{"id":8392,"date":"2022-12-21T23:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8392"},"modified":"2022-12-21T23:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T04:01:22","slug":"freedom-protests-outside-the-b-c-legislature-a-report-by-gordon-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8392","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Protests Outside the B.C. Legislature &#8212; A Report by Gordon Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Freedom<strong> Protests Outside the B.C. Legislature &#8212; A Report by Gordon Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve been bearing witness against the HOAX for two and a half years since the SCAMdemic blew in.\u00a0\u00a0 December 03 2022 was bright overcast, 42 degrees F with a chill wind blowing across the lawn of the Leg.\u00a0 As usual on Saturdays, our group was there, \u00a0providing emotional support to folks dismayed by the official insanity.\u00a0\u00a0 Regardless of the weather,\u00a0\u00a0 it\u2019s a sort of a party from noon to 3 pm or so.<br><br>02\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Passersby honk and wave and walk up to thank us  &#8212; evidence that the nation is coming to its senses.\u00a0 Hearing\u00a0 \u201c<em>God Bless you for being here<\/em>\u201d face to face tells us that, as small a thing as it is,  what we do is important.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An occasional smirking snipe of \u201cyou guys are nuts\u201d\u00a0 is just water off our backs.\u00a0<br><br>03\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Asserting Freedom of the Press is very important.\u00a0\u00a0 From time spent on the frontline of the anti-abortion fray [ 3 decades ago]\u00a0\u00a0 I know that the printed word lasts. It cannot be censored completely; it winds up in places you would never guess.\u00a0 We\u2019ve put thousands of copies of\u00a0 <strong>DRUTHERS ; PANDEMIC PAPERS<\/strong> and\u00a0 <strong>COMMON GROUND<\/strong> magazine in the hands of real people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>04\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 600 block Belleville Street in little Victoria is apparently clean and safe, \u00a0what remains of traditional White, Christian lawabiding.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yet, it is a spiritual battleground at the very Gates of the City.\u00a0\u00a0 The studied ignorance of the herd in the most irreligious city in Canada was demonstrated December 10.\u00a0\u00a0 Bright sunshine 50 degrees F.\u00a0 with 25 warm bodies gathered.\u00a0\u00a0 A male about 19 years old stopped in front of our gathering, saying \u201c<em>I\u2019m so glad you guys are out here protesting <u>for our right to take vaccines<\/u><\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 In the moment before it dawned on me that he was mocking,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I held out a newspaper, saying \u201chere\u2019s some information you need\u201d\u00a0 He refused, sneering: \u201cI know all about it\u201d.\u00a0 To which I countered: \u201cObviously you don\u2019t. People are dropping dead all over the world from the poisoned needle. It could happen to you.\u201d\u00a0 He shot back \u201c<em>I hope it will<\/em>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 direct quote.\u00a0\u00a0 As he scuttled away I shouted:\u00a0 \u201cYou just pronounced a curse on yourself\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Minutes later, a man who goes by each week unloaded his venom.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfazed, my Christian friend let loose a volley of precise rebuttal. Amused,\u00a0 I said, \u201c<em>and here I thought you were such a nice girl!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0No, the naysayers don\u2019t stick around to dialogue.\u00a0 Rather, many of them die suddenly, out of the public eye.\u00a0 Cause of death un-reported by the \u201clegacy media\u201d.\u00a0 They don\u2019t come back and admit \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d have been right all along. \u00a0\u00a0As my mentor old Georgie Gordon used to say: \u201cGod\u2019s fingerprints are all over this\u201d Kidding her, I cited Second Thessalonians 1:6 \u201cseeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to those who trouble you.\u201d\u00a0<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>05\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The avalanche of information via the Internet, requires winnowing down.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eleven minutes of\u00a0 Gerard Rennick scolding Senators in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Irrefutable, proving they were not just derelict in their duty, but that they are complicit in Crimes against Humanity.\u00a0\u00a0 Watching him point the prosecutorial finger pronouncing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Shame on you !\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 is highly entertaining.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I urge you to find this video.\u00a0 It\u2019s on his FaceBook page, farther down a bit.\u00a0 At this stage, demanding accountability is seen as\u00a0 \u201cthe Ministry of Condemnation\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The Ministry of Reconciliation comes later.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>06\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two weeks ago, MP Laurel Collins was the premier speaker at the protest convened around the Cenotaph, by Iranians protesting diktatorship in their country.\u00a0 When Collins proclaimed that she and her government\u00a0 \u2018stood with them fighting for Freedom!\u2019\u00a0 I blasted her in my parade-square voice.\u00a0 Below, see my letter which the <strong>Editor of the James Bay Beacon couldn\u2019t find space to print<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon S Watson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metchosin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; British Columbia<br>December 11&nbsp; 2022 A. D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ; the Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; James Bay Beacon newspaper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the perks of living in James Bay, is, being able to drop in to the continuing master class in political science, convened weekly on the precinct of the Legislature.<br><br>Last Saturday was especially edifying.\u00a0 A couple hundred people encircled the Cenotaph to protest against the regime in Iran.\u00a0 Atop that column is a figure in the uniform of Canadian soldiers circa 1914 to 1918, when my grandfather fought at Ypres.\u00a0 At its base is a plaque commemorating the Korean War in which my old man got blown up in jeep. He survived. His three fellow soldiers didn\u2019t.\u00a0 My mother served in the Canadian Army nursing sisters. Not to mention many aunts and uncles. \u00a0 So, my family has payed the price in blood, sweat and tears for our citizenship.<br><br>Immediately beside the Cenotaph,\u00a0 my friends and I have asserted our right to freedom of association \u2026 gathering every week to warn and inform everyone who will listen, \u00a0against the Covid-iocy , for\u00a0 nigh-on 2 \u00bd years, on Belleville Street.\u00a0\u00a0 As their event got started, a couple of us went over and politely remonstrated with the leader of the Iranians \u2026 advising that they were treading on ground which is all-but sacred to those of us who have British military traditions.\u00a0 Our concern was blown off with the excuse that they\u00a0 \u201chad a permit\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Star of their Show, Member of Parliament Laurel Collins,\u00a0 started in pontificating about \u201cFreedom\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She being one of the members of the House of Commons who endorsed the <em><strong>Emergency Act<\/strong><\/em>, which put the Dominion du Canada in a police state &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 the contradiction was too galling for me to stay silent.\u00a0\u00a0 I exercised my right to speak.\u00a0 Telling her loudly that,\u00a0 rather than concerning herself with dictatorship halfway \u2018round the planet,\u00a0 she can start right here.\u00a0 One of the Iranians came up and put his fist beside my face pronouncing he would \u00a0\u201ctake me out\u201d. \u00a0\u00a0Then grabbed me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I got out my camera to take a photo of him, in order to identify him, so as to lay a criminal charge,\u00a0 the thug made himself scarce.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My points being: \u00a0a more egregious personification of an hypocrite than MP Collins would be hard to find ; and,\u00a0 Freedom of Speech belongs to those who practice it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon S Watson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metchosin British Columbia November 20<sup>th<\/sup> 2022 A. 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