Men
fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws
to take it away from themselves. - Unknown Author
Our
government says that laws are created to protect our individual
freedoms. Yet, those "elected representatives",
who get to choose what we are all to consider to be "allowable
freedoms", don’t even live in the same lifestyle
as the general population. They are a minority. Why do
we give them the right to make the decisions for the whole?
In theory, as a society we choose our own laws by way of
electing our representatives to make those important decisions
for us. Who we elect is completely up to us. We could elect
Joe Schmoe from down the street as an independent candidate
who lives with the same lifestyle as the general population,
if we wanted. But for the most part people vote for a 'party'
and not the individual person as independent candidates
usually have little or no power. We have gotten farther
and farther away from being a true democracy because we
have 'parties'. Maybe the voters should unite and approach
the House of Commons with bills that they want passed and
then the country should vote on them together as a whole.
Ultimately
it boils down to personal responsibility of everyone involved
in the process... from the voters, to the voted. Our society
has gotten too lazy to give a shit anymore, however,
and so we just sit back and accept what they decide for
us. The poor are the ones that suffer the most, and they
don’t have the power or credibility
to do anything about it. The rich are happy as can be with
the tax laws and protection they get. Since we don’t
want to be involved in the process we give the responsibility
to those we elect and sometimes that bites us in the ass.
What would things be like if we all took responsibility
for what the country is like and how it runs?
There is a great
disconnection going on between those who make the laws
and those that obey them. Ask almost any cop if they consider
pot smokers great criminals. Most of them will tell you
they don’t. In fact as long
as they’re caught without a large amount of weed
on them they mostly (in Canada) get a slap on the wrist
and sent on their way. The ones who become addicted to
drugs and alcohol and whom have to steal to support their
habit or eat for that matter are the ones who suffer from
the laws created by the rich and powerful. What do they
care? They don’t plan to steal because they have
everything they need.
Perhaps we need to set
up a group where they sit down and look at all our retarded
laws and figure out what we need, what we don’t, and what needs revised. Cause
I bet we have a law somewhere stating that you can’t
dress a pig up on Sunday’s between 11 and 4 in order
to take it to family supper. Although with most of these
ideas maybe we need to figure out what would cause someone
to want to do heroin, steal, kill, dress pigs up...
If the
government wants to help, instead of making laws and putting
people in jail maybe they should considering going back
to the sponsoring thought that created the "unlawful" behavior
and help to resolve whatever that issue is, exp. Hunger,
addiction, suppression etc. But then again, if the majority
of Canada is considered "middle class" then why
does the rich minority make the laws any way?
Oh right, it’s
because they have the money to get elected. It all comes
back around full circle.
Maybe next election I’ll
actually vote.
Happy & Fulfilled,
Shane Lamotte
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