Kimberlee has literally gone international folks, and I bet like former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kimberlee Ourwoulis is fielding a lot of lucrative offers, though I doubt they are as lucrative as the Alaskan hockey mom and governor.

I hope she has found herself an agent because the hype that has been created by Kimberlee, a few newspapers and television reports of her story, like the one she did on “Red Eye” is probably going to pay off big time, so much so that if OHRT doesn’t dismiss her case, she might just drop the case herself so that she can focus more on pursuing some of the lucrative offers that have fallen into her lap since she first went public with her story. Trust me those offers are there now.

I can’t say that I would blame her for putting those offers ahead of her lawsuit, after all it would be less of headache, and besides Kimberlee doesn’t strike me as the type of person who would put the rights of other stripper ahead of the fame and fortune that is knocking on her dressing room door.

By the way the Red Eye sound byte I heard asks should granny being doing lap dances (though Kimberlee isn’t a “granny”‘at least not to the best of my knowledge) and is she too old for the pole. Aren’t the folks at Red Eye witty?  While their report was amusing, they were merely having some fun at Kimberlee’s expense, and I’m sure she was insulted a lot more by their report than anything I have written in Crooked in Canada about her.  I’m sure the money her story is generating for her will help her get over it though.

I have no doubt in my mind that Ourwoulis has already been approached by a porno movie producer or two, and a couple of skin magazine editors also, and at this very moment she is seriously considering committing to a project or two so that she can get out of the stripping business a lot sooner than she originally planned to.

In the mean time her current new employer and she are cashing in big time with all the publicity that has been surrounding her complaint. No doubt the club she is dancing in now is hopping. Business will be booming, but eventually the novelty will wear off.

Whatever happens to the legal side of Ourwoulis’s story, you can bet that when she decides to cash in those offers that are pouring in for her by now, her 15 minutes of fame will either be extended to 70, maybe 80 minutes in a porno movie, and at the very least in a couple of monthly issues of a skin magazine, maybe a Hustler, Penthouse or Playboy spread, the latter of course being the most lucrative of the three photo spread options she would receive in my opinion, though a porno movie producer might pay her big bucks to appear in a few “monkey-spanking” scenes.

In the National Post article I read the other day she says that when the manager of the Mississauga strip club that allegedly fired her because of her age called her into his office, he sat her down and looked directly at her and said, “Your time is up here,” at which point she asked “Why? Is it because of my age?”  It doesn’t say in the National Post if he replied yes to her query, but in Red Eye’s report they said that he replied by saying that the club was going for a younger look and that he had already fired another “older” girl that same day.

Red Eye also says that upon hearing that response Kimberlee got up and left his office and headed straight for a lawyer.

I have to wonder if Kimberlee didn’t already know that she was going to be let go before she entered the office to face off with the club manager, and that she had an angle to work to ensure that she was going to be financially compensated in one way, shape or form.

I don’t believe she was surprised by her firing, in fact I think she was expecting it, only she didn’t know when it was going to happen.

I think she might have contacted the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to discuss her options before she was fired, that she was prepared when she walked into the manager’s office. I think she might have even attempted to secretly record the conversation she had with the manager. It’s amazing what an MP3 can be used for these days.

I am also going to assume that the manager was smarter than he was given credit for on Red Eye, and that he never once mentioned that he was firing Kimberlee because of her age, or if he remotely even said anything like that, though if Kimberlee has a recording of the conversation she would prove me wrong.  For now I am going to assume he chose his words very carefully knowing full well the ramifications for him and his employer if he mentioned that she was being let go because she had grown too old for the job. Saying the club was going for a younger look or feel isn’t discriminatory by the way, it’s just good business for a strip club operator.

That said I will close out today’s Crooked in Canada entry with comments others have made about this story.

She looks absolutely fabulous to me!  Being a mature woman myself, many of us find great pleasure in taking care of ourselves and find just as much pleasure in the ‘feedback’ we receive.  Having the confidence that she obviously possesses is a turn-on to any man.  I’m certain she could be a perfect anchor for the younger girls coming up in the business- giving priceless insight and heartfelt advice, not to mention some time-honored moves and lines to keep the customers excited!-Colleen

I am a 50 year old black female and I am hard pressed to believe this lade is 44.  She looks at least 10 years older than I do.  So, I can see why a club might not want to have her dance.  We all know that strip clubs are about how young and good looking you are.  That is just the way it is.-Jaydee

Nothing says sexy like …belly breasts.-EdNigma

She does NOT look 60. If she looks ten years older than the poster who said she is 50, then that poster must LOOK 28 because Ms. Ouwroulis looks 38:TOPS.

