Genocide – Ted Campbell's Point of View … an old soldier's thoughts on shoes and ships and sealing wax and many other things. I self describe as a classical liberal ~ which means, in 21st century Canada, that I’m a Conservative. I believe in four fundamental rights for each and every individual: Life, Liberty and Property, as described by John Locke in 17th century England, and Privacy, as defined by Brandeis and Warren in 19th century America. Your comments are welcome, but my views (and obvious biases) are pretty well established after 75+ years.

Justin Trudeau is a fool

In 1948 the United Nations formally codified genocide as a great crime against humanity. The concept was new, even the word was new, it was “first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the LatinContinue reading “Justin Trudeau is a fool”

Votes

If there is going to be an election in 2021, and many experts predict that there will be, then I hope that all my readers will go out and vote. It is our civic duty to do so. I fully understand that a few million Canadians can never bring themselves to vote for a ConservativeContinue reading “Votes”

It is time for a change

Many decades ago, when Pierre Trudeau was prime minister, I was, for a while, a student at the Staff College where the Canadian Forces tried, with some success, to turn middle ranked officers into potential admiral and generals. We studied, amongst other things, the “national security environment.” (I think that’s how the academics, somewhat pretentiously,Continue reading “It is time for a change”

We must never forget

Despite the ongoing concerns about the novel coronavirus which we are all facing, we must never forget what happened more than 75 years ago. 75 years ago today, on 15 April 1945, soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp … … they found many thousands of bodies that lay unburiedContinue reading “We must never forget”

Everyone needs to hear or read this

This is a video of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s remarks made at Auschwitz. What she says matters: she speaks of “barbaric crimes,” and about people who were “humiliated, tortured and murdered,” and she says “this is the place where the most horrible crimes against humanity took place.” Let us be clear: the victims of theseContinue reading “Everyone needs to hear or read this”

Nonsense (2)

A bit more than a month ago I deemed the Globe and Mail‘s proposal for a nation-wide ban on handguns to be “arrant nonsense“ because it would do little to address a serious problem beyond making those criminals who traffic illegal weapons even richer. Sadly, I must make the same comment about one aspect ofContinue reading “Nonsense (2)”