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Canada: Bill C-4 Banning LGBTQ Conversion Therapy Comes into Force

Abide Project Roundtable: Bill C-4: Blowing Up the Canadian Church

In January, Bill C-4 went into effect across Canada. This is often described as the ban on “conversation therapy,” but it has implications far beyond human sexuality. The panel will discuss the implications for the gospel and its effect on the Christian church in Canada and beyond. The panel will be moderated by Rev. Stephen Terpstra (Borculo CRC, Zeeland, MI) and include CRC pastors Rev. Ryan Braam (Brighton (ON) Fellowship CRC) and Rev. Matt Vanden Heuvel (Covenant CRC, Calgary, AB), as well as special guests Iain Provan (professsor of biblical studies at Regent University) and Marty Moore (legal expert at the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms).

ALLIE BETH STUCKEY: Conversion Therapy & Canada’s Assault on Christianity; Guest: Dr. Joseph Boot 

Conversion therapy ban 'erodes and attacks' all types of freedom

Bill C-4 & The Criminalization of Evangelism in Canada

PASTOR JOHN MACARTHUR: Will Christians Be Jailed in Canada? -

Bill C-4 Criminalizes Conversion Therapy

SEE: https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2022-01-19/canada-bill-c-4-banning-conversion-therapy-comes-into-force/;

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On January 7, 2022, Bill C-4, a federal bill that amends Canada’s Criminal Code by creating new criminal offenses related to conversion therapy, came into effect. The new offenses include knowingly causing another person to undergo conversion therapy, promoting or advertising conversion therapy, and receiving financial or material benefit from conversion therapy. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti and Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien introduced the bill on November 29, 2021. On December 1, members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons unanimously agreed to expeditiously adopt a motion to pass the bill. Soon after, the bill was also fast-tracked in the Senate, and on December 7 it was passed without amendment. The bill received royal assent on December 8, 2021. The bill itself stipulated that the law would come into force 30 days after it received royal assent.

Contents of the Bill

The bill defines “conversion therapy” as follows:

[C]onversion therapy means a practice, treatment or service designed to

(a) change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual;

(b) change a person’s gender identity to cisgender;

(c) change a person’s gender expression so that it conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth;

(d) repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour;

(e) repress a person’s non-cisgender gender identity; or

(f) repress or reduce a person’s gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth.

For greater certainty, this definition does not include a practice, treatment, or service that relates to the exploration or development of an integrated personal identity — such as a practice, treatment, or service that relates to a person’s gender transition — and that is not based on an assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is to be preferred over another.

The bill amends sections 320.‍102–104 of the Criminal Code to establish the following as indictable offenses:

  • Knowingly causing another person to undergo conversion therapy or providing such therapy, which is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.
  • Knowingly promoting or advertising conversion therapy, which is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.
  • Receiving a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained or derived directly or indirectly from the provision of conversion therapy, which is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.

Each of these offenses can also be punished on summary conviction.

Bill C-4 amends subsection 164(8) of the Criminal Code to define “advertisement of conversion therapy” as “any material — including a photographic, film, video, audio or other recordings, made by any means, a visual representation or any written material — that is used to promote or advertise conversion therapy contrary to section 320.‍103.” Moreover, the bill states that “[i]t also amends the Criminal Code to authorize courts to order that advertisements for conversion therapy be disposed of or deleted,” including from computer systems or the internet. (Bill C-4 summary; sec. 2(2).)

In addition, the bill amends the existing offense under section 273.3(1)(c) of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the removal of children from Canada for “specified purposes,” to now include subjecting them to conversion therapy abroad. This is also a hybrid offense that is punishable by up to five years imprisonment on indictment.

Previous Attempts to Ban Conversion Therapy in Canada

Previous attempts to pass a bill to ban conversion therapy in Canada were unsuccessful. Bill C-6, which was considered during the second session of the 43rd Parliament, “died on the order paper when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament before the last federal election.” An even earlier Bill C-8 that was under consideration in early 2020 was “derailed” when the “government turned its focus almost exclusively to its emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The previous Bill C-6 was eventually adopted in the House, despite opposition from dozens of Conservative MPs, and it faced opposition from Conservative senators in the Senate as well. One news report indicates that “[t]hose opposed to the legislation generally criticized it for offering too broad a definition of conversion therapy.” Another news report notes that “[a]t the time, Conservative Senators expressed concerns about the bill and said it merited a fulsome study in the fall.”

Passage of the Current Bill

This time around, the bill had cross-party support, and it was Conservative MPs and senators who proposed fast-tracking the bill through unanimous consent motions in both chambers. One news report stated that this shift was “likely in an attempt to make [the conversion therapy bill] no longer a wedge issue used by the Liberals.” Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos, who proposed the motion to expedite the bill in the Senate, reportedly declared that “C-4 is a bill that has been turned into a controversial political football, unfortunately. We saw the House of Commons do the right thing a number of days ago and pass this piece of legislation unanimously.” Advocacy groups also praised the “unanimous support” for the bill in Parliament, with No Conversion Canada founder Nicholas Schiavo claiming that the passage of the bill “sends a clear message to LGBTQ2 Canadians: you are valid and deserving of a life free from harm.”

How a Trial in Finland Could Have Worldwide Effects on Government Persecution of Religion

Finnish Lutherans under investigation for upholding biblical teachings on sexuality ...

Prosecution against Diocesan Dean Juhana Pohjola, ThD - Mission Diocese

BY THE FEDERALIST

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/how-a-trial-in-finland-could-have-worldwide-effects-on-government-persecution-of-religion/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

‘If the prosecution wins, the ability of pastors to preach the gospel is effectively over in Finland, without criminal sanction.’

The trial of two Finnish Christians for publicly stating mainstream religious teachings that reserve sex only for heterosexual marriage is heading towards a judgment scheduled for March 30. The case could end up hitting Finland’s Supreme Court and even the European Court of Human Rights, which means its outcome could affect the rights of religious believers and political dissidents across the world.

Members of Parliament Paivi Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola have been prosecuted now for nearly three years after Rasanen tweeted a picture of Bible verses in June 2019. Complaints about this tweet led to her prosecution under Finland’s “hate crimes” laws.

The government investigation of Rasanen’s tweet uncovered a theological pamphlet she wrote and Pojhola published in 2004, for which they have both been charged. The booklet states classic Christian teachings about sex as reserved only for marriage, and defines marriage as comprising only one man and one woman for life.

“The teachings concerning marriage and sexuality in the Bible arise from love to one’s neighbor,” Rasanen said in a Feb. 17 statement. “This case is about whether it is allowed in Finland to cite the Bible and to agree with it in topics that go against the tide and challenge the current ethos and thinking.”

Oral arguments in the case wrapped up this week on Valentine’s Day. On Feb. 17, a Finnish court also heard a related request from the prosecutor to force a Finnish radio show to take offline a two-minute audio clip of Rasanen speaking about marriage in 2019.

“Being criminally charged for voicing my deeply held beliefs in a country that has such deep roots in freedom of speech and religion feels unreal,” Rasanen told The Federalist.

Prosecutor Seeks to Ban Christian Speech, Including From Pastors

On Feb. 14, Pojhola’s lawyer Jyrki Anttinen argued “if the prosecution wins, the ability of pastors to preach the gospel is effectively over in Finland — without criminal sanction,” said Lorcan Price, a lawyer assisting the case for Alliance Defending Freedom International who attended the Helsinki hearing. An Irishman, Price listened with the aid of a Finnish translator.

The Finnish prosecutor who brought the case is seeking a fine of one-third of Rasanen’s annual income, the public erasure of documents and audio she’s made on the subject, and a financial penalty against the small religious organization Pohjola runs, the Luther Foundation. If the two Christians are convicted, the steepest possible penalty could be two years in prison.

“I’ve been to his headquarters, the Mission Diocese of the Lutheran Evangelical Church,” Price noted. “It’s fairly utilitarian. It’s not luxurious — there’s no marble foyer with a fountain and receptionist. There’s a kitchen and a communal area and Bishop Juhana’s office.”

“They’re a breakaway from the main Lutheran church,” Price continued. In fact, Pohjola was expelled from the state church in 2014, also for affirming classic Christian theology about differences between the two sexes. He was elected bishop by his growing missionary congregations last year. “The main church abandoned the teachings but got to keep all of the buildings. That’s what we have here. He’s in fairly basic accommodation, let’s say. I think anything of their income is outrageous.”

Attempt to Expand Government Censorship

It’s not clear Finland’s hate crimes law even bans controversial speech, but Finland’s top prosecutor is arguing that it does. If the prosecutor wins the case, it would mark an unprecedented expansion of identity laws that exist in most European countries, many U.S. cities and states, and that U.S. Democrats are trying to make a nationwide law in The Equality Act.

“The prosecutor believes the law means you can’t preach the gospel in public, but some believe it means you can’t directly incite violence,” Price noted.

The charges against the two Christians include an attempt to criminalize statements they made years before the law being used to prosecute them passed. That’s the only charge against Pohjola, and one of three charges against Rasanen.

“The fact that Bishop Juhana is even in this trial is Kafkaesque, it’s insane,” Price said. “He’s being charged with something he did as the head of a charitable foundation, the Luther Foundation, that publishes theological documents, for a document he didn’t write that expresses mainstream, orthodox Christian teaching… Finding that Bishop Juhana as a publisher broke the law would damage the rights of publishers to publish things that are controversial and as a church leader [would] damage his ability to publish and evangelize and disseminate in public Christian teaching.”

The Federalist interviewed Pohjola in person in November, and Rasanen via Zoom last week. As their case concluded arguments this week, U.S. members of Congress reiterated their public concerns about its implications for human rights both worldwide and in the United States.

Case Likely To Set International Precedents

It’s likely their case won’t be over even after the court decision likely out at the end of March, said Price. That’s because both parties are likely to appeal if they lose.

If the court convicts Rasanen or Pohjola, or both, their lawyers will “definitely” appeal, Price said. The Finnish prosecutor also seems likely to appeal if the two Christians are not convicted, as she has appealed similar cases attempting to criminalize politically incorrect views, he said.

