798 – Some inconvenient truths—about freedom

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Feb 162023
 


For most people in the Western world, “freedom” has been taken as a given. Their ability to do so depended upon a fundamental moral principle held in common, one that Professor of Moral Philosophy John Macmurray (1891-1976) described as the “law of freedom.”

“No man can compass his own freedom for himself,” warned Macmurray in his 1949 book Conditions of Freedom. “He must accept it as a free gift from others; and if they will not give it to him he cannot have it. This is the law of freedom.”

The palpable loss of freedom now experienced on a global scale makes visible an inconvenient truth about freedom that few wish to address, but upon which Macmurray conveniently elaborated:

“We flatter ourselves too much when we imagine that we love freedom and strive wholeheartedly towards freedom. On the contrary; there are few things that we fear so much. No doubt we find the ‘idea’ of freedom most attractive; but the reality is another matter. For to act freely is to take a decision and accept the consequences.

“I see history, in its concrete reality, not as Man’s struggle to win his freedom in a world that frustrates his efforts; but as a record of the twists and evasions by which men seek to escape from freedom in a world which thrusts it remorselessly upon them. The determination which oppresses us is not the opposite of freedom; for what is determined is that Man shall be free.”

In other words, the inconvenient truth about freedom is that most people don’t want it. This leaves those who do want freedom obligated to take the initiative by getting involved in politics, both on principle and as guardians committed to the eternal vigilance required in a free society.

In light of the understanding that freedom must be given freely by each individual to other individuals, it turns out that the phrase “Give me liberty or give me death,” apparently describes the nature of freedom in a way that’s Just Right.

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Freedom Convoy—We the people | Salim Mansur

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Feb 122023
 

On the anniversary of the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy, we discuss how Canada’s history and Constitution permitted the abuses by our governments which precipitated the protest and allowed for the brutal and violent response by the police.

In essence, Canada is not a nation founded on the notion that the people are supreme. It is a country founded of, by, and for elites—a nation where Parliament is supreme and the people are merely serfs.

Professor Salim Mansur of Western University says that we must reevaluate our history and revisit our Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ensure that, in the future, our individual rights are better protected from the whims of elitist politicians who have demonstrated their complete disdain for us, the people.

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797 – Why freedom is just Right—and tyranny is always Left

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Feb 092023
 


The continuing confusion over distinctions between the political Left and Right contributes greatly to society’s steady drift away from freedom and towards a state of tyranny. No mere matter of semantics, the failure to objectively distinguish Left from Right blinds people to the nature of politics, a blindness that can only lead towards tyranny.

For example, when it comes to voting, most don’t think in terms of a Left and Right polarity; the polarity they think is Left and Right is the one between Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative, Green or Blue, etc. But as experience repeatedly demonstrates, this is a false polarity because all of today’s political parties on the so-called “political spectrum” are on the Left – which in all its forms and political options lead consistently away from freedom.

As the architect of our dysfunctional and broken political compass, the Left has been astonishingly successful in having destroyed the proper association of freedom with the Right, while at the same time disguising the totalitarian nature of the Left. In desperation, many seeking freedom turn towards a false “Right” associated with conservatism, libertarianism, and even anarchism – all rooted in ideologies of the Left.

From its origins and history to its application in practice, any honest and objective evaluation of the principles on which freedom is based against the principles on which tyranny is based will lead to the unavoidable conclusion that Freedom is Just Right and tyranny is always Left.

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796 – The road not taken—and the road ahead | Salim Mansur

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Feb 022023
 


As the world considers a possible nuclear confrontation over Ukraine, we find ourselves on a path of history that too few comprehend. It is in this vacuum that many engage in predictions and expectations utterly disconnected from the continuum of events driving the forces of history. Of course, there is always a risk in any attempt to predict future events, given how history has repeatedly cast aside many even very reasonable predictions.

It is with this understanding that our guest Salim Mansur, before looking at the road ahead, looks back at the road not taken, and imagines a possible future (our present) that might have transpired had the West chosen the “road less traveled” as Roosevelt intended following World War 2. In so doing, Salim prepares us to face our next major fork in the road of history, in the hopes that we do not again become victims of a “repeating” history mired in perpetual wars.

Driven by the “deep state,” America’s transformation from a constitutional republic to an empire has ironically made America weaker, not stronger. After all, empires depend on two things that do not exist: eternal allies and perpetual enemies. In attempting to sustain these fictions, empires eventually collapse; America is now standing at this fork in the road of its history.

