Says bubblebustin,
Wow, the Animal, you are as exceptional with the written word as you are with graphic arts. Well said:
This is not the Canada that I was born in.
The Canada I remember, was one of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. The very same who stated: “We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy.” when he signed the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms in 1981. Back then we were so proud that we had a Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms to aspire to. That at the very age of eleven, I looked on believing Canada to be the land of the just and upholder of human decency. We were proud of being Canadians; the first to put together such a proclaimed charter that the Queen herself had given Royal Assent and personally signed in a ceremony on Parliament Hill. We truly believed that Canada was at the forefront of civilized nations.
Just a couple of short days ago, …
Waking on Canada Day to:
Now today, July 2, 2014:
…here I stand not 33 years later angered and bitter at the fact that Canada, under Prime Minister Stephen Harper has signed away those very rights and freedoms that were enshrined to us under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms by passing an omnibus bill that contained a United States law called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
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This law does not affect just those with clinging US person-hood, but it affects all of us. We will be forced to pay out of pocket for the rising costs of the bank compliance through higher fees, intrusive interrogation when opening a bank account that normally would be cause for a Human Rights complaint, but because of a flourish of a pen, is made legal to ask. One by one our rights are being eroded and instead of being enraged for the further erosion of this once-great country, we are complying with a whimper. Trudeau would ask about the location of our spine.
The acts of our government would indicate that we have none.
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Yes, bubblebustin,
Shame on the Canadian media for not warning all Canadians of the impending attack. Laura Secord’s rolling in her grave.
Remember when your mom said,”this is going to hurt me more than it does you”. Well we in the U.S. are hurt more than you. Our exports are drying up because our sales people all have come home because they cannot pay taxes in two places. If they could pay taxes no bank want them as account holders.Our politicians, especially democrats characterize any citizen who lives outside the U.S. a ”tax cheat” and either they are that stupid or they want to destroy jobs of those who work in industries where their business is exports.
Finally any of the millions who hates the Marxist incme tax and would love to see it destroyed by passage of a National Sales tax (The FairTax) are fraustrated by the way our politicians use the income tax to extort campaign contributions from the real tax cheats who live within our borders and give money to distort the already distorted Income Tax Code and get away with it because money wins elections.
CBT v RBT has been fought before. That’s why there’s a replica ship in Boston Harbour to this day.
It’s interesting listening to the comparisons with the British Empire circa 1900 and the arguments the USG puts forward today. There are definite parallels. Britain was a debtor nation after WWI trying to cling on and the US is walking down the same road.
The USG knows world monetary change is coming and FATCA is one of the backstops to minimise the damage.
“Remember when your mom said,”this is going to hurt me more than it does you”. Well we in the U.S. are hurt more than you.”
This is not a one-upman-ship situation, Wilton. Too many people are being hurt by those who seek to harm those of modest means with the hammer meant for the people who do wilfully cheat on their taxes (you can find those inside YOUR borders) and my sympathy is for those outside of your borders affected by this. The government that the homelanders chose to elect was one of homelanders’ doing. The old adage being Homelanders “made their bed…now” they “get to sleep in it.”
I’m not convinced regarding FairTax either. Unless it is kept within your borders, it isn’t a FAIR tax as it will still seek to tax those who do not use the US services that are provided within those borders.
FATCA is an extraterritorial law based on the assumption that the US Government having the mistaken idea that it has the God-given right to tax anyone and everyone with even the slightest scent of US person-hood whether it be a grandmother with her life-savings or a child born in Canada to a US parent. The simple fact that the US government does not have the simple decency to let a disabled child go from it’s tax trap just so that it can get its claws into the child’s disability trust – that is the sign of a morally bankrupt government. And that’s where my hackles rise and both middle fingers are raised.
“Trudeau would ask about the location of our spine.” The Conservatives currently in power in this country certainly don’t have a spine, nor do the governments of other countries that signed onto this Orwellian monstrosity, but we, the ordinary people caught up in this are finding spines in places we didn’t know we had them! The governments are going to have to contend with us one way or the other because the situations we have all been placed in are forcing us to discover just how very courageous we are!
Another graphic challenge, The Animal.
Don says: http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/2014/07/02/a-cln-certificate-of-loss-of-nationality-alone-may-not-guarantee-your-data-wont-be-reported/comment-page-1/#comment-2149949
What does Stephen Kish, Chair of Alliance for the Defence of Canadian Sovereignty, personally want? What do we all want:
Thank you, The Animal, for the view of someone born and bred in Canada, who happens to have a *US Person* spouse and children born in Canada who may be affected. Thanks for speaking out on behalf of my family, your family and other such families.
Another view at what some Conservatives think of our families’ situations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANqVaEpRi_4
I’m not sure who wrote this article, but it’s wonderful. Congratulations and thanks or expressing what I’m sure are the feelings of so many Canadians.
@ Queenston,
“This is Not the Canada I was Born In” was written by The Animal. He also made the tombstone and the night before FATCA graphics. The Animal posted a link to his blog in a comment yesterday — http://bit.ly/TDdOB4 – well worth checking it out too!
I hope you send your passionate words to newspapers big and small, far and wide, the Animal!
Perfect. Here is KalC’s contribution to illustrate what is going on —
a harkening of the days for blatant discrimination and separate entrances in bars (Canadian Legions especially) for men and women and for white people and black African American people.
Society has tried to stamp out discrimination by sex and colour of one’s skin — and now we have the Canadian government discriminating among their people by NATIONAL ORIGIN. Quite shameful, I’d say!
(KalC said he doesn’t have photoshop so this was his amateurish attempt — I say he did a very good job and very well shows the audacity!)
I’d say KalC did a VERY GOOD job. 🙂 Puts the point across very succinctly.
Don’t forget the segregated water fountains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws#mediaviewer/File:Segregation_1938b.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws#mediaviewer/File:%22Colored%22_drinking_fountain_from_mid-20th_century_with_african-american_drinking.jpg
FATCA: Jim Crow is back!
FATCA: Plessy vs. Ferguson for ex-pats (global version)
http://www.studythepast.com/weekly/jimcrow.html
Thanks FromTheWilderness.
That’s what we are “FREEDPEOPLE” — and some in power really do see our gain as a loss to their political power to hold us — so they see us as “traitors” to the big and exceptional USA cult.