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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"Tere are real deficits in our society. Deficits in the
provision of a safe, uplifting environment for all of our citizens.
Deficits in education of the young and protection of all from
violence. Deficits in preservation and improvement of the country's
natural resources of land, water, and air."--Robert Eisner,
Economist
We are at a turning point of our social understanding, and
instead to consider terrorism as a crime universally recognized by
any person and any country, we are taking our law in our own hands
and wage a war against terrorism in Afghanistan. And as more
civilian casualties occur as collateral damage of our bombings so
the war is increasingly taking the perception of a vindication
against the Pashtun people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The same has been occurring in Saskatchewan where our governments
have become a private contractual deal, take the law in their own
hands, and wage a private war against poverty by increasing the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), teaching the aboriginal people how to
follow the white man's footsteps and sell themselves for business
and how to become instantly rich through native sponsored lotteries.
And as this war against poverty has been causing more deaths in the
freezing winter of Saskatchewan so more cops are needed to defend
our private Rule of Law.
Yesterday I read Timothy Shire's perspective of what has been
happening in Saskatchewan and Saskatoon in light of the recent and
well known revelation that the RCMP is covering up the crimes of
possible death squads operating in the Saskatoon's police
department. And yesterday I read the news that lawyer Ed Holgart has
withdrawn his services to defend Richard Klassen in his lawsuit
against the Saskatoon's police and many other parties including
ministries of the government of Saskatchewan. And we have all learnt
that our own government of Saskatchewan has become formally a
private contract as MLAs Ron Osika and Jim Melenchuk will be sitting
on their assets as they sold themselves and stay in the coalition
government. This is the private Rule of Law in Saskatchewan, the
teaming up of governments, business, lawyers and police to increase
the GDP against the good of their clients, that is the people of
Saskatchewan.
But our private Rule of Law is taking a definite fight against
poverty and now it is going to wage a public relations war to show
that Saskatchewan is a vibrant province. In fact, after former
Economic Development Minister Janice MacKinnon spin-doctored the
economic growth of Saskatchewan it is now up to her husband Peter
MacKinnon, president of the University of Saskatchewan, to
spin-doctor and sell our province to the world. In fact, the
provincial government and the university have teamed up to provide
$100,000 each for professor Bill Waiser to produce a book on
Saskatchewan's history in time for its 100 birthday in 2005. And
incidentally, we can appreciate what has happened to this province
as professor Waiser says "People forget that up into the 1930s
Saskatchewan was the third most populated province in Canada, and
two-thirds of that population was rural."
Some references
Pertinent article published in Ensign
Our NAIRU Limit. The Governing Myth of Economic Policy, by Robert
Eisner http://www.americanprospect.com/print/V6/21/eisner-r.html
Sask. police must change attitude to natives: jury, CBC Canada,
November 4, 2001 http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/11/03/naistus_011103
Lawyer Ed Holgate, InjusticeBusters http://www.injusticebusters.com/index.htm/Holgate.htm
Province has quite a story to tell: prof. U of S historian sets
out to pen account of Saskatchewan's past. Gerry Klein, Saskatoon
StarPhoenix, November 6, 2001 |
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