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The Peace Tower flag-lowering motion has passed 142-115 but the Conservatives have shown no intent to honour the motion. Therefore, I wrote a petition the other day. Please sign it.

I’m pleased that the Conservatives are set to lose the Peace Tower flag-lowering vote requiring the government to have a moment of silence on Parliament Hill and lowering the flag whenever a Canadian soldier’s life is loss abroad and here at home protecting our country and our citizenry from any threat whether it’s domestic, foreign or natural.

These men and women risk their lives daily in Afghanistan and countless other operations throughout the world everyday. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and remember these women and men who loss their lives for representing their country wherever their lives were taken. We owe it to them and their families for their countless efforts to promote Canadian principles and beliefs internationally.

The Conservative Government is believed not to honour this motion when it does pass in the House of Commons. The Conservatives are spurring out sentences that they’re committed to military families. They haven’t follow through with their campaign promises in reforming the military and there’s only one political party that truly wishes the best for our troops and their families because they’re one of the utmost important working families in our country that have been constantly abused in the political arena. This healthy for a country to honour our fallen soldier. It helps Canadians to mourn the loss of a soldier who fought and defended our values. This helps a nation ease her pain.

I’ve created a petition to pressure the government of Canada to follow through with this motion.

Happy April Fool’s Day.

Link to my April Fool’s Day prank.

I have renounced my membership with the Liberal Party of Canada effective immediately today, at 11:59am PST, on Tuesday 1 April 2008. I’m discontent with the party as a whole.

UPDATE #1

Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party called me today to run for her party’s candidacy in Fleetwood–Port Kells. I’m proud to say, I’m honoured to be apart of this new political family. Together, we’ll take whats rightfully Canadian!

This evening I’m beginning to become worried for Hillary Clinton after hearing Bill Richardson has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nomination. Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama is extremely high profile. Richardson currently is the Governor of New Mexico, previously represented the United States at the United Nations and served in Bill Clinton’s cabinet.

He’s still a rising political star in American politics and has a promising career in government. I have always been fascinated with Bill Richardson’s commitment to his country. Now, I’m not angry with Governor Richardson for his endorsement or preference of Barack Obama over my choice to lead the United States as her President. However, Hillary still leads in super delegates…

I have read the actual bill on the Parliament of Canada. The author of the bill and the House of Commons has forgotten two sections that should have been added to it in the first place, definitions and interpretations of the amendment should have been added for a better overall understanding on the intentions of the legislation.

I don’t believe that the Conservatives are trying to mislead Canadians. The Conservatives will make a horrendous mistake if they try to paint it anti-abortion or they’ll severely suffer the consequences in being pursuant on this issue. However, I disagree that C-484 is a stepping stone moment to abolish abortion laws in Canada. People have to remember that women’s rights should be upheld in any circumstance especially when a mother decides to keep their child or wants to terminate the pregnancy. Most pro-choicers have grossly turned this into an abortion debate when its not.

I am a liberal because social justice is extremely important to have in a country great as Canada. Unfortunately there hasn’t been any legislation proposed by a sitting Liberal MP that advocates for the strengthening of social justice. Indeed there have been bills introduced to uphold human rights and equality throughout our beloved country by Liberal MPs since the beginning of the 39th Parliament. These are just specks of the looking glass to form a socially accountable state.

Today I’m discussing the importance of Bill C-484: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Injuring or Causing the Death of An Unborn Child While Committing An Offence). I don’t know why my fellow pro-choicers are crazed on the idea that this comes into conflict with the woman’s right to choose. This is not an anti-abortion bill in any shape or form. People will only be charged under this amendment of the Criminal Code if they murder or cause bodily harm to the mother without her choice.

Join me in supporting C-484 today.

I am sad to hear the death of Heath Ledger (1979-2008) this evening. He was truly an inspirational actor that portrayed his character roles perfectly. His death is a great loss to Hollywood. He was found dead in his Manhattan apartment. He is survived by his daughter Matilda Rose that he had with Brokeback Mountain costar Michelle Williams.

Heath Ledger has been in such films as A Knight’s Tale, The Patriot, Monster’s Ball, Brokeback Mountain, The Brothers Grimm, Lords of Dogtown, and the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight. He was working on The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

The Good Die Young.

I am disappointed with the Barack Obama Campaign when I learnt that they played notorious Jay-Z’s 99 Problems rap blaring when the candidate “triumphantly” took the stage after winning the Iowa Caucus. Like most wannabe Gangsters (Gangstas), Jay-Z doesn’t like women. The majority, if not all rappers encourage chauvinism amongst younger listeners. This song is offensive like most of Jay-Z’s work. The song 99 problems most popular lyric: “I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one” was blared through the audience.

The “but a bitch ain’t one” implies Hillary Clinton. Obama has made a gross mistake in being the first to throw a campaign pie at a member of the same party. I can tell you one thing, Obama is no friend of mine.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is deliberately trying to stall the Mulroney-Schreiber inquiry. Stephen Harper is a hypocrite. He constantly attacked the Liberals under Paul Martin’s leadership for the Quebec Sponsorship Scandal to launch an investigation.

