Staying Alert to the Local

One of our Freedom 
Watchdogs

Thank goodness for freedom watchdogs like the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF¹) and the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF²). Since many Federal, Provincial, and local authorities seem to have lost their way in an upside-down world of cancel culture, historical amnesia, and R.I.C.E.,³ we are greatly blessed to have such defenders — committed protectors awake to the fallacies and frauds of much of the fwoke⁴ ideology that is blinding and confusing so many servants from national to local. Here is a recent report from the CCF:

The curse of the local tyrant: suing Canadian municipalities for censorship
(Canadian Constitution Foundation | Oct 4, 2024 | Time 21:04 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL33cWbdgoA

Let us give the defenders of freedom all the support and exposure we can.

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1. https://www.jccf.ca/
2. https://theccf.ca/donate/
3. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-price-of-rice.html
R.I.C.E.: Reward | Ideology | Coercion/Corruption | Ego
4. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html

Jen Johnson, MLA and [Queen?] “Victoria”

Background for Readers:

Jen Johnson, (former Alberta UCP candidate and now independent) MLA for Lacombe / Ponoka made an unfortunate analogy that was ginned up and cost her her UCP affiliation, but not her election. At the request of some of her constituents, she met with a transgender collective that she had allegedly offended. Here is the coverage by Rebel News of Jen’s meeting with one identifying as “Victoria”:

Alberta MLA targeted in Maoist-style struggle session by radical activists
(Rebel News | Sep 18, 2024 | Time 10:00 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEbE-lCXfQo

Here is my message to Jen (et al.), whom I have never met; who handled herself admirably in the face of Cluster B^* manifestation:

Jen, take courage. This tyranny of self-appointed, radical trans/queer-voices cannot prevail  if courageous people “live not by lies.”¹ I’m sorry you had to endure this attempted Mao-style “struggle / denounce / reform” session, but you did not cave. And on the bright side, this “meeting” with diva/divo activists exposed the Cluster B traits that define so many of them. The futility of consulting with such activists could not have been more clear.

On the other hand, many dysphorics reject the tyranny of the radical activists who have “taken over and ruined everything.” Activists like “Victoria” (aka stage name, Karla Marx) do not represent the greater transgender community which does not demand that others parrot their narrative. What we did observe in your encounter was how despotic some activists can be as they tolerate nothing but affirmation of “self” and subjection of others. We could also see where our society is inexorably headed if we cater to reality-inverting ideologues. In the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who knew the realities of the real Karl Marx:

[T]he simple step of a simple courageous man [or woman] is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions! Let that enter the world, let it even reign in the world—but not with my help.²

This year 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's publication of a parting plea to his countrymen and women: “Live Not By Lies.” It should be read in full with its nine bullet points every Saturday and Sunday AM on CBC.

Here is just a portion of the Live Not By Lies text:

[I]t is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence [including violence against truth/reality] brings down its heavy hand: it demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.

And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!

And this is the way to break out of the imaginary encirclement of our inertness, the easiest way for us and the most devastating for the lies. For when people renounce lies, lies simply cease to exist. Like parasites, they can only survive when attached to a person.

We are not called upon to step out onto the square and shout out the truth, to say out loud what we think—this is scary, we are not ready. But let us at least refuse to say what we do not think!

This is the way, then, the easiest and most accessible for us given our deep-seated organic cowardice, much easier than (it’s scary even to utter the words) civil disobedience à la Gandhi.

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.

And thus, overcoming our timidity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries?

LIVE NOT BY LIES
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Moscow, 12 February 1974
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cluster_B_personality_disorders

1. https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies  
2. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (p. 681). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Witness Suggestions for the NCI Oct. 2024 Hearings

To my readers: If you know of any witnesses that might contribute to the National Citizens Inquiry exploring the question “Are children safe in Canada?” would you go to the online form at https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/survey/ and submit your suggestions. Below is an email I sent to the NCI, Aug 31, 2024:

Greetings NCI:

In response to your email appeals (Aug. 19 & 30) for suggestions for potential witnesses for the October NCI hearings to explore the question: “Are children safe in Canada?” here are some suggestions. Many of these suggested witnesses are not Canadian but all have in depth knowledge about the impact of culture and technology on kids everywhere.

