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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The family of a woman shot by an officer in Edmonton during a wellness check said her death was unnecessary, as the number of police shootings across Canada show little sign of relenting over the past four years. "I see my daughter's death as being a result of a complete mishandling of the tools available to law enforcement in the application of dealing with mental health issues," the family of the woman, who has not been publicly identified, said in a statement from their lawyer, Tom Engel. Edmonton police have said officers were called for a welfare check earlier this month. There were risks the woman may harm herself, so police say officers entered the apartment. There was a confrontation and the woman was shot. The woman's family said that had the police approach been gradual and gentle, she would have understood the nature of the visit and would still be alive.

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[probablyasocialecologist]

First, let’s address the fact that hackers recently accessed the personal data of about 14,000 23andMe customers. Because of how 23andMe works—it has a “DNA Relatives” feature that lets users find people they are probably related to—this breach created 6.9 million “other users” who had data stolen in the breach, according to reporting by TechCrunch. This data included people’s names, birth year, relationships, percentage of DNA shared with other 23andMe users, and ancestry reports.

[...]

Getting your DNA or your loved ones’ DNA sequenced means you are potentially putting people who are related to those people at risk in ways that are easily predictable, but also in ways we cannot yet predict because these databases are still relatively new. I am writing this article right now because of the hack, but my stance on this issue has been the same for years, for reasons outside of the hack. In 2016, I moderated a panel at SXSW called “Is Your Biological Data Safe?,” which was broadly about the privacy implications of companies and other entities creating gigantic databases of people’s genetic code. This panel’s experts included a 23andMe executive as well as an FBI field agent. Everyone on the panel and everyone in the industry agrees that genetic information is potentially very sensitive, and the use of DNA to solve crimes is obviously well established.  At the time, many of the possible dangers of providing your genome to a DNA sequencing company were hypothetical. Since then, many of the hypothetical issues we discussed have become a reality in one way or another. For example, on that panel, we discussed the work of an artist who was turning lost strands of hair, wads of chewing gum, and other found DNA into visual genetic “portraits” of people. Last year, the Edmonton Police Service, using a company called Parabon, used a similar process to create 3D images of crime suspects using DNA from the case. The police had no idea if the portrait they generated actually looked like the suspect they wanted, and the practice is incredibly concerning. To its credit, 23andMe itself has steadfastly resisted law enforcement requests for information, but other large databases of genetic information have been used to solve crimes. Both 23andMe and Ancestry are regularly the recipients of law enforcement requests for data, meaning police do see these companies as potentially valuable data mines. 

[beardedmrbean]

FRANKFORT – Potential mothers could claim child support during pregnancy under a new proposal before the Kentucky legislature.

House Bill 243, filed by Republican Reps. Amy Neighbors of Edmonton and Stephanie Dietz of Edgewood, would change Kentucky law to claim child support "at any time following conception."

The bill is designed to support pregnant mothers, Neighbors said.

"There are a lot of costs associated with a pregnancy and basically getting ready for baby," Neighbors said, pointing to car seats, other needed supplies and lost work time when a pregnant mother has to attend doctor appointments.

But abortion-rights advocates see the bill as part of an attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda by laying the groundwork for fetal personhood under Kentucky law.

Bills based on the idea that a fetus is a person have been filed across the country after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Neighbors said her decision to introduce the bill was not directly influenced by Kentucky's ban on most abortions but rather by a desire to support women during pregnancy.

The measure also would allow paternity testing prior to birth, as long as it's safe to do so, Neighbors said.

The bill was sent to the Committee on Committees on Jan. 11. Neighbors said she believes HB 243 will have widespread support from House Republicans.

Critics see bill as attempt at fetal personhood

Abortion-rights advocates told The Courier Journal the measure is an attempt to cement into law the belief that life begins at conception.

Rep. Lisa Willner, D-Louisville, said the measure would create a "slippery slope" for pregnant people.

"What the bill would do would be to grant full personhood to an embryo from the moment of conception," Willner said. "These so-called personhood laws could result in a pregnant woman facing child abuse charges and even incarceration if she seeks treatment for drug or alcohol abuse.”

“The legislature should instead focus on bolstering actual support for pregnancy, such as ensuring insurance access, covering doula and midwifery services, and expanding mental health supports," Willner said.

