“Trust the science!” is starting to show its totalitarian face in Canada — but citizens, slowly starting to learn the facts about the COVID crisis, are standing their ground.
Canadian commentator Mark Steyn has the story:
In Ottawa, attempts by agents provocateurs to provoke violence at the Freedom Rally have gone nowhere…
Meanwhile, the Ottawa police have begun arresting citizens trying to deliver food to the truckers. There is no basis in Canadian law for the actions these goon coppers are taking, but the attitude of their dreadful police chief is: hey, the law is whatever I say it is. So he has ordered the arrest of citizens for “mischief”. By mischief, he means bringing sustenance or heat to protesters passing the night in temperatures of twenty below…
The truckers are rallying against “vaccine mandates”, which have no justification in science: The Prime Minister, who is as vaxxed, jabbed and boostered as any mammy singer on the planet, is supposedly hors de combat because he’s down with a second dose of the Covid.
Oh, but don’t worry! To be sure, the common understanding of the word “vaccine” is that you won’t catch what you’re being vaccinated against. But what we really mean is that, if you do get it, it won’t be serious, you won’t be in the ICU, and you certainly won’t die of it.
And by “certainly” we mean, well, probably. Israel, en route to be the world’s first entirely fourth-jabbed nation, currently has a daily death toll higher than before it started giving anyone the first jab. There is no public-health justification for making liberty conditional on compliance with the developed world’s failed strategy of coerced vaccines and constant testing.
Mark Steyn, “The Cavalry Rides in to Covidstan” at Steynonline (February 6, 2022)
Canadians are not braver than other people but we have a prime minister who spouts hate (from wherever he is hiding) against those of us who have figured out that the government’s “Trust the Science!” strategies are not working and may be endangering more people than they help. And an opposition party too spineless to say or do anything about it. And media he has bought and paid for are amplifying every slander.
This video could be one of the most powerful statements you will ever hear from peaceful, law-abiding citizens who have had enough of the slow morph into a “science”-driven totalitarian state (happening in many places around the world). And it is not a long jaw. Just watch a bit of it and study their faces:
Freedom Convoy Leadership Update – Address to the Nation 7:00pm February 6, 2020. Ottawa Mayor declared a state of emergency. How Ottawa Police taking the convoy fuel and occupying the convoy tents does not impact the Freedom Convoy logistics.
From the comments: “Canadians: ‘Be polite when you are being arrested.’ u guys rock!” (Sure, commenter. Canada belongs to the people of Canada. And this is how free people fight back. Serfs, by contrast, destroy things and attack people because they have no stake in a free and prosperous society. – O’Leary for News)
Also: From Shawn Whateley, past president of the Ontario Medical Association, to the progressive elite: Quit slandering and start listening:
Many Canadian elites have shown an unexpected level of incompetence, in response to protest.
The prime minister chose to attack the truckers’ Freedom Convoy 2022. Listening was beneath him. He slandered instead of showing compassion. He refused to meet. Trudeau only listens to those he likes.
Jagmeet Singh, leader of the NDP, did the same. Many individual MPs hurled insults. The media made us dizzy with spin…
The elites may have lost the larger crowd already.
Thousands of regular people have gone to see the convoy for themselves. They find a happy celebration. They sing and dance and play soccer and hockey in the street. They wave flags and exchange high fives. People hand out free hot food on every corner.
Close family and friends return with pictures and videos of a moving, patriotic event. I now have dozens and dozens of first-hand reports from people I trust: this is not a violent protest.
Shawn Whateley, “The Only Rational Response to Truckers’ Freedom Convoy” at Epoch Times (Updated February 7, 2022)
He hopes a leader will rise up to guide us into a common sense response to COVID-19 Some of us, including O’Leary for News, sadly, don’t see Justin Trudeau growing into the role.
Update: The Jeep driver who ran down four demonstrators in Winnipeg is David Zegarac, a far left activist, active on the punk rock scene. Was he perhaps only doing what many such persons have fantasized about?
Here’s a safe crowdfunding site to hire lawyers for arrested truckers (there’ll likely be more, probably on flimsy pretexts). The elite have gone to war against the free citizen in lots of places in the world, using “science” as a bludgeon, not a tool.
