Civilizations have a set of components that characterize each one as distinct. Each civilization is made up of societies, genetic pools, cultures, organizations, literature, governance methods, technologies, languages, philosophies and religions, arts and so on.
Each civilization goes through a cycle in which they begin, exist for a period and become dominant. Then they recede and eventually disappear into the dusts of history.
Underneath it all there are the foundations of history which are largely permanent. These are the backdrop and the dynamics of the movement of events which together we call history. [I prefer the term Accounts of Human Activity or AHA, for we must distinguish natural and geological history, which influence us, as distinct from human activity.] Occasionally these foundations need to be shaken, renewed and restored.
There have been Momentous crossroads throughout the history of western civilization in which conditions had become untenable and impossible to sustain. This set of conditions forces people to action and reminds us that “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
One example of this phenomenon is found in the Fourth Century when the Roman Empire finally collapsed and left a huge vacuum which no one seemed able to fill. Chaos and despair became widespread. The “Peace of Rome” or Pax Romana vanished and chaos descended upon Europe and threatened everything and everyone. People believed that the end of the world had come. [Many believe the same today.]
Then a book entitled The City of God was published by “Saint” Augustine. He was an intellectual priest and philosophy teacher who had been touched by God. This provided a new Vision for humanity in Europe for a thousand years...well actually 1100 years. For that is when the next BIG crisis of history hit Europe...at the end of The Dark Ages. The solution came in the person of another Christian leader and theologian named Martin Luther.
Like Augustine Luther received his education in the church as it existed at that time...and then he tore down that church and recreated it in keeping with the times, the challenges, the conditions...and the Truth. He transformed church, state, culture, literature, nations, governance practices, understanding of human liberty and dignity and much more. He even gave us the Christmas tree and wrote carols on his guitar. He used all media forms and outlets to communicate his message of hope.
Luther's action is now known as The Reformation and this ushered in what history calls The Enlightenment - the age of science and provable truth. Everything changed down to the foundations. The foundations of history had become loose and lax and weak and useless and needed to be restored with new ideas and new lifestyles and even technologies like the movable print printing press which Luther used to spread his message of renewal.
Big changes were introduced out of sheer necessity but that 'necessity' did not compare with what we face. There has NEVER been anything vaguely akin to what we face in terms of complexity and magnitude. Fortunately we have the examples of those who have gone before to guide us in our striving for survival and success as a nation, as a people, as a species, as a civilization...and as individuals.
Now we are in the midst of a set of challenging conditions that is unprecedented in history. Humanity has never faced such a complex and potentially threatening situation at any time in recorded history.
The widespread militarism that grows and destroys, coupled with an all-encompassing environmental Crisis that is global in magnitude add up to a VERY big threat to our children, our way of life, our planet itself and humanity at large. No one can escape the danger at this point. We must change or perish. We need “a way through the fire.”
So we need viable solutions that recognize the reality in which we live and which reach out to shake the very foundations of history while helping us to navigate safely through the dangers. We must change and we must do it efficiently for time is at a premium now. We are literally at the “Do or die!” stage.
How shall we respond to this threat to our families, communities, nations, values and so forth? Will we capitulate and kow ourselves and let the Crisis wash over us like helpless lambs in a tsunami? Or will we stand and fight for our lives, our children and the world we love...the beautiful blue planet.
What applied to Britain on June 4, 1944 applies to the Whole Earth today, for we now realize that we are an island in a hostile universe...floating in an ocean of dark matter and rapidly destroying our life-giving environment and each other.
The Threat is real and the danger is near. Winston Churchill's words still apply -
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
If we hope to succeed we will have to work together - for the mess is too big for any one person. I am presently engaged in a plan of action that seeks to change far more than our national economy. We MUST change our civilization or we will not survive.
We are standing at a crossroads of history and upon a high rampart where the future of democracy and liberty are at stake and the threatening voice of tyranny shouts for victory with a crooked grin. Shall we believe the loud shouts of a cowardly liar or should we refuse to surrender?
We are in possession of a great opportunity and I propose that we embark upon a Great Adventure...a Great Undertaking to save ourselves and the Earth. If we succeed they will talk of our efforts and time for a thousand years.
If we fail there can be no guarantees of anything. But we have a duty to our nation, people and families to try. What a Grand Opportunity has been given to us, unlike any in any age past! This is the exhilaration of real life on Planet Earth. It can leave you breathless and carry you over the rainbow!
Certainly Canada cannot repel and survive a military assault from a powerful nation, nor can we invade other territories and take things by force. We need a diplomatic, scientific and rational solution and that is what I am proposing – Sustainability in all things.
I urge all people to consider a new economic model that rejects violence, slavery and war as a basis for economic gain - The Peace-based Economy. These cannot be sustained for long at this point. Survival will require peace on a grand scale.
This is the direction of Hope. If we can alter our thinking and behaviour and values enough to cease from destroying the planet and each other, then together we can easily build a hopeful Canadian future in the 21st Century.
I ask for your help in behalf of the children who suffer most from the threat and the fears associated with it. The future is quite literally in our hands. Let us treat it with care, respect, gratitude and generosity.
It helps to keep perspective on history and remember what happened in the past. As the 20th Century philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me.”
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Crisis
I see everything political in the light [or perhaps in the shadow] of The Crisis. For I am completely persuaded that humanity is facing a Crisis of historic proportions and that there is no guarantee that we, our civilizations, societies and our human world will survive intact.
Some might consider me to be an alarmist. I consider them to be sadly blinded by circumstances and distractions. There is no doubt that we are headed towards what could be a cataclysmic encounter with our bad habits and inadequate values. We have created a Crisis that is increasingly complex and menacing. It is made up of militarism, environmental carelessness and greed.
What deepens my sadness about this threatening situation is that our political leaders are not discussing nor addressing it in any sensible and clear manner. They seem to believe that if they ignore it then The Crisis will simply go away on its own like a lumbering black bear in search of a meal. They are mistaken. Or perhaps they really don't see the true nature of The Problem.
I suspect that many ignore The Problem because they see no way to deal with it, survive it, get through it into a hopeful future. What are they to tell their children and grand-children? It's frightening and frustrating for people.
These young people are startled with fear from the daily reports they hear from all authorities that they are doomed and there can be no safe, sensible and survivable future for them and their children.
How cruel and insensitive a way to treat the vulnerable young! They need to see that we have a real Plan in place that they estimate can successfully confront and defeat their fears.
I see things in a different way from most. I do see a way through this complex Crisis and I see a way to survive and gain some ground against this menacing set of enemies. This “way” is what I call The Canadian Dream.
According to my research and analysis we can Build this Dream with the resources, human and otherwise, that we possess. In so doing we will take a leadership role in a world in need of hope and leadership.
It will require diligence, imagination and political will to do it...to survive and succeed. This will require sustained intentionality and sustained exertion by a large segment of the population. That will require real leadership in the office of the Prime Minister and this Prime Minister cannot deliver it.
Some believe that politics requires them “to lay down and take it.” My Plan requires you to stand up and give your very best.
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
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Some might consider me to be an alarmist. I consider them to be sadly blinded by circumstances and distractions. There is no doubt that we are headed towards what could be a cataclysmic encounter with our bad habits and inadequate values. We have created a Crisis that is increasingly complex and menacing. It is made up of militarism, environmental carelessness and greed.
What deepens my sadness about this threatening situation is that our political leaders are not discussing nor addressing it in any sensible and clear manner. They seem to believe that if they ignore it then The Crisis will simply go away on its own like a lumbering black bear in search of a meal. They are mistaken. Or perhaps they really don't see the true nature of The Problem.
I suspect that many ignore The Problem because they see no way to deal with it, survive it, get through it into a hopeful future. What are they to tell their children and grand-children? It's frightening and frustrating for people.
These young people are startled with fear from the daily reports they hear from all authorities that they are doomed and there can be no safe, sensible and survivable future for them and their children.
How cruel and insensitive a way to treat the vulnerable young! They need to see that we have a real Plan in place that they estimate can successfully confront and defeat their fears.
I see things in a different way from most. I do see a way through this complex Crisis and I see a way to survive and gain some ground against this menacing set of enemies. This “way” is what I call The Canadian Dream.
According to my research and analysis we can Build this Dream with the resources, human and otherwise, that we possess. In so doing we will take a leadership role in a world in need of hope and leadership.
It will require diligence, imagination and political will to do it...to survive and succeed. This will require sustained intentionality and sustained exertion by a large segment of the population. That will require real leadership in the office of the Prime Minister and this Prime Minister cannot deliver it.
Some believe that politics requires them “to lay down and take it.” My Plan requires you to stand up and give your very best.
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
Knowledge is Power – Government Makes Information Age Attack on Canadians
We all know that “Knowledge is power.” So it is an easy step to observe that in canceling the long form census process in Canada the so-called “Conservative” Government and Stephen Harper are stripping Canadians of the democratic power that drives this nation forward at a pace unprecedented in human history.
The Prime Minister wants us to believe that the census and the information derived from it are insignificant. In reality he simply wants to hobble the news agencies and the government agencies, all NGOs, businesses large and small, religious organizations and any useful program in this country, whether governmental, personal or public.
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The Prime Minister opposes the long form census on principle. This is like opposing the use of language on the basis of principle - or rather ideology. For a census is a tool for communication and analysis.
This all reminds me of what or rather who is in the news today – September 30, 2010. It's the self-named and self-proclaimed “Great Leader” of North Korea who claims to understand democracy and free market capitalism – both of which he opposes. In fact he seems to understand it about as well as Stephen Harper seems to understand democracy and human rights. Neither one does.
It also reminds me of another former Canadian prime minister, the Right Honourable William Lyon McKenzie King who is said to have consulted his beloved little lap dog and spiritual mediums rather than experts in government, finance and administration. He sought his dead mother's advice on affairs of state...during the depression and war! Yikes!
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Mr. Harper seems to have a similar grasp of this census material. His emphasis is certainly more Machiavellian [bullyish and manipulative with no regard for human rights or any rights other than those of 'the prince'].
It is more this than it is a reflection of democratic thinkers like Thomas Paine, Winston Churchill, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John A MacDonald, Étienne Cartier or Pierre Trudeau who died ten years ago this week.
Harper wants to weaken the Canadian people and make us vulnerable in a thousand ways by putting plugs in our ears and blindfolds on our political, social, industrial, strategic and commercial eyes. He says essentially, “Put out their eyes and cut off their ears! All of them!”
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Stephen is NOT a democratically minded person and wishes for enduring and unchallengeable power because he does not understand how to exercise true legitimate democratic power - which we call Authority. Authority is that legitimate power endowed in a person by a group through legal election processes.
Stephen Harper does not wish to be authorized to act in our behalf or in our defense and cares little for our opinion. He wants to have complete power of decision and action.
I say this is offensive and unacceptable and that even I could govern the nation in a more just, compassionate and effective manner....and I would do it democratically because I know how. This is why I know that Stephen Harper does not know how to use democratic methods – because I do know how and I know what that should look like.
I've watched him employ the deceptive methods he learned from Tom Flanagan who was his mentor and professor at the University of Calgary. Flanagan learned these methods and values in turn from his own mentor at the University of Chicago - Leo Strauss the deceptive manipulator and anti-democratic philosopher.
Strauss had the sensibilities and values and methods of a fascist and was not democratically-minded. He is known to have studied with the German existential philosopher Martin Heidegger who was known to have lectured in a Nazi uniform.
