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

When Dief was the chief: On the day when Canadians go to the polls, Kathy Shaidle invites bloggers who value free speech--real free speech, not the watered-down Trudeaupian version we have now--to quote these words by one-time Conservative Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker. Happy to oblige, Kathy:

"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,
or free to choose those
who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom
I pledge to uphold
for myself and all mankind."

From the Canadian Bill of Rights,
July 1, 1960.

I might mention that I have something of a personal connection to "The Chief." He was a good friend of my late uncle's, who was, yes, a Jewish Conservative in the days when such a creature was even more of a rara avis than it is today. When Dief was the chief, there was no moral relativism, or multiculturalism, or humungous anti-hate/victim industry, and there were maybe four or five non-Muslims, tops, who knew what "dhimmi" meant; a time when one could say the above words unashemedly, without fear of being derided as a "colonialist"/"imperialist"/"hegemon," or other such like blather. I have a feeling Dief would be shocked at what's become of his Bill of Rights, how his successors, in their misguided zeal, have removed its guts and replaced it with garbage: freedom from speech; free speech in "balance" with "hate speech". What a travesty of his noble ideals! (By the same token, I don't think he'd be too impressed by what's become of the United Nations, a now morally bankrupt organization that that taken on the Nazi/Arab eliminationist agenda, dressing up Hitler's Final Solution in the sheep's clothing of diplomacy and "human rights".)

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