Banning President Donald Trump from social media while silencing his supporters who dare to object is simply not enough to stop “violence and hate” from spreading on the internet, according to Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser.
In an announcement, Mozilla expressed urgent plans to start filtering out “disinformation” at the browser level before it even has the chance to show up in an internet search or on a website.
Rehashing the same scripted lies about the “siege” and “take-over” in Washington, D.C., that resulted in a handful of people gaining access to the Capitol building on Jan. 6, Mozilla says every tool in the arsenal needs to be deployed to prevent “white supremacy” from being “reinforce[d]” online.
“… as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality,” wrote Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker.
“Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.”
Describing those who challenge fraudulent elections as engaging in “dangerous dynamics,” Baker says there is an urgent need to do “more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms.”
Mozilla, Firefox want to control everything you’re allowed to access and share online
In order to prevent conservatives from ever again having the opportunity to make their voices heard about anything, Mozilla wants to uncover who is paying for advertisements on non-left websites, as well as how much they are paying.
Figuring out who is being “targeted” with these ads is also important, Mozilla says, as they, too, need to be silenced and prevented from accessing anything other than mainstream media content and information from “approved” politicians like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Mozilla is further taking aim at platform algorithms to ensure that only politically correct content is “amplified,” especially to the people who need to be indoctrinated the most.
By default, all of the latest Firefox updates will also include “tools” that are designed to “amplify factual voices over disinformation.” These “factual voices” include fake news outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Finally, Mozilla wants to collaborate with “independent researchers” for the purpose of conducting “in-depth studies” into the ways that Facebook and Twitter impact people throughout society. This, the company says, will help in determining “what we can do to improve things.”
“These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today,” Baker concludes.
“The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that.”
Similar in nature to Microsoft’s NewsGuard plug-in, which tags all mainstream news outlets as “verified” and everything else as “fake,” Mozilla wants Firefox to become yet another information gatekeeper in the web of deep state control over the world.
Needless to say, it is probably a good time to uninstall Firefox and never look back. The browser used to be somewhat trustworthy, but now it is just another cog in the wheel of new world order control over speech, not to mention an affront to the First Amendment to the Constitution.
“Brave is better by every metric,” wrote one Twitter commenter, referring to the popular Brave browser.
More of the latest news about Big Tech censorship can be found at Censorship.news.
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Insider Records CEO Jack Dorsey Laying Out Roadmap for Future Political Censorship … ‘We Are Focused on One Account [President Trump] Right Now, But This is Going to be Much Bigger Than Just One Account’
Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO: “We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration.”
Dorsey: “So, the focus is certainly on this account [@realDonaldTrump] and how it ties to real world violence. But also, we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”
Dorsey: “You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day.”
[SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 14, 2021] Project Veritas released a new video today provided by an insider at Twitter who recorded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey calling for more action against President Trump and his supporters on the platform.
Dorsey said that censoring Trump was just the beginning.
“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration,” he said.
“So, the focus is certainly on this account [@realDonaldTrump] and how it ties to real world violence. But also, we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”
Dorsey said that political tensions are high in the United States.
“You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day,” he said.
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Big Tech companies are at war with Social Media sites Gab and Parler!
The biggest ones are probably the removal of Gab from the App Store and Google Play store. In addition to that, mainstream online financial services companies such as PayPal and Stripe curtailed all the access from their platforms to Gab.
Reason: Gab joins other less restrictive social media platforms that have seen a surge in traffic since the November general election and recent blocks of accounts of Trump and his high-profile supporters. In addition to Gab, these platforms include Parler (recently banned from Google Play and App Store as well), TheDonald, and MeWe.
This trend embodies a growing need of people to freely express themselves in the wake of pressures they experience regarding what they are allowed to say.
The restrictions to the freedom of speech that are happening these days are genuinely unprecedented in American history.
The President has not only received a permanent ban on his personal Twitter account but also saw some of his tweets from the official presidential Twitter account removed.It is understandable how more and more people each day are switching to alternative platforms such as Gab in order to be able to raise their voice.
