At left, a comment from a state-owned CBC.ca commenter.  At the end, I’ll show you today’s example of hypocrisy and hypo-irony. 

More on the blurring of lines between actual companies, and what are actually 100% state-owned branches of the government merely posing as “corporations”.  Like the CBC poses as a “corporation” as if it’s just like any other media company with shareholders and the problems associated with running a normal business in an supposedly free country.

This story reminds me of the quintessential one I wrote-up a while back, about the unhinged “customer” of the BC Lottery Corporation (yet another 100% state-owned, state-run monopoly posing as a “corporation”, which once again competes against citizens), who had totally bought into the progressives’ deception.  He was launching a law suit against “the corporation”, claiming (and reported, unquestioned, in the sycophantic media) that “It’s about keeping corporations honest, that’s really what it’s about.”  (See this “newsquip” blog entry, but there’s plenty of others here.)

No, you poor suckered citizen, it’s about government screwing you over, not “corporations”.  It’s about governments meddling in the marketplace where they have no business, and yet which presume to take over the entire business in this case — the entire means of production, if you will — and yet even while doing that, trying to fake you out by passing themselves off as a just another “corporation”, complete with a cool “corporate” logo, a “CEO”, slick TV and newspaper ads (the size, quality, expense, and repetition of which no normal company could even remotely afford), and so on—and succeeding wildly. 

This is exemplary Fabian Socialism.  And it sounds to me like the work of corrupt socialists and other progressives trying to lull unsuspecting citizens into socialism, by purposely blurring the lines.

BC Hydro is a “company” in much the same way the CBC is a “corporation”, inasmuch as they both AREN’T.  They’re both 100% state-owned, big government behemoths which compete against not just other companies, but YOU.

On this story, you can see the deception succeeding — on the state-owned CBC, no less — where they hold themselves out to be just another news media competing out there in the free marketplace.  In their story, they constantly refer to the 100% state-owned and operated BC Hydro as “the company”.  It’s not a company of course, it’s a 100% government-owned, government-operated secretariat of a huge government which is replete with progressives who are bent on governments running everything, because they think government control over the populace is better than letting private citizens control the government — or what we normal conservatives call “freedom”.  But then the CBC calls itself a “corporation” just like any other media company, so what can we expect?  Honesty?

Here’s one commenter who is totally swept up in the progressives’ lie (and note that the CBC happily accepts gratuitous, useless swearing on their lovely “family” web site):

beammeupscotty wrote:Posted 2010/10/05 at 10:04 AM ET
Nice try you corrupt hydro !!!!
Guess your CEO won’t get his bonus eh?? We consumers are smartening up and not taking your shit anymore!!!

See how he casts himself as “we”, the “consumers”, as if he’s talking about us as up against a real free-enterprise, free market company instead of a 100% state-owned, state-operated secretariat?  Government isn’t corrupt —“CEO"s and “companies” are! 

Eureka, shout the progressives!

Another commenter at CBC.ca posted using the term “company” repeatedly—with a capital C! — and indicating that “the Company” is interested in one thing —“money”.  Not the government, see,  but rather it’s the “Company” that is interested in only one thing —“money”.  See, that “greedy capitalist pig” canard doesn’t extend to the progressives’ sacred government —just to companies (or those government entities that are falsely perceived as such):

Dinorex wrote:Posted 2010/10/05 at 10:43 AM ET
Common sense would/should have come into play, considering the size of the building and electrical outlets used, if you were dealing with a Company that cared. BC Hydro is only interested in ONE thing, that being money. When it takes a call to a Media outlet to get some action, that tells the whole story. This Taylor woman is attempting to cover up the abusive non caring treatment perpetrated by Hydro’s customer service department. If it wasn’t for the media intervention, this man would still be fighting this bill.

Moral of the story; check you Hydro bills very carefully to make sure they are in fact correct. Don’t assume Hydro would not make a mistake, and if they did they would correct it. This man’s battle with this Company tells you exactly what kind of Company you are dealing with.

Make use of the Media regarding incidences like this, none of these abusive Company’s like to have their name in the news, and will attempt to remedy most problems if you suggest going to the Media.

I would think Hydro will be getting a lot more calls regarding billings after the public reads this article.

...and on and on….

EricainBC wrote:Posted 2010/10/05 at 11:17 AM ET
Notice it took a news organization to contact the company before anything was done.

Fight back.  Don’t fall for this total BS —this attempt at pure deception by progressives in and out of government, and in the media “corporations” like the 100% state-owned CBC, which makes the editorial decision to never mention, not even one, that BC Hydro is a 100% state-owned, state-run secretariat of the BC government.  Even the almost innocuous but still intentionally deceptive term “Crown corporation” doesn’t exist in their entire article.  Just the words “the company”.

AS PROMISED: here’s today’s example of total hypocrisy and hypo-irony:  The long, (fake, duh) name of the commenter in the comment pictured at top left?  “Vote NDP in the next federal-provincial election”. 

Government can’t do anything right.  Vote NDP. 

Makes sense, right? 

Apparently the guy was educated in one of the government’s fabulous schools.  And the CBC.