He opposed liberalism and viewed human rights and democracy with suspicion. He lived in Germany during WW1, served in the German army, and immigrated first to Britain and then to America in 1937. [Wikipedia]
Steve has learned well and we are in jeopardy because we have allowed him to deceive us and mislead us. It IS noteworthy that even Tom Flanagan who helped Harper to “consolidate the right” has abandoned him and opposes Harper's intentions for us, as has his staunch television support network - CTV News. More and more people are seeing through this laughable facade and his fiscal and economic jargon.
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In canceling the long form census Stephen Harper is weakening Canadians and our democracy. He is blinding and hobbling Canadians. This will make us more vulnerable to enemies both inside and outside our borders.
I suspect that this is exactly what Stevie intends. This is his goal and it is completely consistent with the methods of his spiritual mentor Leo Strauss the manipulative deceiver.
This is definitely NOT democratic thinking and behaviour. Strauss believed only in power.
Peace Pays! War destroys and makes us pay.
“Choose leaders who love you and cherish your liberties.”
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For more relevant information see this link
Tom Flanagan - The Man Behind Stephen Harper
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The Prime Minister wants us to believe that the census and the information derived from it are insignificant. In reality he simply wants to hobble the news agencies and the government agencies, all NGOs, businesses large and small, religious organizations and any useful program in this country, whether governmental, personal or public.
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The Prime Minister opposes the long form census on principle. This is like opposing the use of language on the basis of principle - or rather ideology. For a census is a tool for communication and analysis.
This all reminds me of what or rather who is in the news today – September 30, 2010. It's the self-named and self-proclaimed “Great Leader” of North Korea who claims to understand democracy and free market capitalism – both of which he opposes. In fact he seems to understand it about as well as Stephen Harper seems to understand democracy and human rights. Neither one does.
It also reminds me of another former Canadian prime minister, the Right Honourable William Lyon McKenzie King who is said to have consulted his beloved little lap dog and spiritual mediums rather than experts in government, finance and administration. He sought his dead mother's advice on affairs of state...during the depression and war! Yikes!
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Mr. Harper seems to have a similar grasp of this census material. His emphasis is certainly more Machiavellian [bullyish and manipulative with no regard for human rights or any rights other than those of 'the prince'].
It is more this than it is a reflection of democratic thinkers like Thomas Paine, Winston Churchill, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John A MacDonald, Étienne Cartier or Pierre Trudeau who died ten years ago this week.
Harper wants to weaken the Canadian people and make us vulnerable in a thousand ways by putting plugs in our ears and blindfolds on our political, social, industrial, strategic and commercial eyes. He says essentially, “Put out their eyes and cut off their ears! All of them!”
******************
Stephen is NOT a democratically minded person and wishes for enduring and unchallengeable power because he does not understand how to exercise true legitimate democratic power - which we call Authority. Authority is that legitimate power endowed in a person by a group through legal election processes.
Stephen Harper does not wish to be authorized to act in our behalf or in our defense and cares little for our opinion. He wants to have complete power of decision and action.
I say this is offensive and unacceptable and that even I could govern the nation in a more just, compassionate and effective manner....and I would do it democratically because I know how. This is why I know that Stephen Harper does not know how to use democratic methods – because I do know how and I know what that should look like.
I've watched him employ the deceptive methods he learned from Tom Flanagan who was his mentor and professor at the University of Calgary. Flanagan learned these methods and values in turn from his own mentor at the University of Chicago - Leo Strauss the deceptive manipulator and anti-democratic philosopher.
Strauss had the sensibilities and values and methods of a fascist and was not democratically-minded. He is known to have studied with the German existential philosopher Martin Heidegger who was known to have lectured in a Nazi uniform.
He opposed liberalism and viewed human rights and democracy with suspicion. He lived in Germany during WW1, served in the German army, and immigrated first to Britain and then to America in 1937. [Wikipedia]
Steve has learned well and we are in jeopardy because we have allowed him to deceive us and mislead us. It IS noteworthy that even Tom Flanagan who helped Harper to “consolidate the right” has abandoned him and opposes Harper's intentions for us, as has his staunch television support network - CTV News. More and more people are seeing through this laughable facade and his fiscal and economic jargon.
******************
In canceling the long form census Stephen Harper is weakening Canadians and our democracy. He is blinding and hobbling Canadians. This will make us more vulnerable to enemies both inside and outside our borders.
I suspect that this is exactly what Stevie intends. This is his goal and it is completely consistent with the methods of his spiritual mentor Leo Strauss the manipulative deceiver.
This is definitely NOT democratic thinking and behaviour. Strauss believed only in power.
Peace Pays! War destroys and makes us pay.
“Choose leaders who love you and cherish your liberties.”
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For more relevant information see this link
Tom Flanagan - The Man Behind Stephen Harper
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Break! Spend! Use! Consume!
There is a great stampede to accomplish this short list of human consumer activities. We are more intent upon spending and using up the Earth's resources than we are about conserving them and living sustainable lives.
Whether at home in our cozy Canadian housing, at work, in stores or at school, we want to use everything up as quickly as possible. Why? There is no possible rational explanation. But here is an [irrational] explanation.
First let us remember that this type and rate of consumption is criminal and unjust to those who suffer wont - those who are hungry and homeless and helpless in the face of a harsh economic climate. We are using the resources that are needed for a sustainable global future. If we do not cease then we will perish.
We are already robbing our brothers and sisters in all nations so we can live lavish and self-indulgent lives while they starve along with their children and parents. Their suffering feeds our greed in our “open market system”.
Some call this “the culture of entitlement.” It includes the benefits we derive from a global slave trade that makes those of previous centuries seem insignificant. This is the source of much wealth and 'disposable income'.
So why do we consume at what is likely the highest rate of any people of any nation in the world or in history? The sad news about that is that we are all caught up in a frenzy of consumerism that is perpetrated by large corporate industry.
This is driven by advertising and marketing that cares only for profit and nothing for the future or for environmental responsibility. [Think about the plots and characters of television's Mad Men.] They need and want us to spend spend spend.
This is what drives corporations – sales. In this way they grow stronger and bigger and richer and more powerful. This happens at the expense of the vulnerable and the Earth.
And the rate of consumption is destroying the earth, the water, the air, all creatures great and small, the Earth's atmosphere, our health and any hope for a happy and safe future.
How can we make it stop and change? By simple self control in our lifestyle habits! Be thrifty with money and resources and time.
Think about how much water and food you use and how much garbage and compost you produce. Some communities do not produce any garbage and prove that our wastefulness is unnecessary. Always do the math.
We can change the world one small decision at a time. We must always consider our children's future when we break, spend, use and consume everything. We are sentencing them to a very bleak future and they want us to stop.
But we ask ourselves, “What could children possibly know that we adults do not?” The answer is quite simple. They know that they will perish if we do not cease and desist in these destructive and self-destructive behaviours.
Search your conscience and ask yourself whether you really want to destroy the hope and opportunities of every future generations of humanity. I know I don't.
So I have been modifying my behaviour with my children and grandchildren in mind, and with their help. I hope you will do the same.
Be economical in everything. Use less and want less. Prudence and economy were considered to be virtues for several thousand years prior to our consumer age.
We should redeem and embrace this heritage of sustainability in all things and teach it to our children as a desirable character trait and as a social virtue.
Peace
"Don't keep the peace...pass it on."
Whether at home in our cozy Canadian housing, at work, in stores or at school, we want to use everything up as quickly as possible. Why? There is no possible rational explanation. But here is an [irrational] explanation.
First let us remember that this type and rate of consumption is criminal and unjust to those who suffer wont - those who are hungry and homeless and helpless in the face of a harsh economic climate. We are using the resources that are needed for a sustainable global future. If we do not cease then we will perish.
We are already robbing our brothers and sisters in all nations so we can live lavish and self-indulgent lives while they starve along with their children and parents. Their suffering feeds our greed in our “open market system”.
Some call this “the culture of entitlement.” It includes the benefits we derive from a global slave trade that makes those of previous centuries seem insignificant. This is the source of much wealth and 'disposable income'.
So why do we consume at what is likely the highest rate of any people of any nation in the world or in history? The sad news about that is that we are all caught up in a frenzy of consumerism that is perpetrated by large corporate industry.
This is driven by advertising and marketing that cares only for profit and nothing for the future or for environmental responsibility. [Think about the plots and characters of television's Mad Men.] They need and want us to spend spend spend.
This is what drives corporations – sales. In this way they grow stronger and bigger and richer and more powerful. This happens at the expense of the vulnerable and the Earth.
And the rate of consumption is destroying the earth, the water, the air, all creatures great and small, the Earth's atmosphere, our health and any hope for a happy and safe future.
How can we make it stop and change? By simple self control in our lifestyle habits! Be thrifty with money and resources and time.
Think about how much water and food you use and how much garbage and compost you produce. Some communities do not produce any garbage and prove that our wastefulness is unnecessary. Always do the math.
We can change the world one small decision at a time. We must always consider our children's future when we break, spend, use and consume everything. We are sentencing them to a very bleak future and they want us to stop.
But we ask ourselves, “What could children possibly know that we adults do not?” The answer is quite simple. They know that they will perish if we do not cease and desist in these destructive and self-destructive behaviours.
Search your conscience and ask yourself whether you really want to destroy the hope and opportunities of every future generations of humanity. I know I don't.
So I have been modifying my behaviour with my children and grandchildren in mind, and with their help. I hope you will do the same.
Be economical in everything. Use less and want less. Prudence and economy were considered to be virtues for several thousand years prior to our consumer age.
We should redeem and embrace this heritage of sustainability in all things and teach it to our children as a desirable character trait and as a social virtue.
Peace
"Don't keep the peace...pass it on."
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Fight Child Slavery
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Fight Child Slavery
Stand With Us Against Child Slavery - The Moral and Economics Crisis of our Age
Child Slaves and Chocolate in Africa
One hundred years from now people will look back with horror at the economics and business practices of our era. Just as we look with shock at the African Slave Trade of the 16-19th Centuries, so they will look at us with bewilderment that we could have used children as slaves and that we could build a global economy upon the slave labour of children worldwide. They will be amazed that we could ignore this horror.
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Fight Child Slavery
Stand With Us Against Child Slavery - The Moral and Economics Crisis of our Age
Child Slaves and Chocolate in Africa
One hundred years from now people will look back with horror at the economics and business practices of our era. Just as we look with shock at the African Slave Trade of the 16-19th Centuries, so they will look at us with bewilderment that we could have used children as slaves and that we could build a global economy upon the slave labour of children worldwide. They will be amazed that we could ignore this horror.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Your Vision of Canada
Canadians have told me in VERY large numbers how they imagine Canada and what they want their nation to be. Canadians care about others and about the world. This is YOUR Vision. We CAN built it. We should hurry.
Your Canada
A Vision for Canada
The Peace-based Economy
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Your Canada
A Vision for Canada
The Peace-based Economy
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Leadership - three parts
The leadership vacuum in Canada is leaving us vulnerable. These brief considerations about Leadership @ the links below are concerned with Federal leadership in the Office of the Prime Minister.
The person who occupies this office will set a trend, style and standards for all citizens. Mr. Harper's standards are not adequate for my own Vision of Canada.
He does not love the Canadian people and property, nor our processes and institutions and values of self-government. He does not understand our character, our dreams, our potential, our independence and our courage. He does not cherish our special brand of democracy.
