Solidarnosc, 2022
Artur Pawlowski's Speech and Other Developments in the Worldwide Fight against Covid-Despotism
Keep the Canadian protestors in your prayers, and be a part of whatever anti-mandates action you can be in your area. The crisis moment approaches, I think.
Were it a political-science panel-talk, I would have some quibbles about his categorical statement that Canada has not been a democracy for several years. But this is something far more important, and in so in terms of the action this speech calls for, and in terms of the “speech-act” this speech approaches, I stand with Pastor Pawlowksi 100%. I fully agree that the very existence of democracy is on line. I also agree that this is the strategic moment, and like him, I expect there will be bloodshed and suffering, despite the protestors’ determination to use non-violent civil disobedience. But he’s right the time for traditional persuasion has passed, that we can no longer “dance with the villains.” Trudeau for one, after the vile hatred he espoused the last few days, and at such a critical moment, can never again be accepted as a democratic leader in any capacity whatsoever. More importantly, the time for massive civil-disobedience, if necessary of general-strike proportions, is here.
Pawlowski’s is the best political speech, in fact, since Dr. Julie Ponesse’s from very early November. Canadians both!
However, if we listen to Pawlowski carefully, however, especially his line about our two-year “dance” of unheeded persuasion efforts, we will realize that Ponesse’s speech was one from a now-passed era, one which elicited last-ditch efforts at appealing to common citizenship, decency, and compromise. There was still no response. Ponesse warned that “By every measure and from every angle, this is a ‘house of cards’ about to crumble.” All evidence was on her side. But there was no serious response to her from government or even university officials, and there still is none. Now, even after Omicron handed our garbage elites a golden opportunity to back away from mandate policies, most of them remain unbending. In Canada, they are the ones who precipitated the crisis situations in downtown Ottawa and at the Coutts border-crossing.
On this side of the border:
T-Mobile will fire all non-boosted corporate staff. You should drop them if you use them ASAP, and let them know why.
Hershey, the same, although they cowardly claim it is “small” number. If the principle is right, the number should not matter. But they know at some level they are in bed with Evil. You should refuse to purchase a single product from them until they repent, and let them know.
Facebook suspended a fb group being utilized by a group that will be organizing a convoy-protest in America. Trying to prevent association from getting off the ground. (GOP pols, we expect a decisive set of actions against fb once you’ve got Congress.)
Here in Utah, we just learned that all members of the Tabernacle Choir (what the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is now called) must be boosted.
And U of U Health is accused of denying life-saving transplants on the basis of vax-status.
I could go on and on and on… “Garbage elites” is honestly becoming too kind a term.
But there is a lot of good news also. The Canadian Conservative party voted out their squish leader Erin O’ Toole. Quebec dropped plans to fine the unvaxxed. Neither of those small victories would have occurred without the Freedom Convoy.
Denmark dropped all emergency Covid-19 policies, all mask and other mandates. I believe Sweden did pretty much the same. Signs that Saskatchewan will follow suit.
And very good news for PostModernConservative and democracy-defenders everywhere, the top brass at Substack are holding firm on free speech. They won’t let advocates of despotism like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, or President Biden and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy for that matter, pressure them into silencing conveyers of vital dissident information on the vax, like myself, like the Steve Kirsch substack I linked repeatedly to in my recent long compilation of dissident info, and the brave Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the dissident docs who made such a splash on Joe Rogan. Remains uncertain if Spotify will hold the line also, as a set of their employees threaten to strike. [UPDATE: Spotify caved. Never use it or put content there, and remove it from your devices. Evil-cherry on top of that deluxe sundae of disaster for free speech: Rogan apologized, and in a rather fear-conveying manner, in the face of a gotcha-vid of fifteen or so utterly misleading uses by him of the N-word. Dismayed all defenders of free speech for not understanding the ABCs of apology-demands in the 21st-century, and put blood in the water for future attacks on him.] (As for Murthy, he must become one of the first targets of dismissal once Republicans take back Congress, for this betrayal of free speech.)
But all this is sideline noise to the decisive battle happening right now in Canada, as politicians and police officers debate in their hearts whether they’d really be willing to engage in violent police action against, and mass imprisonments of, the protestors; and as protest leaders like Pawlowski lay out the cost and the stakes of what’s coming.