From: rossw@sco.COM (Ross Wetmore)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: A thought for the Trudon'ts
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:42:33 GMT
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.

(-: FLAME SUIT ON :-)

  The erudite and intellectual Trudeau speaks out ... ha!

  And what has he given to the rudderless left, reeling from the failure
of their philosophy to eradicate class warfare by eradicating certain
economic classes, but ... more classes to eradicate!

  Nationalism is the new world order, the new class structure and boogey
man to marshall the faithful in yet-another-pogrom, yet-another-opportunity
to charge the bastile. 

  Armed with the shield of democracy (or claim to it) French philosophers 
and the pragmatic power seekers of the day eliminated the French noble 
class on the guillotine to establish their first proletariat of the masses. 
Of course this failed and Napolean arose to spread the faith in his way.

  In the mid-nineteenth century, with the nobility in decline most places 
through natural processes, primarily the rise of the competing mercantile 
class fostered by the trading nations like Britain and Holland, Marx 
updated the philosophy to repartition humanity into economic classes, and 
the pragmatic like Lenin and Stalin dutifully coopted the process to rally 
the ruthless in their bloody trek to personal power and place in the 
history texts.

  Now with the goad of economic disparity only really prevalent between 
classes of nations (first and third world, for example), and even that in
decline if you pay attention to the latest figures on dimishing world 
hunger (all this without the North-South guidance of M. Trudeau), it is 
clear to some they need a new whipping boy to lineup the party for yet 
another drive to centralized autocratic control and the auspices of a 
new philosopher king to guide them.

  And Trudeau has come to the rescue ... totalitarianism has not failed
either under the guise of fast-track republicanism or socialism, or so he 
says. It simply hasn't recognized the new enemy of nationalism, and when 
it has eradicated this new differentiating concept and the poles of power 
it can provide to oppose the shackles of the central bureaucracy, then 
truth and justice "The Just Society" will again prevail.

  Beware the Quebec Nationalist, he rails, beware the Western redneck,
beware the native racist and those that are just starting to ask if 
something federal smells in Maritime Canada. "I" fought for homogeneity
with Official Bilingualism, "I" fought Quebec with long knives and 
"Just watch me", "I" fought the West with the NEP, and "I" both showed 
you the Federalist power of the pocketbook and gave you the legal shackles 
of the Charter with which to consolidate and conquer any residual 
individuality not officially sanctioned by my Ottawa mandarins.

  Canada is not a community of communities, he cries, a land of tolerance
and compromise. This is but the false religion of the "bleeding hearts". 
Canadian history is not the struggle of the Indian community to be 
non-white, of Quebec to remain non-English, the West to be non-French, 
or Canadians to be non-American. 

  It is instead the struggle of the Durham's and the Trudeau's to overcome 
these loathsome traits.  Canada is now defined by the 1000-year Charter and 
Constitution with federal mandarins trained in the 'art of the finger' to 
ridicule and wage holy war on any signs of provincialism or nationalist 
tendencies that might weaken the federal grip on the throats of the nation.

  Montreal has come and gone, and alredy the concept of class warfare is
flowering and being disseminated by disciples in BC and elsewhere. Vote "NO"
and prepare for the war, is the rallying cry, because as sure as God gave
M. Trudeau life he has sent him as a prophet and spiritual guide in the
dark days to follow, the days when Quebec nationalism will not merely be
defused as the spineless "YES" camp mistakenly believes, but will explode 
and finally be wiped from the face of the nation by the force of our "NO".

(-: FLAME SUIT OFF :-)

  With all due respect to a certain literary licence in the above, one that
is sure to provoke those who disagree into digressions of a personal nature
in an effort to avoid having to deal directly with uncomfortable thoughts
or arguments, let me just ask one simple question ...

  "Why the word 'class' and the careful manipulation of the argument away
   from the joy of including dissatisfied elements of Canadian society (back)
   into the fabric of the nation, to the highly inflammatory knee-jerk 
   catchwords of a discreditted ideological struggle ... why, and 
   particularly why now?"

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