The Finnish legal system allows prosecutors to appeal if they don’t win a conviction in their first-round at court. In common law countries like England and the United States, usually, only those convicted of crimes can appeal, not their prosecutors, except under unusual circumstances, Price said.

“I think that’s very burdensome for those accused,” he noted. “So you can go through multiple levels of the court and be vindicated at each level and the prosecutor can keep dragging the accused through the courts.”

All this means Rasanen and Pohjola’s cases could very well end up in Finland’s Supreme Court, where if they lose they could appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, from where Price spoke to The Federalist by Zoom on Tuesday. That means their case could affect how all of Europe treats Christian doctrines and free speech more broadly.

Like the United States, Europe has been increasingly restricting political and religious speech, especially in international courts against countries seen as unfashionably conservative, such as Hungary and Poland, Price said. This case, therefore, comes at a crucial time as speech rights are receiving less government support than has been long-standing in the West.

Silencing Attempt Backfires

Before this case, Rasanen and Pohjola’s theological booklet was printed years ago in a few hundred copies and mostly used within tiny Lutheran churches. Their prosecution has caused it to be distributed around the world and translated into several other languages, Price said.

“This obscure little pamphlet has made its way around the world thanks to the efforts of the prosecutor to shut it down,” he noted.

Being targeted for their faith has given Rasanen and Pohjola a global platform for preaching the Christian message of forgiveness for all sins and the deep importance to Christians of the Bible as the very Word of God. Rasanen told The Federalist that because of her case, European media are quoting Bible verses and people are debating their meaning. She says she’s received emails from people saying her case has prompted them to start reading the Bible, which the pastor’s wife and grandmother of nine says she’s read repeatedly since age 16.

Rasanen spoke to the huge worldwide audience of Fox News this week about her case. Political and religious leaders around the world have also expressed support for Rasanen and Pohjola’s rights to free speech and religious exercise, which are legally recognized in European human rights agreements.

“Many people and journalists around the world regularly ask me: ‘What keeps you going, from where do you find the courage to speak up?’” Rasanen told The Federalist. “My motivation comes from the Bible and from my will to have an impact on society. A conviction based on the Christian faith is more than a [superficial] opinion. The early Christians did not renounce their faith in lions’ caves, why should I then renounce my faith in a courtroom? I believe it is my calling and honor to defend the foundational rights and freedoms at this point of my life.”

While some people have been scared into silence about their beliefs because of this prosecution, Rasanen said, it’s also prompted 1,000 Finns to stand in front of Parliament holding their Bibles up to “collectively show strong support for the freedom of God’s Word.” The Finnish Association for Freedom of Speech and Religion was also founded last June to support the legal defense for this case and possibly others.

“In one sense the prosecutor has frightened part of the population into being quiet and in another, it has drawn huge attention to the issue,” Price said. “We can’t underestimate the chilling effect of these prosecutions. She [the prosecutor] cannot but regard this as at least a partial success that sending a tweet about the Bible could result in the police coming to your door. Not everyone has the grit and determination of Paivi.

“That’s our concern with these hate speech laws. It denudes society of the opportunity to hear something that can be shocking and provocative but is also a different perspective and for Christians founded on a fundamental truth of scripture.”

Huge LGBT libel case against Montana pastor stalled after his bankruptcy filing this week

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22a/MT-Pastor-forced-into-bankruptcy/index.html;

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Jordan Hall, Baptist pastor and publisher of a popular conservative news site, is being sued for libel by transgender lobbyist and well-funded LGBT “lawfare” mob

Far-left Judge had scheduled hearing Feb. 16 to determine whether the pastor is a “dangerous person,” subject to fines even before his trial

Pastor forced to file for bankruptcy in federal court

February 18, 2022
ALT TEXT
Pastor Jordan Hall is principled and fearless. That's why the LGBT movement is out to destroy him.

Pastor Jordan Hall, a conservative pastor who is the publisher of Montana’s largest and most influential conservative news site, has been forced to file for personal bankruptcy as he faces a massive LGBT lawsuit. Even before his trial, the judge was expected to impose fines in a hearing that had been scheduled for Feb. 16. That proceeding was suddenly postponed once Hall filed for bankruptcy.

As we reported earlier this week, Pastor Hall is a publisher of the Montana Daily Gazette. He is being sued for libel and $250,000 damages by Adrian Jawort, a “transgender” American Indian activist who is also a registered lobbyist at the Montana State Capitol. Jawort – a man who wears a dress and heavy makeup, and stands 6’3” in women’s heels – claims that Hall libeled him in an article describing a confrontation allegedly involving Jawort and some legislators at the Capitol. As we described, this case has no merit and would be thrown out in any normal court setting.

Not your regular State Capitol lobbyist. From Jawort’s public Facebook page: Christian verses certainly seem to anger this fellow. The Satanic horns, inverted cross on his forehead, and blood dripping from his mouth indicate where he’s coming from.

However, Jawort is represented by a group of well-funded leftist attorneys who have already spent an estimated $150,000 against Hall – and the trial has not even started.

In addition, Jawort’s lawyers were able to get the case moved away from Hall’s home county to a judge, Elizabeth Best, who is arguably the most ruthlessly left-wing in the state. She has already shown her strong bias against Hall. In a recent court filing, she characterized his Gazette article as employing “an offensive and ignorant epithet used by transphobic people, obviously aimed at demeaning Jawort.”

Judge Best had scheduled a special preliminary hearing for this past Wednesday, Feb. 16, to determine if Hall is a “threat” to public order. Jawort’s lawyers claim that Hall’s use of Bible quotes and Christian imagery when speaking about the lawsuit constituted “threats” to the plaintiff, his attorneys, and the judge. According to information we had, Judge Best was very likely to fine Hall up to hundreds of thousands of dollars – before the trial even started.

Pastor Hall forced to file for personal bankruptcy

On Monday, Feb. 14, Pastor Hall filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in federal bankruptcy court. Pastor Hall has not discussed any details about this. But according to a news report, his filing “listed assets of less than $50,000 and that attorneys’ fees were the primary drivers of his bankruptcy, and those bills ranged between $100,000 and $500,000.”

Judge Best put a “stay” on the Feb. 16 hearing. The Daily Montanan newspaper explained:

Hall’s bankruptcy filing also puts an immediate stay, or halt, to any legal proceedings, meaning that it instantly stops the sanctions hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday. The stay is in effect for as long as 30 days, and Judge Benjamin P. Hursh [the federal bankruptcy judge] may ultimately decide how the case will proceed.

A seemingly impossible situation for Pastor Hall

Going into personal bankruptcy is certainly a horrible situation. Although Pastor Hall has not discussed this, it’s easy to see the seemingly untenable situation he was put in.

He and his attorney are facing a team of leftist lawyers who have unlimited funding to destroy him. He is up against a far-left judge who has already shown extreme bias against him, including allowing the opposing lawyers to impose an aggressive and invasive “discovery” process that clearly goes beyond any objective necessity for the case. There was a strong feeling that the judge was preparing to declare him a “threat” and impose a huge fine on him.

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Judge Elizabeth Best [Great Falls Tribune photo]

Just how bad is Judge Best? Here’s what Bart Crabtree, President of the Montana Citizens Council on Judicial Accountability, recently wrote about this case:

Eighth judicial district court judge Elizabeth Best is arguably one of the worst judges ever to sit on the bench. There is case after case in Cascade County of her usurping our state statutes, violating the judicial canon of ethics, and a character of intemperance. Her appointment to this particular case is by design and of no surprise. She believes she is the master rather than a servant of the people, and is not liked in Cascade County where there is a fervent desire to have her removed. She has already demonstrated undue bias towards Mr. Hall in statements she has apparently made, according to the [Sidney, MT] Herald, which automatically disqualifies her as judge in the case, per MCA 3-1-805.

After the trial is over, the only appeal is to the Montana Supreme Court, which is very left-leaning. It already has ruled against Hall on one issue regarding this case that would have seemed obvious – whether Jawort is a “limited public figure.” So there is no confidence that Hall would get a fair hearing there. (Maybe this must go to the U.S. Supreme Court?)

Final thoughts

Jordan Hall’s real “crime” is being unafraid to publish the truth about the LGBT agenda. The “libel” charge is a red herring concocted to bludgeon him. His Daily Montana Gazette may be the most widely read news site in the state. That’s why the Left wants to destroy it – and him.

It is unfortunate that in a “red state” like Montana – where Republicans have super-majorities in both houses of the Legislature and hold all statewide elected offices, that the judiciary is largely left-wing. According to people we talk to there, this is because the state’s only law school is at the left-leaning University of Montana.

Pastor Jordan Hall is, sadly, paying the price for being principled and fearless. But this fight isn’t over! You can help support him here.

Addendum 2/19/22: A person knowledgeable of this case has told us that it’s extremely unlikely that it will be back before Judge Best. The federal bankruptcy judge, Judge Hursh, will be deciding what will happen going forward. Although Jawort’s lawyers have already begun contesting the bankruptcy, Judge Hursh has a reputation for being fair and following the law properly. We'll see what happens.

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Canadian PM Trudeau invokes emergency powers, claims anyone donating money to Freedom Convoy truckers is engaged in “terrorist financing”

Image: Canadian PM Trudeau invokes emergency powers, claims anyone donating money to Freedom Convoy truckers is engaged in “terrorist financing”

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-16-canadian-pm-trudeau-anyone-donating-freedom-convoy-truckers-terrorist-financing.html; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

(Natural News) The longer left-wing Western leaders use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to become authoritarians, the less legitimacy their governments will hold with the citizens they mean to rule, and chaos will ensue.

That’s what’s coming to Canada, of all places, thanks to the creeping tyranny of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has proven now that he only approves of protests if they support his left-wing political views.

On Monday, Trudeau invoked emergency authorities meant for wartime so he could crush the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests against his insane COVID-19 vaccine mandate, drawing immediate criticism from one of the country’s top civil rights groups.

Among the actions Trudeau is taking include freezing bank accounts of anyone associated with the protests, including Canadians who provide the truckers with any material support — an action normally reserved for dictatorships.

