Paul Nathanson At The University Of Ottawa

The Student Revolutionary Movement (RSM) sent members to the  University of Ottawa to disrupt Dr. Paul Nathanson's talk on why he chose to research men. The protesters arrived around 6:30 PM and blocked the one entrance/exit door making it difficult for people to come and go. Security arrived quickly and escorted the protesters from the building. The police also arrived, bringing the number of officers and security guards to about 8 or 10.

None of the protesters were interested in listening to the lecture, but they donned face masks on the pretense that they would be at risk from attendees. A viewer would have to be brain dead to be fooled by this juvenile tactic, a manipulative trick in the vein of  "if I cry, people will believe he hit me." The RSM have done this in the past, and they followed up with fantastical lies about the event to disguise the

Threat Of Violence By Suspected Member Of The Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM)

I will be filming a lecture by Paul Nathanson tonight, February 10, at the University of Ottawa, and the Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM, a Marxist group that advocates bringing about communism by force) intends to block and/or shutdown this event. In the past RSM members have covered their faces to hide their identities during protests.

Recently I received a threat from Chris Brown, who I believe is a member of the RSM. Here are some photos of Chris Brown and a copy of the exchange containing his threats:

The Prison-Industrial Complex Is Hiring: Long Hours, No Pay

This article in The Atlantic, "American Slavery, Reinvented" is depressing, but it is also important. I particularly like this quote from the thirteenth amendment of the US constitution:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

This quote explains the private prison system in which prisoners work for multi-national corporations. It also explains the increasingly harsh sentences, and the new trend to criminalize ordinary human behavior with prison time for non-crimes like inability to make child support payments: the prison industrial complex needs more slaves.

How long will we tolerate this inhumanity?

The Canadian Association For Equality Marched In York Pride Parade

The Toronto Pride Parade banned the Canadian Center For Equality (CAFE) for life this year. But Jacob Gal, head of the York Pride Fest, reached out to CAFE and invited them to join the York parade on June 20, 2015 in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto.

Justin Trottier, one of CAFE's founding members, informed Gal of the Toronto Pride decision and, after looking into the background and details of the "controversy," Gal concluded that the exclusion was unjustified. Gal was pleased to welcome CAFE to his event in Richmond Hill and, after the event, went even further, saying that he would be pleased to partner with CAFE in the future since they shared common goals.

Gal learned that Toronto Pride organizers, like executive director Mathieu Chantelois, were concerned that CAFE was not catering to every group but was primarily focused on issues affecting men. But Gal pointed out that many, if not all, of the groups participating in Pride parades target specific demographic groups. Gal indicated that specialization is often necessary in order to better meet the needs of a particular demographic, adding that if he excluded specialized groups, there wouldn't be much of a parade left. Gal also noted that

Tim Hunt fired for a mild (true) jest

I put off writing about Tim Hunt's firing for a couple of days, perhaps partly because it hits too close to home, partly because I've been waiting for some follow up: to learn that the Nobel Laureate would get his job back with a full apology from University College London ... something.

The story is disturbing on many levels: that a great scientist could be forced to retire for such a trivial reason, that he essentially accepts the reason and has issued a groveling mea culpa, that his wife essentially accepts the reason and has had to fall back on feminist bromides as a form of defense ("He does all the cooking ..."). They are a pathetic couple not least because of the injustice that has been done them but also for their seeming inability to think for themselves about what has happened. Get angry, for goodness sake.