XLVIII Con. Pat.
Inaugural Address
June
30, 2006
Let us begin by offering salutations to Lord Ganesha, the remover of
all obstacles, and a brief prayer to the Divine Mother or to our Ishta-Devata
for having preserved and protected Patria over the past four years. By Her grace Patria has been spared the
destruction of the South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the other
natural and man-made disasters of the “dark times” that Amma had warned of as
early as 2003. Through Her divine
protection, Patria is free of pestilence, war and famine. By Her will, She has enabled us to reach this
special day in which we celebrate this peaceful transition into a new
Congressus Patriaë. May She give us the power to discern clearly right from
wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the
laws of this land. Especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the
people regardless of race, calling, or spiritual path.
Along with the peaceful transfer of power and the prayers for an
auspicious new beginning, over the years a spirit of jingoistic triumphalism
has pervaded these Inauguration ceremonies.
But the 30th day of June is not a day of triumph but a day of
re-dedication. On each Inauguration day
since 1818, Patriens have renewed their sense of dedication to the Inner Realm
of Patria. In the 19th
century, the peoples’ task was to create and weld together a new nation. In the 20th century, the peoples’
task was to preserve that nation from external forces such as two fratricidal
world wars and a cold war – that is, from disruption from without. And now in the 21st century, the
peoples’ task is to protect the nation from internal forces – that is, to save
Patria from disruption from within.
And what are these internal forces that threaten Patria’s stability and
security? Far worse than the external
terrorist threat posed by Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda minions who were
responsible for 9/11, as well as for 3/11 in Madrid and 7/7 in London, are the
domestic saboteurs. These domestic
terrorists do not have to hijack planes, blow up commuter trains or set fire to
public buildings. They do not have to
profess radical fundamentalist Islam.
They do not even have to physically injure or kill anyone. These terrorists seek to destroy Patria’s
spirit by ruminating about past decisions right or wrong, and pining for the
“good old days”, be they of the 43rd Congress or some other
long-gone era. The irony is not lost on
anyone, that we may pray to Shiva for transformation, but at the same time
sabotage our transformation by clinging to old ways and old beliefs for no reason
other than that they seem safe or familiar.
Amma says, “the past is like a canceled check. By worrying about the past you lose the
strength to deal with the present.”
Nonetheless the pining continues.
Virtually all efforts have failed to patch up the damage of a handful of
horrid, misguided and totally shortsighted decisions made almost fifteen years
ago. There have been a few short-term
successes, but in the long run, there has been no long-term security and
stability that would rival the steady firmly-rooted growth of the 43rd
Congress. The era that was inaugurated
twenty years ago today was the best of times, a time of real growth, of putting
down roots, or was at least as close to the mainstream as citizens of Patria
ever came.
As the longing for the old days continues, so does the feeling of “same
old, same old”, that there has not been sufficient growth over the course of
the past four years and there is little or nothing new to offer over the course
of the next four. This Congress will not
offer taxpayer-funded bread and circuses or dog-and-pony traveling road shows
just for the sake of “something new”. If
there is to be a new direction or real growth, it must originate from within
and be prompted by the inner voice. And
if that inner voice says nothing except “stay the course”, that must be the
course to be followed until this day in 2010 if necessary.
Once again, a new Congress will be called to address one of the major
sources of disruption from within, one of the major factors causing pain and
frustration in the daily experiences of law-abiding citizens: the proliferation
of gangs, guns and street crime. Ask any National Unionist: the warm fuzzy
liberal approach to crime as a social problem or the result of childhood trauma
or bad parenting is totally discredited.
No one ever stopped the Crips and Bloods or the ethnic gangs’ turf wars
by throwing more social workers at them.
No one ever disarmed teenage gang-bangers with after-school pick-up
basketball programs. The only thing the
bad guys, from biker punks and testosterone-fueled street racers to serial
rapists and AK-47-toting gang kingpins, will understand is enforcement: more
police officers on the streets to make more arrests and more PISS [Patrienish
Intelligence and Security Service] agents under cover to make more
wiretaps. The message must be clear: if
you do the crime you will do the time.
Not only must the sentences be tough; every day behind bars must be
served, with no early parole or time off for good behavior. While the presumption of innocence until
proven guilty in a court of law is a noble judicial tradition rooted in
centuries of Anglo-Saxon Common Law, it cannot adequately deal with the street
punks, let alone al-Qaeda. Requiring the
state to prove an offender’s guilt – rather than placing the onus on the
accused to prove innocence – only further clogs already overloaded courts,
favors the criminals, and delays or denies justice for the victims. Therefore, the basic legal system in Patria
should be changed to “guilty until proven innocent”.