What Is Needed - Leadership 1
How To Survive - Leadership 2
The Impossible - Leadership 3
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The person who occupies this office will set a trend, style and standards for all citizens. Mr. Harper's standards are not adequate for my own Vision of Canada.
He does not love the Canadian people and property, nor our processes and institutions and values of self-government. He does not understand our character, our dreams, our potential, our independence and our courage. He does not cherish our special brand of democracy.
What Is Needed - Leadership 1
How To Survive - Leadership 2
The Impossible - Leadership 3
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Previous Children's Rights posts
Children's Rights is the core issue that shapes and causes most of the Global Crisis which confronts us.
From economic collapse and widespread unemployment and poverty to environmental disaster and global warming, Children's Rights is the issue behind the issue.
Analysis proves it. Please consider these observations about what children endure and what that means to the world and its population.
We are faced by and involved in the creation of a crisis of conscience and a moral dilemma with implications of greater magnitude than those of the African Slave Trade of previous centuries.
"The bulk of the modern global economy rests upon the exploitation of [mostly slave] children."
The Children's Holocaust - Part One
The Hungry Beast - Part Two
Children's Rights - The Legal Economic Exploitation of Children - Part Three
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From economic collapse and widespread unemployment and poverty to environmental disaster and global warming, Children's Rights is the issue behind the issue.
Analysis proves it. Please consider these observations about what children endure and what that means to the world and its population.
We are faced by and involved in the creation of a crisis of conscience and a moral dilemma with implications of greater magnitude than those of the African Slave Trade of previous centuries.
"The bulk of the modern global economy rests upon the exploitation of [mostly slave] children."
The Children's Holocaust - Part One
The Hungry Beast - Part Two
Children's Rights - The Legal Economic Exploitation of Children - Part Three
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Canada is a nation coming of age
Excerpt from the essay The Future: Peace Pays [Exploring The Canadian Identity]
Conclusion
Canada is a nation coming of age in an historic Moment when we can make a
significant difference in determining The Future of the world and our existent [global] civilization.
By deciding to pursue peaceful means and methods and goals we can influence the entire world and help shape The Future into The Canadian Dream of World Peace, prosperity, security and tolerance. We can work together to build a secure environmental future also.
We do it all here in Canada on a daily basis and have proven that it’s possible for people of all kinds, types and backgrounds to live together in cooperation and peace. And Peace enables discussion, problem solving, solutions and discoveries.
It begins by Canadians understanding who and what they are in and of themselves, and who we are in the broader scope of The Global Village and History. We are unlike any people who have ever lived anywhere at any time.
This places a responsibility upon us in Canada to act in our collective best interests, which are the interests of all people and nations everywhere. This is a Moment of Opportunity that could easily dissolve into the mists of history.
We must grasp this historic opportunity and act, or lose the slender hope we embody while the world languishes in a fog of violence and destruction.
That's what Building The Canadian Dream is all about. This appears to be our appropriate Canadian Destiny.
Peace Pays more and better than war!
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Conclusion
Canada is a nation coming of age in an historic Moment when we can make a
significant difference in determining The Future of the world and our existent [global] civilization.
By deciding to pursue peaceful means and methods and goals we can influence the entire world and help shape The Future into The Canadian Dream of World Peace, prosperity, security and tolerance. We can work together to build a secure environmental future also.
We do it all here in Canada on a daily basis and have proven that it’s possible for people of all kinds, types and backgrounds to live together in cooperation and peace. And Peace enables discussion, problem solving, solutions and discoveries.
It begins by Canadians understanding who and what they are in and of themselves, and who we are in the broader scope of The Global Village and History. We are unlike any people who have ever lived anywhere at any time.
This places a responsibility upon us in Canada to act in our collective best interests, which are the interests of all people and nations everywhere. This is a Moment of Opportunity that could easily dissolve into the mists of history.
We must grasp this historic opportunity and act, or lose the slender hope we embody while the world languishes in a fog of violence and destruction.
That's what Building The Canadian Dream is all about. This appears to be our appropriate Canadian Destiny.
Peace Pays more and better than war!
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What Stephen Harper Hates About Canada and Canadians
Stephen Harper hates...
- The CBC – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...and Don Newman. That Don Newman was such a nuisance that Stephen Harper had to find a way to eliminate him from the daily airwaves in Canada while making his CTV competitor Mike Duffy a Senator of all things. LOL
In order to remove Don Newman the government disrupted the operation of Canada's national broadcaster and undermined the financial status of this publicly owned corporation. That is "our" corporation.
- The Public Service Commission - look it up!
- Government Departments' bureaucrats and employees. - They're ALL Liberals and opposed to the Government according to Mr. Harper. Well maybe there are some NDP people in the public service too. lol
In fact they are merely Canadian patriots and generally VERY competent at their jobs. This cannot be said of the Prime Minister, for he is NOT competent. We have the best bureaucracy in the world.
- The Judiciary - courts, judges, The Law, lawyers...the whole package. - more "meddlers" in Stephen's mind.
- The Health Care System. Stephen says, "Too expensive and people should have to pay for themselves and not use his [Stephen thinks he owns the nation and its money!] money for the needs of the lazy poor."
In fact the poor are the ones who pay taxes and it's their money. Stephen thinks that the rich deserve that money and the poor and homeless should move somewhere out of sight so they don't ruin our international reputation during the Olympics. This man DOES NOT love our people.
He believes that health care and education are the two biggest wastes of financial resources. Of course the opposite is true...again.
- all media and press scrums - these reporters cause trouble and should obey the Prime Minister and his media drones. He has proven that he CAN avoid the free press who get information for citizens so we can participate in our democracy.
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Stephen Harper hates...
- Her Majesty's Official Opposition and all opposition parties, members, leaders and ideas. ONLY Stephen has ANY good ideas according to Stephen.
- opposition..period! - Stephen wants EVERYBODY to agree with him, no matter how absurd his ideas may be. If they don't agree with him there will be "consequences" for this is a vengeful and petty man.
- the provinces and the Powers and Rights of those provinces - They are supposed to listen to Stephen and toe the line if they want any help [money] from the Conservative Government. You KNOW what happens to those who oppose them don't you!?
- science...especially environmental sciences...and scientists. They ALL seem to disagree with Mr. Harper and he resents that.
- clarity and accountability to Parliament/The House of Commons - Stephen Harper thinks Parliament should be accountable to him...not the other way around as required in the Constitution!
- balanced budgets that make Canada financially and economically strong and secure - good fiscal and monetary policy. He destroyed a surplus left by the previous Liberal government of Paul Martin. He destroyed it with ease and has sunk us all into deep international debt.
- the peaceful nature and values of Canada and Canadians. Stephen likes war..as long as HE doesn't get hurt!
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Stephen Harper hates...
- rational analysis
- bloggers! LOL
- The Canadian Senate - According to Stephen it's a non-democratic, non-elected body who interfere with the secret/secretive plans of the Prime Minister. How sinister on the part of The Senate and Senators. They want to preserve this silly democracy we have.
In fact they are holding him in check as prescribed in the Constitution. They are intended to be a check and balance against out-of-control prime ministers.
American methods are far better and should be implemented here according to Stephen Harper. In fact he thinks we should become part of the U.S.A . and give up on this silly Dream we call Canada! That's what Stephen Harper thinks.
- The Canadian Constitution - It interferes with Stephen's plans.
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - This just gives people reasons to complain. Why does everybody think they deserve Rights and Freedoms? This Charter is our Guarantee against people like Stephen Harper and his invisible "friends" who are rich anonymous people you never see.
It's not our farmers or our artists for whom he is working so hard. But these people are working hard for Canada and the world! These are NOT Stephen's friends!
- a Cabinet of Ministers who discuss and govern as a team - Stephen can "rule" on his own without help or interference from others...even those in his Cabinet and Caucus.
- The Supreme Court of Canada - more meddlers
- The House of Commons - A bunch of people who think they have the Right to speak and ask him questions and embarrass him and cause his plans for personal dictatorship to fail.
- Commons Committees and Senate Committees - always slowing down Stephen's willful efforts to have his own way...and right now darn it! Who invented parliamentary committees anyway?
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Stephen Harper hates...
- The Canadian Wheat Board - the enemy of Canadian farmers along with all agricultural marketing boards that have brought stability to our agriculture industries.
- Atomic Energy Commission of Canada - a waste of taxpayers money. Why should we help the whole world become more healthy through high tech science? Silly waste of time and energy.
- Auditor General of Canada - Stephen thinks that she's a meddler and should mind her own business and let the government mind it's own business. She's actually VERY thorough and competent but the Conservative Government interferes with her doing her duty.
- Governor General of Canada - She's a false authority according to Stephen Harper...but he uses her when he wants to shut down Parliament and silence official debate.
- The Canadian Constitution - This is the same one that Mr. Trudeau brought home from Great Britain and asserted our independence.
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - These are silly ideas that interfere with Stephen's personal ambitions...he thinks.
- Canadian Crown Corporations - These are large successful businesses that have been financed with taxpayers' money and have enriched ALL Canadians. Stephen thinks they should all be sold at an unreasonably low price to his corporate friends...for whom he is a puppet of some sort. Watch out for his nose...it grows.
- free speech - Stephen is the ONLY one entitled to an opinion. I bet his wife quietly obeys in a good Christian way...in silence. Lunacy! [I'm being sarcastic here...but I'm doing it as a theologian.]
- the independent spirit of the Province of Quebec..and of ALL Canadians. :)
- Premier Jean Charest of Quebec! LOL
- The Province of Ontario and Premier Dalton McGuinty..and also Newfoundland and Premier Danny Williams
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Stephen Harper hates...
- Canadian women
- Canadian artists of all genders and cultures
- Canadian children
- Canadian farmers
- Canadian fishermen
- Canadian wildlife
- Canadian workers and jobs
- the Canadian poor and unemployed
- Canadian alternative energy advocates and all environmentalists
- Canadian labour unions of all kinds...and the NDP who support them. LOL
- The Federal Bloc Quebecois Party and Gilles Duceppe their intrepid Leader.
- the Canadian Green Party, their Leader Elizabeth May and all of their silly ideas about global warming and environmental responsibility. These interfere with Stephen's plans for the oil fields of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Who cares about the environment!?
- Canadian prospectors and miners
Canadian religious organizations, churches of most denominations [except for The Alliance Church of which Mr. Harper is a member], clergy and all who are associated with them. People of other religions are certainly not 'Canadian enough' for Stephen Harper. And he does not approve of our efforts to help the disadvantaged worldwide through these organizations and agencies. This is why he has "withdrawn funding" for aid programs.
- the Canadian lumber and wood products industry and all employees of this important Canadian industry...and their families and communities...especially in Quebec.
- Canadian churches of most types. He recently called the Kairos Program "anti-Semitic" and withdrew the funding that these organizations have used for over twenty years to help those who are hungry, homeless, seeking justice and hope around the world.
- Canadian families
- Canadian gays and lesbians and trans-gender people
- Canadian Immigrants
- Canadians with unwanted pregnancies...no matter how that happened. - Steve thinks they should be punished!
- Canadian businesses and business people. He favours foreign businesses and business people...mostly Americans.
- Canadian Research and Development - "Let others be creative and we'll sell them [dirty] oil." says Stephen.
- Canadian water and soil and air and sovereignty and security and our environmental reputation in the wider world as responsible global citizens. He hates them all!
