Hi! I’m one of the Canadians who won’t sit still for this, never locked down, never got vaccinated. And never will and never gave I been so disappointed with my fellow Canadians as throughout this scamdemic. At first I thought, oh this will never fly!! And to my amazement it did fly! People are so short sighted. No memories at all. No guts either. Aside from the truckers who finally stepped up. And were slapped down and punished along with their supporters and money illegally stolen from the illegally frozen accounts. And still no great cries to correct this, apparently as a people we are good with having our bank accounts arbitrarily frozen and stolen. I don’t know what to tell you now. It’s such a disappointment to learn that as a country we are not brave nor free either. Good luck to you hon!
My mom was born in BC. Married my US born dad. Lives in California, almost as bad as Canada.
I tell her Canada changed, she’s 92.
Your story is shocking and so disgusting.
I read that it was UN/ NATO military that stomped on the peaceful protesters.
That Trudue already sold out Canada’s sovereignty to WEF.
It’s appalling that most courts are so corrupted. Here in US too. Look at our 1/6 prisoners, tortured and held for the crimes Nancy and her murdering thugs did.
Lord help us
I’m sorry about your grandparents, it’s all so tragic.
I'm aware of the rumors about UN thugs being used to crush the protest. It wouldn't surprise me; indeed it's very plausible. But there's no strong evidence yet.
I'm sure in a few years the use of UN shock troops to chastise recalcitrant populations will have moved on from "that's a crazy conspiracy theory" to "of course, we've been doing that for years, why do you even think that's a bad thing?"
I'm glad my grandparents had the good sense to cross that land border in the 1910s or 20s as illegal aliens, so my Dad (and I) could be born free in the U. S. of A. Not nearly as free now as then, of course, but compared to Canada, still a huge benefit.
I was born in the great state of Maine, but it turned blue after I left. And now I'm in the belly of the bear, California, but I spend half the year in southern Baja. Anyway, so far I'm free to move to a freer state whenever I wish. When that changes, I hope I'm ready.
That may well be but my (tattoo artist) daughter, vaxxed and boosted (or she would have lost her business) flew to Hawaii prior to Christmas last year. Four days before Christmas, when she was at the airport to fly home to Canada, she tested positive at the airport for covid. Without recourse, she was accompanied under armed guard to a “covid hotel” in Honolulu where she was interred for ten days at her own expense. So the US is almost as bad as Canada too!! Let’s not congratulate ourselves too soon here!!
Great piece, John, and best wishes for both of your grandparents. In the post-democratic era, the family is the revolutionary cell that the regime fears the most. Family cohesion is acceptable within the elite and favoured subaltern groups, unacceptable in the general population where unapproved loyalties are troublesome by definition. As the regime radicalises, we can expect the biopolitics to become more aggressive.
Some Europeans placed a lot of stock in freedom, as you note. Others not at all. The freedoms available in the modern era were made possible by the ability of elites to rely on a range of mechanisms to maintain a reliable degree of subordination in place of feudal law or chattel slavery. Unacknowledged servitude is the gold standard of tyranny and we are all living with it.
Turning the population into de facto laboratory mice (or rats) without their informed consent is a sly acknowledgement of the wider political reality that elites long ago made social experimentation a central and defining feature of technocratic government.
The utility of medical expertise as a rationale for restricting established freedoms has allowed regimes across the world to do whatever they like, while simultaneously relying on the accumulated cultural and ethical capital of the medical profession.
We are a long way from seeing that exhausted. For governments that are haemorrhaging trust, this is a very attractive option indeed.
Even if the vaccines failed therapeutically, the forced vaccinations themselves and the stigmatisation of vaccine hesitancy provided a reliable means of testing for compliance, thereby identifying the troublemakers and reinforcing obedience amongst the rest. Governments could hardly ask for more
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Like the proverbial frog in a pot of water. The water is almost at the boiling point and we, who know the truth, have been shouting to the other frogs to get out long ago, but instead they're dragging us back into the boiling water. It's all so insane. Next step, COVID camps. Over my dead body, of course. I'm grateful that most of my family, even the few who are jabbed, are aware of the lies. The question is...who will stand up when they start dragging us away???