Big Tech strikes again, Twitter in particular to Censor, Violating the First Amendment.
After the tech wide ban of Donald Trump, the inconsistencies of social media platforms remain laughable.Twitter and Facebook stated that permanently removing President Trump’s accounts was to protect people and stop the ever-growing incitement of violence. Additionally, the vast majority of accounts also removed were US conservatives accounts, including Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell’s accounts.
However, Twitter was perfectly fine and happy to allow the disgusting phrase ‘Hang Mike Pence’ to remain on the trending page, culminating in over 14,000 tweets after Twitter purged a large majority of Conservative users on the site on Friday.The account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei still remains active.
Twitter doesn’t care about users. If they did, accounts like Khamenei’s would have been terminated a long time ago and phrases like ‘Hang Mike Pence’ wouldn’t be allowed to trend.
Twitter’s selective use of their own Communist policies shows that they simply do not care, and by silencing the current leader of the free world, they wanted the rest of the world to know what kind of power they have–so let’s take it away by boycotting twitter–pass the word! More patriotism of twitter: Twitter Hires Chinese Communist Party-Linked AI Expert Who Wanted to Hide ‘Secret’ Weapons Contracts
A lot’s been happening really fast. It’s a white noise saturation day and it’s impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I’m just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened.
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Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.
“Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them,” Wall Street Journal reports.
Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?
The first draft of the civil rights-eroding USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9/11 attacks. Legislators later admitted that they hadn’t even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all the necessary information and write the whole entire thing in a week.
This was because most of the work had already been done. CNET reported the following back in 2008:
“Months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of ‘terrorism’ that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode ‘constitutional and statutory due process protections’ and would ‘authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.’
Biden’s bill was never put to a vote, but after 9/11 then-Attorney General John Ashcroft reportedly credited his bill with the foundations of the USA PATRIOT Act.
“Civil libertarians were opposed to it,” Biden said in 2002 of his bill. “Right after 1994, and you can ask the attorney general this, because I got a call when he introduced the Patriot Act. He said, ‘Joe, I’m introducing the act basically as you wrote it in 1994.’”
The post 9/11 era is over. The single greatest national security threat right now is our internal division. The threat of domestic terrorism. The polarization that threatens our democracy. If we don’t reconnect our two Americas, the threats will not have to come from the outside. pic.twitter.com/ADgGcf7qEo
A recent Morning Joe appearance by CIA analyst-turned House Representative Elissa Slotkin eagerly informed us that the real battle against terrorism is now inside America’s borders.
“The post 9/11 era is over,” Slotkin tweeted while sharing a clip of her appearance. “The single greatest national security threat right now is our internal division. The threat of domestic terrorism. The polarization that threatens our democracy. If we don’t reconnect our two Americas, the threats will not have to come from the outside.”
“Before Congress, Elissa worked for the CIA and the Pentagon and helped destabilize the Middle East during the Bush and Obama admins,” tweeted journalist Whitney Webb in response. “What she says here is essentially an open announcement that the US has moved from the ‘War on [foreign] terror’ to the ‘War on domestic terror’.”
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In response to pressures from all directions including its own staff, Twitter has followed Facebook’s lead and removed Donald Trump’s account.
And it wasn’t just Trump. Accounts are vanishing quickly, including some popular Trump supporter accounts. I myself have lost hundreds of followers on Twitter in the last few hours, and I’ve seen people saying they lost a lot more.
It also wasn’t just Trump supporters; leftist accounts are getting suspended too. The online left is hopefully learning that cheering for Twitter “banning fascists” irrationally assumes that (A) their purges are only banning fascists and (B) they are limiting their bans to your personal definition of fascists. There is no basis whatsoever for either of these assumptions.
Wow! These people hold rallies protesting the unjust evictions of poor people during the Covid. We have been telling you. They will come for the Progressives as well. That is why we must protect our freedom of speech and our civil liberties. pic.twitter.com/IXVW86HjL6
Google has ratcheted things up even further by removing Parler from its app store, and Apple will likely soon follow. This push to marginalize even the already fringey social media sites is making the libertarian/shitlib argument of “If you don’t like censorship just go to another platform” look pretty ridiculous.
