Judge, dictator and rich people

Date: 2008/01/30

3 items in the news deserve people to take notice. All these are reported in the Toronto Star paper edition (I have not checked, but it could also be in the Internet version).

1) Ontario Judge order witness to wear mask to testify just because he is HIV positive.
2) PM (Stephen Harper) fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Linda Keen.
3) Brian Mulroney's lawyer objects to let witness to testify in the Commons committee investigating former PM Brian Mulroney.

- Ontario Judge Jon-Jo Douglas order HIV positive witness to wear mask before testifying in front of him citing HIV virus live in a dried state for years after years.

If that is really the case, practical all the health care people should be HIV positive and many should have died by now! Anyone with common sense knows that is NOT the case. Bluma Brenner, an assistant professor at the McGill AIDS Clinic at McGill University in Montreal indicated that HIV virus drying on the floor would be inactivated within 20 minutes.
Well. It begs to question whether this Judge is competent to be a Judge. The ultimate question is how is a Judge being appointed to be a Judge. Would someone in the legal field stand up and explain to the people?

- Stephen Harper fired the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Linda Keen because she refused to let the Chalk river Nuclear reactor to restart due to failure to comply with safety
regulation.

The job description of Nuclear Safety Commission is to safeguard the safety of Nuclear facilities. That being the case, isn't Linda Keen just doing her job? The Commission is also an "at an arm's length" government commission. Stephen Harper's order to Linda Keen is a clear violation of the "at an arm's length" principle. Doesn't it seem that Stephen Harper is behaving as a dictator? Doesn't it send the message of "do as I say or I will fire you"? Why should Canadian elect a potential dictator?? He and the PC party must be defeated in the next election if Canadian do not want to live under a dictator!

- Brian Mulroney's attorney objects to let witness to testify in the Commons committee investigating form PM Brian Mulroney.

What makes Brian Mulroney and his lawyer think that they have the power to stop anybody to testify in the Commons committee? If the committee allows that, then why do we want a Commons committee? Its good to know that the committee rejected to allow this ridiculous objection. But doesn't this whole thing demonstrate the idea that rich and powerful people think that they can do whatever they want. No wonder that someone once told me that the existence of poor people is to serve the rich people, pure and simple. Now, where are all these people who say that all men are equal??