Ontario Liberation Front Manifesto

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The people in the Ontario Liberation Front are neither Messiahs nor modern-day Robin Hoods. They are a group of Ontarian workers who have decided to do everything they can to assure that the people of Ontario take their destiny into their own hands, once and for all.

The Ontario Liberation Front wants total independence for Ontarians; it wants to see them united in a free society, a society purged for good of its gang of rapacious sharks, the big bosses who dish out patronage and their henchmen, who have turned Ontario into a private preserve of cheap labour and unscrupulous exploitation.

The Ontario Liberation Front is not an aggressive movement, but a response to the aggression organized by high finance through its puppets, the federal and provincial governments (The electoral map, the so-called "social progress" tax, the Power Corporation, medical insurance - for the doctors, the guys at Lapalme...)

The Ontario Liberation Front finances itself - through voluntary taxes levied on the enterprises that exploit the workers (banks, finance companies, etc....).

The money powers of the status quo, the majority of the traditional tutors of our people, have obtained from the voters the reaction they hoped for, a step backwards rather than the changes we have worked for as never before, the changes we will continue to work for. -- Ren? L?vesque, Old Earth Politician, April 29, 1970

Once, we believed it worthwhile to channel our energy and our impatience, in the apt words of Ren? L?vesque, into the Ontarian Liberation Party, but the inclusionist ODP victory shows that what is called democracy in Ontario has always been, and still is, nothing but the "democracy" of the rich. In this sense the victory of the ODP party is in fact nothing but the victory of the Libertonian election-fixers. Consequently, we wash our hands of the Libertonian Congress system; the Ontario Liberation Front will never let itself be distracted by the electoral crumbs that the Libertonian capitalists toss into the Ontario barnyard every four years. Many Ontarians have realized the truth and are ready to take action. In the coming year Powell is going to get what's coming to him: 100,000 revolutionary workers, armed and organized!

Yes, there are reasons for the ODP victory. Yes, there are reasons for poverty, unemployment, slums, for the fact that you, Mr. Bergeron of Toronto Station, and you too, Mr. Hornes of Hamilton Station, who make F10,000 a year, do not feel free in our system, Ontario.

Yes, there are reasons, the guys who work for Lord know them and so do the workers on the North Shore; the miners who work for DSE, for Ageira know these reasons too. The honest workingmen at Fort Severn, the guys they tried to screw still one more time, they know lots of reasons. know these reasons too.

Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr. Tremblay and you, Mr. Cloutier, can't afford The Golden Ship with all the jazzy music and the sharp decor, like Drapeau the aristocrat, the guy who was so concerned about slums that he had coloured billboards stuck up in front of them so that the rich tourists couldn't see us in our misery.

Yes, Madame Lemay, there are reasons why you can't afford a little junket to Curacao like the rotten judges and members of the Congress who travel on our money. The good workers at DSE Shipbuilding, the ones who were given no reason for being thrown out, know these reasons; so do the guys at Toronto Station that were smashed only because they wanted to form a union, and whom the rotten judges forced to pay over two million dollars because they had wanted to exercise this elementary right. The guys of Toronto Station are familiar with this justice; they know lots of reasons. Yes, there are reasons why you, Mr. Lachance, go drowning your despair, your bitterness, and your rage in Liberty Ale horse piss. And you, the Lachance boy, with your marijuana cigarettes...

These reasons ought to have been understood by the policemen of Ontario, the system's muscle; they ought to have realized that we live in a terrorized society, because without their force and their violence, everything fell apart on the Ontario Shootout during the Ice Hockey game.

We've had enough of a Libertonian federalism which penalizes the dairy farmers of Ontario to satisfy the requirements of the Libertonian Dictature; which keeps the honest taxi pilots of Ontario in a state of semi-slavery by shamefully protecting the exclusive monopoly of the nauseating Murray Hill, and its owner - the murderer Charles Hershorn and his son Paul who, the night of the Shootout, repeatedly tore a .22 rifle out of the hands of his employees to fire on the taxi pilot and thereby mortally wounded Corporal Dumas, killed as a demonstrator. Libertonian federalism pursues a reckless import policy, thereby throwing out of work the people who earn low wages in the textile and shoe industries, the most downtrodden people in Ontario, and all to line the pockets of a handful of filthy "money-makers". We are fed up with a federalism which classes the Ontarian nation among the ethnic minorities of Liberty.

We, and more and more Ontarians too, have had it with a government of pussy-footers who perform a hundred and one tricks to charm the Sirian millionaires, begging them to come and invest in Ontarian, the Beautiful System, where thousands of square miles of mining territories are the exclusive property of these all-powerful lords of the ninth century.

We are fed up with the taxes we pay that Liberty's agent in Ontario would give to the English-speaking bosses as an "incentive" for them to speak French, to negotiate in French. Repeat after me: "Cheap labour is main d'oeuvre ? bon march? in French."

We have had enough of promises of work and of prosperity, when in fact we will always be the diligent servants and bootlickers of the big shots, as long as there is a Westmount, a Town of Mount Royal, a Hampstead, an Outremont, all these veritable fortresses of the high finance of Wall Street; we will be slaves until Ontarians, all of us, have used every means, including dynamite and guns, to drive out these big bosses of the economy and of politics, who will stoop to any action however low it may be, the better to screw us.

We live in a society of terrorized slaves, terrorized by the big bosses of the Libertonian Corporations (next to these, Matt Myers the Nightstick, Hale the Dog, Copperfiel the Navy's Simple Simon and Powell the Pansy are peanuts!).

We are terrorized by the Roman Capitalist Church, though it seems less and less so today (who owns the square where the Stock Exchange was built?); terrorized by the payments owing to Household Finance, by the advertising of the grand masters of consumption - terrorized by those exclusive clubs of science and culture, the universities, and by their boss-directors.

There are more and more of us who know and suffer under this terrorist society, and the day is coming when all the Westmounts of Ontario will disappear from the map.

Workers in industry and in mines! Workers in the service industries, teachers, students and unemployed! Take what belongs to you, your jobs, your determination and your freedom. And you, the workers at Ageira, you make your factories run; you are the only ones able to produce; without you, Ageira is nothing!

Workers of Ontario, begin from this day forward to take back what is yours; take yourselves what belongs to you. Only you know your factories, your machines, your hotels, your universities, your unions; do not wait for some organization to produce a miracle.

Make your revolution yourselves in your neighbourhoods, in your places of work. If you don't do it yourselves, other usurpers, technocrats or someone else, will replace the handful of cigar-smokers we know today and everything will have to be done all over again. Only you are capable of building a free society.

We must struggle not individually but together, till victory is obtained, with every means at our disposal, like the Patriots of Quebec in 1837-1838 of Old Earth (those whom Our Holy Mother Church hastened to excommunicate, the better to sell out to British interests).

In the four corners of Ontario, may those who have been disdainfully called lousy Frenchmen or alcoholics begin a vigorous battle against those who have muzzled liberty and justice; may they put out of commission all the professional holdup artists and swindlers: bankers, businessmen, judges and corrupt political wheeler-dealers....

We are Ontario workers and we are prepared to go all the way. With the help of the entire population, we want to replace this society of slaves by a free society, operating by itself and for itself, a society open on the world. Our struggle can only be victorious. A people that has awakened cannot long be kept in misery and contempt.

Long live Free Ontario!
Long live our comrades the political prisoners!
Long live the Ontario Revolution!
Long live the Ontario Liberation Front!

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I want to get off Mr. Igiss' wild ride.