Dear Mr. Harper
Today is a day that calls for deep reflection and analysis.
Of course, today our neighbors in the south celebrate their version of
Thanksgiving and they will gather with their families to celebrate while they…
give thanks to God for that, their families and loved ones.
But this is not the United States of America and they have
their issues and we have ours…
While humanity has common issues that call for immediate
attention and our leaders continue to be distracted putting one hundred per
cent of their attention to matters that to say the least should be last in
their list of priorities, not to mention that none of them, including every
single one of you, our leaders here in Canada, has been elected to pay any
attention to.
I am not too sure anymore if you claim to be even a Catholic
or a Christian or if in fact you maintain any creed, any religion, and any faith,
as guidance to your ‘principles’. The Catholic faith today presents us the
gospel of St. Luke (19, 41-44), where
Jesus laments the fate of Jerusalem… well, I strongly suggest you to read it
and to reflect on the matter, because it is so interesting that the same fate
is what we’ve seen going through every nation in history while ignoring the
truth, particularly about love, humility and forgiveness. Nations always have
disappeared from within…
But Canada today, we’ve been told, is doing ‘fantastic!’, it
is the example to follow, financial gurus say so and great economists could not
agree more… is this really the truth?
You and I know that there is ways and ways to present a view
that can be good or bad, according to the intentions of the presenter, after
all politics is indeed the science of perception, which of course is how
science has come to be such a prostituted matter.
This coming Sunday is the end of the liturgy year and the
celebration will be the triumph of Christ our King and we all know His kingdom
is not of this world and we also know He came to save us despite what the world
is and will be until the end of time. Hence it is not a matter of presenting
the world as how good or bad it is but to make every effort on our side, each
within his/her own abilities to follow Him Who is the truth of love, humility
and forgiveness, with faith, hope and charity for the salvation of mankind.
Under that premise, governments’ abilities are restricted to
the high duties of protecting life and freedom, and nothing else. Anything at
all any government tries or attempts as part of a perceivable higher intention
of giving to the people something else, sadly becomes an effort that is good for
some people in detriment of the rest of the people while imposing more
suffering than the peace the people needs to reflect on their own duty of
reaching the kingdom of God.
Think on anything you have in your sight as a good intention
for the people, anything that deviates from either of those two premises, the
protection of life and/or freedom, and you will find falling yourself short,
failing, because, not being god, your abilities as the abilities of all of
those engaged directly into politics, which should be 100% of the adults in every
nation; are subjected to our human condition which can be weak, can be short,
can be sinful.
The problem can become even more dramatic if the
consideration is placed on who can really ends up taking advantage of such
adventurous intention. It starts from elites who do not really have any
involvement in the economic process and hence they see only their egotistical
ambition taking over any potential good to be given to the people. Then it is
the people itself as demonstrated all over the bible and history, which falls
for the best option for themselves, not for the community, because under such a
social scheme, they tend to become selfish and individualistic, wanting more
for them even if other suffer in the process.
We see how our nation evades every aspect of reconciliation
with the truth about those two premises. On one end it is the killing of the
most innocent among us, yes, that abortion issue you, so adamantly refuse to
even touch with a ten foot pole. Recently the initiative was to establish or
pursuing to establish the truth about the start of human life. Only because
there is confusion out there or at least it appears to be, because many ‘think’
life starts when you politicians say so or when women say so, or when crooks
dressed in white say so. But the issue, in the name of peace, I guess, was
avoided and ignored and over two thirds of the representatives voted to dismiss
it, void it, and shelve it. So you politicians refuse to learn when life starts
or even when human dignity starts.
So Canada is not really doing anything to protect life, even
if you and other ‘representatives’ of the people argue, tear their clothes
apart or swear the nation is doing enough or even anything at all; not the
answer is not, because when the most innocent lives become relative to what
some feel they want or need, the whole idea become relative to whatever is or
will be and never an absolute truth as only the truth can be. You can kill
babies or shoot people in the streets, no difference, except of course, that one
is politically convenient and the other, well, the people would notice.
