tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44978402164768108292024-02-19T01:40:32.363-05:00BOYCE'SPAPERThis site is kept by Boyce Richardson, journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker, of a leftist persuasion.
Established 1996boyce richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166421633433425789noreply@blogger.comBlogger730125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post-35896004709144180452020-02-01T22:59:00.003-05:002020-02-01T23:03:21.073-05:00My Log 782: February 1 2020; Chronicles from my Tenth Decade: 218; I discover myself an object of attention: to make sure I don’t fall down; make sure I am eating enough; to guard me against various unpleasant ailments; I am an old man at last<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 18pt;">Whoo-ee!
I have discovered a whole new world, the world of the aged. I know I have been
91 for almost a year but somehow or other I never realized my position in life
has changed. Suddenly, I have realized I am now an object to be carefully
guarded, helped in every way possible, and even cherished, like I was some kind
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed,
I have discovered there are whole organizations whose very objective is my comfort.
I had a visit the other day from one of these, a beautiful young woman called
Maude, from France, an origin that pre-disposes me --- a man who has been a
francophile ever<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>since 1952,when, on
holiday from ration-book England,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
first set eyes on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>charcuteries and
patisseries in even their small villages --- very much in her favour. Here was
a people, their shops showed me, who like to eat well. And pretty soon, as I
became accustomed to their language, I loved the sound of it. Any mastery in
its use has escaped me, in spite of the ceaseless hours I have spent in its
study since my arrival in Canada in 1954, so all I can do is listen to Maude
and wish I could understand her in her own language. Of course, that doesn't
really matter, because she speaks my language with a delightful French accent. So
all this is to announce that I am hopelessly enamoured of her, after only one
visit, and that I find it hard to believe that any city or provincial
administration, or whichever agency may be responsible, could ever have been
thoughtful enough to engage so wonderful a person as Maude, and assigned her to
make sure I am always in good spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But it is not only Maude who has
enlivened my life. Since I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have been
forced to use a walker I find people everywhere are opening and holding doors
for me, and on arrival at the coffee shop, they are moving chairs to make way
for me, and scurrying around to get me my favourite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>newspaper, and otherwise making me feel I am
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Not only that, my youngest son, Thom,
who has recently very justifiably taken to denouncing me for some of the things
I have done in the past, has put all that aside and in a full, and very much
appreciated act of devotion, has taken to aiding me in every possible way,
accompanying me on my medical visits, wheeling me on wheelchair through the
endless corridors of the hospital, listening, and remembering evey detail of
what the doctor says, arranging and collecting my medications, and even cooking
me some evening meals at the end of his long day at work on his own affairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am struck by how much worse would be my condition
without his ceaseless acts of devotion. And how much I owe him for his kindness
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours of waiting for appointments: it is the mark of a successful physician,
apparently, that he has to keep his patients waiting for hours after the time
set for his appointment, a phenomenon that Thom --- less given to outbursts of
impatience than am I --- explained to me arises from the fact that every patient
poses a different problem, takes an unforeseeable amount of time, and thus
causes the doctor’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>timetable to be an
inadequate guide to his or her day’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nowadays the thing I am most
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--- so beautiful those strong young legs, I think, as they disappear into rhe
distance before me – every one of them, it seems, completely unaware of, or at
least taking completely for granted their youthful vigour and what a glorious
asset it is to them, and one that will<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>unfortunately not last, so that they must take full advantage of it while
they have got it. I remarked <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the other
day to a strange young woman in the elevator how lucky she was. She laughed and
asked why. :”Because you can walk,” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
said . She looked at me with my walker, smiled at me, and said, as if taken by
surprise,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh yes, I must take advantage
of it while I have got it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So at the moment it is my hip that is
bothering me. My eyes, too,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of course. It
has been a hell of a job to write this, even slowly. I find it difficult to
place the sensor exactly where it is needed if I am to correct the many typos I
make in writing these days. For someone who has rattled off millions of words
over the years on my favoured little Italian typewriters, which were an inch or
two bigger than this keyboard, this is a particular irritation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, I’ll leave it there for the
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which I can at least express some opinion worthy of the name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meantime, in the words of the
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gai, toujours gai.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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boyce richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166421633433425789noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post-10060223210450080552020-01-21T22:11:00.002-05:002020-01-21T22:11:19.923-05:00My Log 781, January 21 2020: Chronicles from my Tenth Decade: 217: Once again the indigenous people have to face militarized poliee violence as they try to defend their lands from developments wanted by the European invaders, and the government that represents them
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Well,
all I can say, looking back 52 years to when I first looked into the lives of
Canada’s indigenous people, is that although the publicity accorded them today
is immensely greater than then (when they were hardly ever mentioned in the press)
but that in many essential ways things have not changed that much.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In 1968 they were just emerging from
many decades of deterioration. A few were going to high schools, a tiny handful
made it to university: Their leaders, who had maintained a stubborn, heroic
resistance during many decades of shabby treatment,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>needed education so that they could confront
the huge organized power of the federal government. One of their problems was
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their need for the Euro-eentred
education clashed with their primary need, which was to re-discover pride in
their indigenous heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They have been working on that ever
since, and that aim is largely achieved. But unfortunately their treatment by
the Euro law administered by the Canadian government has not moved exponentially.
Take a gander at this situation, described<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>today by the Defenders of the Land, the Truth Campaign and the Idle No
More networks:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
December 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada issued the Delgamuukw-Gisday’way
decision, which recognized the authority of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs
over Wet’suwet’en Territory. Despite that Supreme Court court decision the
federal and B.C. governments have approved <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, a 670 km
pipeline from Dawson Creek to the LNG Canada export terminal near Kitimat. It
is a project of TC Energy based in Calgary</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">…..</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a consequence, today the Unist’ot’en face the
possibility that the full violence of the Canadian state will be brought to
bear against them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<div class="Default" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Get that:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…the full violence of the Canadian state will
be brought to bear against them.” .And they ain’t kiddin’.Later in their
document the .Defenders write:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When they (the Wet’suwet’en people) enforced
their own laws and required that industry seek Free, Prior, and Informed
Consent for development on their lands, they faced a brutal display of
militaristic police violence and an ongoing police occupation of their
territories. We have all learned ….that RCMP… are prepared to kill unarmed
Wet’suwet’en people if they continue to uphold their laws.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Already, our newly militarized police are being
mobilized to uphold developments that ignore ancient rights and enforce
injunctions airily granted by various courts.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Already,
bulldozers have smashed into unceded Wet’suwet’en lands, making an unholy mess
of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The defenders, in their document
issued today, say that people all over Turtle Island have begun to hold rallies
in defense of the hereditary rights of people who have occupied these unceded
lands since time immemorial, by protesting </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Canada’s illegal encroachment
on Wet’suwet’en land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The message of the
rally organizers is clear: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Default" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 1.0cm; text-indent: 7.1pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Indigenous law is the law of the land on unceded
territories, and traditional title-holders have the right to refuse access to
their lands. Disregarding this ancient law in order to further expand fossil
fuel production during a time of extreme climate crisis is irresponsible and
unacceptable. Agents of the corporate state will face resistance if they
continue to pursue resource colonialism during this climate emergency”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope everyone in Canada takes notice of this warning
from people who are unfortunately facing the full militarized might of the
Canadian government violence machine. Let’s just repeat that warning:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disregarding this ancient law in order to further expand
fossil fuel production during a time of extreme climate crisis is irresponsible
and unacceptable.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Somewhere or other our
society seems to have got itself screwed up. Here we are with our many
universities<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and civilized agencies,
threatening, and not only threatening, but actually unleashing violence against
unarmed people who are defending land that our Supreme Court has recognized as
belonging to them, while our agents of destruction smash through their lands in
bulldozers, to make way for pipelines to carry energy needed by our society for
something or other. In this case, it appears it is needed beeause the owners
want to sell it for a huge profit abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unfortunately the British Columbia government, having
not long ago officially recognized the United Nations Declaration of the Rights
of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and declared it part of the law of the land, a
declaration that provides that industry must have “free, prior, and informed
consent” for any development being proposed for indigenous lands, has
nevertheless collaborated in the invasion of the Wet’suwet’en lands by the
builders of the pipeline, and of the use of governmental violence used against
the peaceful protesters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is an argument that is likely to be played out
across Canada in future years: the need for “free, prior and informed consent”
given by indigenous people who lie in the path of any development, seems likely
to clash with the Euro laws under which most projects are built. Indigenous
leaders have said that they do not take from the UNDRIP formula that it gives
them a veto over all development. At best though, it does give them the right to
be consulted in advance, and to have arrived at a conclusion, hopefully a
conclusion agreed with the developers, as to he conditions on which any work is
done, or on where such work may be done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And remember this: even if it does mean that they have
the right to refuse projects, this would be no more than a mild form of payback
for the indignities that were imposed on their people as the Europeans invaded
Canada, and pushed the native people aside brutally, because they stood in the
way of cutting down their forests, digging up their lands, robbing them of
their heritage, and finally gathering most of them into small plots of land
known as reserves, most of them on land so poor that thousands of them starved
for want of any meaningful way to make a living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Default" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyone wishing to support the Wet’suwet’en fight can
contact the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">E-Mail
Communications Contact: info@IdleNoMore.ca </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Sylvia McAdam,
Idle No More Organizer, Cell: (306) 281-8158 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Kanahus Manuel,
Defenders of the Land, Spokesperson, Cell: (250) 852-3924 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Russ Diabo, Truth
Campaign, Spokesperson, Cell: (613) 296-0110 </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Canada
caught in the middle; tomorrow’s extradition trial of Meng Wanzhou will challenge
concepts of law and order, and is being watched closely by authorities everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Tomorrow
the extradition trial of Meng Wanzhou, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>senior executive in the Chinese telecommunications company, Huawei ---
incidentally, the largest company in the world in its field of electronics ---
opens in a Vancouver courtroom, apparently to the interest of people around the
world who regard it as an opportunity to deliver a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lesson to the Chinese Communist leadership of
how the rule of law should work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have written several times that Ms.
Meng should have been released, because it appears that the request from the
United States for her extradition was politically motivated, and there is
nothing to compel Canada to follow US political direction, especially now under
the bizarre influence of Donald Trump. To arguments that Canada is a country
that follows the rule of law, I have hitherto argued that since no one except
the Minister of Justice can order an extradition, our government’s argument is
hollow to the extent that the final decision is a matter for political, and not
necessarily legal, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But in what seems to have been a
wide-ranging debate on this subject, that is viewed as reaching far beyond the
borders of Canada, some powerful arguments have emerged, especially from some
people who have been personally affected by the admittedly brutal Communist
concept of and conduct of, law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I do not underestimate this: in 1978,
when China <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was in full Communist
mode, I remember as we were driven around the town of Shijazhuang, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coming upon what was called a struggle session,
in which a line of hapless accused were standing on the back of a big truck, their
hands behind their backs, their eyes penitentially cast towards the ground, in
an atmosphere of complete subjection as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>they were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>]being harangued by
some authority figure in the name of justice. The fact was, and apparently
still is, that in China under Communist rule, once you are accused of anything,
you are almost automatically declared to be guilty, and there is no countervailing
concept of impartial justice to protect you. When I put this idea to my lawyer
son he replied that the system in Canada was not much different since accused
persons have to wait in custody so long for their trial that it could be said
of our system, as of theirs, that once you are accused you are in for the high
jump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by their correspondent Nathan Vanderklippe, and it is followed by an article by
two North American based, Montreal educated, Chinese lawyers, Times Wang and
his sister Ti-ana Wang, who speak of recently meeting their father, Dr Wang
Bingzhang, himself a lawyer, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who has
been imprisoned in China since 2003 for his advocacy of human rights, and
appears to be in for life. Their father made a surprising suggestion to his
son, that he should try to be signed on to the legal team defending Ms. Meng.
As the two children explained in n op ed article, their father said, “You’re
both lawyers</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">…Let’s
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likely to happen but one can see Dr Wang’s point: teach and illustrate by
showing how a decent legal system works. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">There
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over to the erratic US legal system, which appears more and more to be coming
under the influence of this nightmare<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>President. The first is what will be considered first in this week’s trial,
and it is the question of whether the crime with which Ms Meng is charged can
be considered also to be a crime<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Canada.
The crime <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concerns an alleged attempt to
dodge sanctions imposed against Iran after the withdrawal of the United States
from the five-power agreement with Iran engineered by Barack Obama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prima facie, as a lawyer might say, that
seems like a closed and shut situation from the start. It cannot be said to have
violated any Canadian law, so the case is closed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The second
route to freedom for Ms.Meng could be that our Minister of justice whoever he
or she may be, might come to a decision that there is no case for her to
answer, once the matter comes into his hands, and cancel the whole proceeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an assumption that in such a case,
China would release the two Michaels who have been held in poor conditions in
China for more than a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>year, and that normal
commercial relations <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would be resumed,
which would be a relief for many Canadian farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">What has
happened is that Canada has been caught, not through any action of its own,
between the two economic giants, China and the United States. Sine Canada has
ben operating as a sort of American vassal in this case, it would appear to have
every reason to get out of it by whatever means is available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">It will be
interesting to watch the progress of this trial and to see how (and if) Canada
can emerge from it with credit.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new york", serif; font-size: 16pt;">An
interesting article in a newspaper this morning has at last brought me up-to-date
with a subject in which I took an intense, but peripheral interest while making
a National Film Board film 35 years ago. namely, the fate of the bison.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Once the greatest animals in North
.America, by stature as well as by sheer numbers,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with at a conservative estimate some
15,000,000 populating the plains, the bison, or buffalo, as they are now
popularly called, shrank to an infinitesimal number, almost to the point of
extinction, as a result of being ruthlessly hunted by the invading white
settlers in and around the 1880s.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Canada has a huge national park
devoted to the bison, the Wood Buffalo National Park straddling the
Alberta-Northwest Territories border. The park is so huge that Canadians have
scarcely grasped how big it is: marginally bigger, at 44,000 square kilometres,
than Switzerland, for example, or Holland, which are both 3,000 square
kilometres smaller.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The provenance of the bison
population in the park is interesting: one story goes back to the daring of an
Indian named Walking Coyote, who crossed the continental divide with four
buffalo calves that he began to raise in his native Blackwater reserve, just
over the international border in the United States. Walking Coyote was eventually
found dead under a bridge in Missoula, Montana, but meantime he had sold his
interest in the many <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>buffalo that had
sprung from his four calves to a Mexican rancher. When Michel Pablo <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>died, a quick-thinking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>representative of the Canadian government in
Great Falls, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Montana managed to buy the
herd, which was transferred north by rail between 1907 and 1912. No one knew
how many animals were involved, but the number transferred was around 700. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They soon ate themselves out of
habitat in the small park set up for hem near Wainwright, Alberta, and in the
1920s a major debate took place as to whether they should be transferred into the
massive northern park, where the last of the pure wood buffalo lived . The
prairie sub-species had become impregnated by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cattle during their many years of haphazard management in Montana. The
wood buffalo sub-species is an altogether more imposing animal ---- taller,
heavier, but slimmer, and with a more noticeable fur coat over its front
quarters, a much more<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>statuesque animal
than its prairie cousin. The scientists of the day did not want to muddy the
gene pool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Up
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the time we were making the film the
primary interest had been in our need to preserve the distinct sub-species, the
wood buffalo. In pursuit of this aim in the 1960s, a group of 40 or so wood
buffalo that had not been fatally impregnated with the cattle genes was
transferred to a remote spot north of Great Slave Lake, where those that survived
the harrowing trip by truck, eighteen in number, were released.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This small number gave rise<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the next couple of decades to a herd of
more than 1000, if I remember correctly, a notable success for the animal scientists
responsible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Up to the time I am writing about,
the 1980s, the general movement among bison-minders was in the direction of
saving their genetic makeup from being corrupted by outside influences. But
according to the article in today’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Globe
and Mail</i>, in the intervening three or four decades the interest has changed
to an effort to re-establish even from these corrupted heirs, something, or at
least some pure-bred animals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A number of indigenous tribes have
been collaborating in this effort with the scientists, and appear to have at
last won some success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For their part the scientists have
been working on a method of preserving semen by freezing, something they have
now perfected and, if I understood correctly what I read (always a careful
precaution to enter),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they have managed
by careful programmes of artificial insemination to produce some 40 calves that
they are convinced have reverted to the pure strain of plains bison, one whose
scientific name is now apparently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bison
bison bison</i> as distinct from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bison
bison athabascae</i>, the scientific handle of the woods bison and of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bison bison</i> to the original strain of
plains bison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some Saskatchewan First Nations have
been central to this development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
we were making our film we were interested in what was being done at Elk Island
National Park, a small park east of Edmonton, in which herds of plains and wood
bison have been kept divided, their progeny to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>be later used to implant small herds in different parts of the prairies.
