The Call of Mr. Beckon

The Call Of Mr. Beckon



Written by Grant G


Curiosity and my friend the cat are inseparable, like sugar and spice n everything nice, like choosing friends and accepting family, bitter pills swallowed hard because behind the curtain are not pockets aces, only rags of reality...

One reader named Elwood in comment form expressed passionate dismay Mulcair hasn`t come out against Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal only Enbridge`s northern gateway pipeline and I did ponder answering his comment with soothing assurances, only I had no words at the ready, or at least no words that would be both calming and truthful.

Stockings are hung over the fireplace a crowbar in one, hammer in another while the third contains condoms and a half-burnt bible, oh to pry open the vault and smash the contents, to stuff a turkey while protecting oneself from infectious scripture.

Ground zero battle is Enbridge`s northern gateway, we will win by stopping that project in its track cold, for without that victory we lose them all, we`ll stop the hideous Taseko prosperity open pit travesty too, battles won in a war ongoing, "We will never surrender, whatever the cost may be" was uttered at a time when the demise of Britain reflected into the eyes of humanity, history remembers moments but forgets the passage of time, there was no talk at the time of driving tyranny from the streets of Berlin only faint hope of surviving and saving the motherland..

The people have been scared into accepting the unacceptable, 2001 terrorist attacks on World Trade Towers frightened the masses and allowed Governments to steal the locks to your home, data mine us, mails read and physical movements followed, they know of your wife cheating, know of hidden alcohol abuse, Governments knows of your children`s drug addiction, the powers that be are aware of everything wrong in your life yet the masses continue to answer how are you questions with standard fare responses of just fine, couldn`t be better....

I heard a year-end interview on Sunday past featuring Sean Leslie asking Christy Clark a few tepid questions, no followups and any pretense of critical exchange quickly turned to promotional fluff, jobs are coming, statistics fluctuate and LNG plants will save the day, even Christy Clark couldn`t muster on the near eve of Christmas a few honest words, her life reduced to blathering hollow talking points, a robotic marionette with threadbare frayed strings showing..no need to be critical of our media`s performance in year-end interviews of our premier, you can`t beat honesty out of a bait n switch advertisement, media`s failure started a decade ago in British Columbia, excellence of journalism awards are now granted to the best press release readers, they not know where the road to investigative reporting begins, circling shopping mall lots and parking in handicapped spots, no walking any distance for our lame media.

We will stand united guarding our northern front, an unbreakable wall of opposition to Enbridge, and yes, as we protect the front line our left and right flanks will succumb, Kinder Morgan was always going to be difficult to stop, established rightaways, infrastructure in place, Enbridge we stop, and we have time on our side with Kinder \morgan, time for turning algae fields into vast crude oil producing farms, time to turn the moon into an electrical energy producing behemoth, time to learn from past mistakes..

The powers that be put fear into the people`s minds, 2009 Wallstreet theft that stole all the money, bored bankers playing games of chance with $trillion dollar playing pieces, these hellbankers threatened to expose the Government books and reveal the true extent of the crimes blackmailed silence from all, not only were they left unpunished but rewards of bailouts and free money to lend, media too cooperated by changing the historical accounts of this time, now regarded as a "recession" ...

The winners write the headlines, headlines scared the public into accepting unabated looting of resources and deliberate degrading of a finite environment...

Christmas spirit and good cheer, being blessed by a new progressive Pope or being touched by an eagle`s feather, both symbolic and spiritual, homes adorned with 14 million LED lights or the flickering of a lone candle placed on a paint-chipped window sill, it`s merely a difference of scale....

 I have no words to soothe what burns within Elwood, or any of you, we shall carry on, we will battle the front lines and lose some flank incursions...I never expected to win all the battles, only the big ones, as for politics, the winning, the words played, one needs first to gain power, then make positive change, Mulcair can`t run on opposing everything, the people, your friends and neighbours have been scared into acceptance, the economy, oil-based economic growth or doom and despair will descend like locusts, a with us or with the enemy stageplay is being played out, fear and loathing, divide, lie, cheat to win...

We can win this battle with information, with words, with truth and compassion, there is no more silence in the world, even while sleeping Mr. Beckon calls.

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P.S.....A merry Christmas to all, to Kootcoot with his cut to the bone sharp tongued comments, to professor Robin Mathews for his much desired contributions, to Jean, to Kim, to my interior fighting friend and diva Leah, to Istvan who still reads but no longer comments, to all you passionate blogging writers too numerous to mention by name, and of course to the many thousands who visit daily I wish you all a Merry Christmas...And yes, Merry Christmas to Keith Baldrey, Bill Good and Jessica, to Vaughn Palmer and all the other media, and even a Merry Christmas to Alex Tsakumis., our swords will continue to clash with all of them..And lastly a very Merry Christmas to my Mom and all mothers out there...

Thanks for being a calming influence in our lives..

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open