Dakota Beacon

We have witnessed an unleashing of violence against innocent people which is unprecedented in modern times. Perhaps the survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima might come to mind, but we must keep them in the context of a nation at war, a war which was violent and likely to continue with more violence as it went along, perhaps door-to-door combat in Japan. What has been going on the past week is not a part of a declared war or the response to violent acts on the part of the people.

In Canada, which has been covered to some extent here already – the truckers “Freedom Convoy” is still going on in many cities – Calgary, Winnipeg and others. It has been largely crushed by extreme force in Ottawa by a very mentally disturbed police chief brought on just for the dirty work he was about to perform. Steve Bell is known for strip-searching people he arrests and filming the searches. Suffice it to say he was the right candidate for the job. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been romanticized by their famed “Musical Ride”, their iconic red-uniformed figures, from Dudley Doright to Sergeant Preston to Constable Benton Frasier, to Nelson Eddy. We have always had a fond image of the Mounties. They were the gallant heroes of our literature, the knights of the Northwest Territories. Their legend has been basically destroyed beyond recognition by the past week’s activities. Breaking into people’s trucks and stealing blankets and winter survival gear in sub-zero weather, vandalizing and destroying valuable and essential equipment, beating and dragging away little old men for no apparent reason, knocking down little old ladies, threatening parents with taking away their children, threatening to dognap and euthanize pets, trampling elderly people and killing them in a sort of grotesque update of the “Musical Ride” and beating up reporters and burning them with point-blank shooting of tear gas canisters. They’ve done this on camera for us so there is no mistaking it. I won’t be watching Rose-Marie ever again.  As a cherry on top, the police arrested Ontario Libertarian party leader Mark Snow for attempting to go to Parliament to speak on the matter of "emergency measures".  He is now a political prisoner, arrested on the trumped-up charge of "obstructing".  In our upside-down time it is the police, of course, who were obstructing the business of government.  

Meanwhile, under the heading of “crowd control”, the Australian military nuked its own unsuspecting and defenseless people – men, women and children (and pets most likely) who had congregated in Canberra, that hapless nation’s capital city – who were there to deliver a peaceful message that enough was finally going to be enough of unreasonable – insane - “covid” regulations. The government turned microwaves on the people and basically cooked them alive as they were gathered in a celebration of “freedom”. This would apparently be to let them know that they are not free and it would be best it they did not aspire to be. Just go home and wait for orders. Some in the Australian parliament raised questions about this. The response was shocking. The presiding member basically sniggered about it and said it would be looked into “in due course”, laughing as an aside. The message was: we don’t intend to do a damn thing about that. Many of these people will suffer misery, burning, nausea – all typical of radiation sickness, initially. But the longer-term problems may well be severe. They will be cancers of various kinds, among other things. It will all be disguised, of course. Some of us will remember that a number of people who were exposed long after the detonation of nuclear weaponry, in Nevada during the shooting of a film, The Conquerer, among them Agnes Moorehead, John Wayne, Dick Powell, Susan Hayward and others. Of the 220 people on location for this, 94 got cancer and 46 died from it. But this kind of knowledge did not deter the Masters in Australia. In fact they had the weapon only because they knew its effectiveness.

These people – these Masters, in Canada, led by Justin Trudeau, in Australia by Dan Andrews and his country's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and let’s not forget, America led by the tottering imbecile Joe Biden – are psychopaths. Their cronies and followers are psychopaths.

In Canada we have been treated to video of the insane David Lametti, Trudeau’s Justice Minister, threatening anyone who supports Trump with seizure of their bank accounts. Imagine that. First, Donald Trump is about as far as you can get in North America from Ottawa. He had nothing whatsoever to do with the convoy and if asked, I would quite frankly be surprised if he could find Ottawa on a map, despite four years in the White House. But no matter. Any Canadian who “supports” him – or ever has – can begin to be “worried” about that. Chyrstia Freeland, Trudeau’s Deputy Prime Minister, announced with a flourish that the “emergency powers” would be made “permanent”. These people never met with the truckers or any of their representatives or legal counsel. They don’t care why these people are in Ottawa. They just damn their effrontery for being there and consider them nothing more than a nuisance. A nuisance they must regrettably allow back in town when they bring their truckloads of toilet paper.