Also: The good news is, you don’t have to be a Canadian to fight back: ‘Freedom Convoy’ Protests Are Spreading Throughout World as Truckers Lead the Fight Against Mandates.
Update: Candice Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party, is calling for an end to the COVID crazy, something the leader who was just voted out, Erin O’Toole, could not bring himself to do:
This must happen. Wrecking kids schooling and social lives is not a way to fight COVID-19. We need to focus on protecting those at serious risk of untimely death.
You may also wish to read: Let us listen to Dr. Robert Malone, dissenting expert, on the COVID-19 crisis
and, for what’s happening in suddenly famous Canada:
What I saw at the Freedom Convoy in downtown Victoria It was all friendly; people were having a good time. There was no violence; I heard no racial epithets and saw no racial insignia. So if media tell you that it is really about white nationalism, etc., remember that the legacy Canadian media are in fact supported to stay in business by the federal government. Because few depend on them for news any more.
I believe the truckers said if they are forced to leave by the various methods of duress, they said they were not coming back to deliver anything.
No food, no gasoline or other things the Ottawa government might need.
So, in Canada, don’t trust the science, trust the truckers?
Who needs all those elitist virologists, epidemiologists, molecular biologists etc, when you can ask your friendly local delivery driver for the best medical advice?
The vaccines have failed to live up to the hype. They don’t prevent you from getting sick. They don’t prevent you from being a host. They don’t prevent you from transmitting the virus.
Your comment takes the sancta simplicitas prize, Seversky, and that’s the best that can be said of it.
The truckers are complaining about the over-reaching mandates, they are not advocating different medical advice.
But you know that, don’t you, you little goose-stepper for the elites.
Well, that would be very mature. Threaten over a million people because they didn’t get their way. But it’s a moot point. These truckers haven’t delivered anything in two weeks and the store shelves are still full, there is no shortage of gas or anything else we need.
I don’t recall anyone saying that the covid vaccine jab guaranteed you would never get covid. All any vaccine has ever done is reduce the probability of getting something to one degree or another. The only reason it’s “effectively” a 100% guarantee with polio, e.g., is that you are also extremely unlikely to be around anyone with polio in the first place. (I don’t think I’ve ever been in the same room with anyone with active polio.) If you put 10,000 polio-vaccinated people into close contact with someone with an active case, you might get one or two new polio cases out of it. The covid vaccine isn’t as good as the polio vaccine either, but all any of them do is reduce probabilities.
BUT, count me with the truckers and against the police and their heavy-handed tactics; this is ludicrous. (I’d invite y’all Canadians down to the US, but we have problems here too. 😎
The police heavy handed tactics:
Not exactly splitting heads or teargas.
Hmm. So, keeping lanes open for emergency vehicles is a strong arm police tactic?
It’s not as if they would be allowed in anyway, is it?
Freedom Convoy Preemptive SOS Press Conference Feb.7
😆 What science? That science that produced this virus? That science that fabricated studies against HCQ ,IVM to convince people that vaccine is the only solution? That science that says that masks work and masks don’t work? That science that use PCR with over 40 cycles when they need positive tests ? About what science are you talking about?
The science is congruent with the morality and dreams of people who own big pharma .
A study can be tortured until sing whatever “scientist” wants or has been ordered to want.
In the US and Canada near 100% of local materials are delivered by truck. If the truckers only represent a small % of truckers then the threat is meaningless. If however, there is wide spread sympathy amongst truckers, essential products could dry up.
No one knows at the moment.
When they say “trust the science,” what they really mean is “trust what government spokespersons say the science is.”
These have been demonstrated to be two entirely different things.
Certainly under the Trump administration they were.
So what are the alternatives, find out for yourself? Most ordinary people don’t want to take the time and trouble to ferret out the actual research papers and probably wouldn’t understand it if they did.
Without the science you’re left with conspiracy theories dreamt up by crackpots or those with more malevolent intent or half-baked medical speculations pushed as established therapies. Clinical trials? We don’t need no clinical trials.
