French revolution, American independence, end of apartheid in South Africa, segregation in the southern U.S., possibly 1,000 dead during the Jallianwala Bagh massacre when India was under British Rule (British claim 379). All these plus many, many, many more are disgusting blights found on too many governments and too many charismatic leaders throughout history. Every one of these abusive situations ended only after mob rule convinced the ones in power that they were being just that: totally abusive.
A professor of political science asked me, "Don't you think the elite should run the world?"
My answer to her and my answer to all in positions of authority is yes, but to that statement I must add; "The elite can not be allowed to run the world without safety valves in place. Safety valves which enable the average citizen to intervene and expose the elites' improper leadership behaviour, before those behaviours become answerable only to mob rule."
I am against vigilante or mob justice, but I am equally against the system used in Canada, which has made the servant the master and the master the servant. This change in government/people status is only one situation which is bringing forth the danger of mob rule.
Mob rule rears its ugly head only when frustration levels are reached on too many playing fields.
Many in Canada are frustrated and that frustration is making Canadians behave like the Chinese students - who in 1989 stood on Tiananmen Square to protest their government's actions - or the one million Brazilians shouting anti-government slogans on their streets today and the silent protesters in Syria that hope to stop the elite fighting forces from using rape as a weapon of war.
Too many frustrations: too little resolve: history's replay button appears stuck.
Elite editors, don't write your editorials with your eyes, ears and mind closed. And you are asleep if you think because Canada is a democracy and known throughout the world as a nation of peacekeepers, that frustration is not alive and unhealthy here. Even a mouse will fight a tiger when it sees no other option to save its life.
Safety valves are simple to install. Just adopt the value vote ballot and its method of voting. It is much wiser to have a continuous peaceful revolution than to act surprised when the sleeping bear you have been poking attacks.
Bill Barnes
Prince George
