Paul Martin on Trick or Treat
November 3, 2004 · By Hugo Chesshire
The Globe and Mail has run a charming story on how Paul Martin and his wife were at their door to greet trick-or-treaters and hand out candy on Halloween. Sounds great.
The scenario should be familiar to Martin. As Dale Steinreich wrote, government is basically like a trick-or-treating kid writ large and powerful. They knock on your door and demand some of your property, threatening to perform an unspecified and ominous “trick” upon you if you don’t fork it over, like jail time, perhaps.
“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman
why dont we change the way politicians are dealt with for wrong doings. if thay break the law thay should go to jail, and never be able to work in any form of government for as long as thay live, because it would be the higest form of treasen, to think that if i hire a man to do a job and behind my back he is steeling from me, he would be fired wouldent he??? THIS COUNTRY IS FALLING APART AND CANADAINS SHOULD BE INFORMED. we dont know who to vote for anymore we are confused about who to trust, alot of resurch would have to be done in order to aquaretly know WHAT a politician stands for and canadains are to lazzy to do that resurch, so on election day thay vote for all the wrong reasons, maybe the guy runing has a nice smile or so on, our present way of electing someone to plarlement has so many flaws it coulent possably produce anybody of intregraty. what will become of canada?. thanks, please parden my spelling, kevin.