"This bill is an underhanded attempt to advance an anti-abortion agenda and lay the groundwork for fetal personhood in state law by allowing people to seek child support for a fetus," said Tamarra Wieder, Kentucky state director for the Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.

Wieder is also concerned the bill would open the door for surveillance of pregnant people because it would require the state to verify their eligibility for child support. She agreed with Willner that the legislature should focus on health care during pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood will ask its supporters to call legislators and express their opposition, Wieder said.

"We may actually be able to stop this because Kentuckians don't want more restrictions to abortion, and this is another abortion restriction that would be codified in law," Wieder said.

But when asked when asked about the comments from abortions-rights supporters, Neighbors said, "I can’t stress enough that my goal is to simply be supportive of mothers, children, and families."

National trend

The bill is the first Kentucky measure Willner has seen that creates a potential personhood definition for a fetus, she said.

But other states and Congress have considered, and in some cases adopted, similar bills around child support.

In 2021, Utah adopted a measure that requires fathers to pay 50% of the mother's pregnancy expenses. Indiana's legislature last year expanded the list of childbirth-related expenses fathers could be held responsible for paying, though the legislature stopped short of categorizing those payments as child support.

Georgia's abortion law applies the state's child support rules to any fetus "with a detectable heartbeat."

Washington Republicans have introduced bills similar to the current proposal in Kentucky. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, in December introduced in their respective chambers the "Supporting Healthy Pregnancy Act," which would require biological fathers to pay child support for medical expenses during pregnancy.

"These bills are often introduced by folks who are pro-life or anti-abortion who believe that a fetus or unborn child is a rights-holding person," said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California-Davis. She is writing a book about the fetal personhood movement.

"The strategy behind them is to set a precedent that, you know, that life in the womb has rights essentially, which would obviously have extensions to abortion too," Ziegler said. "Essentially it would mean liberal abortion laws would be unconstitutional."

A separate Kentucky bill introduced by Sen. David Yates, D-Louisville, would add exceptions for rape, incest, maternal health, and lethal fetal anomalies to Kentucky's near-total ban on abortions. __________________

I thought this was what they wanted, people keep going after pro life people for fetal child support and now that it's on the docket they're mad for some reason.

[youcouldmakealife]

SOTM: ScratchnMoney, Julius&Jared; the buddy system

For the prompt:  Scouts POV of the Jared and Julius show after the trade. Are they in awe or terrified of their combined bitchiness? Or does Julius surprisingly show his softer side?

The moment they land in Vancouver, Little Caesar disappears. And Joey means disappears. He also means the ‘moment’ part: dude is first off the plane and by the time they reach the terminal there’s no Halla to be found.

“Buddy system!” Coach says. He’s been so strict since they lost Keebler for 16 hours. He was fine. Eventually. “Buddy system, Scouts! No man left behind!”

Joey reaches out blindly, and Scratch squeezes his hand.

“Buddy,” Joey says.

“Husbuddy,” Scratch agrees. “Don’t pout, Willy.”

“I don’t want to be your buddy anyway,” Willy blatantly lies. “Where’s Caesar?”

Joey looks around for his platinum blond head. He doesn’t find it. Not right away, and not after the Scouts have all obediently found their partners, and he goes to grab Coach before he can do his headcount in the bus and get disappointed in them again. Disappointing Coach is bad for team morale.

“We lost somebody,” Joey says.

Coach pinches his nose. “We literally just touched down. Is it Keebler? He really needs to pay attention to where he’s walking.”

“Little Caesar,” Joey says. Which is very unlike him! Maybe he got kidnapped.

“He hasn’t been kidnapped,” Coach says, waving Joey off. “He’s getting picked up by a family member. He got my okay.”

“But—“ Joey says. “The buddy system!”

“You not have a buddy, Money?” Coach asks. “There a marital spat I need to hear about? You guys need non-adjourning rooms?”

“No spitting here,” Joey says. “All buddied up, Coach.”

“Buddies for life, Coach!” Scratch pipes up beside him.

“Good men,” Coach says. “Off you go.”

“He cleared it with Coach,” Joey reports to Willy, who’s still craning his head around, muttering something no doubt uncomplimentary under his breath.

