The War in the Desert Here

 

To my eyes, the conflict between the Freedom Convoy and the Canadian government is as clear an example as possible, in this fallen world, of a fight of good against evil.

And the way it has apparently ended is a moral lesson: in the short term, evil always wins.

This is because, unlike good, evil will pursue self-interest without restraints. In particular, the greatest power of evil is the lie. 

The lie can trick a large number of good people to support evil, because it is difficult for good people to believe others are lying. You can always cheat an honest man. These are the gullible good.

Others, many others, go along because it is easier to keep your head down—and the evil are invariably in power. “I’m all right, Jack!” These are the weak evil.

Because of this overall dynamic, the powers and principalities of this world are generally going to be evil. Any student of history must see this to be true. Except in exceptional times, the wicked rise to the top. The Bible, clearly enough, tells us so. The good are the salt under their feet.

On the other hand, the powers of this world suffer from the limits of the lie. This is why the arc of history indeed bends toward justice. Caught in a lie, like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, it all comes down about their ears. The previously deluded good people wake up, and with the heroic good, they form a majority. Once they are aroused and look unstoppable, the cowardly bad will swing behind them, and the house of cards comes down.

That, I suspect, is what the Freedom Convoy will have accomplished in the longer term. It was not strong enough yet. But by remaining resolutely peaceful, they have seized the moral high ground, and good people are going to wake up to who has been lying.

This is the strategy of Martin Luther King, of Gandhi, of Daniel O’Connell. Or of the early Christians.

The dawn is near.

Sadly, however, we are still in this fallen world. Trudeau may go soon, the Liberal Party may fall, and the heritage media may fade away. But soon enough, a new gang of bad people, piggybacking on the prestige hard-earned by the heroic truckers, will muscle to the front.

I think Pat King is already an example.

Inexorably

 

The inevitable move from libertine and relativist Weimar Republic to Fascist totalitarian state has commenced in Canada. A large portion of the population, probably a majority, support this. It was the same in Germany.

No Longer on Spotify, But Steve Stills May Have Foreseen It All

 

Okay, this is tin hat territory, but I can’t see any other rational explanation for the actions of the federal government. For some time, it has been puzzling me. 

For example, what was the practical need in the first place for a vaccine mandate for truckers? They are a solitary lot; unlikely to be spreaders. The pandemic looks almost over. Why impose a vaccine on them at a time when there are already shortages and an apparent crisis in the supply chain? Why appear to punish frontline workers who have brought us through this pandemic? That’s bad pr. What’s the practical need when the government itself says 90% are already vaccinated? Yet they were planning to impose an additional mandate soon on any truckers operating inside the country, and would not back down even when the convoy showed up .

Why are vaccine mandates urgent for anyone? It can’t be to achieve herd immunity. That was supposed to happen at 70%, but we now know it can never happen. The vaccinated can still carry the virus.

And, of course, that being so, if anyone chooses not to get vaccinated, it is an issue only for themselves. No obvious reason for the government to care.

Why has Trudeau been irresponsibly demonizing the unvaccinated since last fall, as if they had any responsibility for the continuing pandemic? Why the need for a scapegoat, other than the virus itself?

Why does Trudeau—and others, to be fair—keep pretending that the issue with the truckers is that they do not want to get vaccinated, when it with the mandate? He must know he is lying.

Why is he sticking so hard to the demand, not bending in the face of civil chaos, despite much medical advice, despite the possible bad pr, despite the growing risk of losing power? Why won’t he make a tactical retreat, as Jason Kenney, Scott Moe, or Francois Legault have done?

It cannot simply be that Trudeau has gone insane, or is hysterical. Those around him would have intervened.

It has to be that Trudeau does not want the vaccine. He wants the mandate. He wants truckers to carry vaccine passports.

He wants everybody to; but truckers were a special problem. Because of their transience and self-reliance, they could not reliably be reached by other mandates: by mandating vaccines for offices, or restaurants, or air travel, or schools. It had to be a vaccine requirement even for driving a truck--or else the mandate could not get everyone.

Why does he, and surely others, want everyone to carry a vaccine mandate on their person? If the mandate is on every smartphone, it is a trivial matter to use or adapt this to track data on everyone. 

Yes, I know this sounds like the ”Bill Gates is implanting us all with computer chips through the vaccination” conspiracy theory. Yet a government might very well want this. Not, in their minds, for obviously nefarious reasons. For the sake of efficiency and the general good. But behind this is the conviction present in our elites, that matters are always best kept in their hands, and not in those of common people. Trudeau for one is on record as admiring China’s “basic dictatorship.” It allows them, after all, to turn on a dime. Efficiency.

Once it became apparent that the government could track everyone, and was doing so, there would of course be a revolt against it, at least in some quarters. But if the system was already in place before this happened, it might not matter. By then a revolt might no longer be effective. The authorities could track down dissenters, seize their bank accounts, get them fired, cancel their debit and credit cards, perhaps track wherever they go and whom they contact.

Convenient things, smartphones.

Yeah, sounds paranoid. But also in line with what we are actually seeing— not least, in the government response to the convoy. We can see they would if they could. They could, so they probably did.

Or tried to.

The truckers may have reacted badly at almost the last possible moment. If so, all the chips are on the velvet, and Trudeau cannot afford to or cannot bear to back down now and give it all up.

Whoever else is involved, Doug Ford must be. His actions, too, otherwise make no sense.

Is This Real?

If so, it is a bad sign.

 

From the Organizers

 

House of Commons Today

 

More from Ottawa and across Canada

 

The mainstream media keep insisting Ottawa is now full of swastikas and Confederate flags, but never show any pictures of them. Meantime, folks supporting the convoy never show any. And the chant "freedom" you keep hearing would seem to be the opposite of a Nazi or a pro-slavery sentiment.

It seems you just cannot trust most people in authority any longer. This still comes as a shock. Something has gone seriously wrong.

Wait--I think I've finally found the Nazi. CTV is featuring a clip of a guy carrying a sign saying "Herr Trudeau--needle Nazi." 

That may explain it.