Crimson Phantom

I'm no fan of Stephen Harper. I actually despise him. He has been intrumental in dismantling this country's oldest political party. Him and his cronies are not from the same party as MacDonald and Disraeli. But how is the Prime Minister responsible for a mentally deranged man dying for resisting arrest? Let's remember, even if the RCMP do use too much force sometimes (I personally think they don't use enough force), this is an organisation that has seen a number of its officers gunned down in the line of duty over the past couple of years. It only took one deranged gunman to gun down four officers a few years ago, and there have since been more officers killed whilst serving their country and their people. The police are all that stand between us and anarchy. What else do we have to rely on? "The decency of our common man?" Don't have that anymore. Never had it to begin with. It's war out there. It always has been. These are the heroes that are charged with protecting us from the evil that pulses in our society. I live in Toronto. Biggest city in the country. Over the past couple of years, we've watched several people, innocent people, get gunned down while in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, the RCMP don't function as normal cops here, only for special things, but all police in this country have the same basic job: to protect us. To "deliver us from evil", as it were. So if a couple of cops beat up some drug dealers and steal their cash, or beat up some terrorists, or "taser first, ask questions later", I think we should give them our support. Because they're doing it for us. They go out there every day and risk their lives to keep us safe. Is it a slippery slope? Sure is. And I say it's time we grease it up for them.

I don't think that the NDP have a shot at forming a government. And I pray to God that I'm right. Red Jack and his hippie, socialist, pot-smoking buddies would probably "expropriate" all foreign companies "for the proles", and let all Al Qaida "freedom fighters" out of jail to "liberate us" with packs of C4.

I would have to run myself as an idependant. It's my civic responsibility; it would NOT be something I would want to do, but it would be immoral for me to vote for someone who I didn't agree with at least 95%. The problem is, the is no party that shares my views on things. I'm pro-war like the Conservatives, but I'm anti-privatisation, anti-free trade, and socially rather liberal. And there is no party, to my knowledge, that actively campaigns for a real "tough justice" solution: re-introduction of capital punishment, mandatry life without parole sentences for murder, mandatory life sentences for gun crimes, and charging more youth as adults. If you can stab or shoot or strangle like a man, you should be able to hang for it like a man The problem is, in our political system, not only can you win a seat with only like 30% of the vote, if you get one less vote than the winning candidate, all the votes you got are worth dust. It's hard to have faith in a political system that was drawn up when it took weeks to traverse the country in a locomotive. It is simply incompatable with democratic ideals to have a system like our in which it is impossible to all but four parties to gain any seats, and most votes placed in the ballot box mean diddly squat.

Maybe all Registered Indians should have a refferendum: they can choose to give up their special rights and privileges and join the rest of society, and be granted the same rights as everyone else, or they can live in squalor and have their "special status".

It is a real problem in this country: a lack of patriotism or sense of loyalty to the country. The problem is, Canada is assumed to be a neutral nation, with no history or ethnicity of its own. It simply isn't so. This is a nation founded and populated by Britain. This is a nation based upon the proudest British traditions, upon which our freedom comes from. Now, I feel ties to Britain. That's for sure. But that is in no way the same as Serbians or Sri Lankans or Indians or anyone else who comes to this country (or is born here) and feels loyalty to their nation of "origin". It wasn't the Serbians or the Croatians or the Albanians that sailed to this land hundreds of years ago and made a nation out of it. It was the British (and the French, to an extent). I've been acused or racism in the past, by people with their own little ethno-centric priorities. I have never said that people cannot come here and become real Canadians. It shouldn't matter where you come from, or where your ancestors came from, you can come here and become a Canadian. The problem is that too many people that come here don't want to be Canadian. They want our healthcare, our success, our rights and priveleges, but they don't want to give anything back. They want a free ride. Well guess what? This country didn't become great by letting whiners and layabouts take and take and take from the rest of us and give nothing back. I would also like to note, my grandfather was an immigrant as well. But I don't go on whining about such and such ethnic group or ancient conflict from his country. When people come to Canada, they can bring stuff from their culture; they can bring their food, their dress, little things like that. But there are core values and principles that this country are based on, and they have no right to come here and try and force their beliefs on us, or ask for special privileges (like not wearing a helmet on your motorbike or a hardhat on a construction site). I don't up and move to India or Serbia or wherever and expect them to give me special treatment.

Economic Left/Right: -5.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.56 Halfway to the left side, nearly on the line on authoritarianism. But I have big issues with this test. For one, things "even out" too much. I'm all for the death penalty, killing terrorists, security cameras on every street corner, et cetera, but because I don't give a damn about people's personal sexuality, I'm practically "on the fence" on authoritarianism. And as for "left-right" economics, I can't really be measured properly, because some of the questions are really misleading. Okay, I believe that it's "sad" that water is bottled and sold as a commodity, but that doesn't mean I'm waving the red flag and talking about "reappropriating the land for the proles". It's a really flawed test. It puts me LEFT of the NDP. Trust me, I'd rather be one of the riot police spraying those hippies with pepper spray.