To the Honourable Member who brought this bill forward:
Pull your head out of your ass and take a look around you.
- We have hunger at home and abroad
- We have increased crimes of desperation because of the terrible economy.
- People want the right to become one with the Force on their own terms.
- Confidence in our leaders is at an all-time low.
- Trust in our police officers is at an all-time low.
- There is still a gigantic wildfire in northern Alberta, with about 100,000 Canadians displaced.
- While the economy is already terrible, one of the country's economic powerhouses is pretty well out of business until the fire is dealt with and Fort McMurray is rebuilt.
- Donald Trump might be the next POTUS
- Mexican drug cartels are coming up with new ways to infiltrate Canada, and they're bringing their violence with them.
- Our allies have lost respect for us because of our current stance on ISIS.
- Education costs are way too high.
- Our post-secondary education system teaches too much unnecessary crap for a degree.
- Health care wait times are terrible.
- People are still arrested and charged with impaired driving every day, so obviously we aren't deterring anything with the current system.
- Repeat offenders keep going free and offending again, to the point of premeditated murder of citizens and police.
- So many more REAL problems.
With all this going on in the world around you, your government wants to bring attention to the attention whores who want their 15 minutes of fame for bitching about the wording of one line in the national anthem? Get your priorities straight.
We live in a society where we think we can make people obey the law by passing more laws. People are able to rob others because they know victims are taught to comply for their own safety. We wear pink t-shirts once a year to signify the repugnance of bullying, yet we don't teach our children how to survive bullies. Our young adults are weaker and less healthy than they've ever been, because they aren't active enough and they have only enough time to each something quick, cheap, and easy, like macaroni and cheese.
We are becoming a society of victims.
As individuals, it's time to stand up. Get on your feet and make a decision to make our country a better place. Pay attention to what's happening in government, and tell your representative how you feel about it. Teach your children how to stand up to a bully. Teach your children they MUST stand up to a bully, even if they aren't the ones being bullied. Make the decision to stop the man with the knife robbing the liquor store, even if it's just by making a lot of noise and throwing bottles at him.
Accept your complicity if you see wrongdoings and allow them to happen.
Every citizen of Canada has the right to be heard by their government. If you see the police enforcing a law you disagree with, your beef is not with the police. Your beef is with your local political representative. Change the law. If you do have a beef with the police, write a letter to their superiors. Get off your ass and do something.
Keyboard warriors create modern lynch mobs from behind the safety of their computer monitors. If they don't like something someone said or did according to a 150 word article, they actively try to destroy the person's life through cyberbullying, sending flaming messages, and even pressuring their employer to remove their livelihood to punish their entire family for something they said or did. All this from behind the anonymity of the internet mob. If you don't like something, get off your ass and go handle it. Learn the whole story before reacting.
I'm very concerned about the direction we're headed. Our people are getting weaker, the stupid are getting louder, the dangerous are getting braver, and we are handicapping our peacekeepers because we think rainbows make effective weapons against evil.
Please think on this. Please don't stop at thinking on this. Please get off your ass and do something about it. Write an email to your Member of Parliament. Write a letter to your Member of the Legislative Assembly. Call your City Alderman. Stop by the police station and ask to go on a ride along. Speak up when something uncool is happening. You have the power to create change. Use that power for something positive.
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