{"id":6499,"date":"2021-07-23T09:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:08:27","slug":"pallister-is-under-attack-for-all-the-wrong-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6499","title":{"rendered":"Pallister is Under Attack for All the Wrong Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thronealtarliberty.blogspot.com\/\">Throne, Altar, Liberty<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Canadian Red Ensign<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ShJ56ncRijQ\/Vic7ppYOalI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/d3gWM-vfhbM\/s1600-r\/red%2Bensign.jpg\" alt=\"The Canadian Red Ensign\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, July 23, 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pallister is Under Attack for All the Wrong Reasons<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t like Brian Pallister who is the premier of my province, Manitoba, very much.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, I was very glad to see him replace Greg Selinger in that office, voted for the Progressive Conservative party which he leads in the last two provincial elections, and even congratulated him in person on his re-election, but I was never particularly enthusiastic about his leadership qualities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In March of last year, I lost most of my respect for the man when he locked down the province harder than almost anywhere else in Canada before the bat flu had even really arrived here and did so by holding a press conference in which he arrogantly rubbed the heavy-handedness of his approach in all of our faces.&nbsp; In the year and a half since then, he has whittled away at what little of that respect remained by such behaviour as scapegoating ordinary Manitobans for the failure of the dictatorial public health orders of his power-mad public health mandarin Brent Roussin, setting up a snitch line and encouraging Manitobans to spy on their friends, family, and neighbours and rat them out for violations of these petty public health orders, showing complete and utter disregard for constitutional protections of Manitobans\u2019 basic freedoms and rights, blasphemously raising himself to the level of God by adding an eleventh commandment to the Decalogue, and, most recently, using the means of bribery and blackmail to coerce Manitobans to give up their right to not be medicated against their freely given, informed, consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have expressed my present attitude towards the premier in the following lines of verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brian Pallister is an ignorant fool!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He\u2019s a stupid, ugly, loser and he smells bad too!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>His one and only virtue,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I hate to say it but it\u2019s true,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>His one and only virtue is \u2013<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He\u2019s not Wab Kinew!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That having been said, Pallister has come under heavy attack this month for reasons that have nothing to do with the draconian way in which ran roughshod over all our rights and freedoms in order to swat the bat flu bug.&nbsp;&nbsp; On Dominion Day an angry, lawless, mob descended upon the grounds of the provincial legislature here in Winnipeg.&nbsp;&nbsp; The mob was not angrily demanding the restoration of our rights and freedoms and small businesses and social lives.&nbsp;&nbsp; They were mad, in both senses of the word, because for the month previous far left activists masquerading as journalists, that is to say, most of the mainstream media in Canada, had been using the discovery of graves that are currently without markers near former Indian Residential Schools to defame Canada, her founders and historical leaders, the Christian religion and especially the Roman Catholic Church, and white people in general, in a most vile and disgusting manner.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The mob vandalized and tore down the large statue of Queen Victoria that had stood in front of the legislature as well as a smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II that had stood near the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s residence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since Queen Victoria was the queen who signed the bill that established Canada as a country, Queen Elizabeth II is the present reigning monarch and this was done on the country\u2019s anniversary this was an obvious assault on the very idea of Canada herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pallister, quite rightly, expressed his \u201cdisgust and disappointment\u201d at these actions, condemning them both at the time and in a press conference the following Wednesday.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the latter he said that the statues would be restored.&nbsp;&nbsp; He also said, with regards to the early settlers of Canada \u201cthe people came here to this country, before it was a country and since, didn\u2019t come here to destroy anything, they came here to build, they came to build better and build they did.&nbsp;&nbsp; They built farms and they built businesses, they built communities and churches too.&nbsp;&nbsp; They built these things for themselves and one another and they built them with dedication and with pride and so we must dedicate ourselves to building yet again\u201d.