Notable how many of Steve's patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps .
Starting from the left ... picture updated to include Pierre Poutine and the robocon network [h/t Beijing York in comments] - no charges and no arrests, 21 months and counting...
Dr. Arthur Porter, "His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone", also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and lead investigator into CSIS' treatment of Abdelrazik. Money once paid to former Israeli arms trafficker to sell infrastructure deals to Sierra Leone, and now subject of an arrest warrant for fraud, money laundering and bribes/kickbacks in connection with SNC Lavelin's successful bid to build a $1.3-billion hospital in Montreal.
Viv Toews, minister responsible for CSIS and SIRC, says somehow it's the fault of the NDP and Libs.
Senator Mike Duffy, Harper-appointed lollypop, whose very useful 2008 election coverage included running Stephane Dion's three time stumbled interview restarts 5 days before election day. Duffy now being investigated for his housing expenses as a senator due to apparently having no idea which province he lives in.
Bruce Carson, Harper's "The Fixer". A lawyer disbarred for fraud in the 80's, Carson was charged last year with influence peddling on behalf of his 22-year-old ex-callgirl fiancee - the only bit anyone remembers - to sell water purifiers to First Nations and lobbying for a $25 million government grant within 5 years of leaving government.
Senator Patrick Brazeau, 38, suspended from the Senate he barely attended with full salary. Dodgy alleged financial record going into the Senate, now highlighted by sexual assault arrest and an investigation into questionable Senate housing expenses.
Tom Flanagan, Harper's one-time Calgary School mentor and election mastermind. Fired from CBC and on leave from U of Calgary till retirement since yesterday for framing the watching of child pornography as a victimless crime and an issue of 'personal liberty'. Accused Paul Martin of supporting child pornography during 2004 election. Toast but his legacy lives on.
Con MP Rahim Jaffer, once Harper's Chair of Con Caucus. Ran election campaign ads accusing Jack Layton of being soft on marijuana. When Jaffer arrested for drunk driving, cops and defense lawyers couldn't agree whether the cocaine was in Jaffer's pants pocket or in his jacket pocket so he got off.
Nathan Jacobson, busted in the US in 2008 for fraud, $46-million in money laundering, and running online no-prescription pharmacies, but neglected to tell his Canadian hosts he was a fugitive due back in US to serve his sentence. Arrested in Toronto last October.
Nice photos of Jacobson with Harper and Benjamin Netanyahu presumably no longer available on government website.
As noted at DJ, Con propaganda machine stressed to the breaking point here but Steve still scraping them off when and only when their public behavior becomes an embarrassment.
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A further updated picture : Harper's Parade of Perps with Perks
Update : Collect the whole set!
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8 comments:
Nice little lineup you've got there, M'Lady.
Betcha your loyal readers will chime in with a few more shortly.
I'll start: How 'bout tony clement's questionable spending in his riding prior to the G8 summit ? ? ? ?
Screw Flanagan, why isn't Harper apologizing to Canada?
Pope and Flanagan - gone the same day, so much in common. Kismet.
That and they're all war criminals.
Duffy will also get off.
"The Constitution says senators shall reside in the province from which they're appointed.
Marjory LeBreton, government leader in the Senate, says the legal advice they received is that signing a declaration of qualification form that says he is from the island is all it takes.
"There is no doubt that senators that sit in the Senate, by way of the declaration of qualification, qualify to sit in the Senate," LeBreton said."
Here's another classic line-up of Harper Conservative liars, fraudsters, crooks, bullies, propagandists and corporate beneficiaries of wingnut welfare from public funds.
I love this, Alison. Can you add a mystery man aka Pierre Poutine to the line up of perps?
Beijing York : Done! Great suggestion, much obliged.
deBeauxOs : Whoa. Are you going? C'mon, dBOs, doncha wanna see who gets an award this year?
Anon : Off.
Thwap : Yup.
Bob : If we start down that road, I'll need a billboard not a blog ;-)
Repost from Chris Hedges (Pulitzer Prize winner and former war correspondent for the New York Times) on Canada’s right-wing neocon Prime Minister Stephen Harper:
Harper is a poster child for corporate malfeasance and corporate power, just sort of dismantling everything that’s good about Canada. So he’s the kind of species that rises to political power and is utterly subservient to corporate interests at the expense of the citizenry.
Yeah, he’s a pretty venal figure.
http://www.straight.com/article-732826/vancouver/chris-hedges-harper-venal-us-politics-totally-rigged
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