by MICHAEL MORIARTY
Friday, June 23, 2000
The belief that the United States has been, and always will be the guiding light of freedom and democracy is a view now held mainly by the United States itself.
As a fairly successful American living in Canada, I think the United States is headed for a great fall, and Canada's next prime minister had better be prepared for the aftershocks.
In my opinion Stockwell Day should be that prime minister.
No other conservative leader in Canada today knows that socialism is not a governing alternative but a religion.
And the myth that only the United States has been able to resist socialism will soon end. The bull market, bred and sustained by Bill Clinton and his links to communist China, will be slaughtered during the George Bush Jr. administration. Mr. Bush, the Republican Party and Wall Street won't know what hit them.
According to the socialist plan, all other conservative leaders, such as prime minister Day, will be swept out of office in the wake of a Bush humiliation.
With members in high journalistic places, the socialists have easily and increasingly painted anyone involved with either new conservative parties, such as Reform, or with any new Christian sect, as radicals, racists, sexists and/or anarchists.
Any fresh, conservative thought, or even the simple mention of Jesus Christ, and the propaganda machine is unleashed.
It took no more than two weeks for the American press to paint Ross Perot as unstable. The Canadian press took about as long to denounce Preston Manning's Reform Party as racist and intolerant.
Now the same press is slowly and subtly hanging a heavy cross about Mr. Day's neck. He is painted as suspect by virtue of simply having been a devout Christian.
The ruling conservative secularists have backed Tom Long for the Alliance leadership. But Mr. Long has no religious credentials; he is an utterly pragmatic capitalist who will serve the new coalition between socialists and capitalists and assume that the power sharing in the New World Order will continue as expected.
Mr. Day, on the other hand, has already shown a vision that is profoundly long-term. He knows that bringing the nation's tax money closer to taxpayers' homes will encourage them to vote for whichever party will confiscate less of their hard-earned income and leave more of it in their own bank accounts.
His plan to increase the Canadian defence budget by 20 per cent is a necessary signal of Canada's renewed willingness to protect itself. The perception that Canada has become a haven for terrorists is entirely the result of the immigration and secret-service policies of the current Liberal government in power.
Mr. Day must address the loose monitoring policies of Canadian immigration and put a stop to terrorist groups' ability to use Canada as a halfway house. If he doesn't, Canada will have UN inspectors and U.S. customs agents controlling its borders.
Canada is one of the socialist world's proudest achievements. But with growing unrest in Canada over high taxes, Canada is moving to the right and the socialists are very, very concerned.
The United Nations' recent bad reviews for Canada's treatment of the poor and homeless were part of an effort to encourage Canada to raise its taxes even more. Canadians are being scared by the UN and by their own government into thinking that lower taxes will lead to the utter destruction of the social safety net.
I have no doubt that if Stockwell Day simply opens the minds of Canadians to what is really going on around them, they will back him.
Michael Moriarty, who starred as Ben Stone in Law & Order, is a player and playwright, now living in Vancouver.