Thursday, December 29, 2005

Alberta separatists in the CPC (3): who is Psycho?

The last two postings have been exploring the influence of Alberta separatists within the Conservative Party. It isn't very hard to find it, once you begin looking for it. When the right wing Small Dead Animals held an awards contest, second place for the best post went to one called the Tipping Point called for the west to separate. One could go on.

Much of such talk is of course little more than barroom banter. In the last two posts (here and here), however, we have seen that prolific poster Psycho, claims that half their campaign team are separatists (here) and that Conservative candidates in Edmonton know this (here).

So, who is Psycho, and can we believe what he says? Let's begin with what he has said about himself:
  • he is a campaign manager (here)
  • his MP is Peter Goldring (here)
  • his first name is Gord (here, here, and here)
  • he gives his email as gord.stamp@xxx.xxx (here)
  • the Edmonton Journal mentions that a Gordon Stamp is campaign manager for Peter Goldring.
It seems, then, that the Conservatives have a party official who is a self-avowed separatist.

Update Some lively discussion over at the Babble forums about this here. (Hattip to 'Reality Bites'.)

6 comments:

Idealistic Pragmatist said...

My goodness. Excellent digging. Ever thought of selling your services as a cyber-sleuth?

Dan McKenzie said...

You've really got something here. Keep working on it!

Mark Richard Francis said...

Just the kind of work I expect from you.

Now, is it really him, or someone trying to cause to him harm?

Dan McKenzie said...

Prominent Conservative Blabs Online About Being Seperatist?

All the credit goes to you of course.

carfix2000ca said...

You obviously are no different than any other liberal. You can't or don't read well. The comment is IF the liberals retain power there are some that would advocate separatism.

Gee, if that is the only way to have a hope in any kind of a free country then maybe it should be so. Your party has already created Quebec separatism.

Of course as a liberal, viewing Canada through pink glasses, the bankruptcy and destruction of anything Canadian is considered "progress" in your eyes.

Get a brain

Of course, this probably won't make your blog, as you will make sure that all comments line up to your thinking and censor it.

Typically liberal.

SO I will at least make sure it gets posted on FD

Joe Calgary said...

The Liberals just don’t get it, Stephan Harper isn’t just fighting Separation in Quebec, he is fighting against the separatists of the West as well. The Liberals have created this situation, and the western separation movement is primed, and tearing at the bit to tear us all apart.

To my chagrin, I find myself sympathizing with them. I understand, appreciate, and feel the same way myself.

I personally have decided to make one more try, I have to believe that this nation is greater than the crisis the Liberal Government has created. It’s unfortunate that I have to admit to myself that another Liberal majority will be the starting gun to separation in Alberta.

Paul Martin, of course, is completely oblivious to this, to his and the nations detriment. It will be hard enough to keep things together with a Liberal minority.

No, we need fresh faces and new ideas in this nation. I’m the vestige of the old guard myself, and I see more clearly now than I ever have in my life. Canada is changing and growing, and the government of 1867 needs to remade, rebuilt, rejuvenated. It’s the only way the Federation can survive.

We just aren’t all on the same page all the time anymore. It was easy when there was only 16 or 20 million people in Canada, with the majority out east. Now there's 5 million people between Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary alone. You can’t keep ignoring a growing power forever, and you can’t keep ignoring the basic values and principles of the West in general.

45% of Albertan’s are willing to discuss separation…

I have to ask myself, if 45% of Albertan’s are even willing to talk about it, then how many are actively willing to achieve it. 15%, 20%, however many, its too many, and if the Liberals hadn’t treated the nation like their personal bank, and Alberta like their personal punching bag, it would never have arisen.

Go Stephan go!!!