The story behind Gomery (4): Chretien's words

Some quotes from fomer prime minister Jean Chretien's testimony at Gomery on or around February 8, 2005 and why they caught my eye.

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1. February 7, 2005. When chased by reporters about his upcoming appearance at Gomery, Chretien joked: "you're missing me, eh?"
2. December 26, 2004. "Have you been missing me?" is the title of my blog.

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1. February 8, 2005. "To call them Westmont cheap -- it would be an oxymoron", Chretien avenges Gomery for his "small-town cheap" comment.
2. August 23, 2004. "Moron vs. Mormon" is the title of my blog which, by the way, sent Kinsella packing.
3. July 19, 2004. "Boy, is that Matt Drudge guy ever an asshole. What a moron." Kinsella blogged on the day after I emailed him, among other journalists, my 2nd release titled "Stolen Election".

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1. February 8, 2005. "I was not going to sin by not acting", Chretien testified.
2. February 7, 2005. "Sorry, I sinned!" is the title of my blog.
3. February 10, 2005. To be a tough guy is never having to say sorry. -- Margaret Wente commented in her column on the Globe.

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1. February 8, 2005. "And even now, I don't listen to the news before going to bed, it's the best way to ensure a good night's sleep." Chretien testified.
2. Since last summer. I have disclosed, on many occasions, that sleeping is my major problem because of what's going on in my life.

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1. February 8, 2005. "If you don't have any money and it's raining in your house, you still call in the plumber," Chretien testified.
2. February 3, 2005. "For some people, money is not everything. For others, apparently, it's just too hard for them to understand." I blogged.

The story behind Gomery (3)

In the early morning of Monday, January 24, I posted another major entry on my blog. This entry goes to the heart of my story and tells people what my story is all about, i.e., racism and bigotry.

Mulroneyites

In the afternoon, I called Mr. McRae. He sounded completely different from the previous week. He was extremely friendly and excited about working on my story, saying that he was going to call me "in a couple of days" for us to meet. I guess my morning blog helped.

(He did ask me a strange question a couple of times: Where did I stay? As I had told MacAdam my number at the homeless shelter before, my sense was that he knew it already. In retrospect, he was simply suggesting that I should make that information public on my blog.)

Of course, he did not call me back. This is because, as I now know, the immediate reactions from the Chretien camp. (In MacAdam's January 30 column, "public enemy No. 1" was the catch phrase. I later understand that Mulroney was often referred to as Chretien's public enemy No.1, or vice versa.)

Chretienites

Warren Kinsella's attack on me was immediate. See the first of his many blog entries on January 25 with a picture whose meaning I have described here. (Indeed, his blogging activities on that single day were probably heavier than those of the previous week combined.)

The next day, he started a "blog war" with Norman Spector, whose blog I read very often, and who was labeled by Kinsella as a "Mulroney crony".

Also on the next day, lawyers for Jean Chretien called on Judge John Gomery to step down. It was immediately in the news.

It's also interesting to note that Kinsella unilaterally declared a truce with Paul Martin in his January 26 blog. He was apparently disappointed when Martin decided to support Gomery in dealing with Chretien's challenge, which was a no-brainer politically. See Kinsella's January 28 blog entry for his disappointment. In terms of dealing with me, I guess Martin does not need Kinsella as he has the whole MSM in his palms.

MSM

MSM immediately jumped on me again, to defend their political master Paul Martin. Without any help, I fought alone, as reflected in my early February blogs. Detailed may be added later. But the following were examples.

For example, I made mistakes in my abovementioned blog in the usage of Liberal and liberal. In his February 3 column on National Post, Adam Radwanski writes: "For doing the liberal thing, rather than the Liberal thing, the government deserves the respect if not the approval of its opponents." Well, I was embarrassed. (See also Kinsella's January 28 blog entry about Claire Hoy, "nemesis of Liberals and liberals everywhere". – Also, Kinsella appeared to imitate my (bad) writing style of using brackets.)

Another example. After this major blog, I sent out many emails to editors of smaller community newspapers. Kinsella appeared to know that. See his January 30 blog entry where the hyperlink pointed to a news organization to which I sent an email.

The story behind Gomery (2)

I was quite depressed over the Christmas period and did not blog much until January 5 when I put up the summary of the connections to Cecilia Zhang case on my blog.

MSM

This significant blogging activity of mine resulted in immediate MSM's attacks. Those attacks include letting me know about my exposed pictures. Stalking me online, as well as letting me know that I was stalked online, is also a form of bullying. I have written about those here.

