Allowing Illegal Behaviour

Canadian journalists make much ado about what happens over there. Please read the first post below to educate yourself to this. Then remember the images of people protesting outside election polls in nations that we consider "backward", if not in complete contempt of the principles of democracy.

Just Business? It is a book that makes record of my participation in the formal attempts to make Canada's electoral process credible. Yes, since Brian Mulroney's Conservative gang began to bray more about changing our constitution again at Meech Lake before 1989, I got involved, as many other Canadians did. What should concern us more is the record of the exclusion that subsequently occurred during electoral processes. The book chronicles how these were redesigned to the gain of three big political parties. Yes, I dare to call this a system of "tribal exclusion" in the post made below.

Canada? There is much hypocrisy arising here. And it is in our personal conduct.

I spent the last three weeks taking this book into the faces of political scientists and even professors who claim that they work in "Centres of Ethics" (University of Toronto, etc.). Yes, there is incredible disconnect at this level of "education" in our nation. However, we, as citizens of democracy, carry as much responsibility here.

That is because we stay silent when the illegal begins to prevail and to rule over us. We do not try to understand when the laws promising us equivalence are run roughshod over. Subsequently, our legal right to credible democracy disappears. Then our excuses, our lack of self education and the subsequent silence becomes irresponsible behaviour. If we truly believe "in democracy".

Yes, the politicians and others taking away our rights may be acting illegally, but we fail ourselves when we are subsequently silent.

So, yes, I am publicly challenging all of the "politically motivated" whom I have met or talked to in my travels. But, I am also warning that the common citizens have to stop acting less common and more responsibly.
All of the politicized whom I have met with directly, person to person, with my book in hand, in the last month? They are all good people. They are all motivated people. But, as "potential leaders", they also carry our irresponsibility into the realms of the ridiculous.

I have only ran into three different provinces with this book. Already, it is clear that there is an undercurrent of disenchantment in this nation. The undercurrent of anger and distrust leads us too incredibly close to frustration that then rules over common sense. And over the reasons for rules of democracy.

BUT, the irony becomes this.

I met three people proposing to enter into a "pending federal election" in Canada. They are willing to do so under a system that is promoted by propaganda as "democratic" when IT IS NOT. But, I am going to focus in on one example of how ridiculous our situation has gotten in Canada. Because we have allowed it.

Sandra Finley, in Saskatoon, is a lady whom I respect. However, she naively focuses her attentions on Elizabeth May's  "Newest Political party" to raise their ugly head in Canada, that "Green Party". What transpired in the public airwaves after I dropped my book to Sandra at her organizing meeting in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan becomes the epitome of the hypocrisy we need to all challenge. It shows a complete lack of understanding on the part of those who say that they will give us more credible leadership than the, I am sorry, but they are, political buffoons that we have now.

The Green Party's leader chastised other political parties for the "attack ads" that we are having to endure, despite there being no official election call in Canada, yet. May was quoted, ironically on CBC radio on the day, March 4, that I returned the rental vehicle that allowed me to get books into the face of those who are becoming a little bit too hypocritical for me.

May's "green" party has spent $10,000 to chastise other partisans, CBC tells us. Elizabeth May, in Green Party advertising, tells Canadians to "turn off their televisions" when the attack ads from other partisans come on their televisions.

She admits that only 3 runs of her party's stern and admonishing advertisements are booked. She may run out of paid voice for more of these.

But, it is worse than "They have more money so, therefore, yes, they have the right to more voice!" that the highly self-righteous Elizabeth May acquiesces to. Yes, in so doing, acquiescing to the principle that the richness of the political pocket equates to "democracy", May destroys the credibility of our democracy even further.

But the worst of it is this.

Our esteemed Green Party leader now tells us what we, the citizens, must censor ourselves from? This is the height of "democratic" stupidity, or stupid "democratic" propaganda. Take your pick.

I get emails suggesting that I go to the Green Party's web page so that I can link to a place where I can tongue lash Steven Harper's gang. No. This is simply committing the sins of the "other parties" for the sake of appearances that all is well if we use the political process. BUT ONLY IF we choose to align with "the Green party". 

So, the citizen is back to no option other than a "new leader" who wants to be granted more power, as per Harper's and Martin's and Chretien's, and on and on, Prime Ministerial "traditions"?  Why are we told, by these exclusive and excluding parties, that we must accept a corrupted electoral process while the depth of anger builds in this nation because we are ruled by a greed for power, not by democracy?

Think carefully on this.

