I haven’t written a blog post in some time so I apologize
to those who care to read my rants. I promise you that today’s post will
resonate with at least some of you. Have you ever been forced to call a service
provider to end up in an endless loop of electronic phone entries so that you
may speak with a real human being in the hopes of resolving an issue? It has
been my experience that often the problem fails to be resolved even after
repeatedly suffering through the same process. Yesterday I had an agent from Bell call
me and ask if I would be interested in purchasing more of their services. Here
is the thing, I just cancelled my Bell TV and internet services on November 30th.
When I asked the agent why I would renew Bell services since they had overcharged me and
failed to supply me with the services for which I had paid, her reply was, “I
am sorry you feel that way.” I answered, “This had nothing to do with my
feelings, your firm failed to provide me with the services for which I have paid!” She then retorted
smarmily, “There is no need to be angry!” ‘Crazy Making 101’, when caught with
your hand in the cookie jar, blame the person you are ripping off for being
annoyed. The inability to take responsibility and project blame onto the
injured party has become a universal phenomenon and I believe I know why. I
also know that these mega corporations can ONLY function in the manner in which they do because our government
has created the regulatory nightmare that permits them to rip us off while
choking out their smaller competitors.
But first, since nothing is new under the sun, let us
examine our own history. Certainly the inability to assume responsibility is
reflected profoundly by the manner in which both big government and big
business operates. In the Anglo-sphere we were wise enough to put a system of
checks and balances in place so that such tyranny could be kept in check. That
system is founded on Magna Carta and Common Law which protect our inherent
rights. All current excesses are a direct result of ignoring that legacy. There have
been many times throughout history within the Anglo-sphere when people have
been forced to take up arms in this ongoing struggle to reign in tyranny. Government has often be forced to be accountable to its citizenry, as opposed to special interests and wealthy political insiders.
Allow me to cite the example of the MacKenzie-Papineau
Rebellion of 1837-1838. William Lyon MacKenzie was the first mayor of Toronto.
He was also a Classical Liberal a la John Locke and Adam Smith who published a
newspaper known as the ‘Colonial Advocate’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Advocate
. This newspaper advocated for democratic reform in the Canadas. A wealthy class of political insiders known as the ‘Family Compact’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Compact
exercised most of the political, economic and
judicial power in Upper Canada. MacKenzie was faced with a significant
challenge to mobilize enough dissent to end their tyranny. His newspaper was
the means by which he did so. He was the ‘fake media’ of his day. The Family
Compact were enraged by MacKenzie’s rants and stopped at nothing in an attempt to shut his
newspaper down. They simply wouldn’t bear him daring to state the truth about
them and their undue influence over the legislature and the economy.
Permit me to
quote from Wikipedia; “In 1824, Mackenzie
established his most famous newspaper, the Colonial Advocate.
It was initially established to influence voters in the elections for the 9th
Parliament of Upper Canada. Mackenzie
supported some characteristically British institutions, notably the British Empire, primogeniture and the clergy reserves,
but he also praised American institutions in the paper.
The Colonial Advocate had financial difficulties, and in
November 1824, Mackenzie relocated the paper to York. There, he advocated in
favour of the Reform cause and became an outspoken critic of the Family Compact, an
upper-class clique which dominated the government of Upper Canada. However, the
newspaper continued to face financial pressures: it had only 825 subscribers by
the beginning of 1825, and faced stiff competition from another Reform
newspaper, the Canadian
Freeman. As a result, Mackenzie had
to suspend publishing the Colonial
Advocate from July to
December 1825. He purchased a new printing press in fall 1825 and resumed publication in 1826, now
engaging in even more scurrilous attacks on leading Tory politicians such as William Allan, G. D'Arcy Boulton, Henry John Boulton, and George Gurnett.
However, Mackenzie continued to amass debts, and in May 1826, he fled across
the American border to Lewiston, New York to evade his creditors.
A
mob of 11 young Tories, led by Samuel Jarvis,
took advantage of Mackenzie's absence to exact revenge for the attacks on the
Tories printed in the Colonial
Advocate. Thinly disguising themselves as "Indigenous
peoples of the Americas", they
broke into the Colonial
Advocate's office in broad daylight, smashed the printing press, and threw
the type into Lake Ontario. The
Tory magistrates did nothing to stop them and did not prosecute them
afterwards.
