Kommt Nach Kanada

Politics, Conservative, jails instead of full employment, income

To
The Honourable John Duncan, MP
Dear John,         

                I
feel
duty-bound to write this letter.
Please be assured, that as a person I like you
and accept
you, but you are part of a government that gives me great concern.

                Please
explain
to us, your constituents, who owns our oil resources! Who is to benefit from the
huge wealth to be
created from mining the dirty Alberta oil sands – come hell or
high water, and
to hell with the next generations!
                Please
explain
to me what your, our PM, means when he talks of the “strong
mandate” he
has, 39.6% of the popular vote – as we all know. (60.4% did not
vote for him!)
                When
there
are matters of global concern involved, would this not be a matter
of
consulting the nation, and not one man, or a group of politicians
making
short-sighted decisions?
                Read
Isaiah’s
2/4, “turning swords into plowshares” – so why are we still
spending
billions on producing weapons, instead of making certain each of
our fellow
citizens in the north has a decent little home and sufficient
monthly income to
feed a family decently!
                The
way
we are going, industrializing the world in a hurry,
American-style, I recommend
(since this is such a religious country: but read the book,
“Disabled church;
disabled society”) to read Jeremiah’s lamentations, to remind us
what may be in
store for our future generations.
                Building
more
jails is not an answer; a guaranteed income for all, and producing
essential goods and services is the answer.
                I
suggest to you, honourable Member of Parliament, you switch
parties, to the
Liberals or the NDP, or the next election will be lost for you. No
PM can
ignore the global warming problem and get away with it. Canadians may be a slow
people to react, but
even for them (us) “enough will be enough”.
(Any member of the Liberal Party and the NDP
party who does
not realize that the most urgent action is to unite the two
parties to defeat
the Conservatives – and they better not fool themselves that any
of them can
win. This “first past the
post” system …
we should all hang our heads in shame!
When I arrived in Canada in 1951 the Canadian
dollar was
worth five German marks. Then the country was mis-managed until we
were at par
with the German mark, in spite of our huge resources. When will a
nation and
the politicians who lead this nation wake up that something is
deadly wrong
with us remaining “sawyers of wood and drawers of water”, selling
our oil to
other countries and buying their industrial goods, keeping us
un-employed, and
even the Americans devastated their economy by allowing
globalization to ravage
their cities – all, I suspect, so others look the other way, while
they spent
one half trillion per year on weapons and armies, and the Russians
and Chinese
each spent 18 billion per year. In socialist countries higher
education and
training are free. In Canada students end up with heavy student
loans because
the resources are owned by rich share holders. Wake up, Canadians!
Submitted, Wilhelm Waldstein

Treaty Rights for First Natins

Wilhelm
(Bill)
Waldstein, B.Ed. (History Teacher – when I am not a logger.)
Cell
250-230-1376 home
949-9047
To

Kwakiutl
Nation

Honoured
Chief
and Council,
            I apologize that I
do not know you
by name, your First Nations names my preferred way of looking at
things. You
are a very distinctive people; I hope you preserve old values,
extremely
difficult as this may be.
            I include two
pictures of my native
friends who helped me yesterday morning to move my boat and I
rewarded each of
them—Manna from Heaven for them, who have nothing to do all day.
(They are
supposed to be hunters, fishermen, and gatherers and proud
warriors – instead,
look what this society, this colonial system, has turned them
into; add alcohol
and dope pushers, and what do you get!
            I am a
German/Canadian with a
difference. I see the injustice!
Please,
do
not let me down, but say yes to my request. 
I need to earn some money and make it possible for these
men (some women
of course) to look forward to something. 
Many of them of course are beyond putting in a full day,
and you know
why. (A person after a while of abuse and idleness loses a
capacity to be a
full person. 
            If you do not
assert yourself with
your Treaty Rights
now, wait when
the Asian billions put on the pressure! Go to Richmond, and you
think you are
in Hong Kong. The money
that is there –
the billions the governments must be putting in, into the
infrastructures, to
make Richmond (China) and Surrey (from India) possible, and look
at the Native “reservation”
– to me, brought up in Germany, it is the height of insult. Think only of these mighty
1000 year old
trees harvested under your nose, or the metal ores taken out of
your sacred
lands, and here you are in poverty, the ones up North anyway. (I
do not know
what your local situation is: you have certainly made
considerable progress,
with aggregate quarries, mining, logging, etc.)
            If I am
financially successful and
make the money, I would like to sponsor two of you to visit my
area in Germany,
let’s say, an area from Woss to Holberg, 7000 square km, housing
1,000,000
people, (called “Oberfranken”/Upper Franconia) and you would
hardly know it. My
area itself, the Fichtelgebirge (spruce mountains), is very
sparsely populated,
as it is the highest in elevation and mostly forested, with a
very thriving
forest industry. The cemeteries were/are the basis for a
thriving granite
industry and many made their living out of that. (They did not
spend some
excess money to waltz off to Hawaii and leave the money there –
we have turned
all into imbeciles!)
            Don’t get me
wrong: I am grateful my
children have and are part of this great country, but unless the
politics
changes, this politics would drive me crazy, the way this
country is exploited
by the rich corporations and the rich sitting in their villas,
while the native
young people live in desperation. (Where are our Freedom
Fighters?! If anyone
has time, visit my meetings, every Thursday, 7 p.m. in the pub
of the Port
Hardy Inn, free coffee, curtesy of my company, Coastal Forests
SFM Ltd. (Sustainable
Forest Management – after the Bavarian concept where I was
trained, 1945 to
1949 and worked until 1951 to go to Canada for “one year!”)
In
anticipation
that I get a positive answer from you – so I can help my friends
here also down-town (in some cities they even allow alcoholics a
certain amount
of alcohol, so they do not have to steal or get into trouble; or
allow dope
addicted people their allowance of legal dope), I wish to thank
you. And if
ever there is anything I can do for you or be a good-will
ambassador to Germany
for you (e.g. an artist may wish to market his creations in
Germany, where they
have great respect for North American indigenous people), I
would certainly do
what is in my power to be of help.
Respectfully,
Wilhelm
(Bill) Waldstein

Re: A first class daughter, misunderstanding

Thank you, Professor Brockhaus for whetting my appetite, bon
appetit, Guten Appetit!

