A followup essay from reader Chris. The Cost of Freedom and the Weight of Fear (pdf)
People often talk about the cost of freedom, but we usually talk about it as if buying freedom was a one-time deal, and that it’s a price that has already been paid in full by our forebears.
The price of the freedom we enjoy in the west has been paid in blood many times over, in places like Crecy, Lexington, Concord, Gettysburg, Vimy Ridge, and on the beaches of Normandy, and Okinawa.
But freedom isn’t a done deal. It isn’t something you can pay for once, and then have forever. It’s a dynamic and delicate thing that must be constantly and vigilantly protected.
For Justin Trudeau, and those who think like him, the whole question of liberty in Canada was settled long ago. Canadians have their freedoms, and the people who are disrupting life in Ottawa are not only deluded, but dangerous.
In Canada, politicians of all stripes have a long history of watering down absolutes in the fruitless pursuit of an illusory middle ground. There is no principal that can’t be compromised in the name of being “balanced”. As a result, in Canada, we don’t have freedom: we have “freedom, but”. We have freedom of speech, but not speech that is determined to be hateful. We have freedom of assembly, but not if it threatens commerce. We have freedom of worship – so long as it’s in accordance with public health. We have freedom of mobility, except if we’re unvaccinated. We have freedom of assembly, but the police will come to your door if they think that you might be supporting the Freedom Convoy truckers.
We have the right to liberty, security of the person, and bodily autonomy, unless the national, provincial, or regional Chief Medical Officer of Health declares a public health emergency, in which case you may face arrest for non-compliance if you contravene an emergency health order.
That is why these protests are happening.
Giving politicians free rein term after term is the equivalent of giving small boys books of matches and sending them out to play in a barn full of straw.
We are in this situation because the vast majority of our electorate was content to do exactly that.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (Union for Gov Employees) arranging a counter “protest” in Ottawa… says every employee received an email. (10 min vid) – Link: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-canadian-got-a-strange-email-today/
Apparently, Trudeau has used this Emergency Act when it wasn’t needed.
Everything was in place with police and people were complying to orders.
His overreaching banking attacks has no just cause and is technically illegal.
So, I take it Trudeau shot himself in the foot for absolutely no good reason.
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We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Senate of Canada to vote against a motion for confirmation of a Declaration of Emergency when such motion is brought before the Senate.”
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDoWy7WhAC6rizlRzvlwEDWthjCZUI-FXqOY2zT0kmoLDuQw/viewform
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“So, I take it Trudeau shot himself in the foot for absolutely no good reason.”
Like everything he’s ever done, he even managed to fuck up a suicide attempt.
Nobody has stopped Trudeau so far, right? It’s a bit soon to say Trudeau failed at imposing tyranny. Clucking to the state-funded media doesn’t do anything. Barring a no-confidence vote or a new law revoking this action, he will have gotten away with it.
As much for the futures of my children, and yet to come grandchildren, I fight this current battle against tyranny to respect the blood spilt by my WWII vet father and his brave allies. Indeed, the fight for freedom never ends because the threats to it never do, either.
However, the fact parliament isn’t already taking the steps to quickly remove Trudeau tells me that we patriots may have already lost this country. Our politicians have steadily co-opted the power that is supposed to belong to the people, including the pols who call themselves “conservatives”. They have now pushed it to the point where we are virtually left with no power to control our own lives, at all. All cheered on and promoted by the woke lunatics and state-controlled media, of course.
Finally, it is hard to miss the fact that where freedom was historically something earned by bloodshed, the elites have simply bought it for themselves with cash and influence. From their entitled ivory towers, I doubt that they have any real concept of what freedom actually is.
What did Ronald Reagan say? Basically: we’re always only just one generation from losing freedom. The Marxists have exploited that fact to the hilt.
In the USA, the government gets around constitutional restrictions, by actively, blatantly using social media as its enforcer.
Now, in Canada, the banks are being used to suppress freedom of speech and association.
Find the Cost of Freedom. Disregard their present day politics. Message remains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRYhUyw9qX0
When the RSeeMP come to my door and demand my papers and tell me I’m free, but … I hope I have the courage to say don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out.
As I’ve written before, Section 1 of the Charter basically neuters every other provision following it. If the government can always determine which of your democratic freedoms are “reasonable,” you don’t have any freedoms. You have privileges which can be yanked away without notice and in a completely arbitrary fashion, all under the cover of some pol saying that removing your freedoms was “reasonable.” And for those who keep saying that the Emergency Act has to follow the strictures of the Charter because the Charter is the supreme law of the land, if the government’s interpreting both of those laws, then the government’s always in the position to say “We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”
I’ve been warning people about this problem for decades, and everyone seemed to think that our government was “too nice” to ever do something so awful, yet here we are. Get used to it. It’s not going away.
Garth
Let us all pray now
as Preying is above our intellectual grade!
Thank you, other Chris.
In the words of Liberal PM Paul Martin, “… on the bloody beaches of Norway.” ! Idiot. Or Drunken John McCallum, Liberal Defense Minister celebrating the courage of soldiers at “Vichy Ridge”. When questioned, he said that he never heard of Vimy Ridge. Don’t let your sons and daughters fight and die for this country anymore because the Liberals PArty of Canada doesn’t believe that it ever existed.
“We have freedom of speech, but not speech that is determined to be hateful”
Uhm, no. “We have freedom of speech, but only if it is speech that the government likes and approves. Anything else is branded hateful.”
Fixed it for ya.
Give Trudeau credit for one thing: he knew that the Canadian media could be bought cheaply and they would support all of his fascism.
Nobody ever underestimated the intelligence and integrity of the Canadian welfare media.
Mind you he had a expert on tap.
Chrystia Freeland was a journalist before her present gig so she would know just how corrupt her media colleagues are.
How many other MPs were journalists before this and eagerly or silently support Trudeau’s attack on the independent media in Canada?
There are several CPC MPs who were journalists.
They seem pretty silent on Freeland’s attack on the independent media.
The Charter is an anti-freedom document crafted by a tyrant-supporting pervert.
Relying on it is like cutting one’s throat.
We already know that we have rights and we don’t need a snowboard instructor to tell us what they are.
At my request, Kate has updated the file with an updated version I had sent her in the early hours of yesterday morning.
In it, I was better able to articulate what I was trying to talk about – about how hard it is to know if you’re doing the right thing. We’re talking about preserving liberty and freedom, but it’s hard to be sure if we actually are when our own lives and own issues seem so small compared to big events in history.
It’s hard to hold on to our convictions when everyone who matters tell us that we’re selfish, and that we’re wrong.
I write too much. I try to say too much. Let me make it short and simple:
If you doubt yourself because you’re fighting for small issues or for freedoms that might seem unimportant because they are not yet life and death, remember this: all tyranny starts as petty tyranny. All tyranny ends in death.
You’re not wrong. You’re not crazy. You’re not a bigot. You will be vindicated.
Thanks for writing that I think it is getting lost in the mass amount of info posted today; hopefully it gets reposted.