No Shirt!

 

RoseAnne Archibald, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, has publicly objected to the Ottawa protesters declaring today Orange Shirt Day, in honour of allegedly murdered and abused aboriginal children. They have no business, she insists, appropriating this to their cause. This is “a real insult.”

Keep in mind that aboriginal people, and aboriginal children, are among the protesters. There have been many Mohawk, Metis, and other aboriginal flags seen in the crowds.

This is as if “Black Lives Matter” were objecting to someone saying that black lives matter; or abolitionists objecting to anyone saying “free the slaves; or Christians objecting to anyone saying “Jesus is Lord.”

It illustrates that the Orange Shirt movement is not about aboriginal children, or aboriginals, or children. It is about power. It is a weapon made and honed to be used by aboriginal leaders to advance their agenda and their control.

The Assembly of First Nations itself is not an organic growth, but a creature of the federal government, which funds it. Leadership is selected Soviet-style, not by ordinary Indians.

At the start of the pandemic, I had hopes that this would end our differences and make us all pull together against a common enemy. There would be a new era of peace and brotherhood.

I was wrong, and very soon saw and admitted that I was wrong. Instead, it has been a lightning bolt suddenly revealing where the zombies are.

More accurately, where the sheep and the goats are. 

The Bible says plainly that there are two kinds of people: those who are out for what is right, the good people, and those who are only out for themselves. When a common crisis strikes, these two will quickly coalesce. The good will come together in peace and brotherhood. The goats will look for a chance at personal advantage, at climbing.

We see this now: peace and brotherhood rules on Wellington Street before the Parliament buildings. But in their high towers, many, indeed most of the authorities seem to be looking for how they can use this emergency to advance their own power. They are eager to divide us to do so.

The good people turn out to be exactly whom the Bible said: the common people, the fishermen, the carpenters, the shepherds. The kinds of men Jesus chose as apostles.

And the majority of those in civil command, the scribes, the teachers, the officials, turn out to be only out for profit, or for power, or for prestige. For self.

We out, for future reference, to keep accounts. Although my guess is that this is the sort of crisis that will topple all the obvious Pharisees by the end. New ones will soon rise up in their place.