pandemic is to be weary of government over reach. The ATF is dirty as f*ck.
The freedom of association is protected by the US Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights. The right to commit crime is not. The future of MCs is entirely up to them. If they persist in criminal activity, that will be their end. No one can stop you from riding a motorcycle. No one can stop you from riding a motorcycle in a group. The concern seems to revolve around the three piece patch. The obsession with the term 1%er is an obsession with crime.
The term 1%er came from a saying that 99% of people who ride motorcycles are law biding citizens. 1% of those who ride motorcycles are deranged criminals. Being part of that 1% is nothing to brag about. Mind how ya go. We are all free to choose but we are not free to avoid the consequences of our choices.
Sooner or later, everyone is accountable.
The thing I didn't understand about the previous decision that was overturned on appeal was their bizarre measuring stick. They claimed that it didn't matter if the club was convinted of criminal activity and it didn't matter if the clubhouse was purchased with the proceeds of crime. The judge claimed the crown had to prove the clubhouse would be used in the future for planning criminal activity. That was kind of ridiculous. That's like saying it doesn't matter if someone committed murder. In order to convict them you need to prove they will commit murder again in the future.
Proceeds of crime legislation, which I'm not a fan of, states that the item was purchased with the proceeds of crime. What someone may or may not do in the future is simply not relevant. That judge's new definition was suspicious. It makes us wonder if he was on the take and was trying to become Peter Leask's replacement. Bad judges need to be replaced.
The Natioanl Post is reporting that "One of Canada’s leading experts on drug addiction says British Columbia’s provincial government asked him to delete a crucial database in an attempt to censor criticism of the province’s homeless policies. The incident appears to fit within a larger, nationwide campaign to silence experts who believe that, when it comes to homelessness and drugs, Canadian policy-makers are on the wrong track."
No kidding. There's no such thing as a safe supply of harmful drugs. That's like saying a safe supply of rat poison. Harmful drugs are called harmful drugs because they are harmful.
The silencing of medical experts in favor of the pharmaceutical lobbyists. Where have we heard that before? Medical doctors who perform organ harvesting from live political prisoners in Communist China are unethical. So are the ones that promoted crime and addiction here. They are creating a manufactured emergency to justify their crazy solution.
"Dr. Julian Somers created an Inter-Ministry Evaluation Database (IMED), in 2004 to correlate data about vulnerable populations across various B.C. ministries.
The conclusion? B.C.’s standard approach to homelessness was essentially a failure.
That failed model across BC and Canada is warehousing homeless people in large groups, of mostly those fresh off the streets still battling addictions and mental health challenges, with little support for recovery, life skills or social reintegration. Much of their so-called treatment consists merely of freely given publicly funded harmful drugs, safe supply. Silencing medical experts on the subject is nothing new."
20 years later we clearly see that InSite has failed. It has not reduced crime and addiction like the Portugal model did, it has dramatically increased it to a point where it is completely out of control. Now their manufactured emergency wants to take one more step in the wrong direction which is all part of the WEF agenda to remove civil liberty and make everyone poor.
As the Toronto Coderix Addictions Clinic Medical Director Dr. Vincent Lam says in the Globe and Mail: “Prescribed opioids were an integral part of the creation of this crisis. We are not going to be able to prescribe our way out of it.” Exactly.
The Portugal model was successful because they made treatment mandatory. They did not promote harm and addiction by handing out poison.
The solution to Metro Vancouver's housing crisis is very simple - build more rental units. When I finished high school I moved out on my own and rented my fist apartment. They used to have apartment building that you could rent suites from. That was back in the day. Those same old building are still there. Only they're 30 years old. The problem is they haven't built any new ones.
Everyone has been obsessed with making a quick buck with all the free money for the past 30 years. No one has committed to make a lasting profit from rental housing. Right before I finished high school there was a crash in the housing market triggered by high interest rates. Mortgage rates went up to 20%. Your mortgage payments doubled. People couldn't afford those payments and many people lost their homes. I was there. I saw it.
I've been afraid ever since.
