{"id":926,"date":"2015-09-19T03:40:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2015-09-19T03:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T07:40:02","slug":"activist-fined-5000-for-standing-in-front-of-city-bus-decked-out-in-homosexual-colours-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Activist Fined $5,000 for Standing in Front of City Bus Decked Out in Homosexual Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activist Fined $5,000 for Standing in Front of City Bus Decked Out in Homosexual Colours<\/span><\/h2>\n

Kyle McKee<\/strong>\u00a0is a long-time White rights activist in Calgary, Alberta. Some years ago, he headed up the\u00a0Aryan Guard<\/strong>\u00a0that staged a number of White Pride marches.\u00a0Huffington Post Alberta<\/strong>\u00a0(August 31, 2015) reported: “A\u00a0Calgary Transit<\/strong>\u00a0driver, who created controversy over his refusal to drive a rainbow Pride bus, claims he’s become the target of unfounded allegations at work.\u00a0\u2018I feel like people at\u00a0Calgary Transit<\/strong>\u00a0are now against me because I stand firmly for my Christian faith and won’t compromise my values,\u2019 said [Jesse] Rau<\/strong>\u00a0in a news release on Sunday. The annual\u00a0Calgary Pride Festiva<\/strong>l kicks off this week, and a\u00a0Calgary Transit<\/strong>\u00a0bus has been wrapped in a rainbow flag as a show of support. But Rau publicly said he would have to quit his job if he was assigned to drive the bus because\u00a0it goes against his Christian beliefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Monday,\u00a0Rau’s pastor said<\/a>\u00a0that the driver was told that a complaint had been filed against him, alleging that he was texting while driving on the job. \u2018I am very careful not to text while driving,\u2019 Rau said, refuting the allegation. \u2018I am aware that public transit is a blessing to many and I always want to keep the people on my bus safe and secure. It seems like I am being targeted for speaking out for my faith.\u2019 Rau’s pastor,\u00a0Artur Pawlowski<\/strong>, also alleged that\u00a0Calgary Transit<\/strong>\u00a0had been monitoring Rau’s personal\u00a0Facebook<\/strong>\u00a0page. He said the bus driver has stopped using the social platform altogether because he’s afraid of losing his job. Rau is still under probation with\u00a0Calgary Transit<\/strong>\u00a0as he’s only been working for the company for less than a year, said\u00a0CTV News<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Kyle decided to show solidarity with the beleaguered bus driver and engaged in a brief act of non-violent civil disobedience. He briefly stood in front of the rainbow bagged bus and blocked its way. Four carloads of Calgary’s finest descended on him and issued him a $5,000 (that’s right, five thousand) ticket! He’s accused, in cop speak, of “prevent or interfere with operation of a transit vehicle.” His court date is November 3, 2015.<\/p>\n

Mr. McKee explains: “Recently there was a story all over the news about an issue of a Calgary transit driver claiming that it would be against his religion to promote the homosexual life choices by driving a bus that was decked out in a rainbow wrap. The driver was attacked all over the mainstream media and social media for standing up for his convictions. It was as if his religious rights were far less important than those of the gay community. So, I took it upon myself to take a stand and position myself in front of the bus to prevent it from driving. This ended with the police sending four cars lights flashing to give me a ticket worth $5,000.”<\/p>\n

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Too bad Kyle isn’t a native Indian.<\/p>\n

Nothing would have happened to him.\u00a0\u00a0As a form of protest, Indian protesters regularly block roads and railway lines for days at a time. They are seldom arrested. Indeed, during the protests by the curiously named\u00a0Idle No More<\/strong>\u00a0Indians\u00a0\u00a0(it didn’t mean they’d gotten jobs, just gone out marching and protesting) police regularly brought coffee to Indians blocking rail lines near Sarnia, Ontario. Of course,\u00a0Julian Fantino<\/strong>, the loser of Caledonia when he was head of the\u00a0Ontario Provincial Police<\/strong>, did nothing when armed radical Indians occupied private land in Caledonia. They assaulted Whites and blocked access at times to these Whites\u2019 own homes. Still, the police were more interested in intimidating and chasing away Whites who held protests against the occupation and the police inaction.<\/p>\n

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Activist Fined $5,000 for Standing in Front of City Bus Decked Out in Homosexual Colours Kyle McKee\u00a0is a long-time White rights activist in Calgary, Alberta. Some years ago, he headed up the\u00a0Aryan Guard\u00a0that staged a number of White Pride marches.\u00a0Huffington … Continue reading →<\/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":[410,402,403,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}