This is all happening just in time for the Biden administration, about which critics had already been voicing grave concerns regarding the future of internet censorship.
The censorship of a political faction at the hands of a few liberal Silicon Valley billionaires will do the exact opposite of eliminating right-wing paranoia and conspiracy theories, and everyone knows it. You’re not trying to make things better, you’re trying to make them worse. You’re not trying to restore peace and order, you’re trying to force a confrontation so your political enemies can be crushed. You’re accelerationist.
A Venn diagram of people who support the latest social media purges and people who secretly hope Trumpers freak out and attempt a violent uprising would look like the Japanese flag.
"Domestic terrorists"; "coup"; "attacks on our democracy"; welcome to the latest iteration of the War on Terror.
The Boutique Left, in the blink of an eye, discards all talk of healthcare & stimulus checks to help lay the groundwork and usher in a new age of authoritarianism. pic.twitter.com/qwMwe8WtjZ
The correct response to a huge section of the citizenry doubting an electoral system we’ve known for years is garbage would have been more transparency, not shoving the process through and silencing people who voice doubts and making that entire faction more paranoid and crazy.
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Supporting the censorship of online speech is to support the authority of monopolistic tech oligarchs to exert more and more global control over human communication. Regardless of your attitude toward whoever happens to be getting deplatformed today, supporting this is suicidal.
Mexican President Defends Trump and Calls Out Big Tech for Violating Free Speech He’s defending Trump better than most Republicans.
In a strange turn of events, Mexican president Andres Manuel López Obrador recently came to President Donald Trump’s defense after social media platforms blocked his account.
Facebook and Twitter’s decision to ban President Trump elicited strong words from the Mexican president, who described the actions as a “bad omen.”
The concept of private companies deciding who can be censored and muzzled violates the freedom of speech, according to a statement AMLO made during a press conference on January 8.
“It’s like a censorship court is being created, like the Holy Inquisition, for the management of public opinion,” he declared. take our poll – story continues below
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AMLO said that he found Zuckerberg’s behavior to be “arrogant.”
“He’s talking about his norms, but what about freedom and the right to information? What’s the role of legal and legitimately constituted authorities?” the president said. “We can’t allow one corporation that is the owner of Facebook, or of Twitter, decide who it can and who it can’t grant the possibility to communicate.”
AMLO and President Trump have been able to forge a solid working relationship, as evidenced by Trump’s success with the Remain in Mexico policy that has largely prevented asylum seekers from Central America from clogging up America’s immigration system by having them stay in Mexico as their asylum requests are processed.
Although Mexico has all the trappings of a failed state — out of control crime, cartels effectively exercising sovereignty over pieces of land, and an inability to keep cartels in check —, President Trump has found proactive ways to cooperate with AMLO and lay the foundations for a strong relationship between two neighboring countries.
The Mexican president can sympathize with Trump because of the former’s experience with voter fraud in some of his previous attempts to run for the Mexican presidency.
Good on AMLO’s part for defending Trump and calling out Big Tech overreach. He’s actually defended Trump more effectively than most GOP leaders.
John Minchillo / APSupporters loyal to President Donald Trump clash with authorities before successfully breaching the Capitol building during a riot on the grounds Wednesday. (John Minchillo / AP) By Kipp Jones Published January 9, 2021 at 1:36pm Share on Facebook Tweet Share Email Print
Mozilla, the foundation and developer of the popular free web browser Firefox, published a blog post on Friday arguing that silencing and de-platforming President Donald Trump is not enough and that the entire internet needs to be re-tooled to stifle political dissent.
“There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6,” Mozilla said in a blog post. “Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?”
“But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality,” the company said. “Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.”
Mozilla essentially called everyone who didn’t vote for Democrats in the last election racist. Then, it advocated for more censorship and more voter disenfranchisement for conservatives who already face so much discrimination in their daily lives.
The company said it is time to unmask “who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted,” which sounds an awful lot like an advocation for doxing people. Surely, that won’t be misused and unevenly applied.
“Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation,” Mozilla added.
Finally, the Mozilla said the tech must “Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.”
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“These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that,” concluded Mozilla.
Mozilla also took to Twitter to share its message: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?creatorScreenName=WestJournalism&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1347633954497548289&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournal.com%2Ftop-tech-foundation-deplatforming-not-enough-entire-internet-needs-change-capitol-incursion%2F&siteScreenName=WestJournalism&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px
Top Tech Foundation: Deplatforming Not Enough, Entire Internet Needs to Change After Capitol Incursion
John Minchillo / APSupporters loyal to President Donald Trump clash with authorities before successfully breaching the Capitol building during a riot on the grounds Wednesday. (John Minchillo / AP) By Kipp Jones Published January 9, 2021 at 1:36pm Share on Facebook Tweet Share Email Print
Mozilla, the foundation and developer of the popular free web browser Firefox, published a blog post on Friday arguing that silencing and de-platforming President Donald Trump is not enough and that the entire internet needs to be re-tooled to stifle political dissent.
“There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6,” Mozilla said in a blog post. “Since then there has been significant focus on the deplatforming of President Donald Trump. By all means the question of when to deplatform a head of state is a critical one, among many that must be addressed. When should platforms make these decisions? Is that decision-making power theirs alone?”
“But as reprehensible as the actions of Donald Trump are, the rampant use of the internet to foment violence and hate, and reinforce white supremacy is about more than any one personality,” the company said. “Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he won’t be the last. We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.”
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Mozilla essentially called everyone who didn’t vote for Democrats in the last election racist. Then, it advocated for more censorship and more voter disenfranchisement for conservatives who already face so much discrimination in their daily lives.
The company said it is time to unmask “who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted,” which sounds an awful lot like an advocation for doxing people. Surely, that won’t be misused and unevenly applied.
“Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact. Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation,” Mozilla added.
Finally, the Mozilla said the tech must “Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.”
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“These are actions the platforms can and should commit to today. The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that,” concluded Mozilla.
Mozilla also took to Twitter to share its message: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/
Nineteenth century Scottish writer Robert Louis
Stevenson is remembered mostly for his novels Treasure Island, featuring the pirate Long John Silver, and Kidnapped. Almost as well-known as these, and probably
far more influential in terms of the number of imitations it has inspired and
adaptations that have been made, is a shorter work, published in 1886, the same
year as Kidnapped, entitled Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(1).
The story is about a physician, Dr. Henry Jekyll, who
like everybody else, struggles with the inner conflict between his base
instincts and urges on the one hand and his ethical standards on the other. Unlike everybody else, he, being a scientist,
tries to find a scientific solution to the problem, which he sees more in terms
of the need to protect his reputation than to suppress his vicious
desires. He invents a serum that
transforms him into Mr. Edward Hyde so that he can indulge the latter without
damaging his reputation. The potion,
however, also produces a division in his moral character, basically separating
all the wickedness into the persona of Mr. Hyde and all of the goodness into
the persona of Dr. Jekyll. The
consequence of all of this, is that Mr. Hyde is left with no inner constraints
on his wickedness, and becomes a thoroughly depraved, sadistic, sociopathic,
murderer. Dr. Jekyll, who by contrast
becomes more upright, humane and saintly, eventually loses control over the
transformation process and starts to transform into Mr. Hyde involuntarily, at
first in his sleep, later when he is awake.
Then, running out of the serum that reverses the transformation, and
being unable to produce another batch that will work, he realizes that he is
about to become his evil alter-ego permanently, and commits suicide.
After the story was published and became widely known,
the names of the character became more or less synonymous with the kind of dual
personality in which a person can be sweet, gentile, and charming one minute
and the exact opposite of that the next.
I have been reminded of this story every time that
Doug Ford, the current premier of Upper Canada, or Ontario as those who like to
keep up with the times prefer to call it, has appeared in the news in the last
eight months and especially the last two.
