Barrel Strength

2009 has been considered a bad year for many; for me it was a year of triumphs. The forces of evil have been turned back internationally and domestically on two decisive fronts: free speech, vigorous nationalism, and climate change.

Free speech

The campaign waged by Ezra Levant in Canada against the speech control fanatics at Human Rights Commissions has been successful. The blogosphere rose in defence of Ezra but he made it work, by patiently devoting himself to de-legitiizing them. Later, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench joined in the de-legitimization by roundly castigating the idiotic decision of Lori Andreachuk, the Alberta Human Rights Commissioner in the Stephen Boisson case.

Vigorous Nationalism

The nationalist cultural policy first came to light in the Herouxville Declaration, a statement made in 2007 by a small Quebec town’s aldermen and mayor that this is a Christian country, we eat pigs and we don’t treat our women like slaves. If you read it, you will find it surprizingly liberal in tone, but it appeared at a time when it was considered dangerous and provocative to herald Canadian social values, so uptight had everyone become with Muslim cultural intimidation.

In November 2009 the Canadian federal government has issued a citizenship statement which candidly rejects the more obnoxious aspects of Muslim culture as criminal.

One of the principal effects of the Harper regime in this country has been to restore a sense that there is a Canadian nation and it has values worth fighting for. The Afghanistan commitment has sharpened everyone’s thinking considerably. Jonathan Kay captured this well in his recent NatPost article.

Climategate

What a Christmas gift! Imagine that one could have run an experiment in 1917 on communism. Lenin tries it for a few years and then announces that Friedrich Hayek is right: prices are a form of information feedback, so that socialism will have to be built on the basis of taxes on real private sector income, which the government will now accept as legitimate. Imagine how many millions of lives would have been saved in the 20h century if communists had relented in their fanatic destruction of civilization.

Likewise with man-made climate change. Imagine that the world was about to launch on a path of forced income transfers worth trillions of dollars through a United Nations bureaucracy, totally unaccountable to electors, when it was discovered that the basis of the transfers. the moral claim of legitimacy, was completely disproven. Even in the bubble in which cabinet ministers live, it must have been evident that the doubts about man-made climate change through carbon dioxide emissions were not the mere hand waving of crank dissenters, but represented a serious claim.

For those of us more familiar with the climategate “science” , the whole thing is a commie rat. A massive swindle has been exposed. This was the triumph of 2009 for all mankind.

Communism’s second great surge was rolled back, just in time. Halleluyah!

I join with Arran Gold, Duggan’s Dew, Tobermory, Oban, Glendronach, and the barrelstrength team to wish you a happy and prosperous 2010.