Moral outrage at violations of the constitution is the debt we owe to brave souls, who defied the whip and sword, to make the free world we have today ... a debt we take for granted at our peril

There is but one power over a democratic government ... the voters. Until the

government decides to end elections, the voter is the ultimate link to freedom and human rights. The travesties that take place, occur with the tacit approval of the voters. By remaining silent, by continuing to elect the members of parliament who have a history of violating citizen rights, by lowering our expectations of both ourselves and our fellow travelers on this plant, we allow our society to become a swamp. 

We achieve what we tolerate. The culture, the prevailing vision of good and evil actions, will generate the rules enforced in a society.

Daniel Pipes has a list, “What I call the six P’s are those westerners who are in the greatest denial, the elites who try to prevent the naturally negative response to out-of-control immigration and Islamization. – police, politicians, press, priests, professors, and prosecutors.”

Professor Pipes is clearly focused on middle east policy but does that list not mean something more … to us? 

Those professions listed include the guiding, informing and the controlling entities in a society, both intellectual and physical. The press, priests and professors feed us ideas. The politicians form law from those ideas and the prosecutors and the police see that there are penalties for disregarding those laws.

In other word, that’s our society’s life control system in a nutshell. The group who originate the ideas, the priests and professors, those who interpret and codify those ideas into law, the press and our politicians, followed by those who enforce said rules, the prosecutors and the police.

Society is the name we give to the agglomeration of all of us, both private citizen and the group that provides ides, laws and punishment.  The issue is fundamentally how we view our own role in the mix. Do we view ourselves as a passive follower of orders, or an individual that gives the direction to the six P's? 

Though the Americana Declaration of Independence was written by an American for Americans, the words in it apply to each and every individual born.

That all mankind has inalienable rights by way of birth, that all are equal, that government derives its power from the electorate and that power may be withdrawn should the people decide the government has become tyrannical. But especially, the constitution limits the power of the government, not the people.

America’s founding document codified the idea that government is responsible to the people, and there are rules of conduct for all elected officials.

I hope that makes it clear that the highest level of power is with the individual citizen. Shifting to cynicism is an abrogation of personal responsibility. 

Moral outrage at violations of the constitution is the debt we owe to brave souls who defied the whip and sword to make the free world we have today ... a debt we take for granted at our peril.

The web may well be a saving grace.

More than $400,000 was raise to help fund Vice-Admiral Mark Norman defence, through ‘crowdfunding’, individual citizens concerned enough to donate their own money to a cause they support. That tells me that only the lack of a strong persuasive voice allows Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his Liberal cronies, to keep draining the till.

Until we demand honour from those we elect, the manipulators and deceitful will rule us.

ABOUT Garret Seinen:

As that mythical ‘3 score and 10’ is now some distance behind me, the urgency of putting all my ideas to ‘pen’ can’t be denied -- but I will refrain from cluttering this blog with the half-baked ideas. None-the-less I’m probably not going to finish everything as every year there seem to be more to do … ah, such is the retired life.

Some years back I began to practice writing, my intention being to offer a rational opinion when outlandish statements were made in the press. Well, since that time the press hasn’t gotten better, rather if anything, it’s far worse. I’m still expectantly waiting for reason to return to our society, though I’m not holding my breath.

Here’s hoping you find some things of interest here ... Garret Seinen