Comments on: Conservative government monitoring opinions online

By: Gary Vollick

Gary Vollick — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:41:38 +0000

Dear Mr Harper , I am very to say the least upset with the way the world leaders have ruined mother earth , and the fact that i used to be able to employ people to work , now just like ever other small buisness man , is suffering to put the basics on our tables, and that is very little , i look back to the leave it to Beaver days , LOL, you s have sure messed up since . Spending over a billion dollars on g20 is to protect your ass s not ours , we have to pay for the crap. we have pharmasidically poisoned lakes and yous are building man made play rooms . My wife has cancer along with man of the residence in my town , my little dog has cancer , from drinking city water, I laughed as i opened up a tax bill for 13,000,00 this morning as yous taxed me for a insurance tort that was to be tax free from a acciddent i was in year 2002, we are scraping penneys for our next meal , How about you conservatives,, not likely AY, Well Mr Harper looks like you sold your Job to me as i am going to run for president this coming term as i am ABORIGINAL and its time the people new the right way to live in this world and it certainly is not in the path of distruction you have taken , This is the end to the greed seekers good by conservatives, you are not getting voted in next election , the kindergarden games are over. time they started clean in our parliment get rid of the ole i promise to do this guys. and get some honesty back in Canada, TOTALLY ASHAMED OF YOU ALL” GARY VOLLICK.

By: e

Fri, 28 May 2010 13:25:20 +0000

They have been paying for this since they started the blogging tories… then paid for people to do it from the PMO… and now they are using more public money and hiring firms…

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 26 May 2010 21:26:42 +0000

totaly Agree Tofkw. I guess from now on if the cons sre monitoring blogs I must remember to call them evil control freaks,dim-witted, un-educated, bullies and liars more often. If they can continue to insult Canadians, they need to expect the same treatment from us as well.

Have a great weekend all.

Marie

By: TofKW

TofKW — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:13:22 +0000

Defending Rand Paul? The guy’s not even a conservative, he’s an angry, whacked-out libertarian riding an Astroturfed populist wave. Mind you, that does describes our current Conservative Party of Canada, doesn’t it? This nation lost it’s last true Tories when the PC party died.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:26:27 +0000

I got an angry comment on a post about Rand Paul that came from the official Conservative Party IP address in Ottawa. So they also seem to be surfing around sticking up for ideological fellow travellers wherever they might be

By: Cari

Cari — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:05:54 +0000

Is Progressive Bloggers fixed, Scott..thanks

By: WesternGrit

WesternGrit — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:36:25 +0000

I never had to question the origin of all those “anons” who couldn’t even spell correctly… And the sentence “structure” – horrible.

It DOES impact public opinion when voters think the comment is from another person like them… Sad. We CAN do something though – we need to bring in tight controls for elected officials AND their staff. Not having them testify on Hill hearings is a big scandal, and we need to fight this.

It’s about democracy. Sure, things happen… Human nature, etc., but we need to have a more open forum where the concerns can be raised, investigated, and resolved.

By: jimbobbysez

jimbobbysez — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:01:58 +0000

Of course they won’t identify themselves. The whole idea is classic astroturf. I’d like them to explain how this is different than Helena Guergis’s staffers submitting pseudonymous letters to the editor.

While some blog platforms allow a certain amount of tracking, Twitter and Facebook do not make posters’ IP addresses public.

BTW, I posted a blog piece on this issue yesterday.