Corrupted by power and control, politicians and high-ranking bureaucrats flourish under the protective eye of compliant media elites who have turned their backs on society. I am old enough to remember the days when you could walk into an elected official’s office or stride with pride through govenment agency doors and be helped without being dismissed as an inconvenient nuisance.
Today, government offices are locked and decorated with paper notices that show a consistent disregard for a citizen’s right to seek answers from those who are supposed to be serving them. It is a disgrace that free societies can be led down a path of deceptive retoric by other citizens who have been given the priviledge and honor to serve the public. That disgrace starts with the growing number of locked constituency doors in our communities.
As you can see from my earlier posts, a new and more powerful form of bureaucratic totalitarianism has taken root and rules without accountability. Government agency rules and regulations are separating and dividing society as never before.
Much of the despair arising from this near impossible fight to be heard by the average citizen should be directed toward the media elites who are intimidated by bureaucracy. Most of society today can relate to what has been my recent experience in this area. If you have read my earlier posts, you will have read a, “Bill of Intergrity,” which I present to Ottawa over two decades ago. Just recently, I attempted to present my B.C. Member of Parliament with a similarly updated bill . My M.P.s constituency door was locked, and stayed so with each return. I took my concerns to a local television news outlet, describing how the public is being shut out from interacting with elected politicians, I left an outline of the bill and the history behind it with the station, along with a copy of my book, “Poor Man’s Justice,” …The media remained silent and showed no desire to follow up.
More recently I went back to the M.P.s office with the package and found it still locked with a note on the door. After taking picture of the note, which presented my M.P.s office as being nothing more than a electronic mail box, I preceeded to copy the door note for my record along with the photo taken. As I was doing so, surprisingly, (coincidentally lol) someone appeared at the door, opened it from the inside and started cleaning the outer glass panel in front of me, blocking my view of the attached note. Slowly she started to engage in conversation, asking who I was, what I wanted…etc. When I informed her why I was there and asked why the door was locked, she said she was the office manager and that they were in the process of setting up the office. (It is now six months past the election) And then I heard what I suspected I would hear months earlier. At or around election time, a incident happened at a lower maniland office of an elected official, and without much follow up or an arrest, the dangers of having open offices became the battle cry for politicians and the media. This office manager’s response to me was, “The doors are locked because of threats of violence.” Now I am not going to say that the incident around the time of the election was staged, but what came of it is extremely self-serving for politicians and a bureaucracy who discourage a close association with the public…To ask the public to accept the dismissal of personal discourse with its elected officals due to threats of violence is a weak excuse and can be dealt with in more practical ways.
My mention of “Party Apparatus” also needs to be considered. Who are these politicians? My M.P. is hardly a local. She was a former politician from another province who was associated with a different political party. I have never met her, never been given a notice of a gathering for public questioning. Maybe she can enlighten me when we sit down and talk, but that may be difficult…The office manager informed me as she was cleaning the door that my representative is rarely in the office as she works in Ottawa!!!
As it has been only a few days for this latter chatter in front of my M.P.’s door, I will give it time. But todate, I have had no response from either the news media or my elected representative… I will keep you posted!
David Mitchell