Jason Cherniak: A Favourite of Conservatives

Cherniak may not realize it, but his removal of folks from Liblogs, and all the split that was caused by it, is a source of celebration for conservatives. Basically they are saying to Cherniak, keep up the good work, we love it.

I found one conservative blog where links are given to my blog, James Curran's blog, and a few other blogs as well (including the new aggregator, liberalsonline.ca, created by James Curran) talking about the split. Frankly, I find it disturbing that this situation has arisen. Here is the link: http://canadaconservative.blogspot.com/2009/01/liblogs-in-full-blown-revolt.html

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Cherniak's Supporters

I didn't want to write another post on Cherniak, however, I couldn't help but notice the following: Cherniak does have some very ardent supporters, this is who they are!

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Israel's Defence

Israel says it is threatened by Palestinians in Gaza. What a dangerous mockery to justify mass slaughter of women, children and innocent civilians. Maybe it is because of the Internet that more information is available day by day, but I have never seen so blatant a mass murder in recent history.

Israel's defence is like a drunken driver in a Hummer killing a person. The defence being that "I saw this boy on the sidewalk and he looked threatening, so in order to save my life I had to run him over." Israel's leaders are drunk beyond any civilized limit by military power thanks to successive US administration who armed Israel to teeth over so many decades. According to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israel has over 100 deadly nuclear weapons. Now it is in the news that it is using deadly chemical weapons on Palestinians. Has anyone bought Israel's ruse other than the so-called "leaders" in North America – George W. Bush, Michael Ignatieff and Stephen Harper. Is there any other country in the world who is buying into this ruse.

Now let us turn to some supporters of Israel's actions in Gaza. Namely, Jason Cherniak and gang. They have libeled people left, right and centre. They use the term anti-Semitic so frivolously that it has lost its meaning completely (a complete disrespect to Jewish people who have faced discrimination and oppression throughout their history, including those who faced the horrors of the Holocaust).

On those who have been libeled by Cherniak and company, let us start with James Curran, a self-declared friend of Israel who has resigned from Liberal Friends of Israel and now has also resigned from so-called Liblogs as well. This gentleman was accused again and again of being anti-Semitic, including by Ezra Levant of the National Post. This was a blatant libel. Curran is far from being anti-Semitic. Then there is MoS who was accused of defending Hamas's using innocent civilians as protection shields – Cherniak himself made that accusation. I read MoS's post very carefully, he is nowhere supporting such a thing. Nonetheless, he was booted out of Liblogs because of that. I believe that was a libel on Cherniak's part. I then vehemently protested MOS's expulsion and the next thing I know I was booted out too.

Then there was the write-up on the top of Liblogs, Cherniak telling everyone how we must think and write. I thought it was flabbergasting and a severe breach of trust. The Liblogs aggregate was supposed to be one that allow varied opinions of different Liberal Bloggers and one that was not beholden to one person's point of view (much as the Liberal Party itself has historically been a broad tent allowing a diversity of opinions). Cherniak thus attracted many bloggers to his Cherniaklogs under false pretences. Now James Curran and friends have resigned.

And of course there is a long list of past libels and abuses by Jason Cherniak, where he labelled people who disagreed with him as anti-Semetic, and where he spread false rumours as well (such as the ridiculous rumour he spread about the NDP stacking the vote in Trinity-Spadina in 2006). If I were to get into these past libels and abuses, the list would be endless. That is why I am only focussing on Cherniak's recent actions.

In sum, Cherniak has become an extraordinary liability both to himself, to others, and to the Liberal Party that he professes to support.

Did anyone ever tell Cherniak that if you are in a hole, stop digging. But instead, every time he picks up an even bigger shovel. Is he reading other blogs and what people are saying about him? For example this one here has a very funny picture of Cherniak, and Canadian Cynic has a hilarious post on him.

Quite frankly it was the anti-Semitic smears that strengthened my resolve to oppose the current slaughter of the Palestinians. Since then I have read extensively on the tragedy and seems to get worse every day. The World has to wake up to this extraordinary inhuman slaughter and speak out against it. Thank God that European nations are doing it and the United Nations has made its position clear on this also. Even the Red Cross has broken its silence and is pointing out the atrocities of Israel.