We filmed one such transfer, and used some archival footage to show the
fruitless effort made earlier to vaccinate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the bison in the huge park to ensure their racial
purity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This effort foundered simply on
the immense size of the park: the bison wandered all over it --- imagine, a
park bigger than Switzerland and the effort needed to roundup every animal
therein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rangers never found it
possible to round up the whole herd. I seem to remember the best they ever
managed to do was to vaccinate 4,000 out of the 12,000 estimated population at
the time. So new measures were obviously necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My conclusion from having worked on
the film was that it was extremely encouraging<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to find that the federal government, through its wildlife service, were
going to such lengths to preserve a magnificent animal that had been driven to
the edge of extinction by the insensate bloodlust of the early<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prairie settlers, who did not hesitate to
involve Indian tribesmen in their nefarious effort to wipe the animal from the
face of the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is, however, clear
that he Indians had only a small part of the campaign, which was one of the
most successful animal extermination projects evr recorded: our archival
footage showed scenes that must be familiar to Canadians, of huge piles of
bison skulls, amounting to hundreds of thousands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We discovered that the Americans had
gathered the remains of what was left to them after the transport north of the
majority of their remaining population into a smaller national park, known as
the National Bison Range, which lies in a beautiful hilly countryside, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just south of the border <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where we were permitted to shoot. Also, we found
an invaluable photographic record of the actual 1907 transfer of the animals
to Canada, recorded on the old-fashioned glass plates kept in the University of
Montana in Missoula. So we were pleased that our film, overall, managed to give
a good sense of the history of an animal species that has played an integral
part in the history of Canada. The name of the NFB film is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Buffalo Saga</i>, co-directed by myself and Michael
McKennirey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">This
week’s exchange of pleasantries between Donald Truup’s America and the mullahs
of Iran brought me almost face-to-face with the possibility of global war for
only the second time I can remember in my long life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have to be tentative about making
this claim, because our Western nations appear to have been fighting one war or
another almost continuously over the many decades I can remember, but only once
before had we been called upon to confront such competing threats as Trump and
Iran have exchanged this week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The only other dangerous occasion I
remember so very clearly came in response to what is now called the Cuban <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>missile crisis, a crisis caused, as we can now
see with the benefit of hindsight, by the impetuosity of Nikita Khrushchev in
deciding to plant nuclear-armed missies in the island of Cuba, which had only
fairly recently declared itself a member of what we thought of as the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>socialist bloc of anti-western nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In those days the world was more
starkly divided than it is now, first between the socialist and capitalist
blocs (represented militarily by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NATO alliance </i></b>(American-dominated<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">)</i></b>
and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Warsaw Pact</i></b> countries (of the Soviet-dominated nations), and
secondly between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">developed</i></b> (primarily western, capitalist) nations and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">developing
</i></b>(primarily impoverished former colonies),with the Group of 77 forming
an additional group of impoverished nations that were exercised with the
difficult task of winning a fair slice of the trading pie, in those days
totally dominated by the prosperous west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I believe the Group of 77 still exists although it now is said to have
132 member countries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These groupings were not mutually
exclusive, but tended to spill over into each other at certain points. This was
particularly so in relation to what was eventually called the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">non-aligned
bloc, </i></b>which was inspired originally by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime
Minister of India, who had spent his long periods of imprisonment under the
former British rulers in writing several books, on which I have to add in what
they nowadays call<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>full disclosure, that
I feasted as a teenager.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nehru, along with the soviet-block
rebel, Marshal Josep Broz Tito, of Yugoslavia, combined their immense global
prestige to set in motion the idea of the non-aligned bloc, and they were
helped along by the second most powerful man in the Chinese Communist hierarchy
Chou en Lai, who was in those days the favourite Chinese communist among
western thinkers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thee were 24 nations at the 1961
conference of these non-aligned, most of them from Africa, the Middle East and
south-east Asia. They agreed five principles: namely </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">mutual respect for each other's territorial
integrity and </span><u><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">sovereignty, </span></u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">mutual non-aggression. non-interference in domestic
affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In those days
it was the non-aligned attitudes that most appealed to me. My enthusiasm for
Nehru led me in 1951 to India as a so-called social worker, a trip and a job
for which I was completely unprepared, and in the advancement of which I did
not do anything for India, but certainly received an education about the world
as I mingled and worked briefly with that country’s huddled impoverished
masses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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later, in October of 1962, by which time I was established in London with a good
job (make that a miraculously good job) working for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Montreal Star </i>newspaper, I found myself standing in Trafalgar
Square as part of a huge crowd, with my eighteen-month-old son hanging on to my
hand, listening as the eminent philosopher (and also, as Wikipedia reminds me,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic" title="Mathematical logic"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">logician</span></a>, mathematician, historian, writer,
essayist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_critic" title="Social critic"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">social critic</span></a>, political activist, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates" title="List of Nobel laureates"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nobel laureate</span></a>), </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest men of our
age, an old man of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ninety years, who had to be lifted on to the
plinth carefully because he looked as if, were he to be dropped, he would
probably have shattered into pieces, vigorously, in spite of his age, and in a
high-pitched squeaky voice, haranguing the two principals in the Cuban missile
crisis which was hanging in the balance at that very moment, as the Americans
were surrounding the ship carrying the missiles to Cuba. Russell described Khrushchev
and Kennedy as two madmen, and warned of dire consequences if hey did not pull
out of this suicidal demarche. We were left in no doubt by Bertrand Russell,
that the dire consequences in question would be a nuclear apocalypse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Well, it
turned out that Khrushchev and the brothers Kennedy were open to reason, and
they did negotiate their way out of this grave crisis, which to this day
remains the closest we have ever come to the nuclear disaster that has hung over
all our heads since the Americans took the fateful decision to bomb Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But can we
say the same of the principals in our current crisis? The circumstances are
peculiar, first because of the election to the top job in the United States of
a man temperamentally unsuited to fulfil the task; secondly, his behaviour as
president has been so erratic, so inchoate, so lacking in the balance and
thoughtfulness required of any president, that with the exchange of insults
that followed his impulsive and unnecessary assassination of the leading
soldier in Iran, we onlookers had every reason to fear for the worst. His
threat to blow up 52 Iranian cultural sites put the fear of god into most of
us, and although we do not know anything about what happened after the Iranians
replied moderately to the assassination, we could only hope that as the world’s
foremost bully he would react as all bullies do, that when confronted they tend
to retreat, especially if the person they are bullying has the wherewithal to
hurt them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">So, today
we are in this odd position in which the Iranians are saying the Ameircans backed
down while Trump, a man who never admits to a failure, boasts <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that he has taken the moderate course. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">But think
of it fellows: the fate of the world lies between the fanatic mullahs of Iran,
and the narcissistic boastful egotistical Donald Trump. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Who
wouldn’t be worried? .Would you be worried, archie? No, boss, wot the hell,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wot the hell, toujours gai, toujours gai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Not!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: justify;">Euphemism is the language
of diplomacy. But although recent events have been marked by an abandonment of
diplomacy by the great powers, nevertheless we are awash in a tsunami of
euphemism.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">i can’t say that at the moment I envy
Justin Trudeau. At a time when our greatest ally, with whose future we are
inextricably involved by the facts of geography, demography, and international
diplomacy,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has committed an unprovoked
aggression against another nation, an act that any normal person would have to
describe as an act of war, our Prime Minister, to quote the headline in one of
this morning’s newspapers, has no option but to “stay mum” on the issue. Like
me, like my children, like my friends, like everybody, in fact, he knows that
what Trump has done in his capacity as President of the United States is
indefensible. But<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>although our leader
knows<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that the unpredictable president
could possibly bring down on our country the most terrible consequences, Trudeau
has to stay quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope he realizes
that his constituents, namely most of the people of Canada, back him in the
difficult path he is forced to follow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My only quibble might be to agree
with someone who said this week that we have knuckled under too far to the
bully. But if our Prime Minister stood up and told the truth, if he acknowledged
in public that when push comes to we cannot knuckle under to to his murderous tactics,
no one could be sure how the idiot might react. (I use the word “idiot”
advisedly, because this man does seem to lack the information, let alone the
intelligence and balance that is needed to do his job.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s face it, the election of Trump
to the presidency was a terrible accident. Evcn those staunch Americans who
have shrunk from criticizing him on the grounds that respect is owed to the
office he fulfils, must know in their hearts that such an excuse makes of their
country a laughing stock around the world. On the other hand, one has to admit
that the troubles of the United States did not begin with President Trump. We
thought Reagan and Bush were bad enough, so bad, indeed that we would never see
worse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But let us remember, as did Brett
Williams, a blogger on the site <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Common
Dreams</i> just yesterday, that since the Second World War, the US<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has invaded or attacked </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">North Korea, Puerto Rico,
Lebanon, Cuba, North Vietnam, Laos, the Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Libya,
Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan,
Serbia, Yemen, Pakistan and Syria, and that in pursuit of whatever were their
aims in these conflicts, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the casualties
have amounted to millions dead --- soldiers, combatants and non-combatants,
men, women and children who were innocent bystanders --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all gone, in their millions,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1,000.000
North Vietnamese<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">200,000
Cambodians<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">150,000
Laotians<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1.200,000
--- 2,000000 in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan in the “war against terrorism.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many
thousands more have died in Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Libya, all in US-approved
and backed conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And as for their claim to having
never interfered in foreign eleciions, the recent impeachment hearings<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>must surely have demonstrated to anyone who
listened with open ears, with facts and figures to match, that the United
States year after year spent millions of of dollars to get rid of a Ukrainian <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government it didn’t like, and replace it with
an obedient puppet regime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No one can be surprised that the
Iraqi Parliament has asked for all foreign troops to be withdrawn from their
country. The news that Canada is moving its training effort in Iraq to the
neighbouring territory of Kuwait must be welcomed in the light of all these
horrendous facts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But even the Canadian Prime Minister
must be close to being pushed to a place he must find untenable when the
American president has responded to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iranian threat of retaliation for the assassination of their leading
soldier, by threatening to target and destroy 52 Iranian cultural objects.
Surely we cannot follow im in this ridiculous, immoral and amoral aim. Nor can
we support his enraged threat, in response to the Iraqi decision to kick all
foreign troops off the soil of Iraq, that he would impose the most terrible
sanctions yet on the Iraqi people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This,
the threat of sanctions by a deranged president because a nation opposes
foreign troops on its soil, is going way past what any Canadian leader can
possibly support, or at least, I am hoping so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
have been at this scribbling game, in a more or less professional way, since
1945, and since the year in which </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
first took an interest in a general election, 1949, my political views have not
changed very significantly.</span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Leaving aside
all references to which country I lived in at which time, I started out as a convinced
supporter of the Labour party (that until 1949 had formed a solid, successful
government), and right up until the British election last month --- the first
election I can remember in which the boasts of its politicians that it was to
be one of the most important in the history of the country appear to be
justified by the results---- my preferences have remained the same --- always a
Labour party guy, a socialist by conviction, a dissenter by inclination and
intuition, and an almost sure loser in every election I have voted in or
closely observed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My conclusion from this dismal
catalogue of failures has not been what one might have expected, that is, to
change my preference (or to put it in different words, to have learned from my
negative experiences). Not at all: my conclusion is that the road to a society
of equals, in which every person, whatever his or her talent, wealth, intellect
or background, will have an equal opportunity to make his or her best path through
life, will be a long and unnecessarily tortuous path indeed. Though in these
late years of a long life I am no longer animated by much faith in anything, I still
have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a residual faith that this aim of
the egalitarian society will be achieved sometime in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Like most people as they struggle
through life, I suppose I am always looking out for validation of my views or opinions,
and yesterday I had an occasion on which I veritably felt an impulse to cheer
loudly as such a validation was ringingly broadcast during a discussion on the
Russian TV news service RT. Of course, this validation was not directed at me
personally, I was just taking credit for having, for most of my life agreed
with the opinions being expressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The people expressing these opinions
were Chris Hedges, and Matt Taibbi, who could justifiably be named as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>among the leading dissenters from the
neo-liberal,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>globalizing viewpoint that
appears to be the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>overwhelmingly
accepted narrative of social, economic and cultural leaders of American opinion
in these parlous days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What they were describing was really
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as members of the commemtariat. Hedges spent 15 years working as a foreign
correspondent for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New York Times</i>,
having reportedly covered politics from 50 countries, and Taibbi came to
national attention for his articles in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling
Stone</i> some years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hedges is the
son of a Presbyterian minister, and briefly became one himself before embarking
on journalism. He still has a strong Christian background, but describes
himself as a Christian anarchist. Both agreed in the interview I heard
yesterday that in their experience, they were not expected to hold any real
views that might distinguish them from their peers, but were rather expecfed to
tailor their viewpoints to match those agreed upon by their colleagues. “I used
to wonder,” said Hedges, referring to his colleagues, “why they were so
mediocre,”.and Taibbi agreed with him: “It is because they are specially chosen,
that is why they are in the job.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have written and said, in almost
exactly the same words and over many years, just what they were saying last
weekend. A journalist may delude himself into believing he is free to express
himself as he feels fit, but should any of his opinions cross that bar over
which it is generally understood no one may step, then he or she can expect to
be quickly but quietly gotten rid of, one way or another. Taibbi (who led a
very colourful life before getting into journalism, much of it spent in Russia,
where he played professional sports for some years),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>agreed with Hedges that”they” (meaning media
employers) seldom resort to direct censorship, but find more indirect ways of
getting rid of embarrassing employees. Hedges in fact described the boss’s
reasoning as “a commerocial decision:” a publication written in an inoffensive,
anodyne style attracts a bigger audience, and that is why so many journals
present their information in such a flat and unexciting way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t heard that explanation before, but I have
recorded elsewhere how in my own case just walking into the editorial shop
became such a trial for me that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would
break out into a sweat every time I checked in. My wife suggested I should quit,
which I did. In fact, over a quarter of a century of daily journalism, I tended
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quit every job after three years
because I knew I could never build what is usually described as a career, in
journalism,; which turned out to be the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
was born in 1928, but at no time in my life since then have I ever expected to
be still alive in the equivalent decade, nearly 100 years later. Indeed, it is
only in recent years that I have begun to think of 1928 as a long time ago,
although there have been significant markers from time to time, attesting to the
fact that I was becoming long-lived. For example, although I was only eight at
the time of he 1936 Olympics in Berlin, nevertheless, the image of Jesse Owens
winning</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">the sprints and humiliating
Hitler by doing so has always been a very lively thing in my mind.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was just an insignificant little
kid in an insignificant litter country, not quite yet reached two million in
population, the youngest of six kids in the insignificant family of a village
carpenter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yet, in that, for us,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enchanting global event, we produced our own
tiny rebuff to the world’s would-be dictator in the form of the man who won the
1500 metres race, Jack Lovelock, who left all competitors gasping for air<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>behind him, Americans, Europeans, even the
Germans with their vain-glorious dreams of conquest, trailing in the wake of
this slight figure who overnight became hero to at least our two million,
indelibly printed into the fabric of our lives forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is probably the event that started
me off with my lifelong obsession with sport, something I have never been able
to outgrow, even though in my later years the very mention of sports drew upon
me disapproving looks from my friends, as if I was in some way unhinged and
deficient in intelligence. Gunder Haegg? Arne Andersson? Who the hell are you
talking about? Herb Elliott? Peter Snell? Champions from our small corner of
the world who both beat everyone, broke all the records,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and retired undefeated?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For .god’s sake, would you give it up man,
with the sports!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yet, when it came down to it, the
arena of sports was not a bad one in which to learn important life lessons:
about the inevitability of sometimes losing, the need to swallow defeat
gracefully and accept triumph modestly, useful stuff to know, learned from an older
brother over the dining room table transformed into a venue for ping-pong,
lessons easily transferable to the broader field of relationships beyond the
family, and work, as the decades flowed by in their inexorable way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I left not only my family home, but
my home country at the age of 22, keen to take a look at the wider world. I am
not sure I ever expected to stay away for ever, but that is how it has turned
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I associate countries and regions
with lessons learned. Australia, vast and empty, and yet for all their free and
easy assumptions,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a place that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seemed to be riven with racism against the
indigenous, and the non-Caucasian world; India, crammed to bursting with people,
people living on the pavements, on the railway stations, in their countless
impoverished villages under pieces of cardboard, tin and cloth, for me enough
exposure already to the grinding cruelty of intense global poverty; Britain,
distastefully divided between classes, marked off by signs such as accent and
dress, as well as by money,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>power and/or
the lack of these things; and finally Canada, where, by a series of what I can
only describe as accidents, I have ended up, another country where a few occupy
an immense land, much of it useless for habitation, but a country that has
emerged with slow deliberation from national infancy to responsible citizenship
in the world, as a place moderately welcoming to outsiders, in spite of being
preoccupied with trying to maintain its independent essence from the huge
neighbour state that, following the world war, emerged as the greatest power on
earth. Or as the Americans themselves so often describe it, “as the greatest
government, the wealthiest nation, the most advanced society that has ever
existed on the face of this Earth.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Or, to put it another way, as I have
so often described it myself “as a wonderful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>country in a gloriously beautiful landscape, occupied by a shitty
society<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marked by a pervading inequality
and injustice, in spite of their historical drive for openness and virtue in
all things.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, wot the hell. So much for these
New Year musings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the cockroach
Archie urged on Mehitabel the cat, “toujours gai, toujours gai.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
guess it becomes more or less second nature for a guy who, like me these days,
is just sitting and waiting for something to happen, to reach the conclusion,
in face of the bewilderment spread by the 24-hour news channels, that nothing
of any importance is really going on.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yesterday I was watching the BBC
World News, which claims to be the world’s leading source of breaking news,
only to be confronted right off the top of the newscast, with the information that
one person had been stabbed in some kind of home-invasion in New York, and
somewhere else two people had been stabbed to death by a crazed attacker. (I
did not make these examples up: they were hammered at me repetitiously every
half hour for the rest of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
interpret their presence at the top of the newscast to mean that, in the
opinion of the army of journalists serving these channels, nothing much was
happening around the world.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hour after hour, day after day, week
after week, these channels pour out information like this. They never miss an
accident, no matter where it may have happened. In Chile, some truck has run
off the road, killing three people when it overturned on to a car it has
collided with; in Zimbabwe, or some such African nation, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a mob of people has killed four when they have
raided some food shop in the hope of getting something to eat for Christmas; in
Australia, the entire population seems to be engaged in fighting forest fires,
or, if not actually forest fires ,at least scrub fires, already covering
hundreds of square miles of territory, having consumed 140 houses, and forcing
the evacuation of tens of thousands of people; while just outside of London an
abandoned baby’s body has just been found in a dumpster, and a deranged couple
had been arrested and are to be charged with causing bodily harm, with graver
charges to follow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(I hasten to say that I have made up
all these examples from the above paragraph, a confession designed to forestall
your beginning to think that I myself might be terminally deranged, sitting
here with nothing better to do than collect examples of news-channel delinquencies.)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">More important news does creep in
from time to time: for example, someone might give a talk pointing out that the
United States is en route to losing its hegemonic grip on the world’s affairs, while
wallowing in a morass of muck and slime that they have themselves played the
major part in creating (through the use, for the most part, of the gun and
missile as their major weapons for pursuing peace, most of this precipitous
decline in influence having come to notice by their having fallen into the grip
of an immoral, narcissistic, lunatic with only a vague idea of what he should
be doing in the eminent post to which he has <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>somehow --- no one is quite sure how --- he
has been elected.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One has only to try to summarize this
global situation in a single sentence, as I have done above, to recognize that
it is a situation virtually out of the control of ordinary people everywhere,
among whose utilitarian ranks I am nestling in the hope of never being
recognized as the fraud pretend commentator that I am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I spent a good part of my working
life as a reporter charged with bringing the news to the people. I realize,
looking back with the benefit of hindsight, how fortunate I was that my career
as a news-gatherer preceded the arrival of the 24-hour news channel, and the
hand-held telephone by which a minion in some remote office could summon me,
his acolyte out there on the ground of some front-line conflict, who would in
these modern times have been irrevocably trapped by the need to respond to the
minion’s every request and whim, no matter how irrelevant they might appear to
me to be with my better local knowledge of the situation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are now endless studies that
have proven the built-in bias with which almost every news-outlet in the world
is guilty, just as a matter of course -- I am thinking here even of the most
reputable papers --- The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Times,
The Times of London,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Guardian, The
Washington Post ---- </i>most of which have run through drastic changes of ownership
that have left them in the control of major corporations only peripherally
interested in the business of news and information. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many years ago I reviewed for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canadian Forum</i> the ground-breaking book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Manufacturing Consent</i>, by .Edward S.