“This is not a peaceful protest,” Trudeau lied during a press conference, adding: “The federal government is stepping in because local police authorities have had difficulty enforcing the law.”

Then he lied again: “This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs and restoring confidence in our institutions.”

“We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland added.

“This is about following the money. This is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades,” she said, adding: “A bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order.”

Literally, by abusing his authority, Trudeau and his government toadies are undermining “confidence” in Canadian government institutions; Trudeau has effectively implemented martial law in the country, but according to Human Events editor Jack Posobiec, not all Canadian leaders are on board with the tyranny.

“BREAKING: Premiers of Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, and Saskatchewan oppose Trudeau decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on the truckers,” he tweeted.

In a series of tweets, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association notes:

The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met.

The Emergencies Act can only be invoked when a situation “seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada” & when the situation “cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.”

Governments regularly deal with difficult situations, and do so using powers granted to them by democratically elected representatives. Emergency legislation should not be normalized. It threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.

It should be plain to more people that their ruling ‘liberal democrats’ are not democratic at all but are instead closet authoritarians using a virus as a means to permanently change the form of government.

If liberty-minded people throughout Western societies don’t stand up now while they can, there will come a time in the not-too-distant future when they won’t be able to at all without bloodshed.

Sources include:

ZeroHedge.com

NaturalNews.com

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Rumble — Over the past few weeks Canadian Freedom Convoy protesters, have been called terrorists and fascists by the mainstream media. One Canadian reporter is debunking that false rhetoric. She caught up with One America's Caitlin Sinclair to discuss the matter.

Canada Goes Tyrannical

BY BEN SHAPIRO

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/columns/benshapiro/2022/02/16/canada-goes-tyrannical-n1559674; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes: 

This week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the lightweight, unpopular elected leader of a country with a 93% vaccination rate for those over 60 and a total vaccination rate of 84%, announced that he would invoke the Emergencies Act in order to crack down on the Freedom Convoy — a group of protesters opposed to government vaccination mandates for truckers. Trudeau breathily announced that invocation of the law was in fact “reasonable and proportionate.” His public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, said that the actions were required thanks to “intimidation, harassment, and expressions of hate.”

Why the government would need to invoke emergency powers in order to move some trucks remains beyond understanding; after all, the police had just removed trucks from the Ambassador Bridge, reopening that trade artery with the United States. Meanwhile, provinces across Canada have already begun alleviating their COVID-19 restrictions, from vaccine passports to masking. There is no emergency here that would justify use of the Emergencies Act — as even the BBC noted, “It is so far unclear which scenario Mr. Trudeau would rely on to justify the use of the Emergency Act — [the relevant threats have not] been clearly present in Ontario.”

Nonetheless, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland explained that the government would be extending laws designed to stop terror funding to now encompass crackdowns on political dissent: “Financial service providers will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order. In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability for actions taken in good faith.” In plain language, this means that the government of Canada has now empowered banks to freeze accounts who give money to political causes the government doesn’t like.

The move to de-bank disfavored political actors has already been gaining steam — in January 2021, PayPal blocked a Christian crowdfunding site from using its services; the next month, Paypal announced it would work with the Left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to find users to boot. As one of Paypal’s original creators, David Sacks, wrote, “when your name lands on a No-Buy List created by a consortium of private fintech companies, to whom can you appeal?” In Canada, it’s worse than that: The de-banking has become government sponsored. 

And if Trudeau is able to invoke emergency powers to de-bank his political opponents — people he has labeled racists simply for opposing his vaccine mandates — where, precisely, does this end? What’s to stop powerful political actors from violating liberties on the same pretext? 

Related: Ottawa Police Chief Quits After Trudeau Essentially Declares Martial Law and Commandeers Police Force

The answer, of course, is nothing. And perhaps that’s the point: from now on, dissent against Left-wing perspectives may be criminalized. Watch what you say — your bank account is on the line. 

Over the course of the past century, the political Left made a promise: that if they were granted more and more centralized power, they would protect their citizens, particularly during times of emergency. That promise was always a lie, but the pandemic exploded that lie in particularly egregious fashion. This left the Left with two options: to abandon that article of faith, an idea central to their entire worldview; or to persecute heretics. Trudeau, unsurprisingly, has chosen the latter. Emergency powers will be necessary until the people enthusiastically agree that their betters in government ought to rule them.

 

 

 

 

TD-Bank Freezes Assets for Freedom Convoy; GiveSendGo Vows to Ignore Canadian Court Order to Stop Disbursement of Funds

TD-Bank Freezes Assets for Freedom Convoy; GiveSendGo Vows to Ignore Canadian Court Order to Stop Disbursement of Funds

BY JAMES MURPHY

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/td-bank-freezes-assets-for-freedom-convoy-givesendgo-vows-to-ignore-canadian-court-order-to-stop-disbursement-of-funds;

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Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD-Bank) has moved to freeze approximately $1.4 million in funds specifically allocated for the Freedom Convoy — a group of Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates and other government responses to COVID-19 — which continues into its third week in Ottawa and other Canadian cities.

Thus far, no other Canadian financial institution has announced whether they will take similar steps to TD-Bank’s.

The Toronto-based financial institution has said it is acting on a Thursday order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice banning the disbursement of funds connected to the Freedom Convoy to its rightful recipients.

“TD has asked the court to accept the funds, which were raised through crowdfunding and deposited into personal accounts at TD, so they may be managed and distributed in accordance with the intentions of the donors,” TD spokeswoman Carla Hindman said.

But Hindman’s words make no sense, since the funds were meant to assist those connected with the Freedom Convoy — and the bank is blocking such transactions.

The funds in question appear to include a lump-sum payment of $1 million through the original crowdfunding source GoFundMe, which later took down pages connected to the Freedom Convoy. The remaining funds had been sent to a second account via multiple bank e-transfers.

Attorneys for the Freedom Convoy have already announced that they plan to fight the government and corporate attacks on the Freedom Convoy’s money.

“We will be taking expedited legal steps to have the restrictions on the donated funds lifted as soon as possible,” said Keith Wilson, an attorney for the Convoy.

“We are also going to be taking the Ontario government to court to seek an immediate lifting of what we consider to be an unlawful order,” Wilson said.

Meanwhile, a second crowdfunding source, the Christian company GiveSendGo, has already confirmed that it has no problem flouting what it considers an unjust Canadian court order, tweeting on February 10: “Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.”

Thus far, GiveSendGo has raised more than $11 million for the Freedom Convoy campaign.

Thousands of Canadian truckers and their supporters first descended upon Canada’s capital Ottawa on January 29 to make their voices heard about what they consider unnecessary and totalitarian vaccine mandates and a digital vaccine mandate system.

Thus far, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declined to speak with the organizers of the convoy, instead, linking the peaceful group to white supremacists and claiming that some in the group flew what Trudeau called “racist flags.”

“There is no place in our country for threats, violence, or hatred,” Trudeau claimed, although live streams of the Ottawa protests show little to no evidence of that type of behavior.

Trudeau has also dismissed those who are protesting his draconian COVID-19 measures as a “small fringe minority,” who the prime minister then claimed held “unacceptable views.”

Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe took issue with that characterization of the Freedom Convoy, telling Trudeau, “There are strong opinions on both sides of this issue, but neither side is a ‘small, fringe minority’ with ‘unacceptable views,’” Moe said.

Candice Bergen, one of the leaders of Canada’s Conservative Party and an MP from Manitoba, agreed, saying, “These were the ‘unacceptable views’ they were expressing: They and millions like them have had enough of the lockdowns and broken promises. They deserve to be heard and they deserve respect.”

The Freedom Convoy has people such as Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden in the United States in a panic. Regular citizens demanding to be heard always frighten would-be authoritarians. The sides in the great Canadian Freedom Convoy have been made clear. On one side sit dictatorial politicians such as Trudeau, compliant government courts, and corporate actors such as TD-Bank who wish the people of Canada would just be quiet and do what they’re told. On the other side are the people themselves, who have become tired of being dictated to and ignored by politicians and are demanding some answers.

Why are those answers so difficult to come up with?

Free speech and free press under huge assault in Montana by LGBT legal network

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22a/MT-Free-press-under-attack/index.html; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes: 

Jordan Hall, Baptist pastor and publisher of popular conservative news site, sued for libel by transgender lobbyist

State’s left-wing legal establishment & well-funded LGBT “lawfare” mob seek to stop site’s influential voice

Far-left Judge to hold preliminary hearing Feb. 16 to determine whether pastor is a “dangerous person"

February 15, 2022
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Pastor Jordan Hall with his wife and five children.

A conservative pastor who is the publisher of Montana’s largest and most influential conservative news site is being sued for “libel” by a bizarre transgender lobbyist. The leftist judge assigned to the case is also threatening the pastor with fines and a gag order even before the trial takes place.

This assault on free speech and free press is buttressed by the state’s far-left legal establishment and appears to be funded by the wealthy LGBT and Planned Parenthood lobby. The aggressive legal action, including an invasive “discovery” process of the pastor’s media operation, is clearly aimed to put the conservative news site and its subsidiary voices out of business. The radicals would even like to dictate what the pastor may say in his own church.

Background

Montana Democrats are still reeling from the Republican blowout victory in the 2020 election. Republicans now have a super-majority in both houses of the Legislature, and hold the Governorship and all statewide offices (Attorney General, Secretary of State, Supervisor of Public Instruction, Auditor).

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The Montana Capitol building in Helena

Paradoxically, the judiciary in Montana is dominated by leftists. The state’s only law school is at the very liberal University of Montana and the state’s lawyers – and thus the judges – are far more left-wing than the general population.

Just as in DC back in 2016, the Democrats’ response to the Republican sweep has been to lash out wildly. Leftist attorneys are using the liberal courts in Montana to challenge conservative bills passed in the 2021 legislative session (pro-life laws, the ban on transgender boys in girls’ sports, strengthening parents’ rights, reining in sex ed, strengthening election law, and banning discrimination on the basis of vaccination status). They are also contesting Attorney General Knudsen’s and Supervisor of Public Instruction Arntzen’s policies banning Critical Race Theory and declaring masks optional in schools.

