Written by a Peter O Donnell
The real question of this election
People say this will be a long campaign, but I think it will hardly be long enough. That's because there is a real question that Canadians need to ask and then answer -- who decides how Canada is governed?
With our media largely bought off by the same power elite that controls the Liberal Party, it is unlikely that this question will be asked by anyone except the Conservative Party. Many of us are still waiting to hear the question placed on the national agenda.
The government that Canada has endured since 1993 has clearly been a government of lies and deceptions, arranged through the cynical manipulation of public opinion. The recent photo op staged by Prime Minister Paul (yeah I lie, so what?) Martin with "popular" (CBC's opinion) former American President Bill (yeah I lie, but I get laid) Clinton was a perfect illustration of how cynical our politics have become. ("I do not interfere in your politics." Yeah, sure.)
On a more serious note, the current hostage crisis involving a Canadian from Sault Ste Marie, and another part-time Canadian who apparently lives in New Zealand, has suddenly become a grand drama for our media. These two men, together with fellow peace activists from the United States and Britain, have the full attention of Canada's media, since after all, they share their rather pompous view of the world (we are above all conflict, the insurgents and the coalition forces are all the same thing). Once again, Canadian peace activists see conflict and are frightened, and want mommy and daddy to stop fighting. They never stop to think what the fight is about. And I must say, it is absolutely reprehensible to see leaders of the Canadian muslim community suddenly taking a stand against this particular kidnapping, when they have ignored other cases in the past. Neither is it even remotely acceptable to hear them saying that these people are "clean" because they have not preached the gospel in Iraq. It is not up to these people to decide what is appropriate for Christians in their own countries, or anywhere else in the world, but our government and media will not be the ones to point this out.
For several years now, the Canadian media have hardly paid full attention to what is happening in Iraq, with dozens of completely innocent people kidnapped and murdered. Now, suddenly, they drop everything to give wall-to-wall coverage of this particular incident, involving people who went to Iraq mainly to make trouble for the coalition forces there and help slant western opinion against the war in Iraq.
My guess is that many Canadians realize this and feel frustrated about being told, day after day, by their media, and by holier-than-thou peace activists, that there is some "Canadian set of values," or that we are the "conscience of the world," when in fact, many of us perceive that we are living in an artificial socialist one-party state, governed in the interests of a power elite that will tell any lie, produce any distortion, just to stay in power. Martin goes on and on to say that he will speak for Canadian values, as though he had some right to do so bestowed upon him by his membership in the Liberal Party of Canada. This charade has been played out in Canada for forty years now, and amounts to a highly partisan crusade of the political left to hi-jack the national political debate.
And my question is, when will this election come around to addressing this issue? Because it is all very well to promise people a better financial deal, or talk about cleaner government, but when are Canadians as a people going to confront the fact that our country was hi-jacked by these revolutionaries over the course of the last generation? When are the Canadian people going to restore some control over their political process, and stop permitting the media and the Liberal Party to dictate an agenda from on high, without consulting the people?
There was one faint sign of hope when the leader of the NDP, a man who obviously has a very different world view than you or me, but still a person who comes to his opinions freely, finally after many earlier opportunities came to see that he and his party were being used by the Liberals to stay in power, and for no other reason. Jack Layton finally came to realize that the Liberals don't care about working people, and don't care about the jobs that are lost through our failure to settle the softwood lumber question in a timely fashion. Conservatives caught on a lot earlier what really motivates the Liberals, but at least now it's official -- all three opposition parties and their supporters are fed up with Liberal corruption and arrogance.
However, the Conservative campaign so far has not been able to confront the one-party state mentality of the Liberals in such a way that the undecided voters can wake up to the dangers of living in such a society. I still see the same-sex marriage issue as a good opportunity for that wake-up call. First of all, the majority of Canadians probably feel that we have been coerced into accepting this legislation against our will. After all, other western nations have not gone this far down the road of marriage equality, and are reluctant to do so. This is our call, not the decision of some elite, represented by such questionable high priests as Svend Robinson, to enforce by the rules of political correctness.
At the very least, we need to confront the parallel legislation that accompanies the same-sex marriage legislation, that enforces a climate of intimidation of free speech and which permits such travesties as placing Stephen Boissoin in front of a government tribunal to explain his opinions to a court convened by extremists who in any other country would be called what they really are, communists.
I don't have much hope for this country's future if the Canadian people don't wake up from their slumber and realize that this election is the most important one they will see, and quite possibly the last if they shrug off their responsibilities. There are parts of Canada today which have already come to a realization that the social climate of this country is becoming hostile to our traditions and to our freedoms. Those parts will surely wish to be removed from any further infection from the growing climate of socialist contamination that spreads out from the power centres and the media.
