Ron Gray examines Canada's official religion. In a country rife with rules and laws against displaying any hint of formalized religion on public property, or to exercise free expression of religious beliefs in the public in general, Canada has created a great conundrum. The government – and the radical lobbyists trying to eradicate all formal religions – is promoting and practicing its own religion with impunity. What gives?
Ron Gray speaks of monetary reform and its inextricable relationship with moral reform, especially in light of Canada's current fiscal policy that defies both responsibility and morality – and even logic! Listen to a clear-as-glass explanation that makes you believe that bankers and politicians are sucking the life blood out of YOU and every other Canadian for nothing more than their personal greed.
Ron Gray gives his own opinion on one of the hot topics of the year: gun control. When many people offer quick and "easy" solutions to gun violence, Ron points out a few realities that will keep this subject alive and unresolved for a long, long time.
Host Ron Gray reflects on the recent tragedies of the Boston Marathon bombings and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, and recalls Abraham Lincoln's apropos words of more than a century ago.
Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with Alice Jongerden, a forefront figure in the fight for food freedom in Canada. Alice and her growing movement are battling Canada's archaic and illogical laws against fresh milk – that is, milk that hasn't been destroyed by homogenization and pasteurization. Fresh milk – also called raw milk – has a proven track record as being more healthy (and less dangerous!) than processed milk, yet the processing industry is holding dairy farmers down with their stranglehold on politicians. If you think you're free in Canada, why can't you drink a simple glass of fresh milk?
In the first of two parts, Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with Jim Hnatiuk, leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Mr. Hnatiuk discusses the government's new Office of Religious Freedom, and exposes it as a ploy to further destroy the Canadian culture by devaluing the very values on which this country was built.
by Don Spratt
Again today I’m in mourning; because freedom is dying in Canada, and so are her defenders. It began with the Whatcott decision, and now I mourn the loss of one of free speech’s greatest defenders: Douglas Christie, who died March 11.
But what bothers me most is that too few people—too few Christians—seem to notice or care about what it bodes for our future as a nation; few seem to recognize the gathering storm and what it means for coming generations.
Yes, we all want to remain free, but few are willing to pay any real price to ensure that freedom into the future.
Yet I hope—and fervently pray—that recent events will serve as a wake-up call, warning us that we must stand together, and bring to bear the indispensable political pressure it will take to bring about peaceful political change before it’s too late.
With Mr. Christie’s untimely passing, not only are his loving wife and family left in sorrow, but my good friend and co-defendant Sissy von Dehn is left without her able lawyer. As I watched him defend Sissy (beside my equally dedicated legal council, Ron McDonald), I came to a new appreciation for Mr. Christie—not only as a lawyer, but as a true friend of freedom for all Canadians… not just the politically correct and powerful, who need no protection.
He often laboured at reduced rates or pro-bono for people who could not find or afford legal council. Such was the high value he put on free speech; the right to a fair trial, even for people with unpopular or repugnant ideas with which he might personally disagree.
The Whatcott decision was a direct attack on our God-given, rights to freedom of religion and freedom of expression in the public square—supposedly “guaranteed” Section 2 of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The specific provisions of the Charter that are supposed to protect individuals from oppressive and tyrannical government measures were again swept aside by the judges, who simply invoked Section 1 to unjustly deny those rights.
The worst part of the decision is the high court’s statement that objective truth is no defence.
The Latin word, Veritas (meaning Truth) is inscribed on monuments and plaques all over the Supreme Court building, but stating the TRUTH is no longer a defence if that truth offends someone, and they haul you before a Human Rights Commission! All it takes is for one thin-skinned, specially-protected person from a government-favoured group to say that his/her feelings are hurt by you stating objective truth, and you’re legal and financial toast!
So, be aware: subjective political correctness and hurt feelings trump the centuries-old values of truth, equal justice before God, and the rule of law in our courts. Even if no one was harmed, it still doesn’t matter!
On top of that, the government—we, the taxpayers—will have to pay for the complainant’s legal council; while the hapless defendant must defend himself, or pay for a lawyer out of his or her own pocket. And if he loses, the defendant can be fined and assessed court costs, which can be financially ruinous.
Equal justice before the law is as dead as an aborted baby!
At the same time all this is going on, Sissy von Dehn and I are still waiting on the BC Court of Appeal for a decision, to find out whether they will uphold our Section 2 Charter rights by overturning lower court decisions that also denied our free speech rights by the abuse of Section 1 of the Charter.
