Observations on a Cesspool

Taking a Stroll Past the Tar Pit

A First Hand Witness Account

by

Kristie Elgersma

This happened for me recently. And I want people to know.
I posted it last week but FB won't let me get back there to reshare it.
I think more people need to know..... Especially considering the Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project as a current topic of conversation....
"...I wanted to see what Desmond Tutu saw. And James Cameron. And Neil Young.
I needed to see too
I haven't been to the Alberta Tar Sands since I was a young girl....
I have lived around industry for most of my life. An asbestos mining community in the early 90's, another community hosting a coal mine and a lumber mill later on in the 90's, Edmonton's East End Industrial in the 2000's... And in the most recent years another coal mine and numerous oil & gas installations.....
25 years later.... I went to see....
And absolutely nothing in my lifetime prepared me for what I witnessed a few kilometres north of Fort McMurray.
I have zero frame of reference to compare it to.
They are truly struggling to keep up with the amount of infrastructure required to accommodate the sheer number of travellers to and from Ft. McMurray.... The highways are being twinned slowly. But, it doesn't make up for the white crosses that line the ditches every few kms.... Some have flowers at their feet, some have hard hats hanging on them.... In one spot there are seven crosses in a row...
People have been saying for more than a decade how dangerous Highway 63 is. And they weren't embellishing the truth at all.
Oil & gas sites start a ways out before the city... Nothing that I am unused to....
What I'm not sure of is the haze..... Is it the Earth sweating because it was so hot? Is it mist? Is it smoke? Is there a fire down where? Is it smog? I never did find out......
The city of Ft. Mac itself is a beautiful city, lots of hills, forests and greenery surrounding it, with a river running through it.
Many people pressed into a small area and it shows with the diversity of housing in place and going up.
Suncor, Syncrude and Shell have taken up a competition of sorts to see who can out best the other at ass kissing to the community they are destroying.... A new arena, rec center blah blah blah..... Patting themselves on the back because they think they've done something fucking decent.
If you continue on North Bound, off to your right you'll see it for a moment: Flashes of metal, flame, smoke, no life, no green... And then it's hidden by hills.... They have screened themselves in very well for the first bit of the road.
If you keep driving, you'll pass boarding residences and tiny matchbox apartments put up by the companies to house their employees.... They reminded me of the jail north of Edmonton. So insane what we condition ourselves to.
Once you pass those, the road gets curvy and winding... You'll see a large beautiful lake in your right, and suddenly you hear the gunshots.... And then you realize that you're not looking at a lake, you're looking at a tailings pond and you realize you are surrounded by them, this toxic killy shit and the gunshots are to scare the birds away so they don't land on it, 2 million birds dead already and the pond liners are leaking and that's what is fucking up the waters up there, and 40 years of waste water byproduct from cleaning the tar sands and they don't know how to clean the water! they don't know how to clean the water! They.Don't.Know.How.To.Clean.The.Water. , and it is the whitest sand you've ever seeeeeeeeeeen....
All over the place in piles....
Because of our need for oil. That's why.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Automated guns firing to frighten nature to protect it.
So I continue on....
The haze is heavier... You can't see the sun. And the keening sound coming from the engine is not the engine. It's me. And by the time I hit the smoke stack you see in the pics below, I am sobbing openly and helplessly and entirely overtaken with grief.
Even in that place there are residences built. Humans live at the foot of that fucking monster.
I stopped at a little learning center. There is bucket there placed in the middle of the concrete. You could park four of my sized cars in that bucket. In the field this thing is attached to a huge crane.... This crane is not on a track. It's on triangular wheels that 'walk', 8 meters per side. 24 meters per complete rotation. The bucket thunders itself into the earth..

 Digging digging digging...

Because of our need for oil. That's why.
Next to it on my left is another machine. This thing looks like a 2D wheel with jagged grooves all the way around it. The grooves protrude outwards slightly, each groove is like a shovel....
Imagine a chainsaw taller than the back fin of a 747 airplane that you turn on and lower into the earth that digs for you and you MIGHT have an idea of the monstrosity I stood before..... 

The Buzz Saw

The build west for the Northern Gateway has already begun up there. They think they have already won.
I came to understand that seeing healthy coyotes was unheard of. Mangy, scraggly, missing fur, sickly looking... Knowing that they are scavenger creatures, preying upon the most vulnerable, the weakest, the sick... Just what are they eating?
I had no idea what the fuck I was walking into.
The rest stops were disturbing.... Women's phone numbers.... 'Emergency turban repair' scribbled above the toilet paper dispenser with an arrow pointing downwards.... 'Abandon all hope ye who enter the Mac'... Swastikas...
I had left all my OpHumanAngels gear at home stupid me coming in for a crash landing unprepared. I don't even know if I would have thought in those moments to reface their energy. Fuck.
I did for a moment see a huge 1.5 ft tall Guy Fawkes mask stenciled to the outside wall of a rest stop. There are those up there that get it. They
know.
It is how they have all said it is.
It is a monstrosity. A blight on the face of this living, breathing planet. Anyone who says it is making zero impact is lying to themselves...
I understand just how many people it is helping to survive, to live.... Every nation up there is surviving and living off of it. White, red, yellow, black. They are all there.
I needed to know what we are supposed to prepare for. I needed to know first hand what we speak out against. I plan to go back there once more. I hope to bring people with me. Emissaries. Reface that whole fucking place with chalk and notes.
As a side note, a friend that pays attention to MSM only, just let me know that Oklahoma has had 200 earthquakes so far this year.... They were stunned I already knew. Their first guess was fracking.
I had a hard time not flipping out.
I am losing my patience.
Maybe I just need to grieve for my mother. She is going to fuck us up right good the great equalizer that she is, I love her so..... </3
There is so much else on my mind but I've kept you long enough.
I love you. Thank you for listening and letting me share this with you...."

And that was a Song worth the Singing

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART III

TRAINING THE TROOPS

or

How The Constabulary Creates A Blue Brother

This is very long: almost three thousand words but that is because this is a very complex subject with many inputs that have to be considered. The creation of a cop takes about 5 years and during that time he is exposed to a carefully planned training program that is designed to wipe out his personality as a member of normal society and fill his mind in “Cop Think”. Read it carefully and stop along the way and wonder how you would cope with the regimen. Also think about what can be done to restore the system because the product it is producing stinks.

The first thing a Canadian citizen should understand is that the Blue Brotherhood is not the creation of our Canadian Cops but is international and applies to Constabularies everywhere. Our Canadian version has become an aberration and exceeds the norm as will be explained later. At this point we have come to the point where there is a knock on your door and there is a Cop, a member of the Blue Brotherhood, who wants to ask some questions. To continue:

You stand in your doorway and you look at this Brother in Blue wanting to talk: 

Ask yourself:

1.    Who is this guy?

2.    Where’s he coming from?

3.    What kind of a person am I dealing with?

The answer to those questions was fairly well volunteered by an older Police Officer speaking as a member of the Brotherhood when asked about the effects of a career in law enforcement on officers in general:

“One of the only things that is universal about almost all cops, is the fact that we age too quickly, see too much pain and suffering, lose our trust for almost anyone because EVERYONE lies to the police, and we lose our social grounding. It is very hard to believe that the world is basically good when you spend year after year seeing only the worst parts of it.

That is where it gets really hard, because sometimes we think out friends and families are trying to 'get over' on us, just like the shitbags we deal with at work. That hurts even the strongest relationships. Our ability to see beauty and innocence gets pretty heavily trampled on, and that really hurts when you are raising kids. Thankfully, most police officers learn to live compartmentalized lives: Those who don't die from alcoholism, heart disease, or suicide at an early age.”

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This personal assessment of the damage to self by a career in law enforcement is supported and borne out by the work of Professor Jerome Skolnick, the currently accepted authority who describes the police working personality: what many people, and police themselves, often describe as the police personality. The working personality is characterized as:

1.    distrustful of outsiders

2.    cynical

3.    conservative (not necessarily politically, but resistant to change)

4.    suspicious

5.    pessimistic

6.    pragmatic

7.    prejudicial

8.    and holding other widely-shared attitudes about and beyond the mainstream view.

What the hell happened here? What: in the course of about ten years on the job, turned the top 2% of the ideal recruit crop into a collection of miserable curmudgeons? What happens in the course of this career to render such psychological damage?

What follows is a vivid portrayal of career in law enforcement that I freely plagiarized from the work of Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith of the Chicago Police Department. She is a nationally recognized authority on training and the working personality and I have simply transformed one of her papers into a wake-up call lecture that should be given to every new class of recruits before their training begins

The Road to Remorse and Regret

Good morning Recruits: 

My name is Sgt.  XXX and today I am here to give you an orientation into what the course of your life will be if you do join the Force with the intention of a life time career. The first thing I want you to understand is that your entire life will change in the course of your training and so will your personality and outlook on life. Much of that change will be due to defensive reactions to unpleasant pressures to conform to the system and avoid discipline for failure to do so. Following I am going to chronologically outline what you can expect to encounter in the course of your career and some good advice on how to react and assess each development as it occurs.

Most of us start the academy with a servant’s heart. Remember the old LAPD motto “To Serve and Protect?” That’s all of us, that is supposed to be what cops are all about, but pretty quickly into your law enforcement career, it becomes less about “them” and more about “us.” We separate ourselves from the rest of society, even from our family and friends. But it doesn’t have to be that way, if you learn why this common police pitfall occurs and how to avoid it.

Remember, less than two out of every one hundred police applicants ever become cops, so as soon as you get hired, you start to feel like you’re a member of an elite group. And you are! There are few professions where we are expected to potentially lay down our lives as part of the employment agreement. However, that elitist feeling you have in the academy can be just the beginning of your “us v. them” mentality.

Your first couple of years are consumed with learning the job. You spend a considerable amount of time around veteran officers, trainers, and supervisors trying to learn the profession and earn the trust of your peers. As Dr. Kevin Gilmartin, PhD. talks about in his book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement, a new officer begins to rely on the friendship and support of other officers, usually to the detriment of their “non-cop” relationships. Because there is so much to do and learn, and so little time to devote to your personal life, new officers find themselves socializing only with their co-workers. Old friendships may begin to fade way, not intentionally, but after all, are any of your “old” friends willing to meet you for a beer at seven o’clock on a Tuesday morning when you get off work? Not likely.

There are no grey areas. The law enforcement officer works in a fact-based world with everything compared to written law. Right and wrong is determined by a standard. They have a set way of going about gathering the proper evidence for the law and can justify their actions because they represent the "good and right side." In the real world, clear rights and wrongs are not as likely to occur. The newspapers are an opinion-based system, the court system is an opinion-based system and, needless to say, relationship decisions and proper parenting techniques are opinion-based systems. 

Adjusting from right and wrong, a black-and-white system, to opinion-based systems is very difficult and requires a complete change in mental attitude.
“The average cop will see more human tragedy in the first three years than most people will see in a lifetime” according to Dr. Ellen Kirschman, author of I Love a Cop. As we become a competent veteran officer, we develop a macabre sense of humour and are forced to control our emotions at all times. We view the world as a violent place full of idiots, con artists, and liars. We become sceptical, paranoid, and hyper vigilant, and we look down on those who do not share our cynical and alarmist view of the society. Not only do we cease most of our “pre-cop” friendships, but our family relationships may begin to deteriorate as well. We become distant and dark-spirited, even when we’re at home. We complain that “my family doesn’t understand,” and we may become overly strict with our kids, not wanting them to be exposed to the outside world that we know is violent, dangerous and unpredictable. Eventually, your family may grow weary of your “us v. them” attitude and decide they’d rather be with “them” rather than being a part of “us.”

You need to be in constant emotional control. Law enforcement officers have a job that requires extreme restraint under highly emotional circumstances. They are told when they are extremely excited, they have to act calm. They are told when they are nervous; they have to be in charge. They are taught to be stoic when emotional. They are to interact with the world in a role. The emotional constraint of the role takes tremendous mental energy, much more energy than expressing true emotions. When the energy drain is very strong, it may make the officer more prone to exhaustion outside of work, such as not wanting to participate in social or family life. This energy drain can also create a sense of job and social burnout. 

It’s no secret that cops have a 75% divorce rate, a high rate of alcoholism, and we die twice as often by our own hand as we do by felonious assaults. After all, if you go from a fun-loving, idealistic, service-oriented rookie to a dark-hearted, cynical veteran, you’re not going to be much fun to be around, and eventually you won’t like yourself anymore than anyone else does. So don’t let it happen!

Your FTO may know everything there is to know about impaired drivers, but why has he been married and divorced) three times? Your favourite sergeant is a wonderfully supportive mentor to you, but why does she end every shift sitting at the bar of the local gin joint? Sometimes the most qualified cops on your agency are also the least successful when it comes to their personal lives. As delicately as you can, try to find out why. Ask them if they could do anything different, what would it be? And then listen to what they have to say.

This can be tough to do. Your “normal” friends are either going to be “weirded out” by your new profession or they may become distant, intimidated, even hostile about you becoming a cop. However, don’t give up on all of them. Your true friends are going to accept you, for who you are, just make sure to touch base with them and occasionally get together; and when you do socialize with them, don’t spend all your time together telling cop “war stories.” Ask about their job, their life, their problems, concerns, and successes, and then really listen. Don’t make it all about you, even if they try to. In other words, don’t get mired in your own self-importance.