Her makeup is flawless, I see no visable lines, and she dresses smartly with a real sexy but tasteful flair.

She’s a proud, confidant, radiant woman.

There’s a HUGE fan-base for mature ladies, thus the term MILF.

if  she doesn’t get accepted it in the Burlesque Industry, she’d do very well in tasteful adult films.Many who balk at this burlesque and adult film industry simultaniously partake in enjoying it incognito. Others are simply jealous or ageist people.

I hope she wins. Free speech. That’s how she can win. Freedom of expression and since she is  likely independant contractor anyhow, on what basis does owner have to discriminate or “fire” this (probably) non employee/freelancer??-DeniseLaF

Hmm… I’d do her.

(On an aside - I’m not even sure WHY this is going to the Human Rights Tribunal - she should just take her cheque and go elsewhere…like my apartment, maybe?)-donald.blair

Next she will want to do away with manditory retirement at sixty five. She might want to consider table dancing at a nursing home.-apophis

Memo to Kimberlee.

Guys do not go to strip clubs to watch dancers. They go to watch women strip. Thats the naked truth. I believe age discrimination in this case is a stretch of the imagination. Were the customers complaining? Did they applaud or boo her performances? There is more to this than meets the eye.-ZeeBC

The above comments courtesy of the National Post article I read, as brief as it was.

Exotic Dancing Dinosaur Visits CBC Website: Kimberlee Ouwroulis Defends Herself

If it wasn’t for the headline grabbing news story that Giesbrecht, a Canadian citizen who now goes by the name of Khadija Abdul Qahaar had been kidnapped at gunpoint (so the story goes anyway), I probably never would have heard of her as I don’t tend to go out of my way to visit Canadian pro-terrorists websites like the one she runs and publishes on at jihadspun.com.

Nevertheless I find her story intriguing, and dare I say, hardly believable. Although I could be wrong about Giesbrecht aka Qahaar, and though I don’t really care if I am or not anyway, I think the 52-year-old woman is running some kind of scam to help out the jihad cause she supports.

For all we know this woman and a couple of her terrorist associates (and don’t think after being in Pakistan for as long as she has been that she hasn’t made any friends) could have planned her kidnapping all along, and that their hope is that Canadian government pays a ransom for her release. Again I could be wrong, but when it comes to terrorist sympathizers, which according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Holocaust Studies says she is (they’re the experts, but I wonder what CSIS, the RCMP and Stockwell Day have to say about that) I trust them about as far as I could walk into a public building with a suicide vest strapped to my chest.

I have no sympathy for Geisbrecht-Qahaar, nor do I believe that she has been kidnapped. I think it’s a ruse.

Why would I think that you might be asking…Well it might have something to do with the fact that she posted an urgent request asking for financial help to get out of Pakistan, which she described on her website as erupting into a full-scale war zone. Funny, news reports I have been catching (admittedly I haven’t seen them all) haven’t alluded to what she is saying, but who am I to say that she’s either lying or blowing things way out of proportion.

Something else that I find curious is how come she just didn’t head straight to the Canadian Embassy in Karachi, Islamabad and Islamabad, or at the very least sent them an email regarding her perilous circumstances instead of hoping that visitors to her website would make cash donations to her cause via PayPal, credit card and Western Union.

I don’t know but like I said it sounds to me like she might be running a scam. Her friends last heard from her 11 days ago.

Whether or not she is running a scam or not, the Tory government is apparently going out of their way to help this particular supporter of jihad, but then again she isn’t facing murder charges like that other Canadian sack of shit being held in Guantanamo on murder and terrorism support charges, Omar Khadr.  Lucky for her-eh?

She may be a Canadian citizen and deserving of the Canadian government’s aid, but I have to wonder why the woman went to Peshwar in the first place, as should the Canadian government and the rest of Canada should be wondering about any Canadian citizen who has rather perilous ties to jihad.

If she didn’t have those ties does anybody really think she would have gone to Peshwar in the first place? She probably has friends in high places there, and that when she went there it was to help them with fundraising and that it is quite possible her kidnapping was part of that plan.