Along with the swift and sure justice that the National Union has
promised to mete out to murderers, rapists, gang-bangers and other violent
street criminals, there must be prison cells waiting for the bad guys who wear
suits and ties rather than baggy jeans and do-rags, who operate out of
boardrooms and office cubicles rather than dark streets and decaying tenements,
and who use mice and modems rather than guns and knives to destroy innocent
lives. Patria will dispense tough
justice and serious prison time to the corporate criminals, as well as to the
small-time cyber-scammers, spam lords and identity thieves. Indeed, the justice for the non-violent
corporate crooks should be tougher than for the violent street thugs.
Along with the war on street crime and the post-9/11 global war on
terrorism, the National Union would like to bring an American-style “war on
drugs” to Patria as part of its “law and order, tooth and nail” agenda. But just as the “war on booze” was a failure
during the heyday of prohibition in the 1920s, some eighty years later the
Patria will once again maintain its Hindu identity, while seeking unity
in diversity. But diversity does not
mean multiculturalism, as has been official policy in Canada since the Trudeau
years. Can Canada’s multicultural approach
be considered a success or failure in light of the home-grown group of al-Qaeda
jihad wannabes recently arrested in greater Toronto? Patria has one culture, one identity, firmly
rooted in Sanatan Vedic Dharma. The
Hindu character and Vedic heritage of Patria must be preserved above all
else. No one who immigrates to Patria is
required to adopt Hinduism, practice yoga or study the Vedas. But all immigrants must adapt to Hinduism as
Patria’s dominant cultural identity and to Sanskrit as one of Patria’s official
languages, just as – until as recently as the mid-1960s – all immigrants to the
United States would defer to the supremacy of the English language, Anglo-Saxon
heritage and Christian religion. Those
who do not accept and respect Patria’s Hindu culture and do not make a sincere
effort to assimilate into the milieu of Sanatan Dharma – including renouncing
violence and terrorism – should return to their home nation or to a balkanized
multicultural mosaic, such as is found Canada, particularly in Toronto.
As we seek unity in diversity, let us stop using a particularly odious
made-in-Canada phrase “visible minority” to describe anyone whose skin is not
sufficiently white or whose appearance is not sufficiently Anglo-Saxon. While it may be true that White people still
constitute a majority of the population of Canada, Australia, the U.S., U.K. or
Patria, in the big picture the White race is the visible minority. On the world scale of almost 6 billion
people, White people are clearly outnumbered, and in certain European countries
the population is shrinking as the White birth rate has fallen below
replacement levels. In this new
Congress, let all Patriens of non-Caucasian or non-Anglo-Saxon origin affirm
their global strength rather than their position of weakness in one country or
another, by replacing the term “visible majority” with “world majority”.
Patria must firmly maintain the credo “equal rights for all, special
privileges for none”. There must never
be any privileged minorities in Patria, visible or otherwise. No matter how much power such minorities may
possess in the U.S. or Canada, in Patria no minuscule religious or ethnic group
– particularly one that considers itself intellectually superior, unassimilable
to its host nation, or even “chosen” by God – will ever be allowed to wield
power so out of proportion to its numbers, dictate the nation’s foreign policy,
or control the media and entertainment industry.
In this new Congress, Patria will once again be a beacon of free
speech, where even the most controversial, unpopular, unpleasant and politically
incorrect ideas and views may be openly and non-violently debated. Against all
forces of political correctness, against the withering assault of feminists,
liberals, leftists and neo-cons, not to mention an assortment of busybodies and
do-gooders of both the left and right, Patria must preserve the fundamental
human right of free speech and non-violent open debate. But as fundamental as
freedom of speech is, it is almost useless without freedom of thought. While physical violence and incitement to
commit violence are criminal acts – and those who commit such cowardly acts as
vandalizing synagogues or mosques will be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law – thoughts and emotions can never be criminalized. In Canada, it is actually possible to be
prosecuted for expressing non-violent or politically incorrect thoughts that
hurt the feelings of certain privileged minorities – people whose skin color,
immigration status, sexual orientation or other factors somehow deem them more
worthy of protection than the bulk of the population. But in Patria, there are no privileged
minorities. And there can never be such
thing as a “hate crime”, “thought crime”, or criminal charges for hurt feelings
because no emotion, thought or feeling is illegal. No one can ever be compelled under penalty of
law not to harbor such “bad” emotions as hate or to think only “nice” thoughts
about his or her fellow citizens.
Fears of economic stagnation and chronic underemployment were
hot-button issues during the 2006 election campaign, as they have been for well
over a decade. The new Congress
recognizes that for many Patriens these four years may deliver little more than
a bare-bones, subsistence-level existence on a minimum-wage salary. To end this race to the bottom, Congress will
not only raise the minimum wage so that it may become a competitive living wage
– through tax credits and low-wage subsidies – but will take action to keep
Patria’s jobs in Patria. As economic
patriots committed to preserving Patria’s jobs and standard of living, we must
end the job-killing practice of outsourcing or offshoring, be it factory work,
information technology or customer service.
