Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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is strange that as I refer to my way of thinking I realize that I
have become an "unconventional thinker.' So, I am an unconventional
thinker, and what is wrong with it? Nothing! We should all be
unconventional thinkers as we are all different. But it is difficult
to realize our right to be ourselves, while everybody else is
looking for fitting in our big social machinery.
 And
as I began to read the book "When Corporations Rule the World(1)" by
David Korten, I find confirmation that to be unconventional is just
the right way to be, and as Korten says, we shouldn't trade our
lives for money.
And more and more as we try to grasp the complexity of our social system and solve our problems for a better society, we are more and more realizing that our solutions are centered on people and not on money, not in pursuing power and not in winning at the expense of other people. We need to be unconventional to be ourselves and therefore we need to change our mindsets to be able to solve our own problems.
We need to be unconventional and change our mindset to solve our problems, and business must not be as usual as our problems are of our own making. References/Endnotes Relevant political and economic articles at Ensign http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign 1. WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD, by David C. Korten http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm 2. 'War on crime' denies justice: top lawyer, Philip Lee, The Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2001 http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010624/5092926.html 3. Injusticebusters http://www.injusticebusters.com/ |
Yesterday's
morning I read the article "War on crime denies justice(2)" and I
found out that our own justice system is at fault in carrying out
miscarriages of justice(3). The police and the Crown face trials as
a war to win over the defence lawyers and in doing that they
withhold vital information to the defence while at the same time
they use un-credible statements from bribed informants. And lawyer
Clayton Ruby has justly stated that the trial is an exercise in
producing a just result, not a victory, but a just result... You've
got to change the mindset of what a criminal trial is about. 
Yesterday
afternoon I watched the movie "Traffic" with Michael Douglas,
Catherine Zeta Jones, and Benecio Del Toro. In this movie Michael
Douglas plays the role of the American drug czar fighting the drug
war in Mexico while his own daughter is a drug addict; Catherine
Zeta Jones plays the role of Helen who chooses to continue the drug
trafficking business of her husband to save her husband from jail,
and to save her family from misery; Benecio Del Toro plays the role
of a Mexican policeman dealing with his dilemma to survive in the
criminal drug circles. Again, the message of this movie is that the
American war on drugs cannot be won waging a war in any foreign
country unless we change our mindset and fight the same war at home.