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Updates: June 14 2011 The First Edition of the book was launched on February 15, 2011. Harsh editing for the second edition is scheduled to be completed by October 1, 2011. To preorder, visit the how to order page
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About the Book:
This is a story about lawyers and politicians. The
reader should begin to think about how their manipulations of our
institutions of governance and justice have completely failed all
legally compelled promises of ‘democracy’. And yes, as a result, the
nightmares of environmental decay and economic turmoil, that
continue for our future generations, are also mainly the fault of
lawyers and politicians and their politically encumbered "experts".
However, ultimately the lesson should be this. We
have allowed people, first empowered through our votes, to take over
a system designed and intended to bring us responsible and
accountable governance. We have stayed silent to those who think
that, upon gaining positions of empowerment, this then gives them
the entitlement to do to the rest of us as they will. (page 283 of
the first edition of the book) ...".
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Just Business, The Book
EDITING OF THIS BOOK FOR SECOND EDITION PRODUCTION CONTINUES. YOU ARE URGED TO VISIT http://democracyaintsexy.com FOR UPDATES AND INFORMATION ON A SECOND BOOK RELATED TO THIS SUBJECT MATTER. The second book is already under way under the title Democracy Is Not Sexy. |
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About the Author |
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Don MacAlpine was trained as a forester at Lakehead University in
Thunder Bay, Ontario starting in 1971. That career was chosen after
working one summer in the forests of Quebec, short weeks before a
politician was murdered by Quebec "separatistes". He worked in private
industry for five years before becoming a professional forester with
the province of Ontario in 1981. He has been a resident of Nipigon
since that year. In March 1982, he was fired for daring to challenge the ruling Conservative government. MacAlpine refused to present lies to the public in violation of his duty as a professional forester. He won his job back after a year and a half legal battle. That legal action became the first revelation to him of inappropriate politics into a supposedly impartial and independent system of justice. MacAlpine returned to work under three different political parties but refused to join any. He felt that he had a duty to be seen to be free and clear of partisanship as a "professional" and as a "public servant". He left the provincial forest service after fifteen years to write a book in 1996. Its proposed subject was the inevitable decline of Northwestern Ontario’s forest industry because of the lack of ethics of business leaders, "professional" foresters and politicians. He set aside the book to work for seven years with First Nations, trying to advance their economies in the forest resource sector. This eventually led to his first reading of a treaty and a better understanding of the collective trampling of the rights of First Nations. He now believes Canadians must immediately start to deal with this sad part of their history.
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