I would like to re-post this in honor of our Canadian brothers and sisters:
The Men Who Wanted to Be Left Alone
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. True terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
A terrific characterization of the strength of the Canadian people. I would replace the word 'passive' with either 'quiet' or perhaps better 'stoic'. One has to be stoic to conquer the numerous natural threats faced to carve out not only livelihoods but whole communities. The strongest people tend to just get the job done without much complaining. They tend to be independent contributors, self-reliant, never asking for handouts but always contributing to society as a whole and taking quiet pride in doing so. Such people take much abuse before they reach a level feeling over-imposed that finally leads to action. Being independently-minded it takes a significant threat for these individuals to band together as the truckers did.
Self-organizing is a weaklings' approach. The type of weaklings one finds in government to scam taxpayers claiming they are dong the 'good of the people' when all they are doing is raising their own wealth. It does take a while for those used to operating independently busy making their own contributions to wake up and act in concert with others to counter those encroaching on their rights.
I believe a silent majority exists. If pushed too far, they self-activate.
Thank you, from a Canadian, who has read and appreciated all your Absurdistan stacks, and your books. Since you have lived out of Canada so much of your life, you have U.S. insight, which some of us lack. I would though appreciate more about Canada. Trudeau 2 is certainly doing all that he can to prevent rational dialogue through censorship bills. At least C-36 died in the Senate when Trudeau 2 called the last election and has not (yet) been reserected.
Talking is sooo hard. Everywhere I go I find the death of reason, of thoughtuf conversation.
Nice to see your readership growing.
A couple 'a questions.
1. Who is Jamie? Your partner, I'm guessing?
2. You mentioned Uni and Trudeau, so I'm guessing that was the first Trudeau, and not the second?
Trudeau 2: Ideology fomented from his mouth is a horror and I wish more Canadians would see through it. He visited Calgary recently, seemingly not for any reason but to call out the Premier, talk about how she is creating division. For us Canadians, having a leader who is incapable of looking in the mirror, who does not grasp the concept of projection is so utterly disingenous, so dangerous as our society crumbles, really so few words to fully describe his own brainwashing, his thoughless speaking, his forked tongue.
"I soothed her and finally said, “well, stop eating,” and she did. Then she stopped drinking water, or taking more than a teaspoon of applesauce with morphine in it, and within days she was gone, gently, easily. I heard her die, heard a slight gasp of surprise."
My mo-in-law went literally the same way; the last gasp after nine days was in my wife's arms. It was magical. Dementia sucks, but both her and my mother took charge of their destiny's.
I do not understand flooding the country, be it Canada or the US with populations that are culturally incompatible with the Country and it's values? We are importing mass corruption. Not to say, these people are bad, and are not looking for better lives, but they come from Corrupt and often badly run Countries. These people do not understand law and order as we understand it in our Western Sense. Criminal underground economies is what they are used to. They have no interest in assimilation, or learning English. They take over neighborhoods, put up signs in their own languages, and form their own colonies and fly the flag of the Country they supposedly ran from.
With all that, how do the Governing Elites pushing this agenda, see themselves ruling anything? This is past governing the ungovernable.
I had a lively discussion with some foreign born now US citizens (I think) who claimed we needed socialized medicine like Canada. I was shocked. When I asked whether they wanted to maintain control over the medical decisions of their children should they fall ill, or terminally ill, as death panels decide who lives and dies in these scenarios - they asked if I was Pro life. When I said yes, they said so you are saying the government shouldn’t make medical decisions yet you want to force a woman to have a baby when she doesn’t want to. The conflating of these two sacred issues - both relating to the right to protect LIFE - was downright terrifying to me. Zero understanding. And yet they thought they were so smart, smug. I was reminded, yet again, that for many people there is unfortunately, literally, no hope.
We must not ignore the place of abortion in this. In the late 1980s,, the late Francis Schaeffer and C. Edward Koop (surgeon general of the US) identified euthanasia as the logical outcome to abortion on demand, and here we are.
Neither can we ignore the demographic results of abortion. The US aborted about 65,000,000 people since 1973, and Canada's numbers are similar per capita. How could we think we could not create such a vacuum and keep it from being filled?