In our case, the court put the act of simply informing the public on a public sidewalk (that they can be arrested within a bubble zone) on the same level as crying “fire” in a crowded theatre when there is no fire.
We are also denied a trial by jury, because these are not Criminal Code cases, and prison time would be below two years if convicted. This, of course, eliminates the possibility of jury nullification—the tactic Henry Morgentaler used to defeat his clear and open defiance of the abortion section of the Criminal Code—and therefore any Common Law common-sense impact of a decision by a jury of our peers.
Everything is stacked against pro-life and pro-family activists.
Sure we have freedom of speech in Canada—but only as long as it isn’t politically incorrect speech, spoken on the public streets or in the public square; and especially not in a “bubble zone” around a government-protected, tax-funded child killing facility!
If we, as free Canadians, don’t soon stand up and demand that our God-given rights be respected, we’ll have to learn to whisper our opinions in hushed tones, and only to our most trusted friends, like my friends in the former Soviet Union, lest they end up in the gulag!
Some might say, “That can’t happen here.” Then why are Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner repeatedly put in prison? Why am I under probation for passing out copies of government legislation, if our political and legal system is not headed in that direction? Who is next? And who will defend you when all the Doug Christies are gone?
After surviving the Nazi prison camps, German Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote this warning:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The loss of Mr. Christie is a loss for free speech in Canada, because few other lawyers will defend the free speech rights of people who hold unpopular views, such as abortion abolitionists. This is especially true in a day and age where the politically correct and powerful can expect the courts to unfairly discriminate against their pro-life and pro-family opponents, under unjust “bubble zone” and “hate speech” laws.
Everything Hitler did had been legalized, too; but it was not just.
Linda Gibbons has recently been released, having served her sentence (over 4 months) in remand. Mary Wagner still languishes in an Ontario prison, this time for over six months.
Where most criminals are given as much slack as possible, and are often quickly back out on the street; peaceful pro-life activists only get added persecution!
Meanwhile, Mary Wagner remains in prison, destitute—with her lawyer, Charles Lugosi, being denied legal aid to defend her. If you want to contribute to Mary’s defence, please send cheques to:
“Charles Lugosi at Law”
107 Wellington Street
Brantford, ON, N3T 2M1
Please write, “Mary Wagner defence” on the memo line.
The “crime” for which Linda has spent more than 10 years in jail, is obeying Jesus commandment to “love your neighbour as yourself,” by peacefully pleading for the lives of innocent, voiceless, defenceless, oppressed and unwanted pre-born babies. Linda and Mary offer a true “choice”, with practical help for girls and women in crisis pregnancies; girls who are often being coerced and almost dragged into abortuaries by partners, and sometimes parents. I’ve witnessed this with my own eyes, feeling helpless because a bubble zone law kept me away, under threat of more prison time.
But Linda perseveres, and more than 100 young women have accepted her practical help, and carried their babies to term. Some of those rescued babies are now having their own babies.
What kind of a perverted legal system would imprison a saint like that, while handing millions of our tax dollars, full police state protection and the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler? It is Henry who should be in prison, as he once was! Only a corrupt, politicized, violent and merciless legal system would do that!
How have we forgotten that the first and most fundamental God-ordained purpose for civil government is to protect the innocent and vulnerable, and to punish evil-doers? Today that is turned completely upside down; good is called “evil”, and evil is called “good” in our court system!
Isaiah 5:20-21 says:
What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.
The courts get away with inverted justice because, first of all, the biased pro-abortion major media outlets hardly ever report on this injustice! Second, even when we are aware of the injustice inflicted upon Linda and Mary, except for a handful of notable exceptions… we let the authorities get away with it—because we, for the most part, say nothing.
As a prisoner of conscience myself (although doing far less time) I personally know a little bit about what Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons must feel as they languish in prison for doing the right thing in the face of an unjust law. I know what it is to sit in prison for upholding God’s law, despite a perverted human law that forbids it.
I felt as Martin Luther King did while sitting in jail and remember his words,
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
It was also Dr. King who said,
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
So today I mourn the loss of freedom, liberty, and justice under the rule of law. I mourn the fact that those like Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner stand virtually alone, with little moral or financial support beyond the prison system meals, bed and a roof over their heads—all for defending the most innocent and defenceless among us: the 300 pre-born who will die today, and every day until we finally stand up and say “NO MORE!”