&nbsp; This is what his enemies wish to crucify him for saying.&nbsp; Much to his credit, he has so far stood by his remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these comments Pallister depicted those who settled here and built what became the country Canada as having been human beings rather than devils.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is what the far left finds so unforgiveable.&nbsp; The fundamental essence of the political left, its <em>sine qua non<\/em>, is the envious hatred of those who build, especially those who have built in the past those things we enjoy and benefit from as a legacy in the present, which envious hatred manifests itself as efforts to tear down and destroy.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They have to think of the builders of the past as devils in order to avoid the suspicion that they themselves are such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media, which everywhere but perhaps especially in Canada is largely synonymous with the political left, has framed the controversy which it has itself generated over Pallister\u2019s remarks in racial and ethnic terms.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is implied, or in some cases practically stated outright, in all the criticism and condemnation of Pallister\u2019s words, is that speaking positively of the European, Christian, settlers who came to what is now Canada over the last four to five centuries and of their accomplishments rather than demonizing them is insensitive and offensive to Native Indian Canadians.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are essentially being told that our country, her history, and her founders and historical figures from the early settlers through the Fathers of Confederation to the present day, must only be spoken of in terms of shame, that everything we have historically celebrated about our country must be forgotten, and that we must instead forever be beating ourselves up over the Indian Residential Schools.&nbsp;&nbsp; Should there be anyone left in Canada still capable of thinking at the level of an adult, such a person must surely recognize that it is this attitude on the part of the progressive media rather than Pallister\u2019s speech that is truly demeaning to the Natives as it treats them as thin-skinned bigots who cannot hear anyone other than themselves spoken of positively without taking it as an insult to themselves.&nbsp;&nbsp; It also suggests that they are incapable of telling when the left is cynically exploiting their suffering for its own interests. &nbsp;The attack on the symbols of the monarchy serves the cause of the left since republicanism, whatever J. J. McCullough, Anthony Furey, Spencer Fernando, Lorne Gunter, and the average American \u201cconservative\u201d may think to the contrary, is essentially left-wing, but it is difficult to see how an attack on the only Canadian symbol that unites all Canadians \u2013 aboriginal, English, French, and newer immigrants \u2013 could genuinely serve the interests of Native people. (1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will note here, for whatever it is worth, that on the day of Pallister\u2019s press conference, the first attack on his words that I came across was on the local CBC.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The segment, which was formatted as a news report although it was in reality an editorial, was by a well-known local reporter and featured as an \u201cexpert\u201d a man on the faculty of the University of Manitoba who was described, amusingly in my opinion, as a historian.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both men are notorious for their left wing views, both are lily white, and both have British-Scandanavian family names.&nbsp;&nbsp; The following day both the Association of Manitoba Chiefs and the Southern Chiefs Organization issued press releases condemning Pallister and his remarks which it would probably have been fairer to these organizations to not have mentioned as the bigoted and ill-informed terms in which they are written do them no credit whatsoever, but white leftists appear to have been the ones that got the ball rolling on this anti-Pallister campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That ball has been picking up speed ever since.&nbsp;&nbsp; Helping it along have been a number of defections from Pallister\u2019s Cabinet and staff, starting with the resignation of Eileen Clarke who had been Minister of Indigenous and Municipal Relations.&nbsp;&nbsp; The portfolio was then given to Alan Lagimodiere, the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Selkirk.&nbsp; Although Lagimodiere is Metis, his appointment has not exactly improved the situation for Pallister as he began his opening speech in this office by saying that those who established the Residential Schools \u201cthought they were doing the right thing\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is, <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/colby-cosh-brian-pallisters-residential-schools-speech-was-incoherent-but-so-are-his-critics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as Colby Cosh has pointed out<\/a>, \u201ca flat factual truth\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; Obviously, a great many Canadians today are of the opinion that they were not doing the right thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ordinarily, when people in one era do something that they think is right and people of a later era, with the benefit of hindsight, conclude that what was done was actually wrong, the latter do not refuse to credit the former for the sincerity of their intentions.