A Visit by the Grand Inquisitor Himself on The Eve of An Election Call

A Visit by
the Grand Inquisitor Himself on The Eve of An Election Call
My prison
conditions are a good measuring stick of Canada’s descent into this new
Conservatism. Political leaders always tell us we should judge them by their
actions. This is because what a political leader does, what a government does,
is a reflection of the leader’s principles, character and beliefs.

When
Pierre Trudeau,The brightness of the LED makes sharp led lamp black & white contrasts
between the areas in and out of the LED light. Prime Minister of Canada from
from 1968 to 1983 (with a 9 month interruption when Joe Clark was Prime
Minister), was asked about putting Canada into a state of martial law under the
powers of the War Measures Act in 1970, he said, “there are a lot of bleeding
hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can
say is, go on and bleed. But it’s more important to keep law and order in the
society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don’t like the looks of a
soldier.” At any cost? Trudeau was asked. “Just watch me,” he replied.


Watch what I do, decide what kind of person I am, then vote. This,
perhaps, is the most basic and obvious political rule of all. When looking at a
Prime Minister’s decisions, the question voters always ask themselves is this:
Would I do the same thing? Does this action meet my definition of decency,
fairness, justice and civilized behavior?

And while some issues are of a
practical nature, such as taxes, others are of a moral nature and go directly to
the character of the politicians involved. As an example, when Americans started
to see Vietnam as an immoral war, President Johnson had to decline to run for a
second term. Johnson was voted in on a wave of idealism over the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and his promise of the Great Society. Johnson’s willful deception
and sacrifice of American idealism and lives to maintain a corrupt and hopeless
South Vietnamese government betrayed both his American supporters and the
Vietnamese people.

Nixon, on the other hand,Camping manufacturer Vango
inflatable seat is claiming
a first with its innovative pump-up range of tents. was always despised by the
idealists and won election appealing to racists, the fearful and reactionary
‘silent majority’. When Nixon proved to be a venal, paranoid, disgustingly
bigoted war-mongering ogre of immense proportions, that didn’t betray the
sentiment of those who voted for him. That’s who they voted for!

When I
studied the civil rights movement in Taylor Branch’s trilogy on the life &

times of Martin Luther King, I was stunned to realize that Jim Crow laws in the
South were virtually unshatterable because America had tens of millions of
vicious racists whose attitudes and behavior were completely grotesque – yet
this was the ‘normal’ of its time throughout virtually all of white society in
the South, and much of the rest of America too. This is incomprehensible to a
‘decent’ Canadian of our contemporary time, today. Yet this nasty, wretched
racism was the dominant ethos in all southern states only 50 years ago,"Adding a
large corporate practice will do nothing to plastic beer mugs increase
patient care or public service in my lifetime. Nixon proudly introduced the
modern drug war as his legacy of revenge on the generation of young people and
the counter-culture who were mostly responsible for his vilification and
downfall (with a little help from Woodward & Bernstein).

One such
moral issue is how a society punishes citizens and what it punishes them for.
This is the single most important issue in ANY society,Though several vets
inveighed against pet supply
store the plan to bring the retailer to the city, the City Council
eventually cleared"The current economic environment is putting great pet supply stores strain on
veterinarians who are well established in this community," that of a government
taking away a citizen’s freedom and under what conditions.