It will be difficult work for the Conservatives to stand up in this way for Canada, as their slogan promises they will do. But this election is not just about tax breaks and cleaning up the obvious corruption in Ottawa. If we send a weak Conservative government, for certain a minority, in the hope that anything will substantially change, then Canadians will be wasting their time, applying a band-aid to a gaping wound which has been gushing out our life blood for many years.
The large cities are probably lost causes, so I hope that you as conservative supporters will apply every effort to the smaller cities and towns, and to the rural areas of Canada, where it may be possible to hold back these growing elitist forces that need only one more generation to complete their mission of brainwashing our children and filling our cities with "new Canadians" who are unaware of the situation and vote for a party which has given them perhaps a better life, but at the same time taken away our own national life.
What lies ahead for the conservative movement, I must emphasize, is many years of difficult, counter-revolutionary work, to replace the judicial activists and the entrenched culture of entitlement and socialist re-education. Let nobody be fooled by the Liberals -- they are not a centrist party, they do not stand for traditional Canadian values, and they are not a good ally of the United States and Britain, among other claims that they make to shore up that part of their vote which still maintains illusions that they are supporting a moderate, centrist party. The Liberals have a very similar social agenda to the NDP, and somehow manage to package that up as though they were totally different political entities.
No wonder Buzz Hargrove found it so easy to toss off his life-long commitment to the NDP in order to accept the glad embrace of Paul Martin. Who doesn't prefer power to purity of belief? This same temptation now lies in front of the Conservatives, who could probably squeak through to a narrow minority win if they presented themselves as the tweedledum of Canada's known tweedledee government. But what's the point? There would be nothing to do then but govern like Liberals, selling out principle and getting into an intractable mess somewhere off the road. We need to stand before the Canadian people and say to them, "look, we have a real choice to make, and that choice is not what the elitists are preaching to you as your values, but instead, the values that this country has abandoned in the name of myths and fables." Or Canadians can just go back to the myths and fables, and watch their country come apart at the seams. That's why it's so important to stand on principle this time around. If we don't, nobody else will -- the others are all virtually the same choice under different names and colours.
The real question of this election
People say this will be a long campaign, but I think it will hardly be long enough. That's because there is a real question that Canadians need to ask and then answer -- who decides how Canada is governed?
With our media largely bought off by the same power elite that controls the Liberal Party, it is unlikely that this question will be asked by anyone except the Conservative Party. Many of us are still waiting to hear the question placed on the national agenda.
The government that Canada has endured since 1993 has clearly been a government of lies and deceptions, arranged through the cynical manipulation of public opinion. The recent photo op staged by Prime Minister Paul (yeah I lie, so what?) Martin with "popular" (CBC's opinion) former American President Bill (yeah I lie, but I get laid) Clinton was a perfect illustration of how cynical our politics have become. ("I do not interfere in your politics." Yeah, sure.)
On a more serious note, the current hostage crisis involving a Canadian from Sault Ste Marie, and another part-time Canadian who apparently lives in New Zealand, has suddenly become a grand drama for our media. These two men, together with fellow peace activists from the United States and Britain, have the full attention of Canada's media, since after all, they share their rather pompous view of the world (we are above all conflict, the insurgents and the coalition forces are all the same thing). Once again, Canadian peace activists see conflict and are frightened, and want mommy and daddy to stop fighting. They never stop to think what the fight is about. And I must say, it is absolutely reprehensible to see leaders of the Canadian muslim community suddenly taking a stand against this particular kidnapping, when they have ignored other cases in the past. Neither is it even remotely acceptable to hear them saying that these people are "clean" because they have not preached the gospel in Iraq. It is not up to these people to decide what is appropriate for Christians in their own countries, or anywhere else in the world, but our government and media will not be the ones to point this out.
For several years now, the Canadian media have hardly paid full attention to what is happening in Iraq, with dozens of completely innocent people kidnapped and murdered. Now, suddenly, they drop everything to give wall-to-wall coverage of this particular incident, involving people who went to Iraq mainly to make trouble for the coalition forces there and help slant western opinion against the war in Iraq.