And I mourn for Bill Whatcott, who gallantly refuses to stop his witness to the truth and defence of the bedrock of Canadian society: the family! How long until he ends up in prison too, forgotten and alone?
In the end, it is up to us, and no one else! The free ride of freedom, paid for by our forbearers, is over. Further complacency will cost future generations dearly—in injustice, slavery and death.
If the last century taught us anything, it is that appeasement of evil only encourages more evil—until it finally reaches you.
The German church kept “going along to get along” with Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s, thinking his growing tyranny would not affect them—only to send their boys off in the ’40s to a deadly war that affected every German family and many Canadian families!
Will we learn from this history, or repeat it?
I have a workable plan to stop the child-killing, restore our God-given rights under God and the rule of law—if we, as Christians, and all other Life- and Liberty-lovers, will stand and work together relentlessly before the next federal election, in a non-partisan political campaign behind our long-cherished moral and political principles—a stand that will get the attention of every politician and aspiring politician. Remember: “politicians do not see the light until they feel the heat (electorally and financially)!”
This will not be a cheap or easy win; it will cost us all, in terms of time, money; social, political and media opposition; and even persecution—but it is a price we must pay to remain free. It may cost us some socio-political and economic pain now, but that is much better than the blood, sweat and tears it will cost future generations if they have to rise up in armed revolt or a civil war to regain the God-given freedom, justice and prosperity we are squandering on ourselves.
If you want to join me in the fight for Life and Liberty in Canada; an organized effort to see Linda and Mary released, the repeal of bubble-zone laws, and the restoration of respect for God and the rule of law, let me know what you can contribute in skills, time and finances. See how you can donate financially below.
The funds will be used for FreeLinda and FreeMary web pages and bill-board signs in Ontario. I have a donor for signs in Saskatchewan. The funds will also cover organization, travel and expenses, as well as providing funds to Linda and Mary as needed, in or out of prison. An independent individual will do the bookkeeping. No tax receipts can be issued, but financial supporters will be able to ask for reports.
Please give all you can financially as soon as possible. If I don’t hear from you with tangible support, then there is little I can do on my own, although I’ve tried and have given all I have for 30 years defending the pre-born; and now some 14 years in the courts and prison for defending our God-given Charter rights to freedom of expression and religion, mostly at my own expense. My family and I have sacrificed much for this cause, so I think you can trust me with God’s money. Pray for all of us on the front line, and please join us!
Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies. (Hebrews 13:3) Also read Matthew 25:31-46.
Ask yourself these questions in light of the above Scriptures and of Jesus’ command to “love your neighbour as yourself”:
If you were innocent and defenceless, yet scheduled to be killed tomorrow, merely because you were unwanted, wouldn’t you want somebody to speak in your defence, and even try to rescue you?
If you were unjustly kept in jail for obediently “loving your neighbour as yourself”, wouldn’t you want Christian brothers and sisters to come to your defence and demand your release? Wouldn’t you want them to come to your defence by the thousands, or hundreds of thousands? I would; but it’s never happened. We better change that before it’s too late!
Join me in defending Life and Liberty!!
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UNAFFORDABLE JUSTICE IS NO JUSTICE AT ALL:
When there’s no real justice for people in the courts or government . . . where do people who have been done-in by the system turn to next?
The terrible answer to this question is NOWHERE . . . where we really want to be, and that’s the rudiment of revolutions.
I have spent much of my life around animals, big and small. And amongst the many things I discovered in the animal world, is that we humans are not all that much different from them.
We have our joys and fears. We “scrounge” for food. And we seek shelter when and where we can, just like animals do. AND WE DEFEND OUR LIBERTY where and when we can.
The intelligence factor between the animal world and our world is secondary to our naturally born instincts. And here is where we share more in common with the animal world – than not.
Just like humans, most animals are satisfied to live their lives amongst their own kind in peace. But, also just like humans, there are animals within their own kind who fight to dominate.
And then there are the hunters who feed off the gatherers.
Are You a Cowering Animal?
The gatherers tend to flee and/or hide when chased by the hunters in both worlds, as we can see when the Lion chases down the Gazelle amongst a fleeing herd, whose only objective amongst the individual members of the herd is not to be the one to be caught and killed by the Lion.