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Cherniak, Thank You

Thank you Jason Cherniak, since you deleted my posts and kicked me off Liblogs, I've been receiving some interesting e-mails and links. The excerpt below, from the Globe and Mail, quite frankly shocked me.

Now you understand what I mean when I say that Cherniak is damaging the Liberal Party, he has galvanized people not only against him, but against the Liberal Party and against Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff (my comments section and e-mail inbox is evidence of this fact).

P.S. The black and white Iggy posters, like the one below, were also brought to my attention in the aftermath of Cherniak's purge of Liblogs.


Michael Ignatieff: "I've been very ruthless in my life"

The above poster is by Simon Pole

"From his support of torture and the invasion of Iraq, to his cheerleading the violence in Gaza, this excerpt from an interview with the Globe and Mail's Michael Valpy explains a lot about Iggy:

...the next words (from Michael Ignatieff) come out in a rush: "I think there are people who would say I've been very ruthless in my life. I am someone who has worried greatly about the price my ruthlessness has inflicted on others. I have worried about that. I do worry about that.

"I don't want to litter the slopes with bodies. There may be people who I've left behind who feel that I was ruthless, and if they feel that, then all I can say is - I wouldn't apologize - all I could say is, I don't want to hurt people."

He does not break eye contact as he delivers this remarkable confession. It's as though he knows who I've spoken to and what I've been told about him...

"From The Globe and Mail

"'Littered the slopes with bodies', bragging about his 'ruthlessness', this frank confession tells us a lot about Mr. Ignatieff's thinking."

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Michael Ignatieff is Playing Political Football With the Lives of Palestinians

I cannot claim credit for this poster. It comes from another artist,
he is very talented. I will post more of his posters over the next few days.

If you think Michael Ignatieff actually cares about human lives, then think again. The story below shows that Ignatieff is basing his position on Israel-Gaza on the most cynical form of political calculation.

Also, I would like to thank Jason Cherniak for exposing the true malevolent nature of Iggy and his supporters. I'm sure he's helped a lot of people make up their minds as to who NOT to vote for in the next election. I live in a swing riding where every vote will count, and Cherniak has sure helped me to make up my mind.

The article below discusses the rationale behind Iggy's position on the killing in Gaza.


Why Canada backs Israel over Gaza
by Thomas Walkom - Toronto Star

The carnage in Gaza is both lopsided and graphic. As the death toll among Palestinians rises, even neutral international bodies have become critical of Israel.

The UN suspended relief supplies to Gaza after Israeli troops allegedly shot and killed one of its aid drivers. The International Committee of the Red Cross has broken its usual tactful silence to accuse Israel of breaching international humanitarian law.

Yet both the Conservatives, through their junior foreign minister Peter Kent, and the Liberals, through newly-annointed leader Michael Ignatieff, insist that Israel bears no responsibility, that its destruction of Gaza is a measured response to Hamas' sporadic rocket attacks and that the Islamic organization is solely to blame.

Click here to read more.

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Cherniak and Clones

I was removed from so-called Liblogs (Cherniaklogs) yesterday. I feel so relieved because I do not have to put up with the abuse from him and his clones. Earlier, some of my pictures were deleted from Cherniaklogs because they revealed the slaughter of women and children in Gaza by the Israeli army. Cherniak and clones called them pornographic. I suppose the Israeli government and army likes to create this kind of pornography. It makes me shudder at their cold-bloodedness.

I do not know if it was my picture of the Vatican Church which finally did it, as Cherniak deleted that picture right away. A Vatican spokesperson had said that Gaza was a concentration camp.

Many other Libloggers were harassed. James Curran was one of them. He was harassed by Ezra Levant of National Com-Post and others. Ezra Levant and other neo-cons are part of the Cherniak gang. Curran was accused of being anti-Semitic because he criticized Israel as well. I protested this harrassment. Then MoS was removed from Cherniaklogs because he was exposing Israel's atrocities. Maybe all this had a cumulative impact on Cherniak and he removed me from Cherniaklogs. I am glad he did because I do not wish to participate in an ideology of slaughter and bloodshed. If I knew this side of Cherniak early on, I would have never participated in Cherniaklogs to begin with.