One news site stands out

As in other conservative areas, the news media across the state is also horribly left-wing. The one prominent exception is the Montana Daily Gazette, published by Jordan (“JD”) Hall, who is also a Baptist minister. The Gazette is bold and straight-shooting, with a down-to-earth style – and is definitely not “PC.” It has caught the attention of Montanans tired of the other news outlets. On many days, the Gazette often claims the highest readership of any news source in Montana. Some say its fearless reporting contributed to the Republican sweep in the 2020 election.

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Hall is also very influential in Montana through his other conservative Christian media. He runs the well-respected religious blog Protestia, the podcast Pulpit & Pen, and a radio station. He shares Christian truth without reservation.

While many conservatives are becoming reluctant to speak out publicly on hot-button issues, Pastor Hall is fearless – and has definitely become a thorn in the side of the Left in Montana.

Bizarre transgender lobbyist in the Montana Capitol

Adrian Jawort identifies as “transgender” and is a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe. He is also a registered lobbyist in the Montana legislature. He is quite a sight in that building. As his own attorneys describe him:

Adrian is physically distinctive: Native American, transgender, 6’3” in heels, always dressed in black dresses and hosiery, her [sic] black hair trimmed short on the sides with curls falling down her [sic] forehead.

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Mr. Jawort dressed for his pro-transgender lobbying at the Montana Capitol in 2021. He was especially angry over the bill to outlaw “transgender” surgical procedures for minors and the bill (now law) to ban transgender boys from girls’ sports. (Photo from Hall’s May 3, 2021 Gazette column)

In the 2021 session, Jawort lobbied against the (successful) bill banning “transgender” boys in girls’ sports, and the (failed) bill to ban surgical procedures to “transition” minors.

His demeanor and antics around the Capitol are infamous. According to Hall, Jawort and another transgender activist simulated sodomy in the Supreme Court chambers until told by security to leave.

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 Photo in Hall’s report: Jawort (2nd from left) and friends in the Montana Supreme Court chambers.

Legislators were familiar with Jawort’s “torrent of obscene, angry social media posts that he published throughout the 2021 legislative session” (according to a court filing by Hall). Luckily, Hall took screen shots of some of those posts before Jawort deleted them.

We have been told that at first many legislators did not know Jawort was a lobbyist, but assumed he was a homeless man wandering around the building. Not surprisingly, “numerous legislators” had contacted Hall with concerns about Jawort’s lobbying style.

The incident

On April 22, 2021, one of the most controversial transgender bills of the legislative session, HB 112 (the bill barring transgender male students from participating on female sports teams), was scheduled for a vote on the Senate floor. Six or seven transgender activists, including Jawort, converged on the Montana Capitol that day to try to halt its passage. According to a court filing, Jawort made clear earlier in the day that he would vigorously lobby Senators to vote against HB 112.

Some people later contacted Hall to report that Jawort and his cohorts, wearing Covid masks and makeup, encountered legislators in the Capitol hallways. Allegedly, there was some abusive language directed at the legislators, and one of them, an elderly Senator, had to be escorted away to avoid the disturbance.

The Montana Daily Gazette coverage – and alleged libel

Before publishing his report on the event, Jordan Hall contacted Jawort asking to get his side of the story. But Jawort refused to talk with him.

On May 3, 2021, the Montana Daily Gazette published Hall’s article, Who’s the Gothic Transvestite Haunting the Halls of the Montana Capitol? It did not hold back in its general description of Jawort, culled from the numerous phone calls Hall had received:

Fooling precisely no one, the man has been seen wandering the Montana State Capitol like an out-of-place Sasquatch in goth make-up, looking for a snack or someone to yell at. The ill-tempered, dress-wearing man was regularly seen in the gallery of both the House and Senate, chastising legislators with his wagging, giant man fingers, and sitting in fish-net stockings reapplying his make-up with all the precision of a birthday clown with a bad hangover.

The article also included these two profane quotes from Jawort’s social media posts:

Fascist fucks. Tomorrow I will file paperwork likely leading to a lawsuit challenging one of the many anti-trans bills. My reward will be seeing my name dragged through the mud. Being mocked by good Christians and doxxed…

Fight the power of the State of Montana. Fuck your #Montaliban theocracy. I am not a political pawn in a chess game–someone to be used for ‘culture war’ clout and fodder. I am a fucking Indigenous Queen of these Indian Lands.

Regarding the confrontation with legislators, the Gazette article simply had two sentences:

Reportedly, the angry transvestite and several of his associates had cornered Senator Butch Gillespie in an angry tirade. Also reportedly, Montana Family Foundation President Jeff Laszloffy escorted Sen. Gillespie to the Sergeant of Arms for his protection.

Those two sentences are now at the center of the huge lawsuit. They would seem rather innocuous, especially given the larger context.

Jawort ignites over the article – files failed lawsuit

On July 12, 2021, Jawort filed a complaint against Hall in Richland County Court (where Hall’s hometown of Sidney is located). He demanded monetary damages for Hall’s “transphobic” statements and for supposedly “doxing” him (though Hall had included only publicly available information from Jawort’s public Facebook or tweets).

But there is no such crime as “transphobia” in Montana law (or US law), and the case went nowhere. Nevertheless, Jawort set up a GoFundMe page for his attempted lawsuit charging “transphobic hate speech.”

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Partial screen shot of Jawort’s GoFundMe page (accessed 2-13-22)

A new lawsuit – alleging libel

Soon after that, Jawort connected with a group of well-heeled leftist attorneys willing to take on his case. He is now being represented by Attorney Raph Graybill and two attorneys at the Upper Seven Law firm, Constance Van Kley and Rylee Sommers-Flanagan. Graybill is a well-known Montana attorney who recently ran for state Attorney General (losing 59%-41%). The Upper Seven Law firm is a social-justice group apparently set up for cases like this. All three attorneys clerked at the left-leaning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The attorneys re-filed the case and changed the charge to libel. They are focusing only on the two sentences cited above: "Reportedly, the angry transvestite and several of his associates had cornered Senator Butch Gillespie in an angry tirade. Also reportedly, Montana Family Foundation President Jeff Laszloffy escorted Sen. Gillespie to the Sergeant of Arms for his protection." 

They are claiming that Jawort was not present at that confrontation – not part of the group that accosted the legislators – so these are false, libelous statements. They assert that since the group was wearing masks, it was only assumed that Jawort was one of them. They are seeking $250,000 in damages from Hall.

The claim of libel would not appear to hold much water: (1) Hall’s article said only that Jawort was “reportedly” part of the group. That is not a false statement. (2) Despite a mask, Jawort is a very recognizable figure – a 6’3” man wearing a black dress with a distinctive voice. (3) Hall attempted to get Jawort’s side of the story, but Jawort refused. (4) By any sensible legal definition, Jawort is a “limited public figure” which in Montana requires a high standard for libel. (5) Hall relied on credible sources who identified Jawort as the individual who accosted the Senator, and as a credentialed journalist he does not have to reveal these sources.

The arguments put forth in Jawort’s lawyers’ filings appear to be very weak and amateurish, though strongly worded. Thus, in a normal court this would get very far. But this isn’t a normal situation at all.

Judge shopping

Through a series of events, Jawort’s lawyers were able to get the case heard in a different county under a judge, Elizabeth Best, who is arguably the most ruthlessly left-wing in the state. She is notorious among Montanans for her leftist judicial activism (A Change.org petition has 2,325 signatures calling for her removal from the bench.)

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Judge Elizabeth Best [Great Falls Tribune photo]

Judicial bias and enormous legal harassment

Judge Best has not hidden her disdain for Pastor Hall. In one court ruling, she characterized his article as using “an offensive and ignorant epithet used by transphobic people, obviously aimed at demeaning Jawort.” Thus, the judge is accusing him of ignorance and “transphobia” – and even before the trial, exposes her belief that Hall intended to demean (libel) Jawort.

She has ruled that Jawort is not a “limited public figure,” and that the confrontation incident had no connection to Jawort’s work as a lobbyist. This means that the plaintiff does not have to prove “malice,” just “negligence” on Hall’s part.

Judge Best has allowed Jawort’s lawyers to conduct an enormous amount of legal harassment against Hall, mostly in for form of incredibly aggressive “discovery” demands, almost on a daily basis. Jawort’s lawyers are demanding records and other information on virtually everything about the Montana Daily Gazette business, plus extensive information about everyone who works there. He’s being told to provide his text messages and emails going back years on every person he’s contacted. He must provide copies of every sermon he has given, every manuscript he has written, and even his sermon and public speaking notes. Objections to this by Hall’s lawyer have been overruled by Judge Best. (Moreover, it is well known that Best is close friends with Graybill, Jawort's lawyer.)

It's been estimated that Jawort's legal team has already spent over $150,000 on this case - and the trial hasn't even begun.

Christian verses certainly anger this fellow. The Satanic horns, inverted cross on his forehead, and blood dripping from his mouth indicate where he’s coming from.  (Photo: Jawort’s public Facebook page)

Special hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 16 to determine if Hall is a “threat” to public order

Pastor Hall’s actual trial hasn’t been scheduled. But Judge Best is conducting a special hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 16, to determine if Hall is a “threat” to public order.

Over the past few months, Hall has traveled around the state giving speeches in order to raise money for his legal defense. His lawyer says he will need a minimum of $100,000. (He has raised a little about $45,000 so far.) His speeches are mostly to Christian groups. Being a Baptist pastor, Hall uses a lot of Bible quotes and Christian imagery. Jawort’s lawyers are charging – and Judge Best seems to be agreeing – that these speeches somehow constitute “threats” to the plaintiff, the judge, and others. (Of course, Hall has no history whatsoever of threats or violence.) The judge is prepared to impose extreme sanctions on Hall over this.

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Pastor Hall at a rally at the Montana Capitol in Helena. (Photo: Brandi Lyon)

Best is also angry that Hall is reluctant to follow her “mask mandate” in the courtroom. Montana has no mask mandates whatsoever at this time, and it is very questionable whether Best has the authority to impose one.

According to information we have, Best has likely decided to impose both judicial and financial sanctions at the hearing on Wednesday. The judicial sanctions could include a gag order or other limitations. The financial sanctions could be a fine anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's also likely she could declare a default judgment against him, so a trial would not even be held.