THE BEST HUMAN EXAMPLE EVER:
When the Nazis and their European Allies hunted down the Jews, they too (the Jewish herd) ran and hid like gatherers in the animal world . . . rather than fight.
And even when their backs were up against the wall, and their loved-ones threatened, instead of fighting, they prayed, they begged, and they hoped for the best.
DO ALL ANIMALS COWER, RUN, AND HIDE?
Anne and I have a pony who’s about 600 pounds. But . . . pound for pound, he’s tougher than either of our two twelve hundred pound horses. And when challenged, not only will this pony stand his ground, it’s just as likely that he’ll go at his challenger.
I’ve seen videos of Wildebeest circling the proverbial wagons when confronted by Lions. So, not all gatherers will succumb quietly to the threats of the hunters.
THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL . . . is the animal that is cornered, which sees no chance for flight, which by nature would never fight, but very well might when there is no other choice.
I’ve even seen mice bare their teeth to cats when their hope is zero.
AND THAT’S WHO MANY OF US ARE TOO.
Not every European Jew willingly stepped into the Cattle Car, or stood over the grave that he or she had dug for himself or herself. Not every European Jew listened with obedience to the commands of his or her tormentors, or his or her co-religionist Quislings.
When people are pushed into a corner, it is indeed a reality that some, just like otherwise gentle animals will fight back, and MORE likely than not, perhaps not a majority, but some nonetheless, will fight long before they are forced into that position.
Think about how few Patriots there were in the 1770’s who really took on the British, driving-out the greatest empire at that time.
OUR COURTS ARE DEFILING OUR FREEDOMS . . . YET – WE’RE NOT FIGHTING BACK:
NOT YET ANYWAYS . . .
In Canada . . . Racist French TRIBALISTS in four small Ontario (Canada) Townships passed a bylaw FORBIDDING the stand-alone use of the English language on private commercial signs, making the unrestricted use of the English language against the law in a province that is NINETY-SIX PERCENT NOT French.
Even the Courts agreed that this FORCED bilingual sign bylaw violated Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But – said in their judgments; that under the circumstance to help promote the French language, that negating Freedom of Expression for English speakers was the right thing to do.
My case was simple . . .
Do these FORCED bilingual laws violate my FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION? – YES OR NO?
ALMOST THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS over a period of some 4 years, and losses at the Ontario Superior Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada decided without explanation NOT TO HEAR OUR APPEAL, rendering the FORCED bilingual sign law the law of Canada.
All of the judicial decisions from court to court were in themselves reprehensible. But, what was as much a TRAVESTY of Justice and FREEDOM, and perhaps even more so to the actual decisions, were the costs PILED-UP by the lawyers and the Courts over a ridiculous period of time to decide upon a simple question.
CAN YOU AFFORD TO PAY OVER $350,000 TO DEFEND YOUR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION?
Was my RIGHT to FREEDOM of EXPRESSION Violated as is clearly SPELLED-OUT in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms under Section 2b?
THE ANSWER IS YES . . . So – what do I do when the judicial system is ESTABLISHED to make lawyers rich, while at the same time, gives judges the undisputed RIGHT to add or remove CONSTITUTIONAL guarantees as they so desire?
And if the courts can take away my FREEDOM of expression with impunity, what else can they take away from me AND YOU?
DIDN’T THE AMERICAN SUPREME COURT RULE AGAINST FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE?
There is no question or argument . . . none whatsoever, that the government, according to the US Constitution cannot ORDER a person to purchase a product or a service.
Yet, that is exactly what the US Supreme Court did in deciding upon the legitimacy of Obamacare, simply by defining the forced participation of the people as a tax, opposed to being a FORCED purchase.
So . . . What does an American, or an American company do when he or she does not want to purchase Obamacare for whatever reason?
I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE LOSS OF MY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN CANADA.
For me to go to court to MAINTAIN . . . not to win anything, but just to MAINTAIN my Freedom of Expression, my personal cost was MORE than $350,000.
I had to pay my lawyers more than $100,000, and a portion of the other side’s lawyers to the tune of $250,000 of their costs.
I AM ASKING THESE QUESTIONS IN FULL KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR ANSWER:
Would you personally be prepared or capable of paying $350,000 or more to defend your RIGHT to Freedom of Expression?
Would you be willing to risk as much as, and more than $350,000 of your own money and future to fight for the FREEDOMS of others?
