Porche Or Pony Essay

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Will that be a Porsche or a Pony?

by Scott Carpenter

Perhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age but it seems to me that the primary difference between most political ideologies, primarily conservatism and liberalism, is rate of speed. Indeed, the only difference may be that one moves faster than the other towards the demise of our existence as a free people. The platforms put forth by either side reflect less and less a concrete difference in principle and more and more a differing in opinion regarding just how quickly the chains of slavery should be fastened.

Canada is an excellent example of this phenomena as politics can best be summed up in one way: The liberals believe that the road to hell is best traveled in a Porsche at top speed; the conservatives prefer to get there in a pony. The problem is they are both on the same damn road.

Consider a recent town forum in a remote community in Northern British Columbia where the provincial justice critic comes to listen to the resident's fears regarding Canada's new gun control legislation. "This legislation is a waste of taxpayers money!" states Geoff Plant (provincial justice critic and Liberal MLA). He continues: "Now I agree that we need some kind of gun control but this legislation goes too far and it's just too damn expensive."

Sounds agreeable doesn't it? It's true that this legislation is too expensive to enforce and it is also true that it is intrusive and immoral but if we role back the clock a bit we'll find something very interesting: This argument is similar to the one that opponents of private firearms ownership used thirty years ago. Back then we all knew that gun control laws were asinine. They do nothing except infringe on property rights, limit our ability to defend ourselves and punish the good guys. The argument used against gun owners was simple: "We need something to curb the crime rate... anything... something simple and cost effective. The least you uncaring callous bastards can do is give us that!" Isn't it strange that we are now arguing the position our opponents took all those years ago? Does anyone not see a problem with this?

The sticker, as one individual pointed out to our friendly justice critic, is that all political parties have essentially divorced basic principles from the political process. All political agendas now lead to the same place: moral nihilism.

When cornered on the issue our justice critic was evasive: "You have to be careful when you mix principle with politics...." he lectures, "What if someone doesn't agree with your principles? How do you use the tax payers money for one thing when you have another group of people who want it used for another?" A very deep and troubling question indeed. For a man with an ivy league education and experience as a constitutional lawyer you'd think he'd have seen the obvious problem with it. You see, he should have asked: "Why is tax payer money being used to fulfill anyone's political agenda?" Wouldn't it make more sense to leave...

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