Two summers ago, when the Progressive Conservatives
led by Doug Ford, won a majority of 76 out of the 124 seats in the provincial
legislature, I breathed a sigh of relief for our neighbours to the east. They had suffered under Grit misrule for
fifteen years, first under Dalton McGuinty and then under Kathleen Wynne, who
were in my opinion the two worst provincial-level Liberal leaders in the entire
history of the Dominion. The election
that put Doug Ford in the premier’s chair, also reduced the Grits to seven
seats, the worst defeat they have ever suffered in that province, which was
itself even greater cause to rejoice than the Conservative victory.
When Doug Ford became leader of Upper Canada’s
Progressive Conservatives in the lead-up to the provincial election of 2018, I
knew little about him other than that he was the brother of the late Rob Ford,
who from 2010 to 2014 had been mayor of the city which had been known as York
before political correctness prompted its being rechristened with the Indian
name of Toronto in 1834. During the
years in which Rob Ford was mayor, he was constantly under attack by the CBC
and the rest of the mainstream progressive media, which only strengthened me in
my conviction that, as I said at the time, Rob Ford, drunk and on crack, ran
his city better than any other sober mayor in Canada, including and especially
our own here in Winnipeg. That would
have been Sam Katz back then, and Mayor Duckie (2) who has since replaced him
is even worse.
The same corrupt left-wing media that had relentlessly
pursued the destruction of his brother, went after Doug Ford during the 2018
election. They shamelessly dug poor old
Rob up from his grave – he had passed away from cancer two years previously –
and began whipping and crucifying his corpse.
Since Ford was using populist rhetoric in his campaign, they naturally
compared him to Donald the Orange who through populism and nationalism had
become president of the American republic in 2016. Now,
just to be clear, since my politics happens to be the royal-monarch-as-defender-of-the-Church
kind of Toryism from which the Conservative Party has been lamentably drifting
for decades – or rather centuries – populism and nationalism are actually lower
in my own estimation than they are in that of the progressive media. Forced to choose between the former and the
latter, however, I would gladly chose the populists any day. So it was that this progressive assault on
“Ontario’s Trump” raised his stock considerably in my books.
Despite the media’s amusing attempt to use his
populist rhetoric to hang the “far right” label on him – neither populism nor
what the media considers to be “far right” is right wing at all, let alone
extremely right wing – Doug Ford was
basically a mainstream, centre-right, Progressive Conservative. His platform consisted mostly of tax
reductions, infrastructure improvement, de-regulation, and cleaning up the mess
that McGuinty and Wynne had made of the province’s school system. While there was much that was lacking in
this platform, it was a major improvement over what the former governing party
had been offering. After Ford won the
election, the first year and a half of his premiership were fairly
impressive. He stuck it to the
provincial bureaucrats with a salary-and-hiring freeze, and went to war with
the environazis who were determined to make life more miserable and
unaffordable for everybody because of their superstitious belief in a climate
apocalypse extrapolated through a computer simulation from the pseudoscientific
theory of anthropogenic global warming.
This included standing up to Captain Airhead, whom we are unfortunate
enough to have as the Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s government in Ottawa, and
who was threatening to impose a federal carbon tax on all provinces that did
not voluntarily adopt one of their own.
Shortly after the election, the new Minister of Education announced that
the province would repeal everything the outgoing government had done to turn
the schools into indoctrination camps for brainwashing young children with
sexual perversion and gender identity politics although there have been reports
that the follow-through on this was less than spectacular and that all they
really did was make a few minor adjustments.
(3)
The qualifying remarks in my last sentence
aside, Ford had gotten off to a fairly good start for a contemporary,
mainstream, Progressive Conservative premier.
Then the Chinese bat flu arrived in Upper Canada. When that happened, Doug Ford underwent an
almost-overnight metamorphosis into a despotic, bullying, COVID-monster, and
became the darling of the media that had been demonizing him for the last two
years.