If you are not capable of paying for what should be your day in court . . . WHERE IS YOUR RIGHT TO JUSTICE?
REMEMBER WHAT I WROTE ABOUT PASSIVE ANIMALS:
As more people in the USA and Canada are denied their very basic RIGHTS and FREEDOMS through political and judicial intimidation, coupled to CRIPPLING costs, people will find another way to seek redress and justice.
When cornered with nowhere to go, even some of the most passive animals will bare their teeth, knowing full well that there is no way they can survive, but they will fight nonetheless.
The governments that should be of the people, by the people and for the people as Abraham Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address should think long and hard about the potential of people who are fed-up, and have their backs up against the wall.
In my next editorial . . . I will explain how we are sticking it to the lawyers, the courts and the politicians.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
TO: Each judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
March 4, 2013
Your recent decision regarding the Whatcott case is EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING in that it further restricts freedom of speech in Canada.
Your decision indicates that a claimant is allowed to make a complaint to the Human Rights Commission or the courts if that person is “offended” by something I may have said to him/her. That is so broad it is Gestapo-like fearful to us.
On the Supreme Court website, beside a photo of Justice McLachlin, she makes a statement about Canada’s Supreme Court philosophy: “accommodation of differences”. These three words clash with what your decision amounts to. You make no “accommodation” for people of faith to freely express their beliefs with full religious conviction.
i.e. I talk to my neighbor and tell him about God’s Word as recorded in the Bible and he gets offended. I cannot and will not apologize for having quoted a direct quote from the Bible. He then can, with the endorsement of the recent decision, lodge a complaint about me having offended him.
Does this not justify the common perception that comes from the public that you judges are really “activists judges”?
All evangelical churches exist to proselytize, and due to the diminished interest in religion, many people who don’t want to hear what the Bible has to say are offended. And that will enable them to have the opportunity to lodge a complaint. Then the complainant has no legal expenses, but the defendant might have some hefty legal bills.
You have set Canada on a path that is vastly different from what freedoms we have had in the past. This is not merely disappointing, it is highly offensive to us. Would this now be grounds for us lodging a complaint against the judges of the Supreme Court because we are deeply offended?
You are playing alarmingly loose with our freedoms.
~ Leonard Remple
One more thing about the dangers of too much government control…
Howard "The Galvanator" Galganov is back! This show is not only really fun, but informative and … well, surprising! Tune in and watch as Kari Simpson gets a stunning confession from Ron Gray!! You won't believe who Ron Gray once voted for!! This is a show you will be cheering about. Make sure you forward it to your friends! Is it time that we organized a national association of hard-working, common-sensed Canadians with enough clout to instil electoral fear into any politician that dares waste tax-payer dollars on anti-Canadian policies? YES!!
If you’re an American reading this . . . try to imagine being punished to the tune of A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS – ONLY for refusing to use a language other than English on your own PRIVATE commercial sign . . . by standing up to say NO.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION . . . WITH THE COURT’S PERMISSION THAT IS:
Over the past few years, with some financial help from a number of people who visit Galganov.com, with just a very few individuals with somewhat deeper pockets, and about fifty or so working-class and retired grass-roots folk who are part of a RIGHTS organization, we did our best to cover the cost of a very basic fight to preserve our MOST fundamental Freedom, which is FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
When I say that we did our best . . . I really mean that we did our best.
By the time the dust settled, between how much money I put-in, and what others contributed, we spent well MORE than $100,000 in a case against an insignificant Township to preserve our FREEDOM of EXPRESSION.
IN A NUTSHELL . . . a miniscule number of French Language Activists located just East of the City of Ottawa (Canada), in a Township called Russell, in collusion with an English speaking politically motivated LEFTIST Mayor, and two French speakers on his Council, passed a bylaw FORCING merchants to use FRENCH on their signs alongside English, whether the Merchants wanted to or not.
NO GUARANTEE TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN CANADA:
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, according to Section 2b, which GUARANTEES Freedom of Expression . . . DOESN’T REALLY GUARANTEE ANYTHING. It’s a sham.
What happened in the Russell FORCED Bilingual Sign Law Case is equivalent to saying that the FIRST AMENDMENT in the American Constitution is open to Judicial interpretation on when and where the English language can be used.
THINK SPANISH AND WHAT YOUR POLITICIANS WILL BE WILLING TO SELL FOR VOTES:
I’m not writing about screaming fire in a crowded movie theater. Nor am I writing about using words to defame someone.