My theory could be wrong, but what if it isn’t and the feds learn during the course of their investigation that indeed she is running a scam?  What should happen to her, keeping in mind she is a Canadian citizen who obviously was so moved by the 9/11 attacks she converted to Islam to share with them in their jihad against the west.

We are talking about one f**ked up woman Canada, and whether or not she orchestrated her own kidnapping or not, should she ever return to Canada I’m thinking a national security certificate my be in order.

Now the president of Somalia Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed has uttered something that the U.S and Canada (if not the entire free and democratic world) would have learned a long time ago but chose not to say too much about it out of fear of stirring the pot so to speak, that Somalia is being over-run by Islamist insurgents (back in the day they would have been called rebels and freedom fighters-lol) and that the current token government could completely collapse because of them.

In other words he is saying, “they are kicking the shit out of us and we need help.”

Lol, this Ahmed is a f**king tard as far as I’m concerned. Why tell the Islamist insurgents that they are winning, that they are in a position to topple the government. How f**king stupid of him was that? Why I bet the insurgents are planning a big celebration in anticipation of defeating Ahmed’s government.

Like I said, what a f**king tard he is, and how stupid of him.

Oh well.

Another thing that concerns me, and this reeks of stupidity and total ineptness on the part of anybody, including Ahmed who has led Somalia since the 70s is that Somalian leaders have been reluctant, and often sloughed off international help, or at the very least made it difficult for foreign aid to arrive. How dumb is that, and to what end. Baffling.

When it comes to military intervention from the international community; this despite the fact they need it, not to mention that Ahmed has said as recently as yesterday that he is losing the war against the insurgents, not that I think he is actually waging war against them to begin with. I think he’s sitting on his ass with his thumb up his ass while pretending to take on the Islamist insurgents, that he is just paying the world lip-service, if only to protect his cushy job and the luxuries that job provides him.  The people he is supposed to serve should feel 1/1,000,000th as lucky.

You know what, who the f**k cares anymore, I certainly don’t and I am tired of hearing about Somalia when the rest of the world really doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it anyway. They too f**king afraid of the Islamist community, afraid of upsetting the international Islamic community, which is exactly what is feeding the radical Islamists in Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan, not to mention those little sleeper cells of Islamist extremists lurking in the shadows in various parts of the world.

The international community should say f**k the UN’s plan for Somalia, and get in there and take care of the problem themselves by any means necessary and without having to be invited. Of course that would mean that Somalia’s military would have to be targeted too since they are equally responsible for the murderous rampage that all sides of the conflict are responsible for.

Another oh well only this time I am adding, “What the f**k do I know about it?”

One could easily ask why anybody should continue to help Somalia when they can’t or won’t even help themselves, but at the end of the day I am just tired of hearing about the same shit from the same pile coming out of Somalia on a daily basis. I can’t believe that humanitarian groups and organisations (a few Canadians are over there helping out remember) aren’t more vocal about what they see happening with their own eyes (and believe me they are seeing a lot more than they are allowed to tell us otherwise he would be hearing from a lot more than the just the UN and African leaders as to the gravity of the situation.  Make sense to you?

I am not by any stretch of the imagination an expert on Somalia.

Since the 80s for sure, though it was 1990 when the shit finally hit the fan once Somalia was no longer strategically important to anybody thanks to the end of the Cold War, there has been no real credible and legitimate government, figuratively speaking of course. I really doubt today that other foreign governments really believe that the Somali leader is anything more than somebody’s peon, but one that benefits from the riches war creates for such leaders who are at the beckon call of tribal warlords who since the civil war broke out, have been largely responsible for the unrest and strife that has been seen in Somalia for many, many years now.

The Somali Civil War was the beginning of the end for Somalia, not that it wasn’t on the verge of anarchy before then, and while that war is referenced in today’s Crooked in Canada entry, it would make this blog entry a lot longer than it already is, so therefore any talk of the Somali civil war ends with this paragraph.

Bottom-line, there should be a huge international military presence in Somalia right now. It should include other African nations (more specifically Egypt), a few European and Asian countries, Canada, the UK, forces from South America, and of course Israel, Iran and maybe a few other Middle Eastern countries that have a capable military force. Take down the government, take down the warlords and shut down the Islamist insurgency.

