Anti-virus measures

Dear Editor,

This is in response to the articles that Chris Judd and Robert Wills have written about the Freedom Truck Convoy 2022 over the past couple of weeks. Has either of those gentlemen been to Ottawa to Parliament Hill to see it for themselves? Have you talked with the truckers, the construction workers, the farmers, the veterans, the health care workers, the teachers, the businesses and the supporters as to what their story is? I don’t think you did, because if you had, your articles would not have sounded like our Prime Minister and his main-stream media.

Len and I and our family have been to Parliament Hill on . . .

many occasions over the past few weeks and spoken with many, listening to their stories. People who have emigrated from communist countries. People who have taken all the shots but have said enough is enough. People who are just there because they see what is happening to their country. We witnessed a continual ambiance of love, acceptance and compassion on Parliament Hill. What both of those gentlemen have forgotten to mention is their family, friends and neighbours who because of their continual dosages of fear, misinformation and insults don’t talk. Does that not raise flags for them? Or have they fallen into the trap too?

It was stated there were no protests in the communist countries. You’re right on that. Those people don’t have a voice. Communist countries own their news media and their churches and anyone protesting would be jailed or killed.

As for your conspiracy theory … The truckers and the supporters had made it plain from day one. End the mandates, end the segregation, end the shut downs, end the passports and give people back their jobs and their lives.

The Prime Minister didn’t take the truckers seriously when he knew well in advance of their arrival and when he finally came out of hiding, tried to vilify, insult and demoralize them using main stream media to put more fear in the businesses and the people of Ottawa. There were notices on the doors of businesses informing them that the government was requesting them to not open because of the group coming into town. Sadly they believed the lies but the businesses that stayed open made a mint and weren’t in any way inconvenienced. In fact the truckers even helped the people in Tim Hortons by cleaning their floors. Not what you would expect from insurrectionists and rioters.

Make no mistake this fringe minority is speaking for all the Canadians whose voices were not being heard when their choices were being taken away. They are speaking for those who have realized we are in a slow roll to communism.

It took those brave men and women and their love of this free country who said enough is enough to wake a lot of us up. I am proud of each one of them.

Finally, what astounds me is that even though most of us in this area have come from farming or working class families, people can sit back while our Prime Minister resorts to calling the Canadians derogatory names. Not becoming for a man who was elected to work for all Canadians. Are the red flags not going off for you?

I have witnessed people in our community, who used to be friends, calling each other stupid because of one person’s decision to not fall in line with the prevailing pressure regarding vaccines. Are the red flags not going off yet?

Perhaps Mr. Judd and Mr. Wills can tell me what they are both doing to keep the democracy in this country free, to keep peace, and show love. Is tearing down your brothers and sisters the way?

Cathy Watson

Shawville, Que.

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We were warned …

Dear Editor,

About the brown acid. At the Woodstock Music Festival, in the late 1960s, the MC Chip Monck made the announcement, “There’s some brown acid going around and some people are reporting bum trips from it. So, you may want to avoid that stuff, but it’s your choice, man.” That weekend, an epic lineup of pop music groups were contracted to play for an expected 10,000 people. Originally planned for the town of Woodstock, New York, the townspeople got a little freaky about their town being overwhelmed so the festival was quickly relocated about 50 miles away, when Max Yasgur offered the use of a fallow field on his dairy farm.

By the end of the first day, the festival was way behind schedule and the gates were totally overwhelmed by a crowd that swelled to 500,000, making it the third largest city in New York State and with the lowest violent crime rate of any city in North America. It lasted for three days. Then it was over and people went their separate ways, or with their newfound friends and lovers.

The reason that such an announcement had to be made was, that the festival was awash in psychedelic substances, all illegal by mandates in developed nations throughout the western world. The brown acid may never have existed but it had a symbolic effect, to a crowd of mostly young people, open to the myriad possibilities of perception presented by psychedelics, there was a warning that not all those perceptions are fulfilling and some bring more happiness than others. You can bet, there were a few there, who said, “I have the freedom to choose to take the bum trip, right here in the midst of these people gathered for the purpose of grooving to music and making love, not war.”

Fast forward by 60 years, there is much evidence of people having embraced the weirdest possibilities and being intent upon making themselves and others unhappy campers on Spaceship Earth. When confronted by a seemingly incomprehensible array of possible outcomes, they’ve come to believe in vast conspiracies and convoluted hate-think. There’s a philosophical device called Occam’s Razor, which states that, when confronted by many possibilities, the least complicated one is usually correct. So, when you hear thundering hoof beats, the best first hypothesis is ‘horses, not zebras.’ Nowadays, it seems many are jumping right over the zebras, and going straight to unicorns with space lasers shooting from their eyes.

It must be hard to live a happy life, thinking that you are surrounded by evil conspiracies of reptilian shape-shifting space aliens that run all governments and all ‘mainstream’ media outlets, and are plotting to have us all micro chipped for future brain-harvesting.

Yeah, it could be that way, but there are other possibilities. It could be, that governments are run by people, born of women, who are elevated by election to levels of power beyond their competency. It could be that the wide-eyed bloviating internet opinionators shouting about gay frogs are raking in big bucks, by playing on the gullibility of people who feel helpless in the face of vast abstract cosmic plots to curtail their freedoms.

Rather than trying to overthrow the elected government, I suggest living your life as a person free of undue outside influences. Grow a garden, learn to play an instrument, talk to your neighbours and see if there’s something you can do together that will be fun and/or productive to your environment. Avoid the brown acid — choose the Orange Sunshine instead.

Robert Wills

Pontiac County, Earth