More like a basket of crabs being lowered into a deep fryer.
No one will do anything. It doesn't affect them and hey - all you have to do is take the jab, right? Choices have consequences. No one's forcing you. Why are you making a scene?
I'm sorry you are having to deal with this. I can't reflect too much on Justin Trudeau, he is an unthinkable human. I can think of a couple longer term solutions, but nothing for the immediate tragedy you face.
1. US legislation to streamline/prioritize the immigration applications of freebloods facing political persecution.
2. An dating website/application for freebloods with an emphasis on 1/2 of the match being a U.S. citizen.
This will only be effective if we can prevent America from descending into tyranny as well, but an influx of freebloods would help with that as well.
1. requires seizing control of the federal political apparatus. Not a bad goal but not short term effective. So long as fedgov is back in patriotic hands, might as well just annex Canada. Won't take more than a week.
2. This is actually quite a fantastic idea, and in principle could be implemented in the short term.
Since I'm a madman, I repurposed a locals page I made for a non-profit that I decided not to use. I still need to change the URL, which can be done through customer support: https://americasveteranparty.locals.com/support/promo/AVPC
As a Quebec expat living in Nova Scotia, I'm not surprised at the mentality of the provincial bureaucrats in Quebec City. The federal government is a sorry excuse for a national government, having gone from bribing the provinces to acting like authoritarians in the few jurisdictions that matter to ordinary folks. I cannot leave Canada legally, which is something I never imagined would happen.
A strong motivator for me to come back to the US from NZ was to see my grandparents. I'd have chosen to stay in NZ as well if I'd been forced to be shot up to travel.
As it was, I resigned myself to stay in the US for precisely that reason once I came back. Things are too unpredictable now. Even though, unlike Canada, NZ has removed the mandate for permanent residents to be jabbed to get back into the country, they've demonstrated they are too capricious to be trusted about it.
It's the sheer caprice which is one of the most maddening aspects. Hard to make plans when you know the state could reverse course completely at a moment's notice.
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The problem for these people is in understanding how the leaders and the system are evil.
I am not religious, but ones of the reasons I think religious people did better in the pandemic is that they believe in a higher system of government. Even if it doesn't exist it's inconsequential with regard to the present situation, because the belief has already freed their minds up and they believe they have another world to look forward to when this is all over. I've shifted in and out of various ideological libertarian-ish systems over the years that openly acknowledge the corrupting influence of power, even if that crowd is generally too naive and ignorant about psychological phenomena that sort sociopaths into positions of power. (Generally, they deny this because they are fond of seeing capitalists are heroes and producers.)
Many of the secular "awake" people, I have found, have had some formative experience in childhood where they had to swim up against authority or the crowd in some way, so they are geared toward distrust.
So this "awake" community is a rather interesting mix of people to say the least. A big shake-up.
Many people simply aren't geared to distrust. The system has always worked for them and there has been no major upset to their lives, ever. Even if that does happen, the idea that there might be some elite people who want to kill a large percentage of the population for ideological purposes also really doesn't register with them. Especially in the west. "It can't happen here because of our CON stitution etc."
Facing the truth is too hard for them emotionally.
What a long way we've come since Medieval theodicy, when the existence of spiritual evil and wickedness in high places (and everywhere else) was taken for granted, and the question that exercised people was how this could be permitted by a loving deity. Now that society has adopted the general view that God does not exist and humans are no more than clever animals, one would have expected society to default to the assumption that self-interested evil is universal. After all, just look at how animals behave. Instead, the problem of evil has changed from explaining its presence, to trying to explain to the herd that it IS present.