Of course, something similar could be said about every
premier in the Dominion. Our own Progressive
Conservative Premier here in the south-east corner of Prince Rupert’s Land, Brian
Pallister, declared a state of emergency and put our province into a most
draconian lockdown before there was any significant outbreak, gave that – in my
opinion – power mad goon Dr. Brent Roussin a blank cheque for imposing
restrictions, no matter how stupid, self-contradictory, and outright harmful
they were, and only the other day doubled the fines for people who violate
these arbitrary regulations. Pallister,
however, has long been known to be a jerk.
The only reason I welcomed his re-election the other year is that the
other option was the truly odious Wab Kinew.
Doug Ford, on the other hand, had given us every reason to expect much
better of him, before he turned around and started acting like a squirt bottle
used for cleaning the orifices of the nether regions of the body.
Now, some might come to Doug Ford’s defence by saying that
his province was hit particularly hard by the bat flu. Granted, out of all the provinces its number
of deaths was exceeded only by those of Lower Canada. This hardly constitutes justification of his
actions, however. It is only to be
expected that in a country-wide outbreak, the two provinces of Central Canada
would have the most deaths. They have
the most people, after all. There is
more to it, however, than just that.
The bulk of the deaths in those provinces took place in long-term care
facilities, which, again, is predictable from the fact that the only people who
are at any sort of statistically
significant risk from the Chinese bat
flu are those who are really old, with two or more complicating health
conditions. In Upper and Lower Canada,
the situation in the nursing homes got so bad that the Armed Forces had to be
sent in to take the place of the staff who had either contracted the virus
themselves or deserted in fear of doing so.
They sent back to their superiors reports of the horrendous conditions
they found there – conditions such as cockroaches, rotting food, bedding left
soiled for days on end, and worse – caused not by the bat flu but by neglect
and abuse on the part of the administration and staff. While Ford is hardly to blame for such
conditions, for in many of these places this sort of thing had been going on
for years prior to his premiership, the fact of the matter is that had he done
the common sense thing at the beginning of the “pandemic” and taken measures to
provide extra protection for the people most at risk, rather than listening uncritically
to the imbecilic advice of medical experts who, themselves regurgitating
nonsense cooked up by the World Health Organization to serve the nefarious ends
of the Chinese Communists and the pharmaceutical conglomerates, recommended a universal
quarantine on the young and healthy instead, this sort of thing could have been
dealt with much earlier, and steps could have been taken which might have prevented
the outbreaks in the nursing homes from getting so bad. Jumping on board the lockdown bandwagon,
prevented him from pursuing other, sounder, options, and made the situation
even worse.
When the World Health Organization screamed “pandemic”,
Ford traded in his tired old populism and common sense for a shiny new superstitious
belief in the infallibility of international health organizations and other
medical experts, and imposed their recommendations with a particularly heavy
hand. When people with legitimate
concerns about the erosion of their rights, freedoms, livelihoods and businesses
under public health orders and who likely largely overlapped the people who had
voted Ford into the premier’s office two years ago, began to protest against social
distancing, lockdowns, and the like, he dismissed them all as yahoos. In July, he rammed Bill 195 through the legislature,
a bill which gave him two years’ worth of emergency powers which he could
exercise without consulting the legislature.
This was a province-level equivalent of what Captain Airhead and his
Liberals had tried to sneak into an emergency spending bill in Parliament in
March, but which Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition had mercifully thwarted. Ford punished the members of his own party
who voted against this bill, such as Belinda Karahalios, the MPP representing
Cambridge, by expelling them from the caucus.
On Monday, September 28th, Ford held a
press conference in which he announced that his province was officially in the “second
wave” of the bat flu, and that it “will be worse than the first wave we faced
earlier this year.” As with all the other
claptrap about this so-called “second wave” this was a cunning form of
sleight-of-hand. That day, Upper Canada
had seen the highest number of new cases recorded in a single day since the
beginning of the pandemic. It had not
seen a commensurate spike in the number of people gravely sick, being
hospitalized, put in intensive care, and dying. Indeed, the new cases were mostly among age
groups which were not at any significant risk from the disease. This has been more or less the case
everywhere throughout this so-called “second wave”. My province, which seen the number of deaths
multiply since the beginning of September – we were at fourteen at the
beginning of September and are now at forty-seven, is not an exception. These deaths are, like those which more
populated provinces experienced in the spring, almost entirely among those who
are both extremely old and extremely sick, because this is Manitoba’s first
wave, the entire misguided and totalitarian “flatten the curve” strategy having
merely delayed it, while causing a whole lot of unnecessary other harm in the
process.