The science says that other remedies exist. But I wouldn’t expect seversky to understand the science.
Seversky,
From August, 2021, the Journal of American Therapeutics: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/08000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.7.aspx
Yet, doctors are being censored and fired for promoting the use of Ivermectin, or for using it to treat their patients. The mainstream media ridiculed Ivermectin as “horse paste” ever since Trump mentioned it.
Ivermectin has been demonstrated to be safe for humans, with little in the way of side effects. It’s cheap and has been used for decades safely even against similar viruses, as the paper points out. Yet, the government effectively banned its use against COVID-19. Why? Why ban the use of a known, safe, and widely-used drug? Why stop people from using it if they want to try it? Why get in-between doctors and patients and letting patients make informed decisions about their own lives, their own healthcare?
Are all these doctors and nurses who are quitting their jobs, or getting fired because they refuse to take a poorly-studied, rushed vaccine “nutjobs” and “conspiracy theorists?” Do you really believe forcing people to take an experimental injection that NO long-term studies have been done about is a good thing? How do you expect reasonable people to react when they are basically excommunicated from being able function in society simply because they want to try a safe drug or don’t want to be injected with something they don’t know what the long-term effects might be?
Over 90% of Canadians truckers are vaccinated even though the majority do not require them. The Ottawa truckers are a very small minority of truckers. The others keep driving, delivering essential goods. Just as all concerned essential service providers have.
The latest demand from the protest organizers is that they form a coalition government with the government opposition party.
To add to this, 25% of the trucks in the Ottawa protest have children living in them.
So, in short, they are demanding an unelected government and backing it up with human shields.
@Scamp
Give me a break. Who cares if they brought their children with them to Ottawa. The mandates themselves are affecting whole families, so why wouldn’t they all come along for the ride. Moreover, the protests have been entirely peaceful; the only dangers coming from inhumane police tactics. Human shields? Give your head a shake.
You’ve also missed the point. This protest isn’t about who is and who isn’t vaccinated. I’m double vaccinated and I fully support what these truckers are fighting for. Enough is enough. Time to move on. And no, they’re not a minority. Have you NOT seen the other blockades sprouting up across Canada and throughout the world? In fact, Canadian truckers may have quite literally saved the world. Yet, our own leader, who has acted like a complete ass-hat, continues to sow divide, slandering the truck drivers and their supporters with ever defamatory name possible. What an example of halfwitted leadership at the highest office.
Because the mandates aren’t affecting kids. Schools are open. Only an irresponsible parent would take their children out of school to attend a protest where the organizers themselves have said that the only resolution would be bullets.
And what inhumane tactics would those be? Fining people for:
1) blasting their horns?
2) Drinking alcohol in their trucks?
3) parking their trucks in fire routes?
4) defacing property?
Except that they said that the protest was about the requirement for truckers to be vaccinated to enter the country. Their demands change from one day to the next. If they are serious about protesting against mask mandates, vaccine passports for restaurants and other businesses, gathering limits and capacity limits in gyms, movie theatres, churches and sporting events, only an idiot would do it in Ottawa. These are provincial restrictions. Ottawa is not a provincial capital. It would be like protesting song lyrics at a gym.
If you are serious about fighting for freedom for everyone, you don’t do something that is preventing hundreds of people from working, preventing hundreds of people from attending medical appointments, keeping hundreds of businesses from opening for business, flagrantly breaking laws.
If you are serious, you don’t make demands that no government on earth could take seriously.
By the way. I live in Ottawa and have seen the protests first hand, and the damage they are doing to other citizens and businesses. And the behaviour of a small minority of the protesters towards people who choose to wear masks and businesses who require patrons to wear masks. You can argue that these are the actions only of a small minority of protesters, which is true. But what is most telling is the complete lack of response from the other protesters who witness these reprehensible actions.
Freedom also includes the freedom of people to wear masks and the freedom of businesses to require patrons to wear masks.
But let me make myself clear. I am not supporting the approaches taken by the government to address COVID. Like most governments I think they have done some things right and some things wrong. But the approach taken by the trucker convoy is self-defeating.