- A National Vision that guides all Canadians and the nation into a safe and prosperous and free future filled with Hope. This is the last thing Stephen Harper would want. He hates this kind of hopeful, optimistic, homegrown Canadian thinking.
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See my essay on this site entitled The Future: Peace Pays [Exploring The Canadian Identity] for a hopeful Vision for Canada in the 21st Century. It's Part Three of Building The Canadian Dream. I have gathered good ideas from many Canadians to create a possible Plan for our Future...a Hopeful future for our children and all children.
Stephen Harper doesn't realize that we are the greatest nation that has ever existed and that we have a responsibility to the global community, to our children and to our selves to act. He is surrounded by genius and does not and cannot see it. We must act and we must act together soon if we hope to survive and succeed as an independent sovereign nation.
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- He doesn't love our people, our communities, our land and water ways, our values, our bush country, our democratic system with it's principles, processes, institutions, personalities and social agreements.
- He doesn't love our First Nations peoples and their annoying land claims and other complaints.
- He doesn't like all of the nations who make up the Canadian Cultural Mosaic.
- Last but not least - Stephen Harper hates the truth. It is certain to hurt him and he knows it. Tough luck!
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This is obviously an incomplete list of what our current Prime Minister hates about us, our nation and our lifestyle. However I think it conveys an important impression about this man and his intentions towards us as Canadians and his intentions about our children,
He wants to rob them, hurt them, put them in harm's way in many ways, and exclude them from the social contract. He wants to punish and alienate them and leave them with a third rate education and third rate employment to go with it. He doesn't believe in our children and doesn't think they deserve The Best. He wants to rob them of their heritage as citizens of Canada and inheritors of our sovereignty. I strongly disagree!
He wants to condemn them to a future filled with environmental disaster and war and want and humiliation and perhaps slavery and fear and violent death. This is a BETRAYAL of the most outrageous type.
I have a better idea!
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Yo Canada!
This all leaves a person wondering "Who and what exactly does Stephen Harper love if not Canada and Canadians?" Who indeed!?
Read elsewhere on this blog for evidence of who Stephen Harper loves and serves. He certainly does not serve the Canadians I know. He embarrasses them and betrays them...but he does not love them.
He wants to make Canada into an oil ghetto. But Canadians want independence and dignity. We are still...Canada -True North Strong and Free!
Our success does not depend upon the sale of oil to foreign countries at great environmental expense. Our success and potential is in the Canadian people, not in the American banks.
"Yo Canada - We stand on guard for thee!"
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Who is Really Stopping Whom from Doing What?
Stephen Harper has been making belligerent, violent, threatening sounds and moves towards many of our democratic institutions, values, processes and personalities. His targets include: a Cabinet of Ministers who discuss and govern as a team, The Supreme Court of Canada, The House of Commons, Commons Committees, Senate Committees, The Canadian Wheat Board, Atomic Energy Commission of Canada, Auditor General, Governor General, Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, et cetera.
One of his favourite targets is and has been The Canadian Senate. He claims they are preventing the work of government and society from being done in Parliament. He says they are a danger to Canadian democracy. In fact EXACTLY the opposite is true.
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The Senate is the ONLY part of government that HAS been working
The Senate is the only part of our government that HAS been working, and working hard in spite of inflammatory dishonest rhetoric from the Prime Minister's Office and constant contempt from the Prime Minister and his puppet Ministers. Stephen Harper seeks to misrepresent and malign a dignified and diligent body of loyal Canadians
The Senate is doing the work and Mr. Harper is trying to prevent them from doing so. This is an amusing and disturbing phenomenon that is persistently a trait of our Prime Minister. He seems to have a personality disorder of some sort. He attacks those he claims to love and gives everything to those who want to hurt us. That's the thinking and behavior of a disturbed mind.
Anyone who watches CPAC [Cable Public Affairs Channel ] knows that the Senate is serving Canada and Canadians with due diligence and passion in many areas of government and society. While Harper has harped, The Senate has worked feverishly to help us. There were over one hundred Senate bills derailed by the prorogation of Parliament this time.
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What exactly is "a harper"?
A "harper" is one who "complains endlessly about everything and nothing; someone who is never satisfied and always disgruntled. A destructive personality. A constant source of groundless malicious accusations. The kind of person who always criticizes those around him/her with the goal of humiliating and dominating them. A bully!"
Apparently our Prime Minister is well-named! I believe that this name is derived from the deceptive Harpies in the Greek myth who killed sailors with sweet salutations. The Fit is perfect.
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Reckless Destruction disguised as Leadership
Mr. Harper derailed over four hundred bills in all, including House of Commons or Government bills [his OWN], Private Members bills and Senate bills. And he claims that the Senate is a waste and disloyal to our democratic system and nation.
In fact exactly the opposite is true and like any disturbed malefactor Stephen Harper is blaming the innocent and often the victims. He blames all Canadians for the trouble his government has visited upon us. In the process he wants us to see him as our economic savior during the recent global financial collapse.
The truth is that credit for our economic and financial stability really belongs to former Liberal Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Jean Chretien and his then Minister of Finance , the Right Honourable Paul Martin.
These two men and their staff paid down our national debt by hundreds of billions and reduced our interest payments by more than half. They did this over a ten year period, and they regulated our banks, real estate market, and stock market system. Thereby they saved our nation from the deep suffering experienced elsewhere.
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The Cover Up
Stephen Harper is neither loyal nor honest. He is not a patriot and his economics thinking does not include Canada and Canadian methods. He serves foreign powers and masters.
The truth is that our Senate has been made a part of our Constitution and democratic process exactly because there are always people like Stephen Harper who want to 'rule' rather than work democratically to govern.
The Senate is a stop gap or fire wall against tyranny. Stephen Harper is proving himself to be a tyrant and an enemy of Canada, Canadians and our children.
The other thing Stephen Harper does not seem to like is Justice. He would rather derail our entire democratic and societal apparatus than allow Canadians to see clearly what a rat he has been in representing us in the affairs of Afghanistan.
He lied about his crimes and like David the King of Israel in the Bible story, he now lies and murders to cover his crimes. I believe that it's time for Mr. Harper to retire from his present job and let a democratically minded Canadian begin the process that will heal the nation.
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In a democracy "The People" are The Government and we can decide.
Canada is sliding further and further down and we are at risk of losing our sovereignty in many areas thanks to the irresponsible government administrative methods used by Mr. Harper.
We can turn it around and reach for our destiny in the pursuit of a Grand Undertaking. I hope you will join me in this adventure to help heal the world and the nations.
Stephen Harper wants to reshape Canada into his own image...a tyranny with no democratic options; a set of resources that that can be bought by the highest bidder. That would be a sad waste of some extraordinary resources that Stephen Harper clearly does not understand nor respect.
Harper 'seems' to support our Armed Forces. But then again if he loves them so much why is he arranging for the deaths of so many of them?
Who is really stopping whom from doing what?
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One of his favourite targets is and has been The Canadian Senate. He claims they are preventing the work of government and society from being done in Parliament. He says they are a danger to Canadian democracy. In fact EXACTLY the opposite is true.
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The Senate is the ONLY part of government that HAS been working
The Senate is the only part of our government that HAS been working, and working hard in spite of inflammatory dishonest rhetoric from the Prime Minister's Office and constant contempt from the Prime Minister and his puppet Ministers. Stephen Harper seeks to misrepresent and malign a dignified and diligent body of loyal Canadians
The Senate is doing the work and Mr. Harper is trying to prevent them from doing so. This is an amusing and disturbing phenomenon that is persistently a trait of our Prime Minister. He seems to have a personality disorder of some sort. He attacks those he claims to love and gives everything to those who want to hurt us. That's the thinking and behavior of a disturbed mind.
Anyone who watches CPAC [Cable Public Affairs Channel ] knows that the Senate is serving Canada and Canadians with due diligence and passion in many areas of government and society. While Harper has harped, The Senate has worked feverishly to help us. There were over one hundred Senate bills derailed by the prorogation of Parliament this time.
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What exactly is "a harper"?
A "harper" is one who "complains endlessly about everything and nothing; someone who is never satisfied and always disgruntled. A destructive personality. A constant source of groundless malicious accusations. The kind of person who always criticizes those around him/her with the goal of humiliating and dominating them. A bully!"
Apparently our Prime Minister is well-named! I believe that this name is derived from the deceptive Harpies in the Greek myth who killed sailors with sweet salutations. The Fit is perfect.
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Reckless Destruction disguised as Leadership
Mr. Harper derailed over four hundred bills in all, including House of Commons or Government bills [his OWN], Private Members bills and Senate bills. And he claims that the Senate is a waste and disloyal to our democratic system and nation.
In fact exactly the opposite is true and like any disturbed malefactor Stephen Harper is blaming the innocent and often the victims. He blames all Canadians for the trouble his government has visited upon us. In the process he wants us to see him as our economic savior during the recent global financial collapse.
The truth is that credit for our economic and financial stability really belongs to former Liberal Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Jean Chretien and his then Minister of Finance , the Right Honourable Paul Martin.
These two men and their staff paid down our national debt by hundreds of billions and reduced our interest payments by more than half. They did this over a ten year period, and they regulated our banks, real estate market, and stock market system. Thereby they saved our nation from the deep suffering experienced elsewhere.
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The Cover Up
Stephen Harper is neither loyal nor honest. He is not a patriot and his economics thinking does not include Canada and Canadian methods. He serves foreign powers and masters.
The truth is that our Senate has been made a part of our Constitution and democratic process exactly because there are always people like Stephen Harper who want to 'rule' rather than work democratically to govern.
The Senate is a stop gap or fire wall against tyranny. Stephen Harper is proving himself to be a tyrant and an enemy of Canada, Canadians and our children.
The other thing Stephen Harper does not seem to like is Justice. He would rather derail our entire democratic and societal apparatus than allow Canadians to see clearly what a rat he has been in representing us in the affairs of Afghanistan.
He lied about his crimes and like David the King of Israel in the Bible story, he now lies and murders to cover his crimes. I believe that it's time for Mr. Harper to retire from his present job and let a democratically minded Canadian begin the process that will heal the nation.
**********************
In a democracy "The People" are The Government and we can decide.
Canada is sliding further and further down and we are at risk of losing our sovereignty in many areas thanks to the irresponsible government administrative methods used by Mr. Harper.
We can turn it around and reach for our destiny in the pursuit of a Grand Undertaking. I hope you will join me in this adventure to help heal the world and the nations.
Stephen Harper wants to reshape Canada into his own image...a tyranny with no democratic options; a set of resources that that can be bought by the highest bidder. That would be a sad waste of some extraordinary resources that Stephen Harper clearly does not understand nor respect.
Harper 'seems' to support our Armed Forces. But then again if he loves them so much why is he arranging for the deaths of so many of them?
Who is really stopping whom from doing what?
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Robert Kennedy Jr. defends claim that Alberta fish inedible
27/01/2010 10:36:28 AM
I don't enjoy eating fish very much. I especially don't like eating fresh water fish. Our family lived on fresh water fish and other wild game when I was a child in Northern Ontario.
I lost my appetite for it when I was about nine. It was the day my brother choked on a whitefish bone. I did too. Since then I have always attempted to avoid choking. It so happens that I'm prone to choking.
I choke on BS when I hear it. For example what is happening to the world common lands of the province of Alberta is a large pool of global BS. They say it can be seen from The Moon. That BS has clouded the thinking and judgment of the recent governments in that province.