This is the frightening state of affairs in the supposedly “red” state of Montana. We will report on what happens at the hearing.

Final thoughts

Throughout all this, the thing that has saddened Pastor Hall the most, he told us, is the number of conservative Christian pastors who have shied away from publicly supporting him. It’s not that they think he’s wrong. They privately admit that they are “afraid” of the LGBT movement and the power of the state. As one pastor told him, “I just can’t have them picketing my church.”

God Bless Jordan Hall. We need a thousand more like him. You can donate to his legal defense fund here.

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Pfizer, BioNTech Seek COVID Biologic Emergency Use Authorization for Infants as Young as Six Months Old

BY NATASHA HOBLEY

SEE: https://thevaccinereaction.org/2022/02/pfizer-biontech-seek-covid-biologic-emergency-use-authorization-for-infants-as-young-as-six-months-old/; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

Pfizer and BioNTech have requested emergency use authorization (EUA) for doctors to administer two doses of their mRNA COVID-19 biologic to infants as young as six months old. A statement from Pfizer states that the “rolling submission” application was submitted on Feb. 1, 2022 at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “in response to the urgent public health need in this population.”1 Ten days later the company withdrew the request to gather more data on the vaccine’s effectiveness, which was suboptimal in two to four year olds, and provide evidence for a three dose primary series, rather than two doses.2

Pfizer Vaccine Fails to Elicit Robust Immune Response in Younger Children

Pfizer’s own data3 demonstrates that the vaccine failed to elicit a strong enough immune response with just two three microgram doses for some within the age group making the EUA process unique from any other age group’s authorization thus far. Pfizer had originally sought authorization for two doses to allow parents of young children to begin the vaccination process while awaiting potential authorization of a third dose. The third dose is scheduled to be administered no earlier than eight weeks after the second dose.4

Some physicians and public health officials have expressed concern that such an unusual vaccine approval application will further deter parents from vaccinating their children.4 As it currently stands, the FDA has granted an EUA to Pfizer for five- to 11-year-olds to receive two 10 microgram doses of the COVID vaccine and also approved a 30-microgram booster dose for ages 12 and up.5

CDC Data Says Booster Less Beneficial to Younger People

Newly published data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms that the rationale for booster doses is less compelling in terms of providing benefit to younger populations compared to adults.6 Dr. Dan Barouch, a virologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, stated:

I’m in favor of boosters, but I don’t want to overstate their importance. The benefit of a booster dose is clearly greater in the elderly. It is progressively less in the lower risk groups.”6

The FDA’s Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) had been scheduled to meet on Feb. 15 to review the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness data and discuss Pfizer’s request. The FDA authorized the two-dose vaccine for use in children five through 11 years old in October 2021. According to the CDC, approximately one third of children in that age group have received the vaccine.7

An article by VOX states that giving COVID vaccines to children will help stop the spread of the virus and relieve stress on hospitals and allow schools to stay open…

[Vaccines for young children] would also provide peace of mind to parents, caregivers, and teachers whose lives have been repeatedly disrupted as the highly transmissible omicron variant continues to rage.

The article continues stating that vaccination of this age group, which makes up more than 20 million children, would help to close one of the biggest remaining gaps in vaccine eligibility.4

Only 27 Percent of Parents Eager to Vaccinate Children Under 12

An October survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation8 found that only 27 percent of parents with children ages five to 11 years old were “eager” to get the vaccine for their children while 30 percent said they will definitely not allow the vaccine to be given to their young children. Parents cited concerns over potential long-term side effects as well as the desire to “wait and see” how the vaccine is working.

Some Physician Researchers Urge Caution in Giving COVID Vaccine to Children

A group of physician researchers who collectively pioneered several vaccines and experimental cancer drugs wrote an opinion piece8 for The Washington Times in October urging the public to apply the brakes in the hastiness of administering the new COVID vaccine to the pediatric population. The article outlines the existing disabling reactions in adults, the use of novel mRNA technology which releases pro-inflammation factors with no built in “off” switch, and the fact that COVID is rarely causing severe illness in children.

The authors also outlined the history of medicine and how we have seen “time and time again” tragic side effects which are not known until decades later. The article concludes:

There is a lot that we don’t know about the long-term safety of available COVID-19 vaccines. Bottom line, no health professional in good conscience can look a parent in the eye today and say these vaccines are unequivocally safe. As medical students, we took the Hippocratic oath, a promise to practice ‘primum non nocere,’ meaning ‘first, do no harm.’ Let us patiently wait for the completion of long-term safety studies before we rush ahead blindly with blanket public health solutions that may cause unintentional and irreparable harm.8

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CANADA: Trudeau Goes Nuclear; Invokes Emergencies Act to Crush Freedom Convoy

BY PAULA BOLYARD

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2022/02/14/the-nuclear-option-trudeau-invokes-never-before-used-emergencies-act-to-crush-freedom-convoy-n1559158; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he is invoking the Emergencies Act to try and put a stop to the Freedom Convoys that have shut down traffic—and much of the commerce—in Canada. The truckers, protesting vaccine mandates, have clogged roads, leading to chaos on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Among other actions, the Canadian government will freeze the assets of truck owners participating in the protests and suspend their insurance policies. In addition, the prime minister said that, under the Emergencies Act, the government will have the power to “compel” tow-truck drivers to remove rigs blocking roads, which sounds an awful lot like forced labor, i.e. slavery.

The Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in the 1980s, defines a national emergency as a temporary “urgent and critical situation” that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”

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The act gives special powers to respond to emergency scenarios affecting public welfare (natural disasters, disease outbreaks), public order (civil unrest), international emergencies or war emergencies.

Trudeau assured Canadians that he is “not using the Emergency Powers Act to deploy the military.”

Asked what it would take for him to bring the military in, he said, “I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals right now. I think that what is most important is that Canadians get their lives back, their neighborhoods back, their communities back. The measures that we put forward today will give the tools to law enforcement to be able to move in even stronger ways against these illegal protests and blockades that are hurting Canadians.”

“We are not limiting the right to peacefully protest or assemble. What we want to do is protect Canadians, protect their jobs, and reinstate confidence in their institutions.”

The protests were prompted by a requirement that all truckers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or quarantine for 14 days, after crossing into Canada from the U.S. The blockades began last month, with protesters descending on the capital city of Ottowa on Jan. 29.

“Invoking the Emergency Powers Act is never the first thing the government should do, or the second,” the PM added. “The Act should be used sparingly, as a last result.”

It “gives more powers to the police of jurisdiction,” he said.

“We’ll always defend the right of Canadians to peacefully assemble … but these blockades are illegal and if you are still participating, the time to go home is now,” he declared. “The Canadian border services agencies are already trying to turn back non-Canadians who are seeking to enter the country.”

Deputy PM Christia Freeland explained that the Emergencies Act will be used to cut off financial support to the protesters. “This is about following the money,” she said. “This is about stopping the financing of the illegal blockades.”

“Consider yourself warned. If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, the insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. Send your rigs home,” she said, adding that the government’s powers would include cracking down on crowdfunding sites, making them register with the government, and freezing the assets of those involved in helping to fund the protests.

“I know that everyone is tired of this pandemic. We’re hearing your frustration with COVID … and with the temporary measures we had to put forward to keep people safe … you have a right to express that frustration … it’s something we’ll always defend,” Trudeau said, but “depriving your neighbors of their freedoms is a totally different thing. It has to stop.”

This is a developing story. 

Anti-Trump RINO Liz Cheney’s husband Philip Perry found to have financial ties to Communist Chinese Government

Image: Anti-Trump RINO Liz Cheney’s husband found to have financial ties to Communist Chinese Government

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-14-rino-liz-cheneys-husband-financial-ties-communist-chinese-government.html; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

(Natural News) Without question, Donald Trump was tougher on China than any U.S. president in modern history, which helps explain why our deep state focused on cheating him out of reelection.

Our political leaders have so many unethical, improper financial links to the Chinese Communist regime it’s no wonder we can’t get them to be as tough on China as Trump — who had no such ties — was.

But even so-called “defense hawks” in Congress are compromised, which also explains their distinct anti-Trump attitudes, and one of them, it turns out, is Rep. Liz Cheney, RINO-Wyoming, whom Trump has targeted, politically, by supporting a primary challenger this year.

According to Just the News, “Cheney called on the U.S. to stand up to the ‘generational threat’ posed by China” in recent weeks “while unveiling a major report on Beijing’s ‘malign behavior’ at the same time her husband’s law firm was working on behalf of companies linked to China’s military, intelligence, and security services.”

However, while she spoke, “her husband Philip Perry’s law firm was cashing in on legal and lobbying work that his employer — Latham & Watkins (LW), one of the largest law firms in the world — was doing for a host of Chinese companies, some of which were involved in the kind of activity that Cheney was warning had to be stopped,” the outlet continued.

Translated: Cheney is just like her dad, former Vice President Dick Cheney, a deep state faux hawk who seeks to publicly demonize a potential enemy while at the same time feeding the beast so as to keep hundreds of billions in U.S. tax dollars flowing to the military-industrial complex.

Continuing, Just the News pointed out that all of LW’s work is legal and while Perry did not directly work on the accounts, he benefits and profits from the work because he’s a partner at the firm.

The outlet continued:

Perry’s firm’s work for Chinese entities and countries whose human rights abuses and authoritarian rule have troubled the U.S. for years seems to conflict with his wife’s frequent calls for America to stand up to autocratic regimes like China. The dynamic is one familiar to longtime observers of Washington, D.C.: a power couple calling out the very behavior from which they benefit.

Liz Cheney’s monumental hypocrisy was not lost on another America First Trump supporter, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

“It’s the kind of say one thing do another that Americans hate in Washington, D.C.,” Meadows, who served with Cheney in Congress as a GOP lawmaker from North Carolina before joining the Trump White House, said last week. “Liz Cheney will have a lot of explaining to do to the Wyoming voters.”

In September 2020, House Republicans finalized an extensive report that had been conducted by the China Task Force, which was made up of 15 members including Cheney. The report detailed the extensive economic and national security threat posed to the U.S. by ChiComs.