We need to be careful in America now. We can see what is being prepared in the kitchen – we are to be the main course, it would seem. Trudeau, it is significant to note, took his action following a consultation with his like-minded dictator, Joe Biden. Perhaps the only world leader to have phoned him since he was sworn in. We can imagine what Biden’s advice was. Trudeau ordered the horse unit into the unarmed and peaceful crowd. He probably paid a handsome bonus to the thug who bashed in Rebel News reporter Alexa Lavoie’s face. He hates her because she asks him embarrassing questions in press conferences. Trudeau arrogantly ignores her questions, but then, Uncle Joe arrogantly ignores everyone’s questions. Trudeau is a rank amateur compared with old Joe.

When I think of the behavior of these “leaders” and others like them, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern, the leaders of most of the countries of western Europe, the word that springs to mind is “psychopath”. It’s just an immediate impression, so I looked it up. Here is Merriam Webster’s definition (subject to change momentarily, in keeping with its practice of suiting the word to the situation they are pandering to): “ . . . a person having an egocentric and antisocial personality marked by a lack of remorse for one's actions, an absence of empathy for others, and often criminal tendencies”.

How else can we describe these people? They are criminals – they steal, the assault, they vandalize, they attack people with high-tech military weapons, they violate people’s constitutional/charter rights. We have them in our midst right here in the upper Midwest – Tim Walz, for example. Walz had business owners thrown in jail for trying to be open so as to feed their families and pay their staff. People have a right to dine where they like, they have a right to operate a legal business, they have a right to work. Walz fined one local restaurant owner $25,000 for being open for three days “in defiance of a mandate”. Oh, and had the restaurant closed for 30 days. How many businesses can sustain this kind of assault? We need to recognize these psychopaths – people like Walz and his henchman Keith Ellison – for what they are.

In Minnesota we have proposed legislation which would end the abuse of “emergency powers” by the Minnesota governor permanently. We need to support this. We need to put whatever pressure we can muster on members of the Minnesota legislature to support it. Now that we have seen Trudeau’s abuse it is a good time to call them. Some are skittish about it – it sounds “final” to them and a lot of people become timid. One I spoke with didn’t support it because she thought the wording might be different later. She needs to get onboard with it now. Even if she has to propose changes or withdraw support on some technicality later she needs to give it the weight of her support now. For anyone interested (and we all should be, regardless of what state we reside in), it is the “Never Again” bill. Get on the phone and promote it with everyone – your neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, members of your church – and of course with your legislators.

North Dakota needs to more closely examine what is called a “Republican” in that state as well. Governor Burgum is anything but conservative. We obviously need to rid Minnesota of Keith Ellison and Tim Walz. We should support DOUG WARDLOW for Attorney General. We have a few still to choose from for Governor in Minnesota – among them Scott Jensen and Neil Shah – let’s hope it’s one of them – but just about anything, even a salamander, would be a huge improvement as Governor. We have had a few really bad ones, but Walz has to be the worst in our lifetimes.

Is it too late? It might be, but we can’t afford to go down without a fight. We might not want to get in crowds without our “tin foil hats” anymore. The days of high-spirited rallies are likely over, at least if they are in protest of the policies of a government in power. It’s unfortunate that we can’t put that genie back in the bottle. But we must not give up the fight for freedom.

I wrote to one of my favorite journalists and thinkers, Ezra Levant. I know he has a wide range of interests, but so far as I know, not so much in the area of Irish history. Somehow the events of the past week have reminded me of one of my personal heroes (believe it or not, I have many), the great Michael Collins, whose brief life was a guiding light of liberty to his enslaved people. I suggested that Ezra read Tim Pat Coogan’s biography or, if nothing else, at least Collins’ own writings – they have been published in book form as “A Path to Freedom”. Collins and his predecessors from the Easter Rising of 1916, had what most just assumed was an impossible task – to free a people who had fought unsuccessfully for liberty for over 700 years. Regardless of the sorry condition of that nation today in that regard, for a brief moment in history, Ireland was truly free. Had Collins’ life not been snuffed out in the valley of Beal na Blath, perhaps that freedom would have been secured and cemented in the Irish psyche and it would have continued to flower. When justice finally arrives in Canada it is much to be hoped that the people will begin by prosecuting the lowliest of the police who have been involved in carrying out illegal orders – without their indispensible complicity the rights of Canadian citizens would not have been violated.