They are destroying their children's heritage and health and probably their sovereignty as Canadians. Governments think it's a “sweet deal” to sell our oil to the United States of America. It's just so sweet. It's “sweet-water”...that is toilet water or sewage.
We Canadians need the honest and brave son of the late Robert Kennedy to come to Banff, the Parks Canada heartland, and tell us that we are out of our poor minds. Read his comments about the mercury content of fish in Alberta at the link below. The same sad tale holds in all parts of the land.
Our federal [Conservative] government has suppressed the Auditor General's Report on the Environment which details exactly how bad things are. About 90% of our national fresh water resources are already polluted beyond human consumption according to that suppressed report. The remainder is being rapidly compromised. Fish cannot live safely in what we cannot drink safely.
This claim is substantiated by our fresh water scientists from The University of Alberta in Edmonton to the University of Waterloo and beyond. These are our best experts and the world's best experts. The government does not want to hear their opinion. I make a point of asking them about the fresh water challenges we face and listening to their reports.
Among scientists it's a consensus. Something is wrong...something is terribly wrong. We can make it right if we know what's going on and understand how to combat it with democratic methods.
The sad fact is that a very influential oligarchy [exclusive small power group] is governing and making decisions about what should be known and what should be done. These people and others like them have been making decisions in our behalf because Canadians don't think they should get involved, often due to shame, a sense of futility, or insecurity.
These people don't want you involved. They want to destroy the Earth and the environment while making very large profits. And they don't want anyone to notice or interfere. Tell your government that you want the Auditor General's Report on the Environment released for public viewing. We pay the Auditor General very well to serve us and Canada.
Not everyone has real life experience in displacing entrenched oligarchies. I happen to have such experience in greater abundance than I wish to recall. It's important to remember that they [the small ruling group] can be removed and replaced. This can and must be done democratically in order to be legitimate.
That's the beauty of democracy according to Abraham Lincoln. Though you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time...even if you wish real hard like Mr. Harper is doing.
It's laughable and lamentable and pathetic. Poor Mr. Harper. Poor Canada.
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100127%2fkennedy_fish_100127
Robert Kennedy Jr. argues that Health Canada’s regulations are misguided and there are no safe levels of mercury.
“Here’s what I would say to Health Canada: if you want mercury in your fish, any mercury, even a molecule of mercury, you should add it yourself at home,” Kennedy said. “But don’t put it in fish that the public has to eat, and don’t allow polluters to put it into the fish that the public has to eat.”
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I don't enjoy eating fish very much. I especially don't like eating fresh water fish. Our family lived on fresh water fish and other wild game when I was a child in Northern Ontario.
I lost my appetite for it when I was about nine. It was the day my brother choked on a whitefish bone. I did too. Since then I have always attempted to avoid choking. It so happens that I'm prone to choking.
I choke on BS when I hear it. For example what is happening to the world common lands of the province of Alberta is a large pool of global BS. They say it can be seen from The Moon. That BS has clouded the thinking and judgment of the recent governments in that province.
They are destroying their children's heritage and health and probably their sovereignty as Canadians. Governments think it's a “sweet deal” to sell our oil to the United States of America. It's just so sweet. It's “sweet-water”...that is toilet water or sewage.
We Canadians need the honest and brave son of the late Robert Kennedy to come to Banff, the Parks Canada heartland, and tell us that we are out of our poor minds. Read his comments about the mercury content of fish in Alberta at the link below. The same sad tale holds in all parts of the land.
Our federal [Conservative] government has suppressed the Auditor General's Report on the Environment which details exactly how bad things are. About 90% of our national fresh water resources are already polluted beyond human consumption according to that suppressed report. The remainder is being rapidly compromised. Fish cannot live safely in what we cannot drink safely.
This claim is substantiated by our fresh water scientists from The University of Alberta in Edmonton to the University of Waterloo and beyond. These are our best experts and the world's best experts. The government does not want to hear their opinion. I make a point of asking them about the fresh water challenges we face and listening to their reports.
Among scientists it's a consensus. Something is wrong...something is terribly wrong. We can make it right if we know what's going on and understand how to combat it with democratic methods.
The sad fact is that a very influential oligarchy [exclusive small power group] is governing and making decisions about what should be known and what should be done. These people and others like them have been making decisions in our behalf because Canadians don't think they should get involved, often due to shame, a sense of futility, or insecurity.
These people don't want you involved. They want to destroy the Earth and the environment while making very large profits. And they don't want anyone to notice or interfere. Tell your government that you want the Auditor General's Report on the Environment released for public viewing. We pay the Auditor General very well to serve us and Canada.
Not everyone has real life experience in displacing entrenched oligarchies. I happen to have such experience in greater abundance than I wish to recall. It's important to remember that they [the small ruling group] can be removed and replaced. This can and must be done democratically in order to be legitimate.
That's the beauty of democracy according to Abraham Lincoln. Though you can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time...even if you wish real hard like Mr. Harper is doing.
It's laughable and lamentable and pathetic. Poor Mr. Harper. Poor Canada.
http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100127%2fkennedy_fish_100127
Robert Kennedy Jr. argues that Health Canada’s regulations are misguided and there are no safe levels of mercury.
“Here’s what I would say to Health Canada: if you want mercury in your fish, any mercury, even a molecule of mercury, you should add it yourself at home,” Kennedy said. “But don’t put it in fish that the public has to eat, and don’t allow polluters to put it into the fish that the public has to eat.”
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Death Sentence
In my capacity as a children's Rights advocate I do not seek to talk about children. I strive to speak in their behalf and in their place because they are excluded and not given a real voice in discussions about matters that will impact them more than anyone. I speak as if I was one of them. I defend their innocence and value and their Rights.
Young people of all ages from pre-school to thirty-something are concerned about the scary future that our news media sources forecast for them. They tell me so. Why do they tell me? Because I'm willing to listen. Because I care as a parent and person.
The simple fact is that our media savvy kids are being told that they have received a death sentence and that there can be no reprieve. Television, the Internet, magazines, books, experts in every science and discipline, everyone and everything tell them the same thing. That they are doomed!
To change that death sentence and give them a reprieve would require a colossal effort that the grownups of the world are not willing to make or support. We would have to become environmentally responsible and non-warring. Yet there is hope because the majority of humanity wants exactly that.
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
- J. K. Galbraith, Canadian/American economist
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The Sorrow of Children
There are corporate pirates [some corporations] who do not care about the lives of our children. They do not have life, nor children, nor anything to protect or defend or get passionate about. Corporate entities are useful but not friendly in many cases. Their single motive has been profit - until the recent introduction of so-called green investments and business practices...which have proven very profitable by the way.
So kids are being written off as luggage that will perish in volatile weather conditions, amidst wars over who will control water and oil and space and other resources. Young people attempt to express their individual and collective concern and anxiety and governments refuse to listen or care. So I speak in their behalf.
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Another Narrative
I have another narrative about The Future. It involves resolve on the part of humanity to make the required changes and to help our children find and build Hope. Join me in this Great Undertaking to save the planet and our children from disaster.
This is why I speak out. I see things from their perspective. They have persuaded me that we grownups are wrong and they are right to be alarmed. My compassion has been ignited for them. Compassion overrules selfishness and egotism in the human heart.
The children of Canada and the children of the world need our compassion now and they need it in intelligent abundance so we can work together with them to save ourselves from the disaster that lays over the horizon. I speak their sense of alarm to governments and people alike...”speaking truth to power in search of Justice.”
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Persistent Compassion
Are you comfortable with the Death Sentence that collective humanity has passed upon our children and all children? If not then help me help them to help us help the world. We all need each other and there is an easy way to make appropriate accommodation for them in our nation and in our world.
Without children we would wither and die of meaningless self indulgence. They teach us to give selflessly...often to them. Lol They help us to laugh and work hard with a sense of purpose. They teach us to love.
Compassion for children has moved throngs in response to the plight of the orphans of the recent Haiti Earthquake. It's heartwarming. Now let us turn this passionate generosity into a plan for all children everywhere.
They are in chains and in pain. They are in in brothels and factories and armies and in fields harvesting chocolate and tin and copper in many places from Africa to Thailand to Ecuador.
They are the sex slave boys of Afghanistan who are regularly abused by gangs of men. They are the millions of boys and young men in all of our North American prisons and penitentiaries and prison camps and jails who are raped daily. They are the little girls trapped in cages in the brothels of Southeast Asia.
They are alone and helpless and in despair. They would help us to love and be happier and more fulfilled if we welcome them into our hearts and adopt them...even from afar.
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Help Them
Think about them. Discuss them with others. Act in their behalf. Pray for them. Meditate upon their plight and solutions to it.
Consider their potential if we rescue them. Above all, if possible, love them in your own powerful way. They will change your lives if you permit them and you will be enriched.
Help me make The Canadian Dream of Justice for all a reality in our generation. End child slavery and give Canadian children Equal Rights to help make that happen. Support Bill S-209 if Parliament ever resumes.
Our peaceful and just and respectful and prosperous Canadian Culture can help to shape the world into a place where children can be safe. We must start at home and then share our peace with the world.
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
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Young people of all ages from pre-school to thirty-something are concerned about the scary future that our news media sources forecast for them. They tell me so. Why do they tell me? Because I'm willing to listen. Because I care as a parent and person.
The simple fact is that our media savvy kids are being told that they have received a death sentence and that there can be no reprieve. Television, the Internet, magazines, books, experts in every science and discipline, everyone and everything tell them the same thing. That they are doomed!
To change that death sentence and give them a reprieve would require a colossal effort that the grownups of the world are not willing to make or support. We would have to become environmentally responsible and non-warring. Yet there is hope because the majority of humanity wants exactly that.
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”
- J. K. Galbraith, Canadian/American economist
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The Sorrow of Children
There are corporate pirates [some corporations] who do not care about the lives of our children. They do not have life, nor children, nor anything to protect or defend or get passionate about. Corporate entities are useful but not friendly in many cases. Their single motive has been profit - until the recent introduction of so-called green investments and business practices...which have proven very profitable by the way.
So kids are being written off as luggage that will perish in volatile weather conditions, amidst wars over who will control water and oil and space and other resources. Young people attempt to express their individual and collective concern and anxiety and governments refuse to listen or care. So I speak in their behalf.
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Another Narrative
I have another narrative about The Future. It involves resolve on the part of humanity to make the required changes and to help our children find and build Hope. Join me in this Great Undertaking to save the planet and our children from disaster.
This is why I speak out. I see things from their perspective. They have persuaded me that we grownups are wrong and they are right to be alarmed. My compassion has been ignited for them. Compassion overrules selfishness and egotism in the human heart.
The children of Canada and the children of the world need our compassion now and they need it in intelligent abundance so we can work together with them to save ourselves from the disaster that lays over the horizon. I speak their sense of alarm to governments and people alike...”speaking truth to power in search of Justice.”
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Persistent Compassion
Are you comfortable with the Death Sentence that collective humanity has passed upon our children and all children? If not then help me help them to help us help the world. We all need each other and there is an easy way to make appropriate accommodation for them in our nation and in our world.
Without children we would wither and die of meaningless self indulgence. They teach us to give selflessly...often to them. Lol They help us to laugh and work hard with a sense of purpose. They teach us to love.
Compassion for children has moved throngs in response to the plight of the orphans of the recent Haiti Earthquake. It's heartwarming. Now let us turn this passionate generosity into a plan for all children everywhere.
They are in chains and in pain. They are in in brothels and factories and armies and in fields harvesting chocolate and tin and copper in many places from Africa to Thailand to Ecuador.
