WILL AND RESOLVE: The hypocrisy of Canadian media and OURSELVES

Since launching this book on February 15, I have spent time in the presence of politicized people whom I have deep respect for. I am going to post some observations made as I ended this travelling on the Monday past. I hope that you will share these thoughts with others, and stimulate real debate as to what our responsibilities are becoming in this nation. As others rev up the talk about elections.

FIRST, ON MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2011:

I have not listened to the CBC radio regularly for months. This is because, despite my petitions to them to wake up to the real world in Canada, especially starting in 2003, they have taken on the tact of the big feeding frenzy of the mass media. "If it ain't got blood in the reporting, then it ain't worth reporting on because it ain't going to make us money" is the new mantra of our esteemed "journalists".

So , it is only because I am shut up inside a rented vehicle as I deliver a book to one of those tribes of "indians" in my part of my nation of Canada that I actually listen, somewhat reluctantly, to the CBC's before 9 in the morning The Current. And, yes, I am thinking about the hypocrisy of even First Nations who publicly project that they never had a concept of "owning the land". True, only if they were of the same "tribe". But, I live in a town that is near a flat topped mountain where the local Ojibwa posted sentries because they could spot warring parties from other tribes, paddling down the big water of Lake Superior, miles before the warring canoes would arrive.

We are not very honest to our own human history. We are less honest to what caused all of this to be something that was to change after 1945.

I do not find much credence in even the lady with the voice who interviews most people on the CBC's The Current. So, it is incredibly ludicrous to hear what then transpires on this Monday of March, the 7th.

The sultry lady of voice has secured an interview with a Libyan Canadian working in the oil patches of Libya. She is enamoured with the descriptive emotion of this man. Of how a peaceful demonstration, in front of a court house in his town, was fired on by Ghadafi's forces. Of how 4 innocent demonstrators died. Of how, on the next day, the unarmed mourners, carrying the bodies of their 4 "martyrs" were fired upon in increasing vigour. On that day, 35 more civilians died. And, the resolute man explained, it became worse until the local Ghadafi detachment was overwhelmed by the citizenry.

Then, said the man, it was discovered that the detachment commanders had taken Libyan troops, who refused to fire on these unarmed citizens, poured gasoline over them and watched them burn.

The sultry voice of the lady made her moments of sympathy and disbelief clear in her voice. But, what became incredible was this.

This Canadian man  with dual Libyan citizenship admitted that he had two small children, who were traumatized by all of this. Yes, he had the legal option to escape to Canada. However, said this man, he had come to the realization that he must stay to ensure that change happened. But what Canadians need to think about is this.

The man said that the moment of consolidation in his nation was when Ghadafi's son went on public radio and warned that there would be civil war, pitting "tribe against tribe". No, said this nation, who had enough of 40 plus years of oppression and exclusion. We will stand together against you as one. We will not allow you, Mr. Ghadafi, to make this a "tribal thing".

But, the hypocrisy comes from our Canadian media when they carry on as this lady with the sultry voice did.

After deep questioning, this man reiterated that he, and all others, wanted a nation where freedom of voice existed, where the government was for all people, regardless of "tribes", and, think most carefully on this "Canadian citizens of democracy", where the institutions of justice are impartial and completely independent of the government.

Think about that for a moment. Think about it for a minute. Think about it for an hour. And then think about it for coming days.

Then  think about what the sultry voiced lady inside Canada said over Canadian air waves in the grandest hypocrisy of all. "Oh, you mean just like we have in Canada!" shrilled this lady of national propaganda.

Hypocrisy in its fullest, all of these journalists who promote the "it is worse over there!" while they stay silent to Canada's realities.

Three partisan tribes to the exclusion of the rest of us.

We know that the Liberals and the Conservatives and the New Democrats tell us that their partisan tribes are all that we need. On the day that this journalistic idiocy occurs, the Conservatives are being dragged over the hot coals for abuse of the 2006 elections' taxed dollars. No one dares to ask why the citizen's issues about all of this abuse of privilege and power are not addressed in depth by journalists, so that the debate becomes what the current political tribes do to us while real, independent, challenging voice is excluded.

The deepest irony, the deeper hypocrisy is in this.

IF you read this book, Just Business, you will learn that Canada's courts are full of Liberals and Conservatives promoted to be "judges". IF you read this book, you will learn that 94% of Canadians subscribe to the philosophy that none of the political tribes ruling every part of our nation bear any credibility to real democracy. IF you read this book, you will discover that, when we dare to complain, we appear in courts where the old friend of the Liberal or the Conservative rules on our complaints against even their "political tribes".