“China is rapidly developing a military force that is capable of winning regional conflicts and they’re expanding their military footprint globally,” Cheney said at a press conference as the report was introduced. “The government of China and the Chinese Communist Party have gone to school on the United States — they’ve looked at our capabilities … and they have developed capabilities to counter those.

“We must counter the Chinese Communist Party globally as it seeks to establish more robust logistics and basing infrastructure around the world as it seeks to project its own military power,” she continued.

“It is very important for everyone to note that we are in the midst of a battle between freedom and totalitarianism. The question we all face is whether the United States and our allies will set the rules of the road into the future or whether the Chinese Communist Party and that authoritarian, totalitarian regime will set the rules of the road,” Cheney added.

Meanwhile, just a month earlier, LW “advised” Tencent, the gargantuan Chinese tech company, on how to become a shareholder in Voodoo, which is a leading video game developer.

And since no business operates in China without the permission of, and benefit to, the Communist regime, enriching Chinese corporations is the same as enriching the ChiCom government.

Cheney is like every other Bush-era establishment Republican: ‘Hawkish’ to the point of ensuring America always has an enemy to fight.

Sources include:

JustTheNews.com

Cheney.House.gov

Biden’s handlers won’t commit to legally mandated Congressional review of new Iran deal

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE:https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/02/bidens-handlers-wont-commit-to-legally-mandated-congressional-review-of-new-iran-deal; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

This lawless administration knows that it can have utter contempt for the restraints on its power, and nothing will happen. The establishment media will cover for them. The other branches of government, which are just as corrupt as the executive branch, will do nothing. They have absolute impunity.

What does Old Joe have to hide?

“Biden Admin Won’t Commit to Legally Mandated Congressional Review of New Iran Deal,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 10, 2022:

The Biden administration will not commit to submitting a new Iran nuclear deal to Congress for approval, as is required by U.S. law.

With the United States poised to ink a new deal with Tehran that will unwind virtually all economic sanctions on Iran and provide the hardline regime with billions in cash windfalls, the State Department won’t say whether the deal will be sent to Congress for sign-off. Under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (INARA)—which was passed after the Obama administration signed a deal without congressional approval—President Joe Biden must submit any deal to the Senate for it to be considered American policy.

The State Department told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday that it will consider the INARA law but stopped short of guaranteeing a new deal will first be submitted to Congress….

 

International criminal grand jury investigation finds that globalist psychopaths used covid to commit “crimes against humanity”

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-11-international-criminal-grand-jury-investigation-crimes-against-humanity.html; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

(Natural News) A coalition of lawyers and judges from all around the world has convened to prosecute the “crimes against humanity” perpetrated by governments and their psychopathic puppet masters in the name of “fighting covid” and “saving lives.”

The international cohort, which calls itself the Peoples’ Court of Public Opinion, gathered in Germany recently to detail the many human rights violations inflicted by corrupt politicians under the directive of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

“This case, involving the most heinous crimes against humanity committed under the guise of a corona pandemic, looks complicated only at first glance,” said German attorney Dr. Reiner Fuellmich in his opening statement (watch below).

Fuellmich went on to highlight how the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) plandemic was purposely engineered by the establishment to usher humanity into a new technocratic “great reset” system under a centralized global power structure.

“One, there is no corona pandemic, but only a PCR test ‘plandemic’ fueled by an elaborate psychological operation designed to create a constant state of panic among the world’s population,” Fuellmich said. “This agenda has been long planned.”

Covid isn’t about saving lives; it’s about ending them

Fuellmich believes that this was all tried before with swine flu, the precursor to covid. More than a decade ago, the genocidal maniacs in charge of the planet tried to rile up the world about Pig Germs but it failed.

Fast-forward to 2020 and they apparently honed their mind control craft to convince enough of the world to play along with the scam, which is still going on some two years after it was first launched.

“[Covid’s] ultimately unsuccessful precursor was the swine flu some 12 years ago, and it was cooked up by a group of super rich psychopathic and sociopathic people who hate and fear people at the same time, have no empathy, and are driven by the desire to gain full control over all of us, the people of the world,” Fuellmich maintains.

They’re using “governments and the mainstream media” to spread “panic propaganda 24/7,” he contends.

The fact that there are numerous easy, inexpensive and viable remedies for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) that are not allowed to be prescribed speaks volumes about the level of evil taking place here on a global scale.

Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are two of the most powerful remedies for the Fauci Flu that are next to impossible to get from the current medical system. Zinc, vitamin C and vitamin D have also been shown to fight Wuhan Germs.

Governments everywhere, however, continue to fight against these remedies, instead pushing people to get “vaccinated” with experimental gene therapy needles that are spreading vaccine-induced AIDS to the “fully vaccinated.”

“Our governments are not our governments anymore,” Fuellmich says. “Rather, they have been taken over by the other side through their main platform, the World Economic Forum, which has started to create their own global leaders through their ‘Young Global Leaders’ program as early as 1992.”

Some of the first graduates of the Young Global Leaders program are plandemic names that you will instantly recognize: billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates and corrupt German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In the end, the final goal of all this is global depopulation. The shots, the masks, the restrictions, all of that is about exterminating human life, not saving it like governments claim. (Related: Deaths are up 40 percent due to covid injections.)

The latest news about the push to hold the plandemic purveyors responsible for their many crimes against humanity can be found at Pandemic.news.

Sources for this article include:

HumansAreFree.com

NaturalNews.com

POLICE STATE: NJ’s Newest Carry Case Exposes How ‘Justifiable Need’ Was Slipped Into NJ Law

BY JOHN PETROLINO

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/02/njs-newest-carry-case-exposes-how-justifiable-need-was-slipped-into-nj-law; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

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New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- Jay Factor is a small businessman and resident of New Jersey.

The life-long inhabitant of the Garden State is also at the center of a new challenge to the “justifiable need” standard which is a requirement when trying to apply for a permit to carry in the State. This is not Factor’s first rodeo, by a long shot.

In fact, Factor’s first application for a permit to carry was on October 10, 2006. A lot has happened in over the decade and a half since his first denial, including the Heller decision, the McDonald decision, the orders and remand of Caetano, and also being part of the brain trust behind the Cheeseman case, which was denied cert by the Supreme Court of the United States.

One of the things that first attracted me to Factor is that he’s a fantastic study on the history of firearm laws in New Jersey. There are several podcast interviews that he’s done where he talks about some of the inception of the Garden State’s first gun control measures. He ought to have a documentary made of him talking about the history of oppression in NJ!

What makes Factor’s arguments unique is that he put the time in to get all the little details of the laws. Where and why they came about. I remember talking to him once, telling him he needs to write a book on the subject, and he had told me there are about a hundred pages of reading involved in being able to get one page of material that’s worth discussing in our context.

I had the pleasure to meet Jay Factor at a rally in Trenton on March 26, 2019.

Cheeseman, Factor, and I were musing while standing in the forum of the Legislative Annex in the thick of the viper pit. We noted that by that time the following year we’d all be holding up freshly issued carry permits. That did not come to fruition. The only thing about that narrative that I believe to be false is just the timeline. One day I do think we’ll be waving our cards in New Jersey under the hubris noses of the legislators that look down upon us peasants as if we’re subhuman.

Factor’s latest round started on September 16, 2020, when he applied for another carry permit.

Besides that, the entirety of New Jersey’s permitting system is a giant racketeering scheme of RICO proportions, the “roadblock” to New Jersey citizens qualifying for their permit to carry is the “justifiable need” provision in the law. But that law wasn’t always the law, which is something that Factor points out in both his argument during his permit hearing, as well as in his filing documents.

At a minimum, Factor’s civil rights have been infringed upon just based on the timeline of his latest crack at trying to get a permit to carry. He filed in September of 2020 and got his denial from the Chief of Police of his jurisdiction on October 29, 2020. From there, after extensive back and forth, up to and including every COVID-19 excuse the county had in the book, he finally had his permit denial hearing on July 7, 2021.

During that hearing, Factor laid out his arguments which were also repeated in his filing, spoiler alert, the judge denied the issuance of his permit in an “envelope” opinion which was issued on July 21, 2021. Going from the hearing to receiving the opinion from the judge had to have been the most expeditious part of the process Factor had suffered. Everything else has been ripe with infringement in the way of slow-rolling and putting up red tape at every turn. Speculation is that the State does not want all this information out in the open, what Factor found.

Factor filed and served his brief in the matter of Docket Number A-003678-20 to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

From the statement of facts filed in Factor’s brief:

1. Argument: Factor was under no constitutional obligation to provide Chief McGovern, the County Judge, or Prosecutor Brennan with specific threats, previous attacks, or a “special purpose” with his application.

2. Argument: New Jersey’s core substantive standard of Siccardi for determining when a permit to carry should be issued to a private citizen has failed THE CAETANO CONJUNCTIVE TEST.

3. Argument: Judge O’Malley failed to examine the new evidence submitted by Factor that THE SICCARDI RULE and thus 2C:58-4c ¶ 3 violated the Administrative Procedures Act.

4. Judge O’Malley failed to take into account new Evidence which proves the Siccardi Police Chiefs, and the State Police Investigation Unit, did not have valid rules in force in late 1969 & 1970 and the Siccardi Rule was therefore nullity making N.J.S.A. 2C:58-4c ¶ 3 void.

5. The Prosecutor should not have been allowed at the Zoom Hearing and all of his “objections to (this) particular applicant” should be thrown out.

6. Conclusion: The Siccardi Rule N.J.S.A 2C:58-4c ¶3 was never “presumptively lawful” as per Heller’s Note 26 at 2817.

Some of the more interesting points, in this case, surround what Mr. Factor learned in over the decade and a half he spent engrossed in the subject. The once scorned Factor from 2006 was coming to this new battle armed with dust-covered citations. Had Factor been issued his permit in ‘06 there’s a lot we would not know about the history of these laws.  Somewhat humorously, Factor even offered a preamble to the judge presiding over his carry hearing when he delivered arguments concerning the subsequent statement of facts 3 & 4 of his brief.