Be proactive about your emotional well being. Make sure that physical activity is part of your regular routine. There are two kinds of stress, “distress” and “eustress”. Develop positive addictions, like running, basketball, hunting, and photography, anything that makes you feel good and is good for you. Also make sure you spend time around good, positive people. Go to church, do volunteer work, coach a kids soccer team, do charity work. Get involved in activities that remind you that not everyone is a drug dealing, child molesting criminal, and that in general, life is pretty good. Remember, you took this job to help the community, not isolate yourself from them. One of the great things about policing in a free society is the tradition of being “of the people,” not “over the people.”

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We’re Back Where We Started

Unfortunately Canadians are not living in a free society and the Constabulary successfully biased the Access to Information Act of 1985 with a series of exemptions regarding Investigations. The majority of officers have adopted a tradition of being “over the people” and responsible to no one for anything they do, on or off the Job

So here we are with you, in your doorway, facing a cop who wants entry and to talk to you about something. 

You stood in your doorway and you looked at this Brother in Blue and asked yourself:

·        Who is this guy?

·        Where’s he coming from?

·        What kind of a person am I dealing with?

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At this point you have answered the first two of your questions:

Who is this guy?

He’s a kid who has been ripped out of normal society and forced into another by the Constabulary. He will robotically obey orders, not question his superiors’ judgement, and he will most certainly report his obedience to those orders in meticulous detail. He will never depart from those details regardless of consequence.

Where does he come from?

He comes from on the job training in how to relate to the public: all civilians are suspect criminals in his mind. He’s been trained to lie and is a skilled interrogator in command of any interview with a civilian suspect. He can present himself as a member of any class or occupation to elicit an admission of some fault and is skilled in the use of leading questions to confuse his victim. Any request for information by a cop is prompted by a desire to establish guilt. He doesn’t care whose and he is fishing for information that can move the subject of his questioning into the suspect category if he even admits a connection to another individual suspected or caught in a criminal activity.

Knowing just this about the officer should be enough to deter any cooperation from a witness but the biggest deterrence of all is his belief that he can violate the law and your rights in his attempts to establish your guilt and he is immune from prosecution by doing so.

 That belief combined with the support of his brotherhood is validated by the exemptions of criminal investigation from the normal channels per the Access to Information Act, The Brotherhood has the power to control the whole Justice system, and that will be the subject of my next post 

CANADIAN JUSTICE IS JUNK- PART IV – THE BROTHERHOOD

Until then

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

What is an M.D.?

M.D?

Medical Doctor? Mental Defective?

Morally Destitute?

The Profession Has Lost Its Character

Character?

Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility.

Fairness. Caring. Citizenship.

The Six Pillars of Character are ethical values to guide our choices. The standards of conduct that arise out of those values constitute the ground rules of ethics, and therefore of ethical decision-making. 

Doctors! Who are they?

The Canadian Medical Association represents the 67000 modern doctors practicing in Canada. To introduce you to my concept of what Medical Practice should be, I’m simply going to compare the conduct of the majority of those members, to that of just one man of character, a real Doctor, still in practice at the beginning of the decline. His name was Dr. T.W.E. Henry and he was the local physician in Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta where I grew up. At that time the town was about pop. 250 and we were a community who considered him next to Jesus for his Samaritan conduct, common sense and good advice.

Dr. Henry was the center of our social system, he was trusted above all others and he knew every secret and personal detail about every one of his flock. He was a part of every family in town and often if he happened to make a house call at lunch or tea time he would stop for a coffee or to share a meal and take the time to get updated on the family history. He was a skilled interrogator and asked personal questions in such a manner that he created a desire to answer because he would understand and never condemn.

One evening near Christmas I and my family were visiting and just as supper hit the table TWE got a call and he was needed by a sick child. 10-15 degrees below zero, snowing like hell, winds harsh and gusty, driving clouds of icy particles that skin your face like sandpaper. No bloody way I was going out in that! Not!

Blaine! Get with it! I might need a push and you’re it! Crap: on with all the layers, boots, scarves, gloves! All the bulky crap that make wading though powder snow like wading through a swamp and then the open door and Holy Shit its nasty out here. Naturally the damned car won’t start so I harness the team, hook up his runabout sleigh, load the old fart up grab the reins and off we go into nowhere.