As I do not have the time to individually fill out the online form for each witness, I submit this list via email with links for the reason stated in bold above.

▪ Peter Boghossian | philosopher, author | https://peterboghossian.com/

▪ Jennie Bristow | sociologist, writer| co-author of THE CORONA GENERATION: Coming of age in a crisis | https://jbristow.co.uk/

▪ Vernadette R Broyles | family law litigator and Guardian Ad Litem representing the best interests of children in court, | https://www.childparentrights.org/team/vernadette-r-broyles

▪ Hilary Cass | British pediatrician, former president of the Royal Society of Pediatrics and Child Health, led the independent scientific review of gender health services for children in England, commissioned by Britain’s National Health Service | https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/the-chair/

▪ James Esses | Social Commentator, Writer, Co-Founder of Thoughtful Therapists | Co-Ordinator of Declaration for Biological Reality (http://declarationforbiologicalreality.org) | https://www.jamesesses.com/ | https://x.com/jamesesses?lang=en

▪ Dr. Miriam Grossman | Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist, International Public Speaker, Author of Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness) | https://www.miriamgrossmanmd.com/

▪ Jonathan Haidt  | Social Psychologist, author of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness | https://jonathanhaidt.com/

▪ Dr. Ethan Haim |Small Town General Surgeon. Whistleblower | https://x.com/eithanhaim?lang=en

▪ Heather Heying | Author, Evolutionary Biologist, Educator | https://www.heatherheying.com/

▪ Helen Joyce | Journalist, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, working with Sex Matters campaign group | https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/ | https://x.com/hjoycegender?lang=en

▪ Logan Lancing | author of The Queering of the American Child, speaker, and founder of ItsNotinSchools.com | https://newdiscourses.com/author/loganlancing/ | https://x.com/loganlancing?lang=en

▪ Dr. Tess Lawrie  | Doctor, researcher, health advocate and co-founder of World Council for Health initiative (http://worldcouncilforhealth.org) | http://BetterWayConference.org  | https://x.com/lawrie_dr?lang=en

▪ James Lindsay | author, mathematician | a leading expert on Critical Race Theory; founder of New Discourses | https://newdiscourses.com/author/jameslindsay/

▪ Dr. Jordan Peterson | Author, psychologist, online educator, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto | https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/

▪ Jamie Reed | “a queer woman, politically to the left of Bernie Sanders,” “married to a transman”; left her job as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital to become a whistleblower; https://www.breakpoint.org/from-gender-clinic-caseworker-to-whistleblower-jamie-reeds-story/ | https://x.com/jamiewhistle?lang=en

▪ Leor Sapir | fellow at the Manhattan Institute; widely recognized thought leader on topics related to pediatric gender medicine, education policy, and culture; https://manhattan.institute/person/leor-sapir | https://x.com/leorsapir?lang=en | https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/leor-sapir/

▪ Michael Schellenberger | journalist and author of “MEDICAL MALPRACTICE On KIDS?! WPATH Files EXPOSE ALL”: | https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1764800595473686865 | https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1765500888498794975 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p73tHig5bnU 

▪ Abigail Shrier | Journalist, author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up; Irreversible Damage: Teenage Girls and the Transgender Craze | https://x.com/abigailshrier?lang=en | https://substack.com/@abigailshrier

▪ Dr. Jill Simons  | Board-Certified Pediatrician, Executive director of The American College of Pediatricians | https://acpeds.org/about/meet-our-board/jill-simons-md | https://x.com/drjillsimons

▪ Sara Stockton | Wife, Mother, Therapist (LMFT - sex & gender), Instructor | https://x.com/mrssarastockton?lang=en |

▪ Dr. Jean Twenge  | speaker, professor, consultant, author of Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for the Future | https://x.com/jean_twenge?lang=en

If I come across other possibilities in the next week or so, I will try to use your online form at https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/survey/ and will encourage others to do the same when I post this on September 4th on my blog.

