I Beg Your Pardon...

[agstar77]

Harper isn't a president, he can not pardon people on a whim.

[ASRG]

uh....agstar....he just did?

I know two of these evil criminals. One of them (Jim Chatenay) got elected to the Canadian Wheat board with an overwhelming majority everytime he ran?
The two I know aren't criminals...they are upstanding citizens within their communities.

When Chatenay was jailed all the neighbors got together and harvested his crop....I guess they didn't think he was some kind of evil criminal?

These men are not criminals or traitors....they are freedom fighters and true patriots!

You could only hope to be as good as them.

[TOM4CWB]

Willy,

Here is an interesting 'Fascist' article... shows the difference between the two... PM Harpers way... and your way.

Have a quick read:

KUVERA CHALISE


The Road to Serfdom

Publisher: Sambriddhi,

The Prosperity Foundation

Author: Friedrich von Hayek

Price: Rs 80





KATHMANDU: Sambriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation, has brought out a translated version of The Road to Serfdom, an abridged version of the book written by the Austrian-born economist Friedrich von Hayek in 1943. The translated version Dashatwa ko Bato of the Reader’s Digest’s condensed version is an eye opener for the cadres of the political parties as it warns of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning, which is what the current government is doing.

The book written in 1940’s, is more relevant to the present day Nepal, where the incumbent government is slowly taking control of all the institutions abandoning individualism, liberal economic policy and freedom and moving towards fascist oppression and the serfdom of the individual similar to what the Panchayati rulers used to do before 1990.

The writer believes that the socialist democrats are similar to the communists in centralising power and planning empowering the state and weakening personal freedom. The incumbent government and the ruling party though preaches on federalism and decentralisation, it has been slowly

taking control of state affairs and making Singhdurbar the only power centre. The Road to Serfdom could also be a mirror of the current Nepali polity, where the government is trying to sell idea of prosperity by centralised planning that will inevitably lead to totalitarianism.

“Planning, because coercive, is an inferior method of regulation, while the cooperation of a free market is superior because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority,” according to Hayek, who argues that the government intervention in markets would lead to a loss of freedom. The government can have a limited role to perform tasks of which free markets are not capable of, he says.

Though, Hayek is opposed to regulations, which restrict the freedom to enter a trade, or to buy and sell at any price, or to control quantities, he acknowledges the limited role of the governments like preventing frauds and maintaining law and order and security of investments.

The private sector in the country is currently asking the government to provide them the basic law and order and the security of their investments, like the author. And if the government can ensure the basic law and order, the country can flourish economically. But the Dr Baburam Bhattarai-led government itself is the law breaker that has instilled uncertainty in the investors.

The book, first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, was republished in the US by the University of Chicago Press in September 1944 before Reader’s Digest editor Max Eastman managed to publish the condensed version The Road to Serfdom in April 1945, which is translated into Nepali by Sambriddhi.

“The book will help government-obsessed Nepalis — who want the government to do everything — think in a different way,” writes economist Dr Bholanath Chalise in the foreword of the book that has also included cartoons that was published in the Look magazine, and is easy to understand the concept of the fascism and the death of personal freedom.

Dashatwa ko Bato is certain to generate heated debate not only because the last cartoon reminds the reader of teacher Muktinath Adhikari of Lamjung, who was murdered by the incumbent government to show their fascist nature, but also speaks volumes on economic and personal freedom, which the incumbent government might find uneasy."

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Fascism versus personal economic freedom&NewsID=343151

PM Harper and Minister Ritz Strengthened Personal Freedoms on the CWB issue.

Now... I beg your pardon... but aren't you the one with the fascist ideas... with wanting the gov. to do everything?

[Horse]

Do you realy think this was done for a few stupid farmers ? Way less than 1/2 % of canadian voters I think not. It looks more like the way they sold us out to Rogers,telus. I realy believe it was done for the benrfit of the global companies, that realy seems to be the agenda for this gov globilize everything.
But as someone else said there will be no changing of minds.

[Jay-mo]

Good article Tom.
Funny how Wilagro/Butch are in love with fascism yet use it as an insult at the same time!

[Burbert]

Heil Harper!

[Choice2U]

Horse...."stupid" farmers????? Should we now question your intelligence?

[sumdumguy]

We hauled lots of seed over the border, then
dumped it in the American pit. Beong a registered
seed grower gave us some privilege to be the
same as all other farmers.

We all paid the price for freedom. Lets enjoy it.

[haveapulse]

OMG, that is a rant... have read this type of thing before from editorials, and called the editor to suggest even in an editorial a little balance in perpective would be considered better journalism, but hey she is the editor...! Go figure!

May I suggest an assigment for Laura: Interview the persons involved. Get some perseptive of how this law was enforced, real stories from the farm families involved and ask the questions journalists are taught: especially the how, why and who enabled such events to evolve.

Ironic that the "Human Rights" museum is in Winnipeg! Perhaps, a section will now be dedicated to this part of Canadian history.

[bucket]

Rocking Roddy Flaman/vader must be close to the rubber room. He didn't like the cwb then he loved it. Now its an open market just like his organic farm (which he used to have choice).

I wonder if he has switched back as he has probably figured out the cwb is now an open market participant.

Come on back vader an give us some of your analysis. We are still waiting.

[wilagro]

The current CWB might as well be shut down or sold NOW as it is going nowhere with it's feet dragging, don't rock the boat attitude. They are NOT aggressively marketing anything except BS after all their proclaimed aim is to SELL it or SHUT IT DOWN within the next five years OR sooner.

How can the farmers have any enthusiasm for an agency with no future and a built-in DEATH WISH?

I read this "Use it or lose it' BS about the current pooling available through the CWB when the plan is already in motion to LOSE it deliberately...government double-talk and duplicitous policy at its best.

[bucket]

Is that because you realize there is no premium pricing from the cwb?

The cwb said a few weeks ago they had a good chunk of Japanese business secured. If this is true and that is a premium market why do their prices not reflect it? Phone the cwb and ask why.

I did and they have said it was because they have also sold to other markets that are not as lucrative. That tells me they have given grain away if they have averaged out the premium. Its idiotic.

Why not create a japanese pool similar to the warburton scam and get that business premium. They might also find they get some interesting people contracting with them.

The cwb biggest and only achievment to date is that they changed their logo. And by the sounds of it their high priced lawyers spearheaded the change. Interesting use of resources.