tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post28926742634721915..comments2023-07-25T02:39:44.615-07:00Comments on Bill Tieleman: BASI-VIRK: Auditor General report saying no political interference in $6 million indemnification to the guilty is no surprise at allBill Tielemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03304971610140279157noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-35902226539210525502013-12-29T14:38:21.943-08:002013-12-29T14:38:21.943-08:00And today is the 10th anniversary of the BC Legisl...And today is the 10th anniversary of the BC Legislature Raids. <br />Happy Anniversary, Christy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-63073328094925465962013-12-25T09:34:33.629-08:002013-12-25T09:34:33.629-08:00Bill, I am not anxious about anything but really, ...Bill, I am not anxious about anything but really, you have to look at reality: the BC Rail case is done, over, finished. It's been over a decade and by 2017 close to two.<br /><br />Bill, your brand of NDP is spectacularly unsuccessful at winning elections, yet you continue you flog dead horses. If you really want to do your good works, you cannot simply be content to take the moral high ground of opposition: you'll actually have to lead and voters don't seem to want you to lead them back 13 years or so.<br /><br />Move on, Bill, you are being left behind with Dix and Meggs.Vanstarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-34772502082167581032013-12-23T11:58:48.931-08:002013-12-23T11:58:48.931-08:00suggesting Tieleman move on, no one is watching, g...suggesting Tieleman move on, no one is watching, get a grip. if everyone moved on and ignored what was wrong, well they did and that is how we got into this mess.<br /><br />Not all of us are ready to move on and never will be. The "sale" of B.C. Rail will be a story for years to come. it has become part of B.C. history. there is a truth out there and some of us really do want to know. We suspect, but we want to know. We want people to be held accountable. some of us want our railway back. <br /><br />What el gordo did with B.C. Rail was just another e.g. of a much larger problem in this province. if no one writes about it, the problem will get bigger and we will start making some of those 3rd world dictatorships look good when it comes to corruption and graft. <br /><br />have a look at what some governments have stolen from their citizens. do we want this for b.c. No I don't. if you do not open the window for some fresh air you will die of the dirty air you breath.<br /><br />e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-63124861374533808412013-12-22T18:33:41.322-08:002013-12-22T18:33:41.322-08:00Well Bill, if you moved on, why the drums and cymb...Well Bill, if you moved on, why the drums and cymbal solo concert?<br /><br />Face facts, you're not a reporter in the true occupation, just a political commentator.<br /><br />If you're going to move on, move on to new subjects rather than old news.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-29399009241869390122013-12-20T23:07:34.492-08:002013-12-20T23:07:34.492-08:00I find it fascinating that both Vanstar and Anonym...I find it fascinating that both Vanstar and Anonymous 20:16 both used the identical "move on" phrase in giving me advice. Most appreciated, by the way, but really - why so anxious?<br /><br />I have moved on actually, and regular readers will know I haven't been writing about the Basi-Virk case for a long time. My view is that it's over and we will likely never know all the nasty details about what really happened.<br /><br />But Vanstar and Anonymous, truth has an interesting way of coming out despite all efforts to suppress it, whether it's Edward Snowden, Wikileaks or the Pentagon Papers. <br /><br />I'm not holding my breath on anything so revelatory but I also know that there are still stones unturned that could have serious consequences yet unseen. <br /><br />And if so, I'm ready to report. Thanks for playing.Bill Tielemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03304971610140279157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-21532377850181203742013-12-20T20:16:11.005-08:002013-12-20T20:16:11.005-08:00Agree. All this coverage by Bill, Tsakumis and BC ...Agree. All this coverage by Bill, Tsakumis and BC Mary hasn't resulted in anything other than people typing into very opiniated blogs. <br /><br />If anyone figured these contributions would take down the BC Liberals, they are fooling themselves.<br /><br />Bil covered the trials for the bloggers which was fine, but didn't accomplish much, the overall public just wasn't all that interested - sure the left wing bloggers were, not for the legal content but rather if it would contribute to the downfall of the BC Liberals. Did not happen.<br /><br />Tsakumis is worse, he's always figured he personally would be able to collapse Christy Clark, (always seems to tell people he has something that will, but nothing happens) but that won't happen. and still on a tear over BC Rail.<br /><br />C'mon Bill, time to move on. Get into new things. <br /><br />Write about how Mayor Moonbeam stupidly accepted Rennie's and Peter Walls offer to pay for Stephenson's trip to the 2014 Sochi Games.<br /><br />This political commentary project of yours is getting close to jumping the shark if it hasn't already.<br /><br />or write a political commentary column for the NDP's Democrat. At least there you'll reach a wider audience.<br /><br />Merry Christmas. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-14506888030652313552013-12-20T12:27:05.278-08:002013-12-20T12:27:05.278-08:00You know, Bill, you and the Geoff Meggs/Glen Clark...You know, Bill, you and the Geoff Meggs/Glen Clark wing of the NDP can go on about this for years. It's done. You have unsuccessfully run three elections on it. Bingogate is done, too.