MicroBalrog
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Open Letter to a Canadian Friend
Dear Nicole!
I am a strange person. I have multiple weird habits, strange clothing tastes, peculiar pick of music – but above all, I have surprised my friends and correspondends by outright refusing to fit in with a party line – any party line. As an example, I am describe by some of my friends as a left-liberal. Yet, during the night of your federal elections, I cheered for the conservatives. Not that they were much better – but they were better on two key points.
The people who spent that night with me – or at least part of it – in a God-forsaken IRC channel – laughed at gloated as the Canadian Liberals and the NDP closed their grip on the throat of Canada. Unfortunately, what they were not aware of – what most people are not aware of – is that most of the so-called "liberal" politicians have anything to do with liberalism. Not that they are all-out wrong – they have nice social policies – but liberal they are not.
Remember, Nicole, the key part about liberalism is not about supporting, say, giving money to homeless people – although that is very good. Liberalism is about freedom. That's why it's called liberalism. The Canadian liberals have proved in the last few years that their relationship with Lady Liberty is a strained one at best.
They have created a monstrosity called C-68 – the fabled gun registry. Not only has it violated the privacy of thousands of Canadians, but they have already had several absolutely innocent people harassed by the RCMP – and even imprisoned under C-68 (does the name Oscar Lacombe ring a bell?). Notedly the Canadian Supreme Court agrees with me at least partially on the idea that the C-68 is an abuse of civil rights (it has already acquitted several people). The "Liberals", however, have not. Part of their platform is to establish harsher punishments for entirely innocent and victimless violations of C-68. How liberal. How tolerant.
Moreover, the have created campaign finance regulations – also known as the Election Gag Act – that are deliberately built to prevent third parties from participating in the political process in any remotely meaningful way. Obviously, somebody forgot to tell the PseudoLiberals something about freedom of speech. Or is it something about preventing new political players from entering the playing field – under the pretense of making it "level". While they were at it, they based the Gag Act on an ideology full of mistrust – on the idea that the majority voters where nothing but ignorant peons, and that if campaign advertising were not limited, rich evildoers could simply herd them towards the voting booths like mere cattle. In such a worldview, obviously a government nanny is needed to prevent that. One would want to ask of the "liberals" – if that's the way you feel about the electorate, why let them vote in the first place? Even more importantly, why should they vote for somebody who feels that way about them?
I myself am more of a left-winger than the reverse, but I think we have a problem, Nicole. The left has been hijacked, it seems, by a peculiar breed of blisninny pseudoliberals (BPL's). The BPL's have nothing to do with liberalism, but they have, by some tragic historical coincidence, successfully merged themselves with the word "left liberal". As a left liberal, I am appaled.
Dear Nicole, hold on. You are headed for several years of continuously decreased freedom – decreased by those who wear their "liberalism" like an undeservedbadge of honour. I hope your people get a wit or two and kick the bastards out – but in the meanwhile, hold on.
I and my liberal friends are going to be talking about how to solve our problem – because when the conservatives are more liberal than the liberals, something has gone wrong.
Yours in Liberty,
MicroBalrog
Dear Nicole!
I am a strange person. I have multiple weird habits, strange clothing tastes, peculiar pick of music – but above all, I have surprised my friends and correspondends by outright refusing to fit in with a party line – any party line. As an example, I am describe by some of my friends as a left-liberal. Yet, during the night of your federal elections, I cheered for the conservatives. Not that they were much better – but they were better on two key points.
The people who spent that night with me – or at least part of it – in a God-forsaken IRC channel – laughed at gloated as the Canadian Liberals and the NDP closed their grip on the throat of Canada. Unfortunately, what they were not aware of – what most people are not aware of – is that most of the so-called "liberal" politicians have anything to do with liberalism. Not that they are all-out wrong – they have nice social policies – but liberal they are not.
Remember, Nicole, the key part about liberalism is not about supporting, say, giving money to homeless people – although that is very good. Liberalism is about freedom. That's why it's called liberalism. The Canadian liberals have proved in the last few years that their relationship with Lady Liberty is a strained one at best.
They have created a monstrosity called C-68 – the fabled gun registry. Not only has it violated the privacy of thousands of Canadians, but they have already had several absolutely innocent people harassed by the RCMP – and even imprisoned under C-68 (does the name Oscar Lacombe ring a bell?). Notedly the Canadian Supreme Court agrees with me at least partially on the idea that the C-68 is an abuse of civil rights (it has already acquitted several people). The "Liberals", however, have not. Part of their platform is to establish harsher punishments for entirely innocent and victimless violations of C-68. How liberal. How tolerant.
Moreover, the have created campaign finance regulations – also known as the Election Gag Act – that are deliberately built to prevent third parties from participating in the political process in any remotely meaningful way. Obviously, somebody forgot to tell the PseudoLiberals something about freedom of speech. Or is it something about preventing new political players from entering the playing field – under the pretense of making it "level". While they were at it, they based the Gag Act on an ideology full of mistrust – on the idea that the majority voters where nothing but ignorant peons, and that if campaign advertising were not limited, rich evildoers could simply herd them towards the voting booths like mere cattle. In such a worldview, obviously a government nanny is needed to prevent that. One would want to ask of the "liberals" – if that's the way you feel about the electorate, why let them vote in the first place? Even more importantly, why should they vote for somebody who feels that way about them?
I myself am more of a left-winger than the reverse, but I think we have a problem, Nicole. The left has been hijacked, it seems, by a peculiar breed of blisninny pseudoliberals (BPL's). The BPL's have nothing to do with liberalism, but they have, by some tragic historical coincidence, successfully merged themselves with the word "left liberal". As a left liberal, I am appaled.
Dear Nicole, hold on. You are headed for several years of continuously decreased freedom – decreased by those who wear their "liberalism" like an undeservedbadge of honour. I hope your people get a wit or two and kick the bastards out – but in the meanwhile, hold on.
I and my liberal friends are going to be talking about how to solve our problem – because when the conservatives are more liberal than the liberals, something has gone wrong.
Yours in Liberty,
MicroBalrog