Sincerely,
SM Smith

NCI*: Another Call for Witnesses

(*National Citizens Inquiry)

The National Citizens Inquiry of Canada has just announced it will be holding Fall Hearings in Vancouver, BC, Oct 17-19, 2024 asking the question:

“Are we doing all we can to keep our children safe?”

Here is a portion of their recent email:

... The theme of these hearings will be expanded beyond the government’s response to COVID. The question that has emerged in recent years is -Are our children safe in Canada?

  The National Citizens Inquiry wants to hear from Canadians and experts with regards to the safety of our children in Canada.  Are we doing all we can to keep our children safe? What’s working? What’s not working? How can we do better?

  Please go to our website to recommend witnesses or volunteer yourself to be a witness.  We want to hear the testimonies of Canadians who have knowledge and experience to contribute to these hearings. If you wish to testify at the Vancouver hearings, or would like to recommend a witness, applications can be made through the NCI website - https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testify

How You Can Help the NCI

  A healthy and thriving democracy requires transparency and accountability. We can no longer rely on the courts, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, health professionals, media, and others to protect our rights and freedoms and that of our children. This means that we as citizens have to become more active and engaged in holding to account those we have entrusted with the duty to govern. 

  The interest and generous support for the National Citizens Inquiry confirms that Canadians recognize the importance of an ongoing citizen led, citizen funded institution. While the NCI has amassed the largest library of testimony on the impact of the government’s response to COVID given under oath in the world, we have more work to do.

  The tragedy of our time is that no government in Canada, whether Federal or Provincial, has publicly acknowledged this body of evidence and utilized the Commissioner’s recommendations in their actions going forward. This is where you can assist by ordering a copy of the Commissioner’s Report and hand delivering it to your Member of Parliament and Legislative Assembly. To download the report and order print copies: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report

  We now know that the defence of our rights and freedom requires all of us to be actively involved and eternally vigilant. Your efforts are critical if we are to ensure that our children and grandchildren experience the rights and freedoms we expect.

The evidence that has already been gathered by the NCI stands as a historical exposé of the unimaginable corruptions and crimes of these 2020s. At some point, just as in 1940s Nuremberg, our politicians, PHOs, scientists, medics, licensing bodies, enforcers, and others will have to face justice and judgment for their complicity, which complicity is still on-going to this day. The work of the NCI and other truth-seekers and truth-tellers is required if we are ever going to break this spirit of domination, mendacity, and murder that has begun to prevail in our nations and culture.

Let us support the NCI with our attention, exposure, and donations.

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Open Directive to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) From Their Supervisors*

Principle of
Jury Nullification
(See below at **)

(*being the people of Canada who have memories and conscience**)

For SCC’s immediate attention!

It has come to our attention¹ that YOU, the “Right Honourable Justices” of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) have perhaps become subject to the same R.I.C.E.² that the infamous College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) seems to have ingested when dealing with the Jordan Peterson case,³ thus revealing, if so, that the SCC is also in dire need of re-education concerning:

▪ rights,
▪ freedoms,
▪ constitutions,
▪ historical struggles for the above three,
▪ obsessions and abuses by “the Domination System”,
▪ the endless déjà vus of deluded utopians,
▪ etc., etc., etc.

Therefore, in the spirit of reciprocity, equity, inclusion, justice and judgment, the people direct you and your SCC staff (plus the Court and staff of the Superior Court of Justice - Ontario | SCJ-O⁴) to convene before an electronic device every Monday (beginning August 19) at 3 PM MST or thereabouts and tune into:

Mayday! - the Human Condition⁵

The purpose of this weekly convening is to listen to and then discuss the “reasonableness” of the insights of diverse guest vlogs to be featured. The weekly Mayday sessions will continue for as long as needed, God willing. All Canadians and non-Canadians (especially those who think this issue is not a critical tipping point) are invited to tune-in at the same time and blog site to see what the SCC should be seeing and discussing about power, its use and abuse.