Indeed, turning Russia into a “perpetual enemy” may prove to be the American Empire’s undoing. History has repeatedly demonstrated that not only is this false, but that Russia has been an ally to America during America’s darkest hours – including even the American civil war (another historical vacuum in the minds of most). And freedom’s debt to the Red Army in the last world war “can never be repaid” when taking into account the disproportionate millions of Russian lives lost in the Second World War.

The choice now facing America is whether to take the road less traveled – back towards being a constitutional republic – or to continue down its current path of perpetual war and empire building. Though never a certainty, odds are that the road less traveled will be the one that proves to be Just Right.

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Armistice or annihilation—Ukraine’s end game | Salim Mansur

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Feb 012023
 

“The collective West has brought us to the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon.” So says our guest professor Salim Mansur.

Those seeking peace are searching the West in vain for any among its leaders, media, or intelligentsia calling for peace. All seem blinded by an irrational and unjustified Russophobia. The result is a general populace duped into thinking that this is a “just war” and Ukraine must win despite the threat of a nuclear conclusion.

“There can be no just war in the nuclear age,” notes Professor Mansur. “There has to be an immediate ceasefire, an armistice, and then we talk and engage with what will be the position of Ukraine and meeting the interests of Russia and the interests of other European countries.”

There are historic precedents for the situation the West finds itself in. During the stalemate of WWI and after the loss of 15 to 22 million lives there came the realization that the only way to end the bloodshed was an armistice—not a surrender but an acknowledgment that nothing further could be gained by either side in continuing the conflict. And on November 11, 1918, an armistice was signed and at 11:00 am that day the guns went silent.

The same awareness came about during the war in Vietnam when Walter Cronkite went on the air in a rare opinion piece and said, “To say that we are mired in stalemate seems to be the only realistic if unsatisfactory conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could.” President Johnson was reported to have said “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” Such was the power of the media then and, although considerably weakened, such is the power of the media today.

So too, in this conflict involving nuclear combatants, there must come the understanding that all hostilities must cease and negotiations for the partition of Ukraine begin. A continuation of the conflict may only lead to the unthinkable.

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795 – a DEEP STATEment about the DEEP STATE | Salim Mansur

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Jan 262023
 


Having overcome his own personal reluctance to fully accept just how deeply corrupt and evil the so-called “deep state” actually is, our guest Salim Mansur shares with us the emergence of an unsettling history that is sadly at variance with the narratives most believe to be history.

As if to demonstrate that history, like science, is never “settled,” there has been an explosion in public awareness of a history that (at last!) presents us with a narrative capable of accurately describing our current state of tyranny. Only armed with such knowledge (i.e., the truth), can effective remedies be pursued.

One truth that must be acknowledged is that the “main stream media” is, and has always been, a steady stream of misinformation and propaganda calculated to keep those in power shielded from any meaningful opposition or criticism. Less about their lies than truths not told, the revelation of those truths demonstrates yet another universal principle: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Consequently, it must also be acknowledged that our entire democracy has become “absolutely corrupt“ – a corruption that includes not just those in power, but also those who repeatedly grant them such power. Details of this abuse of power continue to accumulate and are too numerous and disturbing to consider in this space, other than to observe that the term “crimes against humanity” is simply insufficient, an understatement to say the least.

In identifying our real enemy, Salim has described the nature of the “deep state” in a way that is Just Right – as an unelected and unaccountable military industrial complex determined to establish a tyrannical American Empire rather than a world in which freedom reigns.

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794 – Rich trick—the politics of corruption

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Jan 192023
 


No matter how bad things look on the political front, they are infinitely worse. That’s the takeaway from the documentary “From JFK to 9/11 – Everything Is A Rich Man’s Trick.”

After having been viewed by over a billion people in 2014 and then deplatformed, the film has now resurfaced along with an avalanche of similar accounts of just how criminally corrupt the American deep state and its political puppets are.

For most, these realities fly in the face of accepted narratives regarding everything from the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy to the fundamental nature of our democracy itself.

Clearly, we can no more say that “the history is settled” than we can say “the science is settled,” and for most people this is very unsettling. But what’s really unsettling about the history in question is that it is merely the continuum of today’s current events, events leading us back to the very history so many believed was “settled.”

As we approach the brink of a third world war, the time has long passed that we acknowledge that the only winners of these wars are the oligarchs and criminals who create, finance, and profit by them.

The good news is that in the light of knowledge and understanding now surfacing, the historical record can finally be amended to reflect this political reality in a way that is Just Right, even though everything else about it is bad news.

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