Whatever good points they have are lost in the ridiculous demands they have made and the “my way or the highway” approach they have taken to organizing this protest.
If you want to gain sympathy, you don’t alienate an entire community. Marketing 101.
@Scamp
Children are not affected when a parent (i.e., a trucker) loses their job? That’s completely laughable. The stress and tension a family goes through in such a circumstance is something I gather you’ve never had to endure. And because of Trudeau’ draconian mandates, many families are now facing this very prospect. Of course, one could say that they’ve got nobody to blame but themselves. But as many other people throughout the world believe, including many who are vaccinated, the choice should be based on individual preference; people shouldn’t be forced to get something they don’t want. Besides, it’s clear now that the vaccines have little to no effect on the Omicron variant. Time to move on.
Right, bringing your kids to a peaceful protest is irresponsible because they might miss some school. If you could only see the irony in what you’re saying. You are aware that school has been almost entirely remote for the last two years, right?
When did the organizers suggest that the only resolution would be bullets? I haven’t heard or seen any such comments. What I have heard, though, was an alt-left teacher from the Catholic School Board in Ottawa suggesting that counter-protesters take up arms against the truckers—quite disturbing really. You can read about it here: https://tnc.news/2022/02/07/ottawa-teacher-suggests-taking-up-arms-against-freedom-convoy-truckers/ In addition to this lunatic, there was the recent attack by another alt-left radical in Winnipeg, in which four protesters were intentionally struck by a vehicle. The only violence I’ve seen has come from those who espouse far-left ideologies.
What inhumane tactics would those be you ask? How about the denial of fuel to the trucks, which are housing people; the intent being to freeze them out of the city. If that’s not inhumane, then I don’t know what is. I agree about the horns. That would annoy anyone. However, it’s a protest, and protests are often noisy; the idea being to get the attention of those you wish to speak too. There demands haven’t changed. They want the federal mandates gone! But if they want the provinces to get rid of their stupid regulations as well, which is long overdue, then so be it. The entire world in moving on, except Canada. Enough is enough.
Wonderful! I’m from Ottawa too—it’s my home town. And while I no longer live in the city, I’ve got plenty of family and friends that still do, and they haven’t seen anything you’ve claimed too. In fact, they’ve sent me a number of pictures and videos showing the complete opposite; people (from all walks of life) getting along peacefully (many just looking for a hug), and who are trying their best to be respectful to the city’s inhabitants. Or, as my brother put it to me, “it’s like Canada Day on steroids.”
It’s funny you say alienate the community. There isn’t a single person I know who lives in Ottawa (and I know plenty of people) that is against the protesters being their; they all support it. In fact, I plan on joining some of them this weekend to show support. Honk! Honk!
We’re just going to have to agree to disagree. I support the truckers and their cause—it’s about time someone stood up to Trudeau! It’s not a self-defeating cause. On the contrary, these truckers are showing the entire world just how successful you can be when people choose to stand up to government overreach.
There is not a single trucker in the country facing financial ruin. For years there has been a significant trucker shortage. The only thing that would change, if they are not willing to get the vaccine, which is their right, is that they would have to limit their driving within the country.
Agreed.
They aren’t.
“ People who are fully vaccinated with at least two doses are 83.5 per cent less likely to end up in hospital and 91.9 per cent less likely to end up in ICU compared to people who are unvaccinated” Ontario Public Health.
But when the trucks rolled into town schools were all open for business.
https://twitter.com/janeqcitizen/status/1483008554298605568?s=21
No. Inhumane would be billy-clubs and teargas. Denying them fuel to pressure them to leave is a smart tactic. And it is downtown Ottawa. It is full of hotels. Nobody is going to freeze. Besides, who in their right mind thinks that allowing large quantities of flammable liquids in a large angry crowd is a good thing?
Then you obviously don’t know many people in Ottawa.
@Scamp
Funny, the truckers have a very different view as to whether or not these idiotic mandates are going to have an affect on their livelihoods. They must be misinformed.
