Dakota Beacon

Over the past two years we have all been deeply concerned with the "defund the police" campaigns.  Among the strongest supporters of police and law and order, the people who have demonstrated the greatest confidence in our “heroes in blue”, are conservatives, working people, people such as the people in Ottawa right now supporting freedom. 

 As we all know by now, these truckers have been peaceful and have been careful to avoid damage to property while there.  They have helped by feeding the homeless, they have picked up litter on the streets, they have, with the exception of horn-honking, been model citizens.  

We - at least up here in the winter-bound North - understand too well what it means to be without fuel.  So do the Ottawa police.  So these thugs decided to go in and actually STEAL fuel donated by supporters - fuel which keeps truckers and their families from freezing.  (Maybe they got the idea from Alberta's cops who were actually breaking into trucks and stealing blankets and other winter survival gear.)  Well, there is nothing illegal about possessing, selling, buying, giving or receiving fuel in Canada.  So when the case came before a Canadian judge, he ruled that the cops must return the fuel to the truckers.  So there. 

 The police did return the fuel.  Except, these police have proven their malice and that they cannot and should not be trusted.  Watch the video.  Now we must really ask ourselves who is really leading the charge in the "defund the police" effort?  I would have to say that if I were a police officer concerned about this issue, the resignations and the defunding and the morale, I would counsel these cops never, ever to do this, never, ever, to breach the public's trust.  If you don't want citizens breaking the law and behaving in an immoral way, by all means do NOT do this.   

In 2020 the world was expressing outrage over the misbehavior and abuse committed by Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. The nation's cities burned all summer, statues and murals depicting Floyd, who, after all, was a dangerous criminal and drug addict, decorated the cities, enshrining his memory, while statues of George Washington were beheaded and toppled.   When one cop commits a life-threatening assault by holding a knee on a man’s shoulder while he is dying it is called “murder”.  Derek Chauvin will spend the rest of his life in prison for it.  So - what do you call it when a whole gang of police threaten the lives and well-being of thousands of peaceful citizens?  In the case of Floyd, there was always the excuse that he was unpredictable and violent - self-preservation was always a factor.  But the truckers are non-violent working people who are in Ottawa only because they want to be allowed their freedom and to be able to go back to productive work.  They threatened no one. 

Well, the judge saw it that way, too.  And you can’t just go around taking what is not yours.  That’s called “stealing” and people are usually charged with a crime when they do it.  So now the cops have been ordered to return the stolen goods.  But in an evil inspiration, they allegedly brought it back contaminated.  When tested - as was prudently the practice at the station where it was dispensed - it was found to be half water and have diesel fuel.  Water in the fuel tank of a tractor like this would destroy it.  Kind of like “Cash for Clunkers”.  Only instead of $20,000 we are talking about quite a bit more.  The judge did not say, “return empty cans”, he did not say, “fill ‘em up with sand” or “adulterate their fuel with water and try to destroy their equipment with it”.  He said to return their fuel.  He obviously did not intend to suggest they sabotage millions of dollars in truck tractors.  In the event, the Ottawa police recklessly attempted to destroy valuable property of others

Here we should point out that the truck tractors these people use to transport our food, furniture, paper, lumber and whatever else we require, are costly.  Such a tractor costs approximately a quarter of a million dollars.  It is a lifetime investment.  You think your home is a major investment to you and your family?  The trucker’s rig is more than that.  If lost, the trucker is deprived of his livelihood.    What more poetic result, reasoned the cops and their masters, than to take away the means of earning a living from people who are there merely to protest the government’s depriving them of a living for the past two years and in the present.  How clever.  How nefarious.  And this was done to people who have always supported the police.  The truckers have continued to invite the police to join them in their quest for the freedom Canadians once enjoyed as their natural right.

If this were not enough we have seen Canadian police in Ottawa beating a 79-year-old man for the crime of beeping a car horn.  He was thrown down and dragged off, his arms twisted behind him, in his pajamas, by a couple of large, burly policemen.  At what point can we all agree that enough is damn well enough?  And then the cops on the scene tried to order the citizen journalists who were filming the incident and bully them.  Well, most of us have experienced bullying by a police officer at one time or another.  Let’s face it, the “profession” attracts bullies.  But now we are supposed to stand by and watch while cops brutalize a helpless old grandfather in his pj’s.  It makes shameful cowards of us all to watch this and do nothing.  So the police now see their job as reducing us to victims and cowards.  Nice work.

We have seen this kind of behavior throughout the world, especially in Australia, New Zealand and Europe of late.  It has no place whatsoever in our culture.  There are some good policemen, to be sure, but many of them are quitting.   It has been reported that about half of the Ottawa police have resigned.  If so, there are still some honorable people in the profession.  People who will refuse to execute an unlawful order or violate their fellow citizens’ charter rights.  Let us hope that they have resigned in preference to colluding in organized crime.  For those who have ever served in law enforcement this wonton display by the Ottawa police and the constabulary in Alberta (where they spend the rest of their time manhandling and arresting Pastor Artur Pawlowski and trying to shut down his congregation’s Christian worship) must be humiliating and a cause of chagrin.

For the rest of us it could become a deterrent to support of the police - which would be disastrous for society.  But then, the practices being employed presently by the Trudeauite government at the provincial and municipal levels is truly shocking.  It must not be condoned or countenanced.  

How can we teach our kids not to steal when the police are stealing from honest citizens and are “only doing their job”?  We see posters about not tolerating bullies, but then we see police in their day’s work beating up a defenseless old man, knocking down an elderly woman or, as in New Zealand this week we see them dragging a naked young woman out by the hair and attacking her.  What can we point to as an example of something we, as a society, should approve?  There are good cops out there somewhere and the media, of course, won’t find a story there.  But it is impossible to ignore what has been going on in the past weeks - Dutch police turn water hoses on innocent citizens, Australian cops “kettle” and drag off peaceful protestors, the Canadian police are an absolute disgrace.  It makes it very easy to frame a good cop when the overall image of police is so dark, so negative.  The picture of “jack-booted thugs” springs easily to mind when there is an incident involving the police, making it difficult to see things from their point of view.  And it predisposes many to want to “get even”.  I would not want to be a policeman on trial with a truck driver on the jury in Canada right now.  

When police deliberately bring back the truckers’ cans half-full of diesel fuel and half-full of water they know exactly what they are doing and the legal term would be “malicious mischief”, vandalism and even, perhaps “endangerment”.  This won’t do much damage hopefully - the truckers have been advised to check everything they put in their fuel tanks.  But the real damage is to the public image and reputation of law enforcement.  A government which will squander the public’s confidence in law enforcement just to play pranks or wage war against peaceful citizens is on the road to self-destruction. 

We need honest, honorable, moral law enforcement.  We must prosecute those who misuse our police forces and we must also punish those who allow themselves to become the tools of an oppressive state.

For over a year we have heard our politicians label patriotic citizens who gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear a president speak, wave flags and show support, “terrorists”.  For the past week we have heard the government of Canada call hard-working truck drivers who want only their freedom and the opportunity to work again, “terrorists”, “misogynists”, “white supremicists”, “homophobes”.  We have a witch hunt for anyone who shares information which contradicts the official storyline “domestic terrorists spreading dangerous misinformation and causing ‘vaccine hesitancy’”.  Yet who are the actual law breakers?  Politicians from London to Canberra and Wellington to Ottawa to Washington, are violating our rights every day.  That is criminal.  People in Canada have had enough of it.  

Who are the terrorists?  The people stealing blankets and fuel from truck drivers?  The people brutally beating old men and women?  The people threatening to take truckers’ children from them?  The politicians violating the Candians’ Charter of Rights or our Bill of Rights?  Or people who are just demanding their rights be respected?  

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