Trudeau the Dictator of Canada

I am sick to my stomach when I watch or listen to my prime minister. I always considered him to be an arrogant, fool who had no business leading a country. I was heart broken when my fellow Canadians voted for him a third time! But when arrogant, fools run a country they become dangerous. 

So here we are in 2022. Who would have predicted that Mr. Trudeau would go full dictator on us? 

To be sure, he was heading that way from the beginning. The trucker demonstration just gave him the excuse to push the gas pedal down harder. He has always intimated his love and respect for all things communist (read totalitarian). On numerous occasions he has publicly decreed his envy of Communist China, Cuba and Venezuela. And people continue to vote for him. He rewarded an Islamic terrorist who murdered a US soldier with millions of dollars and freedom to spread his bigotry in our fair country. There are far too many terrible things that he has done to list here. Some were just plain immoral (his bogus attacks on us while wearing black face on numerous occasions) but many others were serious breaches of our laws. 

                                            Trucker protest in Ottawa

Now we are at a crossroads. Do we continue to believe his lies and the lies of the mainstream media and of other bought and paid for politicians or do we finally wake up from our stupor?

For those who are on Facebook  (I don't advise you to join!) here is an excellent short clip about the other side's hypocrisy, especially during the recent Super Bowl from Ben Shapiro: 

https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/485282663380438

This is a possible last stand. I consider the truckers heroes. They have tried their best to wake the rest of us up with a peaceful protest to demand freedom.  But under Trudeau and his acolytes, the truckers are not simply citizens with a different point of view. They are the enemy and must be crushed. And their supporters too must be punished.  Rather than meet with the truckers to hear their concerns, he'd rather throw our entire country into a totalitarian state. Recall that he was perfectly fine with not only listening to, but supporting the often violent and bigoted Black Lives Matter demonstrations. You might also recall his advice for PM Modi of India when they were in the throws of a farmer demonstration. He stood with the farmers and lectured Modi on the rites of citizens to peacefully protest and strike. We can add 'hypocrite' to his character description.

Please understand that Trudeau's response has little to do with covid mandates. This is all about grabbing power and not letting go. For this, any excuse will do.  

If you think that this does not concern you, you are in for a big surprise.

There is much that I could write here but I loved what I read in the following article by David Solway.

Here is the link: https://www.israpundit.org/the-canadian-dilemma-in-a-nutshell/

Or you can read it here:

From the perspective of freedom-loving citizens in this country, the trucker convoys and blockades protesting mask and vaccine mandates are a stirring spectacle of patriotism, civic responsibility, and true grit. They represent the offset to heavy-handed and arrogant government that is using everything in its power to suppress their efforts: threats, fines, police coercion, theft of property, and the manifestly illegal sequestering of funds donated to the truckers by private individuals. A conflict of this nature is often framed as the state versus the nation, the authorities versus the people. Whether it applies to the current situation, as we will see, is problematic.

The issue is the preservation, or restitution, of the government-violated Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms meant to guarantee common life in a democratic country—or, at any rate, a country now under the sway of an avowedly communist leader and several autocratic provincial premiers, a country that would appear well on the road to despotic control.

The problem is that fully two-thirds of the electorate rejects or is indifferent to the trucker revolt against unscrupulous and demagogic power. According to an Angus Reid poll, 54% of Canadians would like to see the COVID-19 mandates lifted, yet they are not interested in standing up for the Freedom Convoy that carries their banner. The trucker unions jealous of their perquisites and the bought-and-paid-for national press have also sided with the wielders of tyrannical authority.

Ironically, it is popular opposition to a popular uprising that will determine the future of the country. This explains why, despite the courage and the exhilarating display of patriotic fervor animating the trucker convoys, numbers of Canadians have left or are considering leaving the country. I know of many such. They are not defectors but long-suffering citizens who are convinced that they have read the writing on the wall.

The issue, then, is clear and the problem is obvious. The dilemma is that we may be witnessing the death of a nation. A supine and compliant majority population, even more than a corrupt and imperious governing elite, will determine whether the nation survives or not. The truckers are battling not only a prime minister who admires Communist China and Castroite Cuba, or a banausic troglodyte like Ontario premier Doug Ford, but a majority citizenry that cares little for democratic freedoms and wishes only to get on with things as they were, fully vaccinated and content to go about masked and docile like a Costco herd of narcotized zombies.

Is there still hope that two-thirds of the country will emerge from its stupor? Sites like No More Lockdowns Canada remain confident, thanks largely to the truckers. The editors write: “As we enter the third week of Freedom Convoy protests across Canada, thousands upon thousands of Canadians are uniting behind this movement which is becoming unstoppable. While Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford escalate their rhetoric by declaring states of emergency and attempting to vilify the peaceful demonstrators, Canadians are spontaneously rising to the occasion and participating in these historic events.”

My wife and I endorse that hope, doing what we can, writing and speaking on behalf of the truckers and, like many Canadians, digging into our savings to support their movement. But will that be enough? I confess that I am not sure. When the preponderance of a nation has wilfully surrendered to demagogic authority and heedlessly behaves as instructed, is that nation really worth saving? Can it be saved?

