"Back off Government" signs are relatively common to rural Ontario. They come from a  rather right-wing clutch of organizations representing landowners who feel they have a right to do pretty well what they want with their land and that government is interfering too much. Their rural revolution website is rich with purple prose and bad grammar:

"Throughout human History there are eras when every society experiences the darkness of injustice and the long shadows of oppression blanket the landscape. During these periods, collective oppression supplants individual liberty; coercion, intimidation, and wrongdoing become the lawful exercise of authority, and the brightness of prosperity and freedom is but a dim reminder to a bountiful past. Collective security and bestowed privileges become the hands that prey upon the unsuspecting common people and enslave them by deceptively removing their freedom to own, use, and enjoy the fruits of their industry: their private property. It is only when common people rise up and shine the light of knowledge into the deep recesses and crevices of unlawful authority does prosperity reign once again.

Rural Ontario is now home to darkness and our voice is silent and muted within the bureaucratic halls of power in Queen's Park and Parliament Hill. However, our dense urban neighbors voice resonates and echo's with a majority of ignorance, clamoring to deprive rural Ontario of our natural and historic rights, while the urban environmentalist, politicians, bureaucrats, and academics covet, and thirst after our priceless property. What price shall we place upon our property? The cost is our freedom."

Check out the last paragraph:. "Majority of ignorance," the U.S. spelling of neigbour, "our dense voices" all in one fine mess of a sentence. The basic message is that those city folk just don't get it, tied to their government desk jobs like they are, eh? Thankfully most farmers and landowners around me are more sensible than this. January 15, 2009