That would be “John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre [yep, it’s Canadian] for Constitutional Freedoms” who’s defending a Christian martyr about whom I reported last week. Pastor James Coates still languishes in a cage because he obeyed God rather than government when the latter ordered him to cease his church’s services.
Mr. Carpay recently published a column in the Western Standard, “an independent source of news and commentary fighting for a strong and free Western Canada, committed to the truth even when it hurts, and forever pledged to refuse government funding.” Let us thank the Lord not only for Esquire Carpay but for these brave and principled journalists! (The publisher, Derek Fildebrandt, opines in his latest editorial, “The man who asks ‘Is there a rate of transmission or fatality that you feel would support these actions?’ should instead ask himself, ‘Is there any liberty that you would not take away to support the government’s actions?’” Fans can email him at [email protected]; I’m sure he endures the same scorn that an American publisher defending freedom would.)
Back to Mr. Carpay, who castigates the nauseating hypocrisy of Canada’s rulers from the first sentence of his op-ed:
While Pastor James Coates was locked up in an Alberta prison, Premier Jason Kenney posted this on Facebook: “Best wishes to Christians across Alberta and around the world as they begin the penitential season of Lent on this Ash Wednesday.”
From there, our hero rips the government’s flouting of science, concluding, “Pastor Coates is following the science. Jason Kenney is not.” Then he returns to the premier’s galling duplicity:
Responding to the public outcry over Alberta jailing a pastor, Premier Kenney stated: “So I want to be absolutely clear: Alberta’s government will always respect and protect the fundamental freedoms of religion and worship, period.”
That is, except when pastors are put in jail for refusing to comply with unscientific health orders.
Love it! “Lawyer skewers Canadian premier, indeed, as lifesitenews.com phrased it!
Mr. Carpay “skewers” the lockdowns as well:
What Mr. Kenney describes as “safe and reasonable guidelines” are joy-killing, coercive laws that force people into isolation and loneliness by banning the necessary social interactions that we need for our physical, mental, spiritual and financial well-being. Lockdowns (whether full or partial) produce anxiety, stress and depression even amongst those who have not been pushed into unemployment, poverty and despair.
There is nothing “safe” about cancelling medically necessary surgeries, like the pace-maker surgery needed by Jerry Dunham, who was killed by lockdowns – not by COVID. There is nothing “reasonable” about forcing businesses into bankruptcy, often destroying the life savings of honest, hard-working people. There is nothing “safe” about taking away sports, recreation, social interactions and recreational pursuits from children and adults, forcing millions to experience life primarily through a two-dimensional computer screen.
Mere “guidelines” are not enforced with $1,000 fines and imprisonment, if one cares about honesty when using the English language. These are coercive laws, not “guidelines.” Moreover, none of these laws have been approved by a vote of the members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; instead, laws are announced on the fly at press conferences and imposed on us by the Kenney-Hinshaw duo, contrary to the constitutional requirement that democratic law-making be carried out by the legislature.
If you need a pick-me-up as badly as I did this morning, refresh yourself with this scathing critique of quackery, sanctimony, and dictatorship!
10:20 am on February 26, 2021