For myself, while not remotely what most people would consider religious in any normative sense, I take the presence of a universal mind ordering the cosmos, as well as the existence of the soul before, during, and after biological incarnation, as more or less axiomatic. While impossible to prove, it seems implicit in all that we understand of physics and cosmology. At the same time, as with recognizing the presence of evil, or discerning anything else that can't really be proven in any quantitative sense, seeing the world in such a fashion is an active choice. When the data are ambiguous and incompatible interpretations are possible, the interesting question becomes - what are the consequences of following one or another interpretation? I'd argue that the resilience demonstrated by many of the religious in the face of modernity's onslaughts, the depredations of the plandemic being only the most recent and dramatic, is a powerful argument in their favour.
C. S. Lewis said something to the effect that there are two reasons to believe in democracy:
(1) That every person's perspective is so valuable that it should be considered in shaping the government and its laws. This is manifestly absurd -- as George Carlin said, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize, half of them are even dumber than that!"
And (2) that everyone is so fundamentally susceptible to corruption and abusing any power they get, that political power needs to be broken up and decentralized as much as possible. This seems obvious, especially after all the power-grabs done in the name of "The Science."
Anyway, the USA's Founders were clearly guided by the second rationale: checks and balances are needed to protect against abuse of power and corruption, including that of mob rule. Unfortunately, the first rationale (that everyone's opinion is equally important) became the official myth of American culture, leading to an abrogation of checks and balances in the name of "democracy," which (just as the Founders feared) led to mob rule, and because the mob hates critical thinking, this quickly led to the tyrannical rule of any sociopathic conman who is able to attract a large enough mob of mindless disciples. The Founders had it right. We gotta get back to their vision in the USA.
I loved watching the Canadian Truckers' Convoy, and it gave me hope for the people of Canada. But after seeing Justin Turd-eau crush this peaceful, grassroots, multicultural protest with all the usual lies and wokeist talking points while unleashing heavy-handed fascist thuggery on peacefully assembled regular people, I would say the hope for Canada's people lies on the other side of a French-style revolution. (This may be true for the USA as well, but we're not as far gone as Canada yet -- at least in the red states.)
Being from Australia I understand what you are going through. I know how it feels to be a prisoner in your own country and I’m sorry you can’t see your family. I was separated from my partner for 2 years and 4 months he finally was able to fly here when our country opened. I still can’t visit him in the USA because of the policy there. The world has gone mad. I never thought I would see this tyranny in western countries in my lifetime. I can at least travel out now to places that don’t require vaccination. But it is an illusion of freedom only. I fantasise about fleeing to live in Mexico because I just cannot fathom living in a country that was willing to remove freedom from its people. I can only imagine the heartbreak and anger of people still trapped in Canada (and that of those like yourself who are effectively trapped outside it). So sorry for what has happened to us all. The division of people across the world is something that will not be easily fixed.
"This is the moral equivalent of saying that it isn't rape if you beat a woman until she 'consents' to sex, and that furthermore, the beating is not assault, because the woman can make it stop whenever she likes if she simply 'consents' to the sex that the beating is intended to get her to consent to.
Maybe that strikes you as hyperbolic."
No. That's an perfect analogy, and you are exactly on target.
Interesting comment. I was under the impression that the m in mRNA stood for 'messenger', so named because its cellular function is to carry genetic instructions from the nuclear DNA to the ribosomal machinery in the cytoplasm for the purpose of protein synthesis.
Hi! I’m one of the Canadians who won’t sit still for this, never locked down, never got vaccinated. And never will and never gave I been so disappointed with my fellow Canadians as throughout this scamdemic. At first I thought, oh this will never fly!! And to my amazement it did fly! People are so short sighted. No memories at all. No guts either. Aside from the truckers who finally stepped up. And were slapped down and punished along with their supporters and money illegally stolen from the illegally frozen accounts. And still no great cries to correct this, apparently as a people we are good with having our bank accounts arbitrarily frozen and stolen. I don’t know what to tell you now. It’s such a disappointment to learn that as a country we are not brave nor free either. Good luck to you hon!