I've been cautiously waiting for it to happen again only it never did. Mortgage rates never rose that high ever since. For the past 30 years it's been cheaper to own than to rent. Consequently, since mortgage rates have been next to nothing for so long, people would buy up investment properties and rent them out. The rent would pay the mortgage and they'd own another property in the process. It was a great gig. That's why no one has bothered building any new complexes for renting. Now young kids graduating high school can't afford down payments or that large of a mortgage payment. 1.8 million dollars for me to move across the street is completely insane.
The government can help solve this problem but they shouldn't have to. The private sector can make money from building rental housing. It is way easier to evict a bad tenant that plays loud music and parties from a rental unit than from a condo they own.
If the government buys a complex they don't have to rent it out for free. They can rent it out at market value. That way it's not a drain on tax dollars. Helping create more rental units would be the simple solution to the current housing crisis. The government can give tax breaks for private companies that build rental units. Civic governments can help as well by zoning for rental units. If developers want to get a permit to build new condos tell them they need to build some rental units as well. It really is that simple. That' all we have to do. We don't have to change our economic or democratic system for another manufactured emergency.
The government could set up a crown corporation like the Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation. They could build and buy rental units and rent them out at market value. That means it wouldn't cost tax dollars. It would make a profit. They could pay the government dividend which would reduce taxes. The Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation is totally mismanaged. they could do a lot better. They could solve the housing crisis if properly funded and organized.
CTV is reporting that "Former federal finance minister Bill Morneau says that when it came to COVID-19 pandemic aid policy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the top advisers in his office favoured "scoring political points" over policy rationales, leading to him feeling like a rubber stamp ahead of his inevitable resignation.
'My job of providing counsel and direction where fiscal matters were concerned had deteriorated into serving as something between a figurehead and a rubber stamp,' he writes in his new book, out on Jan. 17."
"It became unsustainable," Morneau said in reference to what was behind his decision in August 2020 to resign both as finance minister and Toronto Centre MP. This move came six months into the federal government's COVID-19 aid rollout and amid the WE Charity controversy.
He was the fall guy for the WE Charity scandal. It wasn't Bill Morneau's charity it was Justin Trudeau's charity. Justin Trudeau should have been the one to resign but he refused. Commodus refuses to relinquish power because he has a dark agenda that is determined to bankrupt the country and force us to be enslaved by his coveted Communist dictatorship.
I took my bike in to get some work done on it today and took the Skytrain back to Surrey while it was getting fixed. I was walking down the street doing errands and notice a middle aged white woman had just crossed the road. It wasn't a busy street and there wasn't any intersections nearby. Yet a white guy in a work truck honked at her as if to say don't jay walk. She looked him in the eye and flipped him the bird. I laughed and thought to myself welcome back to Surrey.
As I was coming out of Canadian Tire there was a brown guy and a white guy in a bit of a scuffle. As I circled around to see if I needed to intervene, I noticed the brown guy was getting physical with the white guy and the white guy was talking back to him. Then I see the white guy is holding a crystal meth pipe up high. It looked like the brown guy was a LPO for the store and he had another bigger brown guy standing behind him for back up. Looked like he was security. I just smiled and walked away saying nope. I'm not getting involved in that. Unless of course the brown guys need back up. That white trash meth head is a sh*t stain in our community.
I'll tell ya this: there are a lot of low life criminals in the city that are adicted to drugs. Yet they're mostly white. You rarely see brown guys or Asians who are addicted to drugs stealing things. It's mostly white guys. That's the way it has always been in Surrey. I grew up here.
I grew up with the Surrey jokes. They used to say hey did ya hear Vancouver got a new prison? They put a fence around Surrey. Or what's the difference between a Surrey girl and a Rolls-Royce? Not everyone's been in a Rolls-Royce. Yet Surrey has really made a huge amount of progress and they have immigration to thank for it. I'm really perplexed by the term minority. When you travel around the world you quickly see that white people are the minority.
