Canadian Liberty

Kevin Annett & The Truth Commission - www.hiddenfromhistory.org

“…This documentary reveals Canada’s darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools…”

The documentary is very convincing and substantial. One subject discussed is the biowarfare effort involving tuberculosis and small pox. And eugenics. The motives for the government policies of removing native children from their parents and other atrocities appear to be very clear: violating natural rights - stealing land and resource rights which appears to be what governments and their enablers (churches, businesses, voters, etc.) are good at.

Libertarian Party of Canada website and info on May 17-18 convention: www.libertarian.ca

More information on guest speakers at the May 17 freedom Fair in Edmonton:
Please send these links around if you can:

Prof. Jan Narveson and more info on the event

Also includes information on another leadership contestant, anti-interventionist (like myself) Dennis Young, from Calgary, a veteran of the Bosnian conflict.  Comment section includes some neocon smear attacks on the LPC and Ron Paul. Neocons love their taxes, their wars and seatbelt regulations because it’s all about obedience and believing propaganda. Those who don’t go along are called “kooks”.

Other guests:
Lorne Gunter
Moin Yahya
Michael Wagner
Paul Geddes

Looking for more info on Marc Emery.

-Alan Mercer

For the next 10 days or so, I’m going to promote the Libertarian Party of Canada 2008 Convention (as president) in parallel with my leadership policies as one of the leadership contestants.

Anybody who is able to attend both days of the convention in Edmonton on May 17, 18 as a guest/observer, is welcome to register ($65 fee).   Eligible voting members (signed up Feb. 16) can still register to vote or vote by proxy as we dropped the April deadline, although proxies will be subject to a lot of scrutiny if they arrive without notice.    

Details on registering and other information is here:    The agenda should be posted soon, but there are some hints below.  

Part of the first day, May 17, 11 AM to 5 PM is our Freedom Fair, and is open to the public for a low admission fee, $10.  I really appreciate the work the other organizers are doing and their choice of guest speakers is really very interesting, and I think it represents a diversity of views, some of which I might even agree with.

-Alan Mercer

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/04/have-libertaria.html

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/04/the-case-for-a.html

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/05/liberty-vs-secu.html

Toronto and other cities worldwide experienced this global act of collective obedience to the global warming crusaders and globalists called “Earth Hour”.

My basic reaction to this is very simple - if it’s good to turn off the lights and electrical power for one hour, then the logic of that ethical rule implies it is good to just shut off the power all the time.   Just shut down human civilization completely.  Turn off the lights!

Because that’s the basic message of these propagandists who are really advocating global controls on human behavior.

Their message is that human beings are a waste of space and that our comfort and well-being doesn’t matter.  What kind of message is that to send to children?

And if these people persist in not recognizing the concept of property rights and self-determination, then their ideas are worthless in preventing genuine pollution.

They’re not even talking about genuine pollution.  They just want to make people  believe that all carbon gases produced by the burning of fuels are pollutants, and this is a complete lie.  Carbon dioxide is what we breath out and is used by plants.

One of their propaganda films is David Attenborough’s “The Truth About Climate Change” (link to a segment) which has no convincing evidence that global warming is caused by human beings - even with this graph they’re showing.  I do not believe the green graph because I believe it leaves out the activity of the sun.

At least it has David Attenborough’s voluntary individual choice approaches at the end of the documentary (you’d have to see the whole thing), but of course they are trivial aesthetic acts of self-deprivation.   And I reject the assumption that there is some sort of problem that needs to be solved.  What is wrong with the earth warming anyway?   How do they know there are going to be huge disasters?  People will adapt better if they were left alone!

But of course governments are going to impose involuntary “solutions” and costs on ordinary people  - not voluntary solutions.  I think this is David Attenborough’s essentially good nature coming through despite his succumbing to their propaganda or whatever pressures they put on him.

The whole documentary I saw on CBC TV is substance-less.   Just a vapid pile of crap.   A total waste of time for anyone trying to understand what the arguments are of those who advocate global controls on human activity.