The first great sin of Canada is idolatry, the elevation of governments to god-status. Life and death are in this god's hands, and we have forgotten Christ. The second great sin is human sacrifice, millions of children sacrificed to convenience, education, career, finances, etc.
God is doing this to us because He hates what we have done, what we have become.
Deuteronomy 28:43–45 (ESV)
43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
When the founder of Dubai was asked about the future of his country. He replied...
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes. My son will ride a Land Rover, my grandson will ride a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will have to ride a camel again.”
When asked why...?
He said, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create difficult times.”
Many will not understand this, but we need to create warriors, not parasites.
I have always been confounded by people who are opposed to vaccine tyranny and are also in favor of socialized medicine. I argue for a complete separation of vaccines and state. And ideally, a complete separation of medicine and state.
Absolutely love your writings, so truthful and on the money about what is going on. Yes, the farmers convoys traversing Europe were indeed inspired by our heroic truckers, and farmers, and just ordinary people sick and tired of COVID communisim. But Trudeau made sure he crushed them and made examples of them to remind like minded Canadians to never do that again. Don't do it or we will freeze your banks accounts and financially destroy you, steal all the funds you raise for your cause, threaten to steal your pets and your children, and then once it was all said and done, again cripple you financially with lawfare --- trumped up charges, endless trials, appeals of aquittals -- oh and let's not forget making a few political prisoners like the Coutts Four. Lessons learned don't cross or embarrass this authoritarian regime or you pay the price.
My sole comment to your otherwise excellent analysis is that - this really isn't a country. Never has been since "CONfederation". My only bona fides is that I was born in the Maritimes, lived in Quebec, Ontario, BC and Alberta and can only harvest eight decades of experience and observations.
Maritimers are not Laurentian Elites, who are not Albertans, etc. It's solely focused on Upper and Lower Canada, 24/7. Canada consists of the Golden Triangle of Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal wherein a revolving cadre of legal, media, political and financial elites hop on and off the Suck and Blow Express, as it makes its way around the Triangle, while they busily burnish their resumes and stuff themselves with taxpayer funds. Deep State, indeed. Think bilingual elites populating the Uniparty, the McKinseys, Deloittes, endless law firms, NGOs, green enviro-locusts, shrill academics from all the Marxist U.s, senior bureaucrats, Indigenous scammers, etc. And we pay them forever through the Canadian Equalization Program, to perform their bullshit jobs and then collect their pensions funded by the incessant printing and resultant debasement of our fiat scrip. Meanwhile Son of Castro gets to state openly about Alberta without any irony, on his fully funded and captured propaganda arm (CBC), "Nous ne sommes pas comme eux." (We're not like them.) It's almost laughable. It's entirely shameful. However Elizabeth, as you know well - they hate us and hold us in contempt. Always have and always will. They take our money while doing a happy dance as they try so hard to shut us down.
Wow, kind of sounds like the State of Illinois where I live. Recent proposals for laws include assisted dying, defining an abused/neglected child as one whose parent denies her/his minor child abortion or "gender-affirming care," adopting CA's zero emission mandates, and on.
Gas hook ups are outlawed in the suburb of Oak Park and on the table in Chicago, a state tax subsidized CCP battery plant is being built in downstate IL against the will of the people, there's a ban on book "banning," and on. Oh, not to mention an ill-educated, low skilled, arguably criminal migrant population given housing, meals and healthcare, at taxpayer expense. For a while I naively thought Europe and Canada were the canary in the coal mine for the US, only to realize my state is already there.
Farewell Canada. Was nice knowing you. I remember when you had strong men and women. I remember when the toughness of ice hockey was representative of your people. Now you have Trudeau and people in his style. You faded slowly and then all at once. But you are dead and gone now. Forget any notion of bringing your courage and spirit back; those corpses rotted long ago and are now just so much toxic whiteness and masculinity in your dumps. For those who still remember, hush now, no one wants to hear anymore whining. It was killed on your watch and you know it. You traded socialism and security for freedom. Hush.
