Who's Mad Cow Is It Anyway?

By Alan Clark

   No one gives it a second thought. Not in a country which is so completely Marxist as this one. The fact that any government can seize private property, without compensation to the owner, and then have that property destroyed is just accepted. In fact, as in the case of one David Rutherford of radio talking-head fame, this particular facet of Marxist doctrine is not only acceptable but he demands, over the national air-waves, that ignorance and bureaucrats should always take precedence over the property rights and wealth of a few farmers.

   Dave Rutherford asserts that the public has a need to feel confident about the meat that they eat and that no amount of information or facts will re-certify Alberta's beef industry faster than the wholesale destruction of a few farm families. Even when the facts were laid-out for Mr. Rutherford by a listener: "Mr. Rutherford! Why don't you just give people the facts! The fact is that there is no chance of catching this disease from eating the meat of the muscle! You must eat the brain or spinal column to catch the disease! Why don't you give people the facts?!" Dave was unrepentant however. "I'm not going to tell anyone to eat beef." he said.

   There are numerous groups throughout Canada which take issue with a variety of subjects. The Marketing Boards and Gun Registration are just two. These people are hacking at the proverbial branches while the actual root goes untouched. The root of all these problems is that Canadians do not have the Right to own their Private Property. Whether that property is stamps, coins, company shares, cash in the bank, wheat in bins or cows on the hoof, Canadians can never own but are merely custodians. When the government decides that it is your turn to sacrifice at the alter of Marxism, then your turn it shall be. Obviously, you won't be able to count on Dave Rutherford for any support. He has a listenership to build in the Marxist heartland of Ontario, afterall. Funny, normally we have to elect people before they turn into such "Great Canadians".

   The reason this situation exists is compliments of a few other "Great Canadians". Namely, Pierre Trudeau and Alberta's own Peter Lougheed, along with all the other provincial premiers of the day. The "day" being 1981 when this same bunch of sneeky bastards re-wrote the Constitution to suit themselves without so much as a "by your leave" to those of us whom the Constitution purports to belong to. They entrenched their own power. They invented a "bilingual and bicultural" country which previously didn't exist and brought us Affirmative Action. More ominously, they did exactly as Karl Marx instructed in The Communist Manifesto. They eliminated your Right to own and enjoy Private Property.

   Before "Karl Marx Day" was being celebrated in Canada, no government had the power to strip Canadians of their property without compensation. Before Peter Lougheed's Constitution, Canadians had a Right to own a hunting rifle. Farmers could have argued against Marketing Boards on the constitutional grounds that they had the right to dispose of their property in any fashion they desired. Before Karl Marx Day came along, Dave Rutherford could have screamed until he was blue about his desire to confiscate the accumulated wealth of a few farm boys to make himself "feel" better about eating his next Big Mac. We would have all laughed and then gone on with our day. Unfortunately, no one is laughing today. Especially not the half dozen farmers who have had a collective $1.5 million taken from them in the past two weeks.

    This July 1st, Karl Marx Day here in Canada, raise a glass and toast Peter Lougheed, Pierre Trudeau and all the other "Great Canadians" who have made Canada, as Dave Rutherford oft repeats "the best country in the world".