I don’t want to be disparaging when I say you guys or Government, but when I say the State, is not accurate. You seem to be much younger than myself and the prosecutor. This all took place when we were either very little or before we were born. So I’m just going to tell you how this broke down and I’m just going to tell you that this is not legislative intent and it has never been legislative intent.

What was Factor alluding to? The “justifiable need” provision of the law. In his research, Factor uncovered a very important detail about how “justifiable need” entered into the administrative code in New Jersey. This was not something that was voted on through the legislature, but from an opinion in a challenge to a carry permit denial in 1971.

From his hearing on the permit application:

So the standards are there in 1966 when A-165 becomes the gun control law. In 1968 we get the Administrative Procedures Act. So if we’re in Siccardi in 1971, if the standards become more strict, those standards had to show up somewhere. They’re not in the New Jersey register and they’re not in the New Jersey administrative code, which means they’re not — there’s nothing lawful because they violated the Administrative Procedures Act.

I gave John Chancellari evidence of the New Jersey register 1969, the — the page name is 1 N.J.R. 30. And if you look at 1 N.J.R. 30, there is no urgent necessity. There is no specific threat. There is no previous attack. There is no special danger to the app — to the applicant’s life.

Fast forward back to Siccardi. The special need came from a law review, the final report national commission on the causes and prevention of violence. That didn’t come from the legislature. It says it — (audio interference) Pries (indiscernible) at page 55 citing — citing Siccardi at 552. The previous attacks — previous attacks comes from the assignment judges in Siccardi.

Somehow this goes on as case law for decades, an unwritten rule among prosecutors and judges, until it’s entered into the register going against the Administrative Procedures Act. A further explanation is offered in Factor’s brief.

The post-Wheeler evidence proves that THE SICCARDI RULE never entered the Register, or the Code until 1991. And not an Administrative Rule by the Superintendent of the State Police but as New Jersey Supreme Court precedent:

N.J.A.C 13:54-2.3 reiterates the statutory criteria which must be satisfied in order to obtain the issuance of a permit to carry a handgun. This and other amendments in subchapter 2 reflect the standards enunciated by the Supreme Court decision in In re Preis, 118 N.J. 564 (1990). 1 [23 N.J.R. 2251. Pa. 30.; (Cover page) 23 N.J.R. 2205. Pa 2 31.; .64 Tr. 6-7.; See In the Matter of Factor, GP No. 16-3 2020. Pg. 2. No.10(e). Pa. 32.]

This fact was brought up in the Cheeseman case and it’s everyone’s speculation that’s why the legislature moved to have the “justifiable need” definition entered into the New Jersey statute. Assembly Bill 2758 was signed into law in 2018 adding the following language to the statute:

Each application form shall be accompanied by a written certification of justifiable need to carry a handgun, which shall be under oath and, in the case of a private citizen, shall specify in detail the urgent necessity for self-protection, as evidenced by specific threats or previous attacks which demonstrate a special danger to the applicant’s life that cannot be avoided by means other than by issuance of a permit to carry a handgun.  Where possible, the applicant shall corroborate the existence of any specific threats or previous attacks by reference to reports of the incidents to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

The irony of this of course, beyond that the state has been operating basically illegally on the matter of permits to carry since the ’90s, in reality, the ’70s, is that the legislature (and Governor Phil Murphy) had codified this crime in a post-Heller world.

The lawmakers and governor knowingly passed and signed into law a provision that goes against the Heller opinion in several ways. Instead of folding their hand, admitting defeat, and trying to reorganize the law to something a little more permissive, something that’ll hold some constitutional muster, the hubris lot of elitists doubled down.

The fact that “justifiable need” goes against Heller is noted in Factor’s arguments at his hearing as well as in his brief.

And then — and then Heller — Girda [Gura] said, however, if the licensing requirement is, we only want to give license to people who look a certain way or it depends on how we feel or if the licensing office is only open on Thursdays at 3 o’clock in the morning, that’s what the Siccardi Rule is. It depends on how we feel. We’re going to decide this thing on a case-by-case basis, that’s my case.

Heller has taken the ability of Chief McGovern to decide my permit on a case-by-case basis away from him. There’s a standard. Either I’m qualified to exercise my Second Amendment rights or I’m not. And Heller has taken that away from you. You are to determine whether I’m qualified to exercise my Second Amendment rights or not. You have — you have other standards that you can go on. Did I qualify in the shooting test?

The enumerated items we — we discussed. Did I pass all that? Do I have the firearms ID card? Did I pass a background check? Was I fingerprinted? All that stuff. But the case-by-case determinations are off the table.

That’s my case, Judge. I know no ones ever given you a case like that before, but I’m not the guy who’s going to stand here on front of you and grovel and say I’ve been attacked or I have a special threat. It’s just not going to happen. I’m going to rest on that and I appreciate your time.

The standards were discussed during the hearing and Chief McGovern could not give a specific guideline on what exactly fulfilled the requirements to reach the burden of “justifiable need”. He conceded there was no guidebook to tell the chiefs how to weigh the interests of the applicants. We can be certain the guideline is “Just don’t issue them (Unless they’re connected to one of us, then by all means. Or if they have lots of money.).”

One of the other things that Jay Factor brought up in his filing and arguments is the Caetano Conjunctive Test.

The State’s case is that it’s dangerous for me to have a 2C:58-4 permit and that they need to weigh that danger based on my previous attacks. They need to weigh that danger based on my specific threat or the special danger to my life. But the Court in Catano (phonetic) [Caetano]– and you familiar with Catano [Caetano]?

[…]

It was in my brief. Are you familiar with that case, the Taver (phonetic) [taser] case in Massachusetts?

[…]

[I] tried to point out previously, what Miller said is, if it can contribute to the common defense, the weapon is protected by the Second Amendment. And so by pointing out that it’s a common handgun, I’m pointing out that it contributes to the common defense, that’s under Miller.

So this is — this is my case. Yes, Glock 9-millimeter is very dangerous. We’re all aware of that, but I’m not disqualified from my Second Amendment right and that is the crux of Heller. When Heller says, the very enumeration of the right takes out of the hand of Government, the next couple sentences on page 2822, the decision that Heller makes is, “assuming Dick Anthony Heller is not disqualified from his Second Amendment rights, the District must issue — must allow him to register his handgun.”

Mr. Factor first established that the exact firearm he qualified with and intends to carry is the same make as those commonly used by the police. During the examination of the Chief, he agreed with that summation. The Glock handguns are dangerous, but they’re not unusual, which is the standard that needs to be met, also playing into “common use” outlined in Heller.

I’ve had the chance to review the argument and transcript from the carry hearing and this is an exciting case to follow. As noted more than once, Factor’s grasp of the history on these concepts makes reading the narrative that more appealing. On the page, the fact that New Jersey does not issue carry permits to the regular peasants, the story to get here reads like a pulp noir. This story is filled with corruption, mystery, and a dash of “we’re better than you” from our government officials.

Where’s this leave Factor now? On January 7th 2022, Factor received a “deficiency letter” nitpicking away at his eloquently written pro se complaint. Last I checked in, Factor filed on January 12th an extension in order to meet the requirements of the court, and by the 25th he “got the motion in and accepted.

Now, like everything else in the judicial system, we wait.


John Petrolino is a US Merchant Marine Officer, writer, author of Decoding Firearms: An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety & Use and NRA certified pistol, rifle, and shotgun instructor living under and working to change New Jersey’s draconian and unconstitutional gun laws. You can find him on the web at www.johnpetrolino.com on twitter at @johnpetrolino and on instagram @jpetrolinoiii .

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Trudeau Gets Clown-Slapped in Canada’s House of Commons, Sits Down and Pouts

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau grimaces during a press conference at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

BY KEVIN DOWNEY, JR.

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/02/10/trudeau-gets-clown-slapped-in-canadas-house-of-commons-sits-down-and-pouts-n1558098; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes:

Canada’s princess Prime Minister, Justin “Black Face” Trudeau was shouted down in Canada’s House of Commons. The poor lamb was trying to explain how he has “followed the science” in regard to Canada’s ludicrous COVID-19 responses, which included locking up hockey nets so kids couldn’t play and an 8 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew in Quebec.

The House of Commons wasn’t interested in hearing Trudeau’s responses to Conservative leader Candice Bergen’s questions, including whether or not Trudeau would “follow the science” and end the COVID mandates. They shouted and heckled his response.

 

At one point Bergen states that numerous countries, such as Israel, Ireland, the UK, Spain, and Norway are dropping their COVID-related mandates, noting that some of those countries have lower vaccination rates than Canada. She then asks if Trudeau will also end the mandates quickly. Trudeau repeated his “We’ve been following the science” codswallop, but the heckling gets louder. At one point he stops speaking, sits down, and looks at the Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, much like a child who is being picked on looks to a teacher for help. Rota calls for order so that Trudeau may continue to speak.

Bergen accuses Trudeau of being “divisive.” She then asks if Trudeau will “follow the science”, end the lockdowns, and let Canada be free. Trudeau removes his mask (he wears it when sitting but removes it to stand up and speak — is that “following the science?”).

In Trudeau’s last salvo, he tells the Speaker of the House of Commons that he is “extremely pleased to hear the Conservatives talk about following the science.” This draws the ire of the crowd. He continues to speak, but the heckling continues. He eventually sits down to a smattering of applause from his own people and shouting from the Conservatives’ side of the House.

You can see the video here or below.

Trudeau Gets Roasted To His Face, Heckled & Shouted Down, Told To Follow The Science & End Mandates

Trudeau has been taking flak lately for not addressing the truckers and protesters who have descended upon Canada’s capital, Ottawa, demanding an end to Canada’s mandates and lockdowns. Trudeau conveniently came down with a case of the Bat-soup Flu and skedaddled out of town for a while as the first truckers arrived.

The Ottawa police have gone so far as to steal fuel from the truckers.

The Ottawa protesters have been peaceful, (actually peaceful, not CNN’s pro-BLM, pro-Antifa definition of peaceful).

