Its nice to see a Politician contradict himself ...... Grewal.
I also enjoy seeing how Grewal attempts to illicit feelings of sympathy by associating his actions to that of a whistleblower. The, "I am a victim" feel sorry for me, don't look at the contradiction of me admitting there was no stress and yet I took stress leave. The apparent view of his that the electorate is actually that shallow. His feeding of his ego and trying to portray himself as that of a "commoner", a any next door neighbour.
I hope one can see how his actions do not compare to that of a real whistle-blower. A Corporate whistleblower immediately loses their carreer within their choosen educational field. Grewal does not. Grewal as a Politician knows that one or two terms in Office with a scarce chance at three is common place, then other employment. A carreer Corp employee has an excellant chance at 20 to 25 years unless the Corp goes under. A carreer corp employee remains within the same field of educational expertise while a Politician does not go to other political employment. Ok, some go to embassies or to the Senate, but that is the fallacy of small numbers. Just to add, does Grewal actually believe that by proving the political obvious through technically correct whistleblowing that the electorate which already knew existed, is perhaps not whistleblowing in the sense that a Corp whistleblower brings forth the unknowing?
Article showing Grewals' contradictions and sympathy seeking with my write up from the 7 June 05 below it.
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Gurmant Grewal, the embattled Conservative MP, is speaking out for the first time since taking stress leave last month.
Grewal unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he released secretly audio-taped conversations with high-ranking Liberals ahead of the May 19 crucial confidence vote, which could have toppled the minority Liberal government.
He accused Liberals of offering him and his wife Nina, also a Tory MP, plum posts if they would abstain from the budget vote or cross the floor.
Soon after he released written transcripts and segments of the taped conversations, audio experts said the tapes appeared to have been altered, a charge with he denied.
Despite the controversy, Grewal says, appearing on Vancouver's Channel M television that he doesn't regret making the recordings.
"I am not bothered by anything. I feel very proud of what I have done because what I did was for the right cause," he says, according to a written transcript released by Channel M.
"You and your other media colleagues did not give correct information in the media because you did not do proper research, did not find many facts.
"When the investigation is over, I will have an interview with the whole media, will tell them all the fact so that they could judge on the basis of fact."
He says the only way to expose hidden corruption was through the recordings, which were made legally.
"I am proud that I, at least as a whistleblower, have brought to surface the behind-the-scenes corruption and attack on our democracy," he says in the transcript.
When asked if he still secretly records conversations, Grewal said he did not record "common people" and blamed the media for misrepresenting him.
"Media turned it around as if I record everybody. No, I am a common
man, live like common people. I never record an ordinary person."
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Ok, waying in on Grewals Stress Leave. Its a farce, the stress part that is, and basic human physiology says so.
When one knows one is correct in something without doubt there is the increased dopamine levels making one feel good and confident. Same feeling, same thing as cocaine ingestion, ok.
When one knows that one is correct legally and cannot have their personal freedom removed, see above.
When one is doing something, whatever the cause, and is truly alturistic, see above.
The Kicker. The Tell.
When one has doubt about any of the above, this means that they KNOW they have done something wrong. This is where the stress comes in. This is where the Cortisol is pounding throughout the Blood system hitting the brains Seretonin, Dopamine and Eneneprine systems causing a depletion leading to the "fight or flight response". This is stress. The Brian messenger dopamine (feel rewards) is forced lower. The other two prominent brain messengers forced lower also for any kind of prolonged period leads to depression. Depression of course causing more stress leading to even lower levels leading to increased levels of Depression...... the untreated depression death cycle unless chemically intervened.
Ok, enough of the side track. Back to Grewal.
Grewal if he loses his job, kicked out, forced to go home, can still pump gas somewhere. So I know that food and shelter will not be a cause of stress.
Grewal if correct legally in what he did will not face prosecution, therefore no loss of freedom, no stress.
Grewal facing the media and opposition scrutiny causing stress? No. He has already shown he can handle dealing with a wide variety of peoples as a politician. This of course is made very easy if he knows he is correct on his past actions and is riding the dopamine upswirl.
Conclusion.
He has no basis for stress that would be beyond any regular persons day to day living.
His Stress Leave is a farce designed to get him out of the media and Conservative spotlight. He has been invited on CTV to be interviewed by the Duff Man but has declined. The Conservatives WANT him to go away.
Bottom line, his stress leave is a farce as far as "stress" goes.
But then again, he might be feeling pretty guilty about trying desperately to cross the floor for selfish gains while taping it to look like a Conservative Hero if he could not get exactly what he wanted from the Liberals. That he would only cross the floor with a guarentee of financial gain and/or employment security of a Senate Seat or an out of site, secure, overseas Posting.
Everyone I know knows that. So to throw in something crude, he is a lying shithead stressed out of his own making. Do I think that the Ontarian electorate picked up on this in the para above? - Yup. Then the known libs get the vote by default.
