OLDENSREVENGE's Namesake?

We already know that Dean Steacy uses the username JADEWARR. Apparently, he also uses another username called OLDENSREVENGE. To what extent he uses this name no one is sure yet, but here is a little background on who I believe to be OLDENSREVENGE's namesake.

Meet Rudolph Olden.

And something he wrote.

Is this who Dean Steacy is modeling one of his online alter egos after?

More to Come as it is available.

UPDATE:

From Rudolph Olden's Wikipedia page. Excerpted and translated through Babelfish

On the day after the realm tag fire Olden - by friends warned - could escape straight still in time an arrest. It went to Prague, where it published the essay "Hitler of the conquerers" in the following year anonymous. From Prague Olden went to Paris, where 1934 its much-considered documentation "black book concerning the situation of the Jews in Germany" appeared. Still in the same year Olden transferred the line of the newspaper the realm to Saarbruecken and engaged thereby much in the fight against the connection of the Saarland to the third realm.

During this time Olden could publish only in exile newspapers, like e.g.. the new diary, Paris day sheet or the collection. The diplomat Gilbert Murray invited Olden due to some of these essays to hold in London and Oxford lectures on German history and home policy.

Rudolph Olden, it appears, was a sort resistance writer. Forced into exile and publishing Anti-Hitler screeds anonymously from Prague. According to this:

"He is known as an Anti-Nazi defence lawyer..."

He was a member of an ad hoc government in exile, a senator in fact.

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WRITTEN WORKS of Rudolph Olden

* Letters from the years 1935-1936 (Rudolf Olden, Peter Olden) [ Hrsg. of Charmian Brinson... ]
* The history of the liberty in Germany. Publishing house "other Germany 1948.
* Hindenburg or the spirit of the Prussian army. Barley mountain, Hildesheim 1982, ISBN 3-8067-0911-4 (Repr. D expenditure. Paris 1935).
* Hitler of the conquerers. Exposing a legend. Fischer, Frankfurt/M. 1984, ISBN 3-596-25185-0 (Repr. D expenditure. Amsterdam 1935).
* In deep darkness Germany lies. By Hitler drove out, one year German emigration. Metropol publishing house, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-926893-20-6.
* Prophet in German crisis. The marvelous or those Bewitched ones. A collection. Hg. v. Rudolf Olden. Rowohlt, Berlin 1932.
* Black book concerning the situation of the Jews in Germany. Paris 1934.
* So many books, so many prohibitions. Exhibition "the German PEN club in the exile 1933-1948". Bookseller combination, Frankfurt/M. 1981, ISBN 3-7657-1039-3.
* Stresemann. A biography. Rowohlt, Berlin 1929

Point & Prosecute

A man lit up a cigarette during a Jay's home game and no sooner had a plume of smoke wafted upwards another man stands up and snaps at a Sky Dome official. Then the man merely points to the offending smoker with his nose perched ever so high. Having prompted the official to repsond he takes his seat quickly and goes back to surveying the empty field. The official of course forced the required solution and dealt with the smoker.

Now, one can hardly take issue with a man doing his job and upholding the law. I can even sympathize with a an ardent citizen. But the manner in which it all played left me unsettled. After pointing out the offense the finger-wagging man acted as though nothing happened. He merely stared at the empty playing field as he had done before. If you looked away or were engaged in conversation you wouldn't have seen any of it. That got me thinking. Does this guy believe he can just point and prosecute? Does he really believe that the authorities exist to remove those things we find distasteful? We aren't required by common decency to mitigate some unpleasantness ourselves? No chance afforded a man to say he is a fool and correct his foolishness?

Of course not. I had never given much thought to the motive of the man who tattled on the smoker. But I think I know. You see, the man sat 10-12 rows behind the smoker in the open air ball field. I imagine that the tattler knew full well that the smoker will seek him out, he will look around for the person who ratted him out. How many people around the smoker would strain their necks to identify his accuser? The tattler did not want this to happen. He did not want to be seen. Why is that?

Maybe he was frightened of the man. He was not a small, he not did appear timid. Pointing people around like your born with a pedigree to do it certainly doesn't denote a demure character. Maybe he was embarrassed by the fact that the when smoke traversed the distance required to pass his lips it would be a fraction in the millions, if not billions, of the original plume. Most likely he was embarrassed for just being a tattler. People of conviction don't look away. They don't sit down quick enough so their actions go unnoticed.

It's why we westerners value a whistle-blower. Real whistle-blowers aren't afraid of the full glare of justice. They don't have the luxury of using authority as a blunt instrument. It would seem vulgar to even mention anonymity when speaking of real whistle-blowers but I must because it reveals something in my subject's character. That he avoided an awkward social interaction thus avoiding his having to truly bear witness is it not possible he feels he has a bone to whack the other with? Is it curious that the law and it's civilizing spirit is made party to the animation of humanity's more mundane and trivial darkness.

How many of us wish we could force people to have exact change at the ready when boarding public transit? And if only we were given the power to make them do it. Ask yourself that question when you're running late and that latte-sipping web developer can't remember which pocket he put his change in. We all have pet peeves we would see eradicated as though we were the fuhrer himself and with enough of us working to do just that, that is exactly what we'll be like but in a million little slivers.

