Jackie Mason is no stranger to controversy. The Jewish-American comedian is known for his stand-up act, which he started in the 1960s in his fast paced, thick Brooklyn, New York Jewish accent. He has acted in several movies and TV shows. His most recent work is a video blog and CD called The Ultimate Jew in which he comments on current events.
I’ll tell you the truth. Barack Obama isn’t only fooling the Jews. He’s fooling all the people of America. Right now, people are determined to prove they can vote for a Black person because they were told they’re racists all their lives. White men are walking around feeling guilty thinking if they don’t vote for Barack Obama, they’re racists.
But as far as the Jews are concerned, they are still wedded to the Democratic party, when the Democratic party is not interested in Israel. The Democratic party has voted very often against Israel on major issues. The Republican party is determined to help Israel almost more than the Jews are. Even the Hassidic Jews. I don’t care how religious you are. They’re not as willing to fight for Israel as the Evangelical Goyim. But since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Jews have been told that the Republicans are for big business and not for the underdog. The Jews feel the Democrats are helping the struggling people. And they still believe it. The Jews are more willing to feel guilty for not helping a poor person than anybody else is. Because a Jew has to feel that he’s always compassionate and always helping the underdog.
Canadian Whistleblower Richard Colvin will get paid
Canadian Whistleblower Richard Colvin will get paid by the federal government for the diplomat’s legal fees. Richard Colvin is the Canadian who blew the whistle on alleged Afghan prisoner abuse.
At the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade an official said that two invoices from Mr. Colvin’s previous lawyer, in the amount of $20,000, are being paid and payment for a third invoice, which was submitted in December, has been met with approval.
Additional funds have also been set aside to a maximum of $50,000, to pay potential and additional legal expenses, according to Joffre LeBlanc.
In a letter sent to the Military Police Complaints Commission, Mr. Colvin’s Toronto attorney, Owen Rees, said his client believed the Canadian government was refusing to pay his legal bills as payback for Mr. Colvin’s revelations before a special House of Commons committee in the fall.
Mr. Rees said the government was basically not paying Mr. Colvin’s legal fees after his testimony.
Mr. Colvin, currently an intelligence officer at the Canadian embassy in Washington, revealed to the Canada committee that several senior government officials were aware that Canadian Forces in Afghanistan were handing over detainees to face likely torture by Afghani authorities in 2006 – 2007.
His allegations rocked the government and led to furious denials from generals, former generals and cabinet ministers, including Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who questioned Mr. Colvin’s credibility.
Conservative MPs on the Afghan committee made claims that Mr. Colvin had been a victim of fraud by Taliban propaganda.
Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh says it is ridiculous that Mr. Colvin has had to fight so hard to retain independent legal representation, and he doesn’t believe the department was merely slow to respond to the request for money.
“The Harper Conservatives did not hesitate to pay former prime minister Brian Mulroney’s legal fees,” said Mr. Dosanjh. “Taxpayers paid over $2-million to cover Mr. Mulroney’s legal costs at the inquiry into his dealings with [German-Canadian businessman] Karlheinz Schreiber.”
A spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office suggested politics played no role in either case. “In both cases, the decision to reimburse legal fees was taken at the departmental level,” Andrew MacDougall said.
At this time, two of the three opposition parties claim they’ve heard the government will not restart the committee on Afghanistan once Canadian Parliament returns from its forced hiatus. The committee is where the most attrocious revelations about the treatment of Afghan prisoners have been revealed.
Prime Minister Harper’s decision to prorogue Parliament dissolved all committees. It would take the unanimity from all parties in the House of Commons to re-start the opposition-dominated committee.
However a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office said opposition parties are making a fuss about nothing.
“Afghanistan remains a public policy priority, and the special committee on Afghanistan will be reconstituted once the new session begins,” deputy press secretary Andrew MacDougall said Wednesday.
New Democratic MP Paul Dewar was cynical about this. “They shut down Parliament,” said Mr. Dewar, the party’s foreign affairs critic. “I don’t put anything past them. They could kill a committee. That’s nothing.”
The Liberal Party is also critical, but Bloc Québécois defence critic Claude Bachand seemed prepared to give the Tories the benefit of the doubt. “I don’t think they can stop the committee,” said Mr. Bachand.
Demands made by opposition committee members to see uncensored documentation in December created a standoff with the Conservative government.
The Liberals introduced a motion demanding that the records be put forward; failing that, Mr. MacKay could be called before the “bar” in Parliament to respond to questions, and could even be removed from his seat if found in contempt.
General Rick Hillier – Colvin Testimony on Detainee Torture Ludicrous
Time magazine’s named her Person of the Year in 2002 along with two other female whistleblowers. She is the author of Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. Her name is Sherron Watkins.
Watkins will discuss “The Lessons of Enron: The Importance of Ethical Leadership.”
Watkins is the former vice president of Enron Corporation who warned CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 about accounting problems within the company, and told him that Enron “might implode in a wave of accounting scandals.” Later she testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate.
Before its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron was one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies. At the end of 2001 it was revealed that its reported financial condition was sustained substantially by systematic accounting fraud. The scandal also brought into question the accounting practices of many U.S. corporations and was a factor in the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Watkins joined Enron in late 1993, initially working for Andrew Fastow, managing Enron’s $1 billion-plus portfolio of energy-related investments. She held the portfolio management position for more than three years, transferring at the start of 1997 to Enron’s international group focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions of energy assets around the world. In early 2000, Watkins transferred into Enron’s broadband unit where she worked on various projects until late June of 2001 when she went back to work for Fastow in his new area of responsibility over the mergers and acquisitions group of Enron. She resigned from Enron in November 2002.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Richard P. Gifford Lecture Series sponsored by Lynchburg College School of Business and Economics. A reception and book signing will follow. For more information, contact Paul Kelbaugh at 434-544-8417.