You don’t really drive horses in a blizzard: you just sort of aim them and trust them to figure out where the center of the road is. You just sit there and squint and squint trying to pick out landmarks in the little gaps between white sheets of snow. Fortunately it was a straight 5 mile run and only took about an hour and a half to get to the destination.

Modern people have no idea what kind of rotten conditions a lot of poor farm families lived in the 50’s. This was one such family and they were toughing out the blizzard in a two room clapboards shack heated by two stoves, one in the kitchen and a barrel type wood stove in the main room. Unless you have felt it you cannot imagine the drafts in a shack built of planks, you don’t know how cold the air is inside a house with iced up single pane windows. Stand next to one and suddenly your arm is radiated with cold from the glass.

It was a little guy about three and he was sick, you knew he was simply by looking. I don’t know what was wrong but after a long examination by TWE he was given a tablespoon of some syrup, handed back to his mother and she was told that he didn’t think it was serious but he’d like that fever to break. “Take that goose grease you have on the front stove warmer, warm him up, rub him down with it then wrap him up in that flannel blanket and put him to bed. He’s already so tired he’ll fall asleep quickly. He should feel better in the morning but if he doesn’t give me a call and we’ll take care of it.”

We got ready to leave and the husband came over to TWE and explained they were a little short on cash, would he take a couple of chickens as payment. TWE simply told him “John you’ll need them more than I do right now. Tell you what you’re good with a hammer and saw. Come over when the weather gets good in the spring and I’ve got a back porch that needs some repair. What do you say to an Even Steven deal?” John simply looked at him and I thought he would cry, but he just swallowed hard, nodded his agreement and shook TWE’s hand. We left

That was one example of his character at work: it is also the reason why he represents the best aspects of the generations of his predecessors. His position as a respected and admired man of character made him worthy to bear the title Doctor

Once again to stress: The Six Pillars of Character are ethical values to guide our choices. The standards of conduct that arise out of those values constitute the ground rules of ethics, and therefore of ethical decision-making.

Cannabis has been prescribed by Doctors, Medicine men, Shamans for now 4800 years. For 4750 of those years this medication was freely prescribed by a person of trust who had the best interest of the patient in mind. The witch doctor was trusted because he knew every aspect of his patient’s life. He was part of a tight community that no longer exists, and his reward was not financial gain at patient expense but a position of respect and trust far above that of any other profession. The current crop of medicine men, and I call them that because they do not deserve the title of Doctor, are simply skilled technicians who lack the moral and ethical quality to earn the respect they are granted as physicians.

From that point in the past, we fast forward to the present and it is only men of my age has the knowledge of what the title Doctor Represents in terms of how it is earned and expects little from his current Physician. We knew a Model for Comparison and there is no Expectation of Samaritan acts that demonstrate the qualities inherent in the 6 Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility. Fairness. Caring. Citizenship. These have been lost by the Profession.

The Destruction of Ethical Medical Practice

The practice of medicine has gradually changed into a commercially structured and oriented system designed to derive maximum profit. This was created from the sheer volume of patients that became available as a result of post WWII urbanization. Instead of a couple of dozen or hundred patients in his community, every doctor had a chance to bag any number of visits from the occupants of the hundreds of tenements surrounding them.

Appointments got shorter and further apart separated by many intruding and competing strangers’ entries into a doctor’s capacity to remember his diagnosis and previous treatment for the new volume of patients. Thus came into being the Personal Medical Record to serve as a reminder when a physician’s memory failed. The natural result was simple neglect to bother to remember Mickey Mouse details: a one minute skim of the patent’s last visit began to serve as the entire content of a physician’s knowledge of his patient. There began the complete lack of empathy now apparent in the profession at large and its absence was accompanied by the eventual loss of all character from the profession. That is simple fact.

A modern day patient with any problem needing medical attention assumes that when they make an appointment with their physician they are going to see a Doctor. They are not: they are making an appointment with an M.D. (Medical Doctor) a university graduate who had the minimal qualification to join a College of Physicians with lack standards and qualify to open an office.

His first act after qualification to practice was not to do Samaritan work at the local shelters, but rather, a call to his lawyer and accountant and to approve the creation of his new practice, Dr. False Front, MD, Inc. Shyster and BeanCounter  Consulting already had the necessary plans approved, the forms got filed and the fees got paid. From this point on the man across the desk; the MD in the modern medical office, presents himself as worthy to wear the honorific title Doctor and expects all the respect and trust due him for a title based on Character. He is actually talking to President CEO of the TYMAR Corp acting as the sucker mechanism for the TakeYourMoneyAndRun machine.

