It's interesting to see the way our scandal is playing out here in Canada, especially since Captain Ed helped us by breaking the news of what's been going on under our oblivious noses for all these years. Jugde Gomery placed a publication ban on testimony that incriminates not only Brault et al, but our entire Liberal government, from the bottom up. Funny, when you think how much of Martin's last campaign was based on clarity of government. So Ed circumvents the ban, and a whole mightly lot of us here in Canada out-and-out break it. We're laughing all the way to our prison cells, because Gomery and the Liberals are being likened to Stalinists for trying to supress this information.

But publication bans are nothing new. For decades we've sheilded anyone under the age of 18 (unless it was going to adult court), be they victim or accused. Few of us take issue with that. No one knows the name of the kid accusing Michael Jackson, or the one that accused him 12 years ago, either. We nod our heads and accept that, because they were just kids. The records from the Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka case have been pretty much sealed, especially the videos that show the brutal sex killings of Kristin French and Leslie Mahaffy (not to mention the murder to Homolka's own younger sister, Tammy). That's as it should be. We don't need to have these snuff films getting into the wrong hands. It's not porn - it's three young girls who were murdered.

So why is this ban so different? Why does this one have us so angry we're willing to break the law? Well, because it's our government. We (not me, mind) elected these people based on our trust in them, and they have shown themselves to be swindlers and money launderers. Gomery might have put the ban in place to protect Brault, Guite and Coffin in their upcoming criminal trials, but Canadians have a right to know - in real time - what their politicians have been up to. This isn't about Brault's role so much as what he can tell us about the Liberal party. We have a situation right now where the Conservatives are holding back on a no confidence vote, because technically they're not supposed to know what the Liberal's have been doing. So it will drag out until after the ban is lifted, which could be as early as today. It will drag out, and Paul Martin (may I remind you once again that he was the former Finance Minister) and his band of merry theives will carry on collecting taxes from you and I, being paid their salaries out of our pockets, and they will not face the wrath of the voting public.

Because we're not supposed to know.

Bans are to protect the innocent, or those considered of an innocent age. They should not be put in place to sheild the guilty from justice.