When the Most Cynical Amongst Us Are Proved Right
When the Most Cynical Amongst Us Are Proved Right
The Canadian government hand-picked its own judge.
“Enjoy the report.” Those were the last words Commissioner Paul Rouleau uttered before rising and leaving the room yesterday. The room in which he cheerfully announced that the Canadian government was justified when it invoked the Emergencies Act against festive, peaceful, working class protesters a year ago.
Which part did he imagine we’d enjoy? The knowledge that there’s absolutely no accountability in our political system? The knowledge that a vast network of supposed checks and balances (funded year in and year out by the sweat of working Canadians) offers us no protection from tyrannical, rogue politicians?
Three months ago I wrote: Let us fervently hope Commissioner Rouleau is a man of integrity. One who understands that this is his moment. History will judge him by what he does here.
Given the opportunity to help resuscitate the limp, battered carcass of public trust, this gentleman instead extended every benefit of the doubt to the government, to the establishment, to police goons who crossed lines that should never, ever be crossed.
This is very bad news. Because, as Martin Luther King Jr observed 60 years ago, when peaceful protests get shut down some individuals
will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history.
Many Canadians predicted this result. They had few expectations. They said Commissioner Rouleau was hopelessly compromised by long association with the Liberal Party of Canada. They said that, because the Liberal government had sole discretion to select its own judge, real accountability was never on the table.
The cynics were correct.
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My heart is broken! I felt so despondent yesterday.. I really wasn’t surprised at the results of this commission, because everywhere I look there is such corruption.
This morning I am heading to Toronto to World Wide Rally at Queens Park 12 noon to hear the marvellous freedom fighters like Dr Shoemaker and others.. we can only keep pushing back against those who simply have no integrity.
Thank you Donna, for all you do to keep illuminating the truth and exposing the weasels..
In another post, I will see if I can add the flyer to this event.
Honest courts are the final bastion of civil society. Government power is overwhelming. Its organs of police are organized and armed to the teeth. When redress of real grievance, of police violence sanctioned against a populace, fails because the courts are an arm of tyrannical government, then legal means become a farce.
Paragraph II of the U.S. Declaration of Independence then charts the course: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
That time has not yet come in the U.S. Restorative efforts are underway here,
But it may have come in Canada. The die will be fully cast if some constructed crisis is used to delay elections. The government has done its best to disarm the population; Trudeau's voice hoarse with moral gravity. That poser.
I hope to see Canadians rise up and recover what is theirs: their rights. Their action is required. Maybe recovery can happen by means of the provincial governments. If Canadians recover them. The more provinces strongly defend the rights of freedom, the more isolated the central government.
Perhaps restoration can happen in that way. But happen it must because the gradient points to slavery and it will not self-correct.