Even before Ford made this announcement, he had
lowered the number of people allowed to meet socially in Toronto, Peel Region,
and Ottawa to ten, slapped a $10 000 fine on anyone who organized an event that
broke this rule, and a $750 fine on anyone who attended. It is difficult to decide which is more
ridiculous, the limit of social gatherings to ten in a country where assembly and
association are two of the officially recognized fundamental freedoms, or the
insanely high amounts of those fines. (4) Certainly,
the late Rob Ford, who was well known for his love of large social gatherings,
must be spinning in his grave over all this party-pooping, and the whole
general way in which his brother has turned into a piece of rotting Communist excrement.
My unsolicited advice to Ford is to find the serum
that will turn him back to his original self and to do so quickly. Nobody, except the media progressives, who
want everybody to spend the rest of their lives, hiding under their beds in
their basements, curled up in the fetal position, sucking their thumbs, afraid
to go out lest the SARS-Cov-2 Bogeyman get them, likes this new version.
(1) Stevenson
deliberately left out both the definite article and the periods after the
abbreviations for doctor and mister from his title. His original publisher followed his
whims. Most subsequent publishers have
not.
(2) Brian Bowman looks like Jon Cryer, who, prior to his role as Alan on Three and a Half Men, was best known as
“Duckie” in John Hughes’ 1986 “Brat Pack” teen rom-com, Pretty in Pink. An
interesting bit of trivia, although as completely irrelevant as this entire
footnote, is that Charlie Sheen, Cryer’s co-star in Three and a Half Men (and earlier in Hotshots), was the original choice for the role of Blane, “Duckie”’s
ultimately successful rival for the affections of Andie (Molly Ringwald) in
this film, a role that ended up going to Andrew McCarthy.
(3) See
this
article from The
Interim. It is worth noting that a
serious effort to clean up the schools would have to involve more than just
repealing Kathleen Wynne’s curriculum.
I was in Toronto for a wedding almost ten years ago, while Dalton
McGuinty was still premier. On the ride
back to Pearson International, my driver, a recent immigrant from somewhere in
the Middle East, struck up a conversation.
When he found out I was from Manitoba, he told me how lucky I was to be
living in a rural, conservative, province, where I did not have to put up with
the likes of Dalton McGuinty, who was making the schools teach sexual
perversions to young children. I didn’t
have the heart to break the news to him, that the NDP which was governing
Manitoba at the time was just about as bad, although they had not taken the
schools quite that far. My point, however,
is that this conversation could not have taken place when it did, had McGuinty
not already started the schools along the path down which Wynne would take them
much further.
(4) Of
course there are those who have gone even further than Ford in this
absurdity. Dr. Brent Roussin has
limited social gatherings to five in Winnipeg and the surrounding region. Back in Ford’s own province, Patrick Brown,
his predecessor as PC leader and currently the mayor of Brampton, imposed fines
of up to $100 000 on those not practicing “physical distancing” as far back as
April. An orchard owner in neighbouring
Caledon was threatened with a fine that large by the Ontario Provincial Police in
late September for letting people pick their own apples on his farm.
All
of this is to say: information has to be taken at face value, and all
information should be examined through a critical lens by adult readers.
The social media companies are now dealing with people as though they
are children, incapable of any kind of critical analysis whatsoever. I
don’t know if people are or are not capable of critical analysis, but I
do know that the primary, foundational assumption of a universal
suffrage democracy is that every adult member of society is capable of
rational analysis and critical decision-making. That’s the most basic
claim of this system, as it justifies allowing them to vote and
determine who runs the government.
By undermining the ability of people to make rational and informed decisions, Twitter is undermining the concept of universal suffrage democracy itself. Of course, they don’t care, because our rulers do not actually believe in anything other than power. They profess various ideologies at different times, but only use these ideologies to push their agenda that exists totally independently from the ideologues.