Globalism is a failed policy that has done little for the average
Patrienish citizen struggling to make ends meet and only serves to benefit the
suits in the corporate boardrooms who think nothing of trading the security of
their fellow citizens for the financial gain of their shareholders. This
Congress must draft a new made-in-Patria protectionism not only to fight the
free trade-mongers and trans-national CEOs, but also to encourage local
manufacture of goods and local provision of services, so that whole industries
are not exported to slave-labor factories in China or the lowest Third World
bidder. In this new Congress we can take
steps to help support Patria’s own economy and Patria’s own industries: search
for a made-in-Patria label, or at the very least, a made-in-a
First-World-democracy label, buy the products your neighbors help manufacture,
shop at locally owned retailers, and do business with organizations that are
committed to fighting outsourcing and keeping jobs in Patria for Patrienish
citizens.
Patria is committed to fighting another particularly disgusting import
and export business: human trafficking.
An untold number of young women and girls from Eastern Europe and South
Asia are lured with false promises of legitimate jobs in Patria, only to find
themselves working as “escorts” – really a fancy term for prostitutes – erotic
massage artists or exotic dancers. It
takes only a glance at the unsavory back pages of the free
“alternative/entertainment” weekly papers or the adult classified section of
any major daily paper to appreciate the extent to which this sick business of
human trafficking is thriving right here in our own backyard. The loathsome predators who destroy young
lives through human trafficking must be extradited to Patria to face the
justice they deserve. And those who are
unfortunate enough to be victims of this revolting trade must be liberated from
the slavery of the brothels and massage parlors and given back the girlhood or
adolescence that was so brutally snatched.
Sadly, there are a good number of spiritually un-evolved, insensitive,
maladjusted men who are willing to pay a few thousand rupees for a few moments
of venal pleasure. But where consenting
adults are concerned, Patria will not seek to outlaw the sex trade. As with drug abuse, it is a social not a
criminal justice issue. Patria will not
make common criminals of the low-life degenerate men who patronize the
so-called escorts. Patria will not waste
the human resources of our cities’ police departments by disguising policewomen
as prostitutes in order to entrap a few unsuspecting johns. Patria will, however, take action to ensure
that the women who choose this line of work are legal residents of Patria, aged
18 and over, are regulated and taxed like any other for-profit enterprise, are
not modern-day slaves, and are free to leave the profession at any time they choose.
While we may argue the pros and cons of tax cuts or cuts in government
spending, there is one particularly painful cut that Patria is committed to
eliminating. During the 2006 election
campaign, almost all the parties and candidates endorsed the “Let’s cut
Circumcision” all-Patria campaign to end genital mutilation, not only of girls
and women – female genital mutilation has rightly been condemned and banned in
Patria for many years – but of males as well.
This Congress will challenge Jewish and Muslim organizations to
seriously reconsider condoning the barbaric practice of mutilating baby
boys. In the 21st century,
the excruciating pain inflicted by circumcision can no longer be justified by
religious tradition prescribed in the Torah or Koran. As was mentioned on this day four years ago,
boys face enormous disadvantages compared to girls: higher rates of crime,
mental illness, disability and substance abuse, and poorer academic performance
even in math and science. Boys are more
likely to drop out of high school, less likely to succeed in university
studies, and remain disadvantaged throughout their lives. But in one small way we can close the gender
gap by offering every boy born in Patria at least one certain inalienable
birthright: the right to an uncut, intact foreskin and the right to be spared
needless trauma at only a few days of age.
Finally, to conclude this address we are duty-bound to note that the
best that this new Congress may offer is that daily experiences will still
suck, but perhaps not suck quite as much as in the last Congress or in other
previous administrations. There may not
be any major turnaround or any major transformational event in the days or
weeks to come. This new Congress may deliver little that is radically new and
different from previous administrations.
For the first time in more than four decades, there has been no
crumbling of the old order or any event that would be considered a major
transition or melt-down during the months leading up to the election of 2006. For the first time in more than four decades,
the inner voices seem to be saying nothing except to preserve the status
quo. The only growth may be superficial;
rather than true transformation such as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly
it is only becoming a bigger caterpillar. Nonetheless, on this day of new
beginnings and re-affirmation of traditions, it is fitting and proper to
re-affirm the ancient prayer “Not my will, O Lord, but Thine”. OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA. LOKAH SAMASTAH SUKHINO BHAVANTU. May all beings in all the worlds be
happy! May God strengthen our hands and
hearts for the work of the next four years and may God bless Patria!
© 2006, XLVIII Con. Pat. The above text is an official transcription, preserved in the Archives of Patria. Any re-broadcast, re-transmission or other use of the pictures, descriptions or accounts of this Inauguration ceremony without the express written consent of the Undersecretary for Protocol, Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Dharma of Patria is strictly prohibited. Don’t fool with us, boy! We will throw your sorry ass in the slammer!