It's been extremely painful to watch, yes. Like seeing a loved one descend into heroin addiction.
My mom was born in BC. Married my US born dad. Lives in California, almost as bad as Canada.
I tell her Canada changed, she’s 92.
Your story is shocking and so disgusting.
I read that it was UN/ NATO military that stomped on the peaceful protesters.
That Trudue already sold out Canada’s sovereignty to WEF.
It’s appalling that most courts are so corrupted. Here in US too. Look at our 1/6 prisoners, tortured and held for the crimes Nancy and her murdering thugs did.
Lord help us
I’m sorry about your grandparents, it’s all so tragic.
It's enraging.
I'm aware of the rumors about UN thugs being used to crush the protest. It wouldn't surprise me; indeed it's very plausible. But there's no strong evidence yet.
Yet always being the operate word …
I'm sure in a few years the use of UN shock troops to chastise recalcitrant populations will have moved on from "that's a crazy conspiracy theory" to "of course, we've been doing that for years, why do you even think that's a bad thing?"
I'm glad my grandparents had the good sense to cross that land border in the 1910s or 20s as illegal aliens, so my Dad (and I) could be born free in the U. S. of A. Not nearly as free now as then, of course, but compared to Canada, still a huge benefit.
If you're in a red state especially, you're golden.
I was born in the great state of Maine, but it turned blue after I left. And now I'm in the belly of the bear, California, but I spend half the year in southern Baja. Anyway, so far I'm free to move to a freer state whenever I wish. When that changes, I hope I'm ready.
That may well be but my (tattoo artist) daughter, vaxxed and boosted (or she would have lost her business) flew to Hawaii prior to Christmas last year. Four days before Christmas, when she was at the airport to fly home to Canada, she tested positive at the airport for covid. Without recourse, she was accompanied under armed guard to a “covid hotel” in Honolulu where she was interred for ten days at her own expense. So the US is almost as bad as Canada too!! Let’s not congratulate ourselves too soon here!!
From what I've heard Hawaii is especially paranoid.
Great piece, John, and best wishes for both of your grandparents. In the post-democratic era, the family is the revolutionary cell that the regime fears the most. Family cohesion is acceptable within the elite and favoured subaltern groups, unacceptable in the general population where unapproved loyalties are troublesome by definition. As the regime radicalises, we can expect the biopolitics to become more aggressive.
Some Europeans placed a lot of stock in freedom, as you note. Others not at all. The freedoms available in the modern era were made possible by the ability of elites to rely on a range of mechanisms to maintain a reliable degree of subordination in place of feudal law or chattel slavery. Unacknowledged servitude is the gold standard of tyranny and we are all living with it.
Turning the population into de facto laboratory mice (or rats) without their informed consent is a sly acknowledgement of the wider political reality that elites long ago made social experimentation a central and defining feature of technocratic government.
The utility of medical expertise as a rationale for restricting established freedoms has allowed regimes across the world to do whatever they like, while simultaneously relying on the accumulated cultural and ethical capital of the medical profession.
We are a long way from seeing that exhausted. For governments that are haemorrhaging trust, this is a very attractive option indeed.
Even if the vaccines failed therapeutically, the forced vaccinations themselves and the stigmatisation of vaccine hesitancy provided a reliable means of testing for compliance, thereby identifying the troublemakers and reinforcing obedience amongst the rest. Governments could hardly ask for more
The civic nonsense has thoroughly discredited the medical profession.
Like the proverbial frog in a pot of water. The water is almost at the boiling point and we, who know the truth, have been shouting to the other frogs to get out long ago, but instead they're dragging us back into the boiling water. It's all so insane. Next step, COVID camps. Over my dead body, of course. I'm grateful that most of my family, even the few who are jabbed, are aware of the lies. The question is...who will stand up when they start dragging us away???
More like a basket of crabs being lowered into a deep fryer.