To clarify the difference between a Doctor and President, MD, only one simple comparison is required. Imagine wandering down a deserted wasteland road and encountering a man with a severe wound needing medical help. His wound is not fatal but without treatment soon will be if not helped. How would each react to that situation?

I think:

1.   The Doctor would stop, assess the situation, accept the man as a a patient, pack the wound, stop the bleeding and then arrange for his care until recovery.

2.   The President, MD would stop, frisk the man to see if he had the cash or credit to pay for treatment, if not kick him in the ditch. It would probably never occur to him to call an ambulance to get charity involved. That would take too much time and he already had a cash customer waiting for the sales pitch. “Sorry. I can’t be bothered guy, die in peace.

If I am disillusioned it is rightfully so. The machine has no recognition of the patient, only his symptoms are used to maximize the medical billing opportunities and tap them all. Office visits = Prescriptions benefits = repeat = referral to higher priced care of specialists= over-reliance on technology= excess testing = everybody happy and rich = CMA.

The President, MD across the desk does not know his patents, has no idea how they live, or anything about them beyond their ability to pay and the chart details of the last visit.  They do not want to know or be bothered by their patients outside of Office Hours. They move in invisible circles away from the common herd, superior circles by virtue of greed! Away from the place of business they do not exist and cannot be found. They have no addresses, unlisted home phones, and undisclosed and rigidly guarded e-mail. They long ago abandoned house calla and after hour phone calls are answered by recorded direction to go to emergency.

Suddenly the majority of these 67000 MD’s fly in the face of common sense and are balking at allowing Medical Cannabis, and its benefits, on the basis that they don’t have sufficient knowledge of the long term harmful effects of smoking it.

Bullshit! They discount 4750 years of testimonial evidence passed down by all the preceding generations of real Doctors who freely advocated it for its curative power and lack of risk in its use.

Bullshit!

Today’s Doctors all claim to honour what was the primary tenet of the Hippocratic Oath: “FIRST, DO NO HARM”. Nobody reveals that this guiding principle has been removed from the Hippocratic Oath Modern Version and has not been replaced by an equivalent prohibition.. The Watered Down Oath may be seen in its current form as approved by John Hopkins at

http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=23699&sid=190964

I find it interesting that given the respect they are sworn to hold for their predecessor’s intelligence, in another part of the oath they dismiss all the traditional knowledge that Cannabis has shown no harm from occasional or even lifelong use. They swear: “I will respect the “hard-won scientific gains” of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow”.

To claim harm for a product all preceding generations of doctors recommend is to hold their collective intelligence in contempt. To dismiss all of it in favour of the hard-won scientific gains of last 50 years of billing possibility experts, who don’t even know who their patients are, is probably the grossest display of the lack of simple common sense I could have imagined from any profession. They have completely lost touch with the populace they are supposed to be serving.

I hear no outcry from the medical ethics experts: Where are they? because the ethical deficiency list is horrendous! I could keep on ranting forever but I don’t have to. Following is a simple listing of the components of Character from

Making Ethical Decisions

The Six Pillars of Character

at http://josephsoninstitute.org/MED/MED-2sixpillars.html

Simply reading the Index is enough to awaken almost anyone to the manifold shortcomings of the Profession. It seems every little word harkens memories of little things noticed that didn’t add up until now

Character:

• Trustworthiness
     - Honesty
     - Integrity
     - Reliability (Promise-keeping)
     - Loyalty
• Respect
     - Civility, Courtesy and Decency
     - Dignity and Autonomy
     - Tolerance and Acceptance
• Responsibility
     - Accountability
     - Pursuit of Excellence
     - Self-Restraint
• Fairness
     - Process
     - Impartiality
     - Equity
• Caring
• Citizenship

Can you smell the rot too?

Blaine Barrett

The Smee Goan Guy

The Year Ahead- Bumps and Hazards

( Shotgun Kiss by Megan Allard of Vancouver )

WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING?

Good Bloody Question.

I’m sorry I haven’t been posting more but this New Year poses some real new questions. I’ve been sitting her brainstorming trying to sort the crap out with regard to what I have already got going and what to start looking at.

