Do you think it's an important 'right' that you can obtain "the personal opinions or views of an individual employed by a government institution given in the course of employment" …as it relates to you?
You sound a bit more philosophical about it than you once were... a good thing, I would say. One step at a time.
-Mac
I have taken a different approach in some ways - what I had to do to keep 'living' and 'fighting' on at the same time. Unlike other kinds of abuses the reality of this one does not fade - it's as 'there' in my sinus cavity today as it was all those seven years ago.
When the nefarious device is removed it will not be 'there' anymore and then I can begin the full process of healing. In the interim I had to decide that the matter wasn't going to be the end of me and the person that I have been all my life. It wasn't going to make me permanently and overly negative and cynical - which is hasn't.
Of course I cannot express the gratitude of having the moral support of fellow Conservatives and others!
Notwithstanding the negatives coming out of this incident - opportunities to create a number of positives have also been presented to me - for that i'm grateful as well.
Naturally the compensation that must be paid one day will be nice too...
He’s a Bloggin’ Tory (’natch) and the only commenter on Professor Dodo’s website.
Loons of a feather flock together, I guess.
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So I commented back (on two of his blog entries...the other one was from earlier this year called "why Israel is wrong") - in any case - the Red troll didn't like that I had something to say in defense of myself and today he wrote on his blog:
"You’re a bitter, sad little man. Please go away."
That after he picked on me out of the blue!
I commented back tonight:
don muntean
July 22, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Don’t worry Red Tory I won’t hang around the trash heap for too long…don’t forget that YOU targeted ME in your blog – I didn’t come here and start picking on you – I came here because I was besmirched on your blog.
I’m not a “little man” but…I may be somewhat bitter and sad and – with good reason.
After this exchange here I have a good idea of what YOU would be like if the ‘implant’ happened to you!
The difference with me – I do NOT displace on others…for you to describe me in this manner and on the heels of your mistake in using me as the focus of some irreverent comment to mock me – for a “laugh” as you put it – about my situation – is a sign that you must be a ‘bitter little man’.
You have poor interpersonal skills. How old are you? Is that avatar picture of you? You come across as very juvenile are you having your midlife crisis…
You even appear to be somewhat narcissistic – especially since you think so much of yourself that you think people ought to donate to [oh sorry that's 'tip'] you after reading your blog!
My website is still online because it’s true – section 298 and 299 of the criminal code of Canada make defamation a crime.
The dentist made such a bogus complaint to police in 2004-2005 and they didn’t believe her and they never charged me with any such offense because I’m not defaming her and there is no doubt that if I were not telling the truth that website would be an example of a terrible defamation and – the police would have acted accordingly.
Do you think that it’s impossible that such a thing could happen in Canada?
You may want to mock this implant matter and I’m not exactly sure why…have you asked yourself how you would feel about it if in fact it is true?
For the sake of a better understanding of your own position on this…just suppose that it did happen – do you think that it’s acceptable for government to do that to people?
Next time think twice about taking cheap shots at people out of the blue…
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So for a really good "laugh" check out this adolescent 56 year old's blog exchange:
An article from WorldNETDAILY from September 2007:
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – The safety of implantable tracking chips in human beings is suddenly in focus with the revelation the devices could cause cancer, and that studies showing links to the disease were kept under wraps.
According to the Associated Press, despite the chips' approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, neither their maker nor federal regulators publicly mentioned a series of studies dating to the mid-1990s that found chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.
"The transponders were the cause of the tumors," Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, told AP as he explained the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.
The wire service says leading cancer specialists reviewed the research, and "while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people."
Implantable VeriChip, about the size of a grain of rice
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – The safety of implantable tracking chips in human beings is suddenly in focus with the revelation the devices could cause cancer, and that studies showing links to the disease were kept under wraps.
According to the Associated Press, despite the chips' approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, neither their maker nor federal regulators publicly mentioned a series of studies dating to the mid-1990s that found chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.
