Durango Publishing Corp. in British Columbia (presently in Canada), has released a new novel, The Day B.C. Quit Canada. It offers this information to our visitors:
This explosive new novel shows what happens when British Columbia, fed up with Ottawa’s arrogance, ignorance, and costly bilingualism fraud, says "Enough!" Tired of seeing French-speaking bureaucraps and cowardly politicians spending billions of dollars on the bilingualism myth, while Canadian soldiers and sailors try to make do with out-of-date equipment, B.C. pulls the plug. 97% of French speakers live in Quebec. That’s not bilingualism. That’s a con scheme foisted on 87% of the population.Is secession possible? Alberta plans for it. Can B.C. do it? How would Ottawa react? Would the United States view it as a problem, or as a long term benefit? What action would the U.S. take? This novel shows what happens on THE DAY B.C. QUIT CANADA.
The Day B.C. Quit Canada is published by Durango Publishing Corp., Box 164, Kaleden BC, Canada, V0H 1K0. 288 pages, 4-color cover, illustrations, $24.95. ISBN: 1-55422-422-5. Visa and MasterCard order line: 1-800-545-6321. www.BCQuits.com
OneTenWest.org is a Western Canadian website that speaks to the interests of the present-day provinces west of longitude 110 West, namely, Alberta and British Columbia. When asked by Jeremy Pender, USI's European and Commonwealth Coordinator, if they would be interested in a link from our site, they replied:
"As a discussion forum, we only advocate one thing — that BC and Alberta are not well-served by participating in Canada. There are any number of options under that heading, including independence and US statehood.
Thank you.
Greg Hollingsworth
Webmaster
www.onetenwest.org"
That's a good start, which we believe will lead many sensible people in Western Canada to conclude that remaining part of Canada and apart from the United States is not in their own best interest — nor even the interest of other Canadians. Western Canada can contribute powerfully to the wellbeing of their fellow Canadians by leading the way into the United States.
The Alberta Residents League is "a non-profit society operating under the Alberta Societies Act dedicated to having Alberta join the United States of America as the 51st State of the Union." Its website suggests that the United States would be willing to buy Alberta, and addresses such issues as
"Why joining the U.S.A. is critical for Alberta.
The immense benefits of Alberta becoming an American State.
How we can make it happen."
Charles Kropke, USI's North American Coordinator, evaluates their proposal thus:
"Whereas, the Alberta group (Alberta Residents League) may be looking too much for a lottery-like payoff, the idea that the U.S. government will have to make some sort of payment is very realistic. I believe the equation would go something like this: In order for the U.S. government to receive the title to Federal lands in Alberta (National Parks, military bases, crown lands, etc.) we would have to take the National Debt of Canada, divide it by the total population of the country, and then pay the per capita amount for the entire population of Alberta to the Canadian government. Aside from this, we could offer a tax incentive to Alberta or a mineral-based revenue sharing agreement like the one that Alaska was granted upon entering the union."
Moreover, an online magazine based in Western Canada, The Report, replied thus to an inquiry from Jeremy Pender:
"Mr. Pender:I am the editor of report.ca, the Web site of The Report newsmagazine. A couple of emails to our senior staff have been forwarded to me regarding a request for permission from you to post a link to our site.
We will not object if you do so. Our site freely and frequently links--on a temporary basis--to other publications without seeking their permission, so it is our policy not to attempt to block others who link to ours.
However, we offer no comment on the topic of annexation at this time so as not to prejudice our coverage of the issue in the future.
Sincerely,
Kevin Steel
report.ca editor"
Jeremy sees in this stance willingness to discuss annexation in the future. We'd like rather more explicit consideration of this most important of topics by a publication that addresses public policy issues of concern to Canadians. At end, if it is not just the ins and outs of the present balance of power in Parliament or particular policies, but the basic political structure of North America that disadvantages Canadians, that is something that needs to be discussed.