No one will do anything. It doesn't affect them and hey - all you have to do is take the jab, right? Choices have consequences. No one's forcing you. Why are you making a scene?
Damn man, I am very sorry to hear about the family issues. I hope it all works out for you and yours.
Thanks, man.
Reminds of that old joke about “we’ve already determined what you are, now we’re just haggling over the price.
Reads like the injection goes straight to brains and converts them to mush. You are in a bad spot... Sorry.
I'm sorry you are having to deal with this. I can't reflect too much on Justin Trudeau, he is an unthinkable human. I can think of a couple longer term solutions, but nothing for the immediate tragedy you face.
1. US legislation to streamline/prioritize the immigration applications of freebloods facing political persecution.
2. An dating website/application for freebloods with an emphasis on 1/2 of the match being a U.S. citizen.
This will only be effective if we can prevent America from descending into tyranny as well, but an influx of freebloods would help with that as well.
1. requires seizing control of the federal political apparatus. Not a bad goal but not short term effective. So long as fedgov is back in patriotic hands, might as well just annex Canada. Won't take more than a week.
2. This is actually quite a fantastic idea, and in principle could be implemented in the short term.
Since I'm a madman, I repurposed a locals page I made for a non-profit that I decided not to use. I still need to change the URL, which can be done through customer support: https://americasveteranparty.locals.com/support/promo/AVPC
Also, eventually I'm hoping that this could be turned into a non-profit run by a couple of friends of mine in tech. Powerful propaganda potential against the DIE religion. I mention them in this brief article: https://grantesmith.substack.com/p/the-shadow-side-of-diversity-equity?s=w
I don't have the bandwidth to start up another non-profit, but maybe if I get involuntarily separated I will and can take the lead.
As a Quebec expat living in Nova Scotia, I'm not surprised at the mentality of the provincial bureaucrats in Quebec City. The federal government is a sorry excuse for a national government, having gone from bribing the provinces to acting like authoritarians in the few jurisdictions that matter to ordinary folks. I cannot leave Canada legally, which is something I never imagined would happen.
A strong motivator for me to come back to the US from NZ was to see my grandparents. I'd have chosen to stay in NZ as well if I'd been forced to be shot up to travel.
As it was, I resigned myself to stay in the US for precisely that reason once I came back. Things are too unpredictable now. Even though, unlike Canada, NZ has removed the mandate for permanent residents to be jabbed to get back into the country, they've demonstrated they are too capricious to be trusted about it.
It's the sheer caprice which is one of the most maddening aspects. Hard to make plans when you know the state could reverse course completely at a moment's notice.
Yes. I also suspect it’s designed to accelerate the process toward serfdom and poverty.
That's so blindingly obvious that it's honestly baffling how covidians still can't see it.
The problem for these people is in understanding how the leaders and the system are evil.
I am not religious, but ones of the reasons I think religious people did better in the pandemic is that they believe in a higher system of government. Even if it doesn't exist it's inconsequential with regard to the present situation, because the belief has already freed their minds up and they believe they have another world to look forward to when this is all over. I've shifted in and out of various ideological libertarian-ish systems over the years that openly acknowledge the corrupting influence of power, even if that crowd is generally too naive and ignorant about psychological phenomena that sort sociopaths into positions of power. (Generally, they deny this because they are fond of seeing capitalists are heroes and producers.)
Many of the secular "awake" people, I have found, have had some formative experience in childhood where they had to swim up against authority or the crowd in some way, so they are geared toward distrust.
So this "awake" community is a rather interesting mix of people to say the least. A big shake-up.
Many people simply aren't geared to distrust. The system has always worked for them and there has been no major upset to their lives, ever. Even if that does happen, the idea that there might be some elite people who want to kill a large percentage of the population for ideological purposes also really doesn't register with them. Especially in the west. "It can't happen here because of our CON stitution etc."
Facing the truth is too hard for them emotionally.