I would like to re-post this in honor of our Canadian brothers and sisters:
The Men Who Wanted to Be Left Alone
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. True terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
– Author Unknown
A terrific characterization of the strength of the Canadian people. I would replace the word 'passive' with either 'quiet' or perhaps better 'stoic'. One has to be stoic to conquer the numerous natural threats faced to carve out not only livelihoods but whole communities. The strongest people tend to just get the job done without much complaining. They tend to be independent contributors, self-reliant, never asking for handouts but always contributing to society as a whole and taking quiet pride in doing so. Such people take much abuse before they reach a level feeling over-imposed that finally leads to action. Being independently-minded it takes a significant threat for these individuals to band together as the truckers did.
Self-organizing is a weaklings' approach. The type of weaklings one finds in government to scam taxpayers claiming they are dong the 'good of the people' when all they are doing is raising their own wealth. It does take a while for those used to operating independently busy making their own contributions to wake up and act in concert with others to counter those encroaching on their rights.
I believe a silent majority exists. If pushed too far, they self-activate.
If the conservatives win… fire all the bureaucrats. Like the president of Argentina is doing.
Thank you, from a Canadian, who has read and appreciated all your Absurdistan stacks, and your books. Since you have lived out of Canada so much of your life, you have U.S. insight, which some of us lack. I would though appreciate more about Canada. Trudeau 2 is certainly doing all that he can to prevent rational dialogue through censorship bills. At least C-36 died in the Senate when Trudeau 2 called the last election and has not (yet) been reserected.
Talking is sooo hard. Everywhere I go I find the death of reason, of thoughtuf conversation.
Nice to see your readership growing.
A couple 'a questions.
1. Who is Jamie? Your partner, I'm guessing?
2. You mentioned Uni and Trudeau, so I'm guessing that was the first Trudeau, and not the second?
Trudeau 2: Ideology fomented from his mouth is a horror and I wish more Canadians would see through it. He visited Calgary recently, seemingly not for any reason but to call out the Premier, talk about how she is creating division. For us Canadians, having a leader who is incapable of looking in the mirror, who does not grasp the concept of projection is so utterly disingenous, so dangerous as our society crumbles, really so few words to fully describe his own brainwashing, his thoughless speaking, his forked tongue.
"I soothed her and finally said, “well, stop eating,” and she did. Then she stopped drinking water, or taking more than a teaspoon of applesauce with morphine in it, and within days she was gone, gently, easily. I heard her die, heard a slight gasp of surprise."
My mo-in-law went literally the same way; the last gasp after nine days was in my wife's arms. It was magical. Dementia sucks, but both her and my mother took charge of their destiny's.
God bless you all.
I do not understand flooding the country, be it Canada or the US with populations that are culturally incompatible with the Country and it's values? We are importing mass corruption. Not to say, these people are bad, and are not looking for better lives, but they come from Corrupt and often badly run Countries. These people do not understand law and order as we understand it in our Western Sense. Criminal underground economies is what they are used to. They have no interest in assimilation, or learning English. They take over neighborhoods, put up signs in their own languages, and form their own colonies and fly the flag of the Country they supposedly ran from.
With all that, how do the Governing Elites pushing this agenda, see themselves ruling anything? This is past governing the ungovernable.
I had a lively discussion with some foreign born now US citizens (I think) who claimed we needed socialized medicine like Canada. I was shocked. When I asked whether they wanted to maintain control over the medical decisions of their children should they fall ill, or terminally ill, as death panels decide who lives and dies in these scenarios - they asked if I was Pro life. When I said yes, they said so you are saying the government shouldn’t make medical decisions yet you want to force a woman to have a baby when she doesn’t want to. The conflating of these two sacred issues - both relating to the right to protect LIFE - was downright terrifying to me. Zero understanding. And yet they thought they were so smart, smug. I was reminded, yet again, that for many people there is unfortunately, literally, no hope.
Trucker blood is still there! Fly flags! Stand tall. I am a WASP and proud of it. I have a culture and a history as valid as anyone.
We must not ignore the place of abortion in this. In the late 1980s,, the late Francis Schaeffer and C. Edward Koop (surgeon general of the US) identified euthanasia as the logical outcome to abortion on demand, and here we are.