And the part that is completely shameful is the graphical representation of carbon dioxide as a black soot piling up over peoples’ houses as they consume electricity.  Many people who are educated in basic science may take it for granted, and most people in the public will be surprised to hear this, but carbon dioxide is an invisible non-polluting gas that is entirely natural.  

Governments also attempt to associate the greenhouse effect of non-polluting carbon dioxide (which is much less than water vapor) with what people ordinarily consider as pollution.

That’s the level these people play at.    That’s what their “earth-loving”(?) ethics amounts to.   Lying to tax-payers so they can pillage us more.  

Yes, those who went along with “earth hour” are truly demonstrating their status as slaves.

Guess what?   We need more power.   We need more power-production.  We need more economic opportunities.   More competition.  An end to institutional government-protected monopolies.  An end to government intervention in the economy.   More products.  More happiness.   More of everything.  Lower taxes.   Less inflation.   More saving.  Sound currencies - choice in currencies.     For all that, we need more freedom and more respect for property rights, more legal rights for ordinary people - to protect us from the effects of new technologies run amok by the way - which the global warming crowd couldn’t care less about!  More respect for human autonomy.  We need to get central-planning fascist governments under control.  And we need people really in control of their lives instead of following along with these tyrannical agendas.

Some good news this week.  I don’t know if Mary Ruwart will win the US LP presidential nomination, but I think a lot of libertarians will be happy about this.   Her book, Healing our World, is a powerful presentation of libertarian principles applied to real-world problems.

Buy it here.

The security section of the Canadian federal government budget in 2006 includes funding details for the Security and Prosperity Partnership.  I wonder if any M.P’s cared about the details or objected at all.  In any case, parliament is responsible for letting it slide by year after year.

The discussions, such as in Montebello in 2007, are held behind closed doors, meaning they are secret talks among key cabinet level officials of the three nations and corporate lobbyists.   But much of the results of those talks, as far as we know, are spelled out publicly on the government SPP websites and in budgets, such as the one just mentioned. 

Henry Lamb: Time for a Commission on the Status of Freedom

Same concerns he’s expressing about the U.S., I’m expressing about Canada.

…freedom is diminishing while governmental authority is expanding….

Arrangements such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership, at the federal level, and the Arizona Mexico Commission, at the state level, use non-elected bureaucrats to “harmonize” and “integrate” rules and regulations – without review or approval by elected representatives of the people.  The people who are subjected to these rules and regulations have no voice in the rules that govern them. This is wrong!

New York Times article on war deserters. (ht)

Tell your Member of Parliament to protect those who are trying to escape military slavery in the United States, who choose to leave these immoral wars.   (Who cares if they are U.N. mandated or not?!)   Let’s see some big hearts around here.  

You don’t need to give them free stuff.   Give them a “refuge from militarism” as Trudeau said (oh, no, I can’t mention Trudeau!).  Let them apply for permanent-resident status and tell Harper and his cronies to go live in the United States if they like it so much. 

Why does anyone in this kind of situation have to beg for refugee status?   What a shame.   A country so much lacking in confidence.   Some of us fall for this “draft dodger” propaganda crap, don’t we?   There are a lot of hard-hearted Canadians I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley, that’s for sure.    And I bet they’re the same type who want to control everyone in many other ways.

What do people fight for?   For your government?   “Obey your government”!?     Is that the attitude we have?   The government should be obeying us and following the rule of law and respecting individual rights.   This includes the right not to be enslaved and to be able to leave a job when we don’t want to work in that job any longer!  

If the Canadian government can’t protect a handful of helpless  young people in this situation, what the hell use is it?

Our reputation internationally is just getting trashed. 

And no, the Liberals aren’t much better than the Conservatives.  So what?

March 18, 2008: The Fraser Institute: SPP Agreement Will Lead to Better Canada-US Trade and Economic Opportunities; Not Political Integration

Canada and the United States must press on with negotiations under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and not let the agreement collapse under the weight of ill-founded conspiracy theories, says a new paper released today by independent research organization The Fraser Institute.