"The transponders were the cause of the tumors," Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, told AP as he explained the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.
The wire service says leading cancer specialists reviewed the research, and "while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people."
The chips are made by VeriChip Corp., a division of Applied Digital Solutions, of Delray Beach, Fla.
The company says some 2,000 have been implanted in humans worldwide, and VeriChip sees a target market of 45 million Americans looking to be medically monitored.
"We stand by our implantable products which have been approved by the FDA and/or other U.S. regulatory authorities," Scott Silverman, VeriChip Corp. chairman and chief executive officer, said in a written response to AP questions.
The company was "not aware of any studies that have resulted in malignant tumors in laboratory rats, mice and certainly not dogs or cats," but he added millions of domestic pets have been implanted with microchips, without reports of significant problems.
"In fact, for more than 15 years we have used our encapsulated glass transponders with FDA approved anti-migration caps and received no complaints regarding malignant tumors caused by our product."
While the FDA is also standing by its approval of the technology, federal officials declined repeated AP requests to specify what studies it reviewed before giving the green light.
The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson.
ust two weeks after the chip's approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post. Within five months, he became a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions, getting compensated in cash and stock options.
Thompson, until recently a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, says he had no personal relationship with the company as the VeriChip was being evaluated, nor did he play any role in FDA's approval process of the RFID tag, reports AP.
"I didn't even know VeriChip before I stepped down from the Department of Health and Human Services," he said.
As WND previously reported, Thompson pledged that he himself would get chipped with the device, but to date has never gone through with the procedure.
The studies between 1996 and 2006 revealed lab mice that had the chips implanted in them developed malignant tumors, most of which encased the implants. The AP reports:
* A 1998 study in Ridgefield, Conn., of 177 mice reported cancer incidence to be slightly higher than 10 percent ? a result the researchers described as "surprising."
* A 2006 study in France detected tumors in 4.1 percent of 1,260 microchipped mice. This was one of six studies in which the scientists did not set out to find microchip-induced cancer but noticed the growths incidentally. They were testing compounds on behalf of chemical and pharmaceutical companies; but they ruled out the compounds as the tumors' cause. Because researchers only noted the most obvious tumors, the French study said, "These incidences may therefore slightly underestimate the true occurrence" of cancer.
* In 1997, a study in Germany found cancers in 1 percent of 4,279 chipped mice. The tumors "are clearly due to the implanted microchips," the authors wrote.
"There's no way in the world, having read this information, that I would have one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family members," Dr. Robert Benezra, head of the Cancer Biology Genetics Program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, told AP.
"I mean, these are bad diseases. They are life-threatening. And given the preliminary animal data, it looks to me that there's definitely cause for concern."
Naturally I have wondered if I will end up with cancer...
Were any such safety concerns considered at all in the formation of the device which was 'covertly' placed in my maxillary sinus on June 05, 2002?
So many questions so few answers...yet.
I have faith that my petitioning of our federal Conservative government is going to bring this matter forward! It has taken a few years - but this matter is in the public sphere and it's not going to disappear. No I don't have 'the media' and 'the opposition' on my side but - I do have the truth on my side.
"BIDEN: And we’ll be faced with equally consequential decisions in the 21st century.
Can a microscopic tag be implanted in a person’s body to track his every movement? There’s actual discussion about that.
You will rule on that — mark my words — before your tenure is over.
Can brain scans be used to determine whether a person’s inclined toward criminality or violent behavior?
You will rule on that.
The important thing is that This wasn’t an actual question (it was more of a lecture), and now Chief Justice Roberts didn’t answer the ‘question’. Listen carefully. Biden promised that would happen."
WASHINGTON - How much does the U.S. government really trust Canada? Maybe less than you think.
Espionage warnings from the Defence Department caused an international sensation a few years ago over reports of mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, until they were debunked.
The culprit turned out to be a commemorative quarter in Canada. But at the height of the mystery, senior Pentagon officials speculated whether Canadians were involved in the spy caper.