Herman and Noam Chomsky, in which, with chapter and verse, all pretensions of
the mainstream press to be objective, or even interested in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>distributing a rough approximation of the
truth, were exploded once and for all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
wasn't the first such book to demolish the pretentions to objectivity of the
mainstream press, but it was by far the most authoritative, to such a point
that the book is still in print 32 years after its publication in 1988, and has
been the subject of various follow-up, piggy-back illuminations on film and TV,
but without, I have to admit, having yet forced any nation to give up its
desire to have the ultimate weapon of self-destruction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During my tenure as a correspondent for a Canadian newspaper in London,
England, I had reviewed a study by a midlands university (I believe it was
Sheffield, or Leicester or thereabouts)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of the coverage given by the newspapers to a proposed visit of
anti-nuclear activists to England for a huge international conference designed
to pressure the British government into abandoning its ownership of the nuclear
bomb, or its hosting of American nuclear-armed vessels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That work showed, just as conclusively as
Chomsky/Herman’s work did two decades later, that in advance of the event, the
press erected a formula --- namely the expectation of violence during the event
--- which they eventually used as the framework within which the whole event
and its coverage was to be interpreted. Virtually nothing of the coverage dealt
with the argument of the protesters that Britain should abandon its ownership
or hosting of any nuclear weapons ---- the actual coverage dealt almost
entirely with speculation (in advance) of the possibility of violence, the
search for violent incidents as the protest marches became real events, and the
triumphant discovery of a tiny number of the protesters who threw the
occasional brick through the occasional window, thus proving the accuracy of
the medias’ expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, this has taken me quite far
from my opening of this piece. If any readers have made it thus far, all I can
add for them is Wot the hell wot the hell! toujours gai, toujours gai. No one
has dropped the ultimate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bomb, post
-Nagasaki, and all we ca do is hope that this continues. .even far beyond my
lifetime. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">One
of my sons is a lawyer. He is in criminal law, a very different animal from the
corporate law that most of his fellow-students five or six years ago were
intending to pursue. He is not skilled in that aspect of law, and I know
absolutely nothing about any branch of law, so on the question of Canada’s
sensitive relationships with China, it is perhaps not surprising that we have
one of our infrequent disagreements. He adopts the standard legal argument; I
argue, on the contrary that it is time for commnsense to be applied to this
idiotic clash of values.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The whole thing began with Canada’s
arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a high executive in the huge Chinese company Huawei,
that has penetrated to virtually the whole world with its various technological
implements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knew in
advance that she was to be arrested, at the request of the United States, and
since that moment on December 1 of 2018, we (meaning Canada) have been acting
like a chicken caught in a car’s headlights, immobile, responsive only to the
extradition request, and unwilling to make any compromise, even when there is
obviously no other way of obtaining the release of the two Michaels, Canadian
citizens who were arbitrarily arrested by China as a retaliatory measure not long
after Meng’s arrest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Our mantra has been, we are a country
governed by rule of law; we have been sitting on this high horse for more than
a year. Several important Liberal politicians, including former Prime Minister
Jean Chretien, who, during his time at the top put a lot of effort into<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>maintaining good relations with China, John
Manley and John McCallum, former ministers, have urged the government to deal
with what seem to me to be facts just as important as those the government is
standing steadfast on. During these 12 months the CBC has continued to parade a
variety of former Canadian ambassadors to China who have urged that we should
stand firm and try to mobilize support from the international community for our
position, advice that has so far literally brought us not a step nearer to the
solution of the problem. In addition, Canada’s agricultural exports to China
have dropped drastically, bringing worrying times for Canadian farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My argument, which I expressed not long
after Ms. Meng's arrest, is that extradition is a political issue not simply a
legal one. An extradition can be ordered only by the Minister of Justice, and a
further aspect is that an extradition can only be based on a law that is an
offence in Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since the law Ms. Meng is accused of
violating has something to do with American sanctions against Iran, it is not a
Canadian law extant in this country, so the solution could hardy be simpler:
our responsible minister could announce that, having considered the matter carefully,
the proposed extradition does not fall within Canadian law and is therefore
refused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course, Donald Trump could be
expected to rant and rave and threaten to impose tariffs or sanctions on Canadian
goods; but he is a bully, and a bully can always be faced down, more especially
in a situation in which the two contesting sides are the closest of friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This seems to be the only way that
Canada can achieve what our ministers keep saying are the irreducible and
essential <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aspects of this case: namely, that
the two Michaels should be released from detention by the Chinese, following
the release by Canada of Ms. Meng, and the resumption of normal relations
between our two countries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t know if this simple solution
has occurred to the dunderheads in our government, but I offer it to them as an
idea that can hardly fail. The only argument against it is that we might be
offering a hostage to fortune: but my sense is that we should allow the future
to take care of itself. If our problem is to get our two Michaels home, let’s
get on about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To all of which I can only
add: wot the hell, wot the hell, toujours gai, toujours gai!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Shocked
as I was by the total rejection of the Labour Party in the British elections by
its hitherto loyal working class supporters, I have felt it better to wait for
a week or so before commenting, rather that to engage in a tiresome
anti-establishment rant. My mind was full of the publicly acknowledged
ferocious campaign of character assassination conducted against Jeremy Corbyn
since he was elected to lead the Labour Party in 2015, and by the fact that the
mainstream media of information had acted as if this had never happened.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I had even begun to doubt that I had
ever seen the AlJazeera show produced a couple of years ago in which they
proved conclusively that for a year or more, until he was unmasked,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Israeli embassy actually had a man on
their staff --- his name was Shai Masot, a senior political officer ---whose
full-time job was to undermine Corbyn so that he would never<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>become Prime Minister of a leading western
nation, him being a lifelong supporter of the Palestinians. This job he carried
out with spectacular success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Still, I realized that the successful
character assassination of Corbyn could not be put down to that reason alone,
and that if I wrote anything suggesting its importance it would appear to be no
more than special pleading, I decided to hang fire, waiting for commonsense to rescue
me from my disappointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To take the edge off my
anti-establishment fury, I am able to point to a similarly egregious, equally
disgusting,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>campaign, directed at
interfering in the last, and the coming,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>U.S. elections, that has been exposed by the dogged investigative
American reporter Greg Palast, who calls what he has revealed “</span><span style="background: white; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the
nationwide Jim Crow <i>Interstate Crosscheck</i> purge operation that
cost more than 1.1 million voters of colour their registrations and elected
Donald Trump.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Palast has worked on this for six years during
which he exposed Kris Kobach, the Republican secretary of state in Kansas, as
the point man in a campaign that has, by what Palast concedes are legal although
democratically disreputable means, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cancelled
the registration to vote from millions of properly qualified American voters, a
campaign<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that, although since publicly
exposed and cancelled by some states, is still continuing in at least a dozen
states with Kobach boasting of his intention to spread it into all 50 states of
the union. Indeed, only in the last few days I have reads of some huge number,
200,000 or more, voters having been newly scrubbed by these means from the
voter rolls in another American state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: dimgrey; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The means to this is simple: Kobach compared
voter lists from states which shared their lists with him. Here is Palast’s
explanation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lists from insiders he discovered that the supposed “cross-checking” had
resulted in the Republican investigators, led by Kobach,making some incredible
leaps of faith. As Palast writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“James <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Randolph</span> Johnson
of Virginia is supposed to be the same voter as James <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bidie</span> Johnson of Kansas.
James <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hunter</span> Johnson
of Virginia is supposed to be the same voter as James <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Cody</span> Johnson of Kansas.</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="background: white;">Note that in this example, not a single
middle name matches.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But don’t laugh, these so-called ‘matches’ were
critical to Trump’s supposed victory.</span> <span style="background: white;">Altogether,
we calculated that 1.1 million voters, overwhelmingly voters of colour, lost
their vote in key states.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Liberties Union) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kansas, joined me for
the launch of our film, </span></span></i></b><span style="background: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The Best Democracy Money Can Buy</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> in which I confront Kobach with the secret
lists he never thought I would see. Flustered, he lied to me on camera, then
lied again and again, though he called me later to try to walk back his
fabrications.</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="background: white;">I wasn’t fooled, Micah wasn’t fooled, nor was the
Women's League for Kansas which sponsored showings of our film all over
the state.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">“But here’s (another) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>problem: <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Crosscheck</span> is just one of 11 Jim Crow tricks we’ve
uncovered. Defeat one, and Jim Crow returns with two.”</span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, so much for democracy in
America. “Voter suppression”, as it is now called, is regarded by dissenting
people as a possible major factor in the forthcoming U.S election. No joke,
this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Britain I have discovered an
interesting posting, on an obscure website called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Will to Truth</i>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by a Labour
Party canvasser who went<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>door-to-door in
eight constituencies in the English north-west, all safe Labour seats, all but
one substantially Leave voters in the infamous 2016 referendum, and all lost to
the Tories in this election. This contributor, who prefers to work under an
alias EYAL,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has worked out four main
reasons for the labour defeat. His insights are revealing, and I am stealing the
major conclusions of his piece for the edification of my small band of readers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Having knocked on tens of thousands of
doors, and met with a wide range of targeted voters, I was not very surprised
by last night’s results. Anyone who has been listening openly to the repeating narratives
and emotions at the doorsteps of these traditional Labour voters, could not
have expected a different result.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“While totally broken
politically this morning, I do feel a great sense of gratitude for the
opportunity I had to visit and converse with the people of Leigh, Crew, Bolton,
Calder Valley, Altrincham, Blackpool, Bury, Newcastle, etc. Indeed, we lost all
these seats, but this fieldwork was an invaluable experience of getting familiar
with, listening to, and touring in person mainly working class and poverty
areas, outside of the big metropolises, that I have never visited before. I saw
their towns, homes, communities and lives. I walked for many hours up and down
their streets and estates and front gardens or front doors. I saw the different<br />
ways of living, smelt the smells, heard the sounds and voices, saw their neighbourhoods
and sometimes neglect or distress, and sensed the places in which they
experience. I listened to their stories, saw their faces and bodies and
clothes, shook their hands, and felt their frustrations…. But, in all honesty,
it wasn’t all that difficult to know. Many voters were very open outright about
not giving us their vote this time, while emphasising that they have never
voted Tory before, and many still preferred not to vote altogether over having
to vote Tory now, because they knew what that would mean to their rights and
condition, yet they would<br />
still not vote for us.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As
for his conclusions, they are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">First:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the most common frustration among
them was, without a doubt, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brexit</b>…For
Leave voters, Brexit now symbolises the way in which their voices were being
ignored, repeatedly and undemocratically, by the losing Remainers, who are also
associated with other classes and more privileged social groups. The way they
see it is<br />
this: before the referendum, all the parties pledged to respect its results,
but then didn’t. ….As far as they are concerned, Labour (and others) did not
fully respect the will of the working class, and a democratic result. They feel
betrayed….I suspect that had Labour advocated Leave in these elections, thus
respecting the vote of the working class and the results of a democratic referendum,
things would have looked different for Labour today.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Second:</b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Corbyn’s image.</b> Surprisingly, Only a
relative few, in my experience, resonated the vilifications that they were<br />
fed through the media, (like that he is a terrorist sympathiser, an extremist
or an anti-Semite). It was more common to encounter a vague emotional negative
hunch, a discomfort from the way they ‘felt’ about him. For whatever reasons
that they struggled to verbalise when asked, many explicitly ‘didn’t like him,’
regardless of their strong rational agreement with his social policies. The
media contributed to this image, sure, but if I may guess, I think that the
voters did not want a ‘nice old man,’ who ‘never did any wrong’ almost inhumanely,
who always engages in calm discussions, but would favour a more relatable and
animated person, who gets angry sometimes (after all, we have much to be angry
about), and who is perhaps more dominant in conversations and offers simple
messages, like Johnson. Remember that people vote more emotionally than
rationally, as an expression of their identities and wishes, and, sadly, our leader,
whose policies and personality were my own reasons for joining the canvassing, wasn’t
screen popular with the masses.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Third:</b><br />
A third topic was the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">breadth of Labour’s
manifesto</b>, especially when compared to the oversimplified non-manifesto of
the Tories, which they hammered repeatedly in soundbites over and over again.
Simply put, our broad scope has backfired. It felt to many like too much,
causing the plan and its funding to feel unrealistic and risky. ‘How are you
going to pay for all that?’ and ‘You will never be able to achieve so much’
were common responses. Of course, we had our answers to such statements, and
some canvassers did turn many people around, yet overall, we only met with
small parts of the general population, and for a very short time, so the main benefit
of these conversations was allowing us to listen, sense and make sense of these
interactions, rather than, again, to ‘educate’ the voters about all the things
that “we” can teach “them.”.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fourth:<br />
</b>Finally, a fourth frustration was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seeing
us only before elections</b>. Here, we should have had an advantage, because
nobody would ever volunteer to canvass for the Tories, whereas we brought large
numbers. Still, the timing and our plea for votes inevitably casts doubt on the
purity of our intentions, although, understandably, it is difficult to mobilise
volunteers – who usually have their own work, study and family commitments – outside
of election times. Nevertheless, it is important to surface this dominant issue
and think about it further.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
Finally</b>:<br />
My biggest lesson from the intense canvassing was one of humility, to which I
can only hope others on the Left in middle class and big cities would be
willing to listen to, too. I truly learnt a lot from these two weeks, about
being there, seeing and listening, and about the task ahead for the British
Left, if we are to overcome their alienation and justified sense of being left,
forgotten and not listened to. While last night brought us horrible news, which
will affect ‘them’ worse than me, and the scope of which we can only dread,
this outcome is not necessarily the end of the Left in Britain, but can be, if
we dare listen more openly, a new beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To all of which I can only
add my mantra: wot the hell, wot the hell, toujours gai, toujours gai!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Last
night something happened that I have never before seen in the many elections in
which I have either voted or taken an interest since I was 21 in 1949, in three
different countries. On the very strike of 10 pm British time, the BBC, in
consort, I believe, with other broadcasting organizations, several hours before
they had received a single result from the 10,000 polling stations, announced
that they had interviewed 20,000 people as they left the polls, and we able to
project that the Conservative party would win a crushing majority in the British
election. Boris Johnson, the new Tory Prime Minister, would need 326 seats for
a clear majority in the House of Commons, but the BBC was able to project that
he would win 388 seats, and Labour in its worst showing ever, only 191.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Without a scintilla of further proof
the BBC began to act as if their prophesy was actual fact: briefly they
introduced a young man, slightly plump, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called Ben Page, from Ipsos Mori, whoever they
may be, as the brains behind this whole 20,000 interview caper, but no further
explanation was offered as to how the prophesy was arrived at. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I hung in there for five and a half
hours, by which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>time it was quite
obvious that the BBC had called it correctly, if exaggerating somewhat the size
of the victory. I went to bed with the BBC suggesting Tories on 326, Labour
201, and when I got up at 4.30 am the actual result was standing at Tories<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>364, Labour 203.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am surely not the only person to be
wondering why, if such a result can be prophesied on the basis of 20,000 interviews,
why have an election at all?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Many Labour participants were willing
to put the blame on the unpopularity of their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the
distrust of whom was the first thing mentioned even in traditionally Labour
seats, when the canvassers did their door-to-door work. The question is, why
was Corbyn so unpopular, and it will come as no surprise to any readers of
these Chronicles that the reason was that since his election as Labour Party
leader, he has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of character assassination,
backed by the full panoply of wealth, influence and power of the wealth-owners,
who have seen to it that henceforth, they hope, no left-wing nonsense can ever
be trusted with the leadership of his country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That has certainly been a major
reason for this devastating result: but the entire campaign for Brexit, for
leaving the European Community after half a century of membership, a campaign
whose apotheosis came with the victory in the 2016 referendum on the subject, a
campaign of lies, exaggerations and bluster that appeared to derive from the
very belly of traditional England, certainly played a major role in this election
result. Corbyn, who was originally seen as a decent bloke who had been fighting
the good fight for left-wing causes all his life, including from the beginning
and through the many years of his political life, fighting against racism in all
its forms, was unbelievably and ludicrously tarred with the brush of anti-semitism,
in a well-funded campaign designed to destroy him as a political leader, which
is what it succeeded in doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rather than continue in this vein,
allow me to ramble and reminisce a little.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">*<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My wife Shirley and I arrived in
England in September 1951, sick to the stomach from our nine months spent in a
newly-liberated India, a country groaning under the worst poverty known to
mankind, from which we were very lucky, and very glad, to escape more or less
whole. For seven months I tried to get a job in journalism, while Shirley
worked as a supply teacher in the London system, writing nearly 100 letters of
application, none of which produced anything like a positive response. Eventually
I surrendered, went along to the Labour Exchange, and was directed to a
labouring job in a Lyons food factory in Hammersmith, at the magnificent wage
of four pounds and some pence a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(I can hear at least one of my
children groaning: “oh, no, not that three months of real work you had to do in
the factory again! Why don’t you give it a rest?”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, they were a major educational
experience for me, those three months. In this vast factory, manufacturing
terrible food for the Lyons tea-shops, and sending it out, I rubbed shoulders
with the women on the conveyor belt that it was my job to keep supplied with the
food they were packaging for dispatch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of the many hundreds in our department, only three of us were foreigners
---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>myself, and a .young Greek woman and
a Dutchman. I learned quickly that if anything went wrong, one need look no
furrher than “those fooking foreigners,” and I could count myself lucky that as
an English-speaker, more or less, even allowing for my strange Antipodean
accent (“wot, you ‘er reg’lar, then?”) I was absolved from responsibility for
any mistakes. I learned there that the English working class, immensely proud
as they were of having won the war single-handedly, as they believed, , distrusted
and disliked anyone who spoke one of those strange foreign languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, coming forward half a century, the English
workers have never <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trusted the Europeans?
So what else is new?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On the ease with which Jeremy Corbyn
was blackened as anti-semitic, against the evidence of his whole life’s work, I
can report that one of the dear middle-aged women on the line confided in me
one day, without raising a murmer of dissent from her mates, “There was one
good thing ‘itlter done, anyway.” And what was that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh, ‘e got rid of all them Jews.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So --- dear oh me! ---what else is
new? A valuable educational experience, as I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don't want to give the impression I
am living in the past or inventing phony excuses for the smashing defeat of
those I support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am used to these defeats: they have been regular
stations in my peripatetic passage through life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lived in Britain throughout the 1960s, the
years in which the British were slowly coming to terms with the fact that they
had lost their economic clout in global markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why they tried<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>join the European Economic Community, as it
was then called, so that they could make more money from trading with Europe
than they could by trading with their Commonwealth (that had loyally fought
alongside Britain in the war) Since I was not in love with British life, I have
not kept closely in touch with what has happened in Britain, and was surprised
the learn the other day that 35 per cent of the residents of London were born
elsewhere. .and --- I am thankful to a thoughtful article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le Devoir</i> for this ---- I did no realize
the extent to which, outside of London, in the once heavily industrial north,
British industry, by which the industrial revolution was initiated a century or
two ago, has been more or less hollowed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The proof of that is seen in the fact
that constituencies that had voted Labour for many decades yesterday abandoned
the Labour party. Most of them did not vote Tory, but they distributed their votes
among four or five competing parties, and in many places were undermined by the
decision of the Brexit party’s Nigel Farage not to contest any constituency in
which there might be some hope of a Labour defeat: thus, in one constituency
after another, the Tories were recorded as having increased their vote by one or
three or four or more,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and in places
where the Labour loss was up to 10 or 11 per cent, the Brexit party was
recorded as winning as much as seven or eight per cent of the vote, enough that,
along with the increased votes for LibDems, Green, of other small parties, was
enough to turn the tide against Labour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The unanimity with which the
traditional Labour voter turned away from their traditional choice is astonishing;
but even more important in this, it seems, was the simplicity of Boris Johnson’s
appeal: Let’s get Brexit done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
matter had dragged on so long, dominating British politics to the virtual
exclusion of everything else for the last three years, that the voters, weary
of it all, and with, as I have suggested, their traditional distrust of anyone
living on the other side of the .channel never far from the surface, they simply
decided to let them get on with it. That the result of any Brexit deal they
might be able to negotiate with the EU ia likely to cause economic disruption
that could be devastating, has apparently ceased to worry the benighted British
voter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Allow me to end with a quote from the
brilliant, unconventional Greek-inernationasl-economist, Yanis Varoufakis, a
man who has taught all around the world, with his own leftish interpretation of
global events, who wrote, in an article published this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>week:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“While Labour’s manifesto
is uniquely tailored to the</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span style="background: white;">concerns of
Britain’s so-called middle ground, never before has that</span> <span style="background: white;">territory been more hostile to Labour…….. If you ask
the commentariat for an explanation of this paradox, you will</span> <span style="background: white;">get an earful of chatter about Corbyn’s Marxism,
alleged anti-Europeanism</span> <span style="background: white;">and lack of
character. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“However, the truth is
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after he won Labour’s leadership in 2015, the game was</span> <span style="background: white;">afoot. Soon after Corbyn became leader, I warned that
a huge campaign of</span> <span style="background: white;">character
assassination was inevitable. It was not difficult to see it</span> <span style="background: white;">coming. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“<span style="background: white;">Social democratic
parties, like Labour, were tolerated to the extent that</span> <span style="background: white;">they tinkered around the edges of a socio-economic
order. But after the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">financial crash of 2008, Corbyn emerged and
turned Labour into a threat to</span> <span style="background: white;">the
privileged classes. </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In addition to all
that, I remember writing, just after Boris Johnson took over the reins of power
in theTory party, that his buffoonish breezy optimism could easily<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appeal to the British voter who was particularly
jaded after the long delays and many prevarications. Just let’s get it done,
was the message. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Andrew Neil, the BBC’s hardest political interrogator, last night kept
asking Tory representatives what they had to offer to the working class voters
who supported them, and I didn’t hear a single convincing answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But this is definitely the place for
me to end with my mantra: Wot the hell, wot the hell, toujours gai, toujours
gai.!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Ever
since I read Howard Zinn’s superb </span><i style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;">People’s
History of the United States</i><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;">, I have tended to denigrate in my mind the the
democratic pretensions of that great country as monstrous acts of hypocrisy,
perhaps the greatest ever foisted upon history. If I may sound for a moment
rather like</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Greta Thunberg, the
indomitable 16-year-old campaigner for climate action: “How could they, those
supposedly great statesmen, fill their founding constitution with such noble
words, while at the same time holding in subjection millions of imported
African slaves,</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 18pt;">on whose unpaid work
rested their own wealth and prosperity?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It must be a tough question for any
American propagandist to confront. But in this past week or so I came close to
being convinced of the propriety of their claim to be the exceptional nation,
resting on their noble Declaration of Independence, including the opening
sentence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">One would need
to be a mindless robot not to respond to the nobility of this declaration of
rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was when the Judiciary
committee of the House of Representatives called up four experts in constitutional
law to explain exactly where the concept of impeachment came from that I came
close to wavering in my critical approach to the U.S. and its pretensions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One after the other three of the four
explained that the penalty of impeachment (a word that merely means “charge” so
we have been told) came from the determination of the American colonists not to
have any kind of king, nor to leave any possible opening through which an
authoritarian-minded president might try to elevate his status to something
equivalent to the kinghood that they were so determined to confront.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The constitutional
lawyers, being experts in the art of explaining themselves, repeated, one after
the other, that if a president ever committed what the representatives
considered to be “crimes or misdmeanours”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>there should be a clear process laid out for calling him to account,
and, if necessary removing him. I have to say I warmed to the language, or,
rather, to the clarity of the language, used by the three professors,</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span lang="EN-AU">Michael Gerhardt,
of North Carolina, Noah Feldmasn, of Harvard University and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pamela Karlan, of Stanford University, and I
certainly warmed to their enthusiasm for the founding impulse --- that is, to
get rid of the unquestionable powers of the King--- to such a point that I
found myself musing that I wouldn’t mind being their student.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even the fourth, the dissenting
Professor, Jonathan Turley, of George Washington University law school, who had
the questionable brief of arguing in favour of President Trump, managed to do
so with such a winning humour as to almost overshadow the expertise of his three
colleagues, with whom, he insisted, he was on friendly terms, and with whom he could
disagree in a respectful manner. His argument was that, notwithstanding the
admittedly erratic behaviour of the man he was defending, his opponents had simply
not managed to collect a convincing enough series of facts to prove their case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said he had heard that some people were so
worked up, they had gotten mad under the strain. “I might be said to be mad, my
wife might be mad, my children mad, even my dog might be mad,” he said, but
that did not amount to an impeachable case against any president.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lost in admiration as I was for the
way these men and women each filled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>their allotted ten minutes, I was forced back on to an undeniable fact
that must (or should), confront every anti-American person, which is, that the
United States is such a huge grab-bag of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>every human charaeteristic that any generic attack can only be made if
one is ready to ignore their many American virtues. For example, speaking as a
convinced political left-winger, I have to admit that the most coherent
anti-administration, and thus anti-American arguments being made in the world
today are usually those poured out day after day online by American activists
themselves. The great republic, under no matter what strains, usually finds a place
for every --- or almost every --- opinion (note here: they frequently backslide
from this level of virtue, as in Senator Joe McCarthy’s heyday). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I suppose this --- my willingness to
be moved by eloquent and elegant argument --- could be described as a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>modified version of what we used to call “the
embrace of the duchesses,” a cunning means by which metropolitan rulers (such
as the leaders of the UK) could pull the wool over the eyes of easily-influenced
colonials with a displasy of pageantry and splendour. In just such a way do I
remember our Prime Minister of New Zealand, a dyed-in-the-wool socialist,
making a trip ti the United Kingdom in 1949 to attend an Imperial conference of
some sort and returning with the news that Winston Churchill had convinced him
that New Zealand had to introduce conscription as its contribution to the
anti-Soviet effort. (This was the more remarkable because this man, Peter Fraser,
had got into politics in 1917 when he was elected while in jail for his
opposition to conscription in the First World War. Ah, those duchesses!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I began to return to my normal moral
bearings when someone sent me something that had appeared in some dissident Alabama
publication. Here is what it said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">During
yesterday's impeachment hearing at the House Judiciary Committee one of the
Democrats' witnesses made some rather crazy statements. Pamela Karlan, a
Stanford law professor, first <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/twitter\.com\/NewsHour\/status\/1202348412504379392\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";">proved
to have bought</span> into neo-conservative delusions about the U.S. role
in the world:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">America is
not just 'the last best hope,' as Mr. Jefferies said, but it's also the shining
city on a hill. We can't be the shining city on a hill and promote democracy
around the world if we're not promoting it here at home.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As people in Bolivia and elsewhere can attest the United
States does not promote democracy. It promotes rightwing regimes and rogue
capitalism. The U.S. is itself <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/scholar\.princeton\.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/mgilens\/files\/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics\.doc\.pdf\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";">not
a democracy</span> but a functional oligarchy as a major Harvard study
found, when it reporte: “Economic elites and organized groups representing
business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government
policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no
independent influence.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But worse than Karlan's pseudo-patriotic propaganda claptrap
were <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/twitter\.com\/BBuchman_CNS\/status\/1202267180219478024\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";">her
remarks</span> on the Ukraine and Russia: “This is not just about our
national interests to protect elections or make sure Ukraine stays strong
and fights the Russians so we don't have to fight them here, but it's in our
national interest to promote democracy worldwide.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That was not
a joke. From the <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022https\:\/\/twitter\.com\/aaronjmate\/status\/1202373882960908293\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";">video</span> it
certainly seems that the woman believes that nonsense.</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This dissenting
voice had the effect of somewhat restoring my threatened intellectual
imbalance. And this march back to normalcy was aided when a few hours later I
read a small report in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guardian
Weekly</i>, to which I subscribe from London, commenting on the values of
so-called American democracy. I cannot do better than quote the entire two
paragraphs. First, it quoted from what it called<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the foremost non-partisan organization in the
U.S. devoted to voting rights and voting reform, the Brennan Centre of New York
University:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the last
20 years, reports the Centre, states have put barriers in front of the ballot
box --- imposing strict voter ID laws,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cutting voting times, restricting registration,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and purging voter rolls. These efforts, which
reeeived a boost when the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in 2013,
have kept significant numbers of eligible voters from the polls, hitting all
Americans, but placing special burdens on racial minorities, poor people, and
young and old voters.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The measures these states have introduced
affecting millions of Americans, are designed to suppress the vote, hence the
term ‘voter suppression’. Such policies not only endanger the gains of the
civil rights era, which ushered in the Voting Rights Act, but they also
threaten the notion that the U.S. is at the forefront of liberal democracies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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have been watching the Brexit shenanigans in Britain with close attention for
many months, and I could not help but think, “Here they go again, those Tory
grandees, carefully raised in life through their special system of schools,
universities and clubs to believe that only they have the right to rule their
nation.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You could feel the attitude every
time the then-Prime Minister Theresa May spoke in tones of withering contempt
to the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn. It was all there, underneath
the polite Tory façade, just as it has always been: I could have been listening
to Harold Macmillan or one of his ministers, talking on the same subject almost
half a century ago, describing the ruination that lay ahead for the nation
should they ever have been foolish enough to vary from the Tory pathway. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I spent 11 years of my life as a
resident of Britain, observing the breed from close up, and I think one of the
best descriptions of them was given recently by Jean-Claude Juncker, the
European politician, who said, “everyone understands English, but no one
understands England.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Echoes of the historic attitude were
heard in the remarks by Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, on accepting the
challenge to a new election . “I will be proud to be the Prime Minister,” he
said, “but I have to warn that it will be very different because we have not
been born to rule.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t want to give the impression there
is nothing admirable about this entrenched Tory attitude to life. What is
admirable was on display when the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had to
make a graceful speech of farewell on the occasion of the retirement from office
of John<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bercow, the Speaker of the House
of Commons, a man that in other circumstances Johnson may well have relished
the thought of burying, so detestable does he appear to find him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He slithered though this address with
immense gracefulness, drawing many laughs, and even a big belly laugh from
Bercow himself, winding it up with a play around the word “ministrations”, the
significance of which I only later came to understand when I heard a play-back
of how Bercow himself had used the word frequently while admonishing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>members. It was an elegant display by Johnson,
a man who appears to be almost toxic to most of the political establishment,
who are to be heard denouncing how uncomfortable and unsuccessful have been
Johnson’s recent appearances in Parliament. At those same times I have found myself
thinking that the man may be a vulgar pretender, but I can imagine him going over
big with the Tories main base voters. “Enough of delay and prevarication,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is Johnson’s message. “Let’s get Brexit done.
That’s what everybody wants, and I am going to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Tory party’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>merciless, steely assumption of authority
which enabled them half a century ago without a qualm to deliver their poorly
equipped colonies to make their way in a cruel world economy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>goes along with a civilized overview that has
made Britain one of the most admired democracies in the modern world, the place
that all dissenters could retreat to when things became too hot at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the 1960s, when I worked there as a foreign
reporter, Britain was full of movements pushing for independence in their colonies.
I interviewed numerous young protesters who later became respected world
figures --- Kenneth Kaunda, of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern
Rhodesia, now called Zambia, Julius Nyerere,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tanganyika, now called Tanzania, the Sardana of Sokoto, of Nigeria,
Cheddi Jagan of British Guiana, now called Guyana, and so on, all unsuccessful
leaders in waiting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Macmillan government had taken office to replace
the disgraced government headed by Sir Anthony Eden, (</span><span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC,
PC --- oh, yes, they stitch themselves up with numerous titles and recognitions
of their worth, these grandees), which had made the rookie mistake of joining
France and Israel in invading Egypt to try to turn back the nationalization of
the Suez canal, the sub-plot here being that of course a nation of wogs, as the British thought of them, could
never be trusted to run such a complex organism as an international canal. This
was a last-gasp for the old-style colonialism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They adjusted almost immediately to the new-style colonialism, and part
of that adjustment was that when Britain believed it could make more money out
of trading with Europe than with the colonies, it was time to drop the
colonies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
was the task undertaken with effortless ease by Harold Macmillan </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1st Earl of Stockton, OM,
PC, FRS, a considerable stitch-up), who lives in my memory as the only speaker
I have ever seen to deliver a tongue-in-cheek joke with his actual tongue in
his actual cheek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He had supreme self-confidence coming from an internationally successful
business family descended through his grandfather, a crofter on the Scottish
Isle of Arran, something he never tired of boasting about, and his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sang-froid</i> was world-class. It enabled
him on one occasion, after having just sacked five ministers at a single blow, to
go to London airport en route for Russia, to dismiss the problem “as a little
local difficulty” not worthy of serious attention. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">On another
more famous occasion when Nikita Khrushchev made one of his turbulent
appearances at the United Nations, and took off his shoe during one speech with
which to bang the lecturn for added emphasis, Macmillan could be heard to murmur,
“could we have it in translation?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He
might have been more severely dealt with in modern times. Here is John Crace, a
humorous political commentator on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i>,
talking about the present Prime Minister: </span><span style="background: white; color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Then there is </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #ab0613;"><span lang="EN-US">Boris
Johnson</span></span></a></span><span style="background: white; color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> himself, a byword for untrustworthiness, duplicity and laziness…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He went further on a later occasion:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The lying then became so out of
control, that the lies started backing up on each other so that he couldn’t
even connect them into meaningful sentences. He accused Corbyn of dithering
when he could barely hang on to a single thought. Unable even to realise just
how badly he comes across.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #121212; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="background: #FEF9F5; margin-left: 2.0cm;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt;">“Johnson fails both as a
serious politician and as a comedy performer. At a newcomers’ open-mic night he
would have been booed off in under 30 seconds. Still, he had got all his lies
in and that’s what really counted. And with any luck, some of them might have
been believed.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And there was I thinking how
skilfully (and unfortunately, from my point of view) Johnson was handling
matters in Parliament!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I only once in my career ventured,
more or less by accident, into this astonishing world of British upper-class
assumptions. It occurred on the only time I ever travelled first class, on a
British ship from Montreal to London to take up my new job, the ticket having
been bought by the company. At the first-night captain’s cocktail party, my
wife and I decide to look in, just for fun, so we could laugh at all the toffs.
There, we were buttonholed by a fellow who was returning from a session as
British Army representative to the NATO office. One of his former appointments
had been as commander of the Commonwealth troops in Korea, and he was returning
home to take over the northern command of the British Army. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This was Lt-Gen Sir Michael West (</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath"><span style="color: #0b0080;">GCB</span></a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Order" title="Distinguished Service Order"><span style="color: #0b0080;">DSO</span></a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_bar" title="Medal bar"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Two Bars</span></a>, quite an impressive military
stich-up this, with two bars to the old DSO). He seemed to be a man of
immensely impressive enthusiasms, the most recent of which was for James
Michener’s novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hawaii, </i>presently
reading, that he pronounced to be absolutely one of the great ones. To our
surprise Sir Mike and his wife Cynthia sought us out on later occasions, and by the time we were due to arrive, he suggested we could have an interest in
renting a small apartment they kept in London that they would have no immediate
use for over the next year. He invited us to meet on the following Monday,
where, in an atmosphere of riotous cheer, fuelled by several of his
generously-mixed martinis, we agreed on the business deal, and haled off
downtown to Wheeler’s, one of the posher restaurants in London for a further
riotous occasion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The afore-going describes every one of the several visits they paid to
us in London over the next year, after which he invited us to visit him in
Yorkshire at Christmas. This was the sort of man who, finding himself expected
to live in an ugly ancient sone pile in the Yorkshire countryside, announced he
would do so only if he could have central heating installed throughout. Having
done that he decided to paint the exterior of the pile of stone --- pink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He did his with no further trouble from his superiors except, that after
his death fifteen years later, his biography in Wikipedia confirmed he was a
friend of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan, and was a witty and unconventional soldier
with a taste for jazz and partying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I once asked him why the British generals, unlike the French, never threatened
to take over power in Britain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He thought for a moment and then said, “We have discussed it from time to
time, By the end of our first whisky we have all dissolved in laughter.” After
a moment’s more thought he added: “I think it is that if I raised my arm and
said, On to Whitehall, chaps, no one would follow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lower down, after listing his considerable military achievements around
the world, the biography comments:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“West was often routinely provocative and, as a relatively junior
officer, he regularly challenged US President </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Dwight
D. Eisenhower</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">'s
planning and was ‘invariably’ found to be right.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_West_(British_Army_officer)#cite_note-ap-2"><span style="color: #0b0080;">[2]</span></a></sup> Despite his successes and
influence, West was thought to be too unpredictable for the highest levels of
command and he retired in September 1965.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whatever the army brass might have thought of him, to me Mike West
seemed like the sort of guy you would like to have in your corner if you were
facing a fight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m not sure the same could be said of the rest of his class,
unfortunately. We may be given the chance to find out if Boris Johnson becomes
Prime Minister for the second time, confirmed by vote of the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />boyce richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166421633433425789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post-9393189205577016562019-11-04T14:30:00.003-05:002019-11-04T14:30:35.869-05:00My Log 769 November 4 2019; Chronicles from my Tenth Decade:204; A remarkable event, bigger than any game, happened at the weekend when South Africa, with a black captain and five black players, won the Rugby World Cup
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
had looked forward to the Rugby World Cup, held in Japan, for at least two
years, always convinced that I would never make it. Just two months before I
was ready to turn 90, I was so convinced that I began to write these Chronicles,
just as something to keep me occupied.</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Well, I made it, not only to that major turning point in life, the big
Nine-Oh, as I often think of it, but far beyond, almost two years beyond, when
the competition began at the beginning of October. </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Past the early days of the tournament, when my
favoured team, the New Zealand All Blacks (photos of which back to 1905,
assiduous readers may remember, since I have often mentioned it,</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I had pinned to my bedroom wall as a kid of
six or seven), opened the tournament</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">with a magisterial performance in defeating the South African Springboks,
then right on to that unexpected</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">day
when the All Blacks rolled over and played dead in face of a superb semi-final
display by England, a game that not only left the All Blacks to play for third
place, but also, as it happened, drained the remaining life out of the England
team, so that in the fateful final </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">against
the South Africans, they in turn were overcome just as completely as they had
overcome the All Blacks.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Out of deference to my readers and
their admitted lack of interest in Rugby, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is almost the last word I will have to
say on the actual games played. What has interested me more is something the
meaning of which has imposed itself more forcibly since the overwhelming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Springbok win on Saturday. That is, the
spectacle of their captain, Siya Kolisi, an extremely black African, holding up
the victor’s Cup in triumph, and subsequently making a brief but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extremely apposite little speech about the beyond-Rugby
meaning to his nation of this triumph.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To fully understand that, one must
know something of the history of South African Rugby which until the defeat of
the Apartheid regime, was the acknowledged sport of white south Africa, with
the tough, dominant South African Boers having, as the rivalry developed, shown
themselves of such merit that hardly anyone could beat them. Few games were
played between the nations that became the two great rivals, New Zealand and
South Africa, and I got into being a major fan when I was just nine, in 1937,
when South Africa, a brilliant all-white team of mostly Boers, beat the pants
off us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The South African team was called the
Springboks for the first time during a tour in Europe in 1906; the All Blacks
gaining their nickname a year before that, either from their being dressed all
in black, or because some commentator, marvelling at the quality of their game,
wrote that they had never seen any players like these New Zealanders,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who ran and passed as if “they are all
backs”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">New Zealand did not have an intimate
relationship with South African Rugby during the dismal years in which the
self-governing Boers were moving slowly towards the lunatic solution of
apartheid (which I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heard Henrik
Verwoerd, their Prime Minister in the 1960s describe at a press conference as
“good neighbourliness”, to which a few minutes later<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard Pandit Nehru, the Indian Prime
Minister reply sharply, “I wouldn’t like to be his neighbour, then”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During all those decades British-raised nations
like New Zealand soporifically accepted the restrictions the South Africans insisted
on placing on the membership of teams, not only their own teams, but also the
teams that opposed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By 1949, when I was a young reporter
covering a trial match whose purpose was towards choosing an All Black team to
visit South Africa, I distinctly remember that the outstanding player at the
trial was a fellow called Taylor. But never mind his ability, he was considered
not to have the qualifications needed to visit South Africa because he was a Maori.
There were many other fine Maori players --- I remember especially the greatest
payer I have ever seen, the immortal Johnny Smith, who arose to fame as a
member of the Kiwis team gathered from the New Zealand Army abroad, who dazzled
the New Zealand public with his play when they toured the country ---- players
who should have been eligible for that tour to South Africa, but were excluded
because of their race by the New Zealand Rugby authorities --- a distinct black
mark against that passing grade that New Zealanders like to give themselves on
the subject of race. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This injustice toward the Maori
players in 1949 stuck in my craw, and when four years later I found myself working
on a small weekly paper in Coventry, England, alongside an English-speaking
South African, fresh off their so-called education system, I was so disgusted
by the contempt with which he spoke of the black population of his country, as
to as make of me a lifelong opponent of that particular form of
pseudo-religion, and to decisively<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">kill
off any wish I might have had to visit that beautiful but troubled country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By the 1960s, a decade<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of intense political agitation in Britain that
gave rise to Harold Wilson’s Labour government, I had seen a bit more of the
world, which consolidated in me a humanitarian impulse towards disbelieving any
racist propaganda, under whichever disguise it is offered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course my judgment of South Africa
is no doubt too severe. Although I keep reading from recent visitors that
apartheid still exists there in that the white population is still in control
of anything that matters, even by the 1980s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>--- I have to keep reminding myself how long ago that was, almost 40
years --- there were the occasional signs of change in that country.
Nevertheless, New Zealand’s continuing involvement with South African sport had
led the African nations to boycott the Montreal Olympic Games. The following
year a Commonwealth conference passed the Gleneagles agreement<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pledging their members “to discourage contact
and competition between their sportsmen and sporting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organizations, teams or individuals and those
from South Africa.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Before a Springbok team was chosen
for the next rugby<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tour of New Zealand
in 1981, the captain Morne Du Plessis,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the scion of a leading South African sporting family, whose father had
preceded him as Springbok captain, recognized the impossibility of their
continuing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>racist ideology in the modern
world, and thus withdrew himself from the game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just in time, because that 1981 tour
should never have been allowed to take place. New Zealand radicals, at last,
were ready for it: every game had to be played in the face of massive public
protests, in stadia surrounded in barbed wire entanglements, and in an atmosphere
of brutal police<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>behaviour against
peaceful citizens, whose main weapon usually was a loaf of bread, used as a
mock sword. The final match was bombed from the air by a light plane dropping
bags of flour on the game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After his release from prison, Nelson
Mandela testified that this near civil war reaction in New Zealand had been a
considerable influence in maintaining their morale in their struggle for
freedom, and by this time most moderate South Africans had tired of being
considered the polecat among the world’s nations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And so down to this weekend and the
decisive South African victory, under the first black captain, a young man who
came from an impoverished township not far <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Capetown, brought up by a 16-year-old
mother and a teenage father, a boy who gained a scholarship, it seems, and thus
an education, largely because of his skill as a sportsman. The story of
Springbok victory in 1995, at a time when only one member of the black or
colored majority was included in the team, is relatively well-known. Nelson
Mandela refused the wish of his sports committee to strip the Springboks of
their name because, he said, the Afrikaners still controlled everything, the
army, police, economy and political power, “and we need to win their support.”