What a long way we've come since Medieval theodicy, when the existence of spiritual evil and wickedness in high places (and everywhere else) was taken for granted, and the question that exercised people was how this could be permitted by a loving deity. Now that society has adopted the general view that God does not exist and humans are no more than clever animals, one would have expected society to default to the assumption that self-interested evil is universal. After all, just look at how animals behave. Instead, the problem of evil has changed from explaining its presence, to trying to explain to the herd that it IS present.
For myself, while not remotely what most people would consider religious in any normative sense, I take the presence of a universal mind ordering the cosmos, as well as the existence of the soul before, during, and after biological incarnation, as more or less axiomatic. While impossible to prove, it seems implicit in all that we understand of physics and cosmology. At the same time, as with recognizing the presence of evil, or discerning anything else that can't really be proven in any quantitative sense, seeing the world in such a fashion is an active choice. When the data are ambiguous and incompatible interpretations are possible, the interesting question becomes - what are the consequences of following one or another interpretation? I'd argue that the resilience demonstrated by many of the religious in the face of modernity's onslaughts, the depredations of the plandemic being only the most recent and dramatic, is a powerful argument in their favour.
C. S. Lewis said something to the effect that there are two reasons to believe in democracy:
(1) That every person's perspective is so valuable that it should be considered in shaping the government and its laws. This is manifestly absurd -- as George Carlin said, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize, half of them are even dumber than that!"
And (2) that everyone is so fundamentally susceptible to corruption and abusing any power they get, that political power needs to be broken up and decentralized as much as possible. This seems obvious, especially after all the power-grabs done in the name of "The Science."
Anyway, the USA's Founders were clearly guided by the second rationale: checks and balances are needed to protect against abuse of power and corruption, including that of mob rule. Unfortunately, the first rationale (that everyone's opinion is equally important) became the official myth of American culture, leading to an abrogation of checks and balances in the name of "democracy," which (just as the Founders feared) led to mob rule, and because the mob hates critical thinking, this quickly led to the tyrannical rule of any sociopathic conman who is able to attract a large enough mob of mindless disciples. The Founders had it right. We gotta get back to their vision in the USA.
I loved watching the Canadian Truckers' Convoy, and it gave me hope for the people of Canada. But after seeing Justin Turd-eau crush this peaceful, grassroots, multicultural protest with all the usual lies and wokeist talking points while unleashing heavy-handed fascist thuggery on peacefully assembled regular people, I would say the hope for Canada's people lies on the other side of a French-style revolution. (This may be true for the USA as well, but we're not as far gone as Canada yet -- at least in the red states.)
Being from Australia I understand what you are going through. I know how it feels to be a prisoner in your own country and I’m sorry you can’t see your family. I was separated from my partner for 2 years and 4 months he finally was able to fly here when our country opened. I still can’t visit him in the USA because of the policy there. The world has gone mad. I never thought I would see this tyranny in western countries in my lifetime. I can at least travel out now to places that don’t require vaccination. But it is an illusion of freedom only. I fantasise about fleeing to live in Mexico because I just cannot fathom living in a country that was willing to remove freedom from its people. I can only imagine the heartbreak and anger of people still trapped in Canada (and that of those like yourself who are effectively trapped outside it). So sorry for what has happened to us all. The division of people across the world is something that will not be easily fixed.
"This is the moral equivalent of saying that it isn't rape if you beat a woman until she 'consents' to sex, and that furthermore, the beating is not assault, because the woman can make it stop whenever she likes if she simply 'consents' to the sex that the beating is intended to get her to consent to.
Maybe that strikes you as hyperbolic."
No. That's an perfect analogy, and you are exactly on target.
Great and tragic read, John Carter. Will be linking tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Nope, that was a typo. There's always one lol.
Are you another stateless Canadian refugee?
Interesting comment. I was under the impression that the m in mRNA stood for 'messenger', so named because its cellular function is to carry genetic instructions from the nuclear DNA to the ribosomal machinery in the cytoplasm for the purpose of protein synthesis.