Neither can we ignore the demographic results of abortion. The US aborted about 65,000,000 people since 1973, and Canada's numbers are similar per capita. How could we think we could not create such a vacuum and keep it from being filled?
The first great sin of Canada is idolatry, the elevation of governments to god-status. Life and death are in this god's hands, and we have forgotten Christ. The second great sin is human sacrifice, millions of children sacrificed to convenience, education, career, finances, etc.
God is doing this to us because He hates what we have done, what we have become.
Deuteronomy 28:43–45 (ESV)
43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
When the founder of Dubai was asked about the future of his country. He replied...
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes. My son will ride a Land Rover, my grandson will ride a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will have to ride a camel again.”
When asked why...?
He said, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create difficult times.”
Many will not understand this, but we need to create warriors, not parasites.
The replacement theory is no longer a theory.
Sad but important story.
I have always been confounded by people who are opposed to vaccine tyranny and are also in favor of socialized medicine. I argue for a complete separation of vaccines and state. And ideally, a complete separation of medicine and state.
Absolutely love your writings, so truthful and on the money about what is going on. Yes, the farmers convoys traversing Europe were indeed inspired by our heroic truckers, and farmers, and just ordinary people sick and tired of COVID communisim. But Trudeau made sure he crushed them and made examples of them to remind like minded Canadians to never do that again. Don't do it or we will freeze your banks accounts and financially destroy you, steal all the funds you raise for your cause, threaten to steal your pets and your children, and then once it was all said and done, again cripple you financially with lawfare --- trumped up charges, endless trials, appeals of aquittals -- oh and let's not forget making a few political prisoners like the Coutts Four. Lessons learned don't cross or embarrass this authoritarian regime or you pay the price.
My sole comment to your otherwise excellent analysis is that - this really isn't a country. Never has been since "CONfederation". My only bona fides is that I was born in the Maritimes, lived in Quebec, Ontario, BC and Alberta and can only harvest eight decades of experience and observations.
Maritimers are not Laurentian Elites, who are not Albertans, etc. It's solely focused on Upper and Lower Canada, 24/7. Canada consists of the Golden Triangle of Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal wherein a revolving cadre of legal, media, political and financial elites hop on and off the Suck and Blow Express, as it makes its way around the Triangle, while they busily burnish their resumes and stuff themselves with taxpayer funds. Deep State, indeed. Think bilingual elites populating the Uniparty, the McKinseys, Deloittes, endless law firms, NGOs, green enviro-locusts, shrill academics from all the Marxist U.s, senior bureaucrats, Indigenous scammers, etc. And we pay them forever through the Canadian Equalization Program, to perform their bullshit jobs and then collect their pensions funded by the incessant printing and resultant debasement of our fiat scrip. Meanwhile Son of Castro gets to state openly about Alberta without any irony, on his fully funded and captured propaganda arm (CBC), "Nous ne sommes pas comme eux." (We're not like them.) It's almost laughable. It's entirely shameful. However Elizabeth, as you know well - they hate us and hold us in contempt. Always have and always will. They take our money while doing a happy dance as they try so hard to shut us down.
Wow, kind of sounds like the State of Illinois where I live. Recent proposals for laws include assisted dying, defining an abused/neglected child as one whose parent denies her/his minor child abortion or "gender-affirming care," adopting CA's zero emission mandates, and on.
Gas hook ups are outlawed in the suburb of Oak Park and on the table in Chicago, a state tax subsidized CCP battery plant is being built in downstate IL against the will of the people, there's a ban on book "banning," and on. Oh, not to mention an ill-educated, low skilled, arguably criminal migrant population given housing, meals and healthcare, at taxpayer expense. For a while I naively thought Europe and Canada were the canary in the coal mine for the US, only to realize my state is already there.
Farewell Canada. Was nice knowing you. I remember when you had strong men and women. I remember when the toughness of ice hockey was representative of your people. Now you have Trudeau and people in his style. You faded slowly and then all at once. But you are dead and gone now. Forget any notion of bringing your courage and spirit back; those corpses rotted long ago and are now just so much toxic whiteness and masculinity in your dumps. For those who still remember, hush now, no one wants to hear anymore whining. It was killed on your watch and you know it. You traded socialism and security for freedom. Hush.