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Left, Right & Center – A re-definition
Left, Right & Center – Bans
Left, Right & Center – Environmentalism
Left, Right & Center – Political correctness and discrimination
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The Forest City Institute:
Civic Governance In The City Of London, Ontario
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Human Rights Commissions vs Freedom of speech
Just Wrong! Dedicated to peace? – Army recruiting in schools and the London Free Press coverage of opposition to it.
Guest: Karen Selick on Marc Emery’s pending extradition to US
Atheism: Suicide atheist bombers?
Religion and virtue: Mutually exclusive?
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As Remembrance Day draws near, reflection turns to the Canadians who risked everything in battle. Courage lies not in sacrifice but in the refusal to surrender life, liberty, or property to aggressors. Soldiers fight to win and survive, not to die. Their stand against force preserves freedom, distinguishing battlefield losses from everyday peacetime tragedies.
Current events and past discussions add depth. Marc Emery’s case underscores a broader fight for liberty beyond marijuana. Currency shifts show how a strong loonie pressures prices and rewards cross-border shopping, reminding everyone that real value matters. Job stress patterns confirm routine work heightens depression while choice and variety ease it.
Afghanistan reports challenge media narratives; polls reveal most Afghans welcome foreign troops and reject the Taliban. Robotics point to a future of intelligent companions and household helpers. Gun control efforts backfire, while concealed-carry laws link to falling crime rates.
Light-hearted definitions expose contradictions in political language, from bureaucracy as a perpetual inertia machine to a candidate as someone who stands for what voters will fall for.
These threads weave together insights on war, peace, and rights that feel just right.
Marc Emery’s impending extradition to the United States for selling marijuana seeds raises profound questions about sovereignty, justice, and the irrationality of drug prohibition laws. In this episode of Just Right, the discussion centers on Emery’s lifelong activism, tracing his path from a London bookseller to a political firebrand challenging censorship, taxes, and government overreach.
Emery emerges as a complex figure—abrasive yet principled, self-promoting like Muhammad Ali, but driven by a passion for individual freedom. His early debates with the host at City Lights Bookshop sparked shared ventures, including publishing newspapers like The London Tribune and The London Metro Bulletin, and co-founding the Freedom Party of Ontario in 1984. Campaigns against the 1991 Pan Am Games bid saved London taxpayers millions, while fights against Sunday shopping laws and business improvement areas demonstrated how civil disobedience can triumph over bureaucratic folly.
Clips from films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and documentaries such as Prince of Pot: The U.S. vs. Marc Emery illustrate Emery’s influences and current plight, where U.S. authorities target him not just for seeds, but for funding legalization efforts—a clear political vendetta. Speakers in these excerpts, including Emery himself comparing his struggle to Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, highlight the absurdity of facing life imprisonment in America for acts that warrant mere fines in Canada. Note that these views do not necessarily reflect those of the host or Just Right.
The episode underscores broader implications: if Canada extradites Emery, it surrenders sovereignty to insane U.S. drug policies, setting a dangerous precedent for any activist. Differences between Emery’s anarchistic leanings and the host’s perspectives add nuance, yet unity persists on core principles of liberty.
In examining Emery’s story, the pursuit of justice demands vigilance against such moral obscenities, ensuring freedoms remain just right for all.
Justice remains an elusive ideal in our courtrooms, where personal opinions often overshadow reliable law and precedent. Discussions with friends like Paul McKeever highlight this growing concern, as judges stray from the core principles of justice. Definitions from history remind us that justice stems from obligatory rights within society, evolving into enforceable laws, yet rigid statutes sometimes fail to deliver fairness, leading to bodies like courts of equity.
Our experiences before the Ontario Human Rights Commission revealed a system accepting hearsay and innuendo, far from true justice. Frédéric Bastiat’s insights in “The Law” clarify that personality, liberty, and property preexist laws, which should organize legitimate self-defense against threats. Government intervenes only through force, legitimate solely when protecting these rights; otherwise, it becomes plunder, as seen in tariffs, subsidies, and progressive taxes that Bastiat labeled socialism.
Social justice distorts this, promoting economic redistribution by force, blaming crime on conditions rather than individual responsibility, and masking coercion as altruism. Government acts like a gun, compelling wealth transfer under the guise of charity, punishing productivity while rewarding the non-productive—echoing Marxist bromides that foster injustice.
City Hall’s absurd proposals, like requiring permits to cut trees on private property to preserve London’s “forest city” image, violate fundamental property rights. Councillors like Joni Batchelor justify this with lemming logic, ignoring that rational owners value trees for aesthetics and worth. Meanwhile, Toronto’s added taxes signal financial mismanagement, blending socialism’s burdens with direct fees.
Al Gore’s Nobel Prize elevates junk science, as a UK court exposed nine errors in “An Inconvenient Truth,” from exaggerated sea-level rises to misrepresented polar bear drownings. Critics like Terence Corcoran note this discredits climate alarmism, while defenders dismiss rulings illogically. Global warming debates ignore natural cycles, with some now linking heat to wars—a junk logic leap tracing to anti-industrial roots.
In this era of distorted justice and environmental hysteria, finding balance proves essential, as only principles grounded in liberty keep society just right.