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Subject:
Re: A first class daughter, misunderstanding


Date:
Sun, 4 Mar 2012 19:33:10 -0800


From:
Henrich Brockhaus <Henrich.Brockhaus@wwu.edu>


To:
W. Waldstein <heimat@island.net>





Da schicke ich dir wenigstens ein paar Bilder von Schweinshaxen ,
damit dir das Wasser im Munde zusammenläuft. Henrich







Gebratene Schweinshaxe







































Diese müssen noch werden!











On Mar 1, 2012, at 4:27, W. Waldstein wrote:



My first-clas daughter outdid herself yesterday: made a
first-class meal but not this landloppers father's kind of
stuff -- he had never even seen shrimps, let alone eat the
stuff ... does she not know i am jewish and do not eat
stuff like that ... but her intentions were first-class
and how could i be critical of it ... nevertheless, i
could not hide my feelings, since Schweinshacksen (I am
not always jewish!) and Sauerkraut and Kloess would have
been more like cheering me up on a day when i could not
reach my logs, the roads being iced up and then, writing
the toughest letter ever, requesting a favour from the
Indians when they live in abject poverty and may
misunderstand what I am trying to do and they may never
get around doing it ... thanks, Ellen! Vater, ww

Thursday eve meetings, politics, economic activities, etc.

production@northislandgazette.com
Attn.
Marlene
 
Advertising (Curtesy: Coastal
Forests SFM Ltd.)
My
Picture for
Attn./Recognition
 
“A country of drawers of water and sewers of
wood”! (Selling
raw logs/Russia imposes exp. tax)
This must change, if we are not to end up just
suppliers of oil,
minerals, round logs for the world.
Canada needs a Shadow
Government, transcending self-seeking interests of the
various parties.
(I am very impressed by the power of the German
media, which
forced out a president accused of dubious personal self-seeking
habits. – Unless
the press is free to publish, and “we are only the good guys and
the others are
always the bad guys”, there will be no progress in the world.
(Let me talk to you about a Lower Tier Full-Employment System, side by side with
existing
economic system. Please
meet me and
Rainer, every Thursday at the Port Hardy Inn, in the Pub, seven
p.m. Free
coffee Thursday and a $100 draw every second and fourth week;
curtesy, Coastal Forests
SFM Ltd.)
Wilhelm Waldstein. B.Ed. (Retired History
Teacher/and “Waldfacharbeiter”,
forest worker
specialist, trained in German Bavarian Gov. Forests, 1945 to 1949;
worked in
forests till 1951 to leave for Canada for one year, now 61 years.
I am looking for a young intelligent and
ambitious person,
unselfish and inspired by great minds, able to cut down a tree in
the forest
and/or able to complete a university degree. The best and most
unselfish must
guide and lead society. “Love
thy
neighbour as thyself” and “Know the truth and the truth shall make
you
free.” “Isaiah 2/4, swords into plowshares, the motto of
UN. Production of
weapons is a criminal enterprise/no one can benefit by it. (Weapons
kill,
destroy, cause poverty.) Read,
House of War/The
Pentagon/The Disastrous
Rise of American Power by James Carroll.

Empire of Illusions and my comment

Will, all I got
out
of it was a short description of a few paragraph what the Ideas
Series, “
Empire of Illusion” was about. And a few comments:

To criticize Ralston and a few of his type and to make it sound as
if we should
not criticize the top people seems a contradiction, but, as I say,
I could only
get a few paragraphs.

To me, this is nothing new that we live in illusions.

economics as if people matter
more than enough is evil
the production of essential goods and services (would a farmer
waste his time
on silly movies, etc.)
more than enough is evil (it produces silly stuff and services, no
one needs,
nor should have and helps to destroy the planet in a hurry)
these statements are the gist of Dr. E. Fritz Schumacher's books,
Small is Beautiful and Good
Work, and Guide
for the Perplexed. Now it seems to me there is nothing more
important for
our age than these statements and to act upon it.
The other one we need to add here of course are Dr. Erich Fromm's theses re money: overcoming the
tyranny of money.

Then there is Galbraith: the
good
society. "if the poor only voted and knew how to vote, they
would not be poor"

between the three of them, we should be able to build a new
society.
Submitted, Wilhelm Waldstein, History
Teacher, when I am not a logger/logger
contractor (I have read all the books that matter)

A first class daughter, misunderstanding

My first-clas daughter outdid herself yesterday: made a first-class meal but not this landloppers father's kind of stuff -- he had never even seen shrimps, let alone eat the stuff ... does she not know i am jewish and do not eat stuff like that ... but her intentions were first-class and how could i be critical of it ... nevertheless, i could not hide my feelings, since Schweinshacksen (I am not always jewish!) and Sauerkraut and Kloess would have been more like cheering me up on a day when i could not reach my logs, the roads being iced up and then, writing the toughest letter ever, requesting a favour from the Indians when they live in abject poverty and may misunderstand what I am trying to do and they may never get around doing it ... thanks, Ellen! Vater, ww