Blogburst for freedom

I see over at Blazing Cat Fur, there's a blogburst for freedom today as Canadians go to the polls.

She posted this quote:

I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledege to uphold for myself and for all mankind.

-Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, from the House of Commons, Debates (on the Canadian Bill of Rights), July 1, 1960.

Then she added:

Our last best hope to end the tyranny of Canada's thought crime law, Section 13(1), remains with a Conservative Majority. A vote for any other party is a vote for censorship and the continued perversion of the rule of law by the unelected demagogues of our rogue Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Kathy Shaidle adds:

Note to the beligerent Muslims and other professional victim groups who are using the Human Rights Commissions to "oppose what they believe is wrong":

The operative word in that composition is "free". You are NOT FREE if you are using agents of the state, and other people's extorted tax dollars, to fight your foolish battles.

I invite other Canadian bloggers to repeat Diefenbaker's words on their sites in an attempt to re-popularize them.

Can you imagine a Canada in which school kids recited this each day like the Pledge? Naw, me neither. But it's fun to think about.

I agree that our best hope is a Conservative majority, as long as that majority represents a strong coalition of Burkean conservatives, libertarians and social conservatives. The oxymoronish old Progressive Conservative types--forget it.

Over the weekend, I was sorry to read that Liberal MP Keith Martin faces a tough battle to retain his seat in British Columbia. He has been the freespeechers' hero of the hour.

There are also a number of pro-life Liberals who, especially if they are running against pro-abortion Conservatives, that should get re-elected. These Liberals have defied their party time after time on crucial issues.

As disappointed as I am with the way the Conservative government has distanced itself from social conservative principles, I remember how much worse it was under the Liberals.

Spare us, Good Lord.