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I stopped regularly listening to MSM and instead turn to Rebel News, and to citizens reports who do live stream walk-throughs of downtown Ottawa on YouTube. You get a very different picture of what's happening in Ottawa! Of course we don't agree with everything that said and done there, even as we would not agree with everything that every Canadian soldier said and did on the battlegrounds of WW II. But yet we say the cause they fought for was just and right!
Didn't John Calvin say that a rebellion was legitimate if under magistrates agreed and participated. There are several MP's who publicly supported and have spoken up for the "Freedom Convoy" participants.
When the prime minister judges the views being expressed as that of "a small Fringe minority with unacceptable views" and condemns the participants as "racists and misogynists and white supremacists" he is no longer acting like the leader of a Nation, but as a spokesman for a segment of society that has a particular viewpoint. In effect he has declared as unacceptable, the views of the many Christians who are protesting their loss of freedom to worship, of expression, of association, of movement, of privacy.
This is similar to Hillary Clinton, who said that half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” views.
Moreover, in our civil society we are permitted to protest against our governments at the ballot box. But we're also permitted to protest against our governments by marching in the street. We do it every year with a pro-life March. The freedom convoy is different only in the matter of degree: the March for Life is not much of an inconvenience to the people who live in downtown Ottawa; The Freedom Convoy is.
The present protest is peaceful (except for the air-horns). The brou-haha about the Terry Fox memorial should cause the leftists to be ashamed. A Canadian flag was draped over the shoulders of the Statue of Terry Fox and a placard was put in his arms. The leftists were appalled because Terry Fox, they said, should not be appropriated by antivaxxers; his memory belongs to those who believe in universal health care! Go figure! I find it interesting that those who complain about the Terry Fox memorial have not complained about the BLM protests tearing down John A McDonald's memorial in Montreal, or the beheading of the Statue of Queen Victoria.
Of course we disagree with those who think it appropriate to fly a swastika or a Confederate flag.
But Justin Trudeau's allegation that truckers were stealing food from homeless people is leftist spin on an unverified news bit that some protesters tried to get some free food from a homeless soup kitchen. That is a far cry from stealing food from homeless people. Now we see the protesters providing free food for anyone who wants some. I can't imag6ine they would turn the homeless away! We don't hear the prime minister recognizing that! (The soup kitchen is also now receiving hundreds of dollars of unsolicited donstions!)
It may be true that some protesters treated the grave of the unknown soldier with disrespect, but since then many have laid flowers on the grave. The prime Minister has not recognized this act of contrition and acknowledgment of wrong doing by some at the protest.
The prime minister in his pronouncements is purposely misleading the citizens of the country that he is supposed to be leading. When several under magistrates agree with a significant segment of the population that the government must go, then organized protest and civil disobedience is not unbiblical nor unChristian. It can and may be employed by Christians to advance the cause of the church and to build up the kingdom of God. Especially when the prime minister declares our views "unacceptable"!
By the. Liberal Party spin, our government is swiftly losing credibility and legitimacy. I fully support the Freedom Convoy. If people don't want to be vaccinated that should be their choice. I've had "two and a boost" but that's my choice. If I would get COVID and be unvaccinated, because of my Parkinson's I would probably die of pneumonia. So I made an informed decision.
In our country we don't penalize smokers or the obese or those who engage in extreme sports, by making pariahs out of them banning them from civil society. Why should I with "2 and a boost" be afraid of unvaxxed. Why should they lose their jobs. Why ban them from restaurants, museums, airplanes, concert halls, theaters, bowling alleys, gyms and spas... (and in Quebec even from worshipping) Let them be!
I wonder at the inconsistency of the leftists, who in their pro-abortion rhetoric will state that a woman's body is her own, and what she does with her body is between her and her doctor. But a freedom loving right of center Christ follower is denied the opportunity to use that argument with respect to vaccines. The left will bludgeon freedom loving libertarian into submission. This is the time for Christians to speak out. We have a legitimate (and I think God given) opportunity to reclaim civil freedoms that are a legacy of the Great Reformation and that the ungodly left will be pleased to steal from us: Freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom to worship, freedom to travel inside our own national borders without being tracked, freedom of privacy!
They will use their arguments to support their positions but deny Christians the right to use similar defenses. The is no reasoning with a post-milleniaĺ post-modern. Our views, opinions and worldview are that of "a small fringe minority and are unacceptable."
Trudeau has shown his true colours and we, judged by him to be "The Small Fringe Minority" should take that up as a badge of honor! We of the unacceptable views!
In Dutch history, in 1566, among the leaders who bound themselves to assist in defending the rights and liberties of the Netherlands against the civil and religious despotism of Philip II of Spain, were the nobles, Louis of Nassau and Hendrick van Brederode. On April 5 1566, permission was obtained for the confederates to present a petition of grievances, called the Request, to the regent, Margaret, Duchess of Parma. About 250 nobles marched to the palace accompanied by Louis of Nassau and van Brederode. The regent was at first alarmed at the appearance of so large a body, but one of her councillors, Berlaymont, allegedly remarked "N'ayez pas peur Madame, ce ne sont que des gueux" ("Fear not madam, they are only beggars"). (Wikimedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen)
"They're only gueux", a French slur. The protesters took on the slur in pride. And when they used their ships to blockade the harbour at Brill, they called themselves the Water Geuzen. The action at Brill by the Water Beggars is some what paralleled by the Freedom Convoy. Except that the Water Beggars protest became an armed military uprising. The Dutch rebelled against the Roman Catholic Hapsburgs and established a free Calvinist State.
Full disclosure: my mother's maiden name was De Geus and and family tree goes back to a fellow Jacob the (knife) Sharpener, who took the surname '"de Gueuz" in 1572, (the year the Beggars captured Brill and Vlissingen, which marked the beginning of the final stagesprotest of the Dutch revolt.)
The Water Beggars were privateers or pirates depending on your point of view (though sanctioned by William of Orange) yet I've never heard that their actions against the Roman Catholic Hapsburgs was illegitimate, or that the Dutch revolt was unChristian nor was the establishing of the calavinist Netherlands.
And we could mention Bonhoeffer and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler. If I remember correctly, Bonhoeffer was Dr Jelle Faber's beloved heretic, because of his nvolvement. Faber told us of the vile memories of Amsterdam Jews being rounded up. It was duing his last month of teaching that the Berlin wall fell-- Nov 9 1989--and we asked him what he thought about it. He said he feared German reunification. I don't think Dr Faber thought that Bonhoeffer was wrong.
Daniel's friends stood up against the king of the great city of man, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. With the whole world as witnesses, they defied great king of the City of the world and would not submit. When prayer was forbidden, Daniel didn't go and hide when he prayed, but publicly defied the great king of the city of man, because he had his eyes set on the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Let us, the SFM, the Basket of Deplorables, allied with the Trucker Beggars do the same. We have a legitimate protest; which we as God's people may and should use to protect our Christian freedom.
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