WHERE THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS - DOER'S NDP MB.
Jan 26, 2009 19:47:19 GMT -5
Post by proudtobeadp on Jan 26, 2009 19:47:19 GMT -5
Here in Manitoba we have had governments for nearly the last 30 years or more now that use the phrase in practice "where the ends justify the means". This phrase has been used by historians to describe totaltarian and fascist regimes to analyse their histories and their results. Millions died because dessent was squashed, imprisoned, done away with or murdered. It all starts small and simple but it all involves loss of rights and the right to be heard with out bias and for others to act on those concerns.
Here in Manitoba there has been a slow erosion of those rights by lots of spin but the end result time and time again is not only the injustice but also to human rights iself. Yet the beginnings of what led to change were innocuous, mundane to typical to say the least to the very rediculous, abuse and then even murderous though that was not the intent, it was all linked to one thing, money. It is all about who had it, who wanted it and to what degrees people took to get it though not necessarily for themselves personally cirtainly for their employers, some of the biggest corporations not only in Manitoba, but in Canada and in cases the world.
For most people memories grow dim when all auto insurance was through private type and shareholder companies, yet that was the later 1960s in Manitoba. People would buy insurance for home, auto and even life through a local outlet. Should you have an accident, an auto accident or your garage burned down the system was simple where claims were made, investigations were carried out, sometimes charges even laid but ultimately the matter was settled out of court or the courts would arbitrate and impose settlements great or small. This was not perfect though, there were frauds, there were under-insured as well as un-ensured and of particular interest was the under 25 crowd for with them the worst liability records were generated and insurance companies wanted to make even then obscene profits that crowd got to be penalized with huge premiums just to make profits accross all streams of risk and liability corprate wide.
This was fine but profits, greed, unfair trade offs, denied representation and back room deals were also part of the scene. By the late 1960s the whole system became so corrupted from all sides that insurance premiums got unbearable to all the bystanders who never filed and claim but were blindsided by warring parties. Soon these same ordinary citizens found and their children found that to ensure your cars, you had to insure your house with the same people too and along came the demand to life insure as well with premiums that took up half of incomes of the day making the whole situation intolerable and the call went out for government intervention as when it started to effect income so adversly it would also dry up future government revenues that development would sure need to be funded would not get any. In this environment the private insurers slowly made themselves the enemy of the rate payer and political fodder for political opportunism where political parties can hand out largess and empires can be built. It was not long that for short term profits they got their rewards for in their own actions like Batista and the Mob running Cuba, Castro eventually tossed them out and no different in Manitoba, the government tossed out all private insurance in the auto sector leaving a monopoly that cruised along flush with its own success getting a feel for what they could do without the forboding of what they would eventually do.
With that was the introduction of public insurance where the first item was to install and stabilize auto insurance rates and change the licensing so it acted as the deterent through penalties that would make driving more expensive until the person could no longer drive in the theory that the worst drivers were off the road that would not cost the insurer in providing reasonable cost insurance where the cost was linked to cost of repair, write off or bodily injury or death. No fault was not yet part of it but reasonable rates and rate stabilization was and in that the system and people as a result prospered with a system where fault still played a role as did the police, the crown, the judiciary and the lawyers profession when there was a need seen.
Eventually flushed with its own success MPIC thought it could do better and beset with the courts, frauds and ever larger court settlements the government decision was made to go "no fault" and eventually no lawyers and not courts interventions when ever there was a dispute and liability. This was another step in the removal of citizens rights because now his insurance was free to be investigator, arbitrator, prosecutor, mediator, judge and jury where in essence just like its across town brother the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba, a socalled paramutual insurance for workers that took away their right to the court systme in exchange for the pottage of monopoly monolithic screwing the MPIC was ready to launch into.
As time went on though like all empire building it all prospers until opportunism and greed takes over and it was not to long when the concept of "no fault" was launched where the insurer supplied everything including the notion that since no one was at fault one party could not sue the other when under common insurance and insurance would take care of those made lame or dead as a result of the accident no one was at fault for? It was not long when disputes could not be solved and a MPIC Ombudsman was installed but like ombudsman that Manitoba ever installed the process was automatically held as biased so also arbitration was extended where the MPIC Ombudsman could not work. Similarly the premium payer could not have his or her own lawyer as MPIC also provided for all too making it all so in house and also so cosy the next step was obvious, that human life would come to mean nothing so people would have to accept what was given but could appeal to a special MPIC panel with you guessed it, politically appointed board members who just like Workers Compensation used the same yardsticks being the award would be based on a formula generally of per pound of dead human flesh awarded.
This completed the cycle of dehumanization of the insurance system where people in different occupations that could and did put other people at risk through what ever they did could not be held responsible for what they did in injuring, maiming or killing people. Similarly like Workers Compensation what little was paid also included the annally attentive micro-management of the insured's and injured's health care where cost per claim became everything and human life, quality or not of human life stopped even being a factor where the monopoly and its objectives became eerything and people outside of it became nothing.
It is in this environment that people knowing they could not be held responsible assumed they could also become reckless in the discharge of their public duties and responsibilities of the very public who kept them employed. It is within this that the Crystal Taman situation happened. The Winnipeg Police Service who already was protected by weak public protection legislation through another NDP invention known as the Law Enforcement Review Agency saw themselves as elie enough that if they would break the law in other areas that involved insurance liability they could also get away with that so here the Crystal Taman situation happened. Before that though to catch criminals they also thought they could act like criminals. They fought in the streets at bars almost causing bodily injuries from oncoming cars, drove their police vehicles as if there was no one else on the road but car thieves and the rest of us just plain did not matter. The courts and the legal system had no place and only the monoliths mattered where people who they are supposed to exist along with their rights were no more.
This readers is corporate facism and this history and result is now what Manitobans face that the Doer NDP Government gave us in their march to totaltarianism using crown corporations to do it and now Manitobans are victims of it, it would take virtually a revolution to change but then a littel revolution from time to time is good for the people is it not Mr. Doer? Where no political party by all accounts even cares! Truly we are in a micro neo-facist state shapping up no different that Nazi Germany with only the rest of Canada at the gates to make this garbage ever larger in a country far right wing as Canada to do it.
Here in Manitoba there has been a slow erosion of those rights by lots of spin but the end result time and time again is not only the injustice but also to human rights iself. Yet the beginnings of what led to change were innocuous, mundane to typical to say the least to the very rediculous, abuse and then even murderous though that was not the intent, it was all linked to one thing, money. It is all about who had it, who wanted it and to what degrees people took to get it though not necessarily for themselves personally cirtainly for their employers, some of the biggest corporations not only in Manitoba, but in Canada and in cases the world.
For most people memories grow dim when all auto insurance was through private type and shareholder companies, yet that was the later 1960s in Manitoba. People would buy insurance for home, auto and even life through a local outlet. Should you have an accident, an auto accident or your garage burned down the system was simple where claims were made, investigations were carried out, sometimes charges even laid but ultimately the matter was settled out of court or the courts would arbitrate and impose settlements great or small. This was not perfect though, there were frauds, there were under-insured as well as un-ensured and of particular interest was the under 25 crowd for with them the worst liability records were generated and insurance companies wanted to make even then obscene profits that crowd got to be penalized with huge premiums just to make profits accross all streams of risk and liability corprate wide.
This was fine but profits, greed, unfair trade offs, denied representation and back room deals were also part of the scene. By the late 1960s the whole system became so corrupted from all sides that insurance premiums got unbearable to all the bystanders who never filed and claim but were blindsided by warring parties. Soon these same ordinary citizens found and their children found that to ensure your cars, you had to insure your house with the same people too and along came the demand to life insure as well with premiums that took up half of incomes of the day making the whole situation intolerable and the call went out for government intervention as when it started to effect income so adversly it would also dry up future government revenues that development would sure need to be funded would not get any. In this environment the private insurers slowly made themselves the enemy of the rate payer and political fodder for political opportunism where political parties can hand out largess and empires can be built. It was not long that for short term profits they got their rewards for in their own actions like Batista and the Mob running Cuba, Castro eventually tossed them out and no different in Manitoba, the government tossed out all private insurance in the auto sector leaving a monopoly that cruised along flush with its own success getting a feel for what they could do without the forboding of what they would eventually do.