"I don't think it is an issue of the Canadians being the bad guys," the Pentagon's counterintelligence chief wrote in an exchange of emails obtained this week by The Associated Press, "but then again, who knows."
In the emails, released to AP under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act with names blacked out but job titles disclosed, Pentagon officials question whether they should warn military officers in the U.S. Northern Command, who regularly met Canadian counterparts about classified subjects inside bug-free government meeting rooms. The rooms are known as secure compartmentalized information facilities, or SKIFs.
"Isn't the Canadian piece something that should be briefed to Northcom since the Canadians sit in their SKIFs?" asked the Pentagon's deputy director for counterintelligence oversight, in emails marked "Secret/NoForn."
"Good point," replied the Pentagon's acting director for counterintelligence. "It is possible that DSS (the U.S. Defence Security Service) sent their report to Northcom. Then again, I don't think it is an issue of the Canadians being the bad guys, but then again, who knows."
Who knows?
Canada is among the closest of U.S. allies, its continental northern neighbour and the leading oil supplier for the United States. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily tight and routinely share sensitive secrets. President Barack Obama chose Canada as the destination of his first foreign trip, to underscore what he described as the two countries' long-standing and growing friendship.
In sensational warnings that circulated publicly in late 2006 and early 2007, the Pentagon's Defence Security Service said coins with radio transmitters were found planted on U.S. Army contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors travelled through Canada.
In January 2007, the government abruptly reversed itself and said the warnings were not true. The case remained a mystery until months later, when AP learned that the flap had been caused by suspicions over the odd-looking Canadian "poppy" quarter with a bright red flower.
The silver-coloured 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy - Canada's flower of war remembrance - inlaid on a maple leaf.
What suspicious contractors believed to be "nanotechnology" on the coins actually was a protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy's red colour from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.
The Pentagon turned over the latest emails from inside its Office of the Undersecretary of Defence for Intelligence nearly two years after the AP requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. Many of the emails were censored over what the Pentagon said was national security and personal privacy.
One email included a curious message on the same day the Defence Security Service publicly disavowed its warning about the spy coins.
"I am guessing y'all know the status of the Canadian coin situation," it read. It called for an internal meeting "to chat about the next step to put Humpty together again" and suggested notifying the media - and the Canadians.
They didn't spend any more than 10 minutes at my website and I know that because I track all visitor 'stats' at the website. What police department did they contact? Moose Jaw police know nothing of this matter and Regina police did not investigate it as they told me "it's a civil matter" - which I didn't agree with - in any case - I guess I will have to boycott as noted - not that I want to but i guess that is what one has to do...what happened to Canada?
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On June 05, 2004 - I made a complaint to the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner and I was ultimately told [among things] a report was being issued - then later in November 2006 I was finally told by the commissioner [with no explanation] that there wasn't going to be a report - what happened? There was a report as these email exchanges confirm:
Gary Dickson - the Privacy Commissioner once said to me "they have to make you happy and whole and only you know what can make you happy and whole" also - in speaking of a "meeting" that was to ensue with his report he said "bring your shopping list" - he also told me that in all his years in public and private service - he had "never seen a situation like this".
So what trounced that report? Was there political interference?
I think there was and of course Calvert's government was behind it...but they aren't the ones who put the final kibosh on my complaint [in late 2006].
Dickson's office sat on the completed HIPPA report - from May 2006 before dumping in November 2006!
I have more emails regarding the so-called report - letters from a Regina lawyer following his talking to Dickson about his investigation/report regarding this June 05, 2002 matter.
I respected Dickson and I still do - but I think that it's obvious that there was political interference - to suppress this issue and - he didn't go public with that...
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While Mr. Harper [and the two prime ministers preceding him] goes around the world 'speaking' of that canard - the reality 'at home' is much less enlightened...I'm sick of fighting for "human rights and the rule of law" - with a provincial and federal government - that could really care less about these 'principles'.
How did I become such a non-entity in this great bastion of rights?
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