What the CPO has ordered for Jordan Peterson is, in essence, a Mao-type series of struggle sessions⁶ intended: 1) to break the spirit, will, and reputation of an out-spoken “non-conformist”; 2) to send a message of fear and conformity to others; 3) to embolden anonymous jerks, sycophants, and sadists; and 4) to demolish legal protections. The SCJ-O and the SCC, by their decisions on Peterson’s appeal of the CPO order, have affirmed this Mao-type tyranny by a licensing body.

So, as you Justices prepare to convene next Monday at Mayday! - the Human Condition, you can get a jump start on re-education through this vlog:

The Timeless Truth About Tyranny According to Aristotle
(Legendary Lore | Aug 8, 2024 | Time 12:41 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gkYbrzMAE4

In summary: Until we acknowledge that the obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination have plagued every age of history, we will never understand the events and dangers of our own time.

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** Principle of Jury Nullification: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2016/01/people-people.html

1. ▪ https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-l-csc-a/en/item/20568/index.do
    ▪ https://financialpost.com/fp-work/jordan-peterson-decision-leaves-professionals-at-mercy-of-regulatory-overlords
    ▪ https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-top-court-nixes-jordan-petersons-appeal-of-professional-colleges-remedial-orders
    ▪ https://nationalpost.com/opinion/i-will-see-this-contemptible-re-education-process-through-to-its-absurd-end
    ▪ https://theccf.ca/ccf-reaction-to-result-in-jordan-peterson-case/
    ▪ https://robichaudlaw.ca/podcast/ep-6-dr-jordan-petersons-final-appeal-dismissed-by-the-supreme-court-of-canada-a-verbatim-read-of-the-ontario-court-of-appeal-decision-that-was-upheld/
    ▪ https://globalnews.ca/news/10687928/jordan-peterson-supreme-court/
    ▪ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-jordan-peterson-1.7288497
    ▪ https://tnc.news/2024/08/12/supreme-court-jordan-peterson-reeducation-appeal/
    ▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m47nbVvr54
    ▪ https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/jordan-petersons-free-speech-crusade-in-the-courts-ends-after-supreme-court-dismisses-application-for/article_bdca26bc-5599-11ef-8e4d-5bf8522b669c.html
    ▪ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-supreme-court-rejects-jordan-petersons-appeal-of-professional-colleges/
2. R.I.C.E.: Reward, Ideology, Coercion, Ego
    ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-price-of-rice.html
3. ▪ https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/01/re-education-for-cpo.html
4. ▪ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jordan-peterson-court-case-decision-1.6943845
    ▪ https://financialpost.com/fp-work/jordan-peterson-ruling-empowers-woke-bodies-to-discipline-members
5. ▪ https://mayday-times-3.blogspot.com/
6. ▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
    ▪ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/struggle_session
    ▪ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

Dear Kamala:

We see how ecstatic you are to step into Joe Biden’s shoes; we see the Cheshire grin*; we also see that many power-brokers have already endorsed your candidacy, yet I suspect, that even with all your political experience, you do not know what is being twirled and  reconfigured in the back rooms to which you have not been invited. That’s how so much of history plays out when power is the end-game — dupes and dupers in a dance of deception.

And so I observe as a concerned citizen, that you seem a trifle naïve considering that you must know at least a little of the life pursuits and passions of Her Royal Clinton (HRC). Without doubt, the chess board is already in play where some will prove pawns and some would be Queens.

While we watch this dance from afar, we hope and pray that some of you will wake up to:

What can be, unburdened enlightened by what has been.**

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*https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kamala-harris-democrat-endorsements-schumer-jeffries-1.7272375?cmp=newsletter_Morning%20Headlines%20from%20CBC%20News_1613_1641435
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfRE0t84qS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2soe8ml_weg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pRiqRAiIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9T9XdGP1w
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6qzYdGwQBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipeaczmRACA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FXT33YOZG0

Another Round of Witnesses — NCI (2024)

At the end of May 2024, the Canadian National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) began another round of hearings into the crimes, the callous disregard of human rights and freedoms, and the planned catastrophes of the COVID coup d'état. How many more witnesses do we need before we demand accountability and prosecution for all those who bowed to the despicable narrative including politicians, pscientists,¹ licensing bodies, academic institutions, employers, law enforcement, judges, and on and on? Why are our governments and PHOs still pushing the jab and covering for the powers that brutalized humanity? Why is anyone listening to the captured MSM — that  foremost source of mis-, dis-, and fear-fomenting information? Not one soul in public service or employment who supported the COVID narrative should be re-elected or retained, whether left or right, liberal or conservative, UNLESS they publicly recognize their wrongs and sincerely seek forgiveness.