Where, in Canada's "esteemed courts" is the "independence from government" that this Libyan dares to suggest is required in his embattled home nation?

So, yes, Anna Maria Tremonti, or Maria Anna Tremonti, take your pick of the mixed up name of mixed up journalists, practices the depths of hypocrisy.

Because, you see, in 2003, The Current was the ONLY media program that initially responded to my warning that our Canadian institutions of justice are far from impartial. And then it fell silent in one month's time.

Why?

Because in Canada, the journalists will phone up "experts of law" or they will consult "experts in law" to determine their "legal culpabilities" instead of saying "We are instruments of freedom of speech! We have a duty to talk before the bullets begin flying! We have a duty to educate ourselves and the public to the vulgarities and abuses in our own institutions of democracy!"

But, just too conveniently, at least for now, "It is worse over there!" and the blood is flowing "over there!"

And in Canada, instead of reading a book that exposes why we should be standing outside balloting places and shutting them down, because they violate our rights and make our vote insignificant, we will applaud the "new party" that brings 200 more on side while 100,000 more citizens stay, ominously, away from the polls.

IF this were Libya or Haiti or Tunisia and the names on our ballots were those allowed only by the antics of tribal politicians, would we mark ballots to legitimize the rule of those who say that only their tribes are of worth? New or old? Or would we become brave dissidents with the will power and resolve to end all of this? Will we stand outside Canada's supposed pending electoral polls and demand that Ignatieff, Layton and Harper collectively resign for making their tribes the illegal controllers of our voting processes?

Then think even more carefully on this.

Canada's Conservatives "won" in the last two elections with less than 30 % of Canadians voting for them. In reality, less than 2% of Canadians supported the process that led to the production of candidates that the Conservatives' new rules, in concert with the Liberal and New Democrat tribes of politicians, allowed on our ballot while others were excluded. Read the book. This means, in effect, that our Prime Minister is selected for US ALL by less than 2% of our population. He then has the power to appoint people like Vic Toews to be in charge of this nation's security and safety.

I suggest that you visit a disturbing video on youtube. It is Vic Toews. He is caught talking like Mubarak and Ghadafi about "Radicalization in Canada" (use those words in your search engine with Toews' name and you will get there). The fear about radical cells growing across this nation is not dealt with as a question, "What is leading to this and how do we resolve the issues behind this increasing alienation?" to, instead, the Mubarak and Ghadafi agenda of oppression and suppression, because, by god, Toews and all "have the power!" To send our taxes to bigger and bigger jails instead of to taxed work that gives us back our voices, through credible democracy.

So, do we all become agents of real change or servants to the Vic Toews' Conservative mantra that is no different than Mubarak's and Ghadafi's?

Do you read a book that dares to expose and then ask: why are 99% of the judges in Canada and, yes, even the United States of America, former members of partisan tribes that rule our votes? Do you dare to challenge even Anna Maria Tremonti or Maria Anna Tremonti and her absurd gangs of mixed up journalists with this question: Must we stand in front of our institutions of justice, as they have the will and resolve to do in Libya? Or do we wait for the likes of Toews and his gangs of partisan thugs to define our rights to be bigger jails and tougher laws instead of impartial courts that throw the likes of vote corrupting Toews and the elitist tribe leaders, Ignatieff, Harper and Layton, into jail if they will not resign because they have stayed silent to the violation of international law that was to end all of this in 1948?

Yes, read the book to understand why we should stand in front of any false pretence of our vote in the coming days or weeks, our "vote" as these tribal politicians would have it for them and not for us.

And in front of cop stations where enamoured cops are rewarded for paying taxes into partisan tribe pockets.

And in front of court buildings where old friends of the politicians tell us that only they know what is "just" for us and it is what the tribal politicians will tell us is "just", despite international laws forbidding even the partisan judges.

But, will we have the will and resolve of Libyans, Tunisians and Egyptians?

Or, first, must the bigger jails and guns against us appear before we wake up to the real role of freed voice?

Even in Canada, it is not the journalist who speaks for us. It is our own voices. And, we should be angry to the extent that our journalists redirect what we should be concerned about with the old propaganda that "It is worse over there!" because there is no blood on our pavement.

Yet.