It is highly disturbing that Cherniak and associate have been justifying the bloodshed and slaughter in Gaza. Note to my fellow Libloggers, if you're still participating in Cherniaklogs then you are wittingly or unwittingly participating in a blog aggregate which openly supports Israel's bloodshed. If you're comfortable with that, then that is your prerogative.

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Jason Cherniak and Liblogs

Jason Cherniak and his gang have done extraordinary damage to the Liberal Party. While I understand that Liblogs is not officially affiliated, it is the main public face of the party in the blogosphere and Liberal Party announcements do appear on the aggregate.

Cherniak has been palling around with his close buddies Kelly McParland and Ezra Levant, they are well known to be despicable neo-cons. Cherniak is anything but liberal. The way he posted his ideological rants on the top of Liblogs, quite frankly promoting violence in Gaza, I doubt that Cherniak and his neo-con cronies are even human. They have no sense of humanity or compassion. They do not care about those who are suffering and being killed, but rather want to promote and encourage such inhumanity.

Is the Liberal Party not catching on to the damage Cherniak (in collaberation with McParland and Levant) are doing to the party? If these are the Liberal Party's advocates, then the Liberals are doomed. Maybe it's time to start a new Reform Party out of the ashes of this ruined Liberal Party, that would be more in line with the views of the Cherniak-McParland-Levant troika.

I am also shocked to know that one of the best writers and bloggers in the blogosphere, Mound of Sound, has been removed from Liblogs because he didn't share Cherniak's love and support of slaughter and death. How outrageous will Cherniak and his his fanatic cronies get? It is ironic that Cherniak had to be pushed repeatedly to remove a blogger who was far from Liberal, and who was making baseless slanders about Barack Obama, but when it comes to Cherniak's own twisted ideology, he wastes no time in censoring and kicking off bloggers.

Finally, if the Liberal Party does not realize how much damage these people - and whoever is advising Ignatieff on Israel - are doing, then in my book the party is done and Ignatieff is no leader.

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Gaza: "Big Concentration Camp"

Vatican Church

A glimmer of hope shining through the Vatican.

The situation in Gaza is a human tragedy perpetrated by fellow human beings. This led a senior Cardinal at the Vatican to call Gaza a "big concentration camp." There are over one billion Catholics in the world and therefore such a statement from the Vatican carries alot of weight. We must pay attention and try every thing, in our own way, to end this human suffering. I have no doubt that the Israeli government is the perpetrator. This is no reflection on all Israelis because a sizable number are opposed to the current bloodshed and slaughter. Many in the Jewish community around the World are also against this massacre of Palestinians. They demonstrated against it in Israel and around the World.

Then we have Iggy who calls himself the leader of the Liberal Party. I believe he was not elected leader but appointed by the Liberal caucus, this is an undemocratic way to choose a leader (Iggy was probably worried that he couldn't win it democratically, and that party members would gang up against him as they did at the 2006 convention). Iggy's unequivocal blame on Gaza for the current conflict is troubling. The man may be a good scholar but he is no leader and primarily ignorant of international affairs.

Sorry folks, but I cannot support such a leader. Iggy is going to lose alot of visible minority voters. It is these voters who have been very loyal to the Liberal Party and kept it alive, especially in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, over the last two elections. No more.

Also, Iggy's stand will lose alot of progressive Liberal voters who care about human rights issues.

I am disgusted with Liblogs already. It is controlled by a freak. I no longer care if I am part of it or not. I just wanted to get a more fair point of view across but Liblogs does not seem be to be the route to go as long as freaks run it and control it. They are not helping the Liberal Party, they are hurting it.

You can read the story about the Vatican Cardinal's statement below.

Vatican cardinal calls Gaza "big concentration camp"
Pope Benedict's point man for justice and peace issues on Wednesday issued the Vatican's toughest criticism of Israel since the latest Mideast crisis began, calling Gaza a "big concentration camp". Click here to read more.

