Wow! I must say this is ridiculous, almost comical if it weren’t so serious.
Nearly unbelievable at best. And this in the year 2014!
Eva Cooper, owner of a women’s clothing store in Chelsea, Quebec
has a Facebook page...in English. Now those turkeys from the language police
are demanding she translates her messages into French. If she doesn’t by March
10 she will face a fine. This smells of dictatorship, censorship, and violation
of basic human rights. These guys are surely on some kind of power trip.
I live in Manitoba, Canada. I’m a
Canadian. The last time I looked we still had freedom of speech (as limited as
it may be in certain circumstances), and I can say what I want to say in any
language. Be it on the street, at home, or on the Internet. If I had a business
I could have a sign outside of my place written in English. As it happens, I
write everything in English, but I could also put messages on my blog or Facebook
page or Twitter in German, should I decide to do so. Or French or any other
language. We have that freedom in Canada. People in many other
countries that don’t speak English can do so also. I’ve been to Latin American
countries where Spanish is spoken and I’ve seen many signs in English.
You can’t do that in Quebec.
They have a language police! That’s right, you read that correctly. If you live
in Quebec
this doesn’t come as a shock. You’re living with them. Looking at the map, it
appears that Quebec is in Canada, which
makes the people living there Canadian Citizens...with all the rights Canadians
are privileged to enjoy.
Everyone knows that every government on this Earth is trying
to control the Internet. It irks those who want to control us that people all
over this planet are able to communicate with each other, without being
censured by some power-hungry politicians or even some giant Corporation. To
some extent they have already managed to infiltrate the Internet and are spying
on people, checking their emails and postings on media sites. As is evident
with this case in Quebec.
We all are aware of the big scandal a few months ago when some guy spilled the
beans about the US
government spying on leaders of other countries and the American citizens by
listening in on phone calls and monitoring activities on the Internet.
This whole thing with the language control in Quebec is almost
unbelievable in this day and age...in a so-called free country. If you run any
kind of business, you want to reach as many customers as is possible. If you
can expand your advertising using many different languages, you have a much
greater reach and a larger base of potential customers. The Internet is a
wonderful medium to reach people all over the world. Eva Cooper should be able
to advertise in Chinese or Russian with her advertising. It is called FREEDOM.
That’s what it means to live in a free country, to be able to do choose what
you say and write in any way and language you wish.
Even though Quebec
is a Canadian province, Quebecers are not enjoying the freedom that is the
right of every Canadian.
Shame on the politicians in the Quebec government!
And to the person who complained to the language police
about the website of Eva Cooper, I’d like to say: Shame on you also. You are a
meddler, a troublemaker, and a jerk. It is because of people like you that the
world we live in is in such sad state. Think about that! But you’re probably
too stupid to even realize what you’ve done and what you’re doing and you’re
probably feeling really smug right now for causing such havoc with another
person’s life. Get a Life yourself!
On a more positive note, it looks like March is coming in
like a lamb. Unfortunately, it means it will go out like a lion. I’m really
looking forward to that ☺.
To my faithful readers: Sorry for ranting again. Have a nice
day, call a friend or send them an email and tell them you love them. The world
is still full of good people who mind their own business and we must not get
discouraged by the morons and would-be dictators who live among us. Those
people who want to ruin our lives by fulfilling their own sick desires, without
caring about the feelings of their fellow human being.
Come back soon.
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