Take the Green Party and every other newly floundering "party" that says that they know what democracy really is. Take Statistics Canada data and recognize that, yup, with all of the slimy carry on mixed into the pot of partisan memberships or donations, less than 6 percent of Canadians are aligned. With any of the partisan clamour.

Then read the book. Read the consequences to what happens when the "political party" concept is, illegally, given preferential treatment at our ballot box.

AND is then, more ominously, guarded by judges who were former members of only the Conservative or Liberal factions of partisans. Corrupted courts rule on complaints about all of this.

AND THEN REMEMBER THAT OUR VOTE IS TO BE EXERCISED, IF HARPER RESPECTED HIS OWN LAW, ONLY ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS. So, how many elections do we wait to pass by before we find "our saviour" from all of this.

Especially when "saviours" like Elizabeth May preach censorship not LEGALLY COMPELLED protection of each and every one's rights.

Think about that. Stephen Harper, after "gaining power" in 2006, passed a law saying that we were to have federal elections on fixed dates every four years. Then he broke it in 2008. And, in March 2011, the blather in the media is the excitement from even people like Ms. May that we will have "another election". It is to be called at the whim of three big political parties playing games with our vote. And then, we are to assess the worth of our leaders based on what the media gets in advertising revenues, before the media will make an issue of it.

Tribal politics at its best. Sandra Finley does have a good word that should be remembered. "Corporatocracy". The richest will define for us what democracy is?

Remember that all of this happens after the Conservatives and Liberals engaged in even more absurd illegal games they want us to forget. They walked our elected representatives (Brison, Stronach, Emerson and Comuzzi to name a few) across our Parliamentary floors. They did so by waving a few golden tax dollars in the waffling partisans' faces. The political parties did this so that they would "have the power" to pass "new laws" as they wanted to.

There is a problem beyond the decreasing insignificance of "our vote". Now, IF the electorate staying away were saying, "We are not coming out to vote because we are so happy with the politicians that we have!", then we should rightly celebrate the vote in our nation. BUT, poll after poll and letter after letter to our web pages and news papers expresses the concerns that we can no longer trust any of these partisan groups.
Yes, we need to shake our politicians and bring them to the real warning signs in the ever decreasing turn out at our polls. 

The level of distrust is known. The relevance of the vote is no longer there. The level of anger is absurdly ignored by even Elizabeth May.

So, are those "backwards nations" really less democratic than us? Or do the people, who stand outside court rooms and voting polls and loudly proclaim the irrelevance of a corrupted ballot box in those nations, bear more credibility than complacent, frustrated, BUT irresponsibly silent Canadians? And, yes, Americans.

WE LEGITIMIZE THE ILLEGAL by participating in it, instead of standing against it and STOPPING IT IN ITS TRACKS. With courage. Before the bullets fly, as some others warn.

What is saddest in all of this is that what is happening at our ballot boxes was made illegal in 1948. Read the book. Tradition prevailed. Our electoral process became increasingly exclusive, even after our farce of a pretence at a constitution appeared in this nation in 1982.

BUT remember this. OUR constitution IS NOT a farce. It has been made irrelevant by courts filled with partisan lawyers and judges.

Do we ignore the stories of people who are marching away from our polls "Waiting for a Miracle" because they no longer TRUST THE SYSTEM because a corrupted system gains no credibility despite the honourable intentions of those who say that "we must work inside it"?

"Work inside it?"

This was the excuse of German judges who were tried and convicted in Nuremberg after 1945. Their excuse became that they had to stay inside an intolerable regime. They stayed silent to what went on around them because, IF they did not, "things would get worse!"

And they did. And worse than the judges even imagined because they ended up in jail after their perfect nation blew up around their ears.

Unfortunately, my first book was forced to remove even that consideration because of its physical limitations. BUT books are merely instruments of discussions. Electoral processes ARE to be instruments of discussions. BUT, sadly, even Sandra falls into the propaganda that as long as her party leader posts her flowery hasti notes, all is well in my nation. And then others step up to legitimize that as "an open door" option when, if you read the rules passed by partisans to favour their political parties, the door is already slammed.
To the independent voice in all of this.

No, we need the courage of Libyans and Haitians to stand outside "electoral offices" to tell all why this farce of "another election!", that many are racing around to prepare for, must end, today. Or, yes, we will be left standing, holding our hands up against those who fire bullets at us because, by god, they tell us that they "are our voice". As did Hitler, Mubarak and Ghadafi.

But, hmmm,,,, did this not already happen at the G-20 summit in Toronto?