by Kevin Annett, National Council of the Republic of Kanata
When you mark a ballot, it’s like you’re signing a blank check over to a stranger. Some folks call that voting. I call it being plain dumb. – Will Rogers, 1936
The voters of this land appear to have a choice between Tweedledum Tories and Tweedledee Reformers. But in truth, regardless of the outcome, all the electors will simply be ratifying the rule of a foreign king over them. Until responsible government replaces this tyrannical charade and the people come of age and learn to govern themselves, the Canadas will remain but a pallid colony of other nations. – William Lyon Mackenzie, The Advocate, Toronto, March 5, 1837
Canadians never cause much of a stir at election time. I like to think that’s because they know the game is rigged, and they don’t bother to place much of a bet on it. But hard experience says, au contraire: Canucks are raised to be placid and orderly. After all, who wouldn’t be, when they’re taught from day one that they aren’t citizens, but “subjects” of a make-believe potentate called “the Crown”?
When I was eight years old, I was strapped ten times with a leather belt by our school headmaster when I laughed during the singing of “God Save the Queen”. “Long to reign over us …” seemed to me to be a stupid idea, but the strap said otherwise. Canadians learn early on not to mock rule by decree.
All that came to mind the other day when Prime Minister Mark Carney asked his Boss, the Governor-General, to dissolve Parliament and call a national election.
Well, back up the bus, hosers! Why does one guy, or in this case one woman, get to shut down all those Members of Parliament? Because the whole lot of them, from the GG on down, take their oath of allegiance not to a Constitution, or to the law, or (God forbid!) to the people, but to an inbred Clown with a Crown named Charlie Windsor. Every politician, cop, and judge in Canaduh is answerable to him and him alone.
Now, would you vote for such an absurd, unaccountable arrangement?
The situation is a lot like my old high school student council in Vancouver. Sure, we kids got to elect “representatives” to sit on the council. But that body was supervised and run by our school’s Vice Principal, an old fart who could nullify any decision we made if he didn’t like it. So when, in my fourteen-year-old naivete, I questioned the setup and suggested that the Vice-Principal step down, he threw me off the student council and into detention quicker than you can say “Off with his head!”
So much for puppet governments. Well, apparently not for Canadians, who dutifully flock to the polling booths every few years to elect first “Tories”, then “Liberals”, then “Tories” again: like a dog habitually licking the hand of a kingly “master”.
And yet, as absurd as it is, this Canadian compulsion to transfer power from the many to the one is actually in harmony with the way things are these days, in our post-democracy era of a global corporate oligarchy.
In fact, Canada now stands at the heart of a huge power struggle between the different factions of that Corporatocracy in Russia, China, and America. All three of them, but especially China and its Vatican Bank underwriters, desperately need Canada’s oil and gas, uranium, wheat, water, and vast acreage. And with Chairman Trump’s manic pledge to annex Canada and create a new Yankee Imperium, the stakes in the world’s oldest game have suddenly been raised through the roof.
In this light, and with Canada’s federal election just a month away, every political candidate in sight is waving the Maple Leaf and bombastically declaring their intention to defend Canadian “sovereignty”.
Excuse me? What Canadian sovereignty? I can hear Charlie Windsor laughing up his sleeve over that remark. As one of the most foreign-owned economies in the world, Canada has always been a resource pipeline for some Empire and the hand puppet of its ruler.
Still, talking sovereignty these days is hitting a chord, even for Canadians, who have never known self-governance but who blithely like the sound of it. And like street wise hookers, politicians know how to appeal to what their clients want, especially when it’s a fantasy.
But at the end of the day, the idea of people ruling themselves rather than voting for their masters is something that no corporate oligarch or puppet politician can tolerate; especially in Canada and Beijing.
So, what are Canadians to do on April 28? Certainly not vote. Instead, they can get out of the slave system altogether by declaring their sovereignty; not as a solitary individual but as a citizen of the sovereign Republic of Kanata.
Slowly but steadily, the Republic has been sinking its roots across the nation since early in 2015. We’ve done so by building local Republic Assemblies where the people pass their own laws and enforce them through their common law courts and sheriffs. We’re now even recruiting into our ranks police, soldiers, and even politicians who have all disavowed their oath of allegiance to the British monarchy.
After all, nearly 60% of Canadians want such independence. We have a majority mandate for a Republic.
Building those republican assemblies has been a lot of my work for the past decade. Our Assemblies have nullified COVID orders, withheld and used federal tax money, reclaimed the properties of genocidal churches, seized land, and launched local food cooperatives, schools and medical clinics off the radar. We’ve also signed mutual recognition and defense treaties with four traditional indigenous nations across Kanata.
In other words, we are building a new society within the shell of the old.
Throughout all this work, I’ve seen up close how Canadians can shed their fear and learned dependence when given a working alternative. And that lesson and our example is spreading now to other countries, as we unite sovereign communities on four continents in our global Republic Alliance movement.
That Alliance is We the Peoples’ alternative to the Corporatocracy.
Building that alternative is a matter of life and death, especially in Canada, which stands on the front line of the war between corporate oligarchs. It will be in Canada where a shooting match between an expansionist America and China will most likely erupt. We must prepare now to defend ourselves and the sovereignty we have established.
And so, one week after the Canadian election, our Republic will be relaunching its public voice, Radio Free Kanata, on Sunday May 4 at 12 noon eastern time. This show will be a source of news and analysis for freedom lovers everywhere, but it will also act as a practical school for teaching and training the next generation of sovereign citizens. Tune in on that day and time, and on the 1st and 3rd Sundays every month, at www.bbsradio.com/radiofreekanata.
We’ve also just issued this important handbook on personal, political, and spiritual sovereignty: “Governing Ourselves”. Along with our books The Case for Kanata and the Common Law Training Manual, Governing Ourselves is an indispensable weapon to help us move from talk to action. (Governing Ourselves: A Handbook on Personal, Political, and Spiritual Sovereignty: Annett, Kevin, Holland, Suzanne, House, Tom, Redvers, Carl: 9798313137469: Amazon.com: Books)
As Napoleon said, “In every war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it”. We are at such a moment in history. To seize it, we must begin to think operationally and not theoretically, by ignoring the old system and building the new Republic.
We have set the example for ten years; now, the rest of you must do more than “dabble and babble”. You must commit yourselves to building a new world where you live and work, alongside fellow sovereign citizens of the Republic of Kanata and our allies abroad.
You can begin by taking out citizenship and signing a Charter with a dozen other people to form a law-making Republic Assembly in your community. You can learn how by seeing www.republicofkanata.org and by writing to our National Council office at republicnationalcouncil@protonmail.com .
As we write in our latest manual, Governing Ourselves,
“Freedom and virtue are the natural birthright of every man and woman, so we always have it within our power to begin the world again. We must do so relentlessly, through our right action and constant devotion, if our children are to have a future of liberty and happiness rather than one of slavery and death. The choice is yours.”
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Republic citizens raise the flag and reclaim ‘crown’ land in Vancouver, May 2021
Please distribute the attached election flyer to your family, neighbors and contacts.