They are the sex slave boys of Afghanistan who are regularly abused by gangs of men. They are the millions of boys and young men in all of our North American prisons and penitentiaries and prison camps and jails who are raped daily. They are the little girls trapped in cages in the brothels of Southeast Asia.
They are alone and helpless and in despair. They would help us to love and be happier and more fulfilled if we welcome them into our hearts and adopt them...even from afar.
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Help Them
Think about them. Discuss them with others. Act in their behalf. Pray for them. Meditate upon their plight and solutions to it.
Consider their potential if we rescue them. Above all, if possible, love them in your own powerful way. They will change your lives if you permit them and you will be enriched.
Help me make The Canadian Dream of Justice for all a reality in our generation. End child slavery and give Canadian children Equal Rights to help make that happen. Support Bill S-209 if Parliament ever resumes.
Our peaceful and just and respectful and prosperous Canadian Culture can help to shape the world into a place where children can be safe. We must start at home and then share our peace with the world.
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
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Wartime Economy
Wartime Economy [Part 1]
Our government has told us that we are at war and that this requires “wartime measures”. Wartime measures should be more than the withdrawing of Human and Civil Rights and concealing our government's crimes – for example the torture of Afghan prisoners.
Wartime measures ought to include a wartime economy. Being thrifty and economical was part of the Victory that Canada and our Allies enjoyed in World War 2. If those at home had been wasteful with resources then those at the front would have perished. Then we would have all become slaves to Adolph Hitler and his evil friends. There are people like Hitler living today who would love to kill us and take what we possess.
This could all happen again. An armed, hostile, aggressive nation [or corporation] could invade Canada, defeat our Armed Forces, compromise our government through secret infiltration as they have done and are doing in many other countries. And believe it or not all people in the world do not love Canada as we do.
Our soil could then become a battle ground and would then be destroyed by the conflict that would follow. Imagine war on our soil for just a moment if you will. I'm working hard to avoid that. We would lose no matter what happened and those who came to “save us” would win.
Great fortunes would be made by the great and fortunate while many 'ordinary' Canadians would die, starve, become impoverished, displaced, suffer all kinds of indignities and end in helpless despair. I leave it to your imagination to determine who that “saviour” might be.
'They' could quietly enslave our fat and lazy and distracted and disinterested population and destroy the Dream that we have built here together. This CAN happen. I think it's ALREADY happening. We have to GET READY...and soon...or lose our home and native land. If I can see our vulnerability then it's likely that others who want to harm us can also see it.
Call to Arms...and Legs and Hearts and Brains [Wartime Economy - Part Two]
Obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are all in the news today. There has been a 125% increase in these conditions in the past ten years in Canada among young adults 14 - 40. An out-of-shape nation is a vulnerable nation.
If we don't get in shape some ambitious entity [nation, alliance, corporation, oligarchy or group] will come in here and take what we have by force or deception. We can only keep what we can defend. We have to get in shape as a nation in every way, including physical conditioning...battle ready and standing on guard for thee.
Yo Canada! Wake up and save yourselves!
I invite you to begin a new period in your life and in the life of the nation. If you can do nothing else and you are able, get out for a walk today and every day. Even if you only walk around the block or part way around, or around your living room, do it every day as if your life and the security of Canada depended on it. It does. Do something for the cause of Canadian independence. Do your bit and I'll do mine. Together we can do great things. Consider this walking to be your duty as a citizen.
Walking or some form of fitness will start to reshape you...Canada's most valuable resource...The People. Let's get in shape together one small step at a time and one day at a time. Invite a friend to join you or walk alone. Walk proud as you serve your country by pursuing good health.
This will take strain off of our tax and health care systems. If we succeed in this first step towards a prosperous and hopeful future, then we will have the strength, the courage and the momentum to choose what Canada will be and who will own it.
Weakness, indifference, laziness, distraction and division will cause us to lose this good life that has been given to us. In order to keep what we have and what is ours, we must work hard, be vigilant, and plan for all contingencies. Others prepared and sacrificed to create this great nation. Now we must prepare and sacrifice to keep it. There is no other way.
Why? [Wartime Economy – Part 3]
Why should we care or try or work hard for our nation?
Canadians have been largely lulled into indifference about their nation and future, about their liberties and possessions, and even about their health. Our society-wide “Culture of Entitlement” has blinded us to our vulnerability.
A top notch health care system is not the solution to widespread ill health. Our machine tools and toys cannot replace strength and mobility. Armies are built upon infantry. A strong and secure nation is also built upon the health of her citizens. [Apparently Captain Canada is a woman!]
Disciplined exercise and good eating habits do more than pills and surgeries. Optimism born of an appropriate and compelling Vision is essential for good health for a person, a family, a business or organization and also for a nation.
We know from the daily media reports and the few remaining democratic news services that there is a war raging out there in the world. We have enemies who want to destroy us and our children. They are willing to sacrifice their own children to the god of fire...Molech...in order to destroy us and our way of life. Those who believe in the God of Life cannot support this kind of activity.
Child sacrifice is an ancient practice...and it is an abominable one that believes that the father [parents] has/ve the right to kill the child...as if that child were his/hers and not God's. As if that child were not a citizen with the Right to Life. We call that murder in Canada and consider it to be a detestable practice...even when it's done on the other side of the globe and for religious reasons. This is SERIOUS Stuff!
Rather than sacrificing our children, we seek to protect and defend them, to educate and enable them. In order to protect and defend our children we are going to have to be strong and fit. After all, our children are “our most precious treasures.”
“O Canada we stand on guard for thee...”
We need a strong sense of Purpose to inspire and motivate us to rise up together and act in our own best interests and in our own defense. We cannot leave it to other nations to defend us. We can't afford that any longer and neither can our allies in NATO.
We have to be able to defend what we possess or we are likely to lose it. We can choose our destiny and the outcomes we live with...or we can let “others” choose for us and they will...gladly. This can be easily accomplished if we choose.
As the late Chairman Mao of China said after the Long March that led to Chinese independence and prosperity, “A journey of ten thousand kilometers begins with one step.” Take that step on the sidewalk outside your home every day.
Walk with me for Canada. I hope to see you on the sidewalk.
This is a Call to Arms. Repell the enemy.
Now is the time for all good Canadians to come to the aid of their Captain...Captain Canada!
“Wake up! Get fit! Prepare! Work together!”
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.
Our government has told us that we are at war and that this requires “wartime measures”. Wartime measures should be more than the withdrawing of Human and Civil Rights and concealing our government's crimes – for example the torture of Afghan prisoners.
Wartime measures ought to include a wartime economy. Being thrifty and economical was part of the Victory that Canada and our Allies enjoyed in World War 2. If those at home had been wasteful with resources then those at the front would have perished. Then we would have all become slaves to Adolph Hitler and his evil friends. There are people like Hitler living today who would love to kill us and take what we possess.
This could all happen again. An armed, hostile, aggressive nation [or corporation] could invade Canada, defeat our Armed Forces, compromise our government through secret infiltration as they have done and are doing in many other countries. And believe it or not all people in the world do not love Canada as we do.
Our soil could then become a battle ground and would then be destroyed by the conflict that would follow. Imagine war on our soil for just a moment if you will. I'm working hard to avoid that. We would lose no matter what happened and those who came to “save us” would win.
Great fortunes would be made by the great and fortunate while many 'ordinary' Canadians would die, starve, become impoverished, displaced, suffer all kinds of indignities and end in helpless despair. I leave it to your imagination to determine who that “saviour” might be.
'They' could quietly enslave our fat and lazy and distracted and disinterested population and destroy the Dream that we have built here together. This CAN happen. I think it's ALREADY happening. We have to GET READY...and soon...or lose our home and native land. If I can see our vulnerability then it's likely that others who want to harm us can also see it.
Call to Arms...and Legs and Hearts and Brains [Wartime Economy - Part Two]
Obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are all in the news today. There has been a 125% increase in these conditions in the past ten years in Canada among young adults 14 - 40. An out-of-shape nation is a vulnerable nation.
If we don't get in shape some ambitious entity [nation, alliance, corporation, oligarchy or group] will come in here and take what we have by force or deception. We can only keep what we can defend. We have to get in shape as a nation in every way, including physical conditioning...battle ready and standing on guard for thee.
Yo Canada! Wake up and save yourselves!
I invite you to begin a new period in your life and in the life of the nation. If you can do nothing else and you are able, get out for a walk today and every day. Even if you only walk around the block or part way around, or around your living room, do it every day as if your life and the security of Canada depended on it. It does. Do something for the cause of Canadian independence. Do your bit and I'll do mine. Together we can do great things. Consider this walking to be your duty as a citizen.
Walking or some form of fitness will start to reshape you...Canada's most valuable resource...The People. Let's get in shape together one small step at a time and one day at a time. Invite a friend to join you or walk alone. Walk proud as you serve your country by pursuing good health.
This will take strain off of our tax and health care systems. If we succeed in this first step towards a prosperous and hopeful future, then we will have the strength, the courage and the momentum to choose what Canada will be and who will own it.
Weakness, indifference, laziness, distraction and division will cause us to lose this good life that has been given to us. In order to keep what we have and what is ours, we must work hard, be vigilant, and plan for all contingencies. Others prepared and sacrificed to create this great nation. Now we must prepare and sacrifice to keep it. There is no other way.
Why? [Wartime Economy – Part 3]
Why should we care or try or work hard for our nation?
Canadians have been largely lulled into indifference about their nation and future, about their liberties and possessions, and even about their health. Our society-wide “Culture of Entitlement” has blinded us to our vulnerability.
A top notch health care system is not the solution to widespread ill health. Our machine tools and toys cannot replace strength and mobility. Armies are built upon infantry. A strong and secure nation is also built upon the health of her citizens. [Apparently Captain Canada is a woman!]
Disciplined exercise and good eating habits do more than pills and surgeries. Optimism born of an appropriate and compelling Vision is essential for good health for a person, a family, a business or organization and also for a nation.
We know from the daily media reports and the few remaining democratic news services that there is a war raging out there in the world. We have enemies who want to destroy us and our children. They are willing to sacrifice their own children to the god of fire...Molech...in order to destroy us and our way of life. Those who believe in the God of Life cannot support this kind of activity.
Child sacrifice is an ancient practice...and it is an abominable one that believes that the father [parents] has/ve the right to kill the child...as if that child were his/hers and not God's. As if that child were not a citizen with the Right to Life. We call that murder in Canada and consider it to be a detestable practice...even when it's done on the other side of the globe and for religious reasons. This is SERIOUS Stuff!
Rather than sacrificing our children, we seek to protect and defend them, to educate and enable them. In order to protect and defend our children we are going to have to be strong and fit. After all, our children are “our most precious treasures.”
“O Canada we stand on guard for thee...”
We need a strong sense of Purpose to inspire and motivate us to rise up together and act in our own best interests and in our own defense. We cannot leave it to other nations to defend us. We can't afford that any longer and neither can our allies in NATO.
We have to be able to defend what we possess or we are likely to lose it. We can choose our destiny and the outcomes we live with...or we can let “others” choose for us and they will...gladly. This can be easily accomplished if we choose.
As the late Chairman Mao of China said after the Long March that led to Chinese independence and prosperity, “A journey of ten thousand kilometers begins with one step.” Take that step on the sidewalk outside your home every day.
Walk with me for Canada. I hope to see you on the sidewalk.
