Opinion

Sorry, Smirky Niches to the Netherworld

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Everyone who has reached middle age knows for certain that  governments and religious organizations are either deliberately creating a workforce at minimal cost.  They are agents of slave mentality and economies.  Why would a supposedly independent thinker on CNN invite a host to opine about the maxim “Follow your passion”?  We are pretty sure that passion drove the American revolution and sheer evil invented the Soviet bloc, now facing a resurrection attempt.  It is pure passion that makes the Supreme Court of the United States agree with ignorant religious bigots on every issue, not facts, not science, not legal foundations.

Shush the personal integrity and work hard for pennies

Some friend or other colleague-type named Galloway calls the maxim “bullshit”. and I could not help but notice that the video clips that introduced Michael Smerconish’s question included veritable icons of American society Senator Warnock and Oprah Winfrey.  Michael and his friend are probably right now nursing their tongues because of the damage done by their own teeth.  They know that work without passion is an imperialist capitalist invention.  Black workers on White-owned plantations sang while they worked because they had a PASSION to be free not because they loved their work.  The humming of a tune coming from the kitchen and the whistling of a catchy melody are signs of PASSION, signs of comfort, signs of expectation of satisfaction  the products of labour will bring.

Whose side will we take, labour or slavedriver?

You will never hear Smerconish or any of the independent pundits and preachers say that America is  a filthy w**** who pays her johns, and thinks herself a queen but she is nothing but a has-been widow.  Did anyone start a campaign against Ezekiel, a priest no less in sixth century BC Israel, when he described Israel’s harlotry and the buffoonery of her prophets and princes?  Not a dog did bark! How dare Smerconish pretend to be a philosopher, asking questions he hopes will shape, on the sly, the sickening MAGA world of white tyranny. One either occupies oneself passionately or succumbs to prostitution and hypocrisy. The love of money is a passion that sends the greatest persons into the torment of Gehenna. The love of humanity is a passion that the American sages who dreamed up the constitution knew would challenge their people to fly high or sink like stones into the deep.

Not the worst country

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Canada is not competing to be the bad boy, the sheriff, the virgin, or the Zion of the modern era. It seems that the democracies of our times have been trying desperately, with the help of cowardly religious groups and movements, to imitate the adventures of ancient nations, conquering, exploiting and oppressing peoples both near and far. I personally wish my head were a fountain to weep with the First Nations on Turtle Island. I do have a pair of feet, a pair of hands and one mouth. The depth of shame and disgrace that Christians have brought to this nation defies description. Standing with Canada’s First Nations is a long overdue measure this nation needs if can ever have an approach to healing. Make no mistake, everybody needs healing: the brave and the cowards, and the political parties need to consider packing up their rhetoric and get ready for a makeover. We are counting the unmarked graves of children who went to school and did not return home. Canada needs a vaccination with a strong dose humanity and it does not matter whether anyone evaluates us as the worst country on the planet. Justice calls for a strong rebuke of the responsible agencies: the churches, the licensing and governing authorities to do more than apologize and compensate our First Nations families. As far as I am concerned the Vatican, the police. and the political parties must pay. Then the rest of us must search our hearts for that evil streak that has allowed thousands of First Nations people to be missing and unaccounted for. We must demand the records of brutality against Canadians in police custody; a phenomenon that speaks of Canada being a very naughty country. There is no comfort in not being the worst country.

Justice is not a game for clever lawyers or political operatives. It is not the use of majorities in the legislatures to mount damaging campaigns in favour of big or small business. Justice is missing in action as long as we still have police officers who still think that their animus against young people, non-White persons is allowed. They and the rest of the administrative branches of government have not tasted the long arm of the law. This remains a stain on the record of governments we thought were humane and accountable. Apparently, most Canadians do not know what equity and service mean. We need the videos and records of police interactions with Black and Brown people. We also need a forensic analysis of what religious groups are teaching. If you think that is scary think about the fact that the disappearance of school children went unreported and unaddressed by church and government (of both political parties). Neither freedom of religion nor state religion prevent a country from being bad, worse or the worst.

Giggly Canadian justice

We have been saying that justice has a long arm and that the RCMP always gets its man (the violater of our laws), but justice in Canada makes some people happy, others laiugh out loud, and others giggle at how stupid we are. If we could defy gravity at will we could also evade the exposure of our despicable secrets. Time always tells, and hidden things will come to light, even the nasty plots in the highest councils of both the godly and the ungodly. We need to get ready for a huge dose of reality if the nation is going to deal with our genocidal history. Clergy and their allies will be expected to vomit all over themselves in their pride and zeal to defend their treasures. We are neither laughing nor giggling. Our tears are just too much. Not even the golden rule seemed to be in play!

I dare to say that church leaders (Protestant and Catholic) have been delusional in their view that justice is ultimately served by imprisonment, fines, and inhumane and merciless treatment of offenders and even of innocent people they do not like or deem as outsiders.

Let their treasures be our trash so we can move on. Let their zeal be a sick comedy. Let the Vatican and the cardinals show what they are really made of. Canadians will be interested in seeing whether they human or machines of blind loyalty and covetousness?

Schools that do no keep records?

It is abundantly clear that people posing as teachers of children had so little regard for our First Nations that they had nothing to say – NOTHING AT ALL – to the parents of the children whose corpses we are now discovering. A child murder atrocity must be punished. We are sure that apologies are insufficient. Maximum penalties must be applied impartially. When the whole nation – every province – commits itself to the remedies for this national tragedy we will have a reason to say something meaningful, graceful, and right about not being the worst country. Get ready for more revelations of evil, but that, to me, is an unprecedented opportunity to freshen up Canada. Freshen up, Canada.