...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Where's our apology?: Some years and several generations ago, Canada engaged in a largely despicable national policy wherein children of First Nations people were taken from their parents are placed in government-run schools. The idea was to to "assimilate" these children so that they would become part of mainstream society, and the whole reservation situation would become a thing of the past. Of course, it didn't work out as anticipated. Parents were tormented by the loss of their children, and many of the children suffered abuse at the hands of sexual sadists who were supposed to be educating them.

A stain on our nation's history, no doubt, and the occasion for much angst and self-reproach. Yesterday, in what proved to be an orgasm of contrition, Prime Minister Stephen Harper "apologized" to Canada's aboriginal peoples for the government's crappy policy of yore. The P.M.'s apology is the kick-off to a Truth and Reconciliation Committee that will comb the country for the next five years in order to allow everyone affected by the residential schools who so chooses to come forward and bear witness to his/her mistreatment.

My question: where's our apology? Oh, not for having been forced to attend schools staffed by pervs; for having our freedom stripped away in the name of "human rights"? Who's going to "apologize" for foisting these crappy "human rights" cops and courts on us? Where's the government's angst over its failure to keep its promises as set our in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom's? Over our Supreme Court's deference to faux-courts that enforce political correctness? Down the road, is anyone going to apologize to my kid for turning his country into something that more closely resembles a Soviet republic than a freedom-loving Western democracy? Where's the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for Canadians whose freedom was stolen out from under them and replaced with a bunch of airy-fairy piffle about "rights". Where's the government's apology for putting us under the thumb of the hacks, fools and mediocrities who have been empowered to punish us for thinking and saying the unacceptable?

On second thought, no apology required. I'll settle for the dismantlement of the p.c."courts" and the return of my Charter-guaranteed freedoms.

Posted by: scaramouche at 10:11 | link | comments (1)

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