[R-G] Fwd: What will you do on a sinking coalition ship??

[aaron doncaster]

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From: aaron doncaster <aaron.doncaster at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Subject: What will you do on a sinking coalition ship??
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So the deputy leader of the NDP came out and said that their is nothing in a
conservative budget that will stop the coalition from toppling the
government. He said the new coalition would incorperate any goodies in the
conservatives budget into their own. Weather we like it or not, we elected a
conservative minority with a strong opposition that can work to keep the
government on a tight leash. We did not elect the NDP and liberal mp's to
the house to bully the conservatives and make a parlementary coup. Even
though our imperialistic British parlimentary system allows for government
to be toppled by coalitions forming out of the opposition that does not mean
that it is either ethical or in the best interest of all Canadians. Our
government is suppose to work for us and when the Deputy leader of the NDP
says he doesn't care about what is in the budget the conservatives bring
forward,that the government is being brought down regardless,The deputy
leader of the NDP is showing us that this is about power not governing.

The NDP are so drunk with power and the idea of being in power that they are
unwilling to use this opportunity to work with the government we have to
shift the left/right pendulum further to the left.Even though the NDP has
purged most of it's pro peace pro working class ideas from their party, the
fact remains: they still have alot of support from workers and the peace
movement. In a parliament stucture we have now, the NDP has the ability to
hold the rains of power without getting into bed with a pro war, pro
imperialist, rascist, boss'  party.There is still a chance for workers and
the peace movement to have an independent voice in the parliament but only
if the NDP Get out of this ill thought out coalition  Why hasn't the Bloc
joined the coalition and instead agreed to support it for a limited amount
of time,essentially an accord, not a coalition.Simply put the Bloc are not
going to sellout and send their citizens down shit creek without a paddle.
The Bloc knows that by joining the coalition, they would be giving up an
independent voice for sovereignty,weak as that may be, in the parliament.
They were elected so that soverignists would have an independent voice in
parliament.

 It is clear to me that the NDP has taken a straussian stance and has lost
most of their ideas on the working class and the peace movement. Leo Strauss
was a German born philosopher that believed the common person, the workers
are incapable of organizing society and working together themselves for the
betterment of society. He believed in telling noble lies Because the common
person could not handle the truth and he believed that war was necessary to
galvanize the citizens into one flag waving group so they could become
easier to control. Maybe the New Democrats need to change there name to the
new straussians.

This coalition ship was born with holes in it and itt started sinking even
before it had the chance to set sail. I believe that there will be 2 types
of people to jump ship first: the ultra-right from the liberals will vote
for the budget and possibly join the conservatives and any NDP members that
have any dignity left and truly believe in democracy and that they have been
sent to Ottawa to be a voice for the voiceless, will probably sit as
independents come January. While I was away for the election, there were
some activists and radicals that I have worked with in the past who worked
tooth and nail to elect Megan Leslie. Megan Leslie has a history in
organizing at the grassroots and has been a long-time advocate for people in
poverty,working class people, the environment and for peace. I am not hear
to judge the choice of grassroots activists who choose to campaign for Megan
Leslie, but I do know that this choice of some anarchists and radicals to
actively support  parliamentary politics has been judges by some as being
petty bourgeois and opportunist. It is sad when you see divisions open up
between people you have worked with in the past and I think that now is an
opportunity for Megan Leslie and  those radicals and anarchist who supported
her to mend those divisions.If Megan Leslie Stays on this quickly sinking,
liberal lead coalition,once it sinks and she is sitting as a member of the
NDP, an anti-working class party, anti-peace party and opportunist party,
their will be many people in Halifax who will see her and her radical,
anarchist campaigners as traitors to the cause of peace and of the working
poor. With that being said, if Megan Leslie wishes to keep her dignity and
do the right thing, she will get off this sinking ship and announce that she
will either resign or sit as an independent. Megan if you are reading this,
I beseech you to harken onto these works because the choices you make in the
next month or so can benefit us all or damn us all to hell. In a world of
growing inequalities, growing wars, growing climate change and global
warming: in a world of growing oppression and exploitation of people,
animals and the environment, in times like these we need good people to take
responsibility and do something good. I truly believe that you are a good
person and committed to positive change in this world and if you stay on
this sinking coalition ship, it would be tantamount to doing nothing. We all
know that bad things happen when good people do nothing. You must do
something and I believe that the most positive thing you could do is
denounce this coalition and sit as an independent when parliament sits in
the new year. If you are the good person I believe you are, I think that you
will find that this is the only honorable thing you can do. I cannot see how
getting into bed with a pro war, pro imperialist anti-poor boss' party can
be considered honorable. I know you have alot of pressure on you to tow the
party line but I also know that if you sit as an independent in the next
sitting of parliament, you will be an independent voice for peace,for the
working poor and the environment and you will sit with dignity. That is
something that myself and many others would applaud.
              sincerely, Reverend Aaron Doncaster