Right, they’re not being forced, they just have to quarantine for 14 days upon returning to Canada, or, they can just get the vaccine. That’s some choice, though, especially when you’re trying to earn a living on a daily basis. In essence, they’re saying you don’t have to get the vaccine. But if you choose not to, we’re going to make your life as difficult as possible; so much so, that you’ll be unable to support your family with your current job. Yep, no compulsion there. Sigh!
Remember when Public Health said that we only needed to get to 70% fully vaccinated and then we’d achieve herd immunity?! Most people who have died from COVID also had co-morbidities or were in poor health.
Large angry crowd?! Clearly you haven’t bothered to go down town to see for yourself. Do yourself a favour, stop getting your information from the legacy media—it’s usually one-sided.
Of course. Now I don’t know anyone in Ottawa. Right!
Which is a moot point as the US won’t even allow them into the country.
So the solution is to cause disruptions resulting in hundreds of people to be laid off. Yup, that’s a mature attitude.
How is this relevant to your claim that the vaccines don’t do anything. The real statistics prove you wrong. Let me clip the data again:
“ People who are fully vaccinated with at least two doses are 83.5 per cent less likely to end up in hospital and 91.9 per cent less likely to end up in ICU compared to people who are unvaccinated” Ontario Public Health.
So their lives are meaningless?
I work downtown. I am there every day. Try walking around there with a mask on and see what the reaction is. I agree that the vast majority are peaceful and polite. But what is very telling is that none of these otherwise polite people intervene when someone is being harassed.
As I mentioned before, I support their right to protest but what they are doing now goes far beyond a legal protest.
From the Daily Mail article quoted previously,
People have a right to protest but I’d be pretty p’d off at that kind of noise level and be happy to join a class action lawsuit to stop it.
Scamp, the continuation, and escalation of the protest falls squarely on the shoulders of the Prime Minister. Not only has Trudeau refused to meet with the truckers (only recently did someone from the federal government finally decide to meet with the truckers), he also chose to marginalize and dehumanize the entire group, calling them racists, homophobes, transphobic, white nationalists, etc, etc, etc. Thankfully, most Canadians can see through the smear and the hysteria. If you’re emotional about the truckers protesting and assembling in Ottawa—actions that are protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms—then take it up with Trudeau.
It’s gone far beyond a legal protest? Show me where it says that people can’t assemble peacefully and protest in the Nation’s Capital. If the protest represented anything illegal, the police would have already shut it down. But it doesn’t, and that’s the rub.
Where did I say that their lives were meaningless?
It’s never a moot point to stand up for what you believe in.
I’m no fan of Trudeau. In fact, I think he is as dumb as a stump. But there is no government that would give in to the demands that were made.
Yah. Right.
You rationalized the high mortality rate of COVID as being less important because it is generally limited to people with comorbidities. What was I to think?
Of course it is, when getting what you want will make absolutely no difference.
After watching some posted FreedomConvoy videos and scanning/jumping through hours of live streams, it was gratifying to see peaceful but determined Canadian protesters without the violence, destruction, and faces distorted with rage as we’ve seen repeatedly in the U.S.
While Trudeau went into hiding, the peaceful protesters cleaned up trash, shoveled snow, fed the homeless, suppressed crime, were polite to the police, and basically had a good time together.
The workers of the world are indeed rising up regardless of the divisive politics promoted by the politicians and media to divide people from each other. Similar protests are occurring in France, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, and many other countries!
Here in the U.S., an amazing speech was recently delivered by civil rights attorney Tricia S. Lindsay that’s worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOxKpCeJPRE
-Q
@scamp
No fan of Trudeau? Please!.
Give me a break. Removing mandates for unvaccinated truck drivers, who operate their trucks alone, should hardly be considered a non-negotiable demand. At the very least, Trudeau could have just met with the truckers, like a normal and rational leader would.
Ah, I see, the police are incompetent. At what point are you going to accept the fact that the truckers in Ottawa are not doing anything illegal. They’re simply excising their right to protest, peacefully. Get over it.
Straw man! Pointing out a well established fact doesn’t devalue their lives, and nor should it be taken to mean that. Nice try, though.
“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”
– Bob Marley
So, if a person disagrees with the tactics used by the truck convoy they must support Trudeau? Can you seriously not see that it is possible to disagree with the approach used by both?.