He stated that he would hold public servants responsible for their involvement in such illegal activities. While Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has become a private citizen since being Canada’s worst Prime Minister, he embezzled money from Karlheinz Schreiber in his final days of office. The investigation must begin.

The Anth Zone awards Prime Minister Stephen Harper, The Idiot of the Year Award for 2007.

Ron Paul has been doing better in the primaries then least expected. He has been able to manage his campaign relatively well that has drawn additional interest and support from the American youth that are attracted to Paul’s Libertarianism and super free market economies (*yawn* this stuff puts me to sleep). Ron Paul has more delegates compared to Republican top contender Rudy Giuliani who poured quite a lot of money into New Hampshire and Iowa to advertise his campaign (Paul has two delegates, Giuliani has zero) but the campaign isn’t over.

Ron Paul has been a major proponent in favour of government inaction (small government). I believe that there should be less government involvement in the daily lives of citizens, however, what’s the purpose of an organized democratic government if the government is extremely limited? How is a government supposed to operate if it cannot benefit the people as a whole?

Though, I am terribly not surprised about the recent report that Dr Paul had written racial and homophobic remarks in his political newsletter Ron Paul Political Report in the 1980’s and the 1990’s. Ron Paul has denied to CNN that he didn’t write these articles.

The New Republic newsletter was the whistleblower on Ron Paul’s true thoughts on these issues. The racial comments were posed against African-Americans. He also has likened black civil rights advocate Martin Luther King as a communist philanderer. He stated in his paper that order was restored because the blacks went to cash in their welfare cheques (June 1992). In the same edition he states, “The criminals who terrorize our cities — in riots and on every non-riot day — are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to ‘fight the power,’ to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible.” From an October 1992 edition of his paper he states, “Hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos.”

People in politics have stated that what they have said stuff in the past is irrelevant to modern times (Stephen Harper in particular). Ron Paul is the major proponent of the Libertarian movement in the United States and has actively campaigned for the dismantling of the IRS and several other governmental agencies. Ron Paul also believes that the United States should pull out of the United Nations which would prove disastrous to the international community surprisingly the United States does offer the world stability (and I’m not surprised).

I disagree with his “Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea” sentiment. The Libertarians I have met have something borderline racist about them.

The Conservatives have demonstrated clearly that they are not looking out for the health and psychical wellbeing of Canadians. Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn interfered with the country’s nuclear watchdog after they shutdown a nuclear reactor to do maintenance that was overdue. The nuclear plant was reopened on December 16th to operate for 120 days.

Lunn threatened the Head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Linda Keen that he would replace her if the commission failed to reopen the site. Stéphane Dion has been the loudest opponent against the Conservatives for failing to protect Canadians at all costs.

The Greens are calling for the Minister to resign from his post. I disagree; Prime Minister Harper must apologize to Canadians and fire Minister Lunn from his portfolio.

I am endorsing Hillary Clinton for President (I’ll write why at some point later on). Senator Hillary Clinton has won the first actual primary of the season. The pre-New Hampshire polls conducted before yesterday favoured Barack Obama who won the Iowa caucus last week. Hillary Clinton has been the leading front runner in the race to the Oval Office.

Barack Obama has been blitzing behind her at full throttle down midfield (sorry I just had to use the football metaphor). Obama is Hillary’s biggest contender in the primaries. She needs to revitalize her campaign strategies to deal with Barack’s support growing at an overwhelming rate. It doesn’t support her goals if the daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey has given her public endorsement to Barack Obama.

She needs to seek out support from Hollywood because Americans love their celebrities and tend to follow their trends. If their celebrity candidate supports a candidate in any election most likely they’ll end up endorsing the candidate. Political pundits may disagree with me; however Obama was the first to play the celebrity card.

Obama must be pleased that Canadians can’t vote; Canadians favour Hillary Clinton by a 34-32 margin over Obama.

Don’t rule out a Republican White House

It is disturbing that there are plenty of Democrats that are underestimating the Republicans. They underestimated President Bush in ’04 when he won the Electoral College and the popular vote. Any Republican candidate is bound to use President Bush’s campaign formula – it’s workable.

But Anth what is President Bush’s campaign formula?

President Bush’s campaign formula gives off the image that he is the average American’s best pal. That he’ll go out on a limb and give them tax cuts. It’s that simple.

Just letting everyone know I was able to renew my webhosting – so I will try and make some political commentary coming soon.

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas this year. In other news, I unfortunately will not be continuing my political commentary on my blog in the New Year since I cannot afford web hosting costs. I wish all the friends and enemies I have made on the blogosphere the very best in their future writings and endeavours. I am thankful for the encouragement I have received from Saskboy from Abandoned Stuff to improve my writing. Thank you bud.

If you feel I have wronged you injustice by making this announcement and feel that I need a kick in the ass. Perhaps you’re right. If you are feeling generous this holiday and feel that I contribute to our society on making biased commentary leaning towards my federal political affiliations or by rantings about the Stephen Harperbot 3000. You can donate to The Anth Zone Foundation.

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