Too do that the international community needs to send a couple hundred thousand troops, not to mention tanks, fighter-jets and array of sophisticated weaponry that already exists to take the motherf**kers out once and for all. No more of this “fair fight” shit like we are seeing in Afghanistan and Iraq on the part of the coalition weaponry we are seeing there. It makes for a drawn out war and the world economy can’t really afford to support three drawn-out wars that involve the al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

What I am calling for in Somalia would be the biggest military manoeuvre since the one the Yanks (with the help of coalition forces of course) made taking down the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq. All I am saying is enough of the bullshit, and that the war on terrorism should include Somalia. How can anybody argue with that?

There is only one solution to what is going on in Somalia and it requires fierce international military intervention. It would be a brutal battle, very bloody, and a lot of coalition casualties, but the world has to do what it has to do when it comes to democracy and our freedoms, and to shut down those f**king religious fanatics who think they should be ruling the world.  What is so wrong with blowing the f**k out of people who would rather annihilate us than have us live amongst them or vice versa?  The world is a f**ked up place if we are going to continue to allow Islamist extremists to dictate to us how the world is going to be, and force their ideologies down our throats with murderous actions. They want a war, we should be taking it to them a lot more f**king harder to them than we are, but I digress.

The Somalian government should collapse, but not at the hands of the Islamist insurgents. It should collapse at the hands of an international coalition force, after all that same government and its officials are just as guilty of mass murder and corruption as the insurgents and the warlords are, and like the insurgents and warlords they need to answer for their crimes against there own people.

The fact that the Somalian president doesn’t want foreign military intervention in a time when they obvious need it should raise a few eyebrows too when it comes to the legitimacy of Ahmed and his ministers. Funny how he bitches, whines and complains about the help his regime (that’s what is government is as far as I’m concerned) needs, and the lack thereof, but when it comes to military assistance he’ll have no part of it.

Hmm, makes you wonder whose side his government is really on doesn’t it, what warlords he is snuggling up to, and which insurgency leader’s asses he is kissing? Sounds to me like maybe the international communities first priority should they decide in the very near future to ‘invade’ Somalia, is to topple Ahmed, and his regime. It’s a good place to start in Somalia.

You know what, f**k what the Somali and other African leaders, as well as the UN wants as it pertains to Somalia (wishful and unrealistic thinking by the way) and lets just go in the there and put an end to the bullshit that has been going on there for the past couple of decades thanks to Somalian leaders who have been a bigger problem to the stability of Somalia then they have been of any help. There hasn’t been one, not one Somalian leader and government he has led that have been able to get the job that needs to be done in Somalia done. Somebody argue that point with me.

There shouldn’t be anybody who can legitimately and with credibility argue with me that I am wrong when I say there has not been one Somalian leader who has been able to get control of, and manage the impoverished and war-ravaged African nation, not even in the slightest.

The proof of that lies in the past 25 years (I’m guessing at the number of years the trouble in Somalia has been going on, but in the early 80s there was an influx of Somalian refugees into Canada wasn’t there) and it is about time various foreign governments told the UN to f**k off and go pick fruit to feed the world’s starving instead of impeding the process needed to put Somalia on the right path, and its time for them to send in the troops to take out the Somalian regime leading the country, which is what the Ahmed government is as far as I am concerned.

While they are it, they should pop into Zimbabwe and take out that motherf**ker Robert Mugabe too. Africa would definitely be a better place without him.

It’s time that armed men and women supported with some heavy-duty military hardware went into Somalia and took care of business and cleaned up the mess that the UN has said for the past couple of decades it could clean up, but to date has not. Then when they are done there, head over to Sudan and take care of business there too.

It’s time to literally shut down those violent African nations that nobody really wants to do anything about, not even their own governments, and to do it with military might. Enough all f**king ready. Let’s get going with World War III, let’s get it over and done with instead of sitting around waiting for it too happen.

Have I mentioned in the past that if a third world war were to occur that it would likely begin in Africa? If I haven’t then Crooked in Canada is going on record to state that now.

Obviously the rest of Africa wouldn’t take too kindly to foreign troops landing on their continent and doing what other African countries haven’t had the balls to do, but who the f**k cares, enough is enough already, and besides it isn’t likely an international coalition force is going to face much of a challenge from African countries who have sat idly by for the past quarter century, perhaps even longer.

