Fuschi’s Canadian Forum

I’ll bet a dollar that the picketing crowds of people who had just discovered the word prorogue, shared an unspoken guilt about their comfortable public dependency. When I saw my first anti-prorogue crowd, on the weekend, I was in an Ontario town reputed for its artsy industry. This is not about the town, so I have left out the name. To me it is significant that such a reaction was bred in that town, because the people who took part in these protests across the country, are the real message. It should come as no surprise that the artsy crowd has yet to find a conservative they like, or that the rest of the aggrieved were likely the usual suspects. I’ll make that two dollars if the picketers were not overrepresented by members of the teaching cartel, unions, public services of all kinds, and so on. All of whom have been nervous for four years, since the Conservatives formed a minority government.

It was certainly not about something they previously thought was a Slavic dish - proroguies. It was about the natural fear that any well-remunerated public dependent has about a Conservative government. The fear that someone in that government might notice how grotesque the settlements garnered by this segment of the population are, compared to the survival act being put on by everyone else. That fear will intensify when rumours of belt-tightening are being heard. It will always make you a potential, anti-conservative picketer behind any false front, hoping that the latest whim may gather the legs to bring down the enemy. It will drive you easily to the bosom of the Liberal opposition which has bought you for life, however inane their accusations.

So is there no justification at all for the outrage - that which has motivated the country’s professorial ranks to reams of rhetoric on the undermining of our democracy? Sure, they have a point, if a bit belaboured. I just wonder how many of the same crowd considered our constitution and democracy to be in peril when a previous administration saw fit to hide its illegal use of taxpayers’ funds by dispersing it through clandestine exchanges of brown envelopes. I don’t seem to recall professorial outrage or picketing public servants then.

 Aided and abetted by Canada’s lefty MSM, and a registry of Facebook Liberal malcontents, the people orchestrating the “great” prorogue outrage are trying vainly to convince the rest of us of something incredible. My hands-on observation, from three consecutive attempts to gain a federal seat, is that the average Canadian gives a fig about parliamentary procedure. The most often heard words during my canvassing – within two weeks of the election – was that they had not yet explored issues, and would decide closer to the voting date. This, then, is the raw material with which the natural party in-waiting, has to work in trying to build outrage over the absence of animals at the parliament zoo.

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What do Ontario and Oz have in common?

Answer: The wizards which rule(d) them both, relied on illusion to satisfy their subjects’ need for leadership. The wizard in the story, hid behind a curtain of phoney smoke and thunder, and magnified his voice in the presence of supplicants, to inspire the illusion of benevolent power. Similarly, Dalton McGuinty, has enacted a myriad meddlesome edicts designed to flex his power on behalf of some segment of the population which was willing to be lulled by a corresponding promise to "gain a little safety" in exchange for an apparently expendable bit of "essential liberty". (Benjamin Franklin’s words in quotations.)

The crowning similarity lies in the fact that behind each illusion there is no substance. The wizard of Oz was a doddering old windbag who needed the illusion to maintain control. McGuinty has been all too free with our essential liberties in exchange for the votes of those who were conned into believing that some new safety was gained. The reality of life in Ont has never really been clearer than what we have just witnessed in the culmination of the Caledonia lawsuit. The couple, Brown and Chatwell, were physically and legally abandoned within the confines of the lawless area of Caledonia which the natives had occupied. Now that their rage has legally threatened to expose the truth, they have had their silence purchased by McGuinty’s henchmen. Just when the smoke and mirrors behind his lawful Ontario was beginning to expose him as the coward he is.

The extent of lawbreaking by the natives in this sordid episode, is well chronicled. What is becoming horribly clear is the way in which OPP were ordered to stand down in the face of any illegal action, by a gutless provincial government. Open displays of arms, damage to private and public property, barricading of public throughfares, violent attacks on police and media(!!!), threats to the lives of Brown and Chatwell, and on and on… were all ignored. But police throughout the province had time to: stroke with the same brush the province’s social drinkers (it only takes one drink to become a criminal); ensnare thousands of drivers into an oppresive and illegal "stunt driving" law; snoop over the activities of public places to enforce absurd smoking laws; enforce dangerous pet edicts; be on the lookout for criminals spraying their lawns with weedkiller,… and on and on.

For the illusion of safety which each of these meddlesome and consequential intrusions delivers to the suckers that buy them, thousands have had to pay a steep price in fines, or even unemployment. When the job of keeping us safe against the onslaught of real lawbreakers, is required, a cowardly premier hides behind his curtain of illusions, and ignores real plight. The Caledonia solution has, all along, been to appease, buy silence, and wait for the fog to hide the truth. This wizard has now been exposed as a gutless quack who remains ensconced in his seat of power only because spellbound Ontario has yet to clear the fog from its eyes.

The good news is I survived to bury 2009. The bad news is, many of the things it broke are still broken.

I will be flying soon and by the time I arrive at my rest destination, I will need it. Because the world is populated by a percentage of nuts, we will all be treated like nuts. Airport security checkpoints work much like our gun registry. Enormous resources are squandered to ensure that noone with two arms and two legs is overlooked as a potential bomber. Meanwhile, the obvious identifying traits of bomber nutcases as revealed to us by experience, are ignored. Also ignored are all the telescoped words and actions of the nutcase (as happened at Ft. Hood), and warnings by third parties (as happened with Abdulmutallab). First it was belts, now be ready to remove your underwear. 

I was as disappointed by Obama’s victory as I am whenever liberals win. However, I was ready to give him a chance, on the hope that a man who was so instantly deified by the worlds gullible, did indeed have the power to produce some good. It is clear now, that no such thing will happen. He is a smooth-talking amateur, and when the world sees that he cannot walk on water, America’s problems will multiply. All of his good words will not diminish the damage done by typical liberal spending policies. Some delusionsional ideas - like the notion that government healthcare intrusion will lower costs!!!???- will quickly meet the brick wall. Expect the dollar to drop to new lows, as America’s creditors start to get nervous, and interest rates to go up. Another market crackup looks likely when the rates rise.

The global warming lunacy demonstrates to modern western society, why radical Islam is a disease which anyone can catch. Not because the warming crowd is ready to start strapping on bombs (at least not yet), but because the mental sickness which adheres one to fanatical causes based on delusional foundations, can inflict any of us. A dozen prominent people - Gore, Suzuki et al - can precipitate a stampede of lemmings to the economic precipice, on the flimsiest basis. World leaders, whose global fervour is suddenly doused by the climategate revelations, continue on to the great climate koolaid quaff, as though nothing has happened. There, they parade naked in front of the world, suspicious that someone can see they have no clothes, and yet afraid to be the first to break the spell which hides them. We may yet have clear evidence that this is all a fraud, but only economic pain will force our naked politicians to put on some clothes.

Let me end my prognostications with a well deserved word about the McGuinty government. Shit!!… There, I feel better. McGuinty will go down in history as the biggest meddler, and most inept bungler Ontario has ever seen. Unfortunately for us, all that he has broken will most certainly stay broken for quite a while. In fact, the HST is not fact yet, so we have yet to reach bottom. Harper’s government (which I still support in spite of the fact that my comments to them about the HST, did not even merit a form letter) is complicit in this disaster. They have set the wheels in motion, left us to the mercy of McGuinty’s tax marauding, and gone and hid under the bed. Not even a word of common sense or advice by which to mitigate the inevitable damage. They deserve to lose Ontario support over this. McGuinty will certainly meet his Waterloo, and not a minute too soon. Don’t expect him to do anything new with the fresh tax windfall. He will continue to buy public sector support (full-day kindergarten) just as he has throughout the six year decline over which he has presided.