Just to mention some of the arguments by Professor Moens of the Fraser Institute:

1) To paraphrase, it’s not a conspiracy, not a conspiracy, not a conspiracy.  Repeating that over and over in the media shuts critics up nicely.

2) Yes, he admits it’s secret, or too “low-key” in his words.   Yes, and this is responsible for the conspiracy theories and so-called “concerns” about sovereignty and allowing foreign troops on Canadian soil and NSA-monitored biometric identification and God knows what kind of Abu Ghraib thugs onto our soil.  But that doesn’t make it a conspiracy.  Of course not. 

3) It’s not intended to be political integration European-style, no of course not, it’s:

“simply an agreement to conduct negotiations in a wide variety of areas related to product standards, government regulations on trade, health and food safety, energy, and the environment as well as a wide variety of security measures related to border crossings.  The objective is to gradually achieve more regulatory convergence and product standards compatibility as well as more streamlined border and security measures so that the costs of trade and border crossings can be lowered, while standards and regulations become more continent-wide.”

Sounds like an attempt at political integration to me.

By the way, notice how the Fraser Institute press release calls the SPP an “agreement” four times!      Let me quote the U.S. government website http://spp.gov/myths_vs_facts.asp (as of March 21, 2008 ):

“Myth: The SPP was an agreement signed by Presidents Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in Waco, TX, on March 23, 2005.

Fact: The SPP is a dialogue to increase security and enhance prosperity among the three countries.  The SPP is not an agreement nor is it a treaty.  In fact, no agreement was ever signed.”

The jokers on the U.S. SPP website say the SPP is NOT AN AGREEMENT.   Let’s get our “facts” straight!   Ha ha HA!  I can see why people might be confused.

(4) Another type of argument is wanting the SPP to be something that isn’t defined by the governments involved:

“This confusion around what the SPP stands for has skewed public perception. Governments need to redefine the process and articulate specific goals for the partnership.”

In other words, let’s project onto the SPP all our hopes and desires for good things for Canadians and it will become whatever good thing we want it to be even when we’re not involved at all as citizens - not in any way at all.    

“He recommends defining the SPP as a means of creating a North American Standards and Regulatory Area (NASRA) that would include further economic integration beyond free trade but not political integration.”

No, he doesn’t want it to mean political integration -  it shouldn’t mean that and people who think it means that are “conspiracy theorists” and “left-wing nationalists”.   But a “Standards and Regulatory Area” sounds like political integration to me.  

“With the protectionist noises emanating from the Democrats in the run up to this year’s presidential election, now more than ever we need cool heads and thoughtful leaders on both sides of the border who can recognize the mutual importance of trade and the benefits of an open border for both Canada and the US,” Moens said

(As if the Republicans haven’t been protectionist.)  Yes, because our number one concern as good Canadians should be fear that the Americans won’t do business with us if we make them mad.     It’s a compelling argument I “can’t” argue with and I should just shut up.     

And flying the flag means I’m a “left-wing” nationalist.  Sure…  yes, the only kind of nationalist is a left-wing one and as we all know, left-wingers are just so wrong about everything, so they must be wrong about flying the maple leaf.    And the right-wing nationalists, they must be xenophobes and nasty populists, and luckily we don’t have any of those sorts here in Canada.  Oh no.  That’s very convenient how the left-right paradigm works to shut down dissent.

You know what, Canadians, and free market believers and libertarians, don’t listen to the Fraser Institute on this issue.    The Fraser Institute is defending a big government program called the SPP that is secretive and behind closed doors.

Tell your Members of Parliament to shut down all SPP negotiations and save what’s left of Canadian sovereignty.    Protect your basic freedoms too before the U.S. government extends its “security” methods up here - if it hasn’t already.    

Do something positive and assert Canadian sovereignty and let’s build a free and prosperous society independently of these other nations.  Set them an example.  Let’s treat tax-paying Canadians with respect, let’s restore private property which has been completely undermined, let’s restore self-defence rights and free speech, let’s treat aboriginals with respect, let’s find voluntary ways of helping those in need and let’s get rid of these “conservative-liberal” authoritarian structures and stop listening to their propagandists.

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