My son was overseas playing in an orchestra. Someone came up to him and asked him how it felt to be the only white person in the entire orchestra. They asked if it made him feel uncomfortable. He was kind of surprised by the question and said no, it kinda feels like my high school growing up. That's one of the reasons I wanted to raise my kids here. It's very multicultural.
Anthem Properties is reporting that "With over 1,000 new residents making the move to Surrey every month, it’s safe to say that the city’s popularity is increasing fast, with no signs of slowing down." They state that Surrey is the second-largest city by population in British Columbia and is well on its way to becoming BC’s largest city within the next decade. Why is that? Because of immigration. People moving here from other parts of the country and world.
A lot of people from small towns all around the world complain about there being no jobs there. That's why they move to big cities in search of employment. Immigration means economic growth. More houses being built. More people going to restaurants and consuming things. That means more jobs. You don't see people in Surrey protesting immigration. They understand the benefits of immigration.
All this immigration is helping lift Surrey out of it's negative history.
Surrey will soon be larger than Vancouver. That's because Vancouver is grid locked. They can only build up. Surrey can build up and out. So can Langley. The Mormons built a Temple in Langley and all around that Temple high density housing has exploded. I was born in North Vancouver. That is very high end but it is especially grid locked. They have nowhere to expand to. Only up but their infrastructure can't take it. That means Surrey will soon become BC's largest City. Which doesn't mean much because Toronto and Montreal has way more population than Metro Vancouver. I'm just pointing out that growth is good and has benefited Surrey greatly.
A few years ago a coworker said to me "You go to the gym in Surrey? That's full of brown guys isn't it?" I'm like yeah, it's Surrey. I grew up there. It not a problem. East Indians have a long history of military service. Many Indo Canadians work in security helping keep people safe and prevent theft. Many are beloved truckers. Yes a lot of the young brown kids can get swept up in the gang life but I'll tell you one thing about the brown kids - they respect their elders. It's part of their culture. Our white kids could learn from them. I'm an old man. I am in no way threatening. Yet I can't tell you how many times these young kids call me sir. I almost cringe when I hear it. They are in no way trying to be disrespectful. They're being very respectful and I appreciate it.
All the brown guys at the gym, young and old, are very polite and friendly.
Surrey has many other ethnic communities as well. Several years ago my daughter was waiting in the car while I picked up a few groceries at Superstore. As I was coming back to the car a white guy had just mugged an elderly Korean woman. He took her purse and started walking away.
The woman started screaming for help in Korean. It just so happened she was right beside a baseball diamond at a park and a large group of young Korean men were playing baseball there at the time. As soon as they heard her screams they dropped what they were doing and came running to her aid.
The white mugger started to run so they chased him down.
One of the kids found him but was having difficulty restraining him so I assisted with the take down. We formed a perimeter and held him until the police came. I said to the guy what the hell were you thinking? This is the safest parking lot in Surrey. I know the security guard who workers here. You're lucky he's not here today. He starts to plead with me and says yo man I can't go back to jail. I laughed and said you're not going to jail. Our judicial system sucks but you can't be doing that sh*t here. This is our crib.
Since then the government opened up a treatment centre and the place is full of white addicts stealing sh*t and causing problems. I'd trade those Korean kids for those white addicts in a heartbeat. A couple of months ago I saw a pretty white girl sitting on the side of the road there smoking a crystal meth pipe. I thought to myself God damn the pusher. They'll be pimping her out until the drug eats her alive and she can't earn any more money. Then she'll end up dead. Helping her kill herself like that is not compassion. It's evil.
They say violence never solves anything. That is simply not true. Maybe not violence but physical force sure does. That's the only thing those guys understand. That LPO roughing up that meth head I saw today understood that. My daughter used to work as a manager for Safeway in Whalley before they shut it down. She'd get in fights with crack heads stealing sh*t all the time. She was friends with several of the brown security guards and LPO officers. Technically they had a no chase no force caveat from their employer but they were like f*ck that. They were not afraid to get physical. They knew if they didn't those drug addicts would be literally walking out the door with grocery carts full of merchandise. Immigration is good. Promoting crime and addiction is not.
