Last week when I called Back - Talk to talk about energy - Iceland - and Newfoundland and Labrador - Randy asked me who I worked for. For readers of Sue's Blog - can you figure it out?
Government - Federal or Provincial - no
so let's start from there.
Exxon Mobil - not unless they like the criticism
Voisey's Bay - no they do not like my thinking
Petro-Can - no way
The Fish Merchants - not a chance
The Provincial PC's - you're kidding right.
The Provincial Liberals - uh huh they love me talking about the party moving to oblivion.
The Provincial NDP - I don't think so - they don't like my comments about the NDP.
So who is it?
Loyola Hearn?
Stephen Harper?
Stephan Dion?
Jack Leyton?
The Bloc?
Who?
Persona?
Who?
You will quickly determine that I unlike all those who are asking - work for the people for $0 - when I am blogging or am on open line - unlike all the cluttered and frenzied politico's - I work for nothing. We pay the politicians - when they come on - you are paying them - and when the wannabes come on they want your vote so you can pay them. Randy Simms when he talks about public issues is paid - he is not doing it for nothing. Bill Rowe and Linda Swain are paid when they talk about public issues. Ryan Cleary when he writes falsehoods about me or innuendo's he is paid. Reporters are paid. Broadcasters are paid. Dean Macdonald is paid when he gets on to defend Persona's 15 million dollar check from your wallets as taxpayers. The Premier is paid - Gerry Reid is paid - Lorraine Michael is paid - Earle McCurdy is paid - Carol Furlong is paid - Debbie Forward is paid - Andy Wells is paid - Keith Coombes is paid - Wade Locke is paid - Axel Meisson is paid - retired politicians are still being paid - when I get on the air and when I do the 30 or so hours a week I put into my research to prepare public commentary I do not get paid. The exact opposite is true - the questions I ask and statements I make to try and prevent this Province from being taken again and again and again - means certainly I will never be paid.
I have never heard Randy or Bill or Linda or any reporter ask anybody ever - the questions he asked me today. So why were the questions asked? My defense of the Province and her people is questioned because those who have an interest in screwing us or are interested in keeping power want my credibility challenged. There are people hired - some with your money who transcribe or record everything I say. They are paid. If somebody really sticks up for this province and asks the right questions - the people who own the Province will try and intervene. They do not want to lose control and they do not want the people of the Province asking for more.
Unfortunately big business and politico's - especially those in power - do not want anything I ask or state to stick - that might harm them or those who support them. My support must come from the people - the reward I receive is not financial it is only the phone-calls and emails I receive everyday from people who love this Province.
So when Randy asked mt to prove a negative - that is that I am not in secret conflict - I am asked to prove I am innocent. Wait now - what country is this? Where is the media? Tell me when anybody else was asked these questions on open-line?
Can I award government contracts?
Can I spend government money?
No!
The only influence they fear is influencing the people - especially around election time - that is the last time I was asked these questions. The people are supposed to accept what those in power are telling them and the policies they come up with are best for them. That is why we lead everybody in outmigration and have more deaths than births. That is why our fishery was destroyed and Upper Churchill contract was signed. Just a few short years ago - Hydro was being privatized - it cost me 3 years of my life and I was not paid - but the people who spent over 20 million of your dollars to try and convince you and put together the deal were paid.
It is a sad place we live in when real public service is questioned while the boys and girls run off with your money and resources. It is a sad place indeed when those people being investigated by the RNC about the HOA scandal and all the politicians who sat there and booted the Auditor General out were not questioned like I was today. At least not in public.
What does this say about us? I asked that question when the Premier threatened to sue me just a few short months ago. I was never told what it even was about. If they shut Sue up - what is the reward to the people? How does it help? These are the questions you should be asking.
As for Ryan Cleary - the "journalist" that made the statement - I will deal with him all on his own. Coming soon to this blog.
5 comments:
Sue you have made an enemy for yourself out of every entity, Government, Political Party or Corporation, in this province and in Ottawa for the sake of the love of your fellow Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. You have done so by imparting your knowledge of what happened to the resources of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and how the give away of those resources have undermined everything in this province to the extent that we have never been able to create economies here for our own people.
