Lying Cheating Layton Won't STFU

When Jack Layton rushed to the microphones during a break in Parliament's Question Period it looked suspiciously like a set up. Anytime you put a mic in front of that used car salesman it's time to place a firm grasp on your wallet and start walking away. Unfortunately, this new media forum providing Parliamentarians, even Jack, a soapbox to spew their opinions on nano-issues is problematic. While thoughtful and informed members of the public scorn his every lying breath the broad casting of this unvetted and unsubstantiated drivel may fall on unsuspecting ears. It's the govern-by-rumour campaign all over again.

If this new media access was negotiated by the government, in good faith, as a response to the "public perception" of unfairness in controlling government communications it's the first misstep down a slippery slope. While I'm not heading the team that controls the press from pushing their socialist policies down my throat, if I were acting for the majority of Canadians who gave them the authority to act in my regard the line in the sand would be a much wider and formidable chasm. Giving them (MSM) anything gives them and their minions ample opportunity to do exactly what their handpuppet Jack was there at the mic doing. Distorting, confusing, and misinforming the Canadian people who rely, ignorantly, on the MSM's point of view.

I understand that internet access is not at the household appliance stage as of this moment. Murmurings of universal communications have been on the boil since our government began experimenting with Telidon in the early 80s. I happened to be one of the participants in that project, coding and designing graphical displays on a minicomputer the size of an office desk. That was just slightly before the advent of the personal computer phase and the subsequent explosion brought on by independant entrepreneurs opening the great doors to the future.

All this time and all those techno nerds developing the means and mechanisms empowering free and independant exchange of views, opinion, and insights will eventually be as common as the cell phones are becoming. And, when that day happens, the insult of enduring Jack Layton's pap won't be any more significant than watching an episode of South Park.

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