 

It was inevitable: Canadian government officials now declare peaceful convoy protesters to be “terrorists” engaged in an illegal “occupation” of Ottawa

Image: It was inevitable: Canadian government officials now declare peaceful convoy protesters to be “terrorists” engaged in an illegal “occupation” of Ottawa

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-10-canadian-government-declares-peaceful-convoy-protesters-terrorists.html; republished below in full unedited for educational & research purposes: 

(Natural News) The Canadian Freedom Convoy of truckers is still going strong after a week and a half, which has so upset the political elite that they are now calling it an “insurrection.”

Ottawa City Council member Diane Deans scolded the protesters, calling them “terrorists” and declaring their activities to be an illegal “occupation” of Canada’s capital city.

“We are on day eight of this occupation,” she claims. “Our city is under siege.”

“What we’re seeing is bigger than just a City of Ottawa problem. This is a nationwide insurrection. This is madness. We need a concrete plan to put an end to this.”

Ottawa Police chief Peter Sloly agrees with Deans, adding that local law enforcement was “never intended to deal with a city under siege.”

To flip things around, Canadian truckers also never expected to be under siege by the government’s “vaccine” needles, but here we are.

If Deans and Sloly want the “insurrection” to end, then they first need to end their own medical fascism insurrection. The protests would end in an instant if that happened.

Trudeau refusing to meet with Freedom Convoy protesters

Deans does not see things this way, though. She is still pushing the city for some kind of legal excuse to declare the protests an “unlawful assembly,” or possibly a “riot.” Whatever it takes to conduct mass arrests, she admitted.

“There are so many people out there engaged in a broader act of … mayhem that we need to be able to bring it all under control,” Deans bellowed during a recent speech, adding that she hopes to pursue “one criminal charge at a time.”

“We can’t allow this kind of terrorism in our community to continue this way,” she added.

Okay, Karen.

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, another Karen, engaged in a similar tactic when he declared a “state of emergency” due to the trucker protest, which apparently gives the state more power to oppress.

Watson of course claims that his oppression is needed to address the “serious danger and threat to the safety and security of residents.”

“It also provides greater flexibility within the municipal administration to enable the City of Ottawa to manage business continuity for essential services for its residents and enables a more flexible procurement process, which could help purchase equipment required by frontline workers and first responders,” the city added in a statement.

Ah, there it is: flexibility.

On-the-ground protesters are reporting that their gathering is completely peaceful and has nothing to do with terrorism. It is the counter-protesters who are wreaking havoc and trying to put a stop to free speech.

The first vehicle convoys to arrive in Ottawa got there on January 29 and have remained in the city ever since. People all across Canada have been joining them ever since, making the trek from far and wide to offer their support.

Many of the trucks have begun to honk throughout the day in the Parliament Hill area to try to get the Justin Trudeau regime to take notice and respond.

“To anybody who is annoyed, we apologize,” said protest organizer Benjamin Dichter. “Please call Justin Trudeau, his office, and get these mandates lifted, and we’re out of here.”

Trudeau refuses to meet, though, even though people all across Canada are losing their jobs, their businesses and even their homes because of his fascist Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccine” mandates.

“Let’s remember most of Ottawa is government, huge number of civil servants here,” said Tom Quiggin, who is helping the organizers with “protective intelligence.”

“They haven’t missed a paycheck. They’ve got pay raises, some of them have got back pay, most of them are working from home. Some of them who can’t work from home are just doing nothing and still getting paid.”

“So yes, it’s unfortunate that they feel bad about the horns, yes, it’s unfortunate they feel bad about the disruption, but the rest of the country is hurting.”

More related news can be found at Fascism.news.

Sources for this article include:

ZeroHedge.com

NaturalNews.com

Federal Appeals Court Allows Planned Parenthood Funding to Go Forward

By Savannah Hulsey Pointer

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/federal-appeals-court-allows-biden-planned-parenthood-funding-to-go-forward/; republished below in full for educational & research purposes.

Federal funding can once again go to entities that provide abortions, following a ruling on Title X appeal by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Family planning funds are being funneled to entities that provide abortions despite an appeal for an injunction, according to Decision Magazine.
  • An appeal was made to the 6th Circuit Court which declined to put an injunction on the funding allowance despite 12 states who looked to restore the Trump-era ban on where taxpayer dollars were headed.
  • The Associated Press reported that the panel decided that the states appealing had not demonstrated how they would be irreparably harmed if the injunction was not put into place.
  • Joe Biden Biden moved early in 2021 to undo President Donald Trump’s ban on federal funding going to any clinic that provides abortions or abortion-centered counseling, according to Liberty Journal.
MORE ABOUT THE APPEAL:
  • Attorney General Dave Yost of Ohio has spearheaded the campaign against the Biden rule, writing a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in May requesting that the Biden official not allow Title X funds to go to organizations that perform elective abortions, according to Decision Magazine.
  • In his appeal, he pointed to Section 1008 of Title X which states that “none of the funds … shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.”
  • However, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its rule in October, allowing the federal funding to go to abortion clinics and those that refer patients to abortion counseling.
BACKGROUND:
  • Under Trump, federally funded clinics were unable to provide abortion services, according to Decision Magazine.
  • Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia all joined the challenge.

Taking it to the politicians: Wyoming County Commissioner resigns after pressure from MassResistance parents over obscene library books.

SEE: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/22a/WY-Commissioner-resigns-after-pressure/index.html; republished below in full for educational & research purposes.

He had compared local parents to Nazis. Railed about parents’ “ignorance and hate.”

An arrogant pro-LGBT liberal who got elected in a conservative area.

A new pro-family Commissioner has been voted in to take his place!

February 9, 2022
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County Commissioner Daniel Reardon stares at parents and compares them to Nazis during Aug. 12, 2021 meeting, because of their adamant objections to the pornographic books for children and young teenagers.

When it comes to arrogant anti-family public officials, parents don’t have to just sit and take it. But they have to be willing to take a very strong stand and be persistent.

Like most areas in Wyoming, Campbell County is quite conservative. But unfortunately, liberals and RINOs have been elected to key positions. Last summer, local MassResistance parents began complaining to their County Commission about the pornographic and obscene LGBT books for children and teenagers appearing in the public library. Some of the graphic homosexual books for young teenagers are sickening even for adults.

This Book is Gay
by James Dawson
In library's Teen section

SUMMARY: This book is pornographic and truly obscene. All forms of “gay” and “lesbian” sexual practices and perversions are endorsed and celebrated with graphic instructions for teenagers. It promotes medically unsafe behaviors and perversions and is filled with false information.

Read sample pages here. (CAUTION: obscene material.)

The Library Board, which the County Commission controls, is run by leftists. But the five-member County Commission was stacked 3-2 against doing anything to challenge the Board.

A particularly hostile Commissioner

One County Commissioner, Daniel G. Reardon, was particularly hostile to the idea of shielding children from obscenity and LGBT pornography.

On July 13, Reardon sent an email to a constituent smearing the parents who had objected to a “transgender” performing for young children at the library. He wrote, “It is a sad state of affairs where we regress back to the Matthew Shepard days because of ignorance of hate.” When this became public, parents were livid.

Then on August 12 during a County Commission meeting, Reardon suddenly launched into an angry rant against the parents in the room.

He started out by defending library staff and their bureaucratic “processes that are in place” for selecting the books and allowing for parents to fill out forms to “challenge” books. He said that the Commission’s job is to support the Library Board.

He went on to say that “censoring” LGBT books (i.e., homosexual pornography) was equivalent to censoring books on guns, the military, blacks, or religions other than Christianity.

Then he really went off the rails. It’s the parents who are not doing their jobs, he said. It’s the parents’ fault for not supervising what their children are reading in the library. He said that parents need to “stop talking about censoring, taking books out, burning books, and going back to the days of the Nazis.”

An audience member angrily yelled back at Reardon that he was lying about the parents. Reardon had a Sheriff’s officer escort the man out of the room. He then looked right at the parents and scolded them, “Don’t tell us we’re not doing our job. We are doing our job.”

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After the audience member yelled back at Reardon, the sheriff's deputy immediately came to eject him from the room.

Parents fight back!

Reardon clearly intended to intimidate and silence the Wyoming MassResistance parents. But his tirade had the opposite effect.

Our activists made sure that the community heard about Reardon’s offensive remarks. They got the message out on social media.

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They leafletted the community:

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They continued to come to every County Commission meeting and Library Board meeting to demand that the local children be protected from the library staff’s promotion of obscenity and pornography. Though the Commission’s 3-2 majority refused to do the right thing, they were clearly being worn down.

In October they voted to ban all public comment to keep the parents from being able to complain at the Commission meetings. Of course, this just riled the parents up even more.

Reardon announces his resignation

On January 5, 2022, without prior notice, Reardon delivered a letter of resignation to the Campbell County Commission.

His “official” reason was that he had moved to another community (Cheyenne). However, as he told the local newspaper, his family had moved to Cheyenne some time earlier, and he had rented an apartment in Campbell County and was spending more than half of his time there. (It’s not required to live in the County to serve on the County Commission.) He also cited his fear of COVID, though did not elaborate. Reardon said that he had “intended to serve his full term” through 2022, but changed his mind and decided to resign now.

This came just weeks after the Library Board Chairman had also suddenly announced her resignation, although she will continue to serve as a regular Board member.

A new pro-family Commissioner gets voted in!

Since Reardon was technically a Republican (though an insufferable RINO), the process for replacing him was for the local Republican Central Committee to nominate three people, and the Commissioners would vote to accept one of them.

The Commissioners apparently got the message from the outraged parents. At the Jan. 27 Commission meeting, they selected Don Hamm as the new Commissioner. According to the parents who met with the candidates, Hamm was right on their wavelength regarding the library problems.

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Don Hamm (center) is congratulated after becoming the new County Commissioner. [Gillette News Record photo]

To start with, the parents are now expecting the Commission to repeal the offensive ban on public comment, when one of the family-friendly Commissioners also becomes the new Chairman this month. And there’s talk of even bigger changes.

Final thoughts

We may sound like a broken record, but we’ll say it again: These people running our libraries and the politicians who support them have neither morals nor conscience. They know what they’re doing to children and are proud of it. Too many conservatives more interested in appearing reasonable and polite than standing up for the truth. But this gains them nothing. The best way: Be resolute and don’t give up.

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