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Fairy Creek Old Growth

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The Fairy Creek “old growth” protest on the west Coast of Vancouver Island is a marriage made on the picket line between adolescent American eco-warriors and professional Canadian catastrophists.

For the one it means a battle fought in Canada without having to draw attention to similar practices at home. For the other it’s an effort to destroy the economic livelihood of a community in the name of an ill-defined alternative.  Industry, (in this case a family firm in its fourth generation of BC owner-stewardship), is caught in the middle because any concession they might make is never enough. A First Nations entity with an interest in making a living is bulldozed to the side. Government is represented by an agglomeration of minor “I’m with you” politicians in search of cameras. It is an inevitable, if distressing appendage to the democratic process originated where people have co-opted the issue to meet some externally determined purpose.

Canadians, despite the efforts by those who purport to lead them, have rarely seen a time in their history when they have not tried to make bad situations better. Some Canadian leaders are demanding that citizens accept personal responsibility today for decisions taken by their predecessors well before most of them were born. It seems that the Fairy Creek protest has been wound into an aggregation of this imposed collective guilt and will likely feature in the election currently looming over Canada.

The left-wing people running this protest indicate they stand for the elimination of livelihoods they do not like, so anyone wanting something else has, for once, a fairly clear choice.

Remove the Protestors

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The fact that the Fairy Creek protestors are in the woods, intentionally blocking a company from working at their worksite, makes them aggressors.  That they are there in violation of a court injunction exposes them as criminals.  Harvesting trees, without a license or environmental impact study, makes them not only trespassers and thieves, but also hypocrites. The tampering of equipment and property earns them the title of vandal.  Working in the forest with chainsaws, against extreme-fire-danger advisories, demonstrates their recklessness, endangering themselves, the forest, and the surrounding community.

When protestors then resist arrest, in some cases repeatedly, it is apparent that their intention is to deliberately escalate the situation.  Escalation is a ploy activists have consistently used – provoke as big a scene as possible in order to push law-enforcement to deploy increased measures against them.  To then film the whole thing, edit, and subsequently deliver only one side of the story, in order to fit with a prescribed narrative, is just another tool, among many, in their toolbox.  One of the ironies is that many of these protestors are not even residents of the area, are externally funded, and some have travelled clear across the continent to be there.

Protesting is considered a right in the free world, but blocking a legal company, and its employees, from earning a living at their place of employment is not.

Unfortunately, the manpower required to deal with the mess is diverting resources, away from other more pressing crimes and situations, and is costing the public millions of dollars.  Taxpayers, the people who actually pay the bills, are fed-up and want the obstructers, who call themselves protestors, gone.

NDP Roots in Canada

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In 1933 the “Regina Manifesto” was adopted by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) at its first national convention in Regina Saskatchewan.  One of the stipulated goals of the manifesto was to destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialist system.  The League for Social Reconstruction (LSR), founded in Montreal and Toronto in 1931-32, largely written by Underhill and Scott, strongly influenced the CCF.

The Regina Manifesto called for “a planned and socialized economy in which our natural resources and principal means of production and distribution are owned, controlled, and operated by the people” and a nationalizing of everything, including the banking system. (1)

It also vowed that “No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full program of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of the Co-operative Commonwealth” (2)

In 1956, because of strong anti-communist sentiments, the CCF replaced the Regina Manifesto with a more moderate sounding declaration called the “Winnipeg Declaration”, (it is ironic that it was called a manifesto in the first place).   Its full name the “1956 Winnipeg Declaration of Principles of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation” was adopted at the 1956 national convention.

The CCF ostensibly chose to soften their image, however many of the same players remained.  The “Winnipeg Declaration” remained the statement of party principal, and that of their new founded party; “The New Democratic Party” (NDP) in 1961.  This declaration remained with the NDP platform until 1983 when they replaced it with a “Statement of Principals”.

This “Statement of Principals” appears much in the same vein as the other documents, but with fuzzy edges.  However, softening and re-wording does not change its central tenets.  Leopards cannot really change their spots.

(1)  Co-operative Commonwealth Federation preamble
(2)  Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Section 14

An Attitude of Entitlement

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Having an attitude of entitlement tends to make a person unlikeable and therefore socially isolated.  In this isolated state there is a propensity to blame others and claim victimhood, often to the detriment of true victims.  With a romanticized idea of a life that was not achieved, feelings of persecution, or a burning zeal to “share other peoples’ stuff”, these false victims band together, and their appetite for funding is relentless.  To keep the money flowing their way, the victimhood narrative must be continuously repropagated.  The social net in many cases is being exploited by these people, taking advantage of a poorly designed system.  In essence, the constant procurement of funds has become an emotional shakedown of the taxpayer.

