Posted on 03/09/2005 6:12:10 PM PST by mitchbert
The piece posted started life as a FR reply. Over the past several days Adler has read it many times, invited callers (who in the vast majority agree with the post) and today ran an online poll that delivered a better than 80% positive count.
Blew my mind, frankly. I just thought a few folks over here might care about the thoughts. Seems a button's been hit, eh :-)
Worth a quick read.
My apologies for the few typos and misspells. I decided to post the piece as it was originally written. Hope that's okay with everyone.
Thanks. FWIW it was a quick write :-)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Thanks for posting it. There are ways -- maybe they'll be one of the new democracies thanks to Bush/what has happened in Iraq. The Middle East, Canada, the UK. Could happen.
This poor guy, and those poor Canadians who are stuck in the midst of the Socialists up there.
When I look at Canada today, I think of the "People's States" in "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
How sad.
LOL.
I didn't realize you wrote this, mitchbert. Good job!
This is probably how US conservatives felt in the dark days of the mid- to late-70's. Everything seemed to be going against them and all seemed irretrievably lost. However, they knuckled down and eventually developed the idea set that proved that conservatives beat liberals at governing every time.
For all you Canadians out there - don't give up. Keep up the good fight and keep pointing out the lunacy all around you. You can retake your country from the Lefty idiots with some real hard work (we'll be cheering loudly from the sidelines).
Thanks for the ping. Of course concerning the ongoing Canadian cattle ban the title should well be "The Embarassed (and extremely foolish) Americans". But I digress.
Within the last couple of weeks I read a piece somewhere, where another Canadian author made similar points. The author talked about how the Canadians had foughts so admirably in certain WWII battles (some battles mentioned specifically by name) how Canada used to be a leader for freedom on the international stage etc. and how the author wished that Canadians could remember that history and get back to it.
I've wished many times since reading it that I'd saved it. This article is good too.
There is a lesson to be learned there
I knew you'd be interested because of the wrong-headed cattle ban that was recently passed.
In the end, the voters get exactly what they deserve.
In Canada, they wanted secular socialism and they got it.
The toilet has swirled and flushed, and now all that's left for Canada is the long ride down the soil pipe.
Oddly enough, it gleaned some attention up here, and thanks to a fellow freeper I found out about it. Charles Adler, a well known and widely listened to radio guy who is unabashidly conservative, read it on air last week and then did it again on Monday. Someone sent it to him. He posted it on his site and ran an on line poll today asking whether or not people agreed. I won big - around 80% :-).
Hey, anything I can do for the greater cause of liberty, eh!
Good article.
Many of us felt like exiles in the United States during the clinton years. But it looks as if Canada's problems are much more deeply ingrained and longer lasting.
Canada includes a lot of beautiful country and is rich in natural resources. I especially like the west and the Maritime provinces. I don't know what the future will bring, but it's hard to see how Canada can survive unless it somehow changes direction.
Good luck.
He sounds like the Red Ensign Cananians we all knew and admired.
It's a good rant, content solid A, for the rant factor only a B-.
But it is all so annoying, the lefties continue to try and destroy our entire civilization.
Rant on, I say, and be prepared to take action at any moment.
Instead of wallowing in self-pity, Canadians should show some balls and demand their liberty and self-determination at the price of their lives, if necessary.
Governments are inherently possessed of momentum to tear freedom away from the people. The people must resist that tyranny. It's a disgrace the people of Canada allowed their government to require gun registration. I'll have no respect for Canadians until they force a repeal of that tyranny.
Yeah, well, stupid is as stupid does, eh?
Never give up, never surrender, die on your feet not your knees.
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