“Well,” Willy huffs. “Apparently I don’t have a buddy.”

“Would you like to be our triple buddy, Willy?” Scratch asks.

“No!” Willy says. “That’s not a thing!”

They start on their way.

“Wait for me!” Willy says, and trots to follow them.

“Triple buddies?” Joey says, holding his hand out.

“I’m not holding your hand,” Willy mutters, but he sticks close enough that he doesn’t need to.

*

Team breakfast, and Little Caesar isn’t there. Not against curfew or anything, apparently he told Coach. Lunch? Not a single Caesar to be found, except on the menu. And when they get on the bus to the arena, he’s sill missing.

Considering their next game is in Edmonton, AKA Little Caesar’s former territory, followed by a game in Calgary, which is where his in-laws are — and, if Joey remembers correctly, Erin was planning to fly in — Joey figures he’ll turn up eventually, but still.

The buddy system lasted all of one trip. One trip! Joey is disappointed but not surprised. At least he doesn’t have to worry about Little Caesar’s safety. He can fend for himself in the Canadian wilds.

*

Little Caesar pops up for the first time deep, deep in enemy territory. Like, so deep that Scratch and Joey shouldn’t actually be here, but they got confused looking for the hall that’s extra good for kicking around a soccer ball and went the wrong way, and then took directions from a Rogers Arena employee who was either also directionally challenged, or thought that fucking with them would be fun. The point is, they should not be here, and neither should Little Caesar. Erin’s brother is allowed, though. He’s the enemy after all. This is his territory. You can’t just tell people they can’t be on their own territory, that’s rude.

“Little Caesar, you live!” Joey says.

“I live,” Little Caesar says, so flat he may as well be dead. “Why are you here.”

“And Erin’s brother!” Joey says.

Erin’s brother gets all puffed up. “I have a name.”

Joey would assume so, and also assumes he’s been told it before, but if so, he does not remember it. Wait, he does! “Matheson!”

Which is really just ‘Erin’s brother’ all over again, considering that is also her name, but maybe he’ll take it less poorly.

Matheson tilts his head, and Joey swears it’s like looking at Erin. Without the expression you could still pretty easily tell they were related, but with it? Full on ‘I bet this makes Little Caesar extremely uncomfortable whenever he thinks about it too hard’ resemblance, like Scratch gets when Casey and Joey laugh the same.

“Has anyone told you—“ Joey starts, and Little Caesar sends him a look that’s half cutting and half desperate plea to shut up.

“—you look uncannily like your sister?” Joey finishes, because never let it be said that he can take a hint.

Matheson suddenly looks extremely pissy.

“Hey, that’s the face Erin made when I beat her at darts!” Scratch says. “Right before she said things that hurt my feelings.”

He gives Joey a look, and this one Joey listens to.

They flee before another Matheson can hurt them.

*

“Why are they running,” Jared says.

Julius shrugs.

“Why do your married teammates have to be the weird ones?” Jared asks. It’s not exactly like he was going to go ‘hey, you guys also married a dude, let’s be friends’, because he is full up in the friend department, but still.

“They’re all weird,” Julius says.

“Has Erin been terrorizing your teammates?” Jared asks.

Julius’ mouth tips up. “She does not like to lose,” he says.

“Well, obviously,” Jared says. That’s a universal Matheson trait, and the reason they’ve never believed in family game night. Dad’s the worst, but he has a lot of competition. “Are they still running?”

Julius squints down the hall. “Yes,” he says.

“So weird,” Jared says under his breath, and Julius gives him a look of silent suffering in response.

“Are they going in the right direction?” Julius asks.

“Nope,” Jared says.

Julius mutters something under his breath. All Jared catches is ‘coach’ and ‘furious’.

*

“You know,” Coach says, when it’s seven minutes until they have to take the ice for warmups, and ScratchnMoney are nowhere to be found. “I really thought the buddy system was going to prevent these situations. Does that make me naive? Am I naive, boys?”

“You may have been slightly optimistic,” Tate says. “But it’s not bad to be an optimist.”

Coach sighs. “Isn’t it, Willy?” he asks. “Isn’t it?”

“We got lost!” Money says, bursting into the room with five minutes to go. “We got so lost, and we never got found, and there is no reception! No reception in the tunnels! Which is a crime.”

