Copy of an email sent to 39 administration and faculty of the University of Lethbridge (Alberta Canada), this date, March 16, 2026, 12:13 MDT.
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Greetings University of Lethbridge Administration and Faculty:
If you have forgotten the shameful events of February 1, 2023 and February 4, 2026, many of us have not. When students are deliberately triggered into shameful behaviour to prevent beliefs, opinions, or narratives from being questioned or examined, your motto Fiat Lux becomes a farce. And to top-off the Fiat Lux mockery, some of you did a DARVO.* Every honest observer saw what was spun for the media, the public, and the ULeth community: 1) deny the bad behaviour of ULeth students; 2) attack the victim (Widdowson); 3) reverse victim and offender =DARVO.*
The praising of students' cacophonous, disrespectful behaviour; use of the words “the students did a fantastic job in neutralizing her”; and the twisting by DARVO are the very opposite of Fiat Lux. They are Fiat Tenebris/Tenebrae.
Please end the black-and-white thinking** that has captured so much of academia. Please take a lesson from Chief Aaron Pete:
A Chief Breaks Down the Unmarked Graves Controversy
Nuanced with Aaron Pete | Aug 25, 2025 |Time 58:49 min.) at
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For those who have not heard of the fog-bank that has obscured the Fiat Lux motto1 — Let there be light — of the University of Lethbridge (and to be fair, much of academia worldwide), it's worth a look at this classic example of gas-fogging with DARVO2 from the University of Lethbridge, February 4th, 2026.
You've never heard of DARVO!? In short, DARVO3 is a tactic where an offender or offenders who might face consequences for bad behavior vigorously deny "the bad" and attack the victim of their behavior in a concerted campaign to reverse victim and offender in their own minds and in the minds of any observer.
Thus the calm, reasoning, but stubborn Frances Widdowson who visited the University of Lethbridge on invitation from an emeritus ULeth professor to debate him and any other believer in the Residential School4 genocide, mass-grave narrative was surrounded for many hours by a cacophonous rabble who had no interest in hearing or letting others hear anything that did not affirm their belief in the mass-graves claim that to date has no concrete evidence to sustain it.5
So much for fiat lux for the administration and students who knee-jerked at “triggering” descriptions of Widdowson’s presence on campus. To their credit, the majority of the ULeth student-body did not join the noisome fray, but how revelatory of academia that so few had the courage or fool-hardiness to question the imposed mass-graves narrative.6
Frances Widdowson, a former (censored, fired) professor at MRU-Calgary, uses a strategy called Spectrum Street Epistemology7 designed to rationally debate controversial issues in an endeavour to arrive at truth and to counter the pervasive “closing of the academic mind.” One of those controversies that Widdowson has become known for is questioning the Residential School mass-grave narrative that was adjudged and promulgated by (to put it bluntly):
• devotees and servitors of planned polarization8 (including the MSM & gov’t. officials9);
• many psy-oped, guilt-infected, or virtue-signaling descendants of “white colonialists”;
• some indigenous10 members and tribes too ready to adopt “black thinking”11 about all Residential School experiences; and
• severely abused, targeted survivors so traumatized by repetitive abuse that any memory of kindness or caring by others in the RS system has been lost; that childhood fears and speculations are now proven.
Yes, there have been many offences and admissions of early “cultural genocide” or attempts thereat over the years, but this latest shift to physical genocide with mass graves has been spread and believed without firm evidence12 and, perhaps as importantly, without comparative evidence of child deaths at residential schools vis-à-vis non-residential school child deaths on reservations over the same period. The damage to Canada's reputation by these unproven allegations has been enormous.
To date, after nearly five years of claims, funding, and “investigation,” the Residential School mass-graves narrative remains unverified — i.e., no actual remains or skeletons from mass graves of any kind — just belief and hope that there must be evidence; although some tribal leaders are slowly backing away from mass-grave claims, yet without apology by the MSM or global retraction.13
Perhaps it is time for academia to cease teaching and affirming black-and-white thinking where they castigate colonial history and romanticize many things indigenous. Fiat lux looks at both the good and the bad in every history when seeking truth. Black-and-white thinking does not advance fiat lux — "Let there be light.” It is divisive, abusive, and riddled with falsehoods, justifications, and DARVO. No group or people or history is all black or all white. We are flawed humans whatever our skin colour, heritage, or culture. Native elites and non-elite natives alike are as susceptible to corruption, complicity, compromise, ego, greed, self-deception, manipulation, abusive behavior, self-service, etc., etc., as every non-native is, whatever their class or rank. Human nature is ethnic blind. Observing 360° is not hate speech; however, speech or action that obstructs fiat lux is. There are many noble, honorable indigenous men and women who know the good, the bad and the ugly of their history. They know the prevalence and wounds of conflict, whether white on native, native on white, native on native, or tribe on tribe. Truth seekers want the whole truth, warts and all.
Yes, the actions, arrogance, and crimes of the past that have harmed so many deserve, demand exposure,14 but so also does the present power abuse and lack of accountability that plagues so many reservations. Let the whole truth, past and present, be brought into the light. Let there also be a campaign for accountability for many in current tribal leadership so the added sufferings can be acknowledged and dealt with.