My guess is that many Canadians realize this and feel frustrated about being told, day after day, by their media, and by holier-than-thou peace activists, that there is some "Canadian set of values," or that we are the "conscience of the world," when in fact, many of us perceive that we are living in an artificial socialist one-party state, governed in the interests of a power elite that will tell any lie, produce any distortion, just to stay in power. Martin goes on and on to say that he will speak for Canadian values, as though he had some right to do so bestowed upon him by his membership in the Liberal Party of Canada. This charade has been played out in Canada for forty years now, and amounts to a highly partisan crusade of the political left to hi-jack the national political debate.
And my question is, when will this election come around to addressing this issue? Because it is all very well to promise people a better financial deal, or talk about cleaner government, but when are Canadians as a people going to confront the fact that our country was hi-jacked by these revolutionaries over the course of the last generation? When are the Canadian people going to restore some control over their political process, and stop permitting the media and the Liberal Party to dictate an agenda from on high, without consulting the people?
There was one faint sign of hope when the leader of the NDP, a man who obviously has a very different world view than you or me, but still a person who comes to his opinions freely, finally after many earlier opportunities came to see that he and his party were being used by the Liberals to stay in power, and for no other reason. Jack Layton finally came to realize that the Liberals don't care about working people, and don't care about the jobs that are lost through our failure to settle the softwood lumber question in a timely fashion. Conservatives caught on a lot earlier what really motivates the Liberals, but at least now it's official -- all three opposition parties and their supporters are fed up with Liberal corruption and arrogance.
However, the Conservative campaign so far has not been able to confront the one-party state mentality of the Liberals in such a way that the undecided voters can wake up to the dangers of living in such a society. I still see the same-sex marriage issue as a good opportunity for that wake-up call. First of all, the majority of Canadians probably feel that we have been coerced into accepting this legislation against our will. After all, other western nations have not gone this far down the road of marriage equality, and are reluctant to do so. This is our call, not the decision of some elite, represented by such questionable high priests as Svend Robinson, to enforce by the rules of political correctness.
At the very least, we need to confront the parallel legislation that accompanies the same-sex marriage legislation, that enforces a climate of intimidation of free speech and which permits such travesties as placing Stephen Boissoin in front of a government tribunal to explain his opinions to a court convened by extremists who in any other country would be called what they really are, communists.
I don't have much hope for this country's future if the Canadian people don't wake up from their slumber and realize that this election is the most important one they will see, and quite possibly the last if they shrug off their responsibilities. There are parts of Canada today which have already come to a realization that the social climate of this country is becoming hostile to our traditions and to our freedoms. Those parts will surely wish to be removed from any further infection from the growing climate of socialist contamination that spreads out from the power centres and the media.
It will be difficult work for the Conservatives to stand up in this way for Canada, as their slogan promises they will do. But this election is not just about tax breaks and cleaning up the obvious corruption in Ottawa. If we send a weak Conservative government, for certain a minority, in the hope that anything will substantially change, then Canadians will be wasting their time, applying a band-aid to a gaping wound which has been gushing out our life blood for many years.
The large cities are probably lost causes, so I hope that you as conservative supporters will apply every effort to the smaller cities and towns, and to the rural areas of Canada, where it may be possible to hold back these growing elitist forces that need only one more generation to complete their mission of brainwashing our children and filling our cities with "new Canadians" who are unaware of the situation and vote for a party which has given them perhaps a better life, but at the same time taken away our own national life.
What lies ahead for the conservative movement, I must emphasize, is many years of difficult, counter-revolutionary work, to replace the judicial activists and the entrenched culture of entitlement and socialist re-education. Let nobody be fooled by the Liberals -- they are not a centrist party, they do not stand for traditional Canadian values, and they are not a good ally of the United States and Britain, among other claims that they make to shore up that part of their vote which still maintains illusions that they are supporting a moderate, centrist party. The Liberals have a very similar social agenda to the NDP, and somehow manage to package that up as though they were totally different political entities.
No wonder Buzz Hargrove found it so easy to toss off his life-long commitment to the NDP in order to accept the glad embrace of Paul Martin. Who doesn't prefer power to purity of belief? This same temptation now lies in front of the Conservatives, who could probably squeak through to a narrow minority win if they presented themselves as the tweedledum of Canada's known tweedledee government. But what's the point? There would be nothing to do then but govern like Liberals, selling out principle and getting into an intractable mess somewhere off the road. We need to stand before the Canadian people and say to them, "look, we have a real choice to make, and that choice is not what the elitists are preaching to you as your values, but instead, the values that this country has abandoned in the name of myths and fables." Or Canadians can just go back to the myths and fables, and watch their country come apart at the seams. That's why it's so important to stand on principle this time around. If we don't, nobody else will -- the others are all virtually the same choice under different names and colours.
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