The obscene riots in the US over a man no one had ever heard of are far too electric for the bribed press and special-interest parties to let the Americans have all the thuggish fun.
Enter Allan Adam, a chief of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
When one first sees Mr. Adam, he has a rather horrifying set of injuries to his face - a swollen cheek, a cut, a blackened eye. He was stopped by the RCMP over expired plates.
When looking at Mr. Adam's battered visage, one can't help but wonder if the RCMP was too enthusiastic in stopping, restraining and arresting him, especially over a charge that seems trivial.
The four minutes of footage shown on the news is barbaric and appears conclusive.
There is, as they say, the rub:
This footage:
The four minutes shown on the news makes out that the RCMP struck Mr. Adam without provocation. There was no indication by any news agency of his behaviour before that.
So why was Mr. Adam's behaviour not made a pertinent point in news casts?
Because controversies don't start where there is no conflict.
If one watched only the four minutes of footage shown on CTV or CBC, one would believe that the RCMP was duplicating the kind of violence that ended George Floyd's life. Watching the full twelve minutes dispels that.
One can't carry on with the narrative that Canadians are perpetrators of "systemic racism" (but they did re-elect PM Blackface, so ...) or that Mr Adam was a much-maligned leader of a sovereign nation (a sovereign nation has a duly appointed leader, its own currency, identification papers, taxation and currency. The so-called First Nations have none of those things. Tribal chiefs are, at best, mayors who speak passionately for their towns and care about the well-being of their residents and, at worst, opportunists like Mr Adam who did not mind taking $55,000 for the American group, Tides Foundation, and must be amused by the current goings-on.) or that the RCMP has it in for any group when it has shown reluctance to remove thugs from train tracks but none for kicking down doors and taking property without cause.
One might be utterly shocked to think that a news agency would deliberately distort the truth so that it could generate the sort of horrid thuggery that passes for social action in the US.
When one considers that everyone involved is in some part responsible for maintaining a rotted and corrupt system from which they benefit, these deceptions and aspersions seem less shocking and more familiar.
Also - they knocked down statues and burned books in the Cultural Revolution, too. It only made them appear to be illiterate barbarians whose aims were never realised.
You can't knock it all down:
(Sidebar: let's have a conversation about removing the Trudeau dynasty's influence and likenesses from Canada.Then we can have a conversation on whether or not we need to further idolise Norman Bethune.)
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Learning is simply not what angry and insecure thugs do.
Enter Allan Adam, a chief of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
When one first sees Mr. Adam, he has a rather horrifying set of injuries to his face - a swollen cheek, a cut, a blackened eye. He was stopped by the RCMP over expired plates.
When looking at Mr. Adam's battered visage, one can't help but wonder if the RCMP was too enthusiastic in stopping, restraining and arresting him, especially over a charge that seems trivial.
The four minutes of footage shown on the news is barbaric and appears conclusive.
There is, as they say, the rub:
This footage:
The four minutes shown on the news makes out that the RCMP struck Mr. Adam without provocation. There was no indication by any news agency of his behaviour before that.
So why was Mr. Adam's behaviour not made a pertinent point in news casts?
Because controversies don't start where there is no conflict.
If one watched only the four minutes of footage shown on CTV or CBC, one would believe that the RCMP was duplicating the kind of violence that ended George Floyd's life. Watching the full twelve minutes dispels that.
One can't carry on with the narrative that Canadians are perpetrators of "systemic racism" (but they did re-elect PM Blackface, so ...) or that Mr Adam was a much-maligned leader of a sovereign nation (a sovereign nation has a duly appointed leader, its own currency, identification papers, taxation and currency. The so-called First Nations have none of those things. Tribal chiefs are, at best, mayors who speak passionately for their towns and care about the well-being of their residents and, at worst, opportunists like Mr Adam who did not mind taking $55,000 for the American group, Tides Foundation, and must be amused by the current goings-on.) or that the RCMP has it in for any group when it has shown reluctance to remove thugs from train tracks but none for kicking down doors and taking property without cause.
One might be utterly shocked to think that a news agency would deliberately distort the truth so that it could generate the sort of horrid thuggery that passes for social action in the US.
When one considers that everyone involved is in some part responsible for maintaining a rotted and corrupt system from which they benefit, these deceptions and aspersions seem less shocking and more familiar.
Also - they knocked down statues and burned books in the Cultural Revolution, too. It only made them appear to be illiterate barbarians whose aims were never realised.
You can't knock it all down:
Federal agencies must question “what messages we want to be sending” with historic designations, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said yesterday. The remarks followed a 2019 recommendation to remove a “white race” plaque on a statue in Orillia, Ont.: “It’s a conversation we need to have.”
(Sidebar: let's have a conversation about removing the Trudeau dynasty's influence and likenesses from Canada.Then we can have a conversation on whether or not we need to further idolise Norman Bethune.)
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We are better to confront our history and learn from it. That’s what they are doing in Edinburgh where Henry Dundas spent so much of his time and political capital — including extolling his support for the slave trade.
Sir Geoff Palmer, Scotland’s first black professor, has been trying to get a plaque added to the statue of Dundas explaining his role in opposing abolition. That campaign now has the support of one of Dundas’s direct descendants who feels the full truth must be known.
That is how you handle uncomfortable parts of a nation’s history — you own up to it, you acknowledge it, you learn from it.
Learning is simply not what angry and insecure thugs do.
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