bloggers under attack

bloggers under attack

The Blogging Tories have been placed under the eye of the Canadian Chief Electoral Officer. The reason for this is that Carol Jamieson, a disaffected Toronto Tory, is mad that Stephen Harper is leading the Conservative Party (she was at the head of the 5-person Dump Harper "movement"), and so she is now seeking to silence Conservative supporters, using the Canada Elections Act as a cudgel.

This Act states that no third-party organization can spend more than $150000 nationally or $3000 in a single constituency in order to attempt to affect the outcome of the election.

To this, I call Bullshit. (sorry for the blue language, mom) None of the Blogging Tories are paid by the Conservative party to run their blogs. There's this little thing called Google, see, which lets anyone run blogs for free.

I am not a member of the Blogging Tories, though not due to a lack of interest on my part. The Blogging Tories are in the main a link-fest between like-minded bloggers, much like the Life Liberty Property group or Red Ensign group or Space Bloggers group which adorn my sidebar. The only reason that the Blogging Tories do not also adorn my sidebar is that my political philosophy does not mesh with theirs completely, due to my support for Alberta separatism.

It is because I am an Alberta separatist that I have been urging Ontario voters to vote Liberal, as a way of strengthening the separatist movement. If Elections Canada decides to go after the Blogging Tories, then they damn well better come after me as well. And the Progressive Bloggers and the Liblogs while they're at it.

You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

There is more reaction from Conservative Canadienne, Rootleweb, Angry in the Great White North, and small dead animals.

Update: here's more reaction straight from the horse's mouth, from Stephen Taylor.

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