Duty to the State
April 19, 2025
Someone I know got a “Mandatory Jury Eligibility Form” in the mail the other day. With all the problems with mail delivery in these parts, the fact that it ended up at the correct address is in itself a noteworthy development. But I digress. It wasn’t a summons, rather a questionnaire to determine if the lucky recipient is eligible for jury duty. That along with a sales pitch to get that person to go along with the process. Juries play an important role in our justice system, they say. They help ensure the fairness of our courts because they are made up of randomly selected individuals. Your submission of the Mandatory Jury Eligibility Form is vital to ensure all communities are included in the the justice system. No mention is made, of course, of the politically compromised judges who destroy that fairness and make a mockery of our legal system.
The letter, signed by the Attorney General, ended with the line, “I thank you for fulfilling your duty as a Canadian citizen and resident of Ontario.”
I nearly burst out laughing.
They’ve got it wrong.
We do not owe a duty to the state. The state owes a duty to us.
They owe us a duty of spending the tax dollars they compel us to pay responsibly. They owe us a duty not to abuse the extraordinary powers they possess, as they did during the war. They owe us a duty to treat us with respect. It wasn’t that long ago that the same government that wants us to rally around the flag and do our patriotic duty demonized us and openly incited hatred against us. Denied us the most basic human rights, including the right to peaceful assembly, to travel and to earn a living. Actively tried to kill us by strongarming us into taking lethal poison injections. And for anyone who exercised their right to peacefully protest the government’s tyranny, they froze bank accounts and prosecuted freedom fighters in farcical show trials reminiscent of Roland Freisler’s tenure presiding over the People’s Court in Hitler’s Germany.
As Pierre Poilievre has noted in his rallies, the state is supposed to be the servant, not the master.
Our government hasn’t quite figured that one out yet.
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