As night had covered him, he was lucky. On 7 December, Maya Evans, a vegan chef aged 25, was convicted of breaching the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Act by reading aloud at the Cenotaph the names of 97 British soldiers killed in Iraq. So serious was her crime that it required 14 policemen in two vans to arrest her. She was fined and given a criminal record for the rest of her life. related, insidious tyranny is being imposed across the world.
The Quiet Death Of Freedom By John Pilger
Posted on Friday, January 06 at 18:27 by Milton
Day after day, night after night, season upon season, he remains a beacon, illuminating the great crime of Iraq and the cowardice of the House of Commons. As we talked, two women brought him a Christmas meal and mulled wine. They thanked him, shook his hand and hurried on. He had never seen them before. "That's typical of the public," he said. A man in a pin-striped suit and tie emerged from the fog, carrying a small wreath. ""I intend to place this at the Cenotaph and read out the names of the dead in Iraq," he said to Brian, who cautioned him: "You'll spend the night in cells, mate." We watched him stride off and lay his wreath. His head bowed, he appeared to be whispering. Thirty years ago, I watched dissidents do something similar outside the walls of the Kremlin.
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If many people had been on the steps of Parliament, this new legislation would never have passed.
This shows clearly that things can go wrong (and do go wrong) just because of the apathy of the masses.
wuz gonna offer it for submission with this preface.
While we In Canada hold our focus all things Canadian we loose sight of the larger picture. Some posters have stated the role of Canada is miniscule on the world stage and while these belittling remarks are perhaps meant to silence concern or protest we are indeed present on that stage, all the millions of us. Those millions are drawn from the world community and as such, if we are to continue the analogy, play a part in the world’s events. Events that are orchestrated not for what we are told but for the few doing the orchestrating.
Sharing a part of this continent with those who have morphed from “our friends to the south” to thee world’s bully in cahoots with the empire who spawned us ought to be a concern for any who seek the ideals we have been brought up to expect. This election, the outcome which is to be decided later this month, will bond Canadians to the Anglo-American alliance one way or the other, Liberal or that hodge-podge calling its self Conservative.
I can not say when the elected officials of Canada became a part of the larger plot to manipulate we who have identified our selves as Canadians, But, my guess is that it has been ongoing every since the ‘New World’ was claimed for the crowned heads and mother church of Europe.
I close with two suitable quotes,
The Bar, the Pulpit and the Press Nefariously combine To Cry up an usurpt Pow'r And stamp it Right Devine. -1695 un-attributed
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who wont do anything about it.
-Einstein
Diogenes
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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation
I would go further, if some free politicians acted in good conscience instead of reacting to hype, if some more citizens spoke out perhaps the British and American soldiers wouldn't have died in Iraq and there would be no need for the protest. If some had stopped the greed, and stopped the power seekers from placing puppets in countries around the world, then perhaps many Iraqi innocents would still be alive, Canadian soldiers wouldn't have died and innocent Afghanistani's could have been spared...if more people of the world spoke out against war, poverty and corporate rule, maybe 911 could have been prevented...if only the world could be changed if...
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?