Nipawin - January 13, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
Learning	I enjoyed Timothy's Shire article "Did you learn anything?[1]" This is a simple question
	but it is at the root of our human nature, the need to learn. Learning is life itself, and as we go
	through living we must continuously ask ourselves "am I learning as an individual?" and "are
	we learning as a society?" Learning is our freedom, and if learning is taken away from us, then
	we are not free.
permanently expelled	To day, we know that a 16 year old boy has been released from jail after he wrote and
	presented a fictional story titled Twisted to his teacher and schoolmates [2]. This story was
	about a bullied teen who planned to blow up his school for revenge. This boy has been
	permanently expelled from his high school, has been released into his parents' custody on
	$10,000 bail with a lengthy list of conditions, cannot use the Internet, cannot leave his home
	unless accompanied by a parent, he must stay at least five kilometres away from his former
	school. Is this boy going to learn anything soon? Is society going to learn anything from
	the boy's determined social trapping? No, definitely no, both the boy and society are not
	going to learn from the boy's social trapping, and this is not freedom.
corrupted behaviour	Alliance leader Stockwell Day has been abusing the public purse for his private bigotry [3],
	and professor Tom Flanagan comes to his help saying that the confidentiality agreement of
	his settlement with Goddard must be maintained for the sake of 'social civility' and because
	of the principled stand against contractual retroactivity, breach of confidence, and third-party
	interference [4]. Again, do we as individuals and society learn anything by keeping secretive
	the public cost of the corrupted behaviour of Mr. Stockwell Day? No, again we don't learn
	anything from keeping Day's settlement a secret, rather it would be a motivation to hide a
	secret with another secret with the result to restrict further learning and further freedom.
	And professor Flanagan, where is the civility shown by Stockwell Day?
Richard Klassen	More importantly, today, we have the Saskatoon Police, that after wrongfully enforcing the
	secret over the sexual Scandal of the Century [5] for some 10 years with the complicity of
	the Government of Saskatchewan, is asking the Court on January 16, 2001 to permanently
	gag the plaintiff Richard Klassen and eventually dismiss his $10-Million lawsuit [6]. Again,
	are we as individuals and society learning by having a police and a government who keep
	their wrongdoings a secret? No, we are not learning by having a secretive police and a
	secretive government, and this is why our freedom is being further and further eroded.
we will take our freedom back	It is very tiring to see so much depravation among our institutional leadership and realize
	we must defend our individual freedom by ourselves, taking our own justice in our hands
	as individuals and with no help from the justice system [7]. I must say that in Saskatchewan
	there is no justice and there is no freedom, but human rights are stronger than statutory
	rights, and we will take our freedom back. This is a certainty!
------------References/endnotes:
	List of relevant political and economics articles http://ensign.ftlcomm.com
1.	Did You Learn Anything?, by Timothy Shire, January 10, 2001
2.	Teen jailed for story vows to write on, Aaron Sands, January 12, 2001 Ottawa Citizen
3.	No more Common Law and no more personal responsibility for our politicians, by Mario deSantis, January 6, 2000
4.	Politics unsettles libel settlement, Tom Flanagan, January 10, 2001, National Post
5.	The Fifth Estate: Scandal of the Century, by Mario deSantis, November 29, 2000
6.	The right to tell the truth in peril!, Injusticebusters
7.	Democracy and Human Rights in Saskatchewan, by Mario deSantis, February 23, 2000