Please support the NCI by listening to and sharing the 2023² and now 2024³ witnesses, (and where possible with financial support for their continuing work). The accumulation of these witnesses may prove a tipping point for the resurgence of truth and consequence. Here is the statement that opened the 2024 hearings:

(National Citizens Inquiry Canada | NCI Clips | May 31, 2024 | Time 33:04 min.) at
https://rumble.com/v4yq2ki-regina-hearings-day-1-may-30-2024-opening-statements.html
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/hearings-2024/
https://rumble.com/embed/v4wdsrf/?pub=4

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NCI Donations: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/donate

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1. Pscientists: those who practice pscience which is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, politicized, plagiarizing, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.
   https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
   https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
   https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
   https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
2. 2023: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/hearings/
3. 2024: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/hearings-2024/

An Appeal to Government re De-Banking

If anyone has experienced de-banking or fears de-banking in Canada, please flood your elected officials with requests similar to this. Feel free to use the email text below:

Emails (11 addresses) sent May 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM MDT

Request for Legislation to Prohibit De-banking

Greetings Premier Danielle Smith, Deputy Premier Mike Ellis, and Alberta Ministers: Dale Nally (Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction), Matt Jones (Jobs, Economy and Trade), Mickey Amery (Justice), Jason Nixon (Seniors, Community and Social Services)

As de-banking has become a growing trend to censor and punish free speech, expression, and opinion, will the Alberta government be a leader and first in Canada to enact protective legislation as was done in April 2024 in Tennessee, USA? Here is the background:

● Tennessee Bill Would Prohibit Financial De-Banking for Political, Religious Beliefs Johnson and Zachary sponsored bills, “HB 2100 and SB 2148, that were signed into law prohibiting banks, insurers and other financial institutions from “denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon the use of a social credit score or other factors.”
https://tennesseestar.com/news/tennessee-bill-would-prohibit-financial-de-banking-for-political-religious-beliefs/tpappert/2024/02/28/

● Tennessee Gov. Lee signs first-of-its-kind de-banking bill
(Alliance Defending Freedom | April 23, 2024 |
https://adflegal.org/press-release/tennessee-gov-lee-signs-first-its-kind-de-banking-bill

Here is a summary and links to the relevant Tennessee legislation prohibiting de-banking:

Summary:
HB 2100 - https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/HB2100/2023
SB2148 - https://legiscan.com/TN/bill/SB2148/2023

As enacted, requires financial institutions and insurers to make determinations about the provision or denial of services based on certain analysis; prohibits financial institutions and insurers from denying or canceling services to a person, or otherwise discriminating against a person, based upon certain factors, including the person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations, or religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 9; Title 45; Title 47 and Title 56.

Bill as enacted by Tennessee Gov. Lee April 22, 2024
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Sincerely,
SMSmith
(Alberta)

Too Much Strange Fire and Power-Plays?

Titled: Rain Forest Fire
Image Source below footnotes

Below is a copy of an email sent this PM to Premier Smith and four Alberta Cabinet Ministers concerning another proposed extension of power into local matters. This parachuting of authoritarian “experts” into crisis areas is getting out-of-hand. Locals are mostly cut out of the decision-loop to protect their and others’ properties. They are forced to watch needless burning (and sometimes strange burning) and are often threatened with prosecution if they don’t obey the fire "authorities," — except where did these “imported authorities” get their authority? Not from the People. Not from the locals. These “experts” are often perfect strangers to the locale. And soon, their imported fire-fighters who just follow-orders will be dispersed and shipped home or to the next crisis where they might sometimes speak in hushed tones about absurdities and peculiarities of strange fire.