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Gaza: Good people around the world are against this bloodshed

There are too many pictures to put in one composite because it exceeds the limit of what I can post in terms of size.

Fair-minded people around the world are against the current slaughter in Gaza by Israel. These protestors come from all ethnic groups, cultures, religions and regions of the World, and includes residents of Israel. Not all Israelis like the violence carried out by their government. These protestors are Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and list goes on. At least fanatics cannot blame them for being anti-Semitic.

Talking about fanatics, there is a long list starting with Jason Cherniak, and his idols Kelly McParland and Ezra Levant of the National Compost. And do you know who are the idols of Kelly McParland and Ezra Levant? Stephen Harper and George W. Bush. Where does the Liberal Party stand on this because Jason Cherniak's close associates are neo-cons. If Liblog speaks for the Liberal Party then I wish the Liberal Party good luck. So many Libbloggers have been attacked by these fanatics. The Liberal Party better watch out. I am personally considering to sever my ties with the Liberal Party if fanatics like Cherniak are its supporters, but I doubt that the main operators of the Liberal Party know this man yet.

I am not the only one who has been attacked by these fanatics. Many other good Liberal bloggers are attacked too. One of the best bloggers on the net is Mound of Sound and he has been attacked by fanatic Ezra Levant, check out this post of his. The man does not have the courage to name names but he uses "here," "here" and "here" to link to MoS and others who are "bad people" and "anti-Semitic" according to his fanactic thinking.

Let me tell you how close Cherniak is to these fanatics. He brags that he removed his hyperbole from the top of the Liblogs because his idol Kelly MacParland has posted the same on National Compost.

Yesterday Cherniak's sycophants tried to intimidate and harass me on my blog. Anything to muzzle me. One pretended to be "The Doctor" and another "Ted" being a lawyer. You have to see their comments here and posts following my blog.

The Doctor probably practices voodoo medicine and Ted the lawyer will not understand law if it hit him on his head.

Another interesting thing I found out is that Cherniak admitted that he has deleted my previous anti-war posts from Liblogs. I am not always on the Liblogs aggregator so I did not know. Shouldn't the man have a moral duty to tell me if he censored me? Cherniak is not only a fanatic, but also immoral to carry out censorship in this manner.

If Liblogs is his, then the Liberal Party should be careful because this man single-handidly is doing too much damage to its cause. If Liblogs wishes to survive, then they should show the door to this fanatic Cherniak.

Update: The latest news is that rockets have been fired from Lebanon, and Israel has responded by aerial attacks. Where will it stop? The war is expanding and it is a danger to World peace. I hope the main sponsors of Israel, for instance the United States, will put pressure on Israel to stop this madness.

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Jason Cherniak: The Censorship Police

On October 15th, 2008, Jason Cherniak announced that he was ceasing blogging to move on to other pursuits. Fair enough. However, now Cherniak is misusing Liblogs with a permanent post at the top expounding his views on the Israel-Gaza situation, views which are clearly biased against the people of Gaza.

Now, I strongly disagree with Cherniak's views on Israel-Gaza, but he is free to express his position. What is not fair though, is that he is misusing Liblogs by first deleting one of my blog entries which was not to his satisfaction, and then posting his own skewed views at the top of Liblogs. He is clearly abusing his position as a Liblogs administrator. If Cherniak wants to express his views, he can re-start his blog and say what he wants there, just like the rest of us do on our own blogs.

While I'm not an overly partisan person, I do prefer the Liberal Party. The reason for this is that the Liberal Party is a broad tent, where diverse people can express diverse views. Historically, there has been no ideology police or censorship police in the Liberal Party. I believe this has been a key to the Party's success in the past. Unfortunately, this Liberal spirit is absent in Jason Cherniak.

The Top of the Liblogs aggregator is for general public announcements, it is not for censorship and it is not for imposing one's skewered point of view on a controversial issue.

UPDATE: Jason Cherniak has yet again played censorship police by removing one of my blog entries.

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