If the rest of Africa doesn’t like it, (in fact if the rest of world doesn’t like it) too f**king bad, unless of course somebody has a better idea, which by the way I doubt anybody has.

Sad but true, the only way to resolve what is going on in Somalia (and in Sudan too), is all out war. The world should be keeping a close eye on Kenya and the Congo region where things are pretty tense there too.

And what about Egyptian government officials, where the f**k do they stand in all this, and why haven’t we  heard much from them about what is going on the continent they share with some of the world’s poorest and war-ravaged countries, and what they believe needs to be done in Somalia and Sudan?

Why aren’t they more involved, and does their lack of ‘real involvement’ have something to do with cowardice or the fear of some Egyptian government officials that they will be discovered as being aiders and abettors and colluding with the enemy of the people in Somalia. The question is of course, who the Egyptian government sees as the enemy in Somalia, the Ahmed regime or the insurgents, both of whom are the people’s enemy, the starving and dying ones anyway.

That said I really don’t know what is going on in Somalia as far as religion and politics goes, but I am not blind and I am not stupid.

It has been about a quarter century since I first became aware of the turmoil in Somalia and I only learned about then because I worked with a few Somalian refugees in Quebec City in the fur industry (Maranda et Labrecque) when I was in my late teens. I saw what life in Somalia had done to them and I heard some of their stories (language barrier was a problem but I got the gist of what they were trying to say, as did many of my French speaking co-workers) and more than 25 years later I bet Somalian refugees who are arriving in Canada and other parts of the world today are still telling the same story.

Its time to go into Somalia and fix things and for that to happen the entire world has to be on the same page. What are the chances of that ever happening?

That my Crooked in Canada friends is too f**king funny.

Imagine having a lawyer who for six plus years who hasn’t been able to do anything for his client except get his hopes up, only to have those hopes come down around that client repeatedly when things don’t exactly play out the way the lawyer says it will, and then of course there is the tactic of trial delays that can see a client spend a lot more time behind bars then necessary. Khadr’s defence team has used many trial delay tactics, and if it wasn’t for those delay tactics…Well who know, maybe Khadr would be preparing for his release from prison instead of preparing for his trial 6 years after he was captured.

I bet the Khadr family, who for whatever reason are still allowed to remain in Canada despite their ties to the terrorism network operation in Afghanistan, are beginning to think that the attorney’s for Omar are been less than effective in defence of one of their own. I know if I had a son or brother being held on terrorism and murder charges that could see him locked up for the rest  of his life, I would want better attorneys than the ones defending Omar Khadr. That’s for sure.

Has anybody noticed how the Khadrs never have anything to say about the lawyers defending their son and brother, and that when they do it is hardly a pat on the back for a job well done. I don’t think I have read anything that is a ringing endorsement of the work they are doing, nor have I heard Omar’s “other supporters” offering up favourable views of the work his lawyers are doing for them. I wonder why that is.

The Khadrs and their supporters have rarely had anything to say about the lawyers defending Omar and somebody like me has to wonder why that is.

Could it be because they don’t have anything nice to say about them in the first place, never have, or is it because they are being told to because anything they might say might jeopardize the relationship Omar has with his defence team who as I have said are inept.

I also find myself wondering what if the trial had gone forward way back when, before all the delay tactics Omar’s lawyers used, would the sentence he might have received be coming to an end by now.

Hmm, ya think his lawyers might be hoping upon hope that by the time this trial does draw to a close and should their client be found guilty, that the time their client has spent behind bars mostly due to their delay tactics, will be taken into consideration when the final sentence is handed down? I bet they are, but surely they must realize that they games they have been playing have hurt their client more than anything else as far as his trial goes, and that if the time Omar has spent behind bars isn’t taken into consideration, they have nobody but themselves to blame for that.  They really haven’t done Omar any favours in the actions they have taken to defend their client, in fact because of some their actions it is easy for me to assume that they have made things worse for Omar, the fact that he has been sitting behind bars for the past 6 plus years is testament to that fact, wouldn’t you agree?

