Dakota Beacon

By now the whole world has watched in shock as Justin Trudeau seized dictatorial powers and acted to suspend the civil liberties of Canadians – particularly those who oppose him and his policies. Well, to be honest, we’ve all been drugged up with these “emergencies” to where no one has any real confidence in his civil rights anymore.

In the case of Canada, the people have been under brutal measures – shut-downs, cancellation of events, prohibition of others, interruptions of education, whether that be someone’s doctoral studies or kindergarten, isolation and unreasonable restriction – even of people’s family gatherings in their own homes. This has been going on not for weeks, not for months, but now for years. When will it ever stop? Long before the instant crack-down, Trudeau had already imposed extra restrictions on truckers and anyone else who might want to leave the confines of Canada. He demanded that they provide proof of vaccination.

We are not going to use space here to go over the overwhelming evidence that 1) the “vaccines” are useless or that 2) they are very dangerous and experimental. Suffice it to say that by the end of 2021, everyone who was willing to participate in this grand experiment had already been “vaccinated”. The rest were not going to. People whose livelihoods depend upon mobility – i.e. , truckers, finally decided that they had had enough of this string-pulling from Ottawa and began driving there to make their point. As they went along the convoy grew to enormous proportions. Never have we seen anything like it.

From the beginning these people have agreed to a code – no violence, no damage or destruction of property, no bad behavior. The only concession was some air horn honking. It might have been even more effective (and frightening to the cowards in Ottawa) to have just come and sat there silently, watching them from the trucks. But intimidation was not their mission. Many brought their families, their wives and children. They wanted the children to know what it is to be free, to demonstrate for a principle, to take a risk and undergo some inconvenience for something greater – freedom. And the people were as good as their intentions. They picked up litter on the streets, they shared their food with the poor and homeless, they cared for their own families. Crime has actually been down in the city of Ottawa since the arrival of the truck convoy. They cannot be said to have caused any damage or created a significant nuisance other than occasional honking. They should be cut some slack for this. After all, they are there to make a point.

And they are but the tip of the iceberg. Millions of people have supported them with crowd-funding, donations of fuel and food (so much that they have donated it to local homeless shelters and food pantries and now that they are overflowing they are taking the surplus to outlying areas). It would seem that the truckers represent many Canadians, perhaps even a majority and seizing power on the pretext of squelching them would also be an overt act of aggression against the people. In fact, as of this writing, at least five provincial governments are ending their mandates. Who does Trudeau represent?

Trudeau could have sat down with a few of their representatives and worked out some kind of accord and these people would have happily returned to their homes and left Ottawa in peace and quiet. Instead, he called them insulting names - “misogynist”, “racist”, “white supremacist”, “homophobe” - he randomly threw every epithet he could think of at them. Of course, it looked stupid because the people there included indigenous people, recent immigrants, men, women, Sikhs, every racial minority. What they did have in common was a desire to have their freedom and their work and their country back. That’s not too much to ask after being denied for two years and counting.

When name-calling didn’t send them packing, he took to the hills and hid out with “covid” exposure; presumably he thought that after a week or so the truckers would leave and he could come out of hiding and denounce them again. When that didn’t work either, he rumbled back into Ottawa and laid out his plans for his next tactic – calling them “terrorists” and calling for imposition of the Emergencies Act. This is martial law and deposing of the elected government and the civil rights of Canadians. His intention is to freeze and/or seize bank accounts of truck drivers and anyone who assists them financially (or any other identifiable way) and commandeer tow trucks (and their drivers) and force them to remove trucks, seize drivers’ licenses (including not only their commercial licenses but their personal drivers’ licenses as well), to get their insurance suspended – basically whatever is necessary to starve them and their families in a punitive gesture of dictatorial power.

It must be remembered here that under Canadian law (for whatever that’s worth these days) Trudeau’s move must be voted on and passed by Parliament. It would be well for all Canadians to contact their MP’s and let them know they had better vote against this, and to keep a careful tally of how each member votes. Trudeau might or might not have the backing to pull this off, but we can be sure he will apply plenty of pressure to get what he is demanding. Can you imagine the humiliation for him if he doesn’t? He has put a lot at stake here.

It is all utterly false – there has been no terrorism of any kind on the part of these hard-working and peaceful citizens and their families. As a matter of fact, the police have been more a source of terrorism – stealing property (fuel, blankets, etc.) and vandalizing valuable construction equipment and beating helpless elderly people. In response to this the truckers have remained peaceful.

There is no basis for imposing “war measures” acts in Canada. There is no “insurrection” underway. The forbearance of the truckers has been remarkable, in fact. Even the CCLA (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) and the OCLA (Ontario Civil Liberties Association), normally reticent when it comes to civil rights of any but actual terrorists, have weighed in and stated that it is dangerous to “normalize” emergency powers. This is the crux of the issue. We have seen, over the past two years, the liberal use of “emergency powers” in our various states and at the federal level, in the name of “covid”. This is dangerous and needs to stop.

In Minnesota it has seen peaceful, law-abiding citizens going to prison for months for simply being in business. We have seen our schools closed, our elderly abused, our hospitals turned into killing fields as patients’ rights were suspended, religious observances broken up, we have seen our cities turned into ghost towns, people denied entrance to stores without masks or “vaccine” cards, we have seen important events cancelled – both public and private, funerals disrupted by police in New York, sports events cancelled. Now we are watching as our young teenagers and children are suffering strokes and heart damage for being forced to take “vaccines” which are known to harm them and which are shown to be of no use. We no longer feel free. How long has it been now since you have felt a sense of freedom? We are restricted in our travel as well as on Main Street.

