How is it that my attempt to post a comment to a thread to the conservative website FreeDominion.ca referencing blogger Stephen Taylor gets modified into references to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach?
Update: I have an explanation, and it's not pretty.
OK, this is weird.
I'm trying to post a response to this thread at FreeDominion.ca. Here is the code of the response. The important thing to notice is that I was giving a reference to a post by Stephen Taylor:
So I click preview and this is what I see:[quote="thepartyparty"][quote="littleharbour"]Thanks for posting that Styky, but I'm surprised the Tories haven't taken a more aggressive stance on this issue. Whether those files were in boxes or still in cabinets, the Liberals knew to whom the files belonged and they knew that they had no right to conduct (a) an invasion of privacy and (b) unlawful retention of someone else's property. The CPC should file formal charges against Holland and the LPC for theft and should file a formal complaint with the Privacy Commissioner on behalf of the employees whose personnel files have likely been violated by this witch hunt.[/quote]
Agreed. Let Holland explain before a judge the merits of stealing douments.[/quote]
Remember that when it comes to the use, or misuse, of the resources of Parliament, the Board of Internal Economy has final say, not the police. A police investigation has to pass through the Board first, and the Board could simple rule the investigation out of existance by stating no crime had been committed.
It's one of those privilege things.
Bottom line is that the Tories are proceeding along the correct path, or if you prefer, the only path open to them. Though Stephen Taylor makes the interesting argument that once Holland and Jennings went out into the street with the boxes, Ottawa Police could get involved. I'm not convinced -- the boxes still belong to the House, so the Board gets to say whether it was a crime or not.
[url=http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000816.html]
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000816.html[/url]
thepartyparty wrote:
littleharbour wrote:
Thanks for posting that Styky, but I'm surprised the Tories haven't taken a more aggressive stance on this issue. Whether those files were in boxes or still in cabinets, the Liberals knew to whom the files belonged and they knew that they had no right to conduct (a) an invasion of privacy and (b) unlawful retention of someone else's property. The CPC should file formal charges against Holland and the LPC for theft and should file a formal complaint with the Privacy Commissioner on behalf of the employees whose personnel files have likely been violated by this witch hunt.
Agreed. Let Holland explain before a judge the merits of stealing douments.
Remember that when it comes to the use, or misuse, of the resources of Parliament, the Board of Internal Economy has final say, not the police. A police investigation has to pass through the Board first, and the Board could simple rule the investigation out of existance by stating no crime had been committed.
It's one of those privilege things.
Bottom line is that the Tories are proceeding along the correct path, or if you prefer, the only path open to them. Though . makes the interesting argument that once Holland and Jennings went out into the street with the boxes, Ottawa Police could get involved. I'm not convinced -- the boxes still belong to the House, so the Board gets to say whether it was a crime or not.
http://www.belinda.ca/archives/000816.html
Now why did Stephen Taylor's name get reduced to a period, and why did his URL get replaced with belinda.ca? That is, of course, the website of Liberal Party MP Belinda Stronach.
Maybe someone else can try to post a story to FreeDominion.ca reference Stephen Taylor and see if the same thing is happening. I went ahead and posted a test message -- the weird transformation got posted.
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There's a lot of desperation out there and we know who is desperate and why.
We can expect anything from people who are trapped in a quagmire with no one to pull them out.
They're in deep crap with this Holland/Jennings caper and it really looks good on them.
It's also proof they never learn.
Posted by: Libby at March 30, 2007 02:54 PM
I would suggest to Stephen Taylor that unless links are made to work properly, and are promised to do so in the future, that Free Dominion space, links, etc at Blogging Tories be removed immediately. I would recommend all other bloggers remove links to Free Dominion now.
Posted by: Erik Sorenson at March 30, 2007 04:12 PM
FreekDominion is run for and by soconuts and assorted religeous extremists who believe that Canadians will flock to the Conservative party if all Conservative candidates distributed gory pictorial pamphlets showing aborted fetus' in their election campaigning ... because these soconuts think they are the godly "principled" conservative mainstream.
Posted by: Observer at March 30, 2007 04:32 PM
That's it. No more Free Dominion!
Posted by: Libby at March 30, 2007 05:57 PM
Don't be hasty, Libby. Check the explanation first.
Posted by: Steve Janke at March 30, 2007 06:08 PM