“A crime!” Scratch chimes in as he trots in after Money. “Definitely psychological warfare! And the staff colluded! We should report them!”

Coach looks at Tate. Tate looks back.

“You deal with them,” Coach says tiredly, then retreats back to the glorified closet that’s designated as the office for visiting team coaches.

“And you!” Money says, pointing at Little Caesar. “How did you get here!”

“I followed the signs,” Little Caesar says blandly.

“You followed the enemy, that’s what you followed!” Scratch says.

“Multitask getting dressed and assigning blame,” Tate says. He knows better than to ban assigning blame entirely. They’ll just say he let down his triple buddies or something.

“And who was supposed to be our triple buddy, huh?” Money says, turning on him as expected, but he’s yanking at his shirt and kicking his shoes off as he does so, so Tate decides to consider himself lucky. Not too lucky, but lucky enough.

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14 Cartoons About Basement Development Edmonton That'll Brighten Your Day

In the dynamic city of Edmonton, where real estate is at a premium, homeowners are progressively counting on basement development to maximize their building's possible and develop flexible space. Edmonton's unique environment, with long wintertimes and also short summer seasons, makes a well-designed cellar an important addition to any kind of residence. Basement development not only broadens living locations however additionally increases home value, making it a sensible investment for homeowners. In this post, we'll explore the advantages, considerations, as well as trends in cellar development in Edmonton.

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Warning: This story contains a graphic image [A severely injured and dying child]

The death of a four-year-old Cree girl in 2014 was the result of her being taken away from her mother by Children's Services years earlier, an Alberta judge has found. 

The young girl, Serenity, was living with her great aunt and uncle in a kinship care arrangement in Maskwacis, Alta., when she sustained a major head injury on Sept. 18, 2014.

She died in hospital after being taken off life support on Sept. 27, 2014.

When details of her death became public — along with photos of her bruised and emaciated body in hospital — a wave of public outrage prompted several investigations, lawsuits and ultimately reform of provincial child welfare laws. [...]

Cochard was also critical of many other workers, agencies and figures — including the special investigator who admitted to rushing the investigation of abuse allegations and a doctor who didn't follow up when Serenity was never brought in for follow-up appointments about her weight.

The inquiry report also found that a Children's Services visit supervisor who raised concerns about the children being placed with the great aunt and uncle was fired shortly after, in April 2013.

In October 2013, once the private guardianship order was made, Children's Services closed its files on Serenity and her siblings.

Jurisdiction over the children was transferred to Akamkisipatinaw Ohpikihawasowin Child and Family Services (AKO) — an on-reserve child welfare agency at Maskwacis. It no longer exists.

But Cochard found that neither Children's Services or AKO took steps to ensure that important information about the children was transferred between the two agencies.

Cochard noted that AKO also failed to properly follow up on a report to RCMP about how thin the children had gotten when they were seen wandering alone in West Edmonton Mall by security in June 2014 — just a few months before Serenity's death. [...]

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[malhclmes]

𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒎𝒆𝒔 ———

basic stats.

full name: malachi santos holmes nickname(s): mal gender: cis man pronouns: he/him age: 28 birthday: 3 august 1994 zodiac: leo sun, aries moon, sagittarius rising ethnicity: 1/2 black (afro-american), 1/2 asian (filipino) nationality: canadian sexual orientation: heterosexual religion: atheist hometown: vancouver, bc current residence: marpole, vancouver, bc occupation: employee at a local family-owned pizza place/soundcloud musician time in vancouver: whole life education: high school   languages: english

physical.

hair color: dark brown, often dyed other colors eye color: dark brown height: 6′0 tattoos: half-sleeve on right forearm, bicep/shoulder piece on left arm, lots of little finger and hand tats, a tiny apple right below left eye, one really detailed colorful piece on left shin, black and white chest piece piercings: both lobes, usually not wearing anything in them scars: tba fashion: plain t-shirts, flannels, ripped jeans, converse, boots, etc

family.

birth mother: serena santos (deceased) birth father: unknown to him adoptive mother: linda holmes adoptive father: frank holmes birth siblings: none adoptive siblings: dec holmes pet(s): none

personality.

