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This Is How We Resist
We have seen many posts recently bemoaning the sad state of affairs in our country, and even in the world. There have been calls to resist, laments of despair, concessions to the inevitability of a Marxist, Socialist, Woke society.
I present to you Pastor Artur Pawlowski who has now been sentenced by the Canadian Government to probation with a condition that he must parrot “the majority of medical experts in Alberta” regarding social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccines, even when he speaks in church.
Pawlowski told Fox News he has no intention of complying with Germain’s sanction, which he condemned as “unconstitutional,” “illegal,” and a clear instance of “compelled speech like in China and North Korea.”
“This crooked judge wants to turn me into a CBC reporter or CNN reporter, that every time that I am in public, every time I’m opening my mouth, I am to pray their mantra to the government,” he said.
He added: “I’m not hiding. I’m not a criminal. I said I will not obey this court order. I refuse to obey a crooked judge’s order. He’s not a judge, he’s a political activist,”
This is how we must all resist.
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Pass the popcorn.
A man of courage. How inspiring!
Compelled speech is contrary to the Canadian Constitution, but I suppose the judge believes that the Constitution is a “living document” which means whatever the ruling class deems expedient.
My tagline back in the BBS days was “A living Constitution is no Constitution.”
The title of the OP is, unfortunately, probably accurate.
Unless we follow the advice of the last line.
Or be the person who causes a run on popcorn. There is lots of opportunity.
Walter Williams used to say that if you believe in a living Constitution, how about we play poker with living rules?
Great analogy. Do you know where/when Williams said this?
I find the judge in this case, the Honorable Germain, with no amount of self reflection, found that Pawlowski’s “oozed hubris” From the article: Germain took particular umbrage at Pawlowski’s speaking tour throughout the United States over the summer, during which he met with lawmakers and warned audiences that Western governments increasingly resemble the communist regime in Poland he fled as a young man.
Footage from the trip, the justice claimed, was evidence that “Pastor Pawlowski oozes hubris, while relishing in his notoriety.”
How dare Pawlowski speak freely a different point of view? What type of man would dare challenge the “majority of medical experts” and the Judge himself! I mean if the Majority agrees, then those who disagree, the minority, must be silenced, and if they refuse, then they must be jailed.
He resists.
I heard him say it more than once when he guest-hosted for Rush, but I think it was used in one of his books as well.
Adopt the power of “no”.