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Also, wow. Will they blame the Joooos next?

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This week’s terror drama leaves me with many questions. I shared them with a London Free Press writer who was similarly puzzled.

1. Why did the RCMP issue a bizarre, Kafkaesque press release about terror that did not contain the who, the where, the what or the why? Doesn’t that serve only to, you know, scare people?

2. Why did the RCMP clearly try and give everyone the impression they had foiled a terrorist attack – when, in fact, it had been the FBI that did so?

3. Why didn’t the RCMP have the aspiring jihadist under 24/7 surveillance, given that everyone knew he was dangerous?

4. Why was he not picked up when he had broken his bail conditions – conditions that were so strict they had been covered by the media, coast to coast, and attracted the attention of civil libertarians?

5. If they don’t know what’s going on in their own backyard – if they are misleading us about who foiled the attack, and are communicating with us in a way that can only serve to actually terrify people – why the Hell are we keeping them around?

I vote for letting the FBI run the show. If nothing else, we’ll be safer.

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At Daisy Group, we have:

• A Liberal who did winning social media for Justin Trudeau;
• A New Democrat who came to us via the Deputy Leader of the provincial NDP;
• A Progressive Conservative writing high-level speeches for his team; and
• Scrupulously non-partisan folks, too, whose politics I know nothing about.

All of the above isn’t a big deal, but it’s something I’m kind of proud of.  We don’t just let staff work on political campaigns – we encourage them to do so.

Makes for interesting times when elections roll around, but it makes for a better firm, too.

 

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The Festival of Joy™ has arrived! Warren is:

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 11, 2016

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Seems like a really nice guy. 

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Laura Jane Grace at the height of her powers. 

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“(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon – (1) a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President; (2) a member of the immediate family of the President, the President-elect, the Vice President, or the Vice President-elect; (3) a major candidate for the office of President or Vice President, or a member of the immediate family of such candidate; or (4) a person protected by the Secret Service under section 3056(a)(6); shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both [emphasis added].”

6.  The facts are that DONALD J. TRUMP knowingly and willfully threatened to kill or inflict bodily harm upon HILLARY CLINTON, who is a major candidate for the office of President of the United States, and who is protected by the Secret Service.

7.  DONALD J. TRUMP knowingly and willfully sought to incite the murder of, or the infliction of bodily harm against, HILLARY CLINTON by stating that persons who oppose her policies are justified in taking up arms against her, pursuant to the Second Amendment.

 

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Breaking! The Kinsella side was victorious! Read all about it in the National Post!

Andre Marin tried to get me disbarred/disciplined; I responded.

Marin lost. No appeal, no review, even. See the brief but welcome letter below. (The complainant line has been deleted because I want to keep the focus on the guy who was the real complainant – and we all know from the media that the one who was after me was the thin-skinned former Ontario “Ombudsman,”Andre Marin.)

Background here and here and here.

What’s it mean?  It means, I think, that:

• lawyers who offer personal views online are doing just that – offering personal views
• doing so isn’t giving legal advice, or somehow acting in a legal capacity – it’s simply being a citizen, with all of a citizen’s associated constitutional rights
• the Law Society of Upper Canada has (properly) signalled that it won’t allow itself to be conscripted into policing petty, political or personal complaints

Thank you, very very much, to the many people who offered support.  I am very grateful.

Now, I can get back to saying what I think.  And Andre Marin can get back to not being Ombudsman anymore, and tilting at windmills.

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22,000+ Twitter followers! Nearly 40,000 readers in the past 24 hours alone! Someone please, please tell me how to monetize Twitter!

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So, when Donald Trump is a bust and makes an udder boob of himself – when he teats his audience to yet more cleavages, when he can and does go gazonga and switches off the mental headlights – you can always count on this web site to say “thanks for the mammaries, Donald.”

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