Topic: Steven Staples & Company

[recceguy]

The actual video feed is better Sun News Byline on Ceasfire

Brian Lilley pwned Staples

[Retired AF Guy]

Who actually takes him seriously? He almost comes across as a conspiracy theorist.

Unfortunately, too many people take him seriously. Just look at any MSM reporter who needs a statement regarding any military and he is one of the first people they go to for a quote. That resonates with the public who don't know his background and/or agenda.

[jollyjacktar]

Unfortunately, too many people take him seriously. Just look at any MSM reporter who needs a statement regarding any military and he is one of the first people they go to for a quote. That resonates with the public who don't know his background and/or agenda.

Being a "I wish I was/had of been/could have been a MacPap" is a pretty serious background.   

[Good2Golf]

That said, it's always a treat to watch Mr. Staples try and go up against very capable, well-spoken and very well-informed folks like Mercedes Stephenson.   

Interesting to note how interviewers rarely characterise/introduce Mr. Staples as the founder of "Ceasefire.org"...always as the President/Director of the Rideau Institute.

Regards
G2G

[Technoviking]

That said, it's always a treat to watch Mr. Staples try and go up against very capable, well-spoken and very well-informed folks like Mercedes Stephenson.   

There, fixed that for you.

[Cdn Blackshirt]

Instead of pointing to the Spanish Civil War, Mr Staples should've been honest and admitted he would've been one of the helpers to assist with Stalin rounding up people and sending them to Siberia (or worse), or assisting Mao with his Great Leap Forward.

If you look at his arguments and contradictions, that's exactly where his ideology points him....

I would go further and wager he probably has a Little Red Book somewhere in his office.


 

[Danjanou]

.....I would go further and wager he probably has a Little Red Book somewhere in his office pocket.

TFTFY

[GAP]

Quote from: Good2Golf on Today at 10:51:24

    That said, it's always a treat to watch Mr. Staples try and go up against very capable, well-spoken and very well-informed folks like Mercedes Stephenson. 

There, fixed that for you.

 

[milnews.ca]

Whazzup for the next while for S.S. and Co.?

....  Next month we’re organizing our largest ever “Be Heard on March 3rd” annual day of action, calling on tens of thousands of people to refuse to pay taxes for war and the F-35 stealth fighter.

    We are continuing our work to oppose Harper’s plan to build a “Fortress North America” with deeper integration with the Pentagon and uncontrolled sharing of our personal information.

    In the fall we plan to bring experts and guests together to talk about the Arctic, and how to avoid a nuclear and military arms race in this delicate, environmentally sensitive region.

    And we’re hosting an expert on Lockheed Martin to tell MPs and journalists how Lockheed Martin drains public coffers of funds for weapons ....

A bit more in the latest from ceasefire.ca (no link, lest we boost the hits there too, too much).

[medicineman]

I wonder if you get a free packet of gravol with the newsletter...or at least some of whatever they're smoking so all can be on the same wavelength.

MM

[Dimsum]

Against my better judgement, I opened that PDF file.  Excuse me while I go hurl.

[dogger1936]

War loving generals.....

[Teeps74]

Yikes. I just love how Mr Staples attempts to sell himself as "unbiased" WRT his recent testimony on the F35.

Mr Staples needs to accept that he is indeed very biased WRT all things military... Nothing wrong with being biased. We are all biased.

I also find it troubling that he is a "go-to-guy" for military matters within the MSM, especially when it is NOT noted that he is a co-founder for Ceasefire and an anti-military activist.

[Bird_Gunner45]

Whazzup for the next while for S.S. and Co.?A bit more in the latest from ceasefire.ca (no link, lest we boost the hits there too, too much).

Sweet, so we can choose what our taxes pay for now? Adios equalization payments to Quebec!

[Retired AF Guy]

"calling on tens of thousands of people to refuse to pay taxes for war and the F-35 stealth fighter."

I'm sure there are a bunch of guys/gals over at Revenue Canada who are thinking, "Oh ya, make my day."

[Larry Strong]

Wondering if they are handing out free crack to go with the pipe dream..........

[jollyjacktar]

I wonder if you get a free packet of gravol with the newsletter...or at least some of whatever they're smoking so all can be on the same wavelength.

MM

I would think Granola would be more appropriate.  Along with a touque that has the dangly cords they seem to love so.

[medicineman]

Gravol has two effects - keeps me from puking OR in a pinch gets people stoned.  But I see your point, coming from the West Coast.

MM

[Get Nautical]

The actual video feed is better Sun News Byline on Ceasfire

Brian Lilley pwned Staples

Thank-you Mr. Lilley, for shutting this guy down.

At Vimy Ridge "3,598 dead out of 10,602 Canadian casualties"(1). A single battle, still regarded as one of the most successful in history. When Sir Arthur Currie returned to Canada in 1919 "His visit to the House of Commons was met with a deafening silence and hissing from the gallery. Borden who is out of the country at the time, still waits four months to defend him against the vitriol of Sam Hughes' attacks, (that Currie had wasted Canadian lives), in the House. His attacks certainly did a lot to turn the Canadian public's thinking against Currie and there are those even today, who label him a butcher"(2).

We lost more soldiers at Vimy Ridge, than the entire Afghan war. Generals have always had to lobby on the backs of dead soldiers, in order to get the money, man power and equipment necessary to save lives.

If we scale down and under fund our military, with the everything winding down in Afghanistan. We will run into the same problems we had in the past.

Notes:
1. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/history/firstwar/vimy/vimy5
2. http://www.currieproject.ca/post-war.html

[Brad Sallows]

>how to avoid a nuclear and military arms race in this delicate, environmentally sensitive region.

I suppose we could start by not deploying Canadian nukes and armoured divisions.  That should not be hard to do.

[Get Nautical]

>how to avoid a nuclear and military arms race in this delicate, environmentally sensitive region.
I suppose we could start by not deploying Canadian nukes

Or American ones.