Jeremy Arney
Remembrance Day Letter to Prime Minister Harper by Jeremy Arney, November 14, 2007
Dear Current Prime Minister of Canada,
As I do every year along with thousands of other Canadian citizens, I attended the Remembrance Service on the lawn of the Legislative Building here in Victoria BC; for the first time this year I had to wonder what it all really meant.
No not the original purpose but the purpose in our world today. As I looked at some of the faces around me, there was, it appeared, less grief than in past years, lots of children there who didn't even jump when the gun went off for the first time, and a sense of "its a traditon to be here". We are after all a naval city.
The religious, military corporate executive started to mouth his words of sympathy as usual and then came the part about ".....protect our men and women in their fight against terrorism....". At this point the sadness of today's Canada hit me ....we are, through you, tying ourseleves to the biggest terrorists the world has ever known.
I have been proud of Canada's incredible history of being real fighters in the cause of freedom and, in recent times, of our role as world peacekeepers. That has changed completely as we follow the blood thirsty, oil hungry, power lusting politicians to the south of us.
"Lest we forget".
What would those who gave their lives for freedom from world tyranny say now if they could see:
We are supporting a similar, but much larger, tyranny?
That our politicians (not representing Canadian citizens by the way ) are rushing to throw Canada away to a bullying neighbour?
That the corporate dollar is what they died for?
That the old and sick and poor are worthless impediments to national prosperity?
That education is only for the wealthy?
That religious hatred and bigitory is very much alive and well in the world and in Canada?
That the deaths of millions of women, men and children, who are caught in the struggle of just living in countries that have oil or drugs, do not count?
That freedom of speech (or almost anything else for that matter) will soon be a thing of the past here in Canada, and we will be answerable to the broken system in the USA?
This feeling comes from the conviction that our leaders love money and hate Canada, and that does not fit with the concept of " Remember; lest we forget; and never let it happen again."
Well it's happening again and we are responsible this time........... Next year, I will mourn those of my family and my friends who have died in that cause called freedom in private and give it some real value instead of the plastic version I saw and heard yesterday.
I will remember that the Canada I came to in 1967 to make a new life for my family, children and grandchildren is being thrown away (see SPP) for no reason that is acceptable to the Canadian people and without their consent or even their knowledge.
Your Remembrance Day statement shows you employ great writers of fiction.
Victoria BC
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