&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, however, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has so poisoned the well of discussion with its interpretation of the schools as a \u201ccultural genocide\u201d, a vile expression which is a dishonest, morally outrageous, Marxist trick by which cultural assimilation, whatever one might think about it, is treated as if it were the equivalent of mass murder, which it is not, that it is impossible to speak the truth Lagimodiere spoke without provoking an irrational, emotion-driven, backlash. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Needless to say, matters have not been helped by the mainstream media\u2019s having, in what constitutes criminal incitement that has spawned a massive wave of hate crimes, spun the discovery of graves lacking markers near the former Indian Residential Schools into a malicious blood libel against our country and her churches.&nbsp;&nbsp; Lagimodiere was quickly interrupted by Wab Kinew, the present leader of the provincial socialists who ever since taking over that role from Selinger has been making his predecessor look better by comparison, a rather difficult undertaking indeed.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My personal opinion of Kinew you can probably deduce from the verse about Pallister above. &nbsp;Kinew, applying the current left wing dogma that nothing positive must ever be said about the Residential Schools and those who established and ran them, a dogma which if applied retroactively would condemn even Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair, told Lagimodiere that he could not do the job to which he had appointed while thinking the way he does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, there have been more resignations, more condemnations and ultimatums from the chiefs, and more calls from the progressive media for Pallister to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only all of this were in response to what he has done wrong \u2013 suspending our constitutional rights and freedoms, treating in-person social interaction which is both <em>bonum in se<\/em> and absolutely essential to our wellbeing as if it were a crime, destroying small local businesses, declaring religion and worship to be non-essential but places that peddle mind-destroying , highly addictive, substances to be essential, basically turning the province into a police state for a year and a half, and holding normal life ransom in order to bully us all into accepting a medical treatment whether we have made informed decisions as to whether the benefits sufficiently outweigh the risks or not \u2013 rather than to what he has done right \u2013 refusing to go along with the wholesale demonization of Canada, her European Christian settlers, and her historical founders and leaders, by the left which can only ever tear down and never build up, the media that is so totally in its thrall, and those Native leaders who have shortsightedly joined forces with the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1)\u00a0 \u00a0English Canada grew out of the United Empire Loyalists who parted ways with the Americans by declaring their loyalty to the monarchy when the Americans rebelled and became republicans.\u00a0 It was the Crown\u2019s guarantee of protection of French culture, civil law, language and the Roman Catholic religion in Quebec following the Seven Year\u2019s War that preserved French Canadian identity and kept French Canada loyal during the American revolution and down through Confederation in which all the French Canadian Fathers joined the English Fathers in unanimous support for making the new country a parliamentary monarchy rather than a republic.\u00a0 The Crown is the other signatory to the Indian treaties \u2013 Queen Victoria, whose statue was so insultingly treated by the left wing mob, was the reigning monarch when most of these treaties were made.\u00a0\u00a0 All new comers to Canada from whatever other country and background have sworn loyalty to the monarch and her heirs to become citizens.\u00a0 Therefore the monarchy is the one and only national symbol that belongs to all Canadians, albeit in different ways, and thus unites them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To attack this symbol as a symbol of \u201cimperialism\u201d and \u201ccolonialism\u201d in the derogatory sense which Marxists attach to these words is to insult all Canadians of all races, religions, and languages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12137796641408373451\" target=\"_blank\">Gerry T. Neal<\/a> at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thronealtarliberty.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/pallister-is-under-attack-for-all-wrong.html\" target=\"_blank\"><abbr title=\"2021-07-23T03:12:00-05:00\">3:12 AM<\/abbr><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throne, Altar, Liberty The Canadian Red Ensign Friday, July 23, 2021 Pallister is Under Attack for All the Wrong Reasons I don\u2019t like Brian Pallister who is the premier of my province, Manitoba, very much.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh, I was very glad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3615,3616,1707,3617,3619,3618,3620,3621,3622,3623,2219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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