Wednesday, January 03, 2007

OHS Reformer: Who Is She?

A little research identifies one of the Reform the Ottawa Humane Society's leading lights as one Beth Greenhorn. I was wondering how this campaign managed to get so much media exposure so quickly and easily, and a little looking into the background of Ms. Greenhorn explains this. Turns out that Ms. Greenhorn makes a habit of this kind of thing; she's a semi-professional rabble-rouser.

She's the chair of the Ottawa Committee of the World March of Women, an organizer of local Code Pink anti-war demonstrations in Ottawa, and a speaker at various events related to 'activism'. For example, this excerpt comes from a 9/11 Conspiracy Theory site:
Civil Liberties & Legal Strategies for Protest: ... To work out how to continue to mount effective public protest, occupying and expanding the public space and finding ways of confronting, exposing, and undermining corporate and state control, while continuing to build viable alternatives. Solidarity & support strategies with communities and individuals under immediate risk; but also to make the best use of the freedoms and privileges we still enjoy. Concrete discussion of the real dangers as well as the real opportunities & strategies. With... Beth Greenhorn & Vallie Stearns (Ottawa Women's March Committee); ......

By their friends shall ye know them.

It bears pointing out that Ms. Greenhorn doesn't mind taking a paycheck from that oppressive state-controlling government; in her spare time, she's a Project Manager with Library and Archives Canada.

13 comments:

Neo Conservative said...

Takes the King's shilling and mounts treachery too... gotta be a Dipper.

Rob R said...

Quite a scholar, too. A Masters in Canadian Art History from Last Chance U

Anonymous said...

What an enlightened use of blogging! When encountered with an opposing viewpoint, google your victim and use your blog to publicly criticize a private individual about whom you know nothing.

Those who can, do. Those who can't merely blog.

Go ahead - moderate this. Jerk.

Clive said...

Anon: First off, I know everything that I wrote about this individual; most of it is from her own mouth or her own organizations. Therefore, to say I know nothing is incorrect.

Secondly, when someone sets themselves up in a public campaign, and when they happily seek the media limelight, they're not a victim. They should expect to be written about.

Thirdly, the real victims are the OHS staff who are being called 'murderer' or worse to their faces, thanks to Ms. Greenhorn, and the Skerret-Powells. I'm guessing you're not losing sleep over that.

Finally, I could add that those who can't be bothered to blog, or make some other reasoned contribution to the debate resort to the use of terms such as 'jerk'.

Doggerelle said...

wow! Temperament testing for anonymous comments, anyone? Hey, and no-one even tried to touch the resources.....

Clive said...

Anon's comment came from a Rogers IP address in Ottawa, but Anon entered the blog with no referral URL, suggesting a word-of-mouth or email referral. This machine was running Win XP and IE 7.

Interestingly, someone else Googled 'Ottawa Humane Society Beth Greenhorn' at around 11:30pm on Friday night and arrived here; this was another Rogers IP but this time a Mac running OS X and Firefox. Noting that www.reformtheohs.ca is hosted at Mac.com, perhaps this was a case of eavesdroppers hearing no good of themselves.

Anonymous said...

If a tree falls in the middle of a forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a noise?

If someone comes into a blog forum that is open to all, and makes comments that might be construed as inflammatory or rude, can their presence be called,"eavesdropping"?

I wonder,,,,,,,

Clive said...

Hehehe... perhaps not literally eavesdropping - but my point was related to the fact that the person Google'd themselves and that's how they arrived here.

Googling your own name is trying to find out what people are saying about you and in that sense is a form of eavesdropping.

Anonymous said...

lol,,,,,,tooooooooooo much time on their hands, perhaps?

Anonymous said...

lol,,,,,,tooooooooooo much time on their hands, perhaps?

Anonymous said...

I must say, it IS kind of creepy that you can know where someone has been on their computer. FORGET about "Big Brother watching". Now we have Clive!! LOL!

Clive said...

Hehehe.. I don't know where you've been... nor would I really wish to... but I do know how someone finds the site (known as the referring URL), what pages they read here, how long they spend here, and the link they click on last when they leave.

The referring URLs are very interesting and it's fun to see what some people search for on Google.

Anonymous said...

No doubt it would be interesting! LOL! I may just have to play with your head and get here from some outlandish place sometime, just to make you wonder. LOL,,,