Q, I see the speech, the doctrine proper (yes, it is not just legal but theological and Biblical at root) is interposition by lower magistrates — and Vindiciae, using Moses et al, includes emerging popular representatives here — on grounds that they too have legitimacy as servants of God to do justice. Where the broader context is the Reformation theology understanding that nationhood is under God [God, having created nations] and Government is also under God with the informed consent of the governed. So, we see the double covenant understanding, where certain nations have publicly acknowledged God as creator of their nation and that those in authority are there with their conditional consent, as ministers of God — even a Nero counts, where the point is duty and accountability — to do good and especially to uphold the civil peace of justice. In the case of Jamaica, the act of original covenant happened on the night of July 31/Aug 1 1834, where the slave population en masse went to dissenter chapels as the midnight hour of abolition neared, in aftermath of the 1831 Baptist War uprising and stout stance of Knibb et al in the UK calling the Christian people of the UK to understand what their BRETHREN were suffering in Jamaica. It was specifically renewed at independence, particularly through the Anthem, which is a prayer to our Eternal Father. less obvious are the Cross of St Andrew in the flag as the golden light in the nation and the cross in the coat of arms. In the case of the USA, the Congressional call — yes, Congress issued the call — for penitent prayer on May 17, 1776 is clearly in that context and, the Olive Branch Petition having failed, the Declaration of Independence pivots on that same understanding. Of course, there has been much ideological revisionising away from that but history is a little hard to change after the fact. KF
Kairosfocus @29,
Yes, exactly! While I don’t agree with Tricia S. Lindsay biblically, she made a brilliant and succinct legal and political case. She has my total respect to the point of my intention of donating to her education foundation.
However, Jesus described His kingdom as “not of this world,” or else His servants would fight.
This is why I accept neither Liberation Theology nor Dominionism. Rather, I view myself as a servant to the people around me and I pray “Thy kingdom come,” noting that every type of human self-government has inevitably failed under the weight of moral corruption–some much faster than others–which has always been blamed on “bad luck” or “That wasn’t TRUE socialism.”
My efforts focus on rescuing people from God’s impending judgment and directly helping those in need–prison inmates to be specific. It’s NOT to try to rescue any of this world’s institutions including academia, “science,” government, religion, economic systems, corporations, and so on.
Yes, but revision is far too slow for them. The Declaration of Independence has no legal standing and the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been interpreted into Swiss cheese.
No, it’s much faster to condemn and then destroy our founding documents for a brand new Fresh Start: totalitarian and (naturally) ruled by them. It will be a “living document” under continual revision on Twitter. As a socialist workers’ paradise, it will quickly degrade into an urban hell such as San Francisco or many other large American cities.
Eventually, I expect to be put into an internment/re-education camp with others who refuse to participate in monthly vaccinations and social credits. As Trudeau reputedly said about Canadian truckers, They’re just “taking up space” and we have to decide what to do with them.
I will be in good company and will feel honored to be on the correct side of the barbed wire.
-Q
Q, I referred to the Reformation era not current movements. Also to scripture starting with Ac 17 and 27 on nationhood and citizenship under God, Rom 13 pointing to government under God. Ac 27 is a case on using recognised rights to speak out (even while on the way to Rome as an appeals prisoner after two years of significantly corrupt lawfare), willingness to be on the losing side of the politics and emerging as the good man in the storm when things begin to fall apart; having clearly been a prophetic intercessor in the interim. Do not overlook the prophetic vision and word into the now situation given to one and all, exerting both witness to God and his kingdom the storm being judgement of consequences on folly, thus in outline the gospel with embedded kingdom ethics. Notice, those who had so cleverly put forth an unduly risky policy and had marginalised and defeated Paul’s prudence were now put to silence, having no hope or way to save the situation. Notice too that there was still some lawfulness in the community, they did not pounce on this gadfly to silence him as the ship of state envisions. This BTW also answers subtly to Plato’s parable of the ship of state. I think the time has come to refresh our vision of nationhood, citizenship, government and public policy. We are clearly in a global storm and the incompetence, folly and in some cases corruption of officialdom and political leaders is being brought out. KF
PS: Jamaica’s National Anthem:
PPS: O Canada:
PPPS: The Star Spangled Banner, 4 vv:
Thanks for the clarification, Kairosfocus. Yes, I’d projected your comments to the present.
