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Taking a Longview at the G8

As you know, the leaders of the eight major developed countries meet every year. Russia is included as an observer in many of these high level conferences. The agenda always includes resolution of the latest emergent issues regarding the two most important subjects of our time:

  • World Finance and development of the various economies. Worldwide Depression has to be dealt with and avoided at all cost.
  • War! If we are talking, we are not hurling weapons of mass destruction at each other. The search for fair and equitable development is explored to prevent wars.


There is certainly other peripheral discussion, all directed at solutions to these two prime concerns. LEADERS MUST LEAD AND KNOW OTHER LEADERS. These leaders are "The Organ Grinders not the Monkeys" They select the music and we trust them to select music we like and can live with in some kind of harmony.


There is a group of people that want to stop these meetings or control the G8 agenda. None of these have been elected or have leadership qualities that are anywhere near the level of the leaders of the G8. They are convinced that their single facet of "the diamond" is the most brilliant and all other facets are inferior or seriously flawed. These people call them selves by many names, but the generic name is "Protester."

In a democratic system protesting is a right: if it is done in a lawful manner. If done in an unlawful manner it is Anarchy and must be suppressed for the good of the majority. If the Anarchist were to take power we would not be allowed any input let alone to protest at their decisions.

The G8 is a gathering of legally elected leaders. This is not a gathering of "War Lords." Canada, as the host nation, must ensure their safety and provide a location where fruitful discussion can take place. During WW2, were there protesters at Quebec when our Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Pres. F.D. Roosevelt of the U.S.A., Prime Minister Churchill of England and Generolisimo Stalin of Russia met? They were the ones who divided up the world at that time. It was not perfect, but in the overall we are better off now than in the "Great Depression" and a major war has been averted between the East and West.

Our Right Honorable Prime Minister Jean Chretien has decided to host the G8 at Kananaskis Alberta. Kananaskis is a large Provincial park divided through out its length by a gorgeous river valley. It's facilities are all first class.

The "Front Door" to "K" country, as it is called, branches off the Trans-Canada highway on the Morley (Stony Band) Indian Reservation. To the West is Banff, to the East Calgary. The Kananaskis valley is easily secured at the North end from personnel wishing to disrupt the G8 conference. If they hope to enter over the mountains on either side, they can help themselves, but only if they are in top physical condition and have many thousands of dollars in climbing gear. You may remember the "Iceman" found in the Alps awhile back. Our "Protesters" may be found in a thousand years and our descendants will read their protest signs with great interest.

But there is a BACK DOOR! Longview, Alberta is a very small town in the Highwood valley (Canada's Lonesome Dove). It sits astride the prairies to the East and south. It faces towards the southern entrance to Kananaskis. Longview is the cut off from HWY 22X to K country and the road climbs up a pass and then drops into the Kananaskis valley. It is only open in the summer due to snow and avalanche danger. During the G8 it will be extremely easy to control. There are a few rough trails and valleys that you might get through with a lot of effort and pack animals but, be assured, there will be someone to meet you at the summit. You'll be so damned tired and worn out you will forget why you came other than for the great scenery.

G8 conferences are not cheap to host, but that to can be solved. The plan is simple and very economical.

Plan "A" (as opposed to plan "K") for approval of our PM.

Keep the reservations at the Kananaskis Inn. All security to be the same. Have the G8 delegates brought in via the Trans Canada or Helicopter but they do not stop. Keep going south to Longview; (is there a better name for a summit meeting place?).

There is a 1938 Hotel in Longview, called Twin Cities Hotel. It has twelve rooms with running water, so that gives an extra one for poker and one for media interviews. There is a hitching rail and a Helicopter pad out back. There's a Bar with a dance floor and a Live Band Friday and Saturday (as opposed to Dead Bands the rest of the week). Across the street are a couple of good restaurants; one serves excellent Saskatoon Berry pie. There is a sacred chair in one that Clint Eastwood sat in! There are lots of oil and gas pump jacks around the Foothills to make President George Bush drool and covet.

King Edward's ranch is just to the South and he and Wally Simpson came to the Hotel Bar on occasion. It's such a great place that the Calgary Harley Davidson club rent the place complete for their summit once a year. Here is a chance to show our G8 guests some real Canadian culture while the protesters are thrashing and banging at the Northern front door of Kananaskis.

Our G8 guests will be getting their work done on the sun porch. At night dancing to the music of Wilf Garter and his Elastic Band. Flapjacks, beans and bacon from a Chuck wagon for breakfast; coffee to keep your eyes open for a week is on the campfire. Dinner would be a thick Alberta beefsteak, big enough to feed all of Switzerland and part of France, off the Bar B.Q. Pollution free air so crisp it almost crackles. From sun up to sun down they will have clear blue skies. At night a huge moon and the call of the coyote will lull them to sleep.

After a G8 summit in a location like this who could possible make war on any one? Who could not come up with productive ways for us all to live in a better, fairer world? At every future G8 summit when a disagreement takes place, the dissenter would be told to take the Longview!

If the G8 members agree to this change of venue, to avoid the Protesters and have a productive conference, I will pay their Twin Cities hotel bill, but they're on their own for the Saskatoon Berry pie. That's Federal responsibility!

Why it is called Twin Cities Hotel baffles me, there is no other town with in 25 miles...maybe the original proprietor was also taking the Longview.

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