What I’m writing about . . . is being FORCED by the government, in this case a lowly Township, to use a language not of your own choosing, in spite of your own objections, on your own PRIVATE commercial sign (property).
There’s no debate or argument over the message of the sign . . . IT’S ONLY ABOUT THE LANGUAGE.
THIS IS NOTHING LESS THAN LINGUISTIC AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ON STEROIDS:
According to this sign-law, I am breaking the law in this community (as well as three others with similar laws) if I put up a sign that does not carry the English message in French . . . same size same message.
Therefore . . . the government is ORDERING private citizens to express themselves in ways that are AGAINST THEIR OWN FREE WILL.
BUT THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN THAT . . .
Because of French Language Activism in Canada, there is a loophole in our Constitution that allows special accommodation to the French language . . . that includes ABROGATING the Constitutional RIGHTS of English speakers.
YOU READ THAT RIGHT . . . If it favors French Speakers, English Speaker’s RIGHTS do not count; meaning that for Anglos, there is no Constitutional Guarantee to Freedom of Expression when French becomes a factor.
THE DEMOGRAPHICS ILLUSTRATE TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY:
In all of Canada, excluding the French Separatist and linguistic racist ethnocentric Province of Quebec, there are ONLY 3% of the population who consider themselves to be French Speakers.
But, unless you can pass a French proficiency exam, which just about all Anglos CANNOT, it is nearly impossible to get a job working anywhere in the country for the federal government.
How’s that for linguistic discrimination at the hands of a 3% minority?
Ontario is about 4% French. And of those 4%, most of them live in small French communities scattered throughout the province, with a preponderance living within an hour of the National Capital (Ottawa), and the border to the Ethnocentric English-Hating French Province of Quebec, where the unrestricted use of the English language is AGAINST the law.
And of that 4% – just about 100% speak English . . . so why the problem?
Because a small town Mayor (Ken Hill) with political dreams of grandeur decided to pass a bylaw usurping the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, for no purpose other than to make a few French TRIBALISTS feel good about themselves, and possibly give himself the French vote in a larger political context, the Court Costs awarded AGAINST me are $250,000 because we lost.
BUT HOW CAN ANYONE LOSE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION?
These costs include our first loss at Superior Court, where the self-declared French Activist Judge Monique Metivier said in Court; that even though the Russell Bylaw violated Freedom of Expression, it was the RIGHT THING TO DO.
The cost also included the THREE Judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal who said the same thing. IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
And then there’s the cost for the Activist Supreme Court of Canada, which refused to hear our APPEAL, even though this bylaw and various other challenges we made to the Supreme Court in our request for LEAVE, actually violated their own jurisprudence.
Even though all the Judges agreed that it was the RIGHT THING TO DO, not one of them said why and how it’s supported by the Constitution . . . And here is where it gets really serious:
CANADA HAS A NEW LANGUAGE LAW . . . AND NO ONE KNOWS IT:
Because the Supreme Court refused to hear our appeal . . . this linguistically racist bylaw against the English majority in just one community, introduced by a pissant mayor and council, all of whom were defeated in the follow-up election . . . IS NOW THE LAW OF CANADA.
WHERE WAS THE MEDIA?
Canada’s media can teach LEFTIST journalism to most American News Providers. How scary is that?
If any issue casts a shadow of doubt on the BIG CANADIAN LIE, that Canada is a bilingual country, which is as far removed from the truth as you can possibly get, the Canadian media stays as far away from it as they can . . . as if it was the plague.
I used the headline – 250,000 REASONS NOT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, because it’s true.
Ask yourself this . . . Why would anyone want to fight a battle for the FREEDOM of some thirty-three million people who are lost in a fog, and wouldn’t so much as lift a finger to defend themselves or contribute to their own defense?
FOR ME – THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE . . . Even though there were 250,000 reasons for me NOT to have done this, there is only one reason that I did.
IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FREEDOM.
Young men and women . . . and not so young men and women have fought, and are still fighting all over this planet for the FREEDOMS of others, while in our own countries (the USA and Canada), people take our FREEDOMS for granted.
We allow our politicians, nameless and faceless bureaucrats, and ACTIVIST JUDGES to nibble away at our FREEDOMS everyday, as if our FREEDOMS are mere suggestions opposed to ironclad guarantees.