Anyway, Omar Khadr isn’t going to be set free by the Barack Obama, and for Khadr’s lawyers to even suggest that that is a possibility, gives credibility to the following; that they don’t know what the f**k they are talking about, and that when it comes to representing their client’s best interests they are spending too much time hoping that his trial doesn’t go forward, or that he ill be released without having to stand trial.  How stupid of them to suggest to their client that come January after the new commander-in-chief is sworn in, that there is the distinct possibility that he will be set free. Whatever gave them that idea in the first place, did they sit down and have a chat with the president-elect about the case, or did they sit down and chat with somebody in the Democratic Party that is prepared to advance their cause? I would really like to know where they come up with this shit, or if they are just making it up as they go along.

Nevertheless Omar shouldn’t get his hopes up that when Obama takes office that he is going anywhere but a courtroom to answer for his crimes, despite how convincing his lawyers sound about his chances. His lawyers have been letting him down for the past six years (not that I care), and unless Omar fires his legal team he is in for a lot more let downs, and very possibly a lot more years in jail.

Barack Obama might set him free. Khadr’s lawyers can’t be serious.  F**k are they dumb. They don’t know what they are talking about.

The last thing Obama is going to do is give any kind of order that orders for Khadr’s release and repatriation back into Canada.

Khadr is charged with some serious crimes, the kind of crimes that if an adult or child would have committed them in certain states in the U.S. would see them executed if found guilty and the death penalty was on the table.

Obama isn’t going to send Khadr back to Canada without facing a trial and Khadr’s lawyers know that it is a stretch for them to think and then tell their client otherwise.

Like I said many times in Crooked in Canada before, the attorneys for Khadr are a joke, pretty much useless these days, and by the time this case draws to a close (and it will sooner or later-depending on how many more times the defence team delays the inevitable) they won’t have much of a law career left, at least not one they can brag about.

Their defence of Khadr, despite what they might think, is going to hurt their law career more than anything else, if only because they have looked like fools in defence of their client so far.  About the only thing they will be able to do is hang their own shingle, and then they will be hoping that their efforts in the Khadr were enough to have clients breaking their door done looking for legal representation.

At the end of the day and whether I care or not, they are f**king with Omar’s mind-giving him false hope, not that I care or anything given that I am a very biased person in this particular case and the more they f**k with his head the broader my smile gets.

I think Khadr should spend at least another 10 years in a prison cell in either Canada or the United States if he is found guilty of the crimes he is accused of, and that where Barack Obama is concerned I’m almost 100 per cent certain that he will let justice take its course as far as Omar Khadr goes.

Barack Obama isn’t going to intervene on behalf of somebody who is accused of killing an American soldier, especially a person who knowingly and willingly supported terrorism in Afghanistan against the U.S. It isn’t going to play out that way despite what Omar’s lawyers are saying publicly or to him directly.

And last but certainly not least it must really suck for Omar, knowing that he has such an inept legal team, and that there is really nothing he can do about it without harming his case any more than his lawyers already have. That has got to suck for Omar and his family.

Conceivably Omar could receive a lengthy prison term if convicted of the terrorism crimes his is accused of, but I can’t see that happening any more than I can see Omar being tried for his crimes in Canada, which his lawyers have been pressing to see happen for quite a while now. That’s pretty dumb thinking on their part too, and I have to wonder how they managed to get law degrees if they haven’t figured out by now that when you are charged with a crime by the U.S. authorities in the U.S., then you stand trial for that crime in the country that is laying the charges, not some other country as Khadr’s lawyers seem to think.

It doesn’t take a degree to figure that out about how the legal systems of individual countries work, in fact my stepson who just turned 8 years old can figure that one out for himself, and I know if I asked him if I was charged with a crime in Australia would I stand trial in Canada or Australia he would reply, “If you don’t know the answer is Australia, then you are lot more stupid than I thought,” or words to that effect.

Khadr likely won’t face military trial: lawyer -(Get f**king real)

Ontario lawyers call on PM to seek Khadr’s return -(A joke right?)

This latest report on ‘youth violence’ was commissioned after Jordan Manners was shot dead inside a Toronto High School last year, and it appears that the report isn’t telling anybody in the McGuinty government something they shouldn’t already know by now, that racism and youth violence is thriving among the younger generation, that the younger generation are re-igniting long ago burnt out, but still smouldering fires.

