The Charter Revolution & The Court Party, by F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff (Broadview Press, 2000, ISBN 1-55111-089-X, 227 pages, soft cover, $22.95 (Can)).
The book will help understand how the justice system got to where it is. It traces the history of the evolution of charter rights and how they became subverted to make the justice system as capricious as it is now, driven by liberal, politically activist justices who represent minority interest groups. It describes better than anything I've read so far what caused us to be where we are, having elitist representatives of minority interest groups run our country (the same is happening in the US and elsewhere), people who live in ivory towers and in no way represent the mostly conservative masses: labourers, waitresses, the trades, business and the producers. Not only do they not represent the masses, but they are out of touch with and not even part of them, having themselves not ever produced anything that can be consumed but being nothing more than consumers of what the masses produce. It doesn't matter whether they consume products or services; although they consume both, they are not producers of either.
The Court Party changes society by using litigation based on creative interpretations of the constitution and by means of re-writing the constitution to suit them, using activist judges to help them, being to some extent led by those activist judges. The book describes the warring factions within the Court Party, the egalitarians, the libertarians and the social engineers, who have often conflicting interests but who all share one common aspect, that of being out of touch with the masses and nevertheless believing that they must tell the masses how to lead their lives because it is only they who know what is best for the masses. In the process they not only promote new laws that further their interests, but they declare illegal the traditions by which civilization came about and that were also the result of the evolution of society.
Morton and Knopff illustrate that the elitists of the Court Party go by the premise that since change is unavoidable, it may as well be brought about — thereby to force and guide the evolution of civilization through the creation of a welfare state.
It all relates well to the elections, not only the presidential elections in the US but also the Canadian federal elections that took place at the end of November 2000. The book doesn't recommend any solutions, but it is a very well-written and well-researched problem analysis.
Solutions come out of understanding a problem, a common understanding that we are dissatisfied with the problem, and that we want to do something about it. We may think that one of the solutions for overcoming the power of the Court Party may be to alleviate voter apathy, but that would be wrong. Although the members of the Court Party can't completely ignore the wishes of the masses as expressed in Parliament or in Congress nor the wishes of the bureaucracy or of business, they are undeniably in power, power so great as to make our legislators ineffective, let alone that some of our legislators are themselves members of the Court Party and that it is wealthy private sources, business and (at least in Canada ever since Trudeau) the State itself who provide the funding for and even create the minority interest groups that drive the Court Party.
The driver of a car is in control of where it's going. In the case of society, it is without any doubt the Court Party who is the driver. We are engaged on an accelerating course of ideology-driven self-destruction. The Court Party is at the steering wheel.
Whether we want the Court Party to remain in power and at the wheel depends on whether we are satisfied with having a society imposed on us that is fashioned after Marxist principles (read "communist party lines;" most of the masses have have no longer a clue what "Marxist" is) and strategies for change, in which the program for the elimination of class struggle by eradicating the right to own private property is augmented by a program for the elimination of "gender" differences; a program that requires the elimination of the family and of other traditional institutions and social standards.
Whether there are enough people who want to oust the Court Party is questionable. Just look for example at the undeniably libertarian and egalitarian new breed of the sector of younger people who are subscribed to
Fathers Rights discussion forums. Most are undoubtedly firm supporters of the Court Party. It also appears that they have the primary prerequisite for becoming Court Party members in good standing. It seems that without exception all of them are students consumers who never once in their lives produced anything for consumption.
It is a somewhat sad circumstance that caused me to find the time to begin reading the book. I spent a good portion of yesterday in the University Hospital in Edmonton. Anthony had a serious accident on the oil rig he was working on in Southern Saskatchewan. His left femur got broken into three pieces. It was an open fracture. He was extricated from where he got pinned and then flown to Edmonton to undergo three hours of surgery to insert a steel pin that will string the three pieces of bone back together. But Anthony is lucky. Hadn't he jumped, he would have had his back broken or at least have his pelvis crushed.
It brings back to mind the injuries I received over the years, almost without exception injuries received on the job while working to produce something, whether it was in the installation of telecommunication equipment or whether it was working on my farm producing grain and hay or sheep, hogs and cattle. The Court Party members, without exception, don't receive injuries on the job other than perhaps the odd paper cut. What kind of sacrifices
do they make and what kind of risks do they take for society? Nevertheless, social activism by Court Party members is a growth industry and provides lucrative incentives for many to join. F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff received their Ph.D.'s from the University of Toronto and have both taught at the University of Calgary for the past twenty years. Writing together and separately, their previous books include "Charter Politics" (1992), "Morgentaler v. Borowski: Abortion, the Charter and the Courts" (1992), "Human Rights and Social Technology: The New War on Discrimination" (1989), and "Federalism and the Charter: Leading Constitutional Decisions" (1989, with Peter H. Russell).