For the most part, history has been brutal at some time or other for every group. We can acknowledge and grieve for the tragedies, crimes, and sins of the past without being forced to accept beliefs and mass-grave narratives without proof.
Professors who promote "black and white" thinking are servitors of Fiat Tenebris / Tenebrae — “Let there be dark / darkness.” How many indigenous would ULeth allow to speak freely in classrooms if they said that not all residential schools were horrible — that some parents desired the schools and that some students had good and grateful memories of their residential school days. This in no way says that bad, despicable things didn't happen. They did, but good things also happened. To deny either the good or the bad is not “Truth and Reconciliation”; and is not Fiat Lux.
How many professors or students do you allow the freedom to say what they think and see that differs from the authorized narrative? How many are free to criticize indigenous elites that administer their reservations? How many are allowed to talk about the living conditions on many reservations15? Or the amount of money that flows to improving conditions that do not get improved? Let noble, honorable indigenous leaders (like Chief Aaron Pete16) and students come forward to petition for rational, honorable debate about this and other divisive controversies.
And please, ULethbridge, quit gas-fogging yourselves, your students, and the public. Apologize for the February 4 DARVO. How can you possibly hold upFiat Lux when you deliberately triggered reactive, disrespectful, censoring confrontations?
Perhaps as a test of Fiat Lux, ULeth could take-up full-spectrum thinking by viewing these two recent documentaries and then holding Spectrum Street Epistemology sessions exploring the Lux and the Tenebris.
To set the stage for truth, perhaps first begin with this:
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us." (OT:Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)
"Dwell in the past and you'll lose an eye. Forget the past and you'll lose both eyes." (Old Russian Proverb)
(Subject to change over time: experience/learning/ evidence)
▪ Life is a three-act drama with pre-mortal, mortal, and post-mortal stages. ▪ The second act boils us down toward test one:[1] the test of power. ▪ Abusers of power lose it in Act Three when justice and equity take the bench. ▪ Tipping points happen—over time and a fulcrum. ▪ Motes and beams are everywhere.[2] ▪ Folly is a shadow of every ism, including capitalism. ▪ Money talks louder than morals—all the way to the tipping point. ▪ The direction you are facing, matters.[3] ▪ Extremism in the defense of liberty is extremism.[4] ▪ When the blind follow the blind, it is time to blow the whistle.[5] ▪ Opposites attract the same lobbyists. ▪ Solon of Athens espoused, “Nothing in excess;” laissez-faire capitalists pursue “Everything in excess” (except the costs of gross profit). ▪ “Simplify” displayed on the counter-top of a new 21,000 sq. ft. home does not compute. ▪ High fructose corn syrup is not the staff of life. Unfortunately, sweets can twirl your teeth. ▪ Revolving doors between government and business do not admit sufficient fresh air. ▪ The common good doesn’t seem to be very common. ▪ N. American football is a testosterone pageant in tights.[6] ▪ Exploitation is a delusion of grandeur. Stewardship is a grander conclusion. ▪ The excesses of major religions occur when members fail their espoused values. The excesses of ideological tyrannies occur when tyrants act upon theirs.[7] ▪ Praise is best deflected toward God. ▪ Too many who say, “I do, I do,” don’t. ▪ Electronic media has become the Roman Coliseum of the 21st Century. ▪ The First Law of Attraction[8]: the Devil is more obsessed with persons striving to do and be good than with persons who are not. ▪ The trans-rational[9] is beyond most of us, so if it’s “turtles all the way down,”[10] maybe it is “revelation all the way up.”[11] ▪ Egoism accounts for 80% of human problems. The remaining 27% lies with rhetoric and propaganda.
In the near words of Groucho Marx, “These are my [views]; if you don’t like them, I have others.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1]New Testament: Matt. 4:2-4—The first temptation presented to Jesus, to misuse His power to satisfy self-interest/-will/-gratification. [2] Ref: Matthew 7:3-5 [3]Old Testament: Jer. 32:33 [4] A Barry Goldwater phrase “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” A phrase applauded by some of the GOP. (Suggestion: reverse liberty and justice to see if it sounds more palatable, or is the latter half merely castor-oil for the first?) [5] Ref: Matthew 15:14 [6] Observation of a friend, MS, who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. [7] Ref: Ravi Zacharias [8] Ref: Adam & Eve; Biblical Job; Jesus in the Wilderness; CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, etc., etc., etc. [9] Ref: Flatland by Edwin Abbott. In summary, circles, squares and other flatlanders can’t get a fix on spheres and cubes; can’t quite reason themselves into the properties of those in 3-D space. Enlightenment of things beyond (i.e., trans-) Flatland takes condescension from those above & beyond. Any parallels here in 3-D? [10]Google this phrase if you have not heard of it. It’s just one way of saying we don’t have a rational explanation for some things. [11] Conditional on the will of the Revelator and the willingness/ ability of the revelatee to receive.
About SMS
A few 6-to-7-Word Memoirs: ▪ Hope for the world comes and goes. ▪ Loves to read more than eat. ▪ Loves to think more than eat. ▪ Eats too much while reading and thinking. ▪ Always running out of time and daylight. ▪ Finds extremes too far from the center. ▪ Troubled by the world’s failure of memory. ▪ Has a tendency to counsel God. ▪ Learned gratitude before it was too late. ▪ Apparently hasn't learned enough gratitude yet.
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