The War is on : The battle for Canada's soul.

Steven Harper or the problem with Canada.

Today, as the morning shines throughout Canada, as it enlightens the majestic lakes, the great green forest that flourish far and near, in every possible corner in this great white north. From the snowy tops of the rockies to the sandy shores of British Colombia, from British Colombia's thousand islands to Lake Ontario thousand islands, from the great bay of Hudson to the bay of Halifax, as the proud polar bear dashes all through the white ice fields of the polar gap. As people awake today, as almost everyday in this country people awake and are crushed by this nature, this impressive nature that surounds us everywhere we go. People awake and rejoice in this fact, for always has Canada been a leader in the defence of our environment for we take it as part of our and every future Canadian's right. We also rejoice in the fact that we live in a Multicultural society, some might fear diversity we embrace it, just to say so 35% of us were born outside of the federation's boarders. We take pride in this because we believe that diversity isn't a bad thing that it actually something essential to the conception of our entire perception of ourselves and of our Canadian Federation. We take pride in that fact, that we are a caring nation, because we believe that society in general can only be judged by the way it treats the less well-over. Or do we?
Since 2006 (the coming to power of our honourable prime-minister Harper) the Conservative majority has started to chip away the fundamental pillars of the Canadian democratic edifice and of Canadian society in general, a fight has been enhanced for the soul of Canada. Because everything basically does come down to that simple question do we still believe in the values that once made us unique? Do we still cling to the idea that a better world is possible through virtue, solidarity and compassion? Throughout this country's history we have took our stands even when we knew very well that it wasn't in the best of our interests (the decision to not participate in blockade against Cuba, at the time Canada was the only "Nation" in the America's to do so). And today, after the bittersweet symphony that were the 2011 elections and 2011 in general. In 2011 we partially reunited ourselves with that "antique" Canadian soul. Jack Layton brought out the best in us, he really was maybe one of the last great politicians of his generation and in his last words recorded in his letter, he even in front of death set the way for millions of Canadians to build a great and more perfect union and society.
But Jack Layton's death left a vacuum in the middle of the Canadian political spectrum, and it's such a shame that Jack didn't have the time to fully finish he's campaign to take back Canada's soul. And it's probably one of the moments of greater sadness in this young life of mine, for with Jack Layton's death I put everything under questioning again. Are we capable of really continuing Jack's fight?
Because since 2006, the front-lines have become so foggy, so blurry, because the real factor that keeps Harper in power is fear, he was elected by fear, by two kinds of fear, the fear of the external threat, and the fear that is generated between distinct parts of our society because of the incomprehension. The truth is that this government is a government of fear, from fear and for fear. Harper's regime wants to divide Canadian society into divergent "opposing sections". It's the oldest trick in the book devision makes absolute power possible. And since 2006 he's seceded in doing look back at 2006, at  Canadian society back then and take a look, a good one at Canadian society nowadays, and you'll see that he has succeeded in dividing a country, a federation that seemed indivisible. But who do we have to blame but ourselves?
One the most shocking things that came out of the 2011 elections, was "the hurray we won't have to go back to the polls until 2014", where's my Canada? The majority of these same people haven't any notion of the luck that they have to live in country were elections actually exist. Were they aren't cut down like bad grass just because they pronounced an opinion whatever it is. And worst then that was the so-called left and specially the liberal and more specifically Bob Rae that all made it clear that 4 more years of Harper would kill us ,but then took more shots at the NDP and Jack Layton then at the Conservatives and the "Harper regime". The only thing that is worst then a Conservative is a Conservative in disguise, and there are thousands of them in the NDP and in Liberal Party, those people that are just part of the political system to be part of it , those opportunists that just believe in one thing "making money" off the back of their constituents.