outlook: pessimistic pos. traits: savvy, loyal, courageous, altruistic, humble, witty, independent   neg. traits: stubborn, bullheaded, reckless, morally arrogant, emotionally unavailable likes: diners at 2am, getting stoned and listening to music, feeling independent, black coffee, red wine, feeling really close with people, when the days are shorter in winter, science podcasts, doing drugs, cold weather, video games, anything artificial cherry flavored, giving gifts, live music dislikes: being sober, hot people being fake humble, reading, his adoptive parents, influencer culture, asking for help, holidays, his birthday, public speaking, law enforcement, having big responsibilities, planning for the future fears: getting old, losing people

headcanons.

only likes attention for things he’s good at and enjoys like playing his music or rolling a perfect joint but otherwise haaaates it literally hates his bday and that kind of stuff, and even if it was good attention for something like music it would still be too much eventually

plays guitar really well and has a great ear for music. he loves making beats and mixing stuff and puts a lot of instrumentals up on soundcloud. sometimes he’ll record lyrics but it’s always really synthetic and autotuned sounding (this kind of stuff)

does a lot of drugs, mostly coke and hallucinogens, def has a coke problem

loves loves feeling like he’s important to people he cares about

very like altruistic but simultaneously arrogant? like his instinct would be to risk his own life to save someone but he’s not gna be friends with u necessarily FTYGUKHLJK

doesn’t rly expect things to work out for him. kind of just assumes shit doesn’t go well and lets that keep him from trying to do more with his life

has extremely complicated feelings abt his brother and will absolutely talk shit abt how he’s a magician but is of the mindset where he’s allowed to make fun of him but no one else is TYJFUGHILJOK

more tba

full biography.

**trigger warnings for death, birth complications, fostering and adoption trauma, drug abuse, addiction

In late July of 1994, Malachi Santos took his first breath in the back of a truck in downtown Vancouver. His mother, a seventeen-year-old runaway addicted to cocaine, had gotten a ride just the day before with a man in a Ford F-150 while hitchhiking west from Edmonton. They had just crossed within the city’s limits when Serena went into precipitous labor and managed to terrify the man driving the truck into agreeing when she shouted at him not to take her to the hospital, where they would be legally obligated to contact the foster parents she’d just escaped from — instead, he found a Walmart parking lot and folded down his back seats. An hour and a half in, however, he got spooked as Serena became less and less responsive in between contractions; Malachi was born five minutes before they reached the hospital, and Serena died from blood loss ten minutes after that as they were rushing her into the emergency room. Because of the drugs in her system and the premature birth, Mal had to be kept at the hospital for a couple weeks, and after being determined unfit to continue fostering, he wasn’t returned to the couple his mom had run away from.

Mal spent the next tumultuous half a decade in Vancouver’s foster system until finally getting adopted by Frank and Linda Holmes — two vibrant actors with a love for giving back to the community and another adopted son they’d already had for five years. They had gone into the adoption process for the second time with the idea of making the next one a girl, but neither could resist the challenge Mal presented when they met him and were given warnings by the adoption agency that he was a difficult child. So Malachi Santos became Malachi Holmes, and for many children, it would have been the proverbial jackpot: the Holmes family was warm and welcoming and decently wealthy to boot, but even at five years old Mal didn’t feel like he fit into it. One of the most difficult parts for him — though he never really understood why, especially when he was younger — was that this wasn’t a foster home this time but an adoptive family, and one that seemed determined to make him feel like he’d been cast in a weird sitcom every time they dressed up for Renaissance faires or as Mr. and Mrs. Clause for Christmas.

On paper they were good parents was the thing, and Dec was a good brother, it was just that by the time he hit eleven or twelve, the imposter syndrome coloring his entire home life solidified into its own identity; he felt like the black sheep not only in his home dynamic but in a much grander, cosmic sense that, in his mind, put him on one side of the proverbial fence and everybody else on the other. He was not unfriendly in school so much as deeply introverted and on some level uninterested in other people, except for two friends he made in sixth grade and stayed friends with through high school.

