Dougie93

Sounds like a Nanny Police State National Security Boondoggle to me, never mind that even they can't grind things to a halt for fentanyl as if fentanyl is plutonium, we got businesses to run up in here, the spice must flow. Fentanyl hysteria is the old 19th century Temperance Lady, and I ain't down with her hachetation.

Basically I'm like the Indians now, in that I am connected to my land, and the Great Mother Queen Victoria across the sea, and Canada is just an tax confiscation regulatory regime which could come along at any moment and put a pipeline through my property, and If I make a peep about it, they will sic a SWAT team on me for resisting arrest.

I'm not saying anybody should or should not uphold this tax confiscation regulatory regime, free individuals, and I'm not saying don't go with your heart, I'm just saying I don't feel anything in my heart for a tax confiscation regulatory regime. I still love the Queen tho.

Then there was that Israeli who said he wanted a Canadian citizenship but he didn't want to take the oath of allegiance, and SCC ruled that he didn't have to, and in fact you could be a Canadian without any particularly fealty other than obeying the law and paying your taxes. So then I reviewed. What oaths had I undertaken? There was only one, my oath to the Queen, so that is the only obligation I am bound to now, which doesn't include Confederation, because a sworn oath to Queen is any Commonwealth State, so basically I report to Buckingham Palace now, because that's the only sovereign I am sworn to.

Before, because over time I became Generalissimo of myself, in that I stopped identifying with the Confederation and just started think of myself as a fee thinking individual autonmous from that state, and that other than obeying the law and paying my taxes, I had no other obligation to Canada per se, and since it has gone so out of wack to the Nanny Police State side of things, trying to run every aspect of our lives by making us indentured servants to boondoggles, that it has also become antithetical to my values, so if that was the case, what I was supporting and upholding? And I was right, because now the Prime Minister of Canada has come out and publicly stated that Canada is a Post National State, which is absurd, because post state state is an Orwellian contradiction, and if its a post state state, than which states army had I been serving in? Canada can only suck for so long at being an actually free country before the free country people figure out that Canada doesn't want to be a free country, because Nanny Police State is not the definition of a western classically liberal democratic state.

It's like the big story in Canada upon the end of the war, was not Vimy Ridge nor the Hundred Days, the Corps had operated to the last minute, 11:11 Nov 11, and the night before soldiers had gone out on their usual patrol and one of them had been killed, and he was the last soldier killed in the First World War. So it became a symbol of the futility of it all and there was outrage and they said that General Currie had basically murdered him because he sent patrols out. Really it was just that the Corps was a military machine in full operational mode not slowing down for anything with the momentum they had built up, and the way the Corps was trained, they didn't have a slacker mode where patrols where ever not sent out, this was an elite corps.

When I was a buck private I was all starry eyed and gung-ho for it, and I still am to a certain degree, but as stay in the military longer and start employing everything at the operational level, than the brilliance of Vimy is not so much the myth of the birth of the nation, but just at the operational level it was revolutionary, like basically the Canadian Corps started operating like that and around the same time so did the Aussies under Gen. Sir John Monash, and then that became the way all British and then American forces started operating, and then it became how all armies operate everywhere, to this day. But when you find out the truth of the shabby treatment of the Corps and Gen. Currie by the Canadian public upon their return, you realize that the Somme was the breaking point, before the Somme Offensive Canadians were still hanging in there, after the Somme Offensive, the country became Anti-War

The GTA is not Toronto, the GTA is the land of the Ford Nation resistance, the Liberal Party of Canada emanates from U of T and the CBC, right downtown, and they set the agenda, because those are the Kathleen Wynne Liberals who just got tossed out, but just before she got tossed out, her team jumped to Trudeau, so that is the people running the government for everybody.

Also, Toronto runs Canada as its empire by way of the Liberal Party of the CBC, and that used to be somewhat more moderated in the past, Toronto wasn't a Snowflake city when I was growing up there, it had normal people living along side the elites. But now those people can't afford to live in Toronto, so Toronto has become completely dingbat, and that dingbat first laid waste to Ontario, and is has begun to export it to the rest of the country, thus how we've become the virtue signalling dingbat country of the world, Canada leans left has turned into Fidel Castroland where people are spying on each other for the state, not because those people commit treason, Snowflakes don't care if you do that, but because you ordered a personalized license plate that said Asyml8 from Star Trek. That, is not a serious country, and I don't see why I should, logically at least, defend and uphold a silly country, but even in terms of emotional attachment, I feel nothing, other that it is bizarre.

The other thing about Confederated Canada is that turns out the Americans don't want to invade us, and every province now trades north south with them and not east west with each other. Structurally, it has already broken down into it's component parts, and so don't actually have the same interests anymore, so that is derailing everything into squabbling, I remember when we had a unified happy wappy we're all in this together Canada, I lived in that Canada, and this ain't it. They said Free Trade would alter us fundamentally and it did, it wasn't an economic disaster, but it did start making provinces act in the own interests, based on the interests in the United States who they identify with, like BC is with the American Environmental movement, and Alberta is with the oil industry.

