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The problem on the right is fear. I'm reposting what I said on therebel.media about this topic as it relates to Wildrose Leader Brian Jean suspending WR MLA Derek Fildebrandt:
About 2400 years ago an Athenian named Thucydides wrote these words:
“If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals. "
It is a concept that is entirely missing in the minds of our politicians, leaders of farm and livestock organizations, and much of our population.
Jean doesn’t understand it, and Fildebrant doesn’t understand it (otherwise he would have told Jean to fuck off).
In Ontario, Patrick “Waldo” Brown recently cow-towed to political correctness by suspending MPP Jack MacLaren from caucus for (stupidly) telling a dirty joke in public that targeted a female politician. MacLaen apologized, but Brown caved to the phony and much-belated howls of offense from the press and politicians. And MacLaren allowed himself to be led off to sensitivity training like a brainless, quivering, lamb to the slaughter – instead of telling Brown to shove his training up his arse.
In Alberta and Ontario farmers, ranchers, loggers, and oil execs make their first mistakes by sitting down for “dialogue” with environmental arseholes and lefty politicians (excuse my redundancy) to “seek common ground” on a host of purported concerns that are, in all probability, adequately addressed by existing legislation. These processes only serve to boost the standing and funding of the latter at the expense of the former.
In Ontario, our farm organizations are completely and utterly compromised – and the membership seems content with this. The process was started back in the early 90s when the leaders sat down for tea and crumpets with Bob Rae and agreed to legislation that guaranteed the farm orgs provincial funding, and by extension, steady paycheques for themselves. They weren’t smart enough to realize that they had just taken the first small step towards servitude, irrelevance, and eventual extinction.
Today’s small concession is invariably the first step in a long retreat that can have only one outcome. You only have to understand one thing when it comes to dealing with these bastards: IT WILL NEVER, EVER, BE ENOUGH.
And I’ll round off this rant with another related line from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War…this time he’s quoting another long-dead Greek, Pericles:
“Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
The problem on the right is fear. I'm reposting what I said on therebel.media about this topic as it relates to Wildrose Leader Brian Jean suspending WR MLA Derek Fildebrandt:
ReplyDeleteAbout 2400 years ago an Athenian named Thucydides wrote these words:
“If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals. "
It is a concept that is entirely missing in the minds of our politicians, leaders of farm and livestock organizations, and much of our population.
Jean doesn’t understand it, and Fildebrant doesn’t understand it (otherwise he would have told Jean to fuck off).
In Ontario, Patrick “Waldo” Brown recently cow-towed to political correctness by suspending MPP Jack MacLaren from caucus for (stupidly) telling a dirty joke in public that targeted a female politician. MacLaen apologized, but Brown caved to the phony and much-belated howls of offense from the press and politicians. And MacLaren allowed himself to be led off to sensitivity training like a brainless, quivering, lamb to the slaughter – instead of telling Brown to shove his training up his arse.
In Alberta and Ontario farmers, ranchers, loggers, and oil execs make their first mistakes by sitting down for “dialogue” with environmental arseholes and lefty politicians (excuse my redundancy) to “seek common ground” on a host of purported concerns that are, in all probability, adequately addressed by existing legislation. These processes only serve to boost the standing and funding of the latter at the expense of the former.
In Ontario, our farm organizations are completely and utterly compromised – and the membership seems content with this. The process was started back in the early 90s when the leaders sat down for tea and crumpets with Bob Rae and agreed to legislation that guaranteed the farm orgs provincial funding, and by extension, steady paycheques for themselves. They weren’t smart enough to realize that they had just taken the first small step towards servitude, irrelevance, and eventual extinction.
Today’s small concession is invariably the first step in a long retreat that can have only one outcome. You only have to understand one thing when it comes to dealing with these bastards: IT WILL NEVER, EVER, BE ENOUGH.
And I’ll round off this rant with another related line from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War…this time he’s quoting another long-dead Greek, Pericles:
“Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
Ummmmm, ya, what he said.
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