Plagarism

It is beyond me why news regarding speeches made in 2003 is just coming to surface now, in 2008 but it is significant nonetheless (political "logic" is beyond me). A speech was made by the then president of Australia regarding joining the U.S. presence in Iraq, that when googled is shown to be 99% similar to a Harper speech given a mere two days later.

It's funny how in a society where Canadian/American students risk expulsion, and corporate employees risk job-loss (or worse) if found guilty of such a violation of intellectual property. When Harper does it however, nothing.

Sure he has deniability: Owen Lippert the man in charge of actually writing the speech said: "Pressed for time, I was overzealous in copying segments of another [. . .] speech". To all you students out there, does this sound familiar?

When speaking of deniability however, no matter who writes a speech (or essay, dissertation, or a book), after you back it with your name it becomes in a sense yours. You are claiming, "this is mine, I created that". How in the world can a man like this be trusted?

You can actually watch both leaders in a side-by-side video and compare for yourself, Here

How he was elected into power in the first place is beyond me, but as to being re-elected? Well an old saying comes to mind: fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice shame on me. This saying is not mine, just came to mind however.. didn't want to risk plagiarism or anything...

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