Oh, Canada!
How quickly a proud and free democracy can descend into fascism
Some of my loveliest childhood memories were of the trips my family made to Canada. To Montreal, to Quebec City and further North where even in the summer, the air seemed crisp and fresh. The people were amazing! On the metro one time, we were confused about how to get to our next destination and we asked a stranger on the platform. He actually walked us to where we were going instead of just directing us!
Then, in the 1980s, my sister and I went to the World’s Fair in Vancouver and drove on the Trans-Canada Highway to Banff where we spent a wonderful week hiking and getting to know the place. At that time (it may still be so), much of that highway was simply 1 lane in each direction, often with a sheer drop off a very narrow shoulder. My recollection is that people would move over to the shoulder as soon as they saw us approaching - even if we were not that close - to allow us to pass. It scared the daylights out of us but they would just give us a friendly wave as we went by and that was that.
I love the people of the United States. They are kind and caring and very strong as well. But the Canadians I’ve met in my life have been the most generous, hospitable, and peaceful people imagineable.
Which is why scenes like the one below are so out of touch with who I’ve always thought Canadians are and what they represent.
Who did it better - ISIS or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)?
After nearly 2 years of witnessing brutality from our own police and military in Australia, you would think nothing would shock me, but when elderly women using the aid of a walker (in the red jacket pictured below) are mowed down by police horses and they don’t even stop to see if she is OK, I start to realise that this lack of humanity is the real epidemic and there is no treatment available or sought to prevent it. Reports are that this woman died in hospital but there is no confirmation of that.
The fact is, authority is only respected when it respects the rights and freedoms of those it is meant to protect. In Australia, the police are treated with derision and outright hatred by many because they have lost the moral high ground through their actions. In many cases, they are now considered to be the enemy.
The Canadian RCMP is the same. From beating and shooting a tear-gas canister into the leg of Rebel News journalist, Alexa Lavoie, to confiscating petrol that was intended to help truck drivers not freeze to death in the harsh Canadian cold, they have consistently been on the side of tyrants rather than on the side of the rule of law and Canadian Charter rights.
Calgary Police Officer of 24 years, Brian Denison, has made a heartfelt appeal for the police to uphold their oath to protect the people. His words should be heard by all those in police forces everywhere - in Canada, in Australia and in every country where the police have been abusing innocent protesters in the name of government control.
https://www.facebook.com/CalgaryFreedomCentral/videos/344422237694705/
Here is a transcript of his message provided by Elizabeth Hart:
Hello everyone. It’s February 18th.And…I’ve taken some time to try to sort through my thoughts, from what I saw today, and I just wanted to put this out to you because I don’t know how else to express to you what I’m thinking. Especially in writing, that’s very difficult.
What I observed today…was the breaking of a country. Canada truly has fallen.
We have a fascist dictator, ‘leader’, that has given powers out to squash people who do not agree with him and his government.
The people doing his bidding are the very people that I called brothers and sisters.
I did your job for 24 years, up until last December, on the street.
The police officers that took part today in Ottawa, from all services, need to check your moral compass. I know your conscience inside of you was saying “This is wrong, I should not be doing this”.
You need to step off the line, all of you. You need to continue to be that person that stands up and protects the Canadian citizens.
Those protesters in Ottawa were peaceful. They were loving. They were those folks that are your neighbours. You want to know why I know that? I was there. I was a peaceful protester. I spoke on that stage. I walked around for hours, both during the day, and at night.
What Trudeau has said, and the lying mainstream media, is all untrue. You were acting on lies. Your leadership is acting on lies. They are not upholding their oath to the people of Canada.
I’m appealing to you as a police officer to not partake in what you know is wrong and unlawful. You are hurting other Canadians, your neighbours, the same people that live in your communities, the same people that you see at hockey games when you take your children, at the gymnastics club, when your little girl is doing gymnastics. The people you see at a coffee shop, when you’re out of uniform, or in uniform, those are the people that you perpetrated that horrific action upon today.
I saw horses trampling on people that were standing there. I saw people kneed in the ribs, and kicked, butt-stroked with your teargas gun. I saw all that. And from one cop to another, what you did was wrong.
If you were one of those police officers, you should not be. And for all those other police officers, standing around, it’s time to step off that line. It’s time to stand up for who you are. A law-abiding person. Someone who upholds the law. Someone who protects those that need protecting, and allows those who want to protest lawfully, which they were, and continued to, to be able to protest.
You were supposed to facilitate that. But your leaders, and the leader of this country, have made you into a strong arm of the government.
This country has a major wound because of these actions today, one that I don’t know will heal.
I was proud to be a police officer for 24 years. Today, my badge is tarnished, because of the actions of some of you. The rest of you need to really recalibrate, and find out who you really are, because if that’s who you really are, I don’t want you to be my police officer in my community.
I’m appealing to you guys, the ones in Ottawa especially, from all over, all services. There’s not just Ottawa Police Service, comes even from Calgary, where I served for 24 years.
Start looking at what you guys have done today, and see if you would be proud to go home and tell your children what you did today, that this was a defining factor in your career, that you made a difference, and that your wife or your significant other, husband, or mother and father, would be proud of you, for fulfilling your duty today.
If you can’t answer that question, then you need to stop doing it. You need to tell your leaders “No, I won’t do this”.
If it costs you your job, so be it. But here’s the thing, it might cost you your job anyway.
From the actions I saw, horrific. Please, do not continue with what I saw today. I am begging you, as a human being to human being, let alone cop to cop, do not continue with what I saw today.
Policemen need to be different. You are held to a higher standard. You are not just to do the bidding of an unlawful government, or a government who doesn’t like people protesting what they have to say.
Stand up. Step off that line. Do not do anything that you would not be proud of, to tell others.
the 1930s are becoming so much more comprehensible...tragic