Ontarians didn’t need a commissioned taxpayer funded report to tell them something they already didn’t know, and the publishing of “Roots of Youth Violence” isn’t go to change anything but the amount of tax Ontario taxpayers are going to pay to implement some of the strategies the authors mention in the report. This report is a joke, and was most definitely a waste of taxpayer’s money, but the McGuinty was and still is looking to score brownie points with Ontario voters and by commissioning this report he can make it look like his government is taking the youth violence issue more seriously.

That said educating youth about the perils of racism isn’t going to change anything in today’s generation, or that of future generations. If anything it will add fuel to fire by stirring up racist feelings in a youth who never had such feelings before.  Teaching about the affects of racism in a classroom isn’t going to have much of an affect on a generation of youth who learn about racism on the streets, in the playground and at other teen hangouts, or in their own home where racism is more likely to rear its ugly head. Racism isn’t an issue that can be overcome in a classroom, nor should a teacher be compelled to teach something that is taught at home and on the street. Does that make sense?

Teaching a kid who is raised by bigots and racists about why racism isn’t tolerated in society isn’t going to change anything, and educating cops who should have been educated enough before even setting foot in the police academy about the perils and hazards of racism, isn’t going to change anything either.

As long as there is television, radio and the Internet, the racism issue will be perpetuated and acted upon eternally.

The authors of the report “Roots of Youth Violence,” who by the way were ‘taken aback’ by the extent to which racism is ‘alive and well and wreaking on the very fabric of Ontario,’ have wasted a lot of provincial taxpayers money on a report that isn’t telling anybody more than previous reports.

How many times must we hear that ‘education is the way to eliminate racism,” before the thick heads who author such reports get it through their heads that that education they are referring to has been going for decades now and still nothing has changed. The problem with racism is that nobody wants it to go away because there are a lot of benefits for people to use it.  It is used as a defence in criminal court; it can be used to intimidate the opposing football, soccer, baseball, hockey and other sports teams.

‘Racism creates money-making opportunities for a lot of people, criminals, litigants, sometimes activists, authors and ‘experts’ alike, and while I agree the world will be a better place without it, I really doubt that day will ever come.

The way I see it racism is taught to children by the parents, and what they watch on TV, and as long as there are bigoted parents (my grandmother had issues with Italians back in the day in Toronto-but I don’t and never have) and Hollywood keeps making movies that have racist scenes and moments in them, and then of course there are the news services that keep picking up on news and events that include racism, who in turn sensationalize those stories.  News coverage of racist events and happenings are almost always blown out of proportion, if only to add fuel to a fire. If anybody needs to be educated about racism, and the affect racism has on a society, it is those working in the media who need to be educated more.

This latest report on youth violence which was paid for with the Ontario taxpayer’s dollar isn’t going to lighten the load when it comes to such societal issues, but it does educate those clueless ones who might have been thinking that racism today isn’t as bad as it was back then, then being any decade before now.

I really think those in the McGuinty government who commissioned this report should be asking for their money back, after all the report is nothing more than a rehashing and republishing of old facts that were already on record. For a government to commission a report about something they should have already known by now, unless of course they have been living under a rock for the past fourty, fifty years or so, is nothing more than a waste of taxpayers money, and the fact that it was commissioned in the first place is nothing then attempt by the McGuinty government at ass-kissing for, and lip-service to provincial voters, and a tax grab at the same time.  The authors of the report say that about $200 million needs to be provided to universal mental health services, and that that money should be spent even as the government runs into deficit budgets.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I this commissioned report might be a polite way of the McGuinty government to tell Ontario taxpayers that they should expect their taxes to rise sooner and higher than they already are, that this commissioned report is one of the many ways McGuinty will deploy at soothing over Ontario taxpayers before their taxes rise.

My whole point is (and I have gone on and on in today’s article to make it) that racism, despite it being one cause for violent youth acts, isn’t nearly half as much of a problem as a youth’s lack of respect for authority when it comes to committing violent acts. Then of course there’s the way their parents raised them too.

I have said it before; the problem with today’s youth begins at home with their parents. It’s easy to blame or find other causes for the violent acts of youth today; it’s their parents who should shoulder most of the blame.  Somebody should commission a report on parental responsibility as it relates to violent youth crime.

Wouldn’t that turn out to be quite the report.

I could be wrong here, but is somebody in the McGuinty government trying to blame racism for the rise of violent youth crime in Ontario instead of blaming a spineless authority and bad parenting?