TAKE ACTION AGAINST TRUMP’S “END OF FREE SPEECH” DECREE!!!
17 December, 2019 By Rev. Ted Pike
President
Trump’s recent Executive Order IS THE TEXT of the Jewish ADL’s
“Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, S852, recently rejected by the US Senate
for Committee consideration. See the Senate Bill here:, and See the Executive Order here:
S852 can make a “hate criminal” of any student, teacher,
administrator or even employee of U.S. Public Education who strongly
criticizes Israel. It says they can be arrested for the crime of
“anti-Semitism&lrquo; and “intimidation&lrquo; of Jewish
students on campus. They then can be punished under the harsh “anti-
discrimination” rules of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
THREAT TO CHRISTIANS
But
S852 also has Christians as its primary target. It contains eleven
examples by which the U.S. Government can identify and prosecute any
Christian in Public Education who is deemed an “anti-Semitic hate
criminal”. Making such a determination is simple according to S852’s
example 9. It says that any Christian who agrees with the frequent New
Testament “claims of Jews killing Jesus” is guilty of “Classical
Anti-Semitism”. Most Jews believe that the Christian charge that the
Pharisees persuaded the Romans to kill Christ smears Jews as “Christ
killers”, leading directly to the “Holocaust™”. Since the “anti-Semitic”
New Testament led to so much Jewish suffering, S852 must presume that
anyone distributing such “hate literature” should be prosecuted. https://womenfightantisemitism.org/ihra-definition-of-antisemitism
Remember, S852 is no longer just another Jewish ADL hate crimes bill, designed to entrap Christians. Rather,
S852 and its insidious intentions toward Christians is now Federal Law.
It must, by command of the President, be considered to provide the
fairest, most enlightened and workable standards by which not only the
U.S. Department of Education, but all levels of Government help him, as
Pastor John Hagee vowed, “to root out and destroy” the curse of
unrestrained criticism of Israel.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
Unfortunately,
most Christians are unaware that President Trump has destroyed our
First Amendment free speech rights to criticize anyone, Including Jews
and Israel, without fear of arrest. Yet, aside from
prayer, there is one very effective way to begin to reverse what Trump
has done. It’s by many hundreds of “TruthTeams” — groups of lovers of
freedom bringing the whole truth to Trump’s massive soft underbelly,
Evangelical Churches. You and your friends can reproduce
this article on 8.5 x 14 paper, preferably by the thousands. Then
select the first Church you will visit. Call beforehand for the exact
time Church usually ends. When you arrive station yourselves (with
hundreds of extra flyers) to cover all exit points to the parking areas.
Be neatly dressed and smiling. Tell them: “We are very concerned that
President Trump’s recent Executive Order outlawing speech critical of
Israel in public education violates our First Amendment rights. Would
you like to learn more?”
Below is a tear off petition to Trump which millions of Christians can be persuaded to sign and mail to the White House.
If
you are the only person in your area to undertake this project, don’t
be daunted. You can always come back repeatedly. Once one Church has
been reasonably reached, by a single person or group, go on next week to
another Evangelical Church until you have covered all in your area.
Thus, as a result of only one hour a week, hundreds, perhaps thousands,
may be weekly awakened to Trumps dictatorial ban on free speech. Think
of the result if hundreds of “TruthTeams” visited churches in America
weekly!
Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network,
a Christian/Conservative watchdog group. An international authority on
ADL hate crimes legislation Rev. Pike’s many writings and radio and
YouTube broadcasts have played a powerful role in defeating the
“Equality” and “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” this year. His activism is
chronicled at Truthtellers. org and he may be contacted at npntedpike@gmail.com
Rev.
Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a
Christian/Conservative watchdog group.An international authority on ADL
hate crimes legislation Rev. Pike’s many writings and radio and YouTube
broadcasts have played a powerful role in defeating the “Equality” and
“Antisemitism Awareness Act” this year. His activism is chronicled at
Truthtellers. org and he may be contacted at npntedpike@gmail.com
Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.
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