I TOOK A $250,000 BEATING – BUT I DIDN’T DIE. AND I WASN’T WOUNDED.
My father, as a young Canadian landed on the shores of Sicily, before the D-DAY Invasion. He was wounded at the Battle of Casino, but fought-on nonetheless. He was decorated and mentioned in dispatches many times. And was awarded the Bronze Lion by her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands FOR BRAVERY ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY.
My dad fought in Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. And like MILLIONS of brave soldiers who fought all over the world so the world could be FREE, he did it not because he was forced to, and not because there was some kind of reward at the end of the war . . . BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
How do you compare living under the daily threat of mutilation or death in war, to being whacked for a Quarter of Million Dollars by lawyers who profit in the DEATH of Constitutional FREEDOMS?
THERE IS NO COMPARISON . . . And like my dad who fought-on with a bandaged shrapnel wound to his head at Monte Casino . . . I DON’T QUIT EITHER.
It is obvious that we cannot win in the Courts, where Freedom is what the Judges have decided Freedom should be. But, WE CAN WIN IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, where Freedom MUST be more than just a suggestion.
Whether you’re a Canadian or an American . . . you have a duty to yourself and to your country to get into the fight. Because, if you accept that your Freedoms should be open to the interpretation of the government and Courts, then you don’t deserve to enjoy the FREEDOMS other people bled and died for you to have.
I DON’T HAVE $250,000 . . . And this loss is not without real personal consequences for me. But I would do it all over again. ACTUALLY, I have no intention whatsoever of slowing down, let alone stopping, and not just about language.
If ONE FREEDOM is under attack . . . all of our FREEDOMS are under attack, and I will not stand silent or passive. To the LEFT, the RIGHTS of Government over the RIGHTS of the INDIVIDUAL have long been an International Conspiracy.
OUR GLOBAL DEFENSE FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND LIBERTIES MUST BE NO LESS.
So, when I ask visitors to Galganov.com from time to time to help out financially, you can now see why.
And if I care enough about all of our FREEDOMS to have laid my fiscal life on the line, the least people can do who enjoy reading my editorials is care a bit too.
The mark of success is not in winning, since winning can be defined in a million ways.
REAL SUCCESS . . . is fighting against a much greater foe knowing that you probably won’t win, but getting into the fight nonetheless, because it is the right thing to do. And no matter how much of a pounding you take . . .
YOU NEVER GIVE UP – AND YOU NEVER STOP . . . NO MATTER HOW TOUGH IT GETS.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
Ron Gray takes a most practical and pragmatic look at the issue of homosexuality being promoted in public schools. Does it have anything to do with making life better for homosexuals, who already enjoy higher-than-average achievements in today's society? Or does it indoctrinate an entire generation to accept and even participate in potentially devastating activities? Without proper attention to dire health consequences, are politically correct teachers, unions, media and government actually aiding in the horrendous deaths of millions of homosexuals? The truth may hurt, but lies kill.
Mark Hasiuk explains the roadblocks being thrown in front of his quest for information about the misuse of company debit cards by BC Housing. The information has already been culled, studied, and cited in an audit that exposed the misuse. But releasing specific information to a member of the press – and therefore to the public – has a huge price tag on it. Learn how "Freedom of Information" is anything but free, especially when the information is so damaging to a government agency. But Mark Hasiuk will keep pushing for the truth…
Kari Simpson and Ron Gray speak with John Carpay, founder and president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. John co-authored the Campus Freedom Index, ranking Canadian universities and student unions on how well they carry out their mission of serving as a forum for free speech and open, honest debate. In Mr. Carpay's sights at the moment is BC's Kwantlen Polytechnic University, whose student association is denying club status to Oliver Capko's on-campus pro-life group. Tune in to find out who else gets a Failing grade!
Oliver Capko joins Kari Simpson and Ron Gray to talk about the challenges of having to educate some university student groups about the Charter Protected Rights of individuals. Oliver is a first year agriculture student at Langley’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University that is giving a crash course in LAW 101 to the Kwantlen Student Association after they refused to give club status to his pro-life group! The outrage is that public money is used to fund these so-called institutions of higher learning! It is a tragic commentary that university students fail to understand that in Canada we have the right to have differing opinions and that Student Associations are prohibited from discriminating against some groups because they value the protection of human life! What are they teaching these students?