We might say that the truckers and their supporters are the vestiges of the old Canada, but they are an endangered species, a threatened minority. The mass of the country — the non-Canada in the traditional sense, Justin Trudeau’s Canada, Doug Ford’s Canada, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s Canada — is not behind them. Is a tragedy in the making? Does the fate of Canada hang in the balance? Must we prepare for the sequel, in whatever way is possible for us?

I think of Hamlet: I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Whoopi Goldberg, The Holocaust is Not Simply White on White Crime

After watching Whoopi Goldberg's speech on the TV show, The View, a number of times (how could I not- it was replayed over and over on MSM) I disliked it more and more, each time I watched it. 

It wasn't her insistence of Jews being a race. After all, there is much debate about that within our own faith. It was her comment about the Holocaust being nothing more than 'white on white crime'.  Sure on the surface, it might seem innocuous because the Nazi's were mostly white and most of the Jews in Europe were also white. An obvious exception was the evil Amin al-Husseini who was the leading Arab leader at the time. He helped Hitler by leading Muslim troops in Bosnia. I doubt that she even knows who he is. Or maybe she considered him white. But what does skin colour have to do with the Holocaust?

I and many others found it offensive. Why? Because the vile murder and attempt to exterminate an entire people (let's leave race out of it), the Jews of Europe, was not some minor incident. It wasn't 2 white guys fighting. To try to label it simply white on white crime is to insult the deaths of 6 million Jews. 

So why did she say it? Especially during Holocaust Memorial Week? What was the point she was trying to make? So what if it was white on white crime? If it was, that was certainly the least important aspect of the Holocaust. No doubt that one cannot find that description of the Holocaust in any of the tens of thousands of Holocaust books written to date. 

I think because it moved the focus away from her constant love affair with being a black victim (albeit temporarily). People like her, and there are many, have a need to constantly point out the injustices they face. Yes of course, there is obviously black discrimination in the world. But they are not the only ones being discriminated against or attacked. The statistics in practically every country in the world show that Jews have the highest rate of racist incidents committed against them. And unlike blacks, ours is trending upward. We are also a tiny fraction compared to the black population. The Jewish homeland, Israel, has been facing existential threats from her modern statehood, not to mention horrific terrorists acts committed on her Jewish citizens daily! The tiny Jewish population has been persecuted for thousands of years. 

This is not a competition for who suffers the most. To me it sounded like that was her beef. If so,  her point is somewhat nefarious. She has every right to stand up for her people and so she should and does. But she has no right to diminish the memory of the most abhorrent stain in humanity that happened to our people (my parents) in even the slightest way in order to try to make her point. 

If she said it out of ignorance I could forgive her easily. But she is not ignorant. She and her mother knew that giving her a Jewish sounding name might help her succeed in show business. Not sure if it did or didn't. But the point is she 'knows' who we are or at least thinks that she does. She even claimed to be Jewish at one point. Not that I approve of her lying about it but her general comments she makes remind me of the common rebuttal to an antisemite being called an antisemite 'Some of my best friends are Jewish'. 

Can you imagine what she would say if I said that slavery is nothing more than black on black crime? After all, the slave trade was mostly inspired and made possible by certain black tribes in Africa taking other blacks as slaves. One can argue that it was they who were the primary slave offenders. Had I been on the View and said that, you can bet that she would lose her mind over my comments as would the rest of the yentas there and I would not only be thrown off the show, but probably be charged with a hate crime. 

The next day she was interviewed by Colbert on the Late Show. She was trying to explain what she said earlier on the View. I'm paraphrasing: 'If I was walking along the street with a white friend and we ran into the KKK, I would have to run for my life but my white friend wouldn't.'

I wish I could have asked her: What if your white friend was wearing a kippah? Who would have to run away faster?

How myopic was her thinking?  I could also ask her what if I (a white Jewish male) was walking with my black friend) and we ran into a group of black thugs in Harlem? Chances are I'd have to run for my life and my black friend might not. But what are we to learn from any of these examples? Nothing!

Yet there are many things we can learn about her and others like her, from her statements and her digging in her heels via defensive 'apologies'. I am not calling her an antisemite because I don't think that she is one.  And even if she might be, her comments here don't prove that point. But I don't trust her to define what the Holocaust was.  Clearly she doesn't know.  Everyone needs to be very careful about the context used when discussing the Holocaust. Most people are. She wasn't.  At the very least, if you don't know what you are talking about, then stop talking. I sincerely hope that she used her 2 weeks off the show to learn about the Holocaust. Greenblatt from the ADL (not my favourite organization) should have offered to take her to the camps in Auschwitz and let her get an up close look at what the Holocaust was. Sadly I think she used her time off the show to get more PR for herself and make her case. She really is digging herself into a deeper hole. 

The real problem is that she has many fans. She is/was a famous actress and TV personality. Her fans (some at least) will no doubt buy into her ignorant statements that dangerously bordered on antisemitism. I'm glad that she was at least given a 2 week suspension. She deserved to face some sort of consequence for what she said. The Holocaust is sacrosanct.  How would she like a rule that people like her can't even say the word Holocaust just like many blacks have the rule that only they can use the N word?