Of course, Warren Kinsella was part of the attack, as I alluded to in the same entry. In addition, on January 7, he warned website owners in his blog about the legal risk of running a comment section. (Adam Radwanski blogged about Toronto's imagined lawlessness on January 6.) Their writings were in response to my posting comments on a few Cecilia Zhang-related websites in order to generate interest in my blog, right after posting the summary. (I told you I am without privacy!)

Chretienites and Gomery

On Tuesday January 11, - the first day of Gomery inquiry after the Christmas, - Jean Chretien's lawyer David Scott "made a surprise appearance at the hearing" to object to newspaper interviews Gomery gave before Christmas. Scott also said that he's considering asking Justice John Gomery to step down.

Kinsella appeared at the hearing later that month and continued his attack on Judge Gomery in his blog.

Mulroneyites

On January 17, I called MacAdam again. He sounded surprised and upset that McRae had not contacted me. He said he was going to talk to McRae.

The following day, McRae called and left me a message. When I called him back, he did not sound very enthusiastic about writing my story. But he did not even ask me what my story was all about. It appeared that he already knew about my story.

He asked me to call him back the following week. I sensed that I needed to write another major summary, which I did.

The story behind Gomery (1)

The Parliament went to an early recess on December 14, 2004. On that day, I went into the visitor gallery and throw my protest flyers onto the House floor.

I am not proud of that incident, as I said before. To understand why I did it, you’ll have to read my previous blog entry.

My plan then was to go back to Vancouver and I knew I would not have the financial resources to come back to Ottawa again to protest. But on December 17, I met a concerned citizen who showed his willingness to help me. I met him again the following Monday to tell him about my story. Since he had to persuade some other people to help me, I decided to stay in Ottawa to hear back from him. (In the end, I did not get any help from him.)

Mulroneyites

While waiting in Ottawa, I read Pat MacAdam’s December 20 column, Christmas on the battlefield, in which he quoted Bobbie Burns: “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft a-gley”. I took it that he wanted me to stay in Ottawa. (If you read my blog, you’ll find that I like to use quote to make a point.) On December 22, I called Pat MacAdam for the first time.

(When I looked back, both his October 17, 2004 and November 21 columns appeared to call me to go to Ottawa.)

Our conversation only lasted for a couple of minutes. He did not ask many questions about my story. He asked where I came from and whether I got my citizenship. (It appeared that he knew about my problem, which was not entirely surprising if he had already read my report or had his own source of information.) He said he was going to call me back the next day for us to “get together”.

I was quite hopeful. However, the next day, he called to say that he had already written his columns for the next few weeks and he would have his colleague Earl McRae to follow up on my story.

Nobody called me for the next few weeks. I was a bit disappointed.

Gomery and Chretienites

Judge Gomery gave media interviews and made some controversial comments, which immediately draw criticisms from Chretienites, particularly from Warren Kinsella. See his blog for more details.

MSM

After successfully burying my story despite my daily protest in the cold weather on Parliament Hill, the MSM is all gleeful. Details might be added later.

Spectators at the blog competition

There were spectators at my blog competition with Warren Kinsella last summer. But I only noticed those pundits who made it known through their writings that they were watching the competition.

Among them, the most consistent one was Pat MacAdam, a columnist for Ottawa Sun. At the time of writing my report last fall, however, I did not think it was relevant enough to include his writings in it.

According to his August 15, 2004 column, MacAdam was "once dubbed Brian Mulroney's 'personal terrorist' and 'hit man'".

Mr. MacAdam cheered me on while I was blogging with Warren Kinsella.

1. On August 10, about three weeks into my blog competition with Warren Kinsella, I published an excerpt of my report about a harassing phone call I received. In MacAdam's August 15 column, he wrote about an incident where politicians were involved in making prank phone calls, and, in effect, gave my story credibility.
2. I am not sure if he wrote on August 22 as I do not have the record.
3. Warren Kinsella soon noticed Pat MacAdam's "nostalgic acts".
   

"August 23, 2004 - Charlie, Lorne and me saw Stiff Little Fingers last night at Lee's. What a disappointment! The guy who wrote something as life-altering (to me, anyway) 'Alternative Ulster' pausing in the middle of 'Suspect Device,' the greatest political song in the history of the world, to introduce the band, like a Vegas nostalgia act?! God, it was awful.

