Sounding The Alarm: Threat To Our Freedom

Poverty is to be without sufficient money, but it is also to have little hope for better things. It is a feeling that one is unable to control one’s destiny, that one is powerless in a society that respects power. The poor have very limited access to means of making known their situation and their needs. To be poor is to feel apathy, alienation from society, entrapment, hopelessness and to believe that whatever you do will not turn out successfully.

~ Canadian Royal Commission on the Status of Woman, Report, 1970


Curricula in the area of Social Studies have long taught the children of our culture about the democratic values, practices, institutions, struggles, heroes and heroines, and the Rights and Freedoms that have resulted from this tradition of Democracy. We hold these things dear.

Yet while we teach our children about these things we simultaneously infringe upon their Rights and Freedoms as guaranteed by numerous respectable Declarations, from The United Nations Declaration On The Rights of Children to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to The Code of Conduct For Schools In The Province of Ontario.

Children are taught that people have struggled and prevailed against tyrants who would strip them of their Rights, while at the same time the children are subjected to commonplace treatment in our public schools that would be deemed abhorrent by any self-respecting citizen of a free and democratic nation and see themselves shorn of their Rights.

For some reason the adult population, from parents and family, to school employees, to the police and officers of the court, to leaders and legislators, to religious and business leaders are managing to ignore the all-encompassing and unnoticed withholding and withdrawing of Civil and Human Rights that is experienced by children in all segments and sectors of our society.

Even if these small citizens, and some not so small, have been persuaded that they are not and should not be entitled to the same Rights as blacks, women, men, gays, et cetera, and convinced by the withholding of these Rights that this is an acceptable condition by this very withholding of these Rights, it is incumbent upon us to ensure the full and equal Rights of all who dwell within our borders in the first place, and All people everywhere and anywhere that the beacon of Liberty burns in the second place.

Children constitute a large percentage of our “poor population”. This is to say that we are agreed among ourselves as a political entity (the citizenry) that children, due to their vulnerability, should be poor, badly educated and treated in manners that would result in legal action where both parties are within that magical and arbitrary “age of majority”.

Let us not ignore nor forget that many children are more intelligent, better informed and educated, more trustworthy and reliable, are more productive, more conscientious and just plain more than many amongst the adult population and the society of educators.

[This is an excerpt from the essay - Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children]

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Addendum - Note -

Teachers [Canadian Teachers Federation and provincial wings] are among the most affluent and powerful citizens of Canadian society.

These teachers are also the strongest opponents of "Equal Rights, Protection and Opportunity for children in Canada" [Bill S-209] and have lobbied long and hard to prevent young people from receiving these Equal Rights.

The Rights of children worldwide hinge upon our children acquiring Equal Rights. It's all one holistic community.

Teachers do this [support child slavery worldwide] because they collectively and mistakenly believe that they profit more than any other group from this exclusion of young people from our Franchise of Human Equality.

Individually no Canadian teacher would admit to this, but collectively this is their history of legal action and expensive lobbying and investments worldwide.

In fact this exclusion hurts us all. This is a case of the richest and most powerful exerting themselves to intentionally harm the most weak and financially vulnerable for secretive personal gain on a vast scale.]

Well it's no secret now! See Rick Mercer's Rant on this topic.

Our school teachers along with the systems and values these teachers unwittingly embody and defend have become a threat to the Freedom of every Canadian and to Liberty itself .

I wonder what this "blood for money" behaviour is teaching our children?
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