This is a Call to Arms. Repell the enemy.
Now is the time for all good Canadians to come to the aid of their Captain...Captain Canada!
“Wake up! Get fit! Prepare! Work together!”
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Canada – More Than An Economy
Canada is far more than a raw economy – GNP, market trends, stock prices, real estate and so forth. We are also a unique society, a culture, a dream, a land mass, a set of resources, relationships, values, AND people.
We are more than natural resources to be sold on the stock market and torn from the ground at any cost. We are more than water to drive the enterprises of foreign and domestic businesses. We are more than money and precious metals and base metals and lumber and manufactured goods and coal and salt and bauxite and electrical generation and wheat and potash and hi-tech ideas.
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Unique in history and in the world
We are leaders in innovation and science and media and Law and Human Rights and Justice and security and business and Aid and medicine and powerful peaceful nuclear technologies and applications. We are more than buildings and urban sprawl and planning and big box stores and forests for destruction. We are more than the sum of all of these.
We also are a history [many histories combined] and a geology and an Idea and a Dream and a set of Values and Principles that is universally respected. Chief among these Principles is our belief in The Rule of Law and Equality under Law, Constitution, and Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We are educators and intervenors in places with trouble and we are friends to the whole world from which our people are drawn. We are citizens of the world and people of this hour in history.
We are partners with people everywhere who wish to build a better world and a safer world community. We are Canadians and we love our nation, our children and our place in the hearts of the world's nations and peoples.
We cherish our freedoms and Rights and privileges and duties and responsibilities and our amazing and diverse nation. There has NEVER EVER been a place or society like Canada. We are a miracle.
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The Economics of Leo Strauss
Our current Prime Minister wants to reduce us down to banks and stocks and bonds and budgets and GNP and strategies to confuse one another and maintain control. He does not see the remarkable and wonderful thing that we have become. So he has no interest in advancing it or preserving it.
How can he possibly see our potential when he does not even see the amazing thing we are now? Our social safety net has made us remarkable and now Mr. Harper [who is well named btw] wants to destroy it and dismantle it for the sake of a few more dollars in profit for those who always profit most.
Mr. Harper thinks these wealthy people are his friends and that they will accept him as their friend once he has helped them to destroy our collective Dream. He is in for a BIG surprise when they throw him aside and find another flunky.
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How far is too far?
Will we let him get that far? We need to recognize the danger we are in and act together to pull ourselves out of the tailspin into which Mr. Harper's government has thrown us. This man is not our friend.
He is the friend of America's interests and cannot see the wonderful potential in our beautiful nation and people and society and culture. He is blind to our unique qualities, characteristics, strengths, gifts and potential in a world that badly needs our help.
America will benefit most if we act independently and do what no other nation can do...not even our friend America. We can help them in ways that they cannot help themselves at this point. America in under great pressure and we should help them in our own unique way - The Canadian Way.
A national economy includes people and values and jobs and a Vision or direction – a dynamic. It is activities and so much more. Harper only sees dollar signs and misses the human signs of success: health, well-being, happiness, opportunities, freedoms, dignity, choice, Liberty, democracy, and more...much more than just money. All Canadians are wealthy because of our society and culture – that is, because of our complete economy which was built democratically by our people for our people.
Harper believes that our great Canadian experiment must fail and he has set out to prove his theory...even if he must trip and deceive us in order to do so. This is not the kind of leadership we need and want.
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Quantum Economics 2.5
Mr Harper fancies himself an economist because he studied macro economics in university for a few years. There he was sold on a foreign agenda by foreign operatives in our midst who do not appreciate our hospitality and inclusiveness enough to mind their own business.
As we drift, foreign and corporate powers are moving in to grab and own our heritage – Canada with all of her wonderful qualities and resources. Harper wants them to have what we own collectively as if we had no right to possess wonderful and amazing and lucrative resources that help all Canadians. It verges upon treasonous action. At best it is a betrayal.
A truly competent economist will see the whole picture – lock, stock and barrel. If I can see it with my visual limitations perhaps others can too. Stephen Harper cannot! He lacks the Vision, the Courage, and the Imagination that is required to do good economics and governance in the real world of all Canadians.
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We are more than natural resources to be sold on the stock market and torn from the ground at any cost. We are more than water to drive the enterprises of foreign and domestic businesses. We are more than money and precious metals and base metals and lumber and manufactured goods and coal and salt and bauxite and electrical generation and wheat and potash and hi-tech ideas.
****************************************************************************
Unique in history and in the world
We are leaders in innovation and science and media and Law and Human Rights and Justice and security and business and Aid and medicine and powerful peaceful nuclear technologies and applications. We are more than buildings and urban sprawl and planning and big box stores and forests for destruction. We are more than the sum of all of these.
We also are a history [many histories combined] and a geology and an Idea and a Dream and a set of Values and Principles that is universally respected. Chief among these Principles is our belief in The Rule of Law and Equality under Law, Constitution, and Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We are educators and intervenors in places with trouble and we are friends to the whole world from which our people are drawn. We are citizens of the world and people of this hour in history.
We are partners with people everywhere who wish to build a better world and a safer world community. We are Canadians and we love our nation, our children and our place in the hearts of the world's nations and peoples.
We cherish our freedoms and Rights and privileges and duties and responsibilities and our amazing and diverse nation. There has NEVER EVER been a place or society like Canada. We are a miracle.
****************************************************************************
The Economics of Leo Strauss
Our current Prime Minister wants to reduce us down to banks and stocks and bonds and budgets and GNP and strategies to confuse one another and maintain control. He does not see the remarkable and wonderful thing that we have become. So he has no interest in advancing it or preserving it.
How can he possibly see our potential when he does not even see the amazing thing we are now? Our social safety net has made us remarkable and now Mr. Harper [who is well named btw] wants to destroy it and dismantle it for the sake of a few more dollars in profit for those who always profit most.
Mr. Harper thinks these wealthy people are his friends and that they will accept him as their friend once he has helped them to destroy our collective Dream. He is in for a BIG surprise when they throw him aside and find another flunky.
****************************************************************************
How far is too far?
Will we let him get that far? We need to recognize the danger we are in and act together to pull ourselves out of the tailspin into which Mr. Harper's government has thrown us. This man is not our friend.
He is the friend of America's interests and cannot see the wonderful potential in our beautiful nation and people and society and culture. He is blind to our unique qualities, characteristics, strengths, gifts and potential in a world that badly needs our help.
America will benefit most if we act independently and do what no other nation can do...not even our friend America. We can help them in ways that they cannot help themselves at this point. America in under great pressure and we should help them in our own unique way - The Canadian Way.
A national economy includes people and values and jobs and a Vision or direction – a dynamic. It is activities and so much more. Harper only sees dollar signs and misses the human signs of success: health, well-being, happiness, opportunities, freedoms, dignity, choice, Liberty, democracy, and more...much more than just money. All Canadians are wealthy because of our society and culture – that is, because of our complete economy which was built democratically by our people for our people.
Harper believes that our great Canadian experiment must fail and he has set out to prove his theory...even if he must trip and deceive us in order to do so. This is not the kind of leadership we need and want.
****************************************************************************
Quantum Economics 2.5
Mr Harper fancies himself an economist because he studied macro economics in university for a few years. There he was sold on a foreign agenda by foreign operatives in our midst who do not appreciate our hospitality and inclusiveness enough to mind their own business.
As we drift, foreign and corporate powers are moving in to grab and own our heritage – Canada with all of her wonderful qualities and resources. Harper wants them to have what we own collectively as if we had no right to possess wonderful and amazing and lucrative resources that help all Canadians. It verges upon treasonous action. At best it is a betrayal.
A truly competent economist will see the whole picture – lock, stock and barrel. If I can see it with my visual limitations perhaps others can too. Stephen Harper cannot! He lacks the Vision, the Courage, and the Imagination that is required to do good economics and governance in the real world of all Canadians.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
A Good Prime Minister
Canada has been languishing without clear direction and firm inspired leadership for quite some time. Mr. Harper is not The Good PM we need and hope for.
He is incapable of trusting the Canadian people, of inspiring us and motivating us to do the very best we can for our collective sense of Purpose. He's not on our side nor does he know how to care for and about our children.
As I walk my daughter to school I see the consequences of this leadership vacuum. Drivers are in a hurry but with no where to go really...except to another red light ahead. They go round and round and never really get anywhere.There is no clear and shared sense of Purpose in Canada at present and the predictable consequences of that vacuum are obvious everywhere. "Where there is no Vision the people perish/will be in chaos." - The Bible
The Nation is in neutral!
Public employees don't know how to serve as they should - whether in collecting garbage and recycling or in inventing creative solutions to global problems that challenge us all. Budgets at all levels of government are in disarray. Business people are uncertain where to invest. Chaos rules...Harper does not.
Teachers in the school don't know what to teach....or how. Parents aren't sure how to raise their children or what to tell them about the Crisis they will face in their lifetime...no matter what Harper and other global warming deniers say.
The police don't know how to enforce the Law. Judges and lawyers cannot conduct the business of prosecuting and defending - administering the Law - in our courtrooms. Legislators don't know how to make Law and implement changes. The System is faltering and failing because it all depends upon good leadership to give energy and direction to the whole of Canada.
Everyone is flustered by the PM's behaviour, little realizing that THIS is his tactical method of controlling his fellow citizens - to upset and confuse Canadians. This is a pale substitute for what we want and need - real democratic leadership. We don't want to be manipulated and won't stand for it for long.
“Nature hates a vacuum.”
We must look back to the days of Pierre Trudeau and John “The Chief” Diefenbaker or even Brian Mulroney. These people inspired and motivated their fellow citizens and set standards by their personal performances and values and programs. They had visions of various sizes for the Canada they imagined. Their visions were large and asked much of Canadians.
These were all people who believed in our democracy and self-government. They knew how to conduct the business of the nation in Parliament where our representatives debated the pros and cons of ideas and led us forward into an amazing set of opportunities.
Canada was built largely in the debates of The House of Commons and The Senate. A secretive and manipulative PM does not suit Canada and we deserve better. Closing Parliament and preventing debate and discussion and the involvement of our elected representatives will only anger Canadians.
A Good Prime Minister can navigate but also inspire others to follow the route he or she reveals in the Vision. The Vision must show us where we are going and the route by which we can go. It shows us what we will be once we arrive and what we can do en route and after the journey of change is completed.
A good Prime Minister must have Vision above all things. Any old vision will not do in a time of Crisis. We require an appropriate and compelling Vision that can lead us to our collective destiny swiftly and safely.
Without it all that we are and could be will be lost and forfeited forever. This does not need to be the case. We can survive and succeed together and in so doing prove that Canada has what is required to lead the global community into a hopeful future.
A Democratic Heart
Mr. Harper wants to persuade Canadians that basic Administrative maintenance is good enough for Canada and Canadians. Of course this is ALL he has to offer us. He's lost and he's wrong. Because he's lost everything he does is confused and ineffective. He lacks the one key characteristic we desire in A Good Prime Minister - A Democratic Heart.
Like all Canadians Stephen Harper also needs someone to lead him towards a hopeful future for him and his family. He simply doesn't know any better. He wants to believe he's the one that can lead us forward effectively. A majority of Canadians strongly disagree.
"Sight shows us what we are. Vision shows us what we can become."
"Sight shows us where we are. Vision shows us where we can and must go."
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.