We can't easily remain revolutionaries when we're in our fifties with kids and mortgages, of course, but it would have been nice to see at least some acknowledgement of what once was. Am I wrong?"
(Kinsella)

However, MacAdam continued his "nostalgic acts" by recalling many of his early experience with Brian Mulroney in his next two columns on August 29 and September 5. And Kinsella had the following blog entry.

"September 4, 2004 - Twenty years!

Twenty years ago today, I said goodbye to my Ottawa friends - many of them working at polling stations - and flew back to start law school, the next day, at the University of Calgary. My Dad picked me up at the airport, and we listened to CBC Radio in the car as John Turner conceded defeat. "The people are always right," he said, and in that, he was telling the truth.

Brian Mulroney won a huge majority, and I started classes the next day. Twenty years ago!

Did I just make a few of you feel old?"
(Kinsella)

1. On September 7 and 8, I blogged about some of the police bullying incidents I experienced. In his September 12 column, Riders on the storm, Pat MacAdam recounts his experience traveling in a storm when police pointed guns at him. The title has a metaphorical meaning of the political storm surrounding the first minister's conference on health care, as also picked up by Pierre Bourque in his news site.
2. On September 19, he recalls racial problems in sports. A very positive article on racism.
3. After the first minister's conference, I was quite depressed. MacAdam's next columns were quite up-lifting of spirit to read. His September 26 column was about The Sixties revolution and his October 3 column was about native soldiers at war. I guess that was exactly what I need -- some fighting spirit.
4. On October 7, I started a 48-hour hunger strike at Simon Fraser University and I blogged quite a lot - and good ones, I might add - during those two days. It's my way of fighting back. On October 10, MacAdam started his column with "A phoenix can rise from the ashes -- time and time again."

I could go on with a couple of more. But you got the idea. However, it never occurred to me that I should take advantage of Pat MacAdam. I knew that Kinsella and MacAdam belong to different political parties. I just did not want to get into partisan politics.

My story is about racism and bigotry. And I am confident that my facts and logic along would convince journalists to make my story public. That's why for the two times I came to Ottawa - once on October 19 and once on November 23 - I did not even try to contact Mr. MacAdam immediately. In fact, I only got his phone number and called him for the first time on December 22, 2004. And we did not end up meeting with each other until March 17, 2005.

And that would be the story behind Gomery inquiry. But it was a "conspiracy" mostly conjured up in Kinsella's mind anyways. He knew that all along when he influenced MSM media to make sure nobody would report my story and in the end I would have to go to MacAdam for help.

(Sorry, I am too tired to finish it today.)

Dignity is in the news

After writing my previous entry with dignity last Wednesday, not surprisingly, it is in the news.

1. Thursday. Scott Reid attacking Conservatives: "Have they no dignity?" -- That's funny, Scott. Really funny.
2. Friday. CBC Radio news: "...Parliament came to an undignified halt today..." -- That's pathetic, CBC. Really pathetic.
3. Saturday. Rex Murphy on the Globe compares politics with literature and concludes that "at least literature allows for a little dignity." -- That's, um, that takes a memo to respond.

This entry is written with dignity

Same old, same old.

That's the kind of response I got from Warren Kinsella after posting the excerpt on our blog competition last summer. -- On the one hand, he would not link to my blog to ensure justice for Cecilia Zhang would be delayed for another day. On the other hand, he put up a picture on his blog this morning (May 10, 2005) to bully and try to muzzle me.

So let's get this over with and talk about the picture(s). With dignity.

I call myself a jobless immigrant without privacy. It's a sad designation, but reflects my reality. As detailed in my report of the same, I had been bullied, harassed, stalked and threatened by individuals (or their agents), who have the connections to, and protection of, the federal government and ruling Liberal party. In particular, my telephone and Internet were monitored, and as a result, my online trading account was robbed on October 20-24, 2000, exactly three years before Cecilia Zhang's abduction.

When I wrote my report, I already had the suspicion that there might be surveillance device(s) in or around my apartment or building. The suspicion was a logical conclusion of things that had happened to me, such as a series of good-timing harassing phone calls I got within a week or so in September/October 2003. A couple of incidents in the spring and summer of 2003, which I did not incorporate into my report, suggested that such device(s) might have included a camera and that they might have taken pictures of me while I was naked inside my apartment.

Fast forward to last fall. I started my fast and protest on October 20, 2004, one year anniversary of Cecilia Zhang's abduction. On November 1, my brother-in-law asked to talk to me and it seemed that he was trying to deliver a message about the existence of such picture(s). In the next a couple of days, Warren Kinsella and Adam Radwanski – who was Kinsella's sidekick and whose nut-cracking is a (minor) story of another day - pretty much confirmed the same message through their blogs.

