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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Grapes, You are an Inspiration to us All!
It was greatly to my disgust that I learned, yesterday, that Sportsnet
had fired the legendary Canadian institution, Don Cherry, over remarks
he made on Coach’s Corner this past weekend. Here is what he said on
Saturday:
“You know, I was talking to a veteran. I said ‘I’m not going to run
the poppy thing anymore because what’s the sense? I live in Mississauga,
nobody wears — very few people wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget
it! Downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy.’
He says, ‘Wait a minute, how about running it for the people that buy them?’
Now you go to the small cities, the rows on rows.
You people love — that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of
life, you love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a couple of
bucks for a poppy. These guys paid for your way of life, the life you
enjoy in Canada. These guys paid the biggest price.
Anyhow, I’m going to run it again for you great people and good Canadians that bought a poppy.”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, it needed to be said, and kudos to Grapes for saying it.
Of course, the lily-livered whiners, the woke snowflake mob, got all
triggered by the words “you people” and started throwing conniptions.
(See the opening scenes of the 2000 Farrelly Brothers film Me, Myself and Irene
staring Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger for a hilarious satire of those
who read all sorts of ridiculous things into just this phrase).
For a day and a half these modern day Salomes were all over the social
media demanding that Don Cherry’s head be given them on a platter.
Corrupt mainstream media outlets, such as the CBC which for decades
carried Hockey Night in Canada in which Coach’s Corner was featured,
provided them an additional platform to make these demands. Finally,
on Remembrance Day, the sniveling scoundrels at Sportsnet, issued a
statement about how Cherry’s patriotic call to respect and honour our
veterans was “divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what
we stand for” and so he would no longer be appearing on their program.
In an interview with Joe Warmington, Cherry said that this was not a
problem and that “I know what I said and I meant it. Everybody in
Canada should wear a poppy to honour our fallen soldiers.”
Amen.
This is exactly how everybody ought to respond when some politically
correct mob takes offence at his words and calls them “racist”, “sexist”
or some other of the growing list of -ists and -phobics. If there
were more of these refusals to grovel and apologize, there would be a
lot less of these politically correct mobs.
Don Cherry is an inspiration to all of us who are sick and tired of
wokeness, political correctness, cancel culture and all the rest of that
nonsense. Let us follow his example.
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The Arrest that Wasn’t
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No doubt, you’ve heard of Dr. Greg Johnson’s recent arrest and deportation from Norway that occurred prior to his scheduled speech at this year’s Scandza Forum in Oslo. The outcome was far better than we feared. Johnson was not banned from Schengen. He was not even banned from Norway. Moreover, significant questions have arisen regarding the actual legal circumstances under which Johnson was arrested. While it’s plainly obvious that this arrest was political, not much attention has been paid to the murky mechanisms by which Johnson was actually placed into custody.
News broke of Johnson’s arrest almost immediately after it occurred on Norwegian news outlets, specifying that police arrested him under Section 106 of the Norwegian Immigration Act. Confusion over what actually happened begins here: 106 only details the reasons for which a foreign national may be expelled on the grounds that they have deliberately provided false information or otherwise evaded the normal process of entering the country. Johnson did none of those things: He did not arrive in Norway with a fake passport, having committed a crime, or having attempted to dodge a connection elsewhere inside of an airport. This detail – which is being mostly overlooked by those glancing at one of the many news articles on the incident and satisfied by seeing some kind of legal statute pertaining to this incident referenced – was mentioned by Johnson’s lawyer, John Christian Elden.
In an interview with Scandza organizer Fróði Midjord, Elden stated that Johnson was taken into custody by police under Section 126 of the same act. This particular statute makes allowances for the government of Norway to order the removal of any person for “fundamental national interests” and “foreign policy considerations” as they relate to a particular individual’s visit to Norway. In Johnson’s case, this statute was invoked on account of the false allegation that he expressed support for Anders Behring Breivik’s terrorist attacks in 2011.
Because of this, Johnson was not truly “arrested” in the sense of the word we usually understand in the West. He was taken into custody immediately outside the Scandza Forum venue under rules that pertain to immigration, not criminal offenses. It’s curious that he wasn’t stopped at the airport, where such things generally take place. Officially, Dr. Johnson was placed under “detention, pending removal,” which the government has argued does not actually qualify as arrest or deportation – despite the fact that Johnson was being held inside a detention facility and forced to either accept a flight out of the country on behalf of the government or purchase one himself. The government also argues that he was not actually jailed, since the facility that Johnson was held inside is administered by the police, and not corrections officers, per the regulations set forth in the statute he was arrested under. Because of this, the Norwegian government almost explicitly admits that Johnson’s presence in Norway was not a crime, nor was the means by which he entered the country.
While Johnson is an obvious target for persecution, the rest of us would do well to observe a few rules while traveling internationally in order to avoid troubling situations like this one, especially within Europe and Anglophone North America: