Why ‘crazy making’ is de rigueur in big business and big politics

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 30^th. 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!