Run a smaller government without having to bribe everybody into staying in Confederation, when the purpose of Confederation was not transfer payment resenment wars, it was supposed to be an economic and military union where it did two things; east west trade and national defence. And it never did, doesn't now, and never will.

Tangentially, some people are so internalizing the Liberal of Canada as themselves, that if you're not a supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, they cross chirp you every thread to call you a Russian bot or whatever, and that keeps derailing all the threads.

Oh sorry, I got the Liberal Party of Canada cross sniping me in multiple threads, so I posted wrong thread.

You know, when the vaunted Canadian Corps returned home from World War One, there weren't a lot of people at the station to meet them, there was no victory parade, and the Commander of the Corps, General Currie, the Canadian media called him a butcher, so again, "yay Vimy, now we're a nation!", no, that was not the vibe, it's a myth, the government makes this shit up.

The truth about Vimy was that Canadians didn't rally round the flag like Canada-Russia 71', the war had gone badly, people were more looking at how many guys had been killed. Yes, it was the first ever truly combined arms attack at that level of operations, it's a very significant military innovation, but nobody really cared that much about that, because even though using combined arms and mission command vastly reduced the casualties, they only reduced from totally catastrophic casualties, to brutally bad casualties, because they were so organized, they got it done quick, less time, less casualties, but it was still a meatgrinder. Kinda puts a damper on things. In terms of Vimy's significance to the overall front, a relatively minor action. It doesn't even appear in the german military history, because it wasn't that big a loss for them, because the Germans were using defence in depth so they just fell back to the next position. The Canadians took a hill, they didn't break the German lines.

And this is the ultimate myth, although even the CBC has come around to acknoledging that it is myth, it's been so discredited as a myth, that is now actually called "The Vimy Myth" by military historians.

I don't care, I'm doing it for the freedom not the government services.

The transfer of Global Hegenomy from the British to the Americans was not by voting, when I say the British broke their Empire at the Somme, I mean they went broke. That's why they launched the Somme Offensive, because they were out of money, the war that was supposed to be over by Christmas 1914 had turned into a global conflagration with the British fighting the Germans world wide, so they needed the war to end, quickly. That is what the Somme Offensive was supposed to do, but it failed. So then they were at the mercy of the Americans, because if Wall Street didn't give it money, then Britain has lost the war. At that point, the British are no longer in charge, the Global Hegemon has to be able to pay its bills. Hegemon is not de jure, Hegemon is a de facto title.

Nothing is going to hell, don't be so dramatic, there is only one existential threat, countervalue nuclear strike, other than that, life goes on, and if the federal government went away, life would go on as it is now, just much more efficient and all the regions of the Canada's get to decide their own destiny based on their real interests rather than the interest or propping up the Liberal Party of Canada's century long Confederation legacy project, just for it's own sake. It's no different than Scotland leaving the United Kingdom, it's still Britain, the border isn't going to close, Scotland just gets the same deal Canada got, which is a Dominion of their own. Still in the Commonwealth and no change of Head of State, the Scots don't like the English, but the Queen is actually German.

Well you can do whatever you want, for example Australia is signatory, but they aren't in North America, there are like a billion Asians coming at them, so they are the opposite of Canadians on immigration, Australia is running concentration camps off shore on tropical islands and diverting all their refugees there.

A global economic crisis is when everybody faces it at once and the other OECD's worse situations go round the world and end up hitting us too, so even if I had schadenfreude for countries worse of than Canada, which I don't, that wouldn't make the situation better for Canadians, who would be enraged. Does not take long at all for people to become enraged when they lose their career job, that's a family crisis, so nobody is saying "ha-ha, Italy, you got it worse than us". It's Canada, they're going to do what the autoworkers are doing at the Oshawa GM plant right now; blame Canada. Hey, three plants got closed in the US so of course the Americans have to close the Canadian plant in the age of Trump, is not what they are saying.

The CBC now is like TASS was in the Soviet Union in the 70's, where it was Detente, so it wasn't Stalinist anymore, the Soviets were trying to put a reasonable face on it, so it wasn't like North Korean news, it was the news, and it was largely accurate, biased, but not absurdly so, and no more biased than the American media was, and they did report about the problems in the Soviet Union, they just never turned to the camera and said "and you know, folks, there really is only one problem, and that problem is that we are living a communist dictatorship."

In every other country in the world, when there is a coup de tat, it is the military overthrowing the government, it's so Canadian that Canada's government was taken down by its public broadcaster.

It's not a government at all, it's the field forces of the Media Party at the CBC in downtown Toronto. The CBC is not just the propaganda arm to the masses, it indoctrinates the political classes as well, so all the politicians are CBC dingbats living in fear of the CBC

It's not even really their government, I mean, really my government is the Government of Ontario, that is the government which runs things which are relevant to my actual life. The government which is demanding more taxes is a taxpayer funded virtue signalling campaign to nowhere. I'd gladly pay more tax if they agree to get rid of the federal government and just let me pay my taxes to what it my actual country, which is Upper Canada.