We’re publishing another original essay today by Donald S. Siegel and Robert M. Sauer, two professors of social science, about what ordinary people can do to push back against what they call “the public health police state”. They believe a good role model is Artur Pawlowsky, the Polish-Canadian minister who saw off the police when they tried to shut down his Calgary church on Good Friday. Here is an extract:
Unfortunately, resistance to the Branch Covidians has been too passive. We are reminded of the famous scene from the Godfather, involving Johnny Fontane and Don Vito Corleone. Johnny Fontane was the godson of Don Vito Corleone and a famous singer.
In the scene, the whimpering Fontane is complaining to the Godfather about the studio head who will not give him a movie part that is ideally suited to him and will launch his film career. He whines to Don Corleone, stating: “Oh, Godfather, I don’t know what to do.” The exasperated Godfather takes him by the neck and screams the following: “You can act like a man!”
An example of such a real man is Artur Pawlowski, a Polish-Canadian minister based in Calgary, who has bravely defied the Government’s COVID-19 public health orders. In Calgary, as in other parts of Canada, the severity of coronavirus restrictions is matched only by the paucity of the virus. Artur became a YouTube sensation when he openly defied the police and the public health inspector when they interrupted his religious service on Good Friday, referring to them as “Nazis” and “Gestapo” and belligerently demanded that they leave the church. He was ultimately arrested by the authorities.
In our view, Pastor Pawlowski is the modern-day equivalent of Cardinal József Mindszenty, leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary, who came to represent uncompromising opposition to fascism and communism in Hungary. After WWII, Cardinal Mindszenty was jailed and tortured by the Communists and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial that was widely condemned in the West. Midszenty was ultimately freed and remains a potent symbol of opposition to Communism and a great example of resistance to the totalitarian repression of religious freedom. We need more religious leaders like Pawlowski and Midszenty to stand up to the public health police state. We also deeply admire the courage of the ultra-orthodox Jewish leadership in the U.S. and Israel for their enlightened opposition and vigorous civil disobedience.
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Think it’s been canceled.
Available at 12.09 am, 3/6/2021. Has it come back?
not yet – 12.44
Reninded me of this …
Excellent. Where can I get those stickers?
That looks like one of the White Rose group’s stickers. You can find them on Telegram.
https://t.me/jointhewhiterose
Thank you
The Churches in this country have become, much like Doctors / the NHS, and teachers lamentable parodies of the institutions they represent.
Bozo and Nut Nut were allowed a Catholic wedding in a Catholic church. She’s a scamp with at best a racy