He is incapable of trusting the Canadian people, of inspiring us and motivating us to do the very best we can for our collective sense of Purpose. He's not on our side nor does he know how to care for and about our children.
As I walk my daughter to school I see the consequences of this leadership vacuum. Drivers are in a hurry but with no where to go really...except to another red light ahead. They go round and round and never really get anywhere.There is no clear and shared sense of Purpose in Canada at present and the predictable consequences of that vacuum are obvious everywhere. "Where there is no Vision the people perish/will be in chaos." - The Bible
The Nation is in neutral!
Public employees don't know how to serve as they should - whether in collecting garbage and recycling or in inventing creative solutions to global problems that challenge us all. Budgets at all levels of government are in disarray. Business people are uncertain where to invest. Chaos rules...Harper does not.
Teachers in the school don't know what to teach....or how. Parents aren't sure how to raise their children or what to tell them about the Crisis they will face in their lifetime...no matter what Harper and other global warming deniers say.
The police don't know how to enforce the Law. Judges and lawyers cannot conduct the business of prosecuting and defending - administering the Law - in our courtrooms. Legislators don't know how to make Law and implement changes. The System is faltering and failing because it all depends upon good leadership to give energy and direction to the whole of Canada.
Everyone is flustered by the PM's behaviour, little realizing that THIS is his tactical method of controlling his fellow citizens - to upset and confuse Canadians. This is a pale substitute for what we want and need - real democratic leadership. We don't want to be manipulated and won't stand for it for long.
“Nature hates a vacuum.”
We must look back to the days of Pierre Trudeau and John “The Chief” Diefenbaker or even Brian Mulroney. These people inspired and motivated their fellow citizens and set standards by their personal performances and values and programs. They had visions of various sizes for the Canada they imagined. Their visions were large and asked much of Canadians.
These were all people who believed in our democracy and self-government. They knew how to conduct the business of the nation in Parliament where our representatives debated the pros and cons of ideas and led us forward into an amazing set of opportunities.
Canada was built largely in the debates of The House of Commons and The Senate. A secretive and manipulative PM does not suit Canada and we deserve better. Closing Parliament and preventing debate and discussion and the involvement of our elected representatives will only anger Canadians.
A Good Prime Minister can navigate but also inspire others to follow the route he or she reveals in the Vision. The Vision must show us where we are going and the route by which we can go. It shows us what we will be once we arrive and what we can do en route and after the journey of change is completed.
A good Prime Minister must have Vision above all things. Any old vision will not do in a time of Crisis. We require an appropriate and compelling Vision that can lead us to our collective destiny swiftly and safely.
Without it all that we are and could be will be lost and forfeited forever. This does not need to be the case. We can survive and succeed together and in so doing prove that Canada has what is required to lead the global community into a hopeful future.
A Democratic Heart
Mr. Harper wants to persuade Canadians that basic Administrative maintenance is good enough for Canada and Canadians. Of course this is ALL he has to offer us. He's lost and he's wrong. Because he's lost everything he does is confused and ineffective. He lacks the one key characteristic we desire in A Good Prime Minister - A Democratic Heart.
Like all Canadians Stephen Harper also needs someone to lead him towards a hopeful future for him and his family. He simply doesn't know any better. He wants to believe he's the one that can lead us forward effectively. A majority of Canadians strongly disagree.
"Sight shows us what we are. Vision shows us what we can become."
"Sight shows us where we are. Vision shows us where we can and must go."
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Prime Minister or Foreign Operative?
“You ARE your intentions!” - Carlos Santana
Stephen Harper likes power and has done what is necessary to acquire some. He can't get authentic power which we call 'authority'. He would need that elusive majority government in order to be truly authorized to act in behalf of the Canadian people. So he deceives his fellow citizens in order to control them, mislead them, startle and confuse them and betray them.
Here is another example of his dishonest methods spelled out in his own words. This is a speech he gave to his American Republican neo-conservative friends in Montreal a few years ago. Check his record against his rhetoric. It's laughable at some level and disturbing at another. These are the people who helped him “consolidate the right” and become the government.
Ironically this 'expose' article was published by CTV- News which has been his most ardent supporter among public broadcasters, generally turning a blind ideological eye to his unscrupulous antics. Even they have begun to see through his intentions and question his loyalty to Canada.
Last week it was The Calgary Herald criticizing Mr. Harper for proroguing Parliament. No one would have believed this possible a couple months ago when Harper had his Teflon hairpiece and sweater vest firmly in place. This week it's CTV calling his disloyal and dishonest bluff as the house of hidden cards falls around Harper's seditious ears. Even 'conservative' Canadian media are worried about this man and his loyalty to the Nation and People and the Idea of Canada.
In this speech Mr. Harper is addressing a group of Americans who met in Montreal, apparently to plot the destruction of Canada. Harper wanted to help them. Since becoming Prime Minister he has kept his word to them, but not to us Canadians.
He has worked to undermine all that most Canadians cherish – our freedoms, independence, values, political system, judicial system, social safety net and so much more that is beautiful to us. We used to call this kind of behaviour sedition and treason. What do we call it now?
Stephen Harper rejects The Canadian Dream of peace, Justice, compassion and goodwill in favour of The American Dream of American military, cultural, political and economic world dominance.
What's most embarrassing is that he did it with really poor grammar and syntax. The man seems barely literate and far from eloquent. LOL Stephen Harper is becoming a laughing stock among those who believe in Canadian democracy - even among those on the so-called right.
This is a betrayal and we must act together to stop this erosion of our sovereignty and independence. Mr. Harper wants to give it all away. In the past Canadians demanded that foreign enemies try to pry our liberty and land from our clenched fists. I propose that we return to those former days and values.
Full text of Stephen Harper's 1997 speech
Canadian Press
Date: Wednesday Dec. 14, 2005 9:20 PM ET
OTTAWA — The text from a speech made by Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing U.S. think tank, and taken from the council's website:
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
"Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy." - Thomas Paine
I saw the brief interview on CBC News today [Dec. 30/09] in which Ms. Carol McNeil and Hon. Marc Garneau discussed Mr. Harper's outrageous behaviour - that is behaviour designed to outrage the sensibilities of rational civil people. LOL Please consider these few thoughts below. :)
Consider the possibility that these people [Conservative Government] are seeking to cause confusion and chaos as a strategy as recommended by economics theorist Leo Strauss [University of Chicago and University of Calgary].
The Man Behind Stephen Harper
Consider the possibility that there are foreign powers seeking to undermine the stability of Canadian society and government as The Walrus article implies. I have a friend who tells me he witnessed the undermining of a certain Canadian tele-com company recently by foreign operatives resulting in the division and sale of this job provider!
Consider this also...that perhaps our liberties and parliamentary system of self-government are in jeopardy. If any of that means anything to you, then please proceed to my blog for more ideas about how to stop this insidious activity. Also please feel free to contact me.
Canada seems to be for sale or rent or wide open to be stolen piece by piece as with recent foreign acquisitions.
There IS a simple and legal/democratic way to stop this degrading of our beloved nation and values.
"Where there is no vision the people perish." - The Bible
Peace
John
Read Building The Canadian Dream HERE -
www.thecanadiandream.blogspot.com
www.blindmansees.com
"Don't keep the peace...pass it on."
John Williams
Community Organizer and Children's Rights Advocate
Guelph - Ontario
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Steven Harper has shut down parliament because he
does not agree with it. Some say this is unprecedented.
In fact, Harper is following a parliamentary tradition.
Consider the following precedents:
1629 King Charles I in England
1799 Napoleon in France
1913: Victoriano Huerta in Mexico
1933: Adolf Hitler in Germany
1936 Fransisco Franco in Spain
1939: Benito Mussolini in Italy
1973: Augusto Pinochet in Chile
2008: Steven Harper in Canada
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The Man Behind Stephen Harper
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/the-man-behind-stephen-harper-tom-flanagan/
China acquires Canadian resource holdings
http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/news/breaking-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23161543
Stephen Harper is a disciple of Leo Strauss
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P.S. Note for Mr Garneau - Here's a link to a song I wrote about you on the day you made your second trip into space. It's a song about Canadians. God bless you sir.
Walkin' Steady
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
John G. Diefenbaker former Prime Minister of Canada - On Being Conservative
The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
former Prime Minister of Canada
Excerpts from
One Canada – Memoirs of the RH John G. Diefenbaker [1962-67]
From the Foreword by John A. Monro
On being a conservative
“The Right Honourable John Diefenbaker, like Britain's former Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Arthur Balfour, is a conservative because he is “absolutely certain that no community in this world has ever flourished, or could ever flourish, if it was faithless to its own past.” - p. xi
On perpetuating the democratic principles, values, practices, methods, processes and institutions...
“Mr. Diefenbaker, throughout his three volumes, shows concern with what Canadians have built, and how further to build upon this. Indeed his second volume ends with [Edmund] Burke's admonition that 'it is with infinite caution that any man [sic] ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society.' ” - p. xi
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Fellow Canadians,
Mr. Harper has called himself a 'conservative'. I take exception to that because as a conservative myself I see him destroying the legacies, institutions and proven methods of Canadian democracy.
He's offended by and opposes The Senate, the Parliament and our parliamentary legislative processes, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
He's also offended by and opposed to Canadian values of peace, goodwill, tolerance, inclusiveness and by so much of what we understand to be Canada and Canadian. Mr. Harper hates what I love - Canada and Canadians. This is not 'conservativism'.
Rather this is the opposite of conservatism and is called 'neo-conservatism'. It is in no way related to the traditional political philosophy of Edmund Burke, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, John A. MacDonald, John G. Diefenbaker, Sir Winston Churchill, Joe Clark, and others.
This is a kind of betrayal of Canadian conservatism and a misappropriation of a well established political brand name. I intend to strip him of that name and claim it for myself and for The Liberal Party of Canada.
Peace begins with you.
Happy New Year!
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former Prime Minister of Canada
Excerpts from
One Canada – Memoirs of the RH John G. Diefenbaker [1962-67]
From the Foreword by John A. Monro
On being a conservative
“The Right Honourable John Diefenbaker, like Britain's former Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Arthur Balfour, is a conservative because he is “absolutely certain that no community in this world has ever flourished, or could ever flourish, if it was faithless to its own past.” - p. xi
On perpetuating the democratic principles, values, practices, methods, processes and institutions...
“Mr. Diefenbaker, throughout his three volumes, shows concern with what Canadians have built, and how further to build upon this. Indeed his second volume ends with [Edmund] Burke's admonition that 'it is with infinite caution that any man [sic] ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice, which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society.' ” - p. xi
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Fellow Canadians,
Mr. Harper has called himself a 'conservative'. I take exception to that because as a conservative myself I see him destroying the legacies, institutions and proven methods of Canadian democracy.
He's offended by and opposes The Senate, the Parliament and our parliamentary legislative processes, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
He's also offended by and opposed to Canadian values of peace, goodwill, tolerance, inclusiveness and by so much of what we understand to be Canada and Canadian. Mr. Harper hates what I love - Canada and Canadians. This is not 'conservativism'.
Rather this is the opposite of conservatism and is called 'neo-conservatism'. It is in no way related to the traditional political philosophy of Edmund Burke, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, John A. MacDonald, John G. Diefenbaker, Sir Winston Churchill, Joe Clark, and others.
This is a kind of betrayal of Canadian conservatism and a misappropriation of a well established political brand name. I intend to strip him of that name and claim it for myself and for The Liberal Party of Canada.
Peace begins with you.
Happy New Year!
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