Thus we prefer the stance of Republic Of Alberta, whose webmaster says:
"I believe a strong and united North America would be a benefit for us all. One country, one currency, one government, under a strong constitutution, with a Bill of Rights which includes property rights.Yours in Liberty,
Republic of Alberta"
This is further to a change of heart we spotted months ago. One USI member, the Expansionist Party of the United States, had tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade that group to change its name and devotion to StateofAlberta.com. But the attack upon the World Trade Center (and Pentagon) prompted that group immediately after the attack to issue this "Notice to Readers":
"This web site will no longer advocate the potential balkanization of Western Canada into separate or amalgamated states but will instead advocate the amalgamation of Canada and the United States into one people under one government. The crime against the World Trade Centre amply demonstrates the dangers to our way of life and requires that we all stay together strong and free!In Liberty We Trust"
That notice was later replaced by this one:
"Canada and the United States ought to become one nation strong and free. Or, Alberta will eventually become a State of the Union.In Liberty We Trust:
Remember the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001."
(The website has since returned to the wording about balkanization.)
We applaud Republic of Alberta's change of heart, including its change of spelling of World Trade "Centre" to "Center". That group is also reaching out to other Alberta groups, and reports that the Alberta Independence Party has ceased to exist. That's not bad. Independence for an entity as small as Alberta would not be in Albertans' interest. Alberta needs statehood.
Steve Forbes, sometime candidate for the U.S. Republican Party’s nomination for President, and publisher of FORBES Magazine, suggests that Argentina should dollarize:
What [U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul] O'Neill & Co. don't grasp is that the best way to revive Argentina's stagnant economy is to slash taxes and to formally dollarize its economy. Because people doubt Argentina will leave the peso tied to the dollar, they are cashing in their pesos for dollars. As a result Argentina is getting killed by catastrophic interest rates. Making the dollar Argentina's legal tender would rapidly bring down these crushing costs, and big-league tax cuts would get the economy moving again.Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of FORBES magazine, "Fact and Comment",
October 1, 2001
USI would love to see Argentina stabilize its economy by adopting the U.S. dollar, as a first step to bringing Argentina into the Union as the southern anchor of a Hemispheric Union. Some of the founders of the United States envisioned a Union from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego. Well, Point Barrow is already in the Union, as part of the State of Alaska. Much of Tierra del Fuego is part of Argentina. Dollarize, Argentina, dollarize!
The story does not stop at Switzerland. Canada has lived for 160 years next to a far larger economy, with a different currency. Possibly Canadians would be richer if they were all Americans. Certainly they would carry more weight in Washington: think, for comparison, of California.
This is not the first time The Economist has suggested aloud that Canadians would be better off as part of the United States. We hope the editors of that enormously distinguished publication will address this theme again and again, from various angles, until the Canadian opinion elite accepts that The Economist is right.
Steve Forbes, sometime candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for President, and publisher of Forbes Magazine, came out in favor of admission of both Ireland and Britain to NAFTA in this Fact and Comment mini-editorial March 5, 2001:
TAKE THAT!In January The European Commission rapped Ireland's knuckles. The Emerald Isle's sin: planning another round of tax cuts. Ireland has previously incurred Brussels' scorn for its low-tax regime. True, Germany and France are engaged in some of their own tax-cutting, thanks to their less-than-stellar economies and their paltry participation in high technology. But they and most other EU countries don't like the idea of it at all, so they vent their spleen by picking on Dublin.
What makes Ireland's tax "sins" truly unforgivable is that the cuts are working. Ireland's unemployment rate is lower than ours. Its budget surplus is proportionately higher, and its growth rate is 10.7%. Indeed, revenues are pouring in at such a rate that Dublin is embarking on a major spending program to improve the country's road system and is paying down its national debt.
The European Commission's periodic anti-Irish eruptions underscore the reason the Bush Administration should seriously consider extending NAFTA to the Emerald Isle and Britain. Such a move would send a loud message to the EU that we fervently support economic liberalization—not a statist, high-tax, pro-government, anti-entrepreneurial, bureaucratically driven regime. (http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/0305/015.html)
Let us hope that Forbes (both the individual and the publication) keep hitting this theme hard, and using their influence to bring this about.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.), December 2000:
"It is our contention that, substantially, the U.S.-Canada border is likely to disappear before any politician finds the political courage to negotiate its removal."