Magically, they won the Rugby World Cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This weekend Francois Pienaar, the Springbok
captain recalled that moment in 1995 when he received the cup from Mandela as a
great moment, but one that was even less in its meaning for South Africans than
this more recent victory. Kolisi himself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>struck the same note in his remarks after the final whistle, saying that
the result meant more than just a Rugby game. “I want to thank all South Africans
for their support, on the farms, in the taverns, in the communities and in the
cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can achieve anything if we
work together as one. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the team of 15 players, five were
of African origin. At last, after thirty years of trying, culminating in a
much- criticized system of quotas for black players, the moment had arrived
when the team could be said to represent the nation as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As Kolisi told a recent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>interviewer: <span style="color: #333333;">“Yes,
we do have many different races in our country, and 11 different languages. It
is one of the positives of our country. It’s really beautiful (and) that’s why
we are called the ‘Rainbow Nation,’ ” he said. “Winning is very important for
our country. It just shows that when we decide to work together for one goal or
as a team and as a country, we can make anything happen.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Well,
this is great news, really great: just what the country needs. A recently-appointed
senior advisor to Justin Trudeau’s second-term government </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">who was, when she was Minister of Natural Resources
in the Chretien government </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">half a generation
ago, totally in the pocket of the oil industry. Oh, yes, sure, just what we
need when the government is confronted with the imperative need, in the
interests of humanity and all other life, to scale back, and eventually to
close down entirely, the huge industry that has grown up around the use of
fossil fuels. (I can just hear it: “Justin, my dear, for heaven’s sake go easy
on them., won’t you.!”)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am talking about Anne McLellan, PC,
OC, AOE, etc, etc, of whom, in the earlier years of my blog I frequently
delighted in slipping in a note to the effect that she was unfit to be a
minister of the Crown by reason of taking her orders from the oil industry. I
coupled her in that designation with John Manley PC, OC --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the AOC, whatever it means, having escaped him
so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They were just two politicians apparently
held in high regard by their political masters, whose virtues utterly escaped
me, except, of course, that one could tell they were valued because they always
did what they were told.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course, both have gone on to their
distinguished rewards for whatever service they<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>offered to the oil industry (McLellan), and to corporate interests
(Manley, who was at various times minister in charge of industry, foreign
affairs and finance, and who bowed out to live the good life as the CEO of the
Business Council of Canada, an organization that serves as the lobbying firm on
behalf of all corporations in Canada.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course, these are only a couple of
my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">betes noires. </i>I have always been
perhaps overly impressed, as a long-time observer of political life, by how
many mediocrities inhabit the political jungle, and the wide range of jobs that
are handed down to them by grateful governments, who, by and large, comfort
themselves with the certain knowledge that the mediocrity, whatever job he or
she is called to, will never put a foot wrong, so far as the government is
concerned, and can always be depended upon to bring in some utterly worthless
recommendations for actions that, mercifully, are seldom followed by any
action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Young Trudeau, as I call him because
of the need to differentiate him from his father, has shown a tendency to depend
on unelected advisers, his use of the previous Conservative Prime Minister
Mulroney as an envoy to Washington during the re-negotiation of NAFTA being an
especially egregious example. (Mind you, I am not exactly a dispassionate
observer in relation to this subject: during the negotiation of the original
NAFTA one Sunday in Ottawa I was walking in the park with one of my sons, who
ran across a schoolmate of his, walking with his father Derek Burney who was
negotiating the treaty on Mulroney’s behalf: ordinary courtesy demanded that I
shake hands with the man on introduction, and I remember I did so with a
sinking heart and a plunging self-esteem at my shambolic weakness in being
willing to touch the flesh of a man whose life was devoted to supporting Brian
Mulroney. I sincerely regretted that I did not have the courage<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of a film-making friend of mine who had
followed Mulroney through his campaign for re-election, and on one occasion
found himself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a crowd that was
greeting the great man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waited for
the leader to shove out his hand towards him,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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who has retired to a life of splendour provided by the (mostly) American corporations
whose interests he unhesitatingly served while he was supposed to be responding
to the needs of Canadians, has in recent months given a number of interviews
--- maybe there was just one and it ground on me to such a point that I keep
multiplying it in imagination --- in which he said the overwhelming advice he offered
any Canadian Prime Minister was that his first --- and it seemed from the
emphasis he gave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he meant the only<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>indispensible job of a Canadian Prime
Minister was to keep good relations with the President of the United
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One bears painful memories of
how far Mulroney would go to achieve that --- his singing of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When Irish
Eyes are Smiling,</i> in a duet with Ronald Reagan was a really cringe-worthy occasion
on a stage in Quebec City during the ill-named Shamrock Summit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I had better not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>keep on with this: I have such a list of
political <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bêtes noires </i>gathered over
my log and undistinguished career in journalism that I fear I would test the
patience of my audience too far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The sort of political humour I prefer
was exemplified by the great British (rather, Welsh) minister Aneurin Bevan,
founder of Britain’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>National Health
Service who, while I was working in the car-making centre of Coventry, visited
the city to speak to a huge meeting in a crowded theatre of striking workers
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bevan was introduced, and to a rustle
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stage, hunched over it, and said, in his melodious Welsh accent: “They tell me
the Engineers have been naughty again!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I never heard a response like it, not
even to the great actors I later saw on the London stage, actors who could manipulate
a crowd and draw from them every emotion known to humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This crowd leaped to their feet, and roared
their approval, their defiance of the powers of authority, for five minutes or
more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">An event of wit, grace and passion of
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Ever
since that day in 1969 when I chased W.A.C (“Wacky”) Bennett, the long-time
Premier of British Columbia, through the corridors of a high school in Salmon
Arm, in the interior of that beautiful province, hoping to ask him how he could
continue to support in the current election one of his local candidates who had
recently been convicted of beating his wife, ever since that time, I have never
believed opinion polls should be allowed in the run-up to elections.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It has always seemed to me that such
polls are not so much polls of current opinion as they have become guides to
bewildered voters on how to vote, and, when used aggressively, almost as orders
to the doubtful telling them how they must vote. One might almost say that at
such times, the relevant authorities use these polls as a means of issuing orders
to hesitant voters as to how, where, when and for whom they must register their
vote. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I came to that conclusion because Wacky
Bennett had forbidden the publication of such polls in the weeks leading up to
elections, thus, at a single stroke, depriving all the wiseacres in the local
press of their indispensible tool in their ceaseless efforts to pretend to know
what had been going on before their eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">You have only to cover one election
to realize how little understanding any reporter can have of the movement of
opinion as the campaign proceeds, that is, in the absence of any poll
purporting to foretell the results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
covered that BC provincial election diligently, talked to as many voters as I
could find, who probably amounted to about 100 or so, and was then expected, on
the basis of those 100 conversations,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
pronounce learnedly on the issue of the general opinion, and the mysteries of
its supposed changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That is the situation absent polling.
The situation is totally changed with the publication of these polls: suddenly,
every reporter covering the event uses the poll results as his or her guide to
the way things are moving. They do this because it is the only guide available
to them, without which they would simply have to exercise their judgment
arrived at by the judicious application of their own experience and knowledge
and intuition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Quite impossible, of course, but I
tried. The fact was, Wacky Bennett, a smalltown hardware merchant who later
founded the first <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B.C. vineyard for the
production of wine, had always been attracted to the idea of politics, and by
1969 was entering his twelfth campaign, his seventh election as British Columbia’s
irrepressible premier, after five false starts, making him the longest-serving
premier in the history of British Columbia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
started off in his late thirties as a member of the Progressive-Conservatives,
then joined another, Labour, party in an unsuccessful coalition, and by the
time I was chasing him around the high school, he had already run an eccentric
but highly successful provincial government for 17 years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although he had gotten into politics as leader
of the Social Credit League, an idea imported from Alberta, he never showed any
interest in the monetary theories of Social Credit, or in the fanatical
right-wing religion with which it was combined in Alberta, and, truth to tell,
even though he had bequeathed to his province such publicly-owned institutions
as B.C. Ferries, B.C. Hydro, B.C. Rail and the Bank of British Columbia, it did
seem that the populace had had about as much of him as they could stand after
all those years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Certainly Tom Berger, the leader of
the New Democratic Party in B.C. in 1969 --- and incidentally one of the few
Canadians of my acquaintance who I would be prepared to describe as “a great
Canadian” no ifs or buts, whose own legacy to the nation is immense --- was totally
convinced he was on the path to a certain victory in the election, as,
coincidentally, were all of the residents, those 100 or so long-suffering
citizens<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whose opinion I had tried to
canvass in my coverage. I had met only one man who was convinced that Wacky
would not only win the election but would win with an increased majority of
votes and seats. And that man was Wacky himself. A totally ridiculous idea, of
course completely out of touch with the prevailing opinion, which had Wacky
retiring from a heavy defeat, his tail between his legs, always supposing, of
course, that anyone would be foolish enough to apply such a metaphor to the
ever-ebullient Premier Wacky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well,, what d’yuh know? Not only did
Wacky win the election, his seventh in a row, but he did so with an increased
majority, leaving Berger and his NDP wallowing in the pain of a 38 seats to 12
humiliating defeat. Along the way I had enlivened the readers of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Montreal Star</i> with a story that
began by saying the electors of BC had discovered the man to save them from
socialism--- it was Tom Berger, leader of the NDP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A nice little joke, but one that suggested<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that the local “socialist” party, like so many
others in so many other places and at so many other times, might have been
better off to have stuck to their original beliefs, rather than constantly trimming
them to the winds of electoral convenience, a method which has led to their party
being hardly worth supporting by the time they are finally elected to office (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pace</i> Bob Rae’s Ontario NDP government in
1990), if ever such a drastic event should overcome them, which I have to admit
is seldom enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been brought to these reflections
about polling by the excessive power granted in these days to election polling,
as manifested in our recent national election. I suppose one could say that
there would be no harm in polling if, say, one poll were published a month
before the election, and then left to work its magic, if any, along with all
the other influences that work to influence voters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is not what<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is happening nowadays. The CBC, for example,
has its own resident pollster, Eric Grenier, whose conclusions are not merely
published by the network but are forcibly shoved down our throats through
constant repetition --- not just almost every day as we approached the election,
but sometimes even more than once a day, sometimes it seemed, two and even
three appearances, telling us in no uncertain terms, for example, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that both sides are equal, and the possibility
of a minority government is looming before us all, not only telling us this,
but insisting on it forcibly, as if it were a dictate handed down from on high,
irrefutable and unquestionable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
impact is worse, of course, when Grenier’s conclusions are taken up by one of
the network’s bird-brain programme moderators, who translate his recital of
likelihoods into<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fact, as if the
election has already been held and the conclusion announced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I kid you not: I have heard it
from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the very lips of these young men
and women who spoke, even before the vote was announced, as if the die was
already cast, the decision made, or on the way to being made, and the conclusions
more or less irrefutable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This sort of insistence on the
elevation of this tool to a position given more prominence than others is an
insult to the intelligence of the voters, who are none the less told how important
it is for them to vote to maintain the democratic purity of our system. In
fact, one can tell from the sort of comments provided in advance of polling by
prospective voters, that all this brainwashing by pollsters has already had its
effect, and they are intending to vote in such as way as to make the
prognostications of the pollsters more real than the vote itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh, dear, oh dear… can’t they just
let us all vote, for whichever side we favour, and the devil take the hindmost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">I have</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">been
reading through reports of political and social opinions</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16pt;">in Europe that have been sampled over the
last few decades by Pew Research.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Most Poles, Czechs and Lithuanians, and more
than 40% of Hungarians and Slovaks, for example, said they felt most people in
their countries were better off than 30 years ago; in Russia, Ukraine and </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bulgaria"><span style="color: #ab0613;">Bulgaria</span></a><span style="color: #121212;">, more than half felt things were worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Asked how they felt their countries had
advanced, central and eastern Europeans were most positive about education
(65%), living standards (61%) and national pride (58%). They were less happy
about about law and order (44%) and family values (41%), and a majority (53%)
said healthcare had got worse in the post-communist era.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been trying to
reconcile these views against what I have always understood to be the
prevailing Western viewpoint about Communism, whether in Europe, China or Latin
America, which to summarize, held that “people are in chains, freedom of
expression does not exist, political expression is confined to one-party, and
law and order is conducted arbitrarily against anyone who expresses dissent
from the prevailing orthodoxy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
description of hell on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although I never lived
in an authoritarian one-party state, I have always bowed to the opinion often
expressed to me by my peers that in such a state I would very quickly have been
whipped off to jail if I had ever tried to exercize the level of dissent that I
have normally been able to express in Canada with no deletirous result on my
ability to make a living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am not sure, however,
that this is the last word to be said on this subject. I have always felt there
is something excessive in the tenacity --- one might almost call it fanaticism
--- with which the Western thought process has clung to the view that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>freedom of individual expression is a quality
that overrides all others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
surprising Pew figure is that 56 per cent of Europeans delivered from
authoritarian governments did not express their satisfaction with the freer
system of law and order that they have now found themselves living under.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It has always seemed to
me --- I guess ever since that day in 1951 when I first stood on the wharf in
Bombay, having just been dumped into the biggest culture shock of my young life
as I watched some officials pull the body of a dead man from the harbour,
officials who, in response to my breathless inquiry as to what happened to him,
merely shrugged and said, “He must have fallen in. Or jumped,” --- that poverty
might be the greatest single influence on the exercise, or lack of it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of human freedom. And that the India into
which my wife and I subsequently plunged wide-eyed, and half-terrified by it
all, where people had been killing each other only three years before in their millions
because of their religious differences, that India had been transformed – the
best estimate is of up to 15 million people displaced, between one and two
miion people murdered --- into two nations in which hundreds of thousands of them
were living under cardboard shelters on the city pavements, where, open for all
to see, were the bodies of countless emaciated babies, just about to draw their
last breaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Following that sharp
encounter with the reality of the modern world into which we had so insouciantly
embarked, I made it my business to see as much as I could of the areas in which
the world’s poorest people live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I not
only lived for several months in an experimental Indian village, whose purpose
was to uplift the lives of those many thousands living in surrounding villages,
where I got my real lesson in what it is to be one of the world’s poorest
people, but later in life I had the chance to visit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a slum now regarded as one of the world’s
worst places of human habitation, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also collaborated on making a National Film
Board of Canada film about a Latin American favela, or shantytown, built across
a hillside above the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, by a group of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>impoverished squatters who, under the organizational
leadership of a local .communist,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had moved
in and begun to establish residence there. That film was really about the best
strategies by which the wealth of the Western world might be put to best use in
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aid of residents of shantyowns, which,
it argued, would be best brought about by the money going directly to the residents,
without passing through (usually corrupt) national governments on the way. Finally,
I spent three months in 1978 helping with the shooting of a film about an agricultural<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commune operating under the Chinese Communist
system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was against this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>limited contact with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lives of the poorest people on each of the
major continents that I drew some conclusions about the limits to what seems to
be the western idea of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, how could one
talk of freedom for people forced to live in an environment like that of
Kibera, which, when I visited it in the mid-eighties, had an estimated
population of up to half a million people, we were told, mostly migrants from
the villages of east Africa, who found themselves living impoverished lives, with
no social services available to them, under minimal forms of government, in a
community that could not even organize how to pick up the garbage that was
thrown so carelessly into the middle of the main street, a community markd by,
in the words of one social worker I met there, “every social problem you might
care to mention.”? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All of these
communities were among “the poorest of the poor” in this world. Each was trying
to make some impact on its circumstances, but in only one of these was any real
improvement in the lives of the residents easily discernable. That was in the
Chinese Communist commune established on the North China plain among what one
western geographer once described as “the greatest collection of agricultural
communities on earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In some six weeks of
relentless questioning I gathered enough information about the circumstances of
this commune to enable me to classify it as equally poor in income to those
other poor communities I had or have since visited on other continents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet this was the only place among them where
every citizen had his or her own house built by the commune according to strict
rules of communal help; the only place where everyone was employed, either in
agriculture (by far the biggest industry), or in small sideline occupations
requiring great tenacity and persistence to make them work at all; where every
child was in school, with the prospect that any child showing any special
talent of whatever kind could be whisked on to some special school for special
training; where the general health of the community, based on the system of
so-called barefoot doctors, each with six months of medical training, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appeared to be almost on a par with our own;
and in which, this the crowning touch, they grew enough food to feed everyone
of the 15,000 people who lived in the six villages (known as production
brigades), scattered around the commune, with extra food available to sell to
surrounding towns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Within the
possibilities usually open around the world to such impoverished communities this
achievement was something truly exceptional. Although it was carried out by an
authoritarian government which had its ciients under tight control,
nevertheless in any accounting of the freedom of citizens to lead a productive
life, it has always seemed to me that this Chinese system, as I saw it
operating for myself, was superior to the fumbling efforts being made to deal
with poverty in more-capitalist orientated societies, where, in fact, the state
seemed to be actively working against the solution to poverty conditions,
rather than actively working, as in China,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to reduce them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Having come to
understand the history and background to the nearly total destruction of
Chinese land and life against which they were struggling, it seemed to me
unlikely that the peasantry, the principal beneficiaries of what looked to me like
such a successful agricultural effort, would ever permit the State to turn away
from Communism. And it was certainly a surprise to discover later that in the
very same year we made our film, 1978, the recently-elevated and restored
power-behind-the-throne Deng Hsiao Ping, enunciated a whole new direction for
the Chinese economy that has set them so firmly on the capitalist road, and
with such spectacular results. Following the death of Mao, the Chinese leaders
emerged from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution vowing to espouse a
programme Chou En Lai had outlined in 1975, called the Four Modernizations.
This was the banner for the wholesale change in direction of the Chinese
economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although at that time,
1978,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>China wseemed to be groaning with
food, food growing in every square inch of land, food piled in huge hea ps on
the city streets, food markets bulging with fresh vegetables and cereals, and a
distribution system that seemed to share it out as far as one could tell, equally,
later history suggests that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the surplus
gained from this success was not enough to prompt a successful industrialization
of the economy, and so it was concluded that the new direction must be
followed, even if it meant abandonment of many of the proudest achievements of
Chinese Communism, like the Iron Rice Bowl, guaranteed for every citizen and
worker, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It appears thast most
of the draconiasn restrictions on personal behaviour have been relaxed, and
China has become almost the opposite of the caricature pedalled in previous times
of a society attentive to everyone’s needs. The shorthand casricture I use is
that in those days, in internationasl sports, they played by the slogan, ”friendship
first, competition second,” and they really seemed to mean it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whereas in our modern times they seem to be as
desperate to win at any cost as are the athletes of every other country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whas I set out to say,
I guess, is that considerations about freedom of individual expression are out
of place in a society that lacks the simple qualities of freedom, such as adequate
nourishment and education, secure shelter, devoted nurture, and a path forward
towards personal and even deeper goals in life. With these achieved, as the
uproar in Hong Kong seems to indicate, new goals lie ahead that have to be fought
for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should never forget that right
now many hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are studying in the West ---
144,000 of them in Canada at last count --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hoping to bring back with them the best
knowledge available in the modern world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My Log 766 October 16 2019: Chronicles from my
Tenth Decade 201:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some reflections on Western attitudes to freedom
of expression; every achievement in life depends on a full belly to begin with;
we have a great deal to learn from what is happening around the world right now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been
reading through reports of political and social opinions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Europe that have been sampled over the
last few decades by Pew Research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Most Poles, Czechs and Lithuanians, and more
than 40% of Hungarians and Slovaks, for example, said they felt most people in
their countries were better off than 30 years ago; in Russia, Ukraine and </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bulgaria"><span style="color: #ab0613;">Bulgaria</span></a><span style="color: #121212;">, more than half felt things were worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Asked how they felt their countries had
advanced, central and eastern Europeans were most positive about education
(65%), living standards (61%) and national pride (58%). They were less happy
about about law and order (44%) and family values (41%), and a majority (53%)
said healthcare had got worse in the post-communist era.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been trying to
reconcile these views against what I have always understood to be the
prevailing Western viewpoint about Communism, whether in Europe, China or Latin
America, which to summarize, held that “people are in chains, freedom of
expression does not exist, political expression is confined to one-party, and
law and order is conducted arbitrarily against anyone who expresses dissent
from the prevailing orthodoxy.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
description of hell on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although I never lived
in an authoritarian one-party state, I have always bowed to the opinion often
expressed to me by my peers that in such a state I would very quickly have been
whipped off to jail if I had ever tried to exercize the level of dissent that I
have normally been able to express in Canada with no deletirous result on my
ability to make a living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am not sure, however,
that this is the last word to be said on this subject. I have always felt there
is something excessive in the tenacity --- one might almost call it fanaticism
--- with which the Western thought process has clung to the view that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>freedom of individual expression is a quality
that overrides all others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
surprising Pew figure is that 56 per cent of Europeans delivered from
authoritarian governments did not express their satisfaction with the freer
system of law and order that they have now found themselves living under.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It has always seemed to
me --- I guess ever since that day in 1951 when I first stood on the wharf in
Bombay, having just been dumped into the biggest culture shock of my young life
as I watched some officials pull the body of a dead man from the harbour,
officials who, in response to my breathless inquiry as to what happened to him,
merely shrugged and said, “He must have fallen in. Or jumped,” --- that poverty
might be the greatest single influence on the exercise, or lack of it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of human freedom. And that the India into
which my wife and I subsequently plunged wide-eyed, and half-terrified by it
all, where people had been killing each other only three years before in their millions
because of their religious differences, that India had been transformed – the
best estimate is of up to 15 million people displaced, between one and two
miion people murdered --- into two nations in which hundreds of thousands of them
were living under cardboard shelters on the city pavements, where, open for all
to see, were the bodies of countless emaciated babies, just about to draw their
last breaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Following that sharp
encounter with the reality of the modern world into which we had so insouciantly
embarked, I made it my business to see as much as I could of the areas in which
the world’s poorest people live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I not
only lived for several months in an experimental Indian village, whose purpose
was to uplift the lives of those many thousands living in surrounding villages,
where I got my real lesson in what it is to be one of the world’s poorest
people, but later in life I had the chance to visit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a slum now regarded as one of the world’s
worst places of human habitation, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also collaborated on making a National Film
Board of Canada film about a Latin American favela, or shantytown, built across
a hillside above the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, by a group of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>impoverished squatters who, under the organizational
leadership of a local .communist,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had moved
in and begun to establish residence there. That film was really about the best
strategies by which the wealth of the Western world might be put to best use in
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aid of residents of shantyowns, which,
it argued, would be best brought about by the money going directly to the residents,
without passing through (usually corrupt) national governments on the way. Finally,
I spent three months in 1978 helping with the shooting of a film about an agricultural<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commune operating under the Chinese Communist
system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was against this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>limited contact with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lives of the poorest people on each of the
major continents that I drew some conclusions about the limits to what seems to
be the western idea of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, how could one
talk of freedom for people forced to live in an environment like that of
Kibera, which, when I visited it in the mid-eighties, had an estimated
population of up to half a million people, we were told, mostly migrants from
the villages of east Africa, who found themselves living impoverished lives, with
no social services available to them, under minimal forms of government, in a
community that could not even organize how to pick up the garbage that was
thrown so carelessly into the middle of the main street, a community markd by,
in the words of one social worker I met there, “every social problem you might
care to mention.”? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All of these
communities were among “the poorest of the poor” in this world. Each was trying
to make some impact on its circumstances, but in only one of these was any real
improvement in the lives of the residents easily discernable. That was in the
Chinese Communist commune established on the North China plain among what one
western geographer once described as “the greatest collection of agricultural
communities on earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In some six weeks of
relentless questioning I gathered enough information about the circumstances of
this commune to enable me to classify it as equally poor in income to those
other poor communities I had or have since visited on other continents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet this was the only place among them where
every citizen had his or her own house built by the commune according to strict
rules of communal help; the only place where everyone was employed, either in
agriculture (by far the biggest industry), or in small sideline occupations
requiring great tenacity and persistence to make them work at all; where every
child was in school, with the prospect that any child showing any special
talent of whatever kind could be whisked on to some special school for special
training; where the general health of the community, based on the system of
so-called barefoot doctors, each with six months of medical training, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appeared to be almost on a par with our own;
and in which, this the crowning touch, they grew enough food to feed everyone
of the 15,000 people who lived in the six villages (known as production
brigades), scattered around the commune, with extra food available to sell to
surrounding towns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Within the
possibilities usually open around the world to such impoverished communities this
achievement was something truly exceptional. Although it was carried out by an
authoritarian government which had its ciients under tight control,
nevertheless in any accounting of the freedom of citizens to lead a productive
life, it has always seemed to me that this Chinese system, as I saw it
operating for myself, was superior to the fumbling efforts being made to deal
with poverty in more-capitalist orientated societies, where, in fact, the state
seemed to be actively working against the solution to poverty conditions,
rather than actively working, as in China,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to reduce them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Having come to
understand the history and background to the nearly total destruction of
Chinese land and life against which they were struggling, it seemed to me
unlikely that the peasantry, the principal beneficiaries of what looked to me like
such a successful agricultural effort, would ever permit the State to turn away
from Communism. And it was certainly a surprise to discover later that in the
very same year we made our film, 1978, the recently-elevated and restored
power-behind-the-throne Deng Hsiao Ping, enunciated a whole new direction for
the Chinese economy that has set them so firmly on the capitalist road, and
with such spectacular results. Following the death of Mao, the Chinese leaders
emerged from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution vowing to espouse a
programme Chou En Lai had outlined in 1975, called the Four Modernizations.
This was the banner for the wholesale change in direction of the Chinese
economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although at that time,
1978,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>China wseemed to be groaning with
food, food growing in every square inch of land, food piled in huge hea ps on
the city streets, food markets bulging with fresh vegetables and cereals, and a
distribution system that seemed to share it out as far as one could tell, equally,
later history suggests that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the surplus
gained from this success was not enough to prompt a successful industrialization
of the economy, and so it was concluded that the new direction must be
followed, even if it meant abandonment of many of the proudest achievements of
Chinese Communism, like the Iron Rice Bowl, guaranteed for every citizen and
worker, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It appears thast most
of the draconiasn restrictions on personal behaviour have been relaxed, and
China has become almost the opposite of the caricature pedalled in previous times
of a society attentive to everyone’s needs. The shorthand casricture I use is
that in those days, in internationasl sports, they played by the slogan, ”friendship
first, competition second,” and they really seemed to mean it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whereas in our modern times they seem to be as
desperate to win at any cost as are the athletes of every other country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whas I set out to say,
I guess, is that considerations about freedom of individual expression are out
of place in a society that lacks the simple qualities of freedom, such as adequate
nourishment and education, secure shelter, devoted nurture, and a path forward
towards personal and even deeper goals in life. With these achieved, as the
uproar in Hong Kong seems to indicate, new goals lie ahead that have to be fought
for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should never forget that right
now many hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are studying in the West ---
144,000 of them in Canada at last count --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hoping to bring back with them the best
knowledge available in the modern world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some reflections on Western attitudes to freedom
of expression; every achievement in life depends on a full belly to begin with;
we have a great deal to learn from what is happening around the world right now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been
reading through reports of political and social opinions in Europe that have been sampled over the
last few decades by Pew Research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Most Poles, Czechs and Lithuanians, and more
than 40% of Hungarians and Slovaks, for example, said they felt most people in
their countries were better off than 30 years ago; in Russia, Ukraine and </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/bulgaria"><span style="color: #ab0613;">Bulgaria</span></a><span style="color: #121212;">, more than half felt things were worse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Asked how they felt their countries had
advanced, central and eastern Europeans were most positive about education
(65%), living standards (61%) and national pride (58%). They were less happy
about about law and order (44%) and family values (41%), and a majority (53%)
said healthcare had got worse in the post-communist era.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been trying to
reconcile these views against what I have always understood to be the
prevailing Western viewpoint about Communism, whether in Europe, China or Latin
America, which to summarize, held that “people are in chains, freedom of
expression does not exist, political expression is confined to one-party, and
law and order is conducted arbitrarily against anyone who expresses dissent
from the prevailing orthodoxy.” A
description of hell on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although I never lived
in an authoritarian one-party state, I have always bowed to the opinion often
expressed to me by my peers that in such a state I would very quickly have been
whipped off to jail if I had ever tried to exercize the level of dissent that I
have normally been able to express in Canada with no deletirous result on my
ability to make a living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am not sure, however,
that this is the last word to be said on this subject. I have always felt there
is something excessive in the tenacity --- one might almost call it fanaticism
--- with which the Western thought process has clung to the view that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>freedom of individual expression is a quality
that overrides all others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
surprising Pew figure is that 56 per cent of Europeans delivered from
authoritarian governments did not express their satisfaction with the freer
system of law and order that they have now found themselves living under.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It has always seemed to
me --- I guess ever since that day in 1951 when I first stood on the wharf in
Bombay, having just been dumped into the biggest culture shock of my young life
as I watched some officials pull the body of a dead man from the harbour,
officials who, in response to my breathless inquiry as to what happened to him,
merely shrugged and said, “He must have fallen in. Or jumped,” --- that poverty
might be the greatest single influence on the exercise, or lack of it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of human freedom. And that the India into
which my wife and I subsequently plunged wide-eyed, and half-terrified by it
all, where people had been killing each other only three years before in their millions
because of their religious differences, that India had been transformed – the
best estimate is of up to 15 million people displaced, between one and two
miion people murdered --- into two nations in which hundreds of thousands of them
were living under cardboard shelters on the city pavements, where, open for all
to see, were the bodies of countless emaciated babies, just about to draw their
last breaths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Following that sharp
encounter with the reality of the modern world into which we had so insouciantly
embarked, I made it my business to see as much as I could of the areas in which
the world’s poorest people live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I not
only lived for several months in an experimental Indian village, whose purpose
was to uplift the lives of those many thousands living in surrounding villages,
where I got my real lesson in what it is to be one of the world’s poorest
people, but later in life I had the chance to visit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a slum now regarded as one of the world’s
worst places of human habitation, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also collaborated on making a National Film
Board of Canada film about a Latin American favela, or shantytown, built across
a hillside above the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, by a group of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>impoverished squatters who, under the organizational
leadership of a local .communist,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had moved
in and begun to establish residence there. That film was really about the best
strategies by which the wealth of the Western world might be put to best use in
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aid of residents of shantyowns, which,
it argued, would be best brought about by the money going directly to the residents,
without passing through (usually corrupt) national governments on the way. Finally,
I spent three months in 1978 helping with the shooting of a film about an agricultural<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commune operating under the Chinese Communist
system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was against this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>limited contact with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lives of the poorest people on each of the
major continents that I drew some conclusions about the limits to what seems to
be the western idea of freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For example, how could one
talk of freedom for people forced to live in an environment like that of
Kibera, which, when I visited it in the mid-eighties, had an estimated
population of up to half a million people, we were told, mostly migrants from
the villages of east Africa, who found themselves living impoverished lives, with
no social services available to them, under minimal forms of government, in a
community that could not even organize how to pick up the garbage that was
thrown so carelessly into the middle of the main street, a community markd by,
in the words of one social worker I met there, “every social problem you might
care to mention.”? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All of these
communities were among “the poorest of the poor” in this world. Each was trying
to make some impact on its circumstances, but in only one of these was any real
improvement in the lives of the residents easily discernable. That was in the
Chinese Communist commune established on the North China plain among what one
western geographer once described as “the greatest collection of agricultural
communities on earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In some six weeks of
relentless questioning I gathered enough information about the circumstances of
this commune to enable me to classify it as equally poor in income to those
other poor communities I had or have since visited on other continents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet this was the only place among them where
every citizen had his or her own house built by the commune according to strict
rules of communal help; the only place where everyone was employed, either in
agriculture (by far the biggest industry), or in small sideline occupations
requiring great tenacity and persistence to make them work at all; where every
child was in school, with the prospect that any child showing any special
talent of whatever kind could be whisked on to some special school for special
training; where the general health of the community, based on the system of
so-called barefoot doctors, each with six months of medical training, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>appeared to be almost on a par with our own;
and in which, this the crowning touch, they grew enough food to feed everyone
of the 15,000 people who lived in the six villages (known as production
brigades), scattered around the commune, with extra food available to sell to
surrounding towns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Within the
possibilities usually open around the world to such impoverished communities this
achievement was something truly exceptional. Although it was carried out by an
authoritarian government which had its ciients under tight control,
nevertheless in any accounting of the freedom of citizens to lead a productive
life, it has always seemed to me that this Chinese system, as I saw it
operating for myself, was superior to the fumbling efforts being made to deal
with poverty in more-capitalist orientated societies, where, in fact, the state
seemed to be actively working against the solution to poverty conditions,
rather than actively working, as in China,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to reduce them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Having come to
understand the history and background to the nearly total destruction of
Chinese land and life against which they were struggling, it seemed to me
unlikely that the peasantry, the principal beneficiaries of what looked to me like
such a successful agricultural effort, would ever permit the State to turn away
from Communism. And it was certainly a surprise to discover later that in the
very same year we made our film, 1978, the recently-elevated and restored
power-behind-the-throne Deng Hsiao Ping, enunciated a whole new direction for
the Chinese economy that has set them so firmly on the capitalist road, and
with such spectacular results. Following the death of Mao, the Chinese leaders
emerged from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution vowing to espouse a
programme Chou En Lai had outlined in 1975, called the Four Modernizations.
This was the banner for the wholesale change in direction of the Chinese
economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although at that time,
1978,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>China wseemed to be groaning with
food, food growing in every square inch of land, food piled in huge hea ps on
the city streets, food markets bulging with fresh vegetables and cereals, and a
distribution system that seemed to share it out as far as one could tell, equally,
later history suggests that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the surplus
gained from this success was not enough to prompt a successful industrialization
of the economy, and so it was concluded that the new direction must be
followed, even if it meant abandonment of many of the proudest achievements of
Chinese Communism, like the Iron Rice Bowl, guaranteed for every citizen and
worker, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It appears thast most
of the draconiasn restrictions on personal behaviour have been relaxed, and
China has become almost the opposite of the caricature pedalled in previous times
of a society attentive to everyone’s needs. The shorthand casricture I use is
that in those days, in internationasl sports, they played by the slogan, ”friendship
first, competition second,” and they really seemed to mean it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whereas in our modern times they seem to be as
desperate to win at any cost as are the athletes of every other country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="color: #121212; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whas I set out to say,
I guess, is that considerations about freedom of individual expression are out
of place in a society that lacks the simple qualities of freedom, such as adequate
nourishment and education, secure shelter, devoted nurture, and a path forward
towards personal and even deeper goals in life. With these achieved, as the
uproar in Hong Kong seems to indicate, new goals lie ahead that have to be fought
for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should never forget that right
now many hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are studying in the West ---
144,000 of them in Canada at last count --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hoping to bring back with them the best
knowledge available in the modern world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
guess I should pause a moment before embarking in this landmark Chronicle 200,
the latest in a</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">series intended to
celebrate my entry into my Tenth Decade of life. I should warn my readers that
although they can take the number of my Chronicles seriously, the other number,
Log 765 is just strictly something notional that I use to help me keep track of
the saved Chronicles, a number that otherwise has</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">no real meaning in itself.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I began this blog, as it is now
called, in 1996, just as a place to sound off on, and from the first I
determined I would never spend or make any money out of it. I have stuck at
least to that determination --- not that anyone has ever offered me any sort of
remuneration, and so, come to think of it, perhaps<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knowing how unlikely it is that any one would
offer to put money into Boyce’sPaper, that is probably why I made such a noble
declaration to myself about abstaining from monetary reward. Just another well-meant
but basically ill-conceived attempt to give myself some airs and graces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hypocrite to the manner born!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have no idea how many pieces I have
written since 1996. If one took a notional daily column as the maximum, I would
have written more than 8,000, but I know that an average would probably be more
likely to lie somewhere between two or three a week, because, after all, I have
had longish periods when I have never written anything. But three a week, on
average would have produced some 186 Chronicles, rather than 200, and I do have
to admit my pace has been quicker since I invented the Chronicles as an excuse
to keep me going.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Okay, enough of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Last night I had the ineffable
pleasure of resuming my viewing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Peaky
Blinders</i> that inimitable British serial about underworld life in
Birmingham: it began at the end of World War I, with a poor, sharper-than-a-needle-family
which arose from the Romany culture, whose characteristics<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they continued to adhere to as they got into
the struggle to take over management of all the small-time, gang-related crookery
offered by the recently industrialized city of Birmingham, for many years a
city that attracted to itself large numbers of drifting impoverished people who,
once they had got a foothold in the city, were constantly on the lookout for
avenues towards what might be loosely called self-improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From the beginning it was a family
affair, starting with the father, and then the sons, their spouses or girl
friends, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some of their aunts and
uncles--- one in particular, Aunt Polly, who became the treasurer of he outfit
--- in all, a tight-knit group of people on rhe make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When Winston Churchill as Home
Minister discovered that a consignment of arms intended for Libya had gone
missing from Belfast, he sent over to Birmingham from Belfast a chief inspector
of police, played by Sam Neill, to clean up the place. Thus, young Tommy
Shelby, who had rapidly grown to leadership of the gang, was in the eye of the
authorities at the highest level right from the beginning. Episode 1 ends on the
day the gang was set to take over a rival gang’s betting pitches at the
Worcester races. In other words, they were in a small way, but growing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the second series set in 1921 and
1922, we observe the gang expanding from its Birmingham home towards both the
north and the south --- the series begins and ends at Epsom Downs on Derby Day.
(I can add a little reminder here of the traditional nature of British life,
because when I started my assignment as London correspondent of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Montreal Sta</i>r in 1960, four decades
later, thr first story I wrote was about Derby Day, still with its firm grip on
the British upper class imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing like kicking off a new job with a good cliché!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In series three they are going international,
largely at the instance of Aunt Polly, who hires a Russian painter to paint her.
And series four, the last we have been allowed to see over here until this
week, covers the period of the 1926 general .strike, and it ends with the
unlikely elevation of Tommy to Parliament as a rabble-rousng Labour member. All
I need say about series five, which I am almost halfway through watching, is
that it begins on October 29, 1929, the day on which the stock market crashed
in New York, and ends on December 7 1930, with a rally by the fascist leader
Oswald Mosley, where Tommy makes clear he wants nothing to do with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can reveal, since it comes at the very
beginning of this series, that the crash has wiped out the formal weallh
accumulated over the years by the Peaky Blinders gang, leaving Tommy wondering
why his younger brother did not follow his advice, given a few days before, to
sell. Tommy’s revenge, as we have seen at pivotal moments during his career, is
usually swift and brutal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The series picks up one of the favourite
themes of the whole tale, which is that many younger members are born into the
clan, but not all take to it kindly to their method of doing business, and Tommy’s
powers of persuasion are many, to enlist them as loyal, but usually inadequate
members of the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is shown by
the recalcitrant behaviour of Tommy’s youngest, who, when summoned to do what
he is told, utters the devastating rejoinder, “You kill horses, and you kill
people. They all say that at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school.” He
had got the information about the dead horse because Tommy had spoken about it in
the Romany language which the kid had picked up enough of to enable him to put
two and two together. In other words, a smart little kid, once Tommy can get
him straightened out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, good luck Peaky Blinders fans.
It’s looking good after the first two of the six episodes in the new series.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
have been thinking a lot about stereotypes lately, probably because so much of
my attention has been concentrated on Japan, where the World Rugby Cup is being
played. Japan is possibly the one place in the world above all others that is
known by western stereotypes. As I was growing up in the 1930s, the stereotype
being sold to us was of the Yellow Peril, poised somewhere above us in the
North Pacific, ready</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">to</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">swoop down on us at any time; Unfortunately,
this turned out to be a stereotype made to order --- for Japan did obediently
swoop down towards us with their fanatic militarism. They never quite reached
as far as us,</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">but they made</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">quick work of the British possessions throughout
the Pacific, and made it as far as Darwin, Australia’s northernmost outpost,
which they attacked a couple of times, and the image of Japan transmitted by
their behaviour during the war was of a cruelty almost beyond anything known
from previous wars.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With the end of the war, and the
makeover of Japan into an obedient American satrap --- another stereotype, this
obedience --- the stereotype changed dramatically. Suddenly, the Japanese, on
whom the world’s single most unholy attack had been launched, not once but twice,
by our virtuous side, suddenly, along came this new Japan, with its array of
high quality goods replacing the tripe they used to sell when just building up their
industries before the war, suddenly this was a new Japan, friendly, cured,
mysterious of course in many ways, but capable of many of the finest feelings
known to human kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I will never forget the surprise I
felt when I next ran up against some modern Japanese in 1978, when I
happened<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be passing through Vancouver
airport on my way to China, and I found myself suddenly surrounded by some
recently-disembarked Japanese tourists. Clearly the old stereotypes no longer
applied to these spectacularly dressed strangers in Western-style suits and
dresses, the young women in tight sweaters and jeans, their chests emblazoned
with cheeky messages like “Come and get me,” or “Ready and waiting,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the young men resplendent in tight white
suits. Where on earth did these<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>new-style Japanese come from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By this time I should have been
warned, because I had already had the experience of visiting that Germany, with
its race of aggressive militarists I had always been taught to hate, only to
find that when I talked to people of my own age in the camping grounds, I
discovered to my astonishment that they were just like me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Later I had the experience of defying
the stereotypes when I drove down from Winnipeg, in a third-hand Austin A30, about
the smallest car on the road in the 1950s, towards Mexico. All along the way,
people we spoke to warned us against going in such a car into Mexico, a country
well-known to be full of bandits, as the Americans described it, ready to
pounce on the unwary traveller at any moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was hardly a surprise when we discovered that the bandits were mostly
siting along the roadside sleeping under those great straw hats they wore, and that
whenever we had occasion to try to talk to them, we found them wonderfully
friendly and responsive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Of course we clung to some
stereotypes ourselves. I remember as we were returning north from Mexico City
we stopped off one night in Mazatlan, one of the major ports of the Mexican
Pacific coast. We stayed overnight in the Hotel La Siesta, whose neon-lit sign
across the front needed a bit of work. A few letters had given out so that it
was showing only<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HOT L<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A SI <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>S. The next morning, as we sat outside our
bedroom on the upstairs balcony looking into a courtyard, watching<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the languorous movements of the maids as they
went about their work in the most leisurely fashion, accompanied by ceaseless
talk and laughter among them, it was more or less inevitable that the hotel
became for us, The Hotel Hot Lassies, forever emblazoned in our memories by
that name. And the Mexican chambermaids immediately recalled as Hot Lassies --- our own
stereotype, ready-made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was almost fifty years before we
found ourselves driving north again along the Pacific highway, and there, sure enough,
stood the Hotel La Siesta, this time with all letters working. We simply had to
stop, take a room in spite of the price having moved up beyond our reach (but
just for the one night, for old time’s sake).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While there <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we visited the memorable
restaurant that had fed us such a beautiful meal on our first visit. By this time
the restaurant had the unforgettable name of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El
Shrimp Bucket</i>. We had not realised the first time around that Mazatlan is the
central Pacific port for Mexico’s shrimping fleet, so the shrimps served were
almost right out of the ocean. Although Mazatlan was still the same sleepy Pacific
coastal town it had always been, we discovered that the whole region had grown
ten times in population, with the erection along the coast of the so-called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">malecon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i>or boardwalk around which were gathered a huge collection of
high-rise luxury hotels, each one with their fancy price. We moved into a
cheaper hotel halfway between the old town and the new, but our delay was
simply to enable us to return to <i>El Shrimp Bucket</i> where they prepared the most
delicious shrimp dishes we had ever eaten or ever expect to eat. Unfortunately
for any of my readers who may have developed a secret desire to sample these
wonderful dishes, the Internet tells me <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">El
Shrimp Bucket</i> was open in May of this year, but a later aficionado said he
had to return several times <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before he could
be convinced that the restaurant had closed, definitively, closed for good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the memory of those delicious dishes will
be with me as long as my memory lasts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Meantime, back in Japan, my favoured
All Blacks team, always anxious to be liked, pulled off a big one when, obeying
the stereotype, they paraded around the ground and bowed to the huge audience,
as an expression of respect for their culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beaten to a pulp, to invite them to visit their dressing room so they could get
to know them a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, that was a
big one: an act of good sportsmanship, without which it isn’t even worth
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Stereotypes can sometimes produce
amusing, and heart-warming, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>results. I
will never forget the occasion on which I was flying from Melbourne, Australia
to Rome, by an Alitalia plane that was fully booked. The gate was crammed with
Italians whose families had somehow made it through all discouragements so that
they could farewell family members, and friends. All were talking, and, being
Italians, the noise they made was overwhelming, Eventually, sitting alone, among
this cacophony, I was surprised that a hush descended on this crowd as an announcement
was made, first in English then Italian. ”We are ready to board the passengers
now. We will board by row numbers….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those with seats in rows… Rows number 52 to 62, please make your way to
the gate…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The rest of the message was lost
under a huge explosion of noise as every person, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passengers and family members alike,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rose as one man to rush forward to the gate,
where they overwhelmed the attendants, and began, waving tickets and boarding
passes, to press up against the still-closed door, shouting and yelling, all of
them, the more so as they discovered it was not their turn <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and were rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These Italians!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You gotta love ‘em.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah, wot the hell! wot the
hell. C’est toujours gai, la vie, toujours gai, no?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />boyce richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166421633433425789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post-66998684593759695192019-09-30T15:22:00.001-04:002019-09-30T15:22:03.872-04:00My Log 763 Sept 30 2019; Chronicles from my Tenth Decade: 198; I wake up to a beautiful sunrise over Montreal; some reflections on bitter conservative forces in society that have always gotten my goat; I hope we are not about to elect them here
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
woke up at 4.20 this morning, read for an hour or so and then got up to check
on what time today’s Rugby World Cup game was to be played. I had in mind to
write something about my childhood, and memories thereof, but the first thing I
saw on the day was the spectacle of the southern sky, blazing red as the dawn
came up, backlighting the tall buildings of the Montreal skyline, a spectacular
sight. With my childhood upbringing in mind I couldn't help but reflect on how
different was this sight of the big North American city, from that small place where
I grew up. In those days, New .Zealand was a country of small towns: I lived in
the fifth biggest town in the country, whose population was only 26,000, and
which did not boast a single</span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">building
taller than, say three stories. A far cry from the modern big city that always seems
impelled to reach out both across the land, and up into the sky, vainly trying
to touch the heavens.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But before I get on to my subject for
the day, I simply have to mention what I read about at 4.20 am. It was an
article in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the most recent issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian Weekly</i>, from London, about
a campaign against so-called illegal immigrants to Britain initiated by Theresa
May when she was Home Secretary in the government of David Cameron, that was so
horrible as to be scarcely believable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had vans going around in six London boroughs with considerable
immigrant populations, emblazoned with a message: “In the UK illegally?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go home, or face arrest.” The notices were
illustrated with a picture of handcuffs and the number of recent immigration arrests
(“106 arrests last week in your area”) and a notice along the bottom: “We can
help you to return home voluntarily without fear of arrest or detention.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The article dealt with the inhumanity
and injustice visited on what has become known as the Windrush generation,
named for a shipload of West Indians who were imported into Britain with their
families to fill jobs that could not be filled with British-born. These people
were never offered any documents asserting their right to be in Britain,
although they were all British subjects, and were therefore sitting ducks when,
almost half a century later,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>public
sentiment turned against immigrants ---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>especially, one might observe, coloured immigrants --- and whose
children were targeted for deportation in the most heartless and brutal manner
conceivable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The article tells one detailed story,
among several others,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of a woman who was
four when she arrived with her Grenadian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>parents in 1968, and was 48 when, worn to a frazzle by her fruitless
effort to get the government to accept the 75 proofs she had gathered of her
lifetime of residence in the country,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>she gave up and accepted “voluntary” repatriation to a country she had
never known, where she arrived without money, had no contacts, and little
prospect of getting work. Her life was completely ruined by the experience of
being so chosen and persecuted, and even the eventual repatriation to Britain
that she was granted, and some of which was paid for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the British government, did not make things
any easier for her: once again, she had to start to rebuild her life at an age
where such a thing for a woman in her circumstances was almost impossible. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Okay, that’s the cheerful story with
which I started my day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
article was written by a journalist called Amelia Gentleman, who had spent
several years uncovering this horror-story, a job that was made rather<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>touchy for her in that she was married to Jo
Johnson, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>celebrated brother of Boris
Johnson, who was at the time a minister in the Conservative government. It was
her articles that eventually forced the government to take notice of the
injustice so callously visited on these Windrush survivors,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What I originally set out to write
671 words ago was stimulated by my having seen the New Zealand Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern, as she appeared on Stephen Colbert’s Late show. He was trying
to get her to say something undiplomatic about Donald Trump, because she was
present when he addressed the General Assembly the day before, at which time
there was a whiff of laughter when he spoke. He remarked that he did nt expect
that response. “Did you join in the laughter?” Colbert asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Are you trying to create a diplomatic
incident?” she asked. She said the audience had laughed at Trump a second time,
and that time, as Trump claimed, they could be said to be laughing with him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“And the first time?” persisted
Colbert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“The first time was like a gentle
murmur among themselves,” she said, laughing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Did you join in?” asked Colbert. “I
was observing,” she laughed..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What set me off to write something
about Ardern was that I saw the exchange on a New Zealand newspaper outlet, and
it was followed by a large number of reader responses. Many of them were of a
grouchy, grumpy variety that I remembered vividly from my childhood,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What’s she doing over there, gallivanting
about,” was the tone. “She spends more time doing that than working hard to make
life better for New Zealanders.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I have the impression from what I
have read recently that she has had to confront that sort of criticism ever since
she was chosen to be the Prime Minister. And it was the grouchy tone of these
responses that seemed so familiar to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was 17 when I became a newspaper reporter in my own small town. I was
a supporter of the Labour Party and its government at the time, and I came to
abhor the ultra-conservative National Party opposition whose policies had
gotten New Zealand into the desperate position from which a Labour government was
needed to pull the country back up by its bootlaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I worked in journalism in New Zealand
fore almost three years before leaving the country for good, and during that
time, in fact during all of the years until I was 22, I never remember any New
Zealand newspaper of the time expressing any favourable opinion of the Labour
government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I remember just after I first left home
to move to a slightly bigger city, Dunedin, (80,000 population, the fourth city
in the country) that I took a room in a boarding house kept by a dreadful woman
who had a virulent hatred of the Labour Party, the Labour government, and anything
that could be in any way associated with Labour and its works, however loosely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tended to greet my arrival in the house
by holding up some headline or other from a newspaper, showing another proof of
the imbecility of Labour and its ministers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was not lost on me that the
government she was talking about was one that had been elected in 1935, and was
re-elected every three years <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until 1949,
having during all those years presided over an extremely well-managed economy,
maintained at full employment with a successful export programme for the nation’s
wool, butter and cheese, and one that, with its generous social programmes kept
New Zealanders healthy and strong, and well enough educated to have chosen to
keep them in power in spite of the unrelenting media campaign against them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The first Labour Party Prime Minister
was an Australian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>working class man,
Michael Joseph Savage, an unremitting socialist, who had been a labourer,
ditchdigger and held a variety of other jobs until getting involved in the
union movement, after which he had drifted into, first, municipal, and later
national, politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was deeply
revered among the ordinary people of New Zealand: for many years, pictures of
him adorned the walls of thousands of the homes of ordinary New Zealanders,
alongside,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often, pictures of Queen Victoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the Prime Minister when the British
government declared war on Germany. He issued a statement virtually from his
death bed, declaring unequivocal support for the war:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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without fear beside Britain. Where she goes, we go; where she stands, we stand.
We are only a small and young nation, but we march with a union of hearts and
souls to a common destiny</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><sup><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></sup></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">My wife often told a story that encapsulates
the feeling people had for Savage. In the middle of rhe great depression she
was given a watch as an unimaginable birthday present by her Maori grandmother,
“Don’t thank me, dear,” her grandmother said, “thank Michael Joseph Savage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">That my
distaste for these bitter conservatives who so much out my back up during my
brief adulthood in New Zealand, was not displaced was confirmed for me when I
returned to New Zealand to live after 25 years. It happened that the leader of
the National Party was elected Prime Minister just after I arrived with my
family in 1975. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Every
speech Robert Muldoon made was full of what sounded to me like dreadful ideas,
every one of which I abhorred. I leave it to Wikipedia to explain the results:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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economic pattern of stagnation, high inflation, growing unemployment, and high
external debts and borrowing. Economic policies of the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_National_Government_of_New_Zealand" title="Third National Government of New Zealand"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Muldoon Government</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> included national </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation" title="Superannuation"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">superannuation</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, wage and price freezes, industrial
incentives, and the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Big" title="Think Big"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Think Big</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> industrial projects. In foreign
policy, Muldoon adopted an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Soviet" title="Anti-Soviet"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">anti-Soviet</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> stance and re-emphasised New
Zealand's defence commitments to the United States and Australia under
the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS" title="ANZUS"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">ANZUS</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> pact. His refusal to stop a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_South_Africa_rugby_union_tour_of_New_Zealand_and_the_United_States" title="1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> divided the country and led to
unprecedented civil disorder in 1981.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That
is why I so disliked the negative conservatism that, during my boyhood, I
always felt was waiting to pounce on the country and ruin it. I had the
impression during the 18 months I was able to stay in New Zealand, that every time
Muldoon opened his mouth to utter some banal idiocy, the greater was the
applause showered on him by the reactionary electors who voted him into power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ah well, wot the hell, wot the hell?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">It
was extremely moving this afternoon to stand and watch this vast crowd, </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">the biggest I have ever seen in my long life, young
people for the most part, but young and old joined in a single cause, file by
in an eloquent, peaceful act of civil protest against the inaction that has
marked the political response to the gathering emergency of the human-induced warming
of the climate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
moving aspect of this experience was somehow heightened when one considered
that it was all stimulated by this tiny slip of a girl, Greta Thunberg, who
emerged as a 15-year-old from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her shaky
status as a sufferer from a combination of Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD), and selective mutism, to stand each day with a sign before the
Swedish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Riksdag</i> or Parliament,
carrying a sign<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">School Strike for Climate.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Organizers estimated today’s crowd in
Montreal at 500,000 --- far outstripping the 60,000 people I remember gathering
in Trafalgar Square, London,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
1960s in favour of another great cause, their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament</i>. Although that campaign had gathered
huge public support, had even won to its side<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the British Labour Party after an intense and astonishing debate, all
that meant nothing to the politicians, who blissfully ignored the democratic
decision, with the result that the major powers still are brandishing nuclear
weapons at each other, and one could not help but wonder today if a similar fate
may not befall this impressive display of public uneasiness about climate warming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ms. Thunberg, perhaps because her
physical disabilities require that she speak only when she has something to
say, is an extremely impressive speaker, riveting as she delivers her forceful
message with her blunt, powerful delivery, a message that is simple in the
extreme: listen to the science, she tells the politicians, act on the science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She seems to be too serious a young
woman to peddle in ironies, but if she were, she might have jibbed at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the presence in this great protest march
against the inactivity of political leaders, of
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who she had, politely, in a brief interview
before the march, told in her blunt fashion, that he was not doing enough. </span><span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Trudeau,
being a man whose brand is to be always on both sides at once, told her that he
agreed with her.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
happens that I have just read a new book on Trudeau, which, if it gets to be
read by enough people, might well finish him off as our Prime Minister. It is
called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and
Betrayal in an Age of Disconten</i>t, by Martin Lukacs, published by Black Rose
Books of Montreal, 295 pps, $24.50.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lukacs is a capable writer and
researcher who approaches his subject from a frankly socialist perspective,
from which viewpoint --- this is nothing new!--- all political parties fall far
short of what one might hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those
of us --- I number myself among this coterie of malcontents --- who have always
remained resistant to the siren song of the Liberal party of Canada, Lukacs’
recital of its strengths and weaknesses will come as well-trodden ground. He
establishes Trudeau as the not altogether gifted son of a Liberal Prime
Minister, good-looking, fairly eloquent on his feet, with an almost pathetic wish
to please, infinitely pliable about what to believe in, but underneath the
glossy-exterior that has been so skilfully sold to the world, he is a tough
operator who does not react well to opposition, especially from within his own
party, and whose links with the makers and shakers of the Canadian economy ---
in other words, as we call them nowadays, the one percenters---are well established,
and virtually unshakeable. The author must have had in mind to write this book
for several years, for he recounts many occasions on which he has sneaked into
events that were essentially closed to all but adherents to the status quo that
the Liberal party has always been so skilful at protecting. Events like weapons
fairs, or private party shindigs bringing together the top men from the Party
with the leaders of the corporations from which the Liberals essentially get
their orders on how to run Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The picture thus presented of the
Liberal Party is fascinating, paying, as it does, obeisance to their skill at
maintaining themselves on top of the Canadian political heap through the shrewd
manipulation of their intense contacts with the lords of Big Business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But the picture of Trudeau himself is
nothing like so pleasing: he seems to be a man skilled at
saying one thing, and doing another. The most obvious examples of this are in
his climate and environmental policies in which he brazenly pretends to be
following contradictory policies that have so far proven to be irreconcilable,
to such an extent that among some of North America’s leading environmentalists
Trudeau is regarded as the King of Hypocrites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His management of his subordinates, as
illustrated by his ruthless --- but fruitless --- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hounding of his former Justice Minister to vary
a scheduled prosecution for bribery against the Quebec engineering giant SNC Lavalin,
reveals<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a different face from that of
the smiling optimist. Some other stories I had not heard before indicate
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this willingness to accommodate Big
Business was shared by those who became closest to him when he became the top
gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is a very revealing tale about his
friend and mentor, Gerry Butts, when, as head of the World Wildlife Fund Canada,
he presided over a determined effort to reveal the unsuitability of the Alberta
Tar Sands as a source of future oil supplies. One of his subordinates realized
that everything pertaining to this campaign had suddenly been expunged from their WWF web site, without explanation, except that eventually he discovered that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the future<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>mover and shaker in the future Prime Minister’s office had succumbed to determined
lobbying <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by the oil interests to stop
their accursed campaigning, so that they could get busy developing the Tar
Sands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sooner said than done, old
boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A good deal of space is given to the
close relationship of the Liberal government with the Business Council of
Canada, or whatever it is now called --- they keep changing its name, but its function remains the same ---the
lobbying arm for all the country’s top CEOs. For years this was headed by a man
called Thomas d’Aquino; now it is headed by former Liberal minister John
Manley. It is one of the most influential groups in the country, regularly
consulted by government<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about all
matters of interest to business, and usually given the task of re-writing,
whenever necessary, the rules for competition in Canada. Labour interests, who
could be said to have at least an equal, if not perhaps a greater interest, in
the rules of business, are never consulted. ( I remember an occasion when a
film I made about the aluminum multinational, Alcan, was screened on TVO, the Ontario government's outlet, that in
a panel discussion following the film D’Aquino, one of the guests, was almost frothing at the mouth
in rage when I said we had not asked for the company’s permission to make the
film: how disgusting to spend public money from the NFB budget, on such an
enterprise!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I remember years ago<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on my blog I would drop in a paragraph
occasionally to the effect that neither the minister of natural resources, Anne
McLellan, nor John Manley was fit to be a minister, because they were,
respectively in the pockets of the oil industry and the business interests, and
were both tame ministers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of these turn
up in Lukacs book as prominent advisers to the current government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lukacs recounts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>occasionally heart-rending stories, as for
instance when our Foreign Minister, Christia Freeland -- another I classify as
not fit to be a minister ---<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had to
fight back tears when the Prime Minister of Walloon in Belgium refused to
endorse Canada’s trade treaty with the European Union. This was one of the many
treaties the Liberals had signed, including the infamous NAFTA, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that extended to all multinational
corporations the right to sue Canada if any legislation --- for example an
environmental regulation --- might be considered likely to affect the bottom
line profits of the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This rank
betrayal of the national interest is the sort of management of the economy that
for years has made Canadians with a slightly nationalist bent tear out their
hair. But to ministers like Freeland, such betrayals<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are regarded as triumphs of diplomacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The book is made up of many such horror-stories.
It ends with Mr. Lukacs expressing his disappointment that the NDP, his favored
party, should have proven such a pushover for the values of neoliberalism, that
when they eventually get into power, or close to it, their policies are
virtually indistinguishable from those of the Liberals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It strikes me that this is likely to
be a more or less permanent condition, since Canadians, although more
progressive in their politics than our neighbours to the south, are still, at
their centre, a relatively conservative people, unwilling, it seems, to embark
on any course that might be described as too radical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Trudeau
Formula</span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">,
from this perspective, is an essential, but not a comforting, read. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It convinces me that I don’t like Trudeau, but
leaves me confronted with the dilemma: his likely replacement as Prime Minister,
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Four or five months ago I was looking
forward to the Rugby World Cup that opens in three days, but without much hope
that I would make it. With now only three sleeps to be survived, I am beginning
to think I may make it after all. And that has brought me to an understanding
of the puzzling fact that most of the people who are reading this Chronicle
have minimal interest in Rugby, and will not really welcome any attempt by me
to explain it. One thing I will say in favour of this ignorance: it is not as profound
as the North American ignorance of that other British-invented game, cricket, a
game that I consider to be the greatest game on earth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whenever cricket rubs its
way into the North American consciousness, I realize I am about to be assailed
by one of those feeble attempts at humour essayed by the popular press about this
game whose fundamentals appear <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be too
complex for their understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Never mind: the least I can do is try
to give you poor souls some minimal understanding of what all the fuss is
about. I know it is going to be tough for you, because your own favourite Canadian
game is wrought with expressions about fighting, hitting, body checks, sticks
over the heads, and lifetime concussions in spite of the extravagant body shields
worn. I freely admit that this wonderful Canadian game is the fastest played by
anyone, and is a game to be immensely enjoyed for its superb skills on those
rare occasions on which they do not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>start punching each other out with the intention of wounding and hurting,
objectives that I have long ago taken to be the antithesis of sport and
games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By contrast, Rugby Union, the game I
am espousing in his piece, is composed of hard knocks, but never with the
intention of hurting or wounding anyone. In fact, the prevailing ethos of the
game is that when the final whistle has blown, the losing team will form a line
of applauding players through which the winning team makes its way off the
field. Thereafter, as is well-known, it is customary for the teams to gather in
the pub, or even in one of the dressing rooms, to share a quick one. Or two. Or
so. In an atmosphere of cameraderie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When I started to read up about the
history of these British-invented games, I was surprised by how ancient they
are. Cricket began late in the 16th century, had become the national sport of
England by the 18<sup>th</sup> century, played its first international match
--- between the USA and Canada, no less! --- in 1844.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For generations the game was dominated by
intense gambling, just as it is now in India and Pakistan, and the present
system of professional county teams began to appear by 1709, with a regular
scorecard employed since 1772, and the Lord’s Cricket Ground, which still lies
at the heart of the game, was opened in 1787.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although the Chinese have put in a
claim to have originated the game now called soccer in many millennia ago, that
is not really surprising, because as the British scientist Joseph Needham
showed in his monumental 16-volume study of Chinese life, that long-lived
civilization has a virtually unquestionable claim to having originated almost
everything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When I enquired of the Internet about
origins, it came up with his concise description:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Records trace the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">history
of soccer</span> back more than 2,000 years to ancient China. Greece, Rome,
and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was
England that transitioned <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">soccer</span>,
or what the British and many other people around the world call “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">football</span>,” into the game we know
today.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Being so very cheap to play, requiring no
more than a shirt and a pair of shorts, and a ball, or something resembling a
ball, it was from the first the game of the people, who, in Britain over many
centuries, had been great and persistent gamblers, who quickly took to gamble
over the games of football (so called, apparently, not because it was played
with the foot, as from the fact it was played<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>without the use of horses.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The
particular version of football that I grew up with is known as Rugby Union, and
it came about because, so it is said (although rigorous researchers have taken
pleasure in doubting the historical accuracy of this “fact”), during a game
being played at Rugby school, in Warwickshire, when a boy called William Webb
Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it. The Cup awarded to the victor in the
Rugby World Cup is named after Ellis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am indebted to the school’s Wikipedia entry:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The game of </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football" title="Rugby football"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Rugby football</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> owes its name to the school. The
legend of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Webb_Ellis" title="William Webb Ellis"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">William
Webb Ellis</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> and the
origin of the game is commemorated by a plaque. The story has been known to be
a myth since it was investigated by the Old Rugbeian Society in 1895. There
were no standard rules for football in Webb Ellis's time at Rugby (1816–1825)
and most varieties involved carrying the ball. The games played at Rugby were
organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules being a matter of custom
and not written down. They were frequently changed and modified with each new
intake of students. The sole source of the story is </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Bloxam" title="Matthew Bloxam"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Matthew Bloxam</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, a former pupil but not a contemporary
of Webb Ellis. In October 1876, four years after the death of Webb Ellis, in a
letter to the school newspaper <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
Meteor</span> he quotes an unknown friend relating the story to him. He
elaborated on the story four years later in another letter to <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Meteor</span>, but shed no further light
on its source. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindon" title="Richard Lindon"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080;">Richard Lindon</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, a boot and shoemaker who had premises
across the street from the School's main entrance in Lawrence Sheriff Street,
is credited with the invention of the "oval" rugby ball, the rubber
inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This
occurred before professionalism in 1885 entered the older game known formally
in the United Kingdom as Association football, and elsewhere as soccer, this
being a shorthand version developed from the initials “assoc”, often used to
delineate the game in its early years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is a matter of some interest, I
suppose to Canadians as to why this articular colony should have been almost
the only one in the British Empire that did not wholeheartedly adopt these two
British sports, cricket and soccer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Today, cricket <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is said to draw
the largest following world-wide, but there can be no denying that it is soccer
that is the favoured game of the greatest number of people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Rugby’s relatively genteel origin is
still evident in the composition of the 20 nations competing for the World Cup
about to get under way tomorrow, no fewer than 12 of the 20 owing their origins
to British imperialism. It is said today that the game is played in some 62
nations, but that still today the British Isles have more players than the rest
of the world combined.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Although with a mind like mine, one
can watch a soccer match for 1000 hours without ever seeing anything much
happening, I am willing to concede that the game, when played expertly, can be
a thing of beauty, but I do not accept the designation as “the beautiful game,”
given by its followers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That rosy view of
the sport has been dented by the hooliganism that has invaded the supporting
group of citizens in most countries but so far as I can tell in Britain, and
possibly Russia, above all others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such
hooliganism has never appeared among followers of the Rugby persuasion, at
least not to anything like the degree common among the Socceroos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I admit that our Rugby World Cup,
which began in 1987, is a straight steal from the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FIFA World Cup, which began with a victory by
Uruguay, in 1930, and has since been won five times by Brazil, and otherwise
shared between Germany, Italy, Spain, France and England, among European
countries and Argentina among Latin Americans. (The acronym FIFA itself is
proof of the widely spread origins of the game, because it stands for
Fédération Internaionale de Football Association.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Rugby cup has been won three
times by New Zealand, twice by Australia and South Africa and once by England.
France have been the most unfortunate with three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>runners-up performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One aspect of the game that might be
confusing for North .American audiences is that to pass or throw the ball forward
is not permitted; also, in a game of such avowed contact by its very nature,
strict rules govern the type of tackle that can be essayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To tackle legally, the tackler much have his
arms around the man being tackled; it is also forbidden to tackle around the
head, and it is a violation to tackle a man who, while jumping to collect the
ball from a high kick, is pulled <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>down while
still in the air. The central rule is that one is allowed to tackle only the
man with the ball: this is one of the major differences, in terms of physical
contact, from the North American gridiron game, whose players apparently can be
hit from any direction whether they have the ball or not. These are rules
designed to ensure as far as possible that contact will not lead to injury, although
it has to be admitted that with the game finally passing into professionalism
in 1995, injuries seem to be more frequent and possibly more severe than when
the game was amateur at all levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Still, the game has a huge public
following, with crowds of 80,000 to 110,000 being attracted for major so-called
Test matches in Australia, Britain and France.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The team I will be following, because
I grew up as a child for some<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>years
believing it my sincerest wish to become one of them, are known as the All
Blacks, representing New Zealand. A team, mostly of Maoris, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>toured Britain and Europe in 1888, one of the
first international tours ever undertaken, and it became common to refer to
them as All Blacks because of their all black uniform with a silver fern
insignia. (An alternative explanation is that an admiring reporter once
described their hard and fast running game by saying “they are all backs,” a
reference to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the half of the team
comprised of swift runners, smaller and lighter usually than the eight
so-called forwards whose primary task is to obtain possession of the ball by
way of a scrum, following an infraction, or from a lineout when the big men
contest for the ball that is thrown in between their two lines.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The place of the All Blacks as the
iconic team of world Rugby was solidified by the team of 1905, which toured
Britain and Europe, playing 35 games with only one loss, and scoring 976 points
to only 59 against. A reporter of the time wrote: “These New Zealanders turn
from defence to attack with such rapidity….there is nothing in the game at
which they do not excel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had never
seen anything like it in Britain; and New Zealand at the time had a population of
only 815,000. Ten years later, New Zealand provided nearly 17,000 of their
young men and women to be led to the slaughter in the First World War, a war fought
in Britain’s interests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am pleased to be able to report
that even today it remains the objective of the All Blacks to produce a fast,
exciting and beautiful version of the game whose fundamental purpose, after
all, is to pass the ball, and run with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That they are, as so often before,
entering this competition as the favourites to win,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is not something they take for granted: many
have been the worries expressed among their followers that their game plan
seems to have been disrupted by the recent improvement of the northern
hemisphere sides, and the recent revival of South Africa, their long-time
nemesis, who have emerged from a period of confusion following the downfall of
apartheid, under which the springbok Rugby team was the favoured symbol of the
racist rulers of the country. Now, following an imposed quota system designed
to encourage black Africans to play the game, South Africa is emerging with a
hefty proportion of swift-running, hard-tackling and ferociously-scrimmaging
players of whom any team must beware.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Whatever happens, whoever wins, in the
end it will still be possible for New Zealanders to say, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Wot the hell, wot the hell, it’s
only a game, chaps, only game.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "New York", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Writing
these Chronicles has made me more aware than ever before that as between those
who abhor big government, and those who look to government as the only
instrument available to redistribute wealth, I stand firmly with that latter
category.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 21.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On the other hand I have to admit
that I do find many things about government to be absolutely wacky. For
example, every government in these times seems to have become obsessed with
security. I think all this stuff they are shoving down our throats about the
need for heightened security, for more secrecy, for classified information, is
just plain stupid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 21.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is all based on taking precautions
against the enemy. I find that ridiculous. Who is Canada’s enemy? Who are we
expecting to invade us? Or is it just that we have secret plans to attack some
other country?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 21.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Another thing that is nutty is that
we have a large, expensive army. This creation of an army is a built-in reflex
of government. So far as I know, there is only one country with the capacity to
build an army that has deliberately decided to disband its army, and to have no
more army in their national life, and that is Costa<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rica. They pulled off <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that piece of legerdemain in 1948, and they
have stuck to it ever since., even though they live in a region that has
historically been plagued with wars, revolutions, social unrest, gang violence,
and the persistent interference of the Big Brother military from the United
States. Not coincidentally, Costa Rica rates high among the list of the world’s
happiest countries, and it is far and away the most <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>democratic nation in Central America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Why the hell Canada has a military is
beyond me. Who exactly are our military<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>designed to fight? Outlandish as it seems, it can only be an instrument
to keep the population under control. It has been used for this purpose
intermittently as, for example, in the battle, if you could call it that,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the Mohawk people<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>over control of a small piece of forest that
the town of Oka wanted to make into a golf course. One has only to describe the
objective of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>military action to
realize that our military force is away out of proportion to its usefulness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Canada, too, a few decades ago
decided to create an agency of security called CSIS (the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service). Its foundation was accompanied by a short-lived outburst
of protest from the few intelligent people in the country. I myself have always
been slightly proud of the fact that the tiny group we created in Ottawa was
the only one in the country that took the position, not that the legislation
needed to be improved, which was taken by all the other protesting groups, but
that we didn’t need the new Agency at all. The RCMP was already geared up to do
the work, such as it is, of keeping tabs on the loonies who want to blow up the
country, so why did we need another Agency?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our argument was that CSIS would have, as its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">raison d’etre, </i>only one objective and that was to promote its own growth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This prophecy has been more than
fulfilled. (In preparation for this Chronicle I have dipped into the matter,
and even at a cursory inspection I find it a field bewildering in its vague
descriptions of purpose, a bewilderment which is very much deepened when one
tries to make comparisons with the United States, a nation that seems to have
gone absolutely loony in its devotion to Security, extremely loosely defined.
(It recently included slapping tariffs on Canadian-produced aluminium and steel
in the name of the national Security of the United States. Since the United
States could not possibly have a closer ally than Canada has always been ---
not even those well-known citadels of civil rights, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
could be called better allies than Canada --- this was close to a declaration
of at least economic and social war against the best friend of the United
States. Barmy.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The subjects exercising CSIS,
apparently, include terrorism, espionage and foreign interference in Canadian
affairs, propagation of weapons of mass destruction, informational security
threats and the security-screening programme. This last is no doubt the one at
which the Agency approaches most closely to the lives of ordinary Canadians,
insisting that we line up in huge queues to get on and off aeroplanes,
84-year-old widows being required to take off their shoes, old men who can scarcely
walk required to take off their belts and empty their pockets of coins, before
going through their machines, the efficacy and intrusiveness of which have been
continuously improved as creepy techniques like face recognition have come into
use. I am not aware that any security threats have been unmasked by this
cumbersome method --- which, of course, has since been extended to entering
office buildings, Parliament, buses and trains --- but it is certainly something
that could have been entrusted to the RCMP when, or if, it is ever needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Most Canadians will not know that
CSIS is just one of several government departments that operate their own
security services, such as the Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch, and the
department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CSIS is spread throughout the country with six
regional offices, and Liaison Officers in each of Canada’s embassies abroad,
the objective being presumably to gather foreign security information. From their
whole list of objectives, it strikes me that only one or two of them appear to
fulfil any serious purpose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a
further item of deserved public disaffection comes from the fact that a CSIS
under-cover officer was one of the founders of a neo-Nazi movement called the
Heritage Front, now, fortunately, defunct, but not an activity to be welcomed
by any serious person, even though it does provide an hilarious refutation of
the seriousness of the Agency. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 21.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In fact, Canada has something I had
never heard of until an hour or so ago, called the Public Safety Portfolio,
which includes Correctional Services, CSIS, Canadian Border Services Agency, the
Parole Board of Canada and the RCMP. Between them, these agencies have a total
budget of $9 billion, and employ some 66,000 people. To be searching through
the archives for information is like groping forward in a northern Alberta fog
(which I had to drive through in the middle of the night once, a highly
irritating and somewhat dangerous undertaking). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I had to look at one information site
after another before I could find a sum representing the budget of the RCMP.
Most items listed in reply to such inquiries said that, for example, $80 million
had been given to the RCMP in the last budget for such and such a new service,
and $60 million had been devoted to ensuring that officers should get mental
health treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 21.3pt;">
<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I finally did come across a figure
suggesting that we are spending $2.317 billion on the RCMP, whose personnel
number something like 22,500, although I admit that much of this obscurity comes
from the extremely broad range of activities undertaken by he RCMP across the
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Comparisons with the United States,
which appears to have gone completely bonkers in its love for National
Security, are hard to make. That country has roughly ten times the population
of Canada, and, as they told us a few months ago, it has at least 17
intelligence agencies, elevating the total amount spent on security to more
than $500 billion, a vast sum. If the comparison is just between the CIA
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CSIS, we still have a long way to go
to catch up with our southern neighbour’s lunacy: our Agency has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2,500 employees, and a budget <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of nearly $600 million. CIA’s budget is around
$58 billion, their employees numbering 21,500. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Am I completely crazy in thinking
that this is completely crazy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "new york" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">I
hear at least one reader, probably more, saying, “Okay, you are absorbed in the
political affairs of the United States and Britain, but what about right here
in Canada? After all, we are now in the middle of an election. What do you have
to say about that?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Okay, what I have to say is that if I
were the type to be advising people how they should vote, my advice would come
from within what I think would nowadays be called a tribal choice. That is how
I have always voted, not always for one particular party, but for the tribe
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leftists, the guys who want to reform
the entire capitalist orientation of our world in a socialist direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I remember being in Britain during
their 1951 election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clement Attlee’s Labour
Party had won a decisive majority in 1945 (393 seats to 197), for the first
time in British history, and by 1950, the next election, his government had not
only achieved their landmark legislation by creating the National Health
Service in 1948, but had also succeeded, in the words of a friend of mine, “in
tying the country up in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>red tape”,
instead of enthusing their young followers as they had all hoped. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the 1950 election their majority
was reduced to five (315 out of 624 seats), and when they called a snap
election in 1951 in the hope of increasing their majority, the consensus was
they were on their last legs. They had lost several of their strongest members,
men such as Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevin, their original Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary. I never had any doubt which side I would
support. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was unemployed at the time,
so I trotted around to the local Labour headquarters and offered my
services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a minimal temporary wage I
was put to stuffing envelopes, and I took advantage of Attlee’s first local
speech to take a look at him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I was so appalled at the
establishmentarianism of his whole attitude that, in a gesture of disgust, I
ceased the envelope stuffing, and sat out the rest of the campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My local candidate was beaten, and so was my
party beaten nationally by a man who had been counted out ten years before, the
much-despised (by many) and equally much-admired and much-loved, Winston Churchill
--- both sides of those particular judgments having good cause for the contempt
and adulation they bestowed on him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the Tories, as they are usually called, under
Churchill embarked on a government of drift and uncertainty, the details of most
of which I will spare my readers. (It was that British government, after the
retirement from office of Churchill, that, along with France and Israel, attacked
Egypt, an event that ended with the settlement that won Canada’s Minister for
External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, a Nobel Peace prize. The view of all this
within <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my leftist tribe is that the Suez
attack was the last hurrah of the old European imperialism, and that Pearson was
as much, perhaps even more, interested in pleasing the new imperial power, the
United States, as he was determined to stop the war.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One of Labour’s young leftist turks in
the 1950s was a man called Anthony Wedgwood Benn, later Viscount Stansgate, and
later still, after he successfully fought a court battle in which he asserted
his right to renounce his inherited peerage, Tony Benn. Years later, after I
had emigrated to Canada, and been sent back as London correspondent for T<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he Montreal Star</i>, when I was writing a
profile of Benn for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Sunday Times</i>,
a leading London newspaper owned by the Canadian magnate Roy Thomson,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Benn told me that in his opinion, a Labour
government marching into office should have been as close as possible to Castro
marching into Havana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was an idea
that stuck with this leftist tribalist, and it explains why, when I transferred
to Canada as an immigrant, I was fated to support candidates, who even though
their aspirations fell far short of the Benn formula, nevertheless usually had
minimal chances of winning their constituency, and always had zero chances of
ever forming a government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Never mind: the tribe above all, so
my advice would be to vote New Democratic Party, even though, as you can tell
from my recitation of my first leftist voting experience, they have no chance
of winning in my constituency and zero chance of ascending to government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nevertheless, I believe it is
important that the leftist vote be kept as high as possible. My reading of
history has persuaded me that the very existence of the NDP, even though its left-wing
bias is vague and non-threatening to any capitalist interest, is a powerful factor
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>distinguishing Canada from the United
States. At least in Canada, thanks to the NDP, the body of ideas that animate our
leftist tribe are always part of the political discourse and, at certain
periods, their espousal of improving ideas has flopped over into Liberal Party policy,
as, for example into creating our national health scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Indeed, I was very struck by the fact
that a few years ago, when the CBC held a campaign for their watchers and
listeners to choose the most admired man in Canadian history, the victor turned
out to be Tommy Douglas, the 1950s leader of the CCF in Saskatchewan, who first
introduced to North America the concept of a government-funded national health
scheme, and who became the first leader of the New Democratic Party in the
House of Commons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So, that is my advice about the
election we are now engaged in. I have to add, however, that for those
disinclined to follow my advice, in other words for those not members of my
leftist tribe, when confronted with a choice between the relatively progressive
platform of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, and the waffling, individualistic,
climate-change denying Conservatives of Andrew Scheer, I would say the answer
should be obvious. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even taking into account the recent improvement in the
fortunes of the Green Party, my choice would lie elsewhere, mainly because I
instinctively dislike any slogan that says "Not Left, Not Right……" as if Left and Right are indistinguishable. That slogan seems almost as if it were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>written to be a refutation of my whole
political argument, so I would advise against it quite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strenuously. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Which is not, I must emphasize, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to fail to take the issue of climate warming
seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just to object to any
one-note, opportunistic prescription for what ails us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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