Was just gonna mention that the poll could use some help at Canoe.
Speedy lived up to their name though……LOL
Actually it was the Crown’s attempt to get the colonies to help pay for some of the cost of winning the worldwide war with France which delivered them from the constant fear of being attacked. On the other hand, Iraq today seems to be a bit reluctant to pony up for all the “crashed programs” the Americans threw together on a shaky buy now, pay later premise. Plus ca change, ….
Mark Levin is now officially a Beck accolate.
A very inspired speech by Levin.
Glenn’s triumphant rally on Saturday was a watershed.
Which American citizen’s life is in the most danger from an assassination attempt today?
No, not the POTUS…
…Glenn Beck. Bar none.
Funny how the true beverage of crown taxation is never mentioned, that being cider.
The whole tea party was more disgruntled merchants that invested in Chinese tea and did not want the cheaper tea from India to flood the market as they would of suffered great financial losses.
Anyways cider is superior to tea.
I was reading comments at the CBC on the rally. One just said ‘I wished I never heard of Beck.’ Well dang he does seem to raise some interesting points doesn’t he.
It is of note that the Brit parliament which passed the STAMP ACT (tax on tea, glass and painter’s colours)which allegedly inspire the American revolution…also passed the Quebec Act….which guaranteed the newly conquered New France religious and language rights/freedom.
The new American government did not get it and prior to invading Canada sent letters to the french residents seeking their support and guaranteeing to free them from “papism”.
Then they were surprised that an effective quebecois militia backed the red coat British garrison.
Not to disparage the current Tea Party movement, which I agree with, but most of what Mark Levin is spouting on about as “true history” here is myth, as is much of American “history”.
Canada surely needs a tea party too.
We don’t share the American tradition of total commitment in armed rebellion against tyrants as we were assured we would receive POGG (peace order and good government) in return for our deference to our vice regal rulers. However, we DO have a history of a small but determined civilly conscious movements rebelling whenever our rulers substitute tyranny in stead of POGG or leave civil injustice unresolved.
Upper and lower Canada rebellions for representation and governing reform, Red river rebellion, the national strikes and Regina riot, FLQ. All these resulted in the correction of civil injustices through the BNA act, Manitoba act, fair labor acts, crown land reforms and the Charter. A well hidden but determined civilly indignant attitude towards abuse of authority is a Canadian tradition.
We now live in an era where senior bureaucrats, public sector unions, media and elite NGOs believe their agendas and dictates take precedence over those of the people. They believe they can supercede the power and will of elected representatives of parliament. This collective unelected political elite believe the government functiond for their entitlement and to repress any of us who dissent to this kind of anti-democratic elitist nepotism.
From empire-building administations like the CHRC to the activist judiciary to the elite NGOs and public sector unions to pandering insider media to partisan cabals who all attempt to effect law and public policy outside the democratic vox populi of parliamentary representative democracy, our democracy is under attack.
Most recently we have our police chiefs attempting to make public policy, threatening the elected government with undermining government policy with disinformation campaigns. What could be a more dire indication of a democracy in peril than political police leaders wanting to supersede the government in public policy making?
We are at a flash point. Either Canada is run for the benefit of its majority of common people or it is an oligarchy which operates for the benefit of a small political elite.
Time to fill the streets and public squares with citizens who want to remind the cloistered elites who runs this country.
// A short history of the Tea Party – and then some // recent news.
Oz is right – while I agree in broad strokes with much of what the Tea Party wants to accomplish, I’ve always found their choice of inspiration ironic.
The original Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against Free (or free-er) Trade. The ‘tea partiers’ were making a healthy profit thanks to heavy tariffs on tea imports, and threw a fit when the British lifted the tariffs.
This is today the kind of action you’d expect from the ideological opponents of the tea party, like organized labour or anti-globalization nuts.
What Bill said…Very well said BTW. Two thumbs way up!
A very, very pertinent topic for this day and age, Kate !!
