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TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS
A commentary on poetic justice
By Victor Drummond ©
May 2008


After observing this world -- for more decades than I care to mention – one theme prevails above all others. That being what goes around comes around.

History – as far back as records can be found -- is mainly composed of records describing the rise and fall of individuals, societies and empires.

Novels – both factual and fictional – mostly relate how evil doers eventually are vanquished and the do gooders eventually emerge victorious.

Of course this pattern of events need not be by divine decree. After all when people continue to perform acts -- that are damaging to others -- there will eventually be a backlash powerful enough to dethrone -- or even destroy -- the bad guy(s). That is plain human nature at work.

Doing evil -- part of the time -- and good deeds -- part of the time -- merely delays the inevitable. Those that benefit – by evil acts -- will support their benefactors while those that are harmed by those same acts will work against the perpetrator(s). Eventually the part time good guys are vanquished – before their time.

What about -- would-be -- good guys who standby and do nothing while watching innocent hard-working, honest people being abused? What does time do for these useless individuals?

First you can expect the abusers to be removed. Then those -- pseudo good-guys -- who have done nothing to help those victimized might be elevated to the level of the original abusers – especially if the do-nothing crowd -- speak out against the abuse and commit to correcting the damage done.

If the standby good guys are given an opportunity to end the abuse, and compensate those previously victimized – they stand a good chance of holding on to majority support and keeping control of the main issues.

On the other hand if the elevated standby good guys fail to end the abuse – while they have the power to do so -- and merely go through useless gestures pretending they are fulfilling their commitments to correct the problem – then time will catch up with them – and they will return to being the useless stand-by good-guys they have always been. Or worse.

They may delay their downfall, for a while, by doing other good-guy activities part of the time -- but as stated above -- if you do evil things part of the time – and good things part of the time -- payment for the evil doings will still come due eventually.

A prime example of would-be good-guys deposing the evil doers is the election of the Stephen Harper Conservatives in 2006. A main plank -- in their pre-election platform – was the promise of improving the taxation playing field.

This commitment may well have swung enough voters -- victimized by the insidious taxable benefits legislation – from the Liberal Party to the Conservative Party giving the conservatives at least a minority government opportunity.

But an unfunny thing happened on the way to levelling the taxation playing field.

The unfair, unjustified and punitive impact of the flawed taxable benefit was only recognized as being unfair to a mere 30 or so former SDL Optics/JDSU employees in the Saanich Gulf-Islands area of British Columbia.

Out of the tens of thousands of Canadian taxpayers -- also victimized by this same defective legislation – the government only partially and selectively kept their promise to these few hard-working, honest Canadians.

This blatant favouritism is an act that mixes a miniscule good deed with a monstrous example of unequal treatment which is more evil than good. The good/bad pendulum definitely swings to the evil side of the scale for this action.

Of course it would be ludicrous to imply that had the Conservative Government actually fulfilled their offer to level the tax field for all honest, hard-working Canadians bad things -- like the Belinda Stronich affair, and/or the Brian Mulroney/Carl Hans Schreiber incident and/or the Maxime Bernier fiasco – might never have happened.

Then again – who knows what would have happened if the Harper Government had lived up to their promises of Fair Taxation.

Two things -- that would have happened -- for certain being:-

(1) This government’s reputation for keeping its word would be much cleaner.

and

(2) Thousands of honest hard-working Canadians would have their earned rewards restored,
their unjustified tax debt cancelled, their retirement savings back in place, their
peace-of-mind regained and have equal treatment under the law.
These items are their rightful property.

If you also just stand-by and leave the improvement of our government up to someone else then there is no doubt you will also eventually receive the justice you deserve.

Stand up for your right to Fair and Equal taxation, by contacting your Member of Parliament and telling them straight out:- “Change the flawed taxable benefit legislation and restore the tax money extracted for “Income” that never existed – to its rightful owners or look for more bad news at the next federal election.”

Canadians for Fair and Equitable Taxation, (CFET) has made it easy to E-mail your Prime Minister and Member of Parliament. Visit web page:- http://www.cfet.ca for more information and links to government ministers.

Victor Drummond ©