And why be that when we can be Canada. As she is and has always been.

Down the Road A Peice

OK, that somebody is just mentioning this now, kinda puts a damper on the whole argument that Billary has been treated unfairly. In my estimation Mrs. Clinton took the low road when first she cried and then implied that she was being treated unfairly as a women. That would make sense if that whole teary episode was for assuaging the male vote. But it wasn't, it was meant to sway women voters, which actually makes her the sexist.

Most Dems endeavor in this sort of pandering so that they can crow about it later on, it's just funny when they have do it to each other.

Why is it, if I don't vote for a woman I'm a sexist and if I don't vote for black man I'm a racist? And can we say the same of people who don't vote for McCain because he isn't a woman or black?

The Communist Olympiad II

Basically, the recent event won't diminish those who practice "good intentions". Quite the contrary, it'll be absolutely imperative that we go ahead with the Olympics like it's a great big bear hug. We can't isolate them and now, more than ever, we must embrace China to further advance Western ideas on human rights. After all, that's why we in Canada got screwed and China won the bid.

One Is Many

Here is a little dittie from the Hill Times. This is how a real news item is written, unlike the efforts of the Sun News Corp. My thoughts on that here.

An excerpt:

Liberal MP Bryon Wilfert (Richmond Hill, Ont.) said the Conservative strategy is to "scare off" the Liberals and pressure them into offering an apology. "I think this government is becoming lawsuit happy. They seem to want to sue people for asking legitimate questions. It wasn't very long ago that they were asking these types of questions when we were the government, and now the shoe is on the other foot, and they don't seem prepared to come forth," he said. "They served that notice to Stéphane at breakfast at Stornoway, which I thought was pretty cheap."

Hmmm, if the PMO is lawsuit happy with one lawsuit in the works would that make Mark Holland a serial snooper?

Prediction: This issue will end Dion's leadership.

The "Democrats"

Courtesy of NYT.

Some superdelegates think they should reflect the will of the voters. The Democratic Party? No, that would make sense and the Dems don't.

Yesterday's News From The Future

OK, here is the Sun on the Liberals titled Liberals could use privilege to delay testifying in libel suit. Please note that the entire article is about Stephen Harper and the CPC and their alleged involvement in this so-called Cadman Affair. It's a lot to say for something that might be a futureevent that never happens, isn't it?

Liberal MPs could invoke parliamentary privilege to delay testifying in the prime minister’s libel suit over bribery allegations — a tactic Stephen Harper himself has used before.

Noticeably absent is any reportage on the subject of the headline. The Liberals posted the defamatory comments, they weren't merely published but published by someone under a directive. Decisions were made and there are events that led up to it. Why not recount those details, too?

South America Shuffle

Venezuelan and Ecuadorian forces have amassed on the Columbian border for this killing of a FARC leader inside the borders of Ecuador.

The balance of power is shifting in South America and it isn't shifting in favour of liberty. It's interesting that so many on the left condemn the outsourcing of Iraqi security operations to private American firms and think nothing of both Venezuela and Ecuador showing an unwavering support for FARC. Support that is expressed ultimately as a show of force on behalf of the terrorist organization. The FARC have been in a state of permanent revolution since the sixties and no doubt have filled their ranks with the worst sort of opportunists one could imagine. The idea that Comrade Chavez and Friends have a mere concern for their sovereignty and aren't looking with a roaming eye for any chance to move on the continent, would be a foolish idea.

UPDATE:
Chavez has FARC on the payroll?

And evidence found in the raid suggests that Chavez recently gave the FARC $300 million, Colombia's national police chief said Monday.

The Living Man

What to make of the Cadman Affair? I hope it isn't true. Lot's of people are pretty confident that it will come to nothing. PM Harper has fired off a libel notice to Goodale, Ignatieff and Dion. So, he has an ace up his sleeve, it looks like. Could be a bluff.

The thing that I keep thinking about are the living actions of Chuck Cadman. If most Canadians have given themselves over to forfeiting any grievance towards a dead man, I say fine. At this point there seems little value in debating that inclination. But, if this story spirals into something more and the actions of Chuck Cadman go unaccounted for how can any person say with certainty what had happened?

Any conservative should concern themselves with the particulars of this story and speak up where the actions of our elected officials aren't aligned with our principles. But, we should also remember that whatever imbroglio the PMO has fallen into, the living Mr. Cadman was a party to it. Whether Mr. Cadman proves himself squeaky clean or otherwise, his actions, his words will be brought to bear scrutiny. The task for conservatives is to diminish the opportunity for our opponents to ramp up a maudlin pageant and still display a level of solemnity due the Cadman family.

I never had any problem with Chuck Cadman's sustaining vote for the Martin government. I didn't agree with him, but I appreciated his reasons for remaining outside that white hot pyre in his last days.

And this...

William F. Buckley (November 24, 1925 - February 27, 2008)

It'll take everyone last one of us to stand in his place.

I'm back...

... to blog this.

The boy could play. Yes, yes.