Ron Paul Revolution
Ron Paul is a Republican who is competing with John McCain for the Republican nomination for president of the USA. A great many Canadians don’t know who he is, largely because of a media “brownout” of his campaign. Ron Paul as president would be a welcome change for Canadians if only because of his determination to end the War On Drugs, which would allow our politicians to make some sensible drug laws of our own (none?) thereby freeing the RCMP from the burden of enforcing our currently stupid drug laws.
There would be many other benefits from a Ron Paul presidency but the above is meant to illustrate in these first weblog posts that there is an understanding that the problems of the RCMP (that in the opinion of this writer contributed indirectly to the death of Robert Dziekanski) are not necessarily problems of their own making nor are they necessarily problems that the RCMP itself can solve. It may take action from all of us and all levels of government to eliminate a problem - even to the point of attempting to influence the USA election.
Of course the chance of Ron Paul winning the Republican nomination is slim (but not none) and the chance that he will be President is slimmer but Canadians should let the USA know - on all levels, personal and administrative - that we would be a lot more likely to be a good neighbour if we didn’t have to deal with their insane drug laws. On a simply personal level, we could all help the RCMP by encouraging any USA friends/relatives/contacts/etc to check out Ron Paul.
Additionally, we should be paying attention to what Ron Paul is actually accomplishing and we should be setting up our own “revolution” ahead of time and using the Paul campaign to avoid making any of the mistakes that they made by which I suppose I mostly mean organize, infiltrate and communicate - starting now.
Later there’ll be more posts about Ron Paul - I just wanted to not have the first posts to be directly critical of the RCMP. This is the weblog though, and not the forum so it is more of a hint as to the scope of this weblog - from drug laws to USA politics. When I see a Canadian citizen (Marc Emery) being extradited by the USA for selling marijuana seeds I realize that we cannot just try and “fix” the RCMP without improving the environment in which they operate - which means USA and world politics are very much an interest of this weblog.
