Myth: The CWB Put Farmers In Jail For Selling Wheat.

[ASRG]

The bottom line is the CWB single desk monopoly in the designated area was just so WRONG! It violated just about every principle of property rights, personal freedom, and justice, in the known world! It was an evil comparable to eastern communist countries!
Thankfully it is over and Harper did the right thing and pardoned those who never should have been charged in the first place! A very black mark on the country has been erased!

[parsley]

horse, we have to look at the big picture. Your
family shops in any store, any supermarket you
choose, and the variety and quantity of food is
overwhelming, nutritious, fresh, constant, and
affordable.

We take food for granted.

If a grain company's or a merchant's or a
grower's profit is out of sync with competitors ,
he loses business; he void is quickly filled, but
the consumer continues to fed.

Does the system work?

Very well.

Consider an alternate communist system:

North Korea has officially  requested food aid
from the UN.

Again. 

The BBC informs us: "North Korea relies on food
aid because it cannot grow enough food to feed
it's people. Famine in the mid-1990's is believed
to have killed hundreds of thousands of people."


So, horse, why is it that Hong Kong and New
Zealand and Finland can feed its' people, but
North Korea cannot?


"A UN report released last month estimated that
two-thirds of North Korea's 24m population suffer
from a chronic shortage of food."

horse, Canada has app. 34 million people, and
we have no past, or present or future food
shortage, do we.

Why is it that no one in Canada worries about
starving? Instead, we are fat. Not skinny. We
need to support the system that we so take for
granted, don't we.

Be very careful wanting to support or adopt the
ideology of nations who cannot even feed their
own people, because your progeny will be
malnourished, become dull-minded and
genetically screwed. And begging Pars.

[parsley]

There are people who will give you the big song
and dance about how wonderful they will treat
you.

But they don't treat you wonderfully.

There are communist nations who tell you how
great they will be to you.

While they watch you starve. Pars.

Saying and doing are not the same.

[PrairieSodBuster]

Funny how the rhetoric between the "Wheaties" and the "Freebies" keeps going, even when it doesn't even matter anymore. The CWB is trying to exist in the free market with a new board, so the old board members opinion doesn't even count anymore. Other than if the Liberal's or the NDP ever form a government they will try reverse it if they can. Ken Larson's point...well so what, it's cheaper to let them go than prosecute them (and for Harper to do anything else would be political suicide). Frankly when the "arrests" were going on there were assholes on both sides those who wanted to be arrested to prove a point and those who wanted to do the arresting to prove a point. Funny how things never change there are still assholes on both sides and both sides are just as big morons as always. Debate is one thing but preaching rhetoric is not debate. I wish all the rednecks and all the lefties would take up boxing each other and do that instead of flapping their gums. It's not like you'd have to worry about brain damage, you need to have a brain for that to occur.

[parsley]

Without protest, dissent and arrests , change
would not have happened. Now would your wife
be able to yet vote.

When dealing with unreasonable governments
and institutions, knowing they will employ every
measure of force to maintain their powers,
morons and assholes, as you call them, such as
myself, can only resort to civil protest.

The people jailed forced change.

And then there are those who slacked back and
watched....... Right? Pars.

[parsley]

Why should we remain defensive? Because the
Mulcariata, would indeed, in the blink of an eye,
load up an opposition-paid-for-jet to North Korea,
to learn how to implement a well-practiced 'final
solution' for change-seekers like me. Pars

[parsley]

Why should we remain defensive? Because the
Mulcariata, would indeed, in the blink of an eye,
load up an opposition-paid-for-jet to North Korea,
to learn how to implement a well-practiced 'final
solution' for change-seekers like me. Pars

[grassfarmer]

"ALASS time will be the Judge not all the bulshit you
all peddle."
Truer words were never spoken Horse.

[malta]

Larson makes a good socialist liberal. His main tool is deception, things that are true but not the truth. True the CWB did not jail farmers. Truth, the CWB was the cause of farmers being jailed as they not give export permits to the farmers without the payement of protection money. Farmers from Ontario were being given export permits without paying extortion. The CWB was the cause of the farmers being jailed. I am glad the monopoly is gone and look forward to when even the last hints of it disappear.

[Horse]

I realy dont give a shit who markets our grains but I will make a prediction some of you will live to regret when there is only one grain co to sell to,Its all got so big only the biggest will survive no more juniors will be able to start.So if you like Drifus or conagra or general mills sooner or later they will all belong to one enity. Its a little like buying a neqw pickup all 3 majors are owned by the same man in most communites (some choice).
I feel it is a little like our CO OP ass I dont think they do the best job but without them in the game we would all be paying a lot more and no choice.
If these conglomerates are so good why didnt they get in the game sooner ? Mabey because they didnt want to compete with CWB?