Pep'rJack
Active Member
The really sad thing is that once again, our government pretends that we are above such things, and refuses to conduct or allow an investigation.
Ain't that the truth. The thing that increasingly frightens me is that the Canadian population generally seems to agree. There is a weird and disturbing naive delusionism in this country wrt gov't/authorities that seems eternally unaffected by events, and almost militantly resistant to such revelations. Canada is obviously nowhere near as bad as many other places in these sorts of ways, but isn't remotely as saintly as most of us seem to relentlessly tell ourselves. The door is always wiiiiiiiiide open here for serious state corruption, mainly because the large bulk of Canadians apparently simply don't believe it's really possible, let alone happening. It's an odd - and possibly unique - cultural quirk that isn't nearly as benign as it seems. We've merely been lucky so far, imo, that it hasn't gotten out of hand. This won't last forever - it never does:
"An inescapable requirement of true patriotism, love for one’s land, is a vigilant distrust of any determinative power, elected or unelected, that may preside over it."
- Thomas Jefferson
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