In response to this post, Gerry K. shared some profound thoughts:

Neil’s message of the tragic failed attempt of an at sea rescue and the courage of men in the midst of it, did bring a tear to my eye.. I agree with him that all our “leaders” have failed us, and that they do not care one iota about us or our trials throughout our lives, that they only care for their selves and how they can advance their own well being and wealth, even if that requires them to sacrifice us to obtain that advancement. The issue is not, that many are aware of this deliberate damage being done to humanity, it is that, not enough who do wake up can accept this reality, because it would mean that they were deliberately deceived and that they were gullible enough to to believe the deceit. This would be an attack on their core belief system. They cannot allow the reality to change their world view, so they prefer the comfort of the lies, even as they are led to enslavement by it.

The issue then, is how do we reach these people who deny the real truth to preserve the comfort of their own sanity?
I don’t have the answer, I don’t think anyone does. However, if we don’t continue to seek that answer, if we just surrender, the WEF cohort will win, and they are getting close to achieving those goals.

There are times I think that SDA has helped to preserve my sanity on a number of occasions, so thanks to Kate, and the SDA contributors for that. 2023 and beyond will be tough times for all, personally, I don’t plan on going out without a fight, how about you? Wishing all SDA posters blessings for a safe happy Christmas!

SDA is blessed to have several brilliant, insightful people reading and commenting.  One of them is Bob Daye.  To the previous post he wrote this:

Whenever I hear “the science”, I know bullshit is next.

Not once did I hear any media advise the public via PSA’s about upping their Vitamin D, which is very effective at preventing the flu.

They never questioned the policies, lock downs, distancing, masks, nothing; they just cheerlead the unscientific nonsense coming out of the public health and screamed “cases cases cases deaths deaths deaths” constantly – willing partners in the fraud.

Public health bureaucrats who ordered this draconian reaction and the premiers who signed off on it right up to the PM sock puppet need to be held accountable. They need to be fired and arrested, including the cheerleaders in the media fortifying the lying politicians.

What we have essentially witnessed was/is our governments at war with the people and it’s not over. They want to destroy our energy and our farms. They will be denying the privilege of private vehicle ownership. There never was any intent to put sufficient infrastructure in for EV vehicles, they will just outlaw new ICE (Internal Combusion Engine) vehicles. They want to force everyone into a 600 square foot shoe box that we rent but can never own. They want us eating their artificial food. The carbon they want to eliminate is us.

WEF is a terrorist organization that has the blessing of our government. The government need to be replaced and the colluding bureaucrats arrested. The WEF needs to be dismantled and tried at Nuremberg 2.0, then hung publicly.

What’s the difference between Canada and North Korea?

One country is a police state under the boot of a young tyrant scion of his father’s dynasty who brutally crushes opponents, free speech and liberty and the other is a country in Asia.

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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.

SDA regular Petter O’Donnell wrote something exceptionally thought provoking last night:

The percentage who might support the convoys may well be fairly low (my guess 20 to 30 per cent) but then another 50 per cent are probably fed up with the mandates but just hope in the abstract that they will go away because “experts” will say they are no longer needed. So that 50 per cent need to be educated about the fact that experts are not likely to lean that way because the other 20 per cent not yet covered in this analysis are those who like this situation and are woke enough to get what it really means, i.e., global socialist revolution (with them in charge, elections from now on are just to be show theatrics designed to ratify what the elites have already decided must be).

How might this convoy event reach that silent and rather undereducated (in the school of reality) 50 per cent? Only by articulating a message they can possibly understand. Chasing Charlie Angus around the back streets of Ottawa is not going to be that message. Neither are angry cries of outrage against Jewish bankers and “all those people” from “over there.”

This is in part because a very considerable portion of the 50 per cent are in fact those people from over there.

There are a few articulate people who might be assets in Ottawa and I hope they find their way to that benighted town and take part. But how exactly can this be structured so that the best possible message emerges? We know the media will twist the words of those they interview, who are bound to be largely flummoxed by the sudden appearance of a camera crew and microphone, and blurt out inner feelings that, while sincere and understandable, will sound like “Grrrr” to most neutrals.

This is why we have political parties. In a normally functioning country, when this disorganized congregation of like-minded people arrived in Ottawa, they would find important, well-known people that they voted for, ready to provide their facilities and expertise, and their credibility which would negate the media mischief, and keep the tasked police agents at a safe distance with nothing to exploit. This is where even the great Trump failed, had he employed the services of sensible advisors and not his son in law etc, he would have been told that Jan 6 was a cluster waiting to happen, and would seriously damage his chances of achieving his stated goal of litigating the fraudulent election.

I don’t know if Pollievre or Bernier read SDA very much, but for the sake of our country and for liberty and all things that are sensible, good and sane, you two and a few others need to get together and shepherd this flock when it is fully assembled, and speak for them. I cannot conceive of O’Toole being of any use here, he should just take a two-week vacation.

This can work. But it can also fail in a miserable and grotesque way too, and no doubt there are those planning just such an outcome. Watch out for them. It might be a good organizing principle to say, anyone who actually lives here should not join in, we can’t trust anyone in this city. I sure wouldn’t.

SDA regular Peter O’Donnell shared much wisdom yesterday:

Between the radicals of left and right, there is a vast dead zone which I would divide into two roughly equal halves. One of them is faintly conservative and would prefer that our radical philosophies would win out, but they don’t want trouble and are too easily intimidated by liberal social contacts and family etc. The other half are mildly progressive and are willing to remain ignorant as to how the globalists are actually doing what they do, because they want them to succeed no matter what laws are broken or rights are trampled. Hence the puzzling statistic that 70% of U.S. voters think there was fraud in 2020 while (if there was fraud) only 50 to 55% voted for Trump. (if there was not fraud then 30% are correct and 45% voted for Trump).

It is this “go along to get along” mentality that has allowed the globalists to accomplish what amounts to a revolution without firing a shot other than one at Ashli Babbitt and another at Scalise (and his fellow baseball players of that incident). And of those crimes, only one is currently even viewed as criminal.

It should be clear to any rational person that the climate change movement is a thinly disguised effort to overthrow free market economics in favour of directed socialism, in which unproductive alternative energy sources will be heavily subsidized so they can continue to pretend that they actually generate any electricity worth mentioning. So many people out there, however, just want to virtue signal or live in peace and harmony with the idiots down the street and at the other end of their video phone calls, so they pretend not to see any of this and act nervous if anyone does mention it. If our economies slowly fall apart under the dead weight of faulty assumptions then they will go down with the ship, never having tried to avoid hitting the iceberg dead on.

I wonder what Churchill or Maggie Thatcher would have said at Glasgow and specifically to Greta Thunberg. “It’s past your bedtime” might be a start.