HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-01-25, Page 23GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY,•.JANUARY 25,
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Is there anything new under first purpose of any government
the sun, despite the 'old adage? is not to souk out and abolish
Not much. .. • injustice, but to perpetuate it -
I've. just been reading a 1.24- , self. Ask any realistic
year old essay by Henry David" politician, and he'll agree.
Thoreau, and it coltld have 'We should not necessarily
been written last week by 4cultivate a respect for the law,
anybody who dislikes, nay, but for what is right, says
despises government and-wih,,at Thoreau. , die uses _the
it stands for.illustration of an undue respect
The author says ,that that for the law of soldiers marching
government is best which to war against' their common
governs A
least. Many sense and consciences. This has
Canadians, who are sick to been happening for years in
death of government and its Viet Narn.
agents poking their inquisitiv
snouts into every aspect of the There are three types of men,
individual's life, would agree he says. First are those who
heartily.; --with— unquestioningly. ,serve .the state
uch,.
. - -- --•---theix....bodiest. . _.sx ns._
t. bttsilnes'smerr°woub+-riot--� soldiers. Nexlar ...,.Cha . „m h
only concur, but . would raise a serve the state with their minds
cheer for the sentiments ex- — politicians, lawyers, of -
pressed. Ask any nnan'who runs ficeholders — but not with'
a small business, if you want tot; their consciences. Finally
get a blistered ear, what he there are the very few — mar -
thinks of government. tyrs, reformers, patriots in the .,
Thoreau suggests that the real sense — who serve it with
- r — _ r their consciences also, and are
I
.commonly, treated as enemies
GOLF1' by it.
_ The trigger for Thoreau's
essay was his strong disap-
proval of the American govern-
ment of his day on two issues,
I 'the Mexican War and slavery.
the Mexican War was one of
-art ' •: ,„ flagrant aggression in which
the Americans moved in and
,s';' '* ' conquered vast territories in
Nam was not exactly overrun,
but not for want. of trying.
And what would happen to
Thoreau if he expressed such
sentiments today? Probably not
much, because there . is . a
growing, swelling anger against
the stupid ' war among
Americans of all walks of life.
But if he'd said it ten years
ago? Or in the era of Joe
McCarthy? He'd likely have
lost his job, been harassed by
the CIA and/or FBI, attacked
by some segments of the press,
and generally driven like a fox
before hounds.
It speaks much for the.
growing lack of freedom in the
(and: el„here) that
nothing serious happened to
Thoreau at all, when he uttered
these inflammatory remarks. ,
He did spend one night in
jail, when he refused to pay his
poll tax, on the basis that his
dollar might buy either a man
or a musket to shoot one with.
But somebody paid his fine,
and he was released.
Today we have the prospect
of men spending years in jail
because they -refuse to go
against their consciences. We
have thousands of U.S. draft
,dodgers in Canada, forsaking
their home and native land for
reasons of common sense (who
wants to be killed?) or con-
science.
Joan Baez, the folk -singer
and anti -war individual tried
to take a similar stand by
• refusing to pay her income tax.
The government merely deduc-
ted it at source, from the record
companies who paid her
royalties. ..
Thoreau,. advocated 'that., if
there were an unjust law, we
should break it. What do you
think?
What would happen to an or=
dinary Canadian who said, "I
will pay to have my garbage
collected and the streets
repaired. But I will' not pay one
penny for "national defence". I
don't want welfare, unem-
ployment insurance, medicar o
I won't pay a nickel towaid
them."?
The answer is obvious. That
bold Canadian would spend the
rest of his life in`the law courts,
being punished by "his" gover-
nment, instead of being allowed.
the simple, sensible alternative
of opting out.
Life is too short., Butrc--vve
being governed to death? Oh,
for a few Thoreaus in these
timid days! -
—The Argyle Syndicate
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the southwest.,
(It has always been a source
of pleasure to me, when
Americans decry British- "co-
lonialism" to remind them of
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the
Phillippines, Panama and
Texas. They have conveniently
forgotten, in most cases, that
many of these "acquisitions"
were a result of direct and
violent , Conquest. )
Thoreau spoke openly of
revolution. "When a sixth of
the population of a nation
,.which has undertaken to be the
refuge of liberty are"slaves, and
a whole country (Texas) is un-
justly overrun and conquered
by a foreign • army (U.S.), I
think it is not too soon for
honest men to rebel and
revolutionize."
Isn't the situation almost
. exactly the same today? Blacks.
are not legal slaves, but they
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