Over the past several years, even the model to care for true victims has become a bloated layering of interceding bureaucracies, leaning more toward harm-reduction than being solutions-based, which encroaches into the periphery of enabling undesirable situations.

It appears taxpayers are being partially deceived and half informed.  What many have not yet grasped is that a segment of the population has tossed aside the pride of self-sustainability and personal responsibility, replacing it with an unabashed dependency on others – without the unsuspecting benefactors’ informed consent.

Ultimately, the attitude of being entitled to the fruits of another person’s life is a bizarre notion, considering that the unwritten civil contract humans have evolved to expect, with few exceptions for true charitable causes, dictates that psychosocial arrangements are to be reciprocal and earned.

A Path to Micro-Minority Control

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“Entryism” – a new word describing the path to micro-minority control.

Do you ever wonder why an organization or group of people suddenly burst out with an opinion totally at odds with the objectives you thought they followed?  A recent example was a comment by the principal administrator of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. She reacted to reports of arson at some provincial churches with the advice to “burn them all down!”

Here is how it happens; find an existing organization that has high purpose and whose membership rules allow an external organized group to infiltrate and take over its management and its credibility, and where possible control its assets.

The broad membership is left looking on as their organization disappears off on a totally foreign trajectory.  It is not only organizations whose purpose can be corrupted. Activists have done effective work with school boards where a minimal turn out of voters in Vancouver allowed a “progressive” slate to take control. Its objective is the cancellation of programs (in the name of equity), that were designed to encourage the most gifted students to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex world.

If entryism is not enough of a new word, try these offerings from the National Education Association, the American teacher’s union. It is committing itself to the critique of “empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”

It is a sharp reminder that for as long as there has been freedom of anything, there has been someone who does not want it to happen.

Elitist Games

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People in the west have mysteriously forgotten, or perhaps never learned, that some of their historical leaders once openly admired dictatorial regimes, such as Mussolini’s fascist state and Lenin’s bolshevism.  Both born out of Marxist ideology, and both contributed to tyranny, destruction, and the death of millions of innocent citizens.  The central tenets of the movements must have seemed reasonable on paper however, they (and Marx) obviously failed to grasp the forced-domination aspect of the formula.  Unfortunately, the human element, that visceral mode of people being free autonomous individuals, failed to be considered.  Humans are not a homogeneous collective body.  Modes-of-being are individual evolutionary states, not abstract dogmatic forces to be burned on counterfeit altars of ‘a new way’, by an elitist few.

Tyrants notoriously manipulate the masses, and throughout history have conjured up external fears in order to intimidate populations to support centralized mandates.  In some cases, such as the anarcho-syndicalism movement, culture is intentionally destroyed from within. But acutely tearing down cultural structure has always been a fools game because in the simplest sense, not everything is expendable.  Shared traditions, memories, politics, and personal stories unfolding gradually over millennia, and accepted into the social fabric, function not only as scaffolding for the harmony of stasis, but also for natural change.  They are integral parts of society as a whole.

Discarding all that to abruptly descend into abject idolatry around collectivist ideas has proven time and again to be treacherous folly.  But yet, every few generations, Marxism gathers fresh new recruits and rears its ugly head, trying to disguise itself as something new.

Very Real Agendas

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Initiatives as those outlined in the United Nations’ Agenda 21 have been carried out right under the noses of local Cowichan Valley residents since 2012, and many residents are not even aware of what Agenda 21 is.  The local chapter of the Global Transition Network Organization; “Transition Cowichan”, and it’s supposed educational arm “One Cowichan Education Society” (and sympathizers) are paralleling, either purposely or by accident, the strategies of the agenda, one by one.  In effect, they are institutionalizing the plan.

As UN Agenda 21 covers all aspects of life and liberty, one is forgiven for seeing the stark similarities to communism unfolding.  Unfortunately, people are not explicitly being told, or may not understand, what the endgame is.    In a nutshell, the agenda seeks to “reorient” (socially engineer) existing patterns in western society. (1)   Outlined in 1992, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for years its existence was negatively labelled a “right-wing conspiracy theory”.  It is not.  Albeit not legally binding (so far), it, and agendas like it are, at present, strongly considered by government policy makers.

Since Klaus Schwab’s publication of the “Great Reset” manifesto in 2021, this general collectivist ideology is now vividly out in the open.   It is safe to assume by the timeline below that this whole-world scenario has been a dream of Klaus Schwab’s for a very long time.

Some parts of this timeline:

1971 – European Management Forum, Cologny, Switzerland (founder: Klaus Schwab)
1971 – The Ramsar Convention (the seed agreement for Agenda 21)
1987 – European Management Forum name change to “World Economic Forum” (still at the helm: Klaus Schwab)
1992 – UN Agenda 21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2000 – UN Millennial Development Goals
2006 – The Global Transition Network, Totnes, UK (The Open Society [Soros] and the Tudor Foundation are big donors)
2015 – Agenda 2030, (a UN Initiative) New York, USA
2020 – The Great Reset, (Klaus Schwab / Prince Charles) Davos, Switzerland.

