LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
- December 4, 2007
My Dear Little Friends:
I love getting letters from all you wonderful children and this is to remind you that it is time for you to sit down and write a letter to me (Santa Claus) and I will send you a letter back.
You can send your letter to the following address: Santa Claus, North Pole, HOH OHO. Please remember to put a stamp on your letter and also to include your full name and address (box number) so that I will know who is sending me the letter.
So get busy writing, because the faster you send your letter to me, the faster I can send one back to you. Even though this is a very busy time of year for me, I still have time to read all your letters and answer them, too!
The elves are very busy making toys, games, clothes and all the things that you children wish for at Christmas and Mrs. Claus is busy in the kitchen making all sorts of goodies for the elves and me. Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer are out in the corrals exercising, eating and, of course, resting lots. They always get so excited around this time of year as they know that the big night will be here soon.
We have lots of snow up here at the North Pole, which makes everyone think of Christmas. So be good and listen to your Dad and Mom and I will be looking for your letter in my mailbox.
- Your friend, Santa Claus
To The Editor;
There is no doubt Stephen Harper has an agenda. His problem is, in order to get the elected majority necessary to implement that agenda, he has to keep it hidden.
The Senate is particularly problematic for the Harper regime because of its primary function as a mitigating agent designed to restrain extreme government. Consider a leader that gets elected on a moderate platform and then decides to use his majority to disassemble democracy from the top down. And history has many examples of this deconstructive process.
The Senate acts as a calming agent, delaying destructive legislation until such time as the population can regain their footing, generate a consensus of rejection, and remove the threatening government's mandate.
Converting the Senate to an elected body would render it susceptible to the same media-driven whims of the day that allowed Hitler, Mussolini, and a gang of other dictators to get that first grip on power. Canadians are simply not safe without the valuable capacity for sober second thought that the Senate, in its current form, provides.
There are two recent books which every Canadian should read, The End of America by Naomi Wolf, and The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
These books go a long way toward explaining the Harper Agenda and the mechanisms which allow laissez-faire economics theory to combine neo-liberalism and neo-conservativism, creating an aberrant ideology existing specifically to sabotage democracy on a scale that threatens civilization itself. Wolf and Klein provide graphic examples of societies that have already been gutted and terrorized by adherents of exactly the same doctrine to which Harper subscribes and is determined to impose on Canada.
Perhaps the most moving aspect of these books is that they describe Stephen Harper's agenda without ever naming him. The reason, of course, is that Harper has simply adopted a proven looter's strategy that has been effected many times before, and invariably causes needless suffering and death amongst the victim society while, as a matter of perverse ideological necessity, plunging it into chaos and poverty.
Watch for an increase in the number of arbitrary executions conducted, by the RCMP, under the watchful and approving eye of Stockwell Day. Also, expect the privatization of security and military services in keeping with the necessity to implement the agenda of domestic terror so clearly defined in the many examples provided in these works.
Once Harper gets a majority, and is rid of the Senate, he will utilize emergency legislation to override current barriers protecting the Constitution.
After that comes a "privatized police state."
Get my drift?
- Robert MacKay, Merritt
