On Saturday, September 6, 2003 7:44:55 PM UTC-6, Anonymous wrote:   
   > From February 2000   
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   >   
   > YOU ARE A A FAT BASTARD WITH A MAN FANNY YOU DUMB FUCKER I WILL RAPE YOU IN   
   THE ASS IM AN AMERICAN AND THATS WHAT WE DO BECAUSE I TO HAVE A MAN FANNY   
   FILLED WITH BVURGER KING AND DICK   
   > 1. Albertans tend to be insufferably smug about their relative wealth   
   > compared to other prairie provinces. They refuse to acknowledge the fact   
   > that this wealth is entirely due to historical accident: they stole better   
   > land from the Indians than we did. They tend instead to arrogently   
   > attribute this good fortune to their wisdom and virtue, especially in   
   > their choice of political leadership, never acknowledging that Mao himself   
   > couldn't bankrupt this province.   
   >   
   > 2. Albertans don't seem to give a fuck about the second-largest income   
   > disparity in the country, which implies that the riches they enjoy are   
   > being distributed only to a chosen elite on the backs of the people who   
   > actually do the work.   
   >   
   > 3. Alberta is home to a variety of vulgar Marxist ideology that has   
   > infected many modern liberal democracies: the notion that the only thing   
   > that defines "the good" for individuals or society is material comfort   
   > (are you listening, Todd?). One effect of this ideology is that it   
   > collapses all discussion of public policy to those "solutions" which are   
   > "cheapest", leaving aside all other considerations. This leaves society   
   > open to the tyranny of technocrats and bureaucrats, rather than responding   
   > to the will of the public.   
   >   
   > 4. Ralph Klein was elected by the elite of Alberta and their middle class   
   > ass kissers. This makes those Albertans who voted him in complicit in his   
   > program of destroying Canada from within. He is far more of a threat to   
   > Canadian soverignty than Bouchard. His plans for Medicare in Alberta will   
   > open the door (via NAFTA) to HMO's from the US, a health care sustem which   
   > is vastly inferior to Canada's by any measure (except perhaps its level of   
   > service to the rich). Klein resembles Castro in dealing with dissent. His   
   > efforts to silence researchers and academics who disagree with his   
   > policies is documented fact. In short, Klein  should have his nuts ripped   
   > off with a rusty scalpel and shoved up his ass, then his dead carcass   
   > shipped to the US for medical research in cosmetic surgery.   
   >   
   > 5. Alberta is the crucible for this political transformation:   
   > KKK --> National Socialism --> SoCred --> Reform. Can you say Keegstra?   
   >   
   > 6. Ever notice the Alberta solution to poverty is remarkably similar to   
   > the one in use in the USA? In the US, poverty is exported to other   
   > countries. Wealth is compounded by active violent repression outside the   
   > US with the purpose of keeping labor and resources cheap for domestic   
   > consumers. Alberta literally exports its poor to other provinces, who are   
   > then forced to overburden the social services in their new places of   
   > residence. A reciprocal response would be to deny access to social   
   > services to any former resident of Alberta, but of course nobody in the   
   > other provinces has yet descended to this level of inhumanity.   
   >   
   > 7. How about privatization? Albertans love privatization. Consider,   
   > however, the ramifications of a privatized army owned by, say, Microsoft,   
   > capable of overthrowing the legitmate government of your country. Sounds   
   > farfetched, doesn't it? Not so. Ranger Oil, a company based in Edmonton,   
   > has employed a private army called Executive Outcomes staffed and trained   
   > by former Afrikkaner torturers and terrorists from South Africa, with the   
   > express purpose of forcibly taking African oil from its rightful owners.   
   > Alberta can claim ownership of the establishment of the concept of the   
   > corporate-owned army to Canada. Yippee.   
   >   
   > 8. The Albertan tends to like myths, particluarly the "Everything Is   
   > Cheaper in Alberta Because We Don't Have Sales Tax" myth. Of course, the   
   > funding generated in most jurisdictions by sales tax has been replaced by   
   > user fees in Alberta. The average middle class person, who pays the   
   > biggest share of taxes outside of Alberta also pays the biggest share of   
   > user fees inside Alberta. Studies have shown that the actual cost to users   
   > of public services does not decrease when user fees are included. In   
   > short, your net pay in Alberta (or the USA) winds up to be about the same   
   > as it is here.   
   >   
   > 9. The Daishowa - Lubicon dispute represents yet another Alberta-spawned   
   > attack on the rights of Canadians. For a while (until a sane Federal judge   
   > overturned it) an Alberta injunction actually made it illegal to advocate   
   > a boycott of a company's products in public. This battle isn't over,   
   > though. Daishowa has deep pockets.   
   >   
   > 10. The quintessential Alberta experience is a visit to Calgary. Tons of   
   > stuff to buy, but the culture consists of a dull robotic death march   
   > toward the dollar sign.   
      
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