POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Obfuscation is an old tactic of intelligence services and, as in the recent investigation into four RCMP officers’ criminal incompetence at Vancouver’s airport, police forces under investigation for gross failures.
It is used most often to cover up, not so much genuine secrets as the facts of blundering incompetence and poor judgment.
The principle is simple: it is better to be considered one who is being obviously less than transparent than one who is a laughable incompetent.
That is precisely what is happening here.
Harper's cabinet in total likely sets something of a national record for incompetence and blundering in a single group of people.
This undoubtedly was another case of sending body bags to reservations as preparation for H1N1.
But the leader of these political buffoons, Canada's own Newt Gingrich (that wonderful family-values man who asked his wife, dying of cancer, for a divorce), gives this sad story a new quality with his filthy suggestions that critics are blaming the forces.