Of course the current situation has its roots deep in a
process that was conceived (when begin) from the ‘ideal’ of benefiting through
the government, the ones needing it most, reserving of course the government,
or more clearly the politicians, the ‘right’ to decide who deserves and who
does not and so, the government starts by segregating the people they
represent, first by their earnings and then because some of them giving them more,
the politicians; so the change is towards, not by their earnings but by their
usefulness to the system, a system deemed not to fail because the truth,
becomes more and more dangerous to see, as the evidence of failure becomes
disastrous.
Hence, for close to a hundred years now, a system of
taxation has been imposed, meant to be temporary, which as everything
politicians ‘insert’ in the system; small, but deathly because in that way it
can persevere and be preserved. This system is Income Tax and if at the
beginning it appeared to be so harmless, it has grown into being a monstrosity
which relentlessly takes and takes from the people, to satisfy a never
satisfying machinery called the government apparatus and which is muddy and as
an avalanche, keeps going over everything alive or potentially prosperous,
destroying it and paralyzing it.
The Income Tax system is an spiral that grows and keeps
sucking everything and, anything that is in its way, becomes a threat to its survival
and so, this is taken off the way by whatever excuse there is and so if God
created us equal before Him and commanded us to grow and multiply from marriage
of one man and one woman having many children, so that the future can be
sustained; the whole apparatus is against family, marriage and children, the
system needs to kill them all. The system imposes death so that its fallacious and
idealistic existence can survive.
There are families that subsist but in those families both
spouses have become ‘providers’, one to the home and one to the system and of
course every child becomes costly and a threat and so children need to be
looked as a something disposable, be it by keeping the abortion card handy and
if not, then by making sure academia takes care of putting enough confusion in
their minds by trying any potential deviation making them onto believing they
are worth not more than what their sexual potential is, the earlier the better.
We all have been created by God to His image and likeness,
we are all individuals and we all have a unique identity before Him, we are His
children, we are free only accountable to Him; not by virtue of the government
or any politician, but of God, our creator, omnipotent and almighty, the only
living God.
We are being taught with persistence that taxes and death
are inevitable and death certainly is inevitable because the original sin made
us mortal. Taxes however, are a contribution and everyone is obligated to
contribute to the community, to his/her nation, so that the nation can give the
services it can provide for the common good and for social justice. This means
though that it is from the individual that these services derive, not from the
ever growing apparatus the government is. The government is made by the people
to serve the people; politicians are servants to the people. We are social
individuals because we love.
Nevertheless, we are taxed not to contribute to our
community but to make the apparatus work its evil starting from the weakest and
the most vulnerable. Of course, the perception is that Canada has many ‘good’
services out there for the people and that the people of Canada are so willing
to give and love and that is all true. The question is… Is it the government
helping at all or perhaps the government is becoming the reason why more and
more social assistance is required?
Every day more and more businesses arise where ‘help’ is
offered to the people, to the ones that cannot cash a cheque and need immediate
cash, to the ones who were supposed to be educated at the schools but the school
did not educated them, the list grows and grows. The goodness and generosity of
the people of Canada is seen all over, but then again, where are our
politicians? …That’s right, they cannot move or otherwise the picture will not
be clear and they need to clearly show they are doing something even if that
something is really nothing but to care for their own egos and selfishness
while interfering on the prosperity of the nation.
The system is not working, because this system is not
conceived for the people, but for elites of intellectuals who never can have a
place on reality because they refuse to be part of that mass they predicate to
be protecting and nurturing… to their advantage of course.
Yes there are many
people doing really well in Canada, but it is not to make people do really well
that the government is to work, but to let the people free and their lives
protected by the law, not politicians, the law, so that the people can grow and
multiply as God wants us to, and so that the people can risk and win or fail
and learn, the people, not the system impeding the people to be.
Mr. Harper, my personal situation might force me to stop for
a while and so the lengthy note I am trying to convey here. The truth needs to
be presented because it is absolute, because God is the truth and He cannot be
denied.
Canada needs to change course to become again a nation under
God, where the law protects life and freedom, where the people finds in faith
the right course and not in fear, where the people finds hope in the
resurrection and not despair because is left alone or lonely, where the people
loves as individuals by giving without expecting retribution and not by growing
selfish only expecting to see what is best for themselves completely ignoring
God and their neighbors.
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