Libs bad
Dear Republic:
I keep reading and hearing about all the supposedly traumatized liberals looking to survive the “Bush Inquisition” by fleeing to Canada.
So, this past week I took a trip to the boarder crossing between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario to see for myself. Yes, I saw great long lines at the crossing. There were not that many people headed to Canada. Mixed with the usual heavy commercial truck traffic streaming into the US were busses, vans and cars.
The lib's need to understand that the election is over and that they can stop scouring street corners and indigent shelters for bogus voters. A day's ride in a rental van and a twenty bill from a roll of walking around money will buy only so much loyalty.
We all recall the reports from Franklin County in Ohio where there were more registered voters than there were people living in the county.
But then, a name on the voter lists is a name on the voter lists, is it not? What difference does it make if the old Church records, in which the Democrats appear to have searched for voters, record a name, such as Jeremiah Slugwort, as having been stillborn in 1812?
Likewise we are familiar with the gentleman recruited by the Cuyahoga Democratic County Chairman to register voters. With pay for such services being in the form of illicit drugs, the employee ginned up all sorts of names.
The Cuyahoga County Chairman denied any wrongdoing on his part and promptly hung his lady assistant out to dry by blaming her for any missteps. It seems that, in that Democrat Chairman's view, a woman's right to equality ends at the first whiff of a political scandal.
As is the case in so many other instances, the liberal leadership consider the local Democrat operative or voter name to be nothing more than a throw away item.
In a related matter we must not forget the efforts of the liberal British newspaper, The Guardian , which urged its readers to write, by postal service or e-mail, to the voters in an Ohio County and, in an effort to sway the US election, urge the Ohioans to cast their ballot for John Kerry. You should know that this liberal effort too failed badly with many of those letters sent receiving toasty replies.
During this campaign the liberal leadership have shown themselves to be the equivalent of a second day stack of oily overcooked potato fries. They attempted to distract from that foul condition with a shamefully thick layer of catsup long since soured by the vinegar fly.
— Jim Ginder, Camby, Indiana
The bell tolls
Dear Republic:
I wonder if the current Liberal administration in the BC Legislature has any sense of history or even a grip on reality. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation is as good as cheap toilet paper when it comes to dealing with the United States in what has become McCarthyistic paranoia since the tragic events of September 11, 2002.
In the last century the United States has not required an excuse or reason to ignore the sovereignty of other nations. Some examples of US personal, economic, social, political and financial interference that come to my mind most recently: Maher Arar, the invasion of Iraq, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro and his Cuba, Manuel Noriega and South American farces, Muammar al-Qadhafi and his Libya, and the ever popular Saddam Hussein.
Just watch your television to see that in just about every series, soap, and movie no one else can save the world; John Wayne and Audie Murphy single-handed whooped the Nazis and Japs and no other country has democracy, let alone representation. At least, according to Washington DC and Hollywood.
No person or thing is safe from the Security Services of the United States, and it does not matter who is in the White House.
And then there is that obscene joke called the North American Free Trade Act—talk about pornography! We sure keep getting screwed! The continuing soft wood lumber battle, our pharmaceuticals, and where's the beef? Sadly the Joe Blow working Americans who are trying to protect their respective jobs don't seem to understand that the companies that are suffering here are often majority owned from the US.
The NSA, the USDOC, the DOE, the INR, the DoD, the FBI, the DoJ, the CIA and all those scary initial guys, who actually controls them? We are constantly hearing about how they stumble over each other making a mess of their respective jurisdictions, September 11, 2001 being the most glaring of their failings. Now more than ever these paranoiacs will do anything to anyone anywhere to protect themselves. So, as the closest and for the most part, most reasonably nice people who are easy to get along with, with our governments being ineffectual to protect us, guess who is going to be sacrificed for the greater good of the US of A?
Frankly I don't care what they know about me, I am just not that important. What does bother me is the cynical and expensive showboating being done by Gordon Campbell, Joyce Murray, and the Liberal majority. As legislators they are protected from prosecution. You and I are not. What value do you think the government of the United States places on a piece of British Columbia law? So, when another BC/Canadian Citizen gets abused, tortured and harassed by the Americans, who is going to protect that individual?
- Sherylee Harper, Victoria, BC
Speak up
Dear Republic:
Today Canadians of every shade and age face a problem unheard of for sixty years. We face a changing world and ominous threats of a great war on the horizon. With President Bush winning the election by a majority and Paul Martin's conservative-minded Liberals in office, the Canadian people owe it to themselves, and to the world, to distance their country from Bush's violent reactionary policy. Canadians need to get this message across before our government commits us to something we can't get out of.
The young need to concern themselves with politics and voice their opinions loudly and often. Many great ideas are conceived by the under-25 year olds, but are lost due to lack of gumption or disillusionment. Inspired visions are sure to be produced and stand to help our general situation with regards to the environment and social development.
The disillusionment also needs to be addressed, mainly by the middle-aged demographic who wields so much power and seems sometimes to be blinded by the almighty dollar. The primary concern of these people should be in holding a light to the system and making the necessary changes to such institutions as the schools, law enforcement and the courts to help facilitate the young in their development.
While a knowledge of science is important and literature valuable beyond all measure, politics and the real social workings of our society should be taught to help teach children how to affect and change the system. This is something that is in a truly bad state. I have a very limited idea of how government works.
Finally, seniors and all those who actually lived through war need to speak up and tell our country that war is no adventure, no fun, and no solution. With such experience, our elders should advise us on such matters as war.
The world needs to know now that Canada is not the same as America. We need to focus on cleaning up our own business, and doing things legally, considerately, and with great conscience. This goes beyond war and deeper than war. This is a case of values and ideas.
Perhaps we won't get vastly richer if we change some rules, but we won't be bombed either, and we will still have that which is most important: self-respect.
- Cody Makaseff, Vancouver, BC
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