It is amazing to realize that at this time of societal changes we have such incompetent and malicious professors teaching our children. No wonder that we have a crumbling health care system, no wonder that we have a crumbling reductionist educational system, no wonder that we have a divided country, no wonder that we have a racist government, and no wonder that we have a racist society.

Tom Flanagan is publishing the book "First Nations? Second Thoughts" and I am going to explain my outrage by providing some comments on the content of this book. Flanagan states that Ottawa should promote the assimilation of Natives into Canadian society to break the cycle of poverty on reserves; he says "Call it assimilation, call it integration, call it adaptation, call it whatever you want: it has to happen."

This professor should be barred from teaching our children and certainly I don't want to see him around my sons. How can we ever have a dialogue with this professor when he shows his lunacy by either telling us we are all stupid readers or by not being able himself to discern the different meanings of the words 'assimilation', 'integration' and 'adaptation'. I find it in order to remind professor Flanagan of the quote "First learn the meaning of what you say, and only then speak(4)."

Next, Flanagan states that at the time North America was 'discovered' the Natives were 5,000 years behind Europe. He says "It's not a judgement about the value of a people and their culture. It's an objective description of a way of life(5)." This professor Flanagan is "uber alles", and therefore there is no next comment to indulge on his writing and mentality without adding that he has contract work with the federal Justice Department and that he has never visited a reserve.

Please don't read the book "First Nations? Second Thoughts" unless you have a toilette in front of you.

Endnotes

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm

General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet News

1. Native assimilation only answer: author, by Dean Beeby of The Canadian Press, April 17, 2000, The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

2. The Deklein and Fall of CanadianMedicare?, by Professors Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, Steven Lewis, Michael Rachlis, Greg L. Stoddart. http://www.chspr.ubc.ca

3. A Partial Diagnosis of Health Care Corruption: The Quality Circle of the Big Brains Includes Our Renown Health Economists, by Mario deSantis, March 9, 2000

4. "First learn the meaning of what you say, and only then speak" Quote by the Greek philosopher Epictetus

5. Please refer to these articles for a first understanding of human relations and political science: Fritjof Capra: The Theory of Living Systems, by James deSantis, a paper for a Political Science class at Athabasca University, Alberta. March 1999 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/jdeSantis/jdesantis1/Fritjof_P1.html http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/jdeSantis/jdesantis2/part2.html http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/jdeSantis/jdesantis3/jdesantisP3.html

Additional References

Professor Flanagan's home page:

Reil to Reform ; working paper

Southam newspaper article identifies Flanagan as considering Preston Manning as not conservative enough.

Canoe, article discusses Flanagan's book on assimilation of Canadian Natives.

An article taken from the book mentioned in this article called the "Last Immigrants."

Rediscovering Human Nature - a book review by Tom Flanagan

"Our Benign Dictatorship" an article based on a book, a supposed review by Flanagan and Stephen Harper