Soon it will not only be the resources both natural and human that will be leaving this province to create economies elsewhere, we now see people moving out of here for Medical Attention and in the not too distant future our old age will have to move out of here to be housed in institutions in points west of here from Nova Scotia to British Columbia. You mark my words, unless thing can be turned around and turned around quickly that stunning act will also come through, since there will be nobody left to look after the seniors because everyone will be a senior.
So Sue my dear since you have slighted everybody and every organization, who in their right mind is going to hire you?
I do hope though that Premier Danny Williams will have the foresight to see what you are doing and he should take actions to invite you to run for office. I know you have offended him and every entity that I have named above, but you did it for the good of the province and its people. Isn't that the type of person we desire to be respresenitng us? You are a true Newfoundlander and Labradorian, I hope fate rewards you for your valiant and gallant actions. It is unfortunate that you are not in political power to effect what you are espousing, but I must say you weren't in power when you stop the privatization of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro back in the 1990s which was great for the coffers of the Provincial Government.
Matter of fact I remember Premier Danny Williams espousing and mirroring the same sentiments back before he became Premier, that you are now espousing and have been for the past 15 years, but it has been to your detriment. What a weird world!
I do hope that our very capable Premier Williams decides to do something about your predicament.
I think Ryan has a problem and part of that problem is with you.
Why he feels the way he does I don't know but he seems to do this a lot. Turns on people of organizations.
Please tells us more.
I won't be buying his newspaper any more.
Sue, the only thing joining any of those parties would do is shut you up. Don't join them. Keep going and create your own job. Get all those that support you to band together start the NEWfoundland and Labrador that we want. It is for Mr. Williams to join you, not for you to join him. If any of the more credible politicians would come forward and support you, then all the better for raising your profile and adding legitimacy.
I would like to see several of our leading cultural icons (writers, painters, singer/songwriters) publicly come out and support what you are doing. In the Eastern Bloc countries such cultural icons played a huge role in bringing the WALL down. Vaclav Havel being one of them. In Quebec artists don't have a hard time in showing their support for their 'nation'. Where are ours? Surely not all our artists sense of nationalism stops at the cultural sense of the word.
Maybe Sue you can start an Orange Revolution, no different than what the Ukraine and other eastern bloc countries did after the 1989 Revolution and the death of the largest nation in the world known as the USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republic, now known as Russia.
After which we can arm ourselves with our pots and pans and acclaim to the world what has happened in Newfoundland and Labrador surrounding its resources, both human and natural and how we havent't been treated fairly and equally by Ottawa compared to the treatment the rest of the provinces of Canada received. By doing so we will be able to highlight the catastrophe that is coming down the chute as a result of this neglect. We can focus on the recent stats out of Ottawa highlighting the fact that our death rate is higher than our birth rate, then combined that with the out-migration stat and the whole sordid situation of Newfoundland and Labrador's demise is thrown into full light.
As I said with such stats working against this province and its people, we can plainly see the imminent DEATH of Newfoundland and Labrador, unless our people and our politicians can arrest and avert the orbit of this province's demise at this juncture.
Sue I think you could be that person. You know the problems and you know the resources that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador possess that could stop the sickness that is killing us right at this moment. The cure is right at hand, that is, if our politicians and the people overseeing the illness want to cure the patient.
Sue...
We owe you a great debt I do beleive. You are in my eyes what a true Newfoundlander and Labradorian is all about... UNCORRUPTED PASSION!
We are such passionate people in some regards, but mere spineless jellyfish in many others. We sit around and let these elected politicians be "useless" for lack of a better word, without holding them accountable. We the people should be demanding more of these elected officials, who we pay for.
I am a fan of Randy Simms, and his show, but I do not think he was justified in asking you this question. Randy, shame on you. Don't you Randy let yourself get tarred with this same brush. Mr Williams I too am a fan of, for some things he has done. I beleive he should support you fully, and as noted, ask for your help in bettering this province.
Being in my late twenties I am just now really trying to understand politics and some of the issues. What I don't understand is this... there can only be one correct thing to do, your either doing it for the better, or for the worse. Now, politicians can all point out that the other guys is doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons, but can never seem to get it right themselves. I swear it's a check your brain at the door policy up on the hill.
Thanks again Sue, I'll try and comment on your posts as much as I can, let this be your payment. We're lucky to have ya on our side!!
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