Stop following haters whose goal is to create chaos
By Lethbridge Herald on December 27, 2025.
Editor,
I will start this letter off by stating that the following is my own personal beliefs based on my observations of nearly eight decades of living on this planet. We have all read about rising violence against Jewish peoples and discrimination against other ethnic groups. Why is this happening?
My belief is a great deal of this discrimination is because the majority of people blindly follow what I like to call the “sheep principal”. Some one whom acts as a “leader”, convinces others they should mistrust, dislike or even hate a certain group of people and the sheep follow.
Perhaps I can convince at least one person how stupid this really is to participate when you carve out one group of people for your hatred. Humans as a whole, are all the same. They may look different, believe in a different religions, have different cultural backgrounds but deep down we are all the same.
If you want to judge, then please judge on an individual basis. If someone physically or mentally abuses their partner or child, as an example, by all means, call that person out. If someone commits murder or robs someone else of their property, they need to be taken to task for their bad deeds.
Do people do evil things because of their race or colour of their skin? Do they commit crimes because of the country where they were born? Do they hurt others because they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim or an Atheist?
No. It is stupid to believe that, right? Are all Russian people nasty because their president Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine? Were all German people evil because they followed like sheep their charismatic grandstanding leader Hitler into WWII? No. That would be stupid to believe that is/was true.
We all have to share this planet together. Let us look at each other as fellow brothers and sisters and stop following the haters, with their personal goals of creating chaos among us. If someone has taught you that you should hate a certain group of people, try talking with those people.
You may be surprised to find that they are much more like you than you may think at present. Always ask yourself, “Does this make any sense?” “Is this the right thing to do?” and of course, “Why?”
Doug Cameron
Lethbridge
12-11
Great observations. I would point out though, that the question “ Do they hurt others because they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim or an Atheist? I would say “yes” , actually people do target identifiable groups , Jewish, Moslem or LGBTQ communities to name three. I suspect that is part of the message . Targeting because of ethnicity etc is inherently wrong.
BigBrit, I think he meant the opposite with that question.. as in would an “atheist” target someone since he/she is simply as an “atheist” and the other person is not. Or like.. I’m ABC so I feel compelled to target XYZ simply/only because I am ABC.
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are all people of Lethbridge evil because a few commenting on these pages are mean, nassty, and at time very crule maybe crude in commcnt – no of course they are not. Are professional comcntor have goal to destroy. I think so. Mr. Cameron can you try talking to those people. Maybe they have heart no yet found there. I wish everybody a new year.
Why don’t you wake up instead of being proud of letting these Reformers treat you like morons and showing no intelligence in them giving you the highest power bills in Canada, the highest property taxes, the highest vehicle registration fees, the highest vehicle insurance premiums and showing no concern for the $89 billion debt, the $260 billion, soon to be $500 billion, oil well cleanup mess these fools created. It certainly proves what idiots you are doesn’t it?
I agree with you completely. Anyone that was around when Peter Lougheed was premier, knows how good he was as premier of Alberta. Peter Lougheed had no liking of Reformers, and even his own cabinet ministers, do not agree with the UCP and Danielle Smith. Can you blame them?
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Why not address the letter writter instead of going on your usual tangent on reformers? What has happend in the past IS the past! Time for you to fast foreward to the future or at least present FC! Make this New Year the year that your content shows signs of renewal. OK I am asking for men to give birth to babies with this request! My bad.
Once again you idiots can’t handle the truth and want everyone to ignore the past and are so stupid you don’t care that you are still paying the highest property taxes in Canada, the highest power bills, the highest vehicle registration fees, the highest vehicle insurance premiums, seniors are paying the highest long term healthcare fees, all thanks to these Reformers, and you don’t care that our children and grandchildren face a $89 billion debt, and growing, and a oil well cleanup mess that’s well on the way to becoming a $500 billion disaster for our children to face. All the while you idiots watch these Reformers screw you out of your oil and corporate tax wealth that’s how stupid you are isn’t it?
Too stupid to look at what Alaska and Norway have accomplished with their oil wealth, and oilmen point out that there isn’t another oil rich area in the world that’s in the financial mess that Alberta is in thanks to these Reformers while you guys kiss their ass, that’s how stupid you are, isn’t it?
Another rambling monologue squirming its way to public scrutiny!
Correct Doug. Tribal mob mentality has become the flavour of the day. Individual thought and diction are usually drowned out by the tribal noise. However, we must treat our fellow neighbours, friends, and strangers with respect unless of course they prove otherwise, incapable of returning that respect. They are worthy of being ignored as they have no relevant effect on your daily life. I have family members literally unload about this, that, and other things, namely government, and my response as the elder statesman is to emphatically state, there is no talk of politics at any time in the family. We are a unit, period, and we will not become dysfunctional by media bias, rage baiting, discrimination of any kind at any time and particularly on social media, or on opinion or comment of someone we do not know. Raging politicians of any stripe are a no go zone. Do family members unload from time to time, of course they do. I call it relieving the stress for functioning in an ever changing world. It doesn’t change the base family cohesive unit. My only response is that governments come and go and we survive by adapting. We live by united we stand, divided we fall.
Just another well known Jackass that’s so dumb he doesn’t get it showing no respect for what these Reformers are doing to our children and grandchildren’s future and they are too stupid to care. Sad isn’t it, that they can be that stupid, but they are?
The UCP are even worse than Ralph Klein was, and yet there are Albertans who will never accept how bad either of them have been, and they will blame someone else. Here’s an example. Ralph Klein caused the problems with the public education system in Alberta, and the UCP made matters worse, and somehow the ATA are to blame, as you can see in one of the letters. The comments defend the UCP and Danielle Smith.
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You’re such a pleasant person. Isn’t it time you invoked your love for Peter Lougheed and the NWC reigning in errant judges. Like to hear your rant on this. Who is stupid, who is a dumb reformer, who’s a jackass. Fill your boots.
On this matter, I agree with you. One “+” from moi!
God bless you buckwheat
yes, trump bless you buck, and sik