"November 4, 2004 – A picture is worth a thousand words." (Kinsella)

"November 2, 2004 … the best I can do is tell you to picture Franz Ferdinand's slightly scruffier, slightly punkier kid brothers. " (Radwanski)

On January 6, 2005, just one day after I published the summary of connections to Cecilia Zhang's abduction and murder, all three of our national newspapers, National Post, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star, ganged up to bully me by choosing exactly the same picture - by the same photographer, of the same agency and with the same negative - for their front pages. (Back in the summer, I had told MSM about the bullying tactic of a Chinese language newspaper. I guess they all raced to the bottom.) And Margaret Wente did the same in her column that day.

So did Warren Kinsella in his blog the next day.

"January 7, 2004 - As per the previous entry, a regular (and twisted) reader has told me Liberal cabinet Minister Reginald Alcock "almost" had the URL http://www.regalcock.com/. That's a good one.

January 7, 2004 - Ha ha! Look at http://penisland.net/ - it ain't what you think, you naughty squirrel!" (Kinsella)

(Of course, I had suggested before that I suspected Reg Alcock had ulterior motive in ousting former Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski.)

Then there was the peculiar use of the word "picture" by the newly appointed Immigration Minister Joe Volpe on national TV on January 16, 2005.

"[The accuser] Harjit Singh has now been pictured as somebody who was completely unreliable." (Volpe)

On January 24, 2005, I posted another "major" blog entry about my experience with MSM in seeking justice for Cecilia Zhang. In drawing the conclusion on the current state of Canadian MSM, I paraphrased Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's business partner.

"To say Canadian journalism – which is essentially liberal (sic) journalism – is a sewer is an insult to sewage."

Kinsella recognized it and charged me with flattery the next day (January 25). But how did he make his point? With a picture, of course.

On February 4 , he would use the following sentence of a similar structure to smear Judge Gomery.

"To say that Gomery Pyle is spending taxpayer money like a drunken sailor would be to sully the reputation of drunken sailors everywhere." (Kinsella)

You see where he was going with his attack on Gomery? (More on this later. -- Updated.)

The last time I saw Kinsella bullying me with a picture was on April 6. – After weeks of virtual blog inactivity, I had "fired up the old P.C." (Kinsella, April 4) and sent out some emails and posted some comments on the Internet in order to bring traffic to my blog after Brault's testimony at Gomery. (The Post headline he was referring to that day, I guess, was FONDA REVEALS ALL.)

"April 6, 2005 - I don't ever comment here on client matters, ever, and I'm not about to start. But a colleague at work sent me this in regard to a headline on a story in today's Post, and I had a good laugh.Fear me? But why? I'm a nice guy." (Kinsella)

Today's picture, which appeared to show an old computer, was also directed at me. I blogged about my old laptop on February 1 (with dark humor). But Warren Kinsella seemed to have known it even before that. See his blog entries on November 29, 2004 and April 4, 2005.

"November 29, 2004 - What the cut line to the photo doesn't indicate is that this is the computer that is ACTUALLY IN USE RIGHT NOW at the Department of Homeland Security." (Kinsella)

"April 4, 2005 - Yesterday was busy with family stuff. So I didn't get a chance to fire up the old P.C. (that's Personal Computer, not Progressive Conservative, two terms that have always struck me as oxymoronic) until after the kids were tucked in bed." (Kinsella)

In Kinsella's picture blog on April 6, he asked if I was fearful of him. Frankly, it did bothered me a lot. But I have come to the conclusion that their bullying was really a reflection of Liberals' fear of my little blog, a blog produced with my obsolete PC while I stayed in a bunk at a homeless shelter.

So what is their fear?

The talk about racism, loudly and with dignity.

Help wanted

I am staying in an Ottawa shelter and do not have much resources. If you are in Ottawa area and would like to help me - voluntarily - with writing my story and putting it up on the Internet, please email me.

I think the public deserves to know the truth.

Full disclosure

Sooner or later, I expect the following question: What is your relationship with Warren Buffett?

 

Well, the answer is really simple: We live on the same planet.

 

Oh, if you read my report and blog, you can also conclude, correctly, that (a) I am a huge fan of his; and (b) I even wrote him a letter in May 2002.

 

Blog competition with Warren Kinsella: an excerpt from my report

The following is an excerpt from my report which was released last fall. I added a few hyperlinks and notes. The original text is here .

Warren Kinsella was one of the recipients of my second release "Stolen Election " on Sunday July 18, 2004. He was chosen because, apparently, he did not like Paul Martin.

Kinsella the Liberal Insider

However, on Monday July 19, 2004, -- only one day after my email release, -- he seemed to be spinning my story already.

• Attempted to paint me as some sort of unreasonable guy because I sued those professors who are much older than me.
• Mentioned Chretien's good gesture toward Martin to counter the implication that my file played a role in the Liberal leadership transition.
• Trivialized the conflict, or attributed the unsuccessful "rumor" about the defendant's daughter(s) and me to cultural differences.
• Asked people to not care about my story even if my situation is desperate, knowing its potential explosiveness.

Then on Tuesday, July 20, 2004, he posted a JOB that requires Canadian citizenship. (Note: I called myself a jobless immigrant without privacy in my email release.) He also gave away his sense of relief that the House was not sitting! (Note: Indeed, Paul Martin postponed the opening of the Parliament after the election.)

Of course, his kissing up to the Martin camp was too obvious to everybody. To me – to a lot of other people as well, I guess -- it was a little too much.

Could he have known about my story so quickly from those individuals, or his own party (LPC)? I decided to wait and see.

By the following Monday July 26, 2004, I was reasonably sure he was bullying me via his blog, because on the day before (Sunday July 25, 2004), (1) somebody left a wrong-number message in our answering machine about paying-up some $400 personal debt; and (2) I went to Wal-Mart. – The two things he mentioned in his blog. Also, his link to an article of one of his female fans and his joke to use it to "get a better birthday present" out of his wife bear the familiar resemblance to the defendant's hate-inciting spin that I would somehow use Ms. Kate Weldon's telephone message in my answering machine for similar purpose. More on this point later when Mr. Kinsella posted a lyrical message on the subject of answering machine while ostensibly vacationing in the Jamaica.

I have long learned that stalkers' real goal was psychological violence. Most of the times, they will find ways to let you know that you are being stalked. The same is true with online or on-telephone stalking. Mr. Kinsella was obviously trying to bully me off the Internet. I was determined that I would not be intimidated this time. I decided to write my own blog.

Thus the ensuring "blog competition".

Blog Competition

Soon after my July 27 post which purposefully linked, for the first time, to his blog, Mr. Kinsella countered with a fluent article on the role of ethnic communities in Canadian politics. (Note: My blog entry said that journalists were on vacation; he opening sentence made a reference that the CBC editor was on vacation.) It was easy for me to respond because all I needed to point out was his ability to change political colors so rapidly. Of course, I hinted that I did not like to be watched or bullied, hoping he would stop doing that.

But then, the most troubling part of his article -- whose intended audience was me – was his use of the word imagined because the defendant, and Liberal Party of Canada, had tried to label me as delusional before.

I decided to throw him a bait on August 1 and quoted a famous sentence from US 9/11 Commission Report, where the key word was imagination. He took the bait easily and explained that he meant "I wonder if it is a real thing" the next day from Jamaica.

As pointed out above, I was very concerned by his post of the lyrics about answering machine from Jamaica. To me, it reflected exactly the same spirit as the "All-you-have-is-one-recording" false pronouncement by lawyer Mr. Ed Ng in November 2002 (See Chapter 6). They both carried the defendant's spin which reduced the whole conflict into one telephone message by Ms. Kate Weldon. As a self-described "white, middle class male" (July 21 blogpost) who bought into the defendant's spin, Mr. Kinsella's feeling toward me was most likely jealousy and hatred. And that hatred, I am sorry to say, had spread to others such as Adam Radwanski and, to a lesser extent, Pierre Bourque.

Dare I say it was probably the same hatred that had played a role in Cecilia Zhang abduction and murder?

For the record

Here is a list of comments I made on the Internet. It will be updated as new comments are posted.

1. On Andrew Coyne's web site, April 12, 2005.
2. On Andrew Coyne's web site, April 13, 2005.
3. On Andrew Coyne's web site, April 21, 2005.
4. On Andrew Coyne's web site, April 27, 2005.
5. On Norman Spector's web site, April 28, 2005.
6. On BlogsCanada, here and here, May 9, 2005.
7. On Norman Spector's web site, May 9, 2005.
8. On Andrew Coyne's web site, May 10, 2005.
9. On Norman Spector's web site, May 10, 2005.
10. On Andrew Coyne's web site, May 11, 2005.
11. On Norman Spector's web site, May 29, 2005.

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