How Many Uniformed Mall Thugs does it Take to Subdue One Young Woman?
For the heinous crime of Shopping While #Barefaced in West Edmonton Mall, a young woman identified as Selena Paley was manhandled by two mall cop thugs while someone recorded the proceedings and streamed it live to Facebook.
All Hail the High Priestess of COVID – Dr. Bonnie Henry
If COVID is the new god then Bonnie Henry is its High Priestess.
On Tuesday, December 8th, the High Priestess of COVID published the latest version of her bastardized commandments.
If the restrictions that follow make no sense to you, don’t worry your pretty little head over them. This doesn’t have to make sense. It’s government policy.
BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch: Where the Rules are More Important Than People
“I want people to know how bureaucrats act in situations like this. There is no criteria for these people. They are robots. They might as well substitute them with a computer program.”
Child Terrorizes Kansas School With Finger Gun
Zero-tolerance rules sound great on paper but they quickly devolve into mindless bureaucratic stupidity. The case of one 12-year-old girl attending Westridge Middle School in Overland Park, Kansas, epitomizes this insanity.
School Shooter Alert: Margo Gaines, a 6-year-old with Downs Syndrome
We’re still stuck in a paradigm tyrannized by what I call “Bureaucrat’s Rule Number One.”
The Rules Are More Important Than People
They have it backwards… completely backwards. People are far more important than the best rules or policy statements.
Take a Wrong Turn – Go Directly to Jail
Right now Mexico is at the center of a huge controversy over their arrest and imprisonment of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi for taking a wrong turn that led him to a border crossing. The trouble with border crossings is…
Living “Off-Grid” is Declared Illegal by a Moronic Florida Judge
We’re told endlessly that we must be responsible for the energy we use; that we must be energy-self-sufficient; that the world as we know it will literally come to an end of we don’t buy into the eco-frenzy. I have…
Petty Vancouver Bureaucrats and Their Hatred of Dogs and Dog Owners
A friend of mine lives in Vancouver’s Olympic Village. She is a delightful woman who happens to own a Whippet, an unusual-looking dog but a great companion. As all dog owners in Vancouver, my friend is required to purchase a…
Petty Bureaucrats and their Crushing Need to Micro-Manage Our Lives
Petty bureaucrats come in all shapes, sizes and powers, as does their pathetic need to micro-manage every aspect of our lives. One doesn’t need to work for government to be a bureaucrat. They infest every corporation, large and small. They’ve…
Even the Rich and Famous must suffer the Fools of Airport Security
In the realm of human stupidity it’s hard to do worse than the intrepid fools who inhabit the ranks of airport security. There common sense is verboten and the ability to think rationally… well, let’s just say it’s not welcome…
Prince Rupert School District Despises Freedom of Speech; Orders Teachers to Remove T-Shirts Promoting Section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Imagine it… a school district, supposedly in charge of educating our children, deems the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to be “inappropriate”. No, I am not making this up. Prince Rupert School District No. 52 recently banned teachers from…
Every year stories of jackbooted thugs of the State dispensing the Spirit of Christmas warms my heart
[powerpress] Every year there are stories of government agents dispensing the Spirit of Christmas. They never fail to warm the depths of my heart. One story that caught my eye while scanning the headlines today was of Christian…
When is your private property not your own? Whenever a bureaucritter of the Nanny State says so.
We like to believe that when we make the most expensive purchase of our lives, our family home, we’re actually the ones who own it. It’s a fallacy, however, as more and more homeowners, if I can even call them…
Steven Boyd and Karen Bursey are the latest victims of Bureaucrat’s Rule #1
Anyone hanging out here for any length of time will already be familiar with Bureaucrat’s Rule #1, but for the benefit of any newcomers, here it is in all its repulsive glory: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1: The Rules are More Important…
Canadian Patriotism: Fly the Canadian Flag, get a fine, have a lien placed against your property
Did you know that Canadians have no right to fly the Canadian flag? As shocking as that sounds, as unpatriotic as that sounds, this is the reality here in the land of True North Strong and Free. Fly the Canadian…
Texas Judge Lanny Moriarty: Arbiter of Justice or Pathetic Little Tyrant?
Common sense. It’s such a simple thing but it’s in such short supply in our world, isn’t it? The latest case of gross human stupidity to show up on my radar is that of Texas Judge Lanny Moriarty, who felt…
Union County police fine man for the “crime” of saving his son’s life
It sounds absurd, I know, but that’s the net result of police actions in Winfield Park, New Jersey, earlier this month. Frank Roder thought he was doing a good thing when he took his son down to the Rahway River…
The Fredericton Police Service’s blatant intimidation of blogger Charles LeBlanc
Whether or not a person is annoying is not just cause for them to be harassed by police, yet that is exactly what is happening to Fredericton blogger Charles LeBlanc. Charles LeBlanc is, by many accounts, an annoying blogger. He…
John Stossel on how everything, including common sense, has become illegal in America
Every day there is another asinine law passed, and every day there is another story of how some bureaucrat has abused a citizen because some rule buried in a regulation handbook says he can. John Stossel has made a career…
The Day Fisheries and Oceans Lost Its Fish by Jane Gaffin
According to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Keith Ashfield and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, the Stephen Harper Conservative government proposes to amend the Fisheries Act. An article posted April 24 by Margo McDiarmid, CBC Environment Unit, quoted Gerry Ritz…
Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds: Taking Insensitivity to an All-New Low
Thomas Bounds is a sheriff with the Alberta Sheriff’s Service. He requires, at a bare minimum, a severe reprimand and retraining to learn how to act like a human being, since he clearly has no clue at the moment. For…
Tom MacLachlan: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1 sucks, doesn’t it?
Tom MacLachlan was just doing what I’ve personally done numerous times… he was dropping coins into parking meters to prevent a couple of total strangers from getting a parking ticket. I must admit, there is an odd pleasure that comes…