Calgary Libertarian

Another week has passed what have you done to cure your Apathy.

For those of you in the Calgary area why don’t you attend a city council meeting.

I have placed a link to the city councils calendar in our resources page, have a look and see if you can attend one of there meetings. My goal is to attend at least 4 a year.

2009 Calgary City Council Calendar

For those of you not in the calgary area you should be able to find your local calender on your local municipal website.

This weeks installment of freedom watch (allways good topics and discussions)

I found a very good article on the Lew Rockwell Blog about Canada road to socialism. The article describes how Canada was able to stave off socialism in the early 1900’s, especially the 1930’s while the rest of the world was making huge socialist leaps to the left, Canada stayed relatively free. Then Trudeau mania came rushing in a flurry of charisma and stateism. check out the article let us know what you think.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/cust3.html

Another blow has been made to our ability to make personal choice and to our personal responsibility. Strathcona county has voted to outlaw driving while on your cell phone punishable up to a 100$ fine.

RCMP Insp. Gary Steinke who is pleased with the ban is quoted saying ,”I don’t think you need to be an officer to know that you’re going to be distracted if you’re on the cellphone” ,”I don’t think you need to be an officer to know that you’re going to be distracted if you’re on the cellphone,” .

If we want to regulate distraction from drivers perhaps we should remove car radios, vanity mirrors, and even passengers, oh and not to mention countless distraction out side of the car. Lets ban street advertisements or any thing else that could catch the drivers eye for a moment.

I often talk on my cell phone while driving, I find it just as easy to talk on my phone as it is to talk to a passenger. If I am to crash I would take on full responsibility for my actions morally and fiscally. I however can not text while driving I attempted it once and I quickly swerved over into the shoulder, I will exercise my individual responsibility of self regulation and will not text ,answer a text or do any any thing that causes my eyes to focus on my cell phone. If others can not drive while talking its up to them to self regulate or take personal responsibility for any thing that might go wrong, we do not need government to tell us if we are capable of driving while talking or not.

Remember governments use pilot projects as a wedge to increase domain (Red light cameras are good example), I wonder what other behavioral regulation will be next? Also you can bet if this law passes in Calgary those red light / speed cameras will be taking pictures to see if your one your phone. Lets not be passive on this one start contacting your mla’s and alderman to make sure this idea doesn’t grow amongst the cities.
Just to be clear. I am not advocating unsafe driving I am advocating that the individual driver is smart enough to make that decision on there own and not need big brother to regulate thought.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/05/20/edmonton-strathcona-county-cell-phone-ban.html

A friend pointed this article out to me the other day. Its yet another article pointing out the strides that canada has been making towards economic freedom. Give it a read.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10208

I only point out that freedom is not real freedom unless there is some measure to stop governments at any level from taking it away. Many reductions in federal taxes have been just added on by the provincial governments.