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I guess I am a philistine. Yes I have been accused of it in the past and I am feeling like that again.

Its funny, I quite often get accused of things that don't make sense, but the philistine one is an oldie but goodie. I firmly believe that one has to be accountable for one's actions. There are no excuses if you rape and pillage. No, Johnny wasn't hugged enough so he shot all his friends. Nope, he did it and he should pay.

Unfortunately that makes me wrong. I guess this country has gotten to a point where nobody is responsible for anything and the government is the nanny. My my how things have changed. My grandfather's welcome to Edmonton was to be mugged and beaten to a pulp. When he got out of the hospital, his things were sold. He was homeless and alone. Did he cry, and get aid. Nope, he got a job on the railway and worked as a laborer. Not liking that he scraped up enough and opened a restaurant to feed his co-workers (mostly Chinese who we treated sooo well). Then he sold that and moved to Pouce Coupe and that was just the beginning. APP's people had a similar story so I have no sympathy for those who say...oh my oh my the government owes me. And please don't get me started on the Depression.....

So, I'm old school. I wish I would have been able to march with Dr King, been old enough to have supported Nelson Mandela but I was a kid (If I wasn't so poor I would have wanted to go to Mississippi a few months ago,to march for those poor kids, but I was afraid to even mention it to Terry). Opps I guess a touch of social justice came out. Now I am not against helping...no no no. I've taught and trained awful employees and made them good (not good for me since they were dumped on me so I would fail) counseled one thru a very bad bit (he got his girlfriend pregnant and I counseled him to be a man about it) and housed friends who needed a place. So I ain't all bad.

But lately things have gotten me down. Out illustrious provincial government has shown just how undemocratic and fascist they are. Now if one gets pulled over and blows below 0.08 (the legal limit by the way) one now gets his/her car impounded, license suspended and get this; the insurance company is informed. Now remember no law was broken. None. Guilt of a crime with no trial or assumption of innocence. By rights they have to prove I am guilty...ooops I would have to break a law to be guilty and or be presumed innocent until I am proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.  This my friends is what we went to war for in 39. I cannot believe that we have accepted this complete disregard for our rights. I am not advocating drunk driving; as I feel its everyone's duty to drink responsibly so to not endanger another innocent person. I am just very concerned about our civil rights.

But why attack law-abiding people when the government cannot get its act together( its obvious because we can pay the fine a lot easier than a dirtbag criminal). It took me seven months and about eight letters to get the crown to actually get a protection order sorted out. I actually was told that if I was worried, I should move. Not," this person is on probation and we will do our best to enforce the protection order". I guess they tried their best, but explaining to me that even though all the names and or addresses of the protected were wrong the "intent" was there (I am not a lawyer but work in a litigious industry so I really liked that one). Yup, we can't do our job but we meant well. Gee I should use that one when I design a building that falls down or when I kill a few workers through negligence.

Dalton is still blathering about "banning handguns" but Dalton, they are illegal and I bet that the guy who shot up Ferrari's pizzeria a couple of years ago, just left his gun license at home. He only shot at cops and border guards and got what 3 months (he was on probation for a crack charge...hey but what's that). Yeah let him sing kumbaya for a couple of days and that will fix everything. Why not put felons in jail? I'm sorry that I believe that the young offenders act is stupid and allowing youth to rape and pillage does them and me no good. Allowing them to become an apprentice career criminal with no punishment will not help when they become adults. Just look at the recent shootings in Toronto. These are kids killing kids... It's just wrong and maybe, just maybe if we put a few away as adults we may just get the message across. It just seems that the do-gooders have taken over...unfortunately the criminal types really take advantage of this....I point to the famous Neville Chamberlain moment...yeah he sure had peace in his hand. Hitler played him like a violin. Churchill was oh so right.

Sorry for the rant but I am getting fed up with living in the people's republic of Ontario.