OH CANADA

LivingInAurora.ca has left a new comment on your post "I Didn't Say That..":

To the 5:09 pm Anonymous:

Nah, when comes to politics I suck big time. Yet I don't know why I stick my nose, probably because it is challenge ....

Enjoy your weekend.

Anna :)

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Anna   You are not sticking your nose in. You are  accepting an invitation.

 It is your business.

You don't have  to be a candidate to have the right or  inclination  to talk about politics.

Traditionally it has been considered  to have  potential  for discord.  Most people tend to  keep opinions to themselves.

Not everyone enjoys the roustabout nature of the subject,

That's why I think social media and the opportunity to throw one's opinions into the melee is so very valuable.

It provides an opportunity people have never, in all of history, enjoyed.

It's why tyrants and despots in the Middle East are being toppled.

It's why the insanity of  medieval religious cults are losing their grip.

It's why women throughout the world  will eventually achieve freedom.

Television allowed people to see  freedom ,opportunities and lifestyle enjoyed in other parts of the world.

The internet allows them to exchange ideas.

To say to each other, whatever the sacrifice, "the cause is just, the dreams must be kept alive".

In Canada ,we have  rights and freedoms only dreamed of by others. Yet  incredibly, there are those among us, like the majority in the last Aurora Council who decided we did not.

Under a cloak of righteousness, even religion, they contrived a cockamamie code of conduct ,retained  lawyers at great expense, appointed and discharged an integrity commissioner and sued citizens for exercising democratic rights, all at public  expense, in a determined attempt to deny our freedom.

All of this a quarter of a century after the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom was passed  into law.

Don't let anyone tell you Anna, we do not have the obligation  "To Stand On Guard For Thee"

"We have seen the enemy"  and" it is us"