When are we going to wake-up to the agenda of devastation being perpetrated and exacerbated? Many of these servitors of devastation are just blind, mindless “assets” of the puppet-masters. We and some of our government leaders have been too naïve, blind, and deaf to "power" realities or too afraid to speak the truths we already know or would know if we had the courage to see what is in plain sight.**  

Anyway, here is another email appeal for rights, freedoms, and jurisdictions sent today, May 14, 2024:

Greetings: Premier Smith, Minister Ellis (PSES); Minister Loewen (Forestry/Parks); Minister Schulz (EPA); Minister Amery (Justice)

I am a strong supporter of Alberta Strong and Free, THUS, I have grave concerns about this alleged UCP “new emergencies bill”* because several years ago, during a grass fire emergency, our rural locals were treated as anything but strong and free. We experienced a takeover by “parachuted” experts and enforcers who cavalierly and with hubris cut locals out of the response and protection of their and their neighbours’ properties and livestock. A command-centre set up by affected locals to keep information flowing and to coordinate volunteer help was ignored by the “powers.”

Local men and women — many of whom are Renaissance people of a myriad skills and creativity — who know the area, the livestock, and the wildlife — who frequently deal with and manage emergencies, were pretty much told to get lost; stay out of the way. They were emphatically told:

“IF we, the experts, want local help, we will tell you what, when, and how to do it, and when to stop doing it. And if you act outside our authority, there will be consequences.”

Roads were barricaded and monitored; areas restricted with an attitude of “We don’t need your local help, advice, suggestions, or arguments.” Heavy equipment and water-tanker trucks were volunteered by locals, including Hutterite colonies, but were told to park equipment until requested, which they never did, while a nearby home and outbuildings were needlessly burned to the ground. The incompetence and hubris of some “authorities” was astonishing and infuriating. And this is not the first-time locals have had to deal with such authoritarianism in a crisis.

Many of these locals are of pioneer stock who have had more life- and crisis-experience than most government-hired experts. If a crisis requires help beyond the local, the requested help should come in with the question: “What help do you need? We are here to consult on how best to assist you under your direction.”

Granted, in a crisis there are degrees of chaos, and a need for unified direction, but the authoritarianism exercised against rural property owners in so many fire events in recent years has been shocking and alarming. We do not need “authorities” who exacerbate losses because they are just following orders from some distant, endless, anonymous hierarchy or who think their plan is the only viable plan.

Many times, in this increasingly crisis-prone world, we may need outside help, but we do not expect or want hubris or harassment. The Province must not give itself unilateral authority to parachute into a “crisis.” Local peoples and local authorities know what a crisis is. If they ask for help, they must always have the authority to direct or countermand any help that comes.

Do not do to Locals what the Feds are doing to Alberta, usurping and disrespecting rights, freedoms, skills, and creativity.

Now as concerning the other municipality issue concerning elected officials: granted, the Province may have broader rights vis-à-vis municipalities as these are creations of the Province, BUT the people are not creations of the Province. If an MD, County, or urban/rural council has issues with elected officials that cannot be locally resolved, then let the legislation provide a consultative process with the Province for accountability, not a unilateral power-play by the Province.

And please, please, please do not politicize urban or rural councils. We do NOT need or want more politicization of public servants. Party politics always, always, always (over time and human nature) descends into a tyranny of party conformity. That is the ubiquitous nature of power and politics.

And lastly, please remember: you are servants of a democratic ideal (the sovereignty of the people), NOT masters in a domination system.

Sincerely,
SMSmith
(Alberta)
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*https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/new-bill-would-allow-alberta-government-to-take-command-of-local-emergencies-1.7199478?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Calgary_1652_1552479
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-rural-municipalities-speak-out-against-latest-provincial-bill-on-wildfire-authority-1.7203260?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Calgary_1652_1557002

This appears to be the same type of Control Bill that was “shot down” several years ago by citizen protest.

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**https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2021/08/seeing-without-seeing.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/12/destroying-paradise.html (As this video has been removed, just search for videos or “images Paradise fire” or Maui fire)

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