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We’re only 3 weeks into the New Year and the game is changing again. FB rumor has it that HC is going to start granting extensions for what? Growth? Nobody knows what’s happening or is going to happen. When does the Crime for growing more than six plants take effect? Is Justice going to delay its implementation to help HC defuse the price crisis that is going to happen in April? We know there isn’t going to be any subsidization as long as Mr. Harper is in the Driver’s Seat: The Government he’s driving does have a reverse gear: he’s just too dumb to find it.

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Regardless of what the HC does, what are the Physicians going to do now? It doesn’t matter what HC does with licenses as long as Physicians are the only ones who can sign applications to get them and they refuse and stay on strike. I can’t see them backing off and that is going to cause very severe problems in the not too distant future.

Canadian doctors are totally hung up on their self image as a member of a Brotherhood: a brotherhood worthy of respect and admiration for its dedication to the welfare of their patients. They are not. The Brotherhood is in violation of its Oath.

Members of the Physicians’ brotherhood in ancient times were granted the honorific title Doctor to precede their name. This was more than recognition of the honor and respect due them for their physical sacrifice and service in the care of the community. They were an integral component of a village size pool of patients within which they voluntarily wandered, and lived with as they rendered their medical treatment. As a semi-family member these physicians were privy to all social relationships of the community he serviced.

The title Doctor was granted more in recognition of an individual’s wisdom and guidance as an empathetic counselor and source of comfort and understanding. He alone was intimately aware of all the pressures in play both on the individual patient, and the community dependant on that patient. He knew his patients from birth until death; he knew their contribution and what their loss would mean to every member of the community.

Now I get to criticize our Modern Members of the CMA for their arrogance in demanding the impossible knowledge that is already available and refusing to sign. They have no idea of the damage they are inflicting on the patient pool they are sworn to support and not harm. I think I am going to enjoy pointing their short comings out.

3. <><><>< More Criminal Cop Crap ><><><>

Whatever happens with Harpo, Health Canada and the doctors: it has bugger-all influence when it comes to the CCC (Corrupted Canadian Cops): They’ve got the Blue Brotherhood; the Only Cops investigate Cops restrictions, and the abuse of self incrimination pleas to escape any penalty or incriminate others. They have become callous, arrogant and abusive and now face no deterrent to their violations of law and rights. I will continue to press for prosection of the OPP for Criminal Negligence.That will be a continuing focus over the coming year.

I just sent a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice asking for the complete file of my refused complaint and appeal. That will take 30 days? So I have time to investigate the possibilities of a weapon that will scare the hell out of cops. I think we have one at hand but it is only useful if it results in making all cops apprehensive about their job security and bad conduct penalties TBA.

4. <><><><> Grow-op Bylaw Exemption ><><><><><><>

In regard to my Questions to Surrey City Council about an exemption for Personal and Dedicated Growth in the city Bylaw structure I spoke to a lawyer for the City of Surrey this week and I didn’t get very far with obtaining an answer. I could not get answers to specific questions and I honestly didn’t know if he had read my complaint so I asked him if he had. He said he had so I advised him I wanted a lot more specific answers and I wanted them in writing. He agreed and I am now waiting for that. TBA

5. <><><><><> The Israeli Photo Op <><><><><><><

So Monday, Parliament is back and we get to watch the Circus in motion when they get down to business.

Now we don’t have to wait for Stevie boy to get back and down to business, the break has been business as usual. He just got back from a trip to Israel and Arabville. He did his usual spouting of lies and throwing away of money that should better be spent at home.

He just kissed his buddy President Benjamin’s arse and bought the Israeli public with his show of support and anti- Muslim rhetoric. Then, to deal with a stupid war with no end, dumps a half billion bucks split between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. He’s handing out money to sworn enemies like a fucking drunken sailor does a whore. One side’s going to finance illegal settlements and the other is going to buy arms. Israel, Palestine, Jordan can now expect a whore’s treatment and get a fucking of some sort sooner or later

That Photo Op pretty much was a sheer waste of money but I don’t think that was the point of the trip. The point of the trip was an attempt to impress the average Jewish voter that should there be an election in Canada, Hanukkah Harpo is the guy to promote. How I think he attempted to accomplish this is another post to look forward to. LOL

6. <><><><>Too Much Shit To List<><><><>

While the foregoing items are the focus of interest at the moment, this year will see the continuance of all the contentious issues that have resulted from the Conservatives attack on our social system with its built in protections of the citizenry. We have problems in almost every area of Government. Stephen Harper has intentionally invaded and corrupted departmental systems to control more and more of the functions of government. Shuffling personnel, changing departmental structures, changing committees to influence their decisions to favor the government: altering deadlines and reporting requirements to restrict or control information flow to the opposition.