<br /><br />You need to move on.Vanstarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-41416705647795429552013-12-19T13:56:01.862-08:002013-12-19T13:56:01.862-08:00If these two characters were as smart as they are ...If these two characters were as smart as they are marketed by Bill and others to be, they would have jumped out early in the game, but they got into the power sauce and the taxpayers end up paying the freight.<br /><br />if Bill's NDP was smart enough to win the May election may be there would have been an inquiry and Bill here would actually have something new to share rather than rehasing news.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-26819327966597094592013-12-19T13:37:22.929-08:002013-12-19T13:37:22.929-08:00Can't blame you for doubting the outing of the...Can't blame you for doubting the outing of the whole unholy truth; maybe get some deathbed confessions, maybe a decade or two down the line. Still, it's small consolation that whoever escaped justice by the corruption of the corruption trial have to risk keeping a ball of their own mud in reserve as erstwhile culprits gradually move beyond the reach of any earthly gaoler and contemplate posterity. <br /><br />BC's been through some of the most gut-wrenching tumult in its history, starting with Gordon Campbell's seminal election campaign lie that he wouldn't sell BC Rail; the build consisted of cooking the books to falsify its profitability, the fraudulent manipulation of the bidding, the legislature raids by police and the long trial featuring every conceivable avoidance of disclosure, repeatedly, to the point of contempt; critically, cabinet ministers were about to testify when the judge was switched; the only two BC Liberals convicted so far copped a plea in return for their legal bills and their silence---essentially the corruption of a corruption trial. Following a decline during which the leaders of both majority and Opposition were casualties, climax occurred when, after many, including many BC Liberals, presumed an NDP win and a public inquiry into BC Rail, Christy saved the BC Liberals, an anticlimax, as 't were.<br /><br />It's very like surviving a bear attack: you peer at the trampled ground, hardly believing it happened, squeezing places where there is no feeling, but should be, and feeling pain that can't be seen but feels like it should be; shock temporaarily numbs what eventually will become permanent pain. You're alive but you'll never be quite the same---and the pain can only be endured. In the same way BC Rail acculturated dishonesty in the BC Liberal government and now, post-Campbell, it licenses preposterous, bombastic, chuffed, smirking and blatant mendacities like LNG, the bogus Jobs Plan, etc. We survived but, oh, are we ever beat up; we might never fully recover. <br /><br />The acculturation of BC Liberal dishonesty germinated with the sale of BC Rail. The HST fiasco, misinterpreted as the critical event in Campbell's demise, was merely that culture expressed and, it turned out, the last straw---but BC Rail is the real nucleus of BC Liberal perfidy; cut short as it was, it isn't often recognized as central to the BC Liberal narrative but it is from this point they discovered lying is an effective policy, as well as campaign tool. Even when they get busted it works and they think they can keep getting away with it. Now all we see is un-debated policy announcement by infomercial instead of parliament, featuring the prancing majorette grinning like a shit-eating hound.<br /><br />This acculturation has just about completely stymied the NDP, who seem to think alls they gotta do is look angelic set beside such a pack of liars. Yet time and again they've lost by this non-strategy and repeatedly blown opportunities to purge their infuriating pusillanimity. When voters themselves are completely flummoxed by NDP decided lack of pugnacity, it means they can't really know the party, effectively giving ammo to the enemy to speculatively and plausibly smear with impunity---and people prefer the devil they do know, lies and all. BC Rail is the precedent that licensed the BC Liberals' superficial transformation from Campbellism to baton-twirling and the de facto legitimization of perfidy. The perennially knock-kneed NDP keep showing up to the knife fight in the alley with boxing gloves, mouth guard and rule book.<br /><br />It would be sad if BC Rail was forgotten but, considering its importance in moulding our political environment, not to mention all the things that will be irrecoverably lost to emboldened kleptocrats, I'm not too worried that it will. Christy prances onward but NDP retribution is as yet uncertain. Is this our new political culture? Liars versus wimps? scotty on denmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-56680719526901035382013-12-19T07:23:27.277-08:002013-12-19T07:23:27.277-08:00
Sometimes some people can not see the forest for...<br /><br />Sometimes some people can not see the forest for the trees.<br /><br />Unless this piece is seething sarcasm, you have been blinded by the light.<br /><br />The lid was put put on this case from the highest levels as proven by the peculiar judge swapping gambit not at all unlike the similar swap in the Ernst vs. Encana debacle.<br /><br />Of course there will always be those that will not acknowledge the truth long after the train has left the station.ron wiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395990851263472440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35935973.post-24696714778565002482013-12-19T06:10:36.344-08:002013-12-19T06:10:36.344-08:00Spending 6 million to save two million and keeping...Spending 6 million to save two million and keeping all those BC Liberals from ending up in court sure made for some happy campers. A lot of people will remember the mess but since the rest of the folks voted Liberal, it is all hidden under the rug. Open and transparent? Oh sure. My gosh BC politics is a three ringed circusDPLnoreply@blogger.com