ne 3 Tas & Pie a ese Bee ie Rigen! pe astahiiniapinaiea Te a Call or ainertinreupirasesniaemeerave, RIE Meet pier LING old has its awbacks, ‘No need to go into them. rhings are depressing enough ready. As the great Irish oct W.B. Yeats put ir, “Mere i archy i is loosed upon the land.” Especially in Ireland. n Canada too, what with ippies and loonies running ¢ joint. < But if there are drawbacks being old there are also idvantages, : One is memory, which uts things in perspective. hat’s what George antayana meant when he id that those who ignore story are doomed to repeat When the last election was held, 38% of us didn’t even remember — or care — what had been going on in the lie factory known as Victoria. So. Glen Clark was re-elected. 4s nor really the item. he itenr‘is that:T have redis- covered Winston Churchill's “Gestapo” speech, which was . delivered in. 1945... It was made in ‘the run: “up he election in which the fold man. was defeated. I was lone of those who voted against him, young fool thar I mee know. The young fool: is. ‘now an old fool, bur let? S march on regardless. )- The, war, was over and | enjoying the fleshpots of. Denmark. Bur] took the time to listen to the: speech,.in’ which Churchill said that if Gestapo,” The press was enrag red. could he.say su g abour such nice people? ; didn’t take too much of it myself.Tou busy , hing and gil-chasing. Besides, speech or no speech, time for a change. Or OWE thought. _ p odlced in Sir john Colville’ es ine book fenprints n. Phe greatest Englhian ofthis time warned that “no socialist g government conduct- ig the entire life and indus- ry of the country could lord to allow free, sharp or Oviolently. worded expressions of public discontent. “They would have to fall k on some form of Gestapo, no doubt | very anely directed in the first ginstance. This would nip gopinion in the bud; it would Astop criticism as it reared its Bhead and it would gather all Power to the Supreme. Party d Party leaders, rising like _” tately pinnacles above their ast bureaucracies of civil ser- - qvants, no longer servants and te) oa civil. common people be, once this mighty organism had them i in their grip? “Tam against tyranny, in whatever liveries it marches or slogans it mouths. | stand for the sovereign freedom of the individual. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the gov- ernment of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out, neck and crop, if he thinks he can better his tem- per or his home thereby....”. Some of Churchill’s fears were not realized. We can still turn them out neck and crop if we want to. In the U.K., Canada and n applies B.C., government has expanded like a rampant weed. True to his prediction, “vast bureaucracies” of civil servants exist who are no longer civil and no Songer ser- vants. 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