He’s the kind of person who has plenty of friends he chills with but those two are his homies and he’s crazy hard to get close to because he’s not interested in expanding that circle. He really doesn’t have a lot of ambition and has no grand plans with his music, in spite of knowing somewhere deep down he might actually like to. He started playing around with mixing in high school and still does that and uploads his stuff to SoundCloud and everything, he’s got a great ear for music and really enjoys doing it, but the idea of making a career out of it freaks him out pretty badly. Besides that, he works at a local pizza joint where he’s close with the family who owns it, and he’s happy (or, at least, satisfied) doing that as long as it makes ends meet.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Professor Stephen Kent was asked if the Unification Church (aka FFWPU) was a cult

an extract from:

Why Is Stephen Harper So Tight with the ‘Moonie’ Church?

TheTyee.ca   October 3, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/10/03/Why-Stephen-Harper-Tight-Moonie-Church/

Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the Harper government, his investigations have sparked four commissions of inquiry.

Michael Harris wrote this article.

What strange bedfellows right-wing politics and messianic religion make. And Canadian conservatism is right there under the duvet.

...

I asked Stephen Kent, a professor in the department of sociology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and an authority on cults, what to make of the fact that Stephen Harper, still a powerful mandarin in the [Canadian] Conservative party he forged, goes far to make common cause with the Unification Church.

“It is significant for a number of reasons,” Kent said. “First, he is aligning himself with an organization founded on religious revelation rather than democratic debate, signaling that solutions to pressing global problems will have a religiously based, as opposed to diplomatically secular, solutions.

“Second, he is tacitly supporting governments based on religious revelation rather than secular law. He is able to ignore issues of harm related to the Unification Church that stretch back decades, while valourizing a fantasy about two Koreas uniting under the leadership of a wholly unqualified religious despot. North Koreans already struggle under the despotic lineage of another family.

“Third, Harper’s attendance and speeches validate and enhance the status of Moon and his wife in the eyes of group members and the audience of conference participants. He reinforces the deceptions about the Moons when he refers to ‘Reverend’ Sun Myung Moon (who had no official training or ordination), and his wife, who has no formal education beyond high school.”

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Where did all that money come from? For about a decade starting in the mid-1970s, some $800 million flowed from Japan, where Moon’s disciples sold small objects door-to-door, claiming they had mystical powers. These workers often slept in grimy group houses half a dozen to a room, turning over all profits to the church. In turn, the money was invested in the U.S.

Asked if the Unification Church was a cult, Kent replied, “To the extent that the organization has used undue influence to create harmful obedience and dependency from its adherents, I and others consider it to be a cult. Many of its conversion tactics used manipulation, coercion and deception; its practices place adherents in a bifurcated world of in-group ‘good’ versus out-group ‘satanically evil’; and followers believe that their salvation depends upon huge, demanding and often cripplingly expensive actions in support of leaders’ goals and lavish lifestyles.”

Kent says the Unification Church is not a church at all, but a “transnational conglomerate.” Having extracted wealth from members, explained Kent, “Moon and his facilitators then used these resources to fund both anti-communist and anti-democratic political efforts around the globe while holding international conferences for global opinion-influencers who endorse aspects of Moon’s effort to regulate the world under his formation of a planetary theocracy.”

If that’s the case, why do these ex-politicians come when called? One reason is they can learn how to implement “religiously influenced policies” on masses of people, said Kent. Members of this informal think tank then take back ideas to their home countries, where they can be modified and put to use.

On paper, it looks good. Peace advocacy is, after all, an admirable thing, as is emphasis on family and faith. But Kent advised caution on accepting that peace is the real goal of the UPF. “Peace advocacy is a laudable but manipulatable commodity that enhances public perceptions and may enhance one’s legacy, regardless of their efforts’ viability or success. Theocrats can parrot talk of world peace, but it would come at the price of secularism,” said Kent.

And what does the UPF get by having politicians attend its events?

“Many cults hold global aspirations for world-domination,” Kent said, “and seek to obtain it through gathering politicians’ support through election activities, and/or financial assistance.

“In turn, these politicians turn blind eyes to the manner in which these cults obtain their wealth, and they occasionally offer political support against critics,” continued Kent. “Moreover, the participation of politicians, even ones who are past their primes, serves as legitimations for both members and outside observers that the movement’s ideology has merit and significance.”

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https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/10/03/Why-Stephen-Harper-Tight-Moonie-Church/

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