No-one knows in what order they will surface but all of the areas neglected by the government are going to fester more in the next two years of King Harpo’s reign. Not much more to say now: we just get to sit and watch and hear what Stevie the Weevil is going to lie about next. On that depressing note, once I hit Publish on this post I’m going into the bathroom to have a little cry.

What a fucked up future!

I know!

“This too shall Pass”

but

NOT SOON ENOUGH!

An Invitation to the CPSO Consultation re Marijuana

They’ve Given Us an Opening

Sucker Punch the Bastards

For the first time there is a channel available that can permit all of our anger and resentment about Cannabis and the failure to recognize its benefits to be dumped into the heart of the Canadian Medical Community.

Get Off Your Ass and Bitch

Don’t Miss This Opportunity

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has opened its ears and is apparently prepared to listen to input not only from the Old Boys Club but also to the public. When it comes to a review of the College’s Policy re Cannabis it’s about time they actually considered the input of the patients they are targeting with their no signature, no cooperation strike.

The CPSO has issued a Consultation Request as part of a review of their policy on Medical Marijuana. I have checked out their Consultation request and it is a wonderful opportunity to make our voice heard. They have provided access for comment and contribution via several routes and I recommend a submission of a complaint to all of them.

They have requested our thoughts on the current policy

We can submit our comments to a discussion forum, send our comments via Email, complete a brief online survey concerning the current policy, or send our comments via regular mail

The Policy you are being asked to criticize can be summarized into 5 main points that I have listed following along with my first comments just sent to them. Read them all and then give the College your input on any or all. I know this is an opportunity to rant but don’t. Keep it civil and to the point and make them understand that they are failing in their oath to Do No Harm and we feel betrayed..

The Five Points of Policy

1.    Physicians are expected to use their best judgment in deciding whether to complete a medical declaration under the MMPR.

Dr. Louis Francescutti, the President of the Canadian Medical Association in his Initial address to the Association stressed that his primary concern was to correct the Image of the CMA. He was referring to the self-image physicians have of themselves: not to their image from a Patient’s point of view and that of the general public. By and large you are perceived as a pack of liars intentionally depriving patients of needed services for political gain. You are in violation of your Oath to do no harm and you are inflicting unnecessary pain and suffering. Take great care

2.    To date, there have not been adequate studies that prove that marijuana is effective in relieving symptoms associated with serious medical conditions.

This is a flat out lie. None has been listed in CMA approved venues but unless you’re blind you have to be aware of the growing mass of testimonial evidence that is flooding social media. The respectable scientific community without your participation or support has engaged in some serious research of late and every day sees a new properly conducted double blind statistically verified study that indicates great potential for the plant used in various ways besides smoking.

3.    The adverse effects of marijuana use include the harms associated with smoking. Pure Bullshit: everybody knows it.

The only adverse effect of smoked marijuana is a nasty cough when you get too greedy and bogart the joint. Ignore the smokers if you want and look at the medibles, tinctures, elixirs and Rick Simpson oil and start helping your patients. All of them are watching you to see where you guys stand: is there any flexibility to this blockade or ar you as rigid as the CMA with the pokers up their ass?

4.    Physicians are not obligated to complete a medical declaration under the MMAR. Physicians who choose to do so are advised to proceed with caution.

Proceed with caution because to begin signing applications is to violate the orders of the CMA and they are nasty bastards and recrimination is possible. They are acting like a bunch of political lobbyists on a wildcat union strike and the whole country is watching.

5.    Physicians can consider prescribing the oral pharmaceutical form of cannabinoids where possible to address the treatment needs of patients who have chronic conditions.

They can but they should not. Why not? Because they are big Pharma drugs that are more dangerous than smoking: The initial guesswork of an industry that will founder if cannabis actually does cure cancer. There are only two drugs to date and nobody has any idea what side effects can occur if they are used for treatment for a variety of maladies.

No accurate dosage relative to any ailment is known so you’re guessing on the dosage and the frequency; totally ignorant of any potential side effects. There is no index of data available on how to prescribe for various conditions so you’re guessing in the dark. What is so different about cannabis?

Think about it!

I just posted these 5 points and comments as Comment #34 as a Member of the Public to their Discussion Forum. It survived the moderators despite its negative view and criticism so I think we should all give them input.
Just take a peek at the storm they have already kicked up and there is lots more to come Go to

http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=2593

Enjoy
Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy