Dakota Beacon

It was an act of brutality.  One could reasonably call it government-sponsored terrorism. Late last week, in a barbaric act of tyranny,  the Canadian government conducted a slaughter of some 400  healthy ostriches on an Ostrich farm in British Columbia.  It was not a “cull”, which is technically a selective taking out of “weak” or sick animals from a herd.  The entire herd was wiped out.  The birds were not sick.  There had been two cases of avian flu over a year ago within the herd, but all of these birds were and had been healthy for a long time when the government decided to kill them all.

The ranchers were  responsible, it was a family operation.  Some of these ostriches were 40 years old in their care as of this killing spree.  This was the culmination of a long series of court orders and appeals, stays and an ordeal of dread for these owners, who had named them all and tended them daily.  At some point they were blocked from access to the animals and forced to hear the sounds of shooting, grinding and abuse of the ostriches - all under cover of darkness and behind tall walls of hay bales.    Finally, in the dark of night on Thursday, November 6, the deed was done and all of the birds lay dead in the pen.  

The owners could have killed them themselves, and collected $2,100 per bird from the government ($840,000 USD) but declined to commit the act in order to collect it.  The flock was precious to them.  They had a personal connection with each bird.  The fact that the birds had recovered fully from the avian flu made them valuable in antibody research in a quest for cures and preventative vaccines against the flu.  We’ve seen other bird ranches wiped out by flu and worse, government intervention - turkey farms, chickens, etc., but the ostriches, which live on average about 60 years in a domesticated situation, could have provided a breakthrough in research in this area.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., our own HHS Secretary, tried to work with the owners to do testing to help find solutions to medical issues in the spread of disease and antibodies (which the birds would have had, having survived the illness a year ago).  He tried working with the government but there was no response to his queries.  Dr. Mehmet Oz also tried to work out a solution to bring the healthy birds to Florida to research the illness and antibody issues but because there was a “cull order” in place the government refused.  We could speculate that this stonewalling at the expense of the animals might have been a “so there” to the U.S. Government as a reaction to Trump’s hostile approach to Canada in general as well as his unwarranted meddling in Canadian domestic politics.  We can’t ever know for sure, but there is more than a friendly rivalry going on now between the U.S. and Canada.  Perhaps not since the War of 1812 have we had such a negative official relationship with a neighbor country.  

There could be an even more sinister reason for the Canadian government’s intransigence.  Perhaps there is a desire to shut down research and avoid finding cures for diseases which could flare up - or be caused to flare up - which would put absolute control of the populace back in their hands, as it was during the “covid crisis”.  We know that Bill Gates, in our own country, is actively trying to spread diseases in the human population in order to sell his “vaccines” and pursue whatever other evil enterprise he has concocted.  Whatever the reason or whatever the excuse, through the brutal slaughter of 400 magnificent and rare creatures at the horrific expense and trauma to a caring family of ranchers, we have lost a great opportunity, while watching the rotting away of the Canadian government, its morals and its agencies - such as the once revered RCMP - in the pursuit of total tyranny.  

One cannot know whether the owners might have taken the nuclear response to this act of depravity had they enjoyed a Second Amendment right, but it certainly borders on the appropriate response.  When our courts are corrupt, when reason has gone out the window, which in tyrannies it eventually does, there may come a time when only one remedy will suffice.  At least this is what our own Founding Fathers believed.  And what they also understood was that as long as those in authority knew this they would act with greater prudence and wisdom and not use that authority to oppress the people.  In Canada there is no hesitation to oppress the people because there is no such understanding.  This is why truckers who simply drove to Ottawa to protest against overreaching “covid” restrictions were arrested, imprisoned and their bank accounts seized, were shot and in some cases killed by police.  In Canada, police and government agents carry out their orders just as did the Gestapo under Hitler.  It was no excse in Germany then and it is no excuse in Canada (or the US) now.  Each individual is ultimately guilty in something like this.  Mass walkouts would have made a difference.  Conscience has a role to play.

It is a sober warning to America to hold fast to our Bill of Rights and benefit from our own government’s awareness of its limitations, and why we should carefully adhere to those principles, whether they are “convenient” or whether these checks and balances pose a roadblock to absolute authority.  It’s why we should refrain from ignoring our own laws in an effort to “fix” a problem.  It is all connected.  

Our hearts go out to the owners who lost a flock of unusual birds that they obviously cared for deeply and to which they were committed to protect.  Their screams of terror and agony that night, knowing their flock was being mindlessly murdered, were heartbreaking.  How does one ever recover from such an act?  To them they were like family, like pets.  It was a very sad chapter following many sad ones in the recent history of Canada and we should take it as a wake-up call to stand firmly for our own rights in America.  We never want to live like Canadians.