The Wizard of Ont
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.
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Ontario under the Liberals has become the poster child for nanny state oppression. Ontario residents are willing to give up any shred of freedom from government regulation and interference just so long as McGuinty keeps the socialist spending spree in operation. The Liberals million and one micromanagement rules cost billions and one dollars and have produced zero and one results.
It makes me even happier that I bailed out of that socialist Utopia over thirty years ago. The only problem now is that this goober is trying to pick my pocket from afar. Sorry, Dalton, I’ve got news for you-and it’s all bad. You aren’t dealing with a bunch of government/bureaucrat loving Marxists in the west. If you want to finance your pie-in-the-sky Shangrila, do it on your own dime.