VICTORIA DAY & COMMON SENSE...Hmmm

A liberty manifesto

By Anthony Furey ,QMI Agency

First posted: Friday, May 16, 2014 03:10 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, May 16, 2014 03:32 PM EDT 

 

That said, much good could come of Canadians reading Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto.

Canada has never had much of a constitutionalist tradition. We don’t run around quoting founding documents like they do down south. Then again, people do cite the 1982 Charter whenever they want more free stuff.

Nor do we possess that healthy distrust of government on which America was founded.

Kibbe, president of grassroots organization FreedomWorks, begins by laying down the rules for liberty. They’re pretty simple: Don’t hurt people, don’t take people’s stuff, take responsibility, work for it, mind your own business, fight the power.

But these days there’s a resistance to simple things. “Free people live and let live,” Kibbe writes. “Free people don’t have any great designs on the freedoms of other people, and we expect them to return the favour. I figure I have enough on my plate just keeping myself straight, protecting the people I love, getting my work done.”