Jack Layton 

And then Justin Trudeau speaks out and has to apologize (why?), because just like so many of us he's just fed-up with all this undemocratic stance and rigged political system. A rigged political system in which the Conservatives can design (in drawing the electoral ridings and in adding in some) their "holding" on the grips of power for the next 10 years, and even if they're kicked-out they've got enough power Supreme Court wise to hold the barbarians at the gate. And then more and more "insane" measures are taken by the "Harper regime" the criminal bill that is (excuse my french) a piece of bullshit, probably the biggest piece of bullshit that has even been presented to parliament in it's history. It's sure in a country alike the one we live in, one of the safest in the world we really need prisons popping out of our ears and that the big problem in Canada is kids smoking dope? All this is ridiculous, it's just part of the strategy to maintain us in fear and keep us part and in doing so maintaining power. This strategy of course has some side effects, the probability that it will alienate part of our society, it has already started alienating the Native communities but are we natives? no so of course we don't care. And then one day it will hit us, the wall that we've been running into for so long and we'll fall flat on our faces and ask ourselves how did we get here?
And we'll feel like Adam and Eve kicked out of paradise, and then it will be too late. Our grand Canadian society will be lost, we'll be segregated into this and that box and we won't even recognize it anymore, we'll just think its normal.
So Canada before that happens we better take a stand shouldn't we? Before our Canada becomes the paradise of the grand old Banks and the no tax-paying millionaires, before Canada becomes the home of "the" rising social inequality, a country in which we think universal heath-care is a communist idea, before we have a two-party system and no democracy expect for the oligarchy that from time to time permits elections but the results are already known and everything is controlled. Does this ring any bell?
So I declare war.  I declare war on all of this system of Democracy Only In Name. I declare war on the conservative and the plan for the 'Americanization" of this our Canada. I declare a war on Harper and his hidden racism. I declare war on that hidden racism and by doing so I declare war on the ignorance that breads that hidden racism. I declare war on the broken schools, on the broken families, I declare war on all of this "Harper regime' and on all of its sources, on all of the things that bread fear in Canada. Because fear is the main supporter of this "Harper regime" and more then that I declare war on the phoniness that is the main essence of this political system we live in, only a "real" democratic system, a direct form of democracy that gives back dignity to the median Canadian and puts the power back into the people's hands and out of the spectrum of an elite.
So Canadians it's time to get fed-up, it's time to change this rigged system, to tear down the walls of fear that keep us separated and distinct. It will be a long battle and this is only the beginning, but our great white north is worth it. So get mad Canadians, get very mad...

Canada we stand on guard for thee


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The War on Terror : Reloaded, Deluxe Version.

Today Christmas day, the Christmas spirit fills up your rooms, smiles wonder from face to face without interruption or distinction and laughter follows throughout our western society and a bit all over the world we rejoice. Even if Christmas is some what divergent from the it's original source, the essential spirit of Christmas which to cherish and give praise to what we have the most important in our lives, is still widely alive and this essentially Christian spirit which has procured our Western Society in my mind some of the most fundamental values we have, those of love and of the need to shed the barriers of fear.
Pope during his annual Christmas speech said that the real meaning of Christmas had to be reinvigorated and I think (and I differ with him and the institution that he leads in many ways and on a wide set of points). The "modern" Capitalistic values as opposed to the 'classical" Capitalistic values, that run our world today have tried to chip away the fundamental essence of the spirit of Christmas, and yet that spirit hasn't completely been eroded yet, but is our Christian spirit being?
I remember alike millions of kids of my age back in the good old days, I wanted Christmas to last forever, I didn't understand why the happiness and "positive" energy that ran through our veins on Christmas couldn't keep running through our veins year long. And still in many ways I acknowledge it I'm a kid deep down inside, but aren't we all? It's not about being childish or not, it's about the feeling we sense during the Christmas period, this period of rejoice and this period were deep-down inside the fact that we are with our love-ones pushes us to be better and to be nicer in this insensible world of ours.
As as we are all in the prime of our delight let us reflect on our modern world. Let's look at things this way in an Ocean of terror and anguish filled with suffering and despair Christmas and this end of year feeling is in Island surround by the horrid the storm that has been flooding way by way our everyday lives. That flooding started on 9/11.
We still live our lives according to the aftermath of 9/11, that is without doubt. If you look around this society of ours, everything is still stalled, stuck in time, lost in translation. 11/9 wasn't just the physical destruction, the two towers, the almost 3.000 deaths, the other thousands of family members or friends that were affected directly and the 300 million that were affected both indirectly and directly. Of course this physical and mental destruction was horrible it's no good to go back again and again on those awful images that all reside in our "collective mind" but to really heal any pain or wound we must continue heading forward and not giving into terror.
And yet the day after the attacks, the U.S.A. and the Bush "regime" of the time decided to lunch this so called War on Terror. At the time blinded by fear maybe more than the notion of revenge or of hate even if those did certainly exist, the majority of the American people stood silent, and so did the majority of people through-out the western world. 9/11 wasn't just the physical destruction, in was the nirvana of fear, in was the specific moment at which fear took over the direction our human societies.
From the start of the war against/on "terror" (bullshit), terror hijacked our rationality and so we traded our freedoms to be safe, we traded our ethics and morality for security at least we thought that we would get security, but how could we? When you fear, when fear controls you and dictates your life then you are a slave of fear, and no slave is safe because he has no free-will without free-will you can't be free and when freedom is under threat anywhere its threatened everywhere.
But do not fear anymore my friends a new dawn is upon us nowadays,  people are awakening through our world. As we finished out our last preparations for Christmas, hundreds of thousands of Russians braved the cold and defied a power in a country that until now was subjugated by fear. During this year people like you and me lifted the banner of change and carried to new heights. Some might say it's just a phase, I say it's just the beginning. The War on Terror the real one, the rightful one starts now, it's not a war against some "unknown", "invisible" enemy it's against ourselves, it's the fight to slay the fear that lives inside us, only then we might live free and only then will the "true" values of Christmas may be known.

Merry Christmas to y'all and may we build peace on earth.

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