I understand what you’re saying. And each person has a job to do where they’re placed. During my career in technology, I was able to maintain my integrity, productivity, quality, and voice, yet remain gentle, helpful, truthful, and non-confrontational, flawed as I am, of course. I’ve no doubt that my commitment to following Christ limited my advancement, but on several occasions, Divine Intervention preserved my job! Every morning, I was filled with peace and overflowing joy. I always remembered that our enemy is not flesh and blood, but the machinations and traps set by wicked spiritual entities who hate humanity and want to take us all down with them to their own destruction when the time comes.
The only thing that I’d add to your comments is that I was surprised at just how much compromise, corruption, jealousy, and hypocrisy exists within our society. But the people involved may not realize that they’re actually the victims. They’re trading their souls for not “the whole world” but something far less. The healthy alternative is building in general “from the bottom up” rather than the top down. Being an authentic servant of God to others is how we can be “the salt of the earth.”
-Q
Q, overnight, let’s look at Ac 27:
That was at new years, 2013.
KF
PS: Salt and light work by being present, relevant and being effective counters to darkness and decay. It is fair comment that in recent decades the Christian Faith in Europe and North America has been anything but such, with but few exceptions. Pope John Paul II, the great, was a notable exception that we need to heed as well as the Church in Poland, where even the Communists had to have chaplains for their army. The Ac 27 model is key here.
PPS, Ship of State:
F/N: Wikipedia on Canada’s appointed Senate:
That sober second thought function by appointed, distinguished people from across the nation effectively life peers of the Dominion is clearly needed at this point.
KF
An actual trucker speaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJgQaqBCXc8
F/N: Found his Newsweek piece https://www.newsweek.com/elites-are-smearing-truckers-because-were-doing-their-job-representing-people-opinion-1675022
–> Recall, Canada is not only The Polite Society but the nation whose ordinary people earned a reputation second to none at Vimy Ridge 1917 as epitome of performance on the battlefields of freedom in two world wars. Ask the Dutch, who liberated them from the Nazis. Ask the French, why they ceded Vimy Ridge to Canada in perpetuity. Ask the Germans what they thought and think of Canadians (and Australians and New Zealanders, not to mention the Scots and British in general). Then ask yourself where and how modern liberty and democracy emerged, even including those rebels just South of Canada. Then, think again.
KF
PS: Let me clip Gord[on] McGill, who is living up to that name:
Q, actually insofar as the DoI is a successful piece of natural law reasoning that actually constituted a new polity, USA, it has treaty and covenant level legal standing. The attempt to pretend that it does not, is one of the worst bits of revisionising. Indeed, here is where things get really radical, insofar as it addresses our core, creation order nature and what flows from it, due balance of rights, freedoms, duties and the role of state as guardian of same, it is not merely an American legal document but a universal one whose often unacknowledged relevance and validity as transnational law lie behind for instance how modern Commonwealth constitutions pivot on bills of rights. Not that the 55 or so founders legislated for humanity and poofed law into being by their imagined power but that they identified and published a due recognition of our built in law. Ponder the force of the laws of nature and Nature’s God, with self evident truths of equality in creation order leading to rights that are unalienable, implying duties and then the consent of the governed. Every regular election reflects that force of law. So, it is time for us to roll back the invitation to nihilistic factionalism and lawless oligarchy that lurks in legal positivism, returning to a sounder base for law. Hence, BTW, my emphasis on the Ciceronian first duties. KF
PS, note, here https://nccs.net/blogs/articles/the-declaration-of-independence-part-of-american-law and here, better i think https://thedispatch.com/p/of-course-the-declaration-is-law
PPS, wait till you ponder some pivotal and actually foundational natural law reasoning in . . . shudder, scream and run for the exits! . . . the B-I-B-*-E. (Talk about a dirty word guaranteed to terrify the vampires!)