Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 4:39
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Thursday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 9-12

Happy Thursday and welcome back to me! Sorry to go radio silent for a week with no warning, but we had plans to visit friends in the southern U.S. and had to skedaddle a day early to avoid the crazy Midwest weather patterns that prove climate change is real! We went to Texas where the temps ranged from the mid-forties to the mid-eighties, the skies were blue, the rain was brief, and the smell of freedom was everywhere. Plus, there was a lot of LGBFJB attitude, which we very much enjoyed.

Thanks to those of you who checked in on me.

The Brandon administration lurches from one failure to another, all the while blaming Trump and white supremacy for the results of his insane policies. (Well, they’re not actually his policies. He doesn’t know what he’s saying or what he’s endorsing. All of his policies are made up by the junta in Washington and he just nods along.) And while the nation is focused on the misdirection of Ukraine and Putin’s laughter at Biden—the only guy to go toe-to-toe with him!—we have some truly alarming developments to our north as Justin Brandeau goes full dictator — and the Canadian Parliament backs him up!

As things have developed, Canada has, in the idiomatic sense, become a joke, that is, a bad one, in effect, a joke that is not a joke. In other words, we never expected the unexpected, a liberal democracy transformed almost overnight into a fascist dictatorship, a travesty of a former assumption. Just yesterday, who would have thought that truckers’ operating licenses would be revoked. Or Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson would intend to sell confiscated rigs under the Emergencies Act. Or that banks can freeze accounts of individuals and corporations involved in the protests without a court order, as announced by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who, as Michael Walsh points out in The Pipeline, sits on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum, “the most dangerous threat to real democracy and freedom in the world today, and whose journalist grandfather was reportedly a Nazi collaborator.” Or that a thrice-elected prime minister and darling of the electorate would assume the mantle of a totalitarian despot. Or that people would be savagely beaten by masked police without badge numbers and jackbooted RCMP officers think they are “living the dream” at the prospect of “police horses trampl[ing] peaceful protesters.”

Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website and writes a lot about Islamist extremists, their threat to liberal democracy and has, himself, been banned from Britian over his views, writes this:

The death of freedom in Canada went by a party-line vote Monday evening, with the ruling Liberals and the far-Left New Democratic Party voting in favor of Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, and the Conservatives voting against. The vote on Hitler’s Enabling Act, which ended the Weimar Republic, also went along party lines, although most of those who weren’t National Socialists were too intimidated by that point to do anything but go along. In Canada, none of the Liberals and New Democrats who voted for the Emergencies Act appear to have pondered the lessons of the Left’s history and how this whole thing can backfire on them so very easily.

Trudeau claims that he needs emergency powers to seize the bank accounts of his opponents and hound them in other extraconstitutional ways because even though the Freedom Convoy has dispersed, it could gather again any time, you see. Another threat to “our democracy,” as Leftists in both Canada and the United States refer to their hegemony, is just around the corner. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh claimed Monday that the Freedom Convoy “came here to overthrow a democratically elected government. It is a movement funded by foreign influence, and it is fed on disinformation. Its goal is to disrupt our democracy.”

If that reminds you of the Democrats’ rhetoric about their fictional Jan. 6 “insurrection,” that’s because Canada’s Liberals and the Democrats in the States are working from the same playbook: demonize their opposition as insurrectionists and restrict their activities accordingly.

It’s that last paragraph that sums up my alarm over the developments in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (all under the British monarchy), ostensibly liberal democracies where freedom is valued. It’s amazing how quickly each devolved into a dictatorship, imposing unlawful “emergency” police powers on their citizens and cutting off any opportunities to resist or object by word or behavior.

The reason for my concern is that the United States has been seeing more and more of its laws being circumvented or ignored with unending mask mandates, vaccination requirements, school closures, BLM rioting and looting and murders, J6 protestors being jailed without bond or charges, elected officials saying that white supremacy (read: Trump voters) is the greatest threat to “our democracy,” Critical Race Theory being taught to our kids, attempts to surveille our bank accounts, the invasion happening along our southern border and so much more.

Imagine that the truckers making their way to the U.S. capitol in our own Freedom Convoy are arrested and held without bail; that anyone donating to the cause or bringing them food or water or gasoline has their bank account frozen or are arrested as accessories to an attempted “overthrow” of the government or a threat to the “elected” leader of the US—exactly how many of us will be in the streets demonstrating and demanding that the government stand down?

The answer is none, I’m afraid.

The reason I think that is because there haven’t been any for the J6 protestors; there haven’t been any against the rioters and anarchists in various Democrat-run cities. I’m not sure what it’s going to take to disabuse Resident Brandon of his unhinged policies.

The American people are armed and have been arming themselves at a record-setting pace for a few years now. (The 393,347,000 estimated number of guns is from 2017 and doesn’t include the most recent data.) Neither Canada, Australia nor New Zealand have liberal gun laws. Canadians are allowed to have guns but there is no legal right to possess a firearm; in Australia, private gun ownership is strictly regulated; and in New Zealand, only a quarter of their citizens have a firearm.

Even with our top-heavy gun ownership, I’m not sure what we can expect in the face of tightening controls.

Interesting news just breaking:

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revoked his use of the Emergencies Act, the quirk in Canadian law that allowed his cabinet to have the power to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters and use tyrannical police power to break up the vaccine freedom protest.

I don’t know why Brandeau has taken this step, but it seems to me that the damage is already done by invoking the Emergencies Act to begin with. What’s to stop him from using it again on another citizen protest?

And what’s to stop something similar from happening here?