New Heights

Every human being has the right to be free. Liberty is the right of every human being. No one can give you what is already yours. If people are hindering your freedom, than they are doing what is unnatural. It is not that people do not voluntarily give themselves, if anything that is the ultimate sacrifice when one does give up his freedom: In doing so they gain a new freedom.

If freedom cannot be taken, you cannot lose it to another. Just as man cannot take another mans freedom so likewise he cannot give you freedom. Freedom does not lie in man's ability. Associating oneself with another's freedom is the ultimate arrogance. If anything, it is the domination that you are incurring that needs to change. If we feel we are in a process of administrating freedom, we are in fact in a process of domination.

Native people are in that very circumstance, they are dominated and oppressed, and they have limited freedom. Only by another administrating freedom, can we gain greater independence. But yet natural law says otherwise, in that we should never be in a circumstance where we are without freedom.

Today the constant discontent is falling on hardened ground, on deaf ears. The dominators do not care to hear such a cry. Even if justice is still needed, it will not be heeded. If anything the discontent is becoming stale. The older generations and much of the middle aged are hard pressed to see things differently. Natives have been dominated since the inception of this country. Why change the status quo, today we are getting bitter and contentious verbiage, it seems that the plight of the native people is not altering opinion rather it is hardening hearts. What we need is a new wine skin, for a new way, maybe it will be the new generation who will not just blindly follow convention, maybe it will be them who move and shake mountains. Leaders have to come from the middle aged, and guide justice through the fevered youth. Canada is a great country, and great things are possible. Rather than see new possibilities we are grounded by indifference, justice must rise to meet the new heights that are possible. Can Canada be greater, truly, it will only come by those who are willing to soar.