Media Grewal tape dispute obscures fact that Representative Democracy is Dead

Shades of “Deepthroat”!!! It’s very ironic that we learn the true identity of the famous insider snitch that helped bring down the corrupt spin team in the Nixon administration, on a day when snitches and tapes play prominently in doing the same thing to the Martin cartel.

The blogs today are alive with analyzing the tapes and nattering over authenticity of the tape and supposed edits…and on and on. I want to come at this from a different perspective.

First I want fellow spin-besieged citizens to completely discount any Liberal party notions of "denyability through “muddied authenticity” or the moot points of unskilled edits or non edits and all other silly technical point-counter point debate on the lost issue of tape continuety. Put all this distracting noise out of your thinking and join me in reviewing the salient points of the CONTENT and arriving at the core issue in this "Bribescam"

1) First off, the conversations are too complex and true to character to be faked. Why/how could Grewal go to all the expense of hiring actors to play roles and sound exactly like the people alleged to be taped? Why put party and personal credibility/liability on the line for such a lame political talking point? The content of the tape( transcribed dialogue) is too natural and true to the personalities involved to be faked. And the content of the transcriptions of the meetings has NOT been denied. Nit picking about a couple of alleged edits pales in comparison to this simple fact.

2) The real story is in the transcripts that have a Martin cabinet minister and his top aid admitting that both Stronach, Brison , as well as "others", were bribed with PM appointments. This reveals a genetic MO of bribing support with the enticement of appointed positions.....and Gonery wintesses said as much...this is how judgeships are gained...political bribes for party faithful and support. Bribery and illegal and unethical use of both Martin and Chretien's office appointment powers is a self admitted fact validated by his closest toadies on tape.

3) Further creedence to the charges of systemic Liberal party graft come from the continued Liberal involvement of top politicians with Grewal in his "fishing trip". Why contiue to entertain an opportinistic advance from Grewal when all involved know this is both unethical, anti-democratic and illegal. The proper way for non guilty Liberal officials to answer phone calls from opposition MPs fishing for a bribe to cross the floor is like this : " Sorry Mr Grewal, we cam make no offers of incentives or inducements connected with patronage appointment for you to cross the floor to the liberals....this is illegal and unethical. We are glad you had a change of heart but prefer you sit as an independent and vote with us as we cannot guarantee or offer you enticement (by law) for your support. Have a nice day and thank you for your interest in the Liberal party.... CLICK ( sound of Murphy hanging up) But this didn't happen...the offer-counter offer in couched language continued, betraying a willingness to buy an opposition member. The greatest act of hypocrisy this year was Jack Layton urging investigation into bribery when he himself was bought in a series of clandestine hotel room meetings where an NDP budget was cobbled together to replace the one at the throne speach. Jack trolled his influence and he had his price....scumbag!

4) The content of the transcribed tapes reveal a head Liberal cabinet minister and PM's aid telling Grewal that in their mind they knew that what they did with Stronach and particualrly Brison was illegal and could be investigated if things were not handled properly....so in Liberal mindset the difference between a criminal act of bribery and common Liberal operational politics was a 2-4 week wait before the appointment payoff happened. This revealed that PM appointment bribery is common place in Liberal politics and in fact was comfirmed in the way they dismissed the charges: They shrugged off backroom discussions between Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, prime ministerial aide Tim Murphy and Tory MP Gurmant Grewal as routine political horse-trading.

The end analysis of what we see was stated ( with no denials) in the transcript of the Grewal tapes, backed by what we hear from Gomery witnesses, is that bribery is a common Liberal practice... genetic in the Martin-Chretien regimes. This now being a self admitted established fact, we see that represenative democracy has been totally undermined by the Liberals making any elected or appointed representative's partisam support a marketable comodity that is bought, sold and traded to the highest bidder. The losers are the constituents of these swine who sell their electorate's will out to the market forces of a corrupt federal political cartel sitting in power.

The increase in pay, pension and perks for partisan treason is lucerative and not as obvious as the large cash payments in brown envelopes the private sector patrons recieve.....no laundered cash trail in PM appointment bribery.....right Scott?..Belinda?...Chuck?...Jack?