Our Home And Naive Land

Toronto Sun ^ | 7-1-06 | Michael Coren

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Canada Day. Denial Day. Complacency Day. A day for playing with fireworks while the country burns.

Wave the flag. Wave a cloth adorned with a piece of vegetation in the colours of the Liberal Party, one with little tradition and less meaning.

No. Many Canadians remember the great emblem that once adorned our dominion, containing the cross, the symbol of ancient and eternal wisdom and truth.

Do what the government tells you, allow your rights to be expunged and smile as the norms that made the country great are parodied while at the same time a stew of twisted realities are paraded.

No. Many Canadians are tired of the intrusions of the state and the relentless attacks from alleged "alternative" lifestyles.

Protect children but destroy childhood, make a fetish of equality but allow elites to impose their ways and rule our country. Claim to respect diversity but be horribly intolerant of anybody who resists the liberal status quo.

No. Many Canadians are tired of the twin monsters of materialism and decadence. They have had enough of public educators telling young people how to live but not how to read and write. Nor will they remain silent when told to do so by the princes of political correctness.

Park in a handicapped parking spot and you'll be charged and fined. Abort a handicapped baby or kill a terminally ill handicapped person and you'll be applauded.

No. Many Canadians are waking up to this country's tolerance of destruction of generations of the unborn and the growing obsession with euthanasia and killing those who are no longer bold and beautiful.

Have perverse sex, take your clothes off in public, swear on television and insult people's deeply held beliefs, but you don't dare do it while smoking a cigarette or not wearing a seat belt.

No. Many Canadians are repulsed by the hypocrisy. They know there are moral as well as physical ills that plague our country and that it is pointless to save a body if the soul is destroyed.

Blithely pay $20 million a week to the CBC so that ludicrously biased people can tell us about what our own country means. Allow unions there and elsewhere to dictate national policy without any democratic or constitutional right.

DOUBLE STANDARDS

No. Many Canadians have seen through the facade of double standards in broadcasting as well as the extremism of so many in the labour movement.

Satirize the United States and comfort and define ourselves by what we are not. Hate the best neighbours a nation could have, knowing they will respond with kindness.

No. Many Canadians understand that it is we who are often parochial and they who are prestigious. They know that lack of gratitude is the weapon of the spoiled child.

Pay tax after tax and yet see education and health care deteriorate before our very eyes. Never look at the authentic causes of gangs and violence because they may reveal dangerous truths.

No. Many Canadians now want to keep their own money and do not trust the government to spend it. Nor do they believe the politicians and their explanations about inner-city crime.

Canada Day. Kill God, kill man and kill truth. No.

Save the country. Not from others, but from itself. It's up to you, the many Canadians, even if you don't yet know it.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

A good perspective of what NOT to celebrate on Canada Day (July 1st) here in Canada...

[kanawa]

Ping

[CremeSaver]

Many Americans can relate to this article. We face pretty much the same evils as Canada does. Good luck to our Canadian friends with their new government, and best wishes on Canada Day.

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Many Americans can relate to this article. We face pretty much the same evils as Canada does. Good luck to our Canadian friends with their new government, and best wishes on Canada Day.

I've been here in Canada for 3 years now, but the US (where I lived for over 40 years) will always be NO. 1 in my heart.... :-)

[CremeSaver]

Awww, that's nice. I'm glad that you liked it here. Are you American or Canadian?

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Awww, that's nice. I'm glad that you liked it here. Are you American or Canadian?(As my scren name says), I spent most of my life in St. Louis, MO. (born in Brooklyn, NY)....I still tear-up when I hear the American national anthemn on the baseball game broadcasts I pick up at night from St. Louis (KMOX-AM 1120).

[CremeSaver]

Born in Brooklyn? Me too! I also tear up when I hear the National Anthem! I think you're just a little homesick and really need to come back right now! LOL!

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I also tear up when I hear the National Anthem!

I also saw the Veteran's Day (?) tribute at the National Mall (across from the US Capitol?) on US tv (out of Buffalo, NY -- I live in Toronto, CA) and LOVED seeing the tributes to the soldiers, the playing of the various armed services themes, etc for about two hours' time....LOVED IT! That is why I love being on Free Republic, interacting with TRUE AMERICAN (and other country's) patriots and hanging out with NO. 1!

[ARealMothersSonForever]

I always liked the old one:

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

                      Some of the first Canadian flags

 

http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/df5_e.cfm

The St. George's Cross -- an English flag of the 15th century -- was carried by John Cabot, a Venetian sailing under English colours, and flown over Canadian soil when he reached the east coast of Canada in 1497. The fleur-de-lis was a symbol of French sovereignty in Canada from 1534, when Jacques Cartier landed and claimed the new world for France, until the early 1760s, when Canada was ceded to the United Kingdom. Although a number of French military flags were used in Canada during this period, including the white flag of la Marine royale after 1674, the fleur-de-lis held a position of some prominence. In the early 1760s, the official British flag was the two-crossed jack or the Royal Union flag (known more commonly as the Union Jack). Although first flown in 1621, the Royal Union flag was used at all British establishments on the North American continent from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico. This flag is often referred to as the flag of Canada's United Empire Loyalists. Following the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, the diagonal Cross of St. Patrick was incorporated with England's St. George's Cross and Scotland's Cross of St. Andrew. This gave the Royal Union flag its present-day configuration. This flag was used across British North America and in Canada even after Confederation in 1867. The Red Ensign, a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper corner, was created in 1707 as the flag of the British Merchant Marine. From approximately 1870 to 1904, it was used on land and sea as Canada's flag, with the addition of a shield in the fly bearing the quartered arms of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Although its use on land had never been sanctioned except by public usage, in 1892 the British admiralty approved the use of the Red Ensign for Canadian use at sea. This gave rise to the name the Canadian Red Ensign. As new provinces entered Confederation, or when they received some mark of identification (sometimes taken from their seal), that mark was incorporated into the shield on the Canadian Red Ensign. By the turn of the century, the shield was made up of the coats of arms of the seven provinces then in Confederation. In 1924, this unofficial version of the Canadian Red Ensign was changed by an Order in Council and the composite shield was replaced with the shield from the royal arms of Canada, more commonly known as the Canadian Coat of Arms. At the same time, this new version was approved for use on Canadian government buildings abroad. A similar order in 1945 authorized its use on federal buildings within Canada until a new national flag was adopted. The Canadian Red Ensign was replaced by the red and white maple leaf flag on February 15, 1965.

[CremeSaver]

I really do know how you feel. My Dad was in the service for 40 years both active and reserves. When I was a little kid he would dress in his uniform because he was probably in some parade or other event memorializing our great military. My heart would burst with pride when I would watch him march by or salute the flag. It was something that I grew up with, and I thank God that it was never "educated" out of me. By that I mean that no liberal teacher or professor could spew enough venom for me to ever hate this country.

I love this country. I love our way of life. I love the courageous people who put their lives on the line for us all. And I love being on pro-American forums where I can express such ideas without having to worry about being ridiculed. :0) Come on home when you can, America needs all of its patriots.

[NorthOf45]

That's a great article. I would have posted it had you not. The Red Ensign forever.

[BW2221]

Be sure to check out the SUNshire girls when you go to the Toronto Sun website. Today's model is (almost) wearing a maple leaf bikini.