With that was the introduction of public insurance where the first item was to install and stabilize auto insurance rates and change the licensing so it acted as the deterent through penalties that would make driving more expensive until the person could no longer drive in the theory that the worst drivers were off the road that would not cost the insurer in providing reasonable cost insurance where the cost was linked to cost of repair, write off or bodily injury or death. No fault was not yet part of it but reasonable rates and rate stabilization was and in that the system and people as a result prospered with a system where fault still played a role as did the police, the crown, the judiciary and the lawyers profession when there was a need seen.
Eventually flushed with its own success MPIC thought it could do better and beset with the courts, frauds and ever larger court settlements the government decision was made to go "no fault" and eventually no lawyers and not courts interventions when ever there was a dispute and liability. This was another step in the removal of citizens rights because now his insurance was free to be investigator, arbitrator, prosecutor, mediator, judge and jury where in essence just like its across town brother the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba, a socalled paramutual insurance for workers that took away their right to the court systme in exchange for the pottage of monopoly monolithic screwing the MPIC was ready to launch into.
As time went on though like all empire building it all prospers until opportunism and greed takes over and it was not to long when the concept of "no fault" was launched where the insurer supplied everything including the notion that since no one was at fault one party could not sue the other when under common insurance and insurance would take care of those made lame or dead as a result of the accident no one was at fault for? It was not long when disputes could not be solved and a MPIC Ombudsman was installed but like ombudsman that Manitoba ever installed the process was automatically held as biased so also arbitration was extended where the MPIC Ombudsman could not work. Similarly the premium payer could not have his or her own lawyer as MPIC also provided for all too making it all so in house and also so cosy the next step was obvious, that human life would come to mean nothing so people would have to accept what was given but could appeal to a special MPIC panel with you guessed it, politically appointed board members who just like Workers Compensation used the same yardsticks being the award would be based on a formula generally of per pound of dead human flesh awarded.
This completed the cycle of dehumanization of the insurance system where people in different occupations that could and did put other people at risk through what ever they did could not be held responsible for what they did in injuring, maiming or killing people. Similarly like Workers Compensation what little was paid also included the annally attentive micro-management of the insured's and injured's health care where cost per claim became everything and human life, quality or not of human life stopped even being a factor where the monopoly and its objectives became eerything and people outside of it became nothing.
It is in this environment that people knowing they could not be held responsible assumed they could also become reckless in the discharge of their public duties and responsibilities of the very public who kept them employed. It is within this that the Crystal Taman situation happened. The Winnipeg Police Service who already was protected by weak public protection legislation through another NDP invention known as the Law Enforcement Review Agency saw themselves as elie enough that if they would break the law in other areas that involved insurance liability they could also get away with that so here the Crystal Taman situation happened. Before that though to catch criminals they also thought they could act like criminals. They fought in the streets at bars almost causing bodily injuries from oncoming cars, drove their police vehicles as if there was no one else on the road but car thieves and the rest of us just plain did not matter. The courts and the legal system had no place and only the monoliths mattered where people who they are supposed to exist along with their rights were no more.
This readers is corporate facism and this history and result is now what Manitobans face that the Doer NDP Government gave us in their march to totaltarianism using crown corporations to do it and now Manitobans are victims of it, it would take virtually a revolution to change but then a littel revolution from time to time is good for the people is it not Mr. Doer? Where no political party by all accounts even cares! Truly we are in a micro neo-facist state shapping up no different that Nazi Germany with only the rest of Canada at the gates to make this garbage ever larger in a country far right wing as Canada to do it.
