Canada

Gagged

Gagged

The worst was the RCMP physically restraining a reporter from the daily briefing by Justin, Trudeau the Second.  The reporter was registered and properly certified as a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.  But the reporter had filed a story unfavourable to the government.

Justin as an Eloi

Justin as an Eloi

At a recent online lecture hosted by Ralston College, Dr. Theodore Dalrymple talked about H.G. Wells book, the Time Machine.   He reminded me of the Eloi and the Morlocks of that book.  The Eloi elite lived on the surface of the earth, vegetarian, peaceful, effeminate, and shy.  The Morlocks lived below, running the machinery of the earth; they were hard and physical people.

Be afraid

Be afraid

Two moments in the last two years:

First, Rebel News, a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, barred by the RCMP from participating in a news conference with the Prime Minister, on instruction from the PMO. A police action, demanded by a political office, barring a qualified (registered and named member of the press gallery) journalistic outlet.