More farmers off to jail?

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Freedom Day
There is something that might be just a little ironic about the day chosen to begin the final round of hearings in the Farmers for Justice “fight for freedom” in marketing choices. It is to start on January 20th, Martin Luther King Day.

This is a national holiday in the United States of America to celebrate one man’s lifetime dedication, striving to free a nation of Black people from the unjust treatment they were receiving from a lack of Civil liberties they should have been entitled to.

His fight begins in approximately 1954 when the US Supreme Court banned segregation in public schools. Then in 1958, he published his first book, “Stride Towards Freedom”. In April of 1963 he was arrested for defiance of a court order. In 1964 he wrote another book, “ Why We Can’t Wait” and in the same year wins the Nobel Peace Prize. His personal fight tragically ended in April 1968, but his dream was ultimately realized, as blacks and whites are today treated equally in America, as they always should have been.

There is a strange correlation between this and the Farmers For Justice fight for equality within Canada’s borders. The CWB was introduced prior to the war years to “protect” the farmers from the “big bad” railways, the grain companies, and the grain exchange. Perhaps in those early days, such protection was indeed maybe needed. Although even in the early days it was voluntary, it wasn’t until 1943 that deliveries to the board became compulsory. At the end of WWII, a temporary and renewable five-year agreement with Britain was drawn to supply our mother country with cheap wheat through the board. This was our commitment to help recover from the allied war effort, but in 1966 the CWB act became permanent legislation.

Today the CWB is called “Prairie Strong”. Why you ask? Eastern Canadian farmers have been freed from the monopoly, and Western Canadian Farmers have been jailed for defiance of it. As Martin Luther King fought for equality, so do Farmers for Justice. They “Stride Towards Freedom” as he did in 1958. His 1964 book, “Why We Can’t Wait” strikes another correlation. We are losing farmers, and a whole value added industry, through the board’s iron fisted control of our unfinished product. We could be producing a finished product, and realizing the economic gains that would accompany a value added industry.

More jobs through value added processing, in our own backyard.

Will January 20th be FREEDOM DAY IN WESTERN CANADA????

Lorne Ridgway
Avonlea, Saskatchewan

I am an admirer of the Western Canadian farmers being brought to the Canadian Wheat Board whipping post on January 20th. to answer to the overseer about stealing the masters grain.
I can relate to both Lorne Ridgway's FREEDOM DAY article and the early plight of the American negro.
Remember how the blacks were free in the north but not in the south. In Canada it's east vs west.
Our Prime Minister promotes market freedom in other countries and even lectures their people that they are worthy of greater than state trading monopolies yet he ignores his Liberal dominated Standing Comittee on Agriculture who recomended a trial dual market of the C.W.B.
Is he mistified why Western Canada does not support him.
January 20th. is Martin Luther King day.
King stood for freedom. That freedom was won in part because people marched and rallied.
I wonder how many Western Canadian farmers believe they should have the same freedom as their eastern brothers and sisters? Would they march and rally at the Regina courthouse on January 20.

Maybe it's time we told the plantation owners not to call us nigers anymore

CWBslave

http://www.farmersforjustice.com/

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Folks;

It is truly unbelievable that CCRA would agree to enforce a law that does not exist... and specifically ask to imprison farmers instead of taking the money... just read the June 10 Lethbridge Court transcripts... The Feds DID NOT WANT the money owed for the fines, they wanted the farmers in prison.

THE legal liability is just becoming clear, the judges are starting to realise just how absurd this situation is... and that they have an obligation NOT TO PUT JUSTICE INTO DISREPUTE... a strong legal obligation at that.

THE Judges who imprisoned Mr. Chatenay are all now personally liable for the false legal base the Federal Justice Dept has used... and now are starting to understand that by refusing lawyers, the farmers have made the judges directly responsible.

When this is done and out in the open... there will be many red faces... , as I am sure the judges who imprisoned are thinking about what has happened to the likes of MR. Chatenay... they are guilty of a crime and Mr. Chatenay was not.

Will Canadians be lovers of Freedom, and demand JUSTICE... or will we sit back and allow our country to spiral deeper and deeper into the black hole of injustice and corruption?