Question everything

On another program on Public Access concerning government hypocrisy & free speech, someone interviewed had pointed out the legal definition of "terrorist". Normally, I would try to ignore something such as this because I firmly believe that the people have absolutely no voice in this country.

It's not simply our current Administration which has led me to lose all faith in American politics, policy, etc. This has been brewing for years. Perhaps that Bush was named President in two elections he clearly didn't win. But there have plainly been incongruities in the electoral process for many, many years.

Of course, having grown up during a period of social upheaval in this country, I couldn't help but be heavily influenced by one of the most powerful slogans of the era, which was: "Question authority".

Sadly, we don't have the law behind us in this any longer. We can't even fall back on our beloved Constitution either. The legal definition of a terrorist of which I'd spoken above, blatantly ignores those very rights we hold so dear. This definition, loosely, states that a "terrorist" is anyone who performs any act aimed at influencing governmental policy.

So, our lawyers & politicians, countering our right to free speech & our need to "question authority" & "fight the system", have simply made such rights & needs illegal. And trying to persuade anyone to return to the purity of that Constitution can be arrested & detained indefinitely, without charges or representation under the USA Patriot Act, in direct violation of rights given each & every citizen of this country by those who created this independent nation.

Apart from this, my beloved Canada, the country where I hope, perhaps, to live out the rest of my life, & where I hope -- after my death -- to be returned to the earth, has gone (or so I've been led to believe) so far as to create policy which states that an American cannot be legaly considered a political refugee.

Regarless of the motivation for this policy -- which I suspect was made under duress from the US -- I ask of Canada's sense of compassion. We who see through the lies of our government & also would like to become a citizen of the land to the north, have lost a valuable avenue for true freedom.

I beseech you Canada, call me. Help me. Free me of the oppression of this obviously fascist & imperialst regime where only the ignorant can survive & only the rich will have the basic necessities of the very life we all wish to live.

I promise you, I will be a good Canadian. And as painful as I'm sure I'll find it, I'll even learn the names of your hockey teams.