Mackenzie
took full advantage of the incident, returning to York and suing the
perpetrators in a sensational trial, which propelled Mackenzie into the ranks
of martyrs of Upper Canadian liberty, alongside Robert
Thorpe and Robert Fleming
Gourlay. Mackenzie refused a settlement
of £200 (approximately the value of the damage) and insisted on trial. His
legal team, which included Marshall Spring
Bidwell, argued effectively and the jury
returned a verdict of £625, far more than the amount of damage done to the
press.
There
are three implications of the Types riot according to historian Paul Romney.
First, he argues the riot illustrates how the elite's self-justifications
regularly skirted the rule of law they held out as their Loyalist mission.
Second, he demonstrated that the significant damages Mackenzie received in his
civil lawsuit against the vandals did not reflect the soundness of the criminal
administration of justice in Upper Canada. And lastly, he sees in the Types
riot “the seed of the Rebellion” in a deeper sense than those earlier writers
who viewed it simply as the start of a highly personal feud between Mackenzie
and the Family Compact. Romney emphasizes that Mackenzie’s personal harassment,
the “outrage,” served as a lightning rod of discontent because so many Upper
Canadians had faced similar endemic abuses and hence identified their political
fortunes with his.[5]
Mackenzie
took advantage of the money and fame which the trial had brought him to
re-establish his business on sound financial footing.”
I
encourage my readers to read the entire article on MacKenzie I have posted
from Wikipedia. You will learn of the challenges he faced as well as what the
wealthy political insiders of his day did to silence him. Although the
MacKenzie-Papineau Rebellion failed to overthrow the government, sufficient
public awareness and the accompanying sympathy for the cause of liberty under law broke the
stronghold of the Family Compact. By 1849 the Baldwin Act was
passed, the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were united as the ‘Province
of Canada’, and we finally had achieved responsible government with limited
suffrage, since only those who owned land and were male could vote. I quote from
http://www.lsuc.on.ca/Great-Library/Blog/More-Ephemera_-The-Baldwin-Act/
“The Baldwin Act, also referred to as the Municipal Corporations Act, 1849, was Ontario’s first municipal statute. It was named after Robert Baldwin (1804-1858), who was co-premier and Attorney General at the time and at
various other times lawyer and Law Society of Upper Canada Treasurer. The Act
was passed in 1849, came into force on January 1, 1850, and was described in The Municipal Manual, 11th ed., as “it may be regarded as the Magna Charta of
municipal government in Canada”’
The Magna Carta of municipal government indeed. A most
fitting epithet for this vital step toward elected, responsible, limited
government under the rule of law in Canada. Without MacKenzie and Papineau and their dedication to the cause of liberty under law this act would not have been passed in 1849. They had broken the Family Compact's grip which was referred to by Lord Durham as,
"a petty, corrupt, insolent Tory clique". If you cannot see the
similarities between this and our current political-economic situation then you are
truly blind, stupid or both. Today we see wealthy political insiders who are deep in
bed with big banks and big multinational conglomerates on a global scale! They are choking the
life out of democracy and truly free economies within the nation states they influence. Just as political insiders did in the past, these oligarchs pillar and vilify all who dare report the truth about them. They
call what has amounted to nothing short of prophecies as ‘fake news’! Brexit
and Trump are only the beginning of proving them to be wrong.
I wish to remind you that MacKenzie won his case against the
Family Compact’s attack on his presses and was awarded punitive damages because
of Magna Carta and Common Law. The judge, who himself was a member of the
Family Compact, could not disregard Common Law regardless of his personal sympathies. Our greatest hope resides in our noble heritage of liberty under law. One the current political
class will do everything it can to make us forget. They will project and use
crazy making as a thinly veiled excuse to rob us of our inherent rights. They
will call us xenophobes and bigots. They will tell us that we don’t care for
the common man when they are in fact his oppressors. Stick to your guns and
remember that this moment of history is even more defining than the one MacKenzie and Papineau faced. We are up against a global cabal so insidious, so heinous, so evil
that their only goal is to make us slaves to a system which propagates global
unrest and instability while ignoring the rule of law. The current immigration
crisis is proof of such. The current attempt to undermine the electoral college in America is another. The fact that Soros is cooperating with Justin Trudeau on immigration issues that only this sovereign country should decide as well as is funding a campaign to silence alt-media is further proof of this wicked globalist cabal. They are admittedly seeking to turn Canada into a 'post-national state'. That, good readers, is treasonous. God bless you all. I
pray for this nation to awaken from its slumber!