In February of 2000 I ordered a copy of the book, through Coles. In November of 2000 the copy I had ordered still had not been delivered. It is still on order, or perhaps I should say censored. The copy used for this review was lent to me. If you intend on obtaining a copy it may be more effective to write directly to Broadview Press at customerservice@broadviewpress.com Update: March 1, 2001 I finally received from Coles the book that I had ordered in February of the Year 2000.
Contemporary (or second wave) feminism has aptly been described as "Marxism without economics," since feminists replace class with gender as the key social construct. Of course, what society constructs can be deconstructed. This is the feminist project: to abolish gender difference by transforming its institutional source the patriarchal family. Certain streams of the Gay Rights movement have taken this analysis one step
farther. The problem is not just sexism but heterosexism, and the solution is to dismantle not just the patriarchal family but the heterosexual family as such. F.L. Morton & Rainer Knopff in The Charter Revolution & The Court Party (p. 75) |
Morton and Knopff may have underestimated the seriousness of and motives behind the assault on the family. All of humanity is under assault. The proponents of negative population growth heavily fund the efforts of organizations that impose forced sterilization and abortion on primarily the underdeveloped countries of the world. Already in the latest UN World Population Report it is stated that that a population crisis has been created in many of the UN member nations. Eighty-four of the UN member nations now (as of 2000) experience birth rates that are below replacement levels. The developed nations lead the pack. Their population sectors containing the elderly grow at an unprecedented rate in absolute terms and especially in relative terms with respect to the size of the younger productive population sector that has to bear the increasingly unbearably large responsibility to care and provide for those who can't produce anything any longer for themselves. One of the consequences of that is an enormous increase (150% in the US from 1986 to 1996) in elderly abuse, predominantly cases of neglect of the elderly. (See Trends in Elder Abuse in Domestic Settings, NATIONAL CENTER ON ELDER ABUSE, Elder Abuse Information Series No. 2 (PDF 42kB). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch produced an excellent series of articles on the topic of fatal elder abuse and neglect in US nursing homes (it is estimated that tens of tousands of cases happen each year), Neglected to Death (Oct. 12 - 19, 2002). See abstract and commentary relating to the articles and to the problem of elder abuse and neglect in nursing home and hospitals.) Moreover, the burden of the cancerous growth of government becomes ever larger, inverse in relation to the ever shrinking population, and taxes are rising inexorably. The Russian Federation expects to lose 50 million of its population over the next three decades, with the
total fertility rate (TFR) of Russian women having precipitously dropped to an average of one child per woman. The TFR of women in all other developed nations is below the level of 2.2 children per woman required to maintain their population. In countries like Italy, Germany, Japan and Greece it has fallen so close to the Russian's TFR that they lose population at the rate of 30 percent or more with every successive generation. (The Demographics of Death, or The Decline & Fall of the Human Empire)
(See also
Parents'
rights a demographic issue, by COLIN P.A. JONES, Special to The Japan
Times, Tuesday, July 18, 2006)
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Current total fertility rates (TFRs) for countries in the world - Rank Order.
The web page accessible through the preceding link lists the rank order from
highest to lowest, with a TFR of about 2.2 indicating a stable population. The
TFR required to maintain a given country's population varies a little from
country to country, depending on the life expectancy for the average resident in
that country. (Source:
CIA World
Factbook)
As of June 2008, the CIA World Factbook showed 104 countries (generally the
richest and most developed) to have TFRs of less than 2.2. In other words,
in those countries the population is in the process of shrinking. (Related
Articles at Fathers for Life)
* Is the world overpopulated?
If all of the world's people were located in the Province of Alberta (just a
touch smaller in area than the State of Texas) and each were to have an equal
share of all of the land in Alberta, then each of the world's people would have
98.6m2 of land to live on.
Assuming that the average household consists of three people, a family of three
would have enough space (3,184 ft2) for a moderately-sized house and
a garden large enough to grow some of the food consumed by the family.
- Alberta land area: 661,565 km2, 255,541 miles2
- World population: 6,706,993,152 (Source:
CIA World Factbook, July 2008 est.)
Additional reading:
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seniors, visit, contact and perhaps even join:
SUN — Seniors United Now
The up- and coming, rapidly-growing advocacy organization
for seniors (55 years and over) in Alberta
There are in the order of about half a million or more people of age 55 and
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powerful advocacy organization in Alberta; and seniors would no longer be robbed
of their comforts and otherwise ignored.
At the price of one package of cigarettes seniors will be able to
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from seniors what they worked for all their life to enjoy in their old age.
If you are concerned about how seniors are affected by the
planned,
systematic destruction of our families and society, a search
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grandmother site:https://fathersforlife.org) will provide you with the links
to about 84 web pages at Fathers for Life that will be of interest to you.
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