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.

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 unburied […]

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 these […]

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 of […]