It is notable that NGO participation in conforming to, and carrying out, these United Nations initiatives is encouraged, (2) and interested NGOs can become “officially UN accredited” organizations.   This allows them access to more grants and resources.   Thus, NGOs can effectively, and with support, work the agendas into communities from the bottom up, while governmental groups work from the top down.  Sadly, and unbeknownst to the beleaguered taxpayer, the “work” is being done on them, and the Cowichan Valley in British Columbia appears to be one of the hotspots.

(1)  Agenda 21 – UNCED, Ch 4, Section 4.15
(2)  Agenda 21 – UNCED, Ch 3, Section 3.4(b)

Strong Leadership Required

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The current Federal government still appears to be more interested in itself and UN initiatives than in doing its job.  The difference between governing and ruling seems to be perpetually lost on them.  Citizens are forgiven for seeing this administration as an increasingly intrusive and bloated bureaucracy (aristocracy?) that taxpayers are forced on fear of penalty, to pay for.

More government, and more government interference in peoples’ lives is the problem, not the solution.    “We are not so nasty that we need to be tamed by intrusive government, nor so nice that too much government does not bring out the worst in us, both at its employees and its clients.” (1)

Compounding this overburden are the ubiquitous and heavily funded NGO’s profligate infiltrations into community organizations and civic councils.  NGOs not only lobby government, they are now effectively also lobbying the masses into conformity.  Conformity to agendas that trend prominently toward Communist ideals.

Ordinary hard-working people go along, assumedly, because they do not take the time to study the bigger picture.  The Pied-Pipers of Marxism have discovered that when their collectivist initiatives are cloaked in good deeds, they are difficult for kind-hearted people to resist.  Appealing to emotion is a well-known sales tactic, and the strategy is proving to be exceedingly effective.

To make matters worse, for decades, uninformed citizens, if they voted at all, have voted for “stuff for themselves” at the ballot box.  Tragically, politics have morphed into a popularity contest where a myriad of gifts are promised in exchange for votes.   As each new “gift” is implemented, another layer of bureaucracy seems to mysteriously appear – at the expense of the taxpayer.

This is a hot mess that will likely require exceptionally strong leadership, discipline, common sense, and a properly informed population, to set right.

(1)  Matt Ridley 1996, The Origins of Virtue 

Voters’ Responsibility

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H. L. Mencken, an American commentator and journalist in the early part of the 20th Century, observed that “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule.”

Local governments who quote world issues as the justification for their actions pose a particularly cogent example of this tactic. A recent attempt by some members of the North Cowichan council using the excuse of a self defined “climate emergency” to strip the value from a project that met all its zoning requirements is a classic application of it.

The proponents’ action may seem capricious and ill-conceived, but the maneuver, had it been successful, would have had the effect of transferring control and with it, effective ownership of the property. In addition, it would have created a precedent that would let the municipality use the same excuse to apply the same treatment to anyone’s property.

Municipal elections scheduled for 2022 are a good time to start reversing this trend. Good representatives share community values and aspirations. More importantly, they do not bring in externally developed ambitions, and use community assets to achieve them.

The big challenge is to get enough people out to vote. In too may cases, municipal and school board elections are won on less than a thirty percent voter turnout. That means control is handed over to a well-organized minority.

True democracy means that citizens can delegate the management of their community but never the responsibility for its outcome.

Reciprocity

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It is not only charming to live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else, but it is also generally safer.  When humans have close-knit reciprocal relationships; when they, at an innate level depend on each other, having something to lose or gain, whether economically, socially, or psychologically, they are likely to be mutually cooperative in their daily lives.  Natural reciprocity breeds peaceful co-habitation.  Forced reciprocity does not.

Extrapolating this premise to the current political landscape in Canada, one can see that the innate human contract has broken down.  Reciprocity has, in effect, turned to force and extortion.  Where once resided reasonable middle ground now sits Left and far-Left assemblies, making stifling demands on an already stressed middle-class population, and in the process crippling the framework that underpins economics.  A group of multi-millionaires and billionaires, not wanting to miss an opportunity, or possibly creating it in the first place, deftly wield the proverbial marionette in their own misguided delusions of grandeur.  They are like “want-to-be-kings in waiting”.  For what?  For the complete breakdown of society?

Ultimately the result is a struggling middle-class that is being crushed and looted from all sides.  The majority of whom have been psychologically divided from each other, muzzled, and beaten down by political correctness and cancel culture, to a point where they are in danger of losing the very fortitude required to rise up against this phenomenon.   A debilitating phenomenon that can only be described as liberal fascism.