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What's Left To Be Loyal
To?
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Published in the Globe and Mail on Jun/11/94.
Dear Editor,
Re: "Where Nothing Means Anything, What's Left To Be Loyal To?"--by Andrew
Coyne--Jun/06/94--The Globe and Mail
Andrew Coyne provided a sober, merciless and accurate assessment of the mess we call
Canada. A cesspool of relativism, pragmatism, collectivism and statism is what Canada
has shamefully become. Mr. Coyne's prognosis is especially painful on D-Day when
we think of those heroic soldiers who, fifty years ago, fought against a tyranny
which embodied the same irrational, collectivist and statist ideas now destroying
Canada. But, Mr. Coyne stops there, thus leaving the big question still ringing in
our ears: "What on Earth is there to be loyal to?"
The only thing worth being loyal to is a rational code of principles. The solution
to Canada's dilemma is gun control. No, I don't mean the control of guns in the hands
of private citizens, but the concealed weapons wielded by our governments, to be
drawn whenever a person resists a government violation of his or her inalienable
individual rights. We need a declaration of independence from state-enforced mediocrity,
collectivism, "special-interest" group warfare, and egalitarianism. We
need a bill of rights to protect the inalienable rights of individuals to life, liberty,
property and the pursuit of happiness -- one that bans anyone from forcing themselves
or their ideas on others. We need a government whose sole purpose is to protect such
rights.
Canada is not terminally ill. A good doctor doesn't stop at delivering the prognosis.
He goes on to prescribe the cure.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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