Canoe has a poll up. Does Canada need a TeaParty?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/
Was just gonna mention that the poll could use some help at Canoe.
Speedy lived up to their name though……LOL
Actually it was the Crown’s attempt to get the colonies to help pay for some of the cost of winning the worldwide war with France which delivered them from the constant fear of being attacked. On the other hand, Iraq today seems to be a bit reluctant to pony up for all the “crashed programs” the Americans threw together on a shaky buy now, pay later premise. Plus ca change, ….
Mark Levin is now officially a Beck accolate.
A very inspired speech by Levin.
Glenn’s triumphant rally on Saturday was a watershed.
Which American citizen’s life is in the most danger from an assassination attempt today?
No, not the POTUS…
…Glenn Beck. Bar none.
Funny how the true beverage of crown taxation is never mentioned, that being cider.
The whole tea party was more disgruntled merchants that invested in Chinese tea and did not want the cheaper tea from India to flood the market as they would of suffered great financial losses.
Anyways cider is superior to tea.
I was reading comments at the CBC on the rally. One just said ‘I wished I never heard of Beck.’ Well dang he does seem to raise some interesting points doesn’t he.
It is of note that the Brit parliament which passed the STAMP ACT (tax on tea, glass and painter’s colours)which allegedly inspire the American revolution…also passed the Quebec Act….which guaranteed the newly conquered New France religious and language rights/freedom.
The new American government did not get it and prior to invading Canada sent letters to the french residents seeking their support and guaranteeing to free them from “papism”.
Then they were surprised that an effective quebecois militia backed the red coat British garrison.
Not to disparage the current Tea Party movement, which I agree with, but most of what Mark Levin is spouting on about as “true history” here is myth, as is much of American “history”.
Canada surely needs a tea party too.
We don’t share the American tradition of total commitment in armed rebellion against tyrants as we were assured we would receive POGG (peace order and good government) in return for our deference to our vice regal rulers. However, we DO have a history of a small but determined civilly conscious movements rebelling whenever our rulers substitute tyranny in stead of POGG or leave civil injustice unresolved.
Upper and lower Canada rebellions for representation and governing reform, Red river rebellion, the national strikes and Regina riot, FLQ. All these resulted in the correction of civil injustices through the BNA act, Manitoba act, fair labor acts, crown land reforms and the Charter. A well hidden but determined civilly indignant attitude towards abuse of authority is a Canadian tradition.
We now live in an era where senior bureaucrats, public sector unions, media and elite NGOs believe their agendas and dictates take precedence over those of the people. They believe they can supercede the power and will of elected representatives of parliament. This collective unelected political elite believe the government functiond for their entitlement and to repress any of us who dissent to this kind of anti-democratic elitist nepotism.
From empire-building administations like the CHRC to the activist judiciary to the elite NGOs and public sector unions to pandering insider media to partisan cabals who all attempt to effect law and public policy outside the democratic vox populi of parliamentary representative democracy, our democracy is under attack.
Most recently we have our police chiefs attempting to make public policy, threatening the elected government with undermining government policy with disinformation campaigns. What could be a more dire indication of a democracy in peril than political police leaders wanting to supersede the government in public policy making?
We are at a flash point. Either Canada is run for the benefit of its majority of common people or it is an oligarchy which operates for the benefit of a small political elite.
Time to fill the streets and public squares with citizens who want to remind the cloistered elites who runs this country.
// A short history of the Tea Party – and then some //
recent news.
Oz is right – while I agree in broad strokes with much of what the Tea Party wants to accomplish, I’ve always found their choice of inspiration ironic.
The original Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against Free (or free-er) Trade. The ‘tea partiers’ were making a healthy profit thanks to heavy tariffs on tea imports, and threw a fit when the British lifted the tariffs.
This is today the kind of action you’d expect from the ideological opponents of the tea party, like organized labour or anti-globalization nuts.
What Bill said…Very well said BTW. Two thumbs way up!