Artur Pawlowski, pastor of the Street Church in Calgary, Alberta, again chased away police officers and a health inspector who showed up at his church on Saturday, April 24, 2021.
“I do not cooperate with Gestapo,” Pawlowski told the health inspector, who was flanked by several armed, black-clad Calgary Police officers. “I do not talk to the Nazis. You came in your uniforms like thugs. That’s what you are. Brownshirts of Adolf Hitler. You are Nazi Gestapo, communists, fascists. I do not cooperate with Nazis. Talk to my lawyer. You are not allowed here, you are not welcomed here, and I’m not going to cooperate with Gestapo like you, okay?”
Pawlowski would not allow the health inspector to speak, but instead interrupted her repeatedly while filming her. He called her “lady” and yelled at her at the top of his lungs repeatedly: “NOT THIS DAY! NOT THIS DAY!…YOU UNDERSTAND!? MAKE AN APPOINTMENT.”
It’s natural and normal to feel sadness and sympathy at the suffering of others and to want to alleviate it. The paradox of compassion in that sense is that it often becomes a rhetorical device for justifying action that harms those it’s supposed to help. If you had compassion, this kind of sanctimonious advocate says, you would support my policy. If you question it at all, you’re callous or cruel.
Children use this form of manipulation to get parents to give them what they want.
Parents for their part are not always as compassionate toward their own children as they seem in their dealings with others. In the ridiculous character of Mrs. Jellyby in his mid-19th century novel “Bleak House,” Charles Dickens warns against perversely misdirected compassion—he calls it “telescopic philanthropy.” Mrs. Jellyby combines relentless compassion from afar—working ostentatiously to support an improbable scheme for a tribe in Africa—with serious neglect of her own children at home in London.
When Helping Hurts
The misuse of compassion has in recent years assumed other forms, some less obvious but no less harmful. Many follow the decay of major liberal cities like San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle, with a seeming breakdown of law and order, with syringes, feces, and urine on the sidewalks of some business or shopping areas.
They wonder why such cities have made themselves a magnet for homeless people far and wide who are drawn to such places by the absence of law enforcement and the provision of services. Why would a city do that?
I have asked the question and been answered with one word, compassion. But is such an approach compassionate to people who need treatment, perhaps residential, who need boundaries and structure? Is it compassionate to the small business owners who must tolerate and clean up the mess outside their doors, whose businesses have declined because of the dearth of customers willing to enter such an area?
Mass Migration
Governments, liberal media, and the left, both in Europe and the United States, enabled and welcomed mass illegal immigration with open arms. In the name of compassion. There were other motivations, of course, like the desire to depress wages or increase a future electoral base, but compassion was the only one publicly mentioned.
A young woman from Nashville, Tennessee received a second dose of Pfizer’s experimental covid shot on April 16. Brandy McFadden immediately felt unwell after the shot and began to experience serious health problems the following afternoon. This story of vaccine-induced pain and sickness has been true for tens of thousands of people, who have either reported their vaccine injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), or have been told by medical authorities that there is nothing they can do. Most people have been convinced that the issues with these experimental vaccines are normal and are the result of their immune system going to work. Many people have been told that their vaccine-induced headaches, inflammation, fatigue and fever are just something they must accept.
Nashville woman says she was paralyzed by Pfizer’s covid shot
Brandy McFadden’s injuries did not subside. As a matter of fact, she reached out to a local news station and told reporters she was paralyzed after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. In just 24 hours, McFadden lost the ability to walk and experienced excruciating pain in her neck. “It just started progressively getting worse and I just started screaming in pain at the top of my lungs,” McFadden reported to News4 out of Nashville. It didn’t take long before she was paralyzed from the neck down. Her husband rushed her to the emergency room at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After six days of evaluation, doctors confirmed there were no underlying conditions. Her blood work, EMG, MRI and CT scan came back normal. “As far as to answers as to why this happened, they don’t know,” she said.
A vaccine that hijacks the protein synthesis of one’s cells, forcing those cells to produce foreign spike proteins, is nothing but a weapon of inflammation. This inflammation can seriously affect the cardiovascular or nervous systems. Inflammation is the precursor to chronic disease and is the underlying cause of severe illness during any infectious disease. In their quest to provoke an immune response, the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna exacerbate a cycle of inflammation in the human body — the reason why people suffer and die from infections in the first place.
House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is reportedly mulling a run for president in 2024 — despite the fact that seemingly only a handful of neoconservative writers in DC actually like her.
“I’m not ruling anything in or out — I’ve been here a long time,” she told The New York Post when asked if she would consider running.
Cheney’s popularity tanked after she voted to impeach President Donald Trump. The power-hungry politician has also faced criticism for constantly supporting the whims of Nancy Pelosi. She told the Post that she believes that Republicans who supported the protest on January 6 should be disqualified from running.
Americans will need a vaccine passport in order to travel to Europe this summer.
More than one year after the European Union shut down nonessential travel from most of the world, the bloc will reopen its borders to American tourists this summer. There’s one catch: those tourists will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen told The New York Times.
American and European officials have reportedly been in talks on how to create a vaccine certificate to clear citizens for international travel. “All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by E.M.A. (European Medicines Agency),” von der Leyen told the Times.
All three vaccines currently being used in the United States, from Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, have been approved by the EMA. European regulators have also authorized use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, which is awaiting approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored the Green New Deal in 2019, most people ridiculed the plan as the ravings of a misguided millennial. The measures seemed outlandish in the face of an economy built on fossil fuels, unlimited travel, and global abundance. Many dismissed her notions as political fantasy.
However, such outlandish proposals have a role in history. The celebrated Catholic thinker Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira notes that the left uses programs like the Green New Deal to advance its agendas. It promotes extreme radicals that often fail in their goals in the short term. However, he writes that “The explosion of these extremisms raise a standard and create a fixed target whose very radicalism fascinates the moderates, who slowly advance toward it.”
Thus, the American left has used its radicals to plant an eco-standard far ahead of where society is willing to go. The Green New Deal played this role by shocking the complacent and moderate sectors of public opinion. In the short term, the impact led many to reject its outlandish proposals immediately. The term Green New Deal became so toxic that even Democrats avoided its use. However, the mesmerized center has gradually moved toward this fixed standard of extremism and accepted many of its basic tenets.
“Moderate” Democrats like Joe Biden ran on a platform that denied support for the Green New Deal. He deemed it too radical and proposed lesser measures to attract voters. The left uses this strategy when it perceives its proposals are not popular. This ploy reveals the weakness of the left that must always hide its true intentions from the public.
Footage from a Vaccinate New York event shows a young man singing a cringe-inducing parody jingle promoting the Covid-19 vaccine.
In the video circulating on social media, a young man sings a song about NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci in the style of the 1954 hit by the Chordettes, “Mr. Sandman.”
In another cringe-worthy video, a social media influencer takes Queen’s classic, “Killer Queen,” and swaps out the lyrics to create another disgusting pro-vaccine parody.
Our latest parody!
“Get your vaccine” (Queen – Killer Queen) #GetVaccinated
Tech firms block users sharing critical stories about her
Tech moguls who made their fortunes from Facebook, Twitter and Netflix have donated at least $7.5 million to groups tied to BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who has in turn publicly backed their policy goals, according to a new report.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and Patricia Ann Quillin, the wife of Netflix’s billionaire CEO, all gave generously to Cullors’ PAC and associated charities, according to the New York Post.
Cullors for her part has strongly advocated for ‘net neutrality’, a policy that financially benefits online content providers such as Netflix and social media sites.
And the cozy relationship has even seen Facebook and Twitter censor perceived criticism of Cullors, with Facebook going so far as to block users from sharing a DailyMail.com article detailing a controversy over her expensive real estate holdings.
Of the donors named by the Post, Moskovitz his wife Cari Tuna have given the most generously, donating more than $5.5 million from 2017 to 2020, according to public records cited by the Post.
Moskovitz, 36, was one of the co-founders of Facebook. He left the company in 2008, but retained a 2 percent stake that puts his net worth at nearly $20 billion.
America’s top general in Afghanistan said Sunday that the U.S. military has already begun closing down operations in the country in preparation for a full withdrawal.
“All of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,” Army Gen. Austin Miller told Afghan journalists at a press conference in the capital, Kabul.
Miller added that the official notification date for the withdrawal would be May 1, but added that “as we start taking local actions, we’ve already begun that.”
The general told reporters that he is often asked whether Afghan security forces can do the work in the absence of U.S. and other foreign troops.
“My message has always been the same. They must be ready. They must be ready,” Miller said, according to RFE/RL.
Have you heard of Critical Race Theory? If you haven’t, you will. It’s coming to a high school, college, or workplace diversity training session near you. What do you need to know about it, and what can you do to stop it?
