Diane Francis would turn Canada over to the U.S. police state

Frank Touby —

In her zany new book the woman who once described herself as among the elites of “the American Diaspora” in Canada, Diane Francis argues for what would amount to the absorption of Canada by the U.S. It begs the question whether she’s a CIA asset or just another deluded butler to the fabulous who thinks it might be her own worthiness that exempts her from inevitable gravity.

Shunning the numerous reasons patriotic Canadians should retch at the notion of merging with a police state such as the one the U.S. has become since the 911 events, she starts with the fascist concept of perceiving the two nations as corporations.

In case the word fascist grosses you out, realize that it has nothing to do with Nazism. It was merely World War II Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s term for a soul-killing merger of state and corporate power, as the saintly Gerald Celente, founder of the mostly precognitive Trends Journal, is fond of pointing out.

I don’t plan to read Diane’s full nut-bar position on this prospective nightmare absorption into the flailing American empire, but am solely basing my review on what I’ve read in two excerpts published in the National Post, a literate, dependable journal that sprang forth from my former employer of 10 years, the Financial Post.

Unlike the elevated Diane, I am a mere speck in the American Diaspora where she somehow reigns or at least is led to believe she does. I fled to Toronto by way of Oakville from the Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew (“nattering nabobs of negativism”) regime in 1971, anticipating a purge on journalists.

It turns out that I was off in my guess about the manner in which the purge came. Not by fire, but by ice. Corporations took command-and-control of journalism finances and structures. The military-industrial-financial complex, against which ex-President Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans, took charge of major media, of banking and of America.

Since then, the U.S. has been losing wars all over the globe while the multinational corporations and the elites, to which Diane may or may not belong, grow fabulously richer on the bloodshed.

The 911 incidents were just what the doctor ordered to give the elites the excuse they sought to create a police state. President Barack Obama, masquerading as a democratic leader, ran it deeper into the ground with his recently decreed National Defense Authorization Act, enabling the president and the executive to do anything to anyone anytime on any occasion. Without notice, without reporting, without accountability.

I fear Stephen Harper harbours similar ambitions. I can only pray it isn’t so or if it is that he is replaced by a truthful prime minister who would govern according to the principles ordinary Canadians believe in.

Back to Diane’s ridiculous book. There’s no point in reviewing her other four models for the merger of Canada and the U.S. None are desirable and the first one outlined is instructive and chilling enough:

She begins her strategy for the deconstruction of Canada by seeking the counsel of a Swiss resident, an accountant who works for an oil giant and has been involved with mergers and acquisitions. Many in that niche of finance are referred to as “hedge-fund hyenas” because they strip the corpse of a recently killed corporation like a pack of hyenas strip the flesh from a slain rhinoceros or wildebeest.

It’s not capitalism. It’s predation.

Capitalism’s object and ideal isn’t to break down operating businesses, sell their assets, fire their employees and divide the booty amongst the shareholders.

The object of shareholding is to gain along with the success of a company in which you’ve invested. The managers and owners have a stake in the company succeeding, as do the shareholders who receive dividends based on earnings. It’s debatable whether managers and employees should be permitted to acquire shares in their companies unless they’ve purchased them on the open market without being directed to do so by those companies’ officials. Stock bonuses should be abolished.

It’s the capital-gains aspect of corporate shares that causes all the misery and distortion of the capitalist system. Those with capital are able to trump all other participants in an economy, pay less in proportionate taxes and dominate the economy with their disproportionate purchasing power compared against their benefit to the economy and the society that it serves.

Most do involve themselves in charitable ventures, but as much or more for social and tax benefits as for helping society. Of course there are admirable exceptions, but not necessarily comprising the biggest donors.

In the U.S. especially, “Corporations are people, my friend,” to quote the response Mitt Romney gave to a questioner during a presidential campaign event. He lost, but as it turns out, it probably wouldn’t have made a whit of difference one way or the other. In the U.S. corporations have the right of free speech and the right to purchase political power and influence. Corporations are more than people. They are soulless zombies with the rights of human beings and the overwhelming power of monoliths that have no nerve endings.

To digress a bit …  regarding the presidential election deception:

When Obama was first elected, you’ll no doubt recall the Republicans were so outraged that they on the spot declared they wanted him gone and would do nothing to help him succeed. Nothing! They wouldn’t go along with anything, no matter how worthy, if it aided the Obama they so hated.

Obama knew that. It was openly declared by the Republicans. And Obama had campaigned on a new health-care system to free Americans from the distortions of the existing system.

He had at that time a bare congressional majority, which he knew was soon to be lost, that would have enabled his Canada-like health care proposal to pass. Single-payer, it was called.

But instead of using his brief political advantage to pass the health-care proposal he allegedly supported, Obama suddenly decided to play peacemaker against a wall of mindless obstructionism. He announced he wanted a bipartisan agreement on an issue where he knew it was manifestly impossible. One might suspect he didn’t truly want a Canada-style single-payer system that would have displeased the insurance companies who, under the current new Obamacare, can score big time.

But back to Diane’s preposterous notions.

A merger of nations based on increasing the power of multinational corporations in a joint domestic economy—which is the aimed-for result of any such U.S.-Canada merger—would be a disaster for Canada.

The U.S. is a full-fledged police state in perpetual war around the globe that sustains 9,000 military installations worldwide. As part of a warrior state our sons and daughters would become cannon fodder as the war corporations seek ever more clients for their various subcontracting divisions.

Do we really need to merge with a post-911 U.S. tyranny to form a monolith that overshadows Russia? We could conceivably need to be on best of terms with Russia as the U.S. was 150 years ago when Russian Tsar Alexander and his navy helped defend the American Union against the Confederate Rebellion and put an end to the nightmare of slavery in my former homeland and preserved the United States of America. Click here

That was a forgotten bit of history during the Cold War, which occupied much of the last century.