Our "leaders" may end up merely ratifying an economic and cultural fait accompli. How long will it take for economic and cultural trends to erase this needless border? How much time and dislocation could we save if "leaders" on both sides of this useless line in the dirt were to accept the handwriting on the wall and make plans for the demolition of the border? Christopher Morley once wrote:
There was so much handwriting on the wall
That even the wall fell down. (Around the Clock, 1943)
The border between the United States and Canada may be such a wall. Morley also said:
The enemies of the Future are always the very nicest people. (Kitty Foyle, 1939)
Good motives don't necessarily produce good policy.
Peter Brimelow, author of THE PATRIOT GAME: National Dreams and Political Realities, a book that addresses Canada's unrealistic nationalist aspirations as against its real opportunities vis-a-vis the United States, has said he would be delighted if USI would link to his website, http://www.vdare.com/. Mr. Brimelow is a senior editor of FORBES Magazine. He has lived in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States. He explains the name of his website thus:
Why VDARE? Well, we thought about MSDARE, but we didn't want an antitrust suit.I have always been fascinated by the story of Virginia Dare. She was the first English child to be born in the New World, in August 1587, shortly after the founding of what was to become known as "The Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast. It says something about the mettle of those settlers that any pregnant woman would cross the Atlantic, the equivalent of a lunar expedition at that time -- and Virginia's mother Elenor was no less than the daughter of John White, the colony's governor.
VDARE has come into existence because many great and developing issues of the day are no longer covered in the establishment media — whether liberal or "conservative." However, you can sometimes see them naively reported in the local press. Thus Long Island's Southampton Press (September 24, 1999) has carried a story about a local version of the Virginia Dare phenomenon: the local "Anti-Bias Task Force" called on the town to abolish its seal, which depicts a Pilgrim and the words "First English settlement in the State of New York."
The grounds: it "features an offensive representation of one gender, one race and one historical period . . . ."
"One historical period . . . ."? Yeah. It's called America.
(from "Why VDARE?": http://www.vdare.com/why_vdare.htm)
Find Peter Brimelow's wonderful PATRIOT GAME at your local library and check out his website. If you need to contact this distinguished author, send email to pbbackup3@yahoo.com.
Here's what London's North Southwark & Bermondsey Conservative Association (NSBCA) had to say about closer relations between Britain on the one hand and Canada and the U.S. on the other:
We at NSBCA in London, England, applaud the efforts of everyone who's urging caution over Britain's further involvement with the European Union and are mindful of the efforts of people like Daily Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black to preserve and consolidate Britain's close relationship with Canada and the United States. Although we don't honestly think we've actually reached the point yet of having to make a final choice BETWEEN Europe and America, we're certainly not prepared to just allow Britain to drift yet further in the direction of becoming an irreversibly socialist state, and we're thankful that alternatives for us in the world do still exist.North Southwark & Bermondsey's Rotherhithe section is where the Mayflower set sail from on its way to Plymouth before leaving for the New World in 1620, and we always like to give a warm welcome here to visitors from the United States (especially our colleagues in the Republican Party, of course!). For more information about our area, please see http://www.btinternet.com/~se16 ("Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays") and, for details of its Mayflower connections in particular, http://www.mayflower1620ltd.co.uk/.
For more information on NSBCA, go to http://www.tory.org/home/southwarkandbermondsey. Send email to: nsbconservatives@hotmail.com .
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American writer whose philosophy as expressed in her novels gave rise to a transnational movement called "Objectivism", wrote these words in "Man's Rights", one of the essays in her book "The Virtue of Selfishness":
"The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law."The principle of man's individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system — as a limitation on the power of the state, as man's protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history.
"All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary coexistence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man's life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man's life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a society is the protection of individual rights."
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