What Trudeau has done, goaded to it by Joe Biden, by the way, is to seize total power, like a Fidel Castro, or a Lenin or Mao, or like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela or Juan Peron in Argentina. He is dreaming of himself in a swashbuckling fatigues uniform with a cap and bandoleros perhaps. He thinks he is all-powerful and perhaps he has attained all-powerfulness through the finesse of “covid”.

We should be very wary of Biden’s influence in this. One thing the two have in common is a great appreciation of China – not so much the food or the culture, but of the leadership of that totalitarian regime.

This is why we must never, under even the most frightening circumstance, ever allow an emergency to be used to seize such power or suspend our civil rights. “Covid” is an excellent example because it was a manufactured emergency, further hyped up by a complicit press and accepted by a public terrified by the unknown. Exacerbated by the banning of safe and effective medications to quell the “pandemic”, the spectre of “covid” was politicized so as to provide extraordinary power to a handful of people – governors, hospitals, government agencies, the CDC, the president and certain weird gurus such as Anthony Fauci, acting as “advisors”. In the name of “covid” our rights were obliterated, tremendous economic hardship imposed, even the mental health and development of our children was sacrificed to this god.

This was never the intention or design of our government. There is no such thing as an emergency which should overshadow our Constitution. No disaster should be utilized so as to suspend our constitutional rights or abridge our god-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Canada is a very good example – a showcase – of what happens when we allow panic or “emergencies” to interfere with our rights. This must never happen again and we must immediately curtail the use of “covid” (or any other potential “villain”) to trump our Constitution. EVER. What has happened in Canada could so very easily happen here – in Minnesota, in North Dakota, in Iowa. Places we thought were “free”, places where we did not feel we had to hide from the “authorities”, where we were safe to sleep in our beds at night, secure in the knowledge that our government was in place to protect – not abuse – our rights. It is sobering that Trudeau made his daring move to grab full power after consulting with Biden (or whoever speaks for Biden).

We must watch and see what happens next. This must be accepted by Parliament and if I were an MP, I would not think I could get away with supporting it and still be elected (but then, maybe elections can also be suspended indefinitely – I have not seen the wording of the whole Act). I would think that any legislation which would allow the government to seize private bank accounts, outlaw crowd-funding, suspend or revoke drivers’ licenses and commandeer private property in order to abuse other citizens and their property would be, to say the very least, odious to an intelligent politician. A few have already rejected the idea. We will have to wait and see.

The big take-away from all of this is that we have been lulled into a state of mind where we have been willing to allow our governments to abuse our constitutional rights because of the bogeyman, “covid”. We made the error in judgment of thinking that such an “emergency” was of such importance that we could afford to waive our rights and suspend the laws which protect them - “temporarily”. The seizing of property and suspending of civil rights, sadly, throughout history, has never been “temporary”. Even when we have the illusion that they have been restored, they never quite come back whole. We still have the IRS. We still have Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act has been used politically to punish dissenters. It was to have been “temporary”. It is still there over twenty years after it was enacted. No one ever dares to vote to get rid of it. Minnesota just recently closed a local restaurant and fined it $25,000 for being open for three days without “permission” of the state, and another restaurant owner is just now being released from prison for the same “offense” - under “emergency powers” handed over to Governor Tim Walz. Other governors in other states have also been abusive.

Responsible, conscientious Minnesotans are working now to put an end to this. Let us hope that other states will do so as well. In Minnesota these powers expire periodically but the Minnesota Legislature, full of Walz cronies, continues to renew them at his request. This is why we cannot allow them in the first place. Some in the state have argued that we need to give a governor 15 days of emergency powers for “public safety” issues. There is really no reason why we allow this. We should give a governor a maximum of 72 hours. In that amount of time a governor can set up a zoom session and/or email with members of a legislature in order to address a real emergency that can’t be handled at the local level. We live in an era where we do not need to extend emergency powers to anyone beyond the time it takes for representatives of the people to deal with what is seen as an “emergency”.

In the case of the “pandemic”, it turns out it was manufactured in China with American tax dollars, it was deliberately spread, effective treatments were deliberately suppressed so as to grow the death count, hospitals and health care providers were exorbitantly exhorbitantly to maximize the “covid” damage and deaths, voices of dissent were silenced and dissenters punished, all in the effort to force the acceptance of the “vaccine”. It would appear that the nation has paid a dear price just in order to make Dr. Fauci and a few other favored entities very, very rich. Now it looks like we will have another cost if we are not very careful – the total loss of our freedom as Americans. Look at Canada. They are our closed neighbor, closest ally, “best friend”, many of us have personal friends as well as family that extend across our border with Canada. We share a lot of common heritage – historically, culturally, politically. If it can happen in Canada it surely can happen here. We must be prepared to fight this tooth and nail and beat it back when it comes.

We saw this in Europe – first with the Nazis and Fascists and then with the Iron Curtain. When the light of freedom goes out it may never be rekindled. We owe it to our children and their children that they should grow up and live in freedom. That is more important than addressing the greatest of “emergencies”.

“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.” – Frederick Douglass

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