{"id":5461,"date":"2021-01-11T02:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2021-01-11T02:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:20:13","slug":"spirited-end-the-lockdown-rally-victoria-january-9-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5461","title":{"rendered":"Spirited End the Lockdown Rally, Victoria January 9, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TO &gt; those who care about good government in British Columbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When my old man was at the Dominion War College in 1942, he was taught&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201csometimes getting shot at is the best intel. you can get\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; That was demonstrated on Saturday Jan 09 2021 as we protested outside the head office Ministry of Health in Victoria BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The corner of Blanshard and Pandora streets is a good spot for high-vis. advertising  &#8212; hundreds of cars per hour going by.&nbsp; Many of them stop at the traffic light. So, they do read our signs.&nbsp; Response from motorists was 2 to 1 in sympathy with us.&nbsp; But that spot has dis-advantages, too.&nbsp;&nbsp; A couple of weeks ago,&nbsp;&nbsp; I was hit on the chest by a plastic water bottle, hurled from a passing car.&nbsp;&nbsp; Startled, came to mind Mick Jagger singing:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of abuse\u201d. &nbsp; &nbsp; Not even a flesh wound though \u2026 didn\u2019t need to let it bleed&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dangerous exception to the generally-polite response we get, was,&nbsp; the guy who came up bellowing &nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cI told you last week to get the **** off this corner\u201d. Sensing trouble I took a photo of him&nbsp; &#8212; &gt;&nbsp; large, slovenly, drunk,&nbsp; belligerent, could be 50 to 60 years old, one of the street people holed-up at the govt.-funded slum&nbsp; a few blocks away.&nbsp; Sure, you can make excuse for his kind &#8230; adrift in the big city, in deep personal pain.&nbsp; But the moment you find yourself the target upon which they\u2019re unloading their problems, is the moment when sympathy is ditched.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>When he noticed me taking his picture, he charged at me. I fled. He chased for about 20 yards before giving up.&nbsp; Demons still yowling out of him &#8230; he headed across the street towards the group of protesters, raging that he was \u201cgoing to punch them\u201d. By then, someone had called 9-1-1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; About 20 minutes later, a cop did show up.&nbsp;&nbsp; I told him what had gone on.&nbsp; Of course, such altercation is pretty minor compared with the grief police deal with, daily.&nbsp; The charming little old, very British town of good mannered White people which I knew half a century ago, has gone to the dogs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the good news, is : standing 40 feet away from the group, conversing with VPD&nbsp;&nbsp; constable #498,&nbsp;&nbsp; was an opportunity for me  to get info. re their attitude to what we are doing.&nbsp; I asked him if he had his ticket book with him.&nbsp; He said he did not. &nbsp; I don\u2019t believe that for a second.&nbsp;&nbsp; I pointed out that the GATHERING of us regulars at this place \u2026&nbsp; which our critics call a \u201csuperspreader\u201d ! \u2026contravenes the <strong><em>Public Health Act Order<\/em><\/strong>. &nbsp;&nbsp; He agreed, saying \u201cyou\u2019re all ticketable right now\u201d.&nbsp; So, of course, I said:&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWell then, give me a ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; He declined, saying: \u2018You\u2019re carrying on a lawful protest\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yet, I did sense that if I\u2019d pushed the envelope, I would\u2019ve talked myself into one.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I backed off. &nbsp;&nbsp; I said \u201cI don&#8217;t need one.&nbsp; I had an incident on the ferries this week which is a good set of facts for challenging the govt. policy about masks\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; Nodding towards the Law courts building, visible just down the way, I said \u201cI\u2019ll be in court with it.&nbsp; I know police officers aren\u2019t interested in hearing about the law\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To his credit,&nbsp; he replied \u201cI am interested in the law\u201d&#8230;.. so I reeled-off section 103 of the&nbsp; <strong><em>Public Health Act<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Explaining  right there is the defence to the strict liability offence created by Bonnie Henry\u2019s Order re EVENTS AND GATHERINGS.&nbsp; He did not say anything more, yet I got the impression that he was thinking for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been at the big anti-lockdown&nbsp; Events in BC, plus several small ones. There has been no major blowback. An occasional cat-call that we are \u201cfools\u201d, but that\u2019s all. My sense, is,&nbsp; the zombies going by with their fashion-statement muzzles on tight, are confounded by public presence of so many ordinary folks,&nbsp; organized,&nbsp; boldly contradicting official propaganda.&nbsp;&nbsp; At this stage of this authentic populist movement,&nbsp; provoking an individual to reconsider the Central Party Line is what we\u2019re about.&nbsp;&nbsp; Human beings go in-sane in herds.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They come to their senses one at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kelowna and Nanaimo,&nbsp; the RCMP have handed out notices alleging violations of the Public Health Act Order to people gathered to protest govt. policy.&nbsp; Sgt. Roberts was the officer in charge on-site at the first big rally in Vancouver last September. When I asked him if they were going to hand out Violation Notices, he said :&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c<em>we decided not to issue tickets today because the Charter is above the Public Health Act<\/em>\u201d&nbsp; direct quote<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;To a certain extent, we have The Man with the Gun on our side.&nbsp; The Victoria and Vancouver Police do not charge us because they have received legal counsel, advising them that our GATHERINGS&nbsp; are Charter-protected political activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The human mind has a miraculous innate logic programme.&nbsp; The contrast between thousands of peaceful people, marching through the downtowns of major cities in BC, cops escorting our marches rather than bothering us,&nbsp; versus nonsense purveyed on the lamestream media &#8212;  images of thugs in uniform bullying individuals who are just going about daily life &#8212;  works away at the consciences of ordinary citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Something\u2019s gotta give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the argument out of section 103,&nbsp; it\u2019s important to realize that under the previous <em><strong>Health Act<\/strong><\/em>, there had to be evidence to support an Order. But the new statute changed it so that onus is now on the Accused, to prove his innocence. &nbsp;&nbsp;One more detail telling that British Columbia now suffers under communist tyranny. &nbsp;&nbsp;The way it\u2019s going, I expect to be making this argument before a Judge. &nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>I sincerely do believe<\/strong>&nbsp; that the entire SARS-2-Covid19 extravaganza is medical malpractice \u2018<em>of the first water<\/em>\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp; :&nbsp; a&nbsp; HOAX.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At such a trial,&nbsp; I will be submitting hundreds of articles grabbed from the Internet, written by world-class experts, undoing the very premise for the Order of that Head Witch, namely Bonnie Henry.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any half-way intelligent person, with integrity to honestly examine such items, must conclude that there is mass psychosis upon the land.&nbsp; <em><br>Wrong is put in place of right : Right is called Wrong.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<u>And the man who calleth for Justice, maketh himself a prey<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 103 of the <strong><em>Public Health Act<\/em><\/strong> &nbsp;Revised Statutes of British Columbia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>103<\/strong> &nbsp; A person must not be convicted of an offence under this Act if the person proves that he or she<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) exercised due diligence by taking all reasonable steps to avoid committing the offence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) reasonably believed in the existence of facts that, if true, would establish that the person did not contravene this Act or a regulation made under it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) relied on information or an instruction provided to the person by a health officer who was exercising a power or performing a duty under this Act, if the person had no reason to believe that the information may have been false or the instruction may have been unauthorized, or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) acted under the order of a health officer who was exercising a power or performing a duty under this Act, if the person had no reason to believe that the order may have been unauthorized under this Act or any other enactment. &#8212; Gordon Watson<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=521f6a8f50&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1688537455015094141&amp;th=176ee3de7c1de77d&amp;view=fimg&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-FxabIo4-gCp6PDyHGmMuNR0GtUkC8HKuwF1PXJaJ-pqjspNrsW1EAfrmCJxsjDj3n006-KifNIAPJvRJXfgXnhOF2khnemBjOwTsle1kEC5cxnhasvd18lrQ&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_kjrnlvrc0\" alt=\"Victoria EVENT 2021 Jan 09 004.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"355\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=521f6a8f50&amp;attid=0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1688537455015094141&amp;th=176ee3de7c1de77d&amp;view=fimg&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9igOo0cMG1pxNizq1c7cYHjCKFxHOJFrouCJAEvE2n0A_201WUKFK2T89JXVj5Y_rdu8NqIxPved1Y4GLaEu2c9gh7tnFPHO528e4LvAWrbakvg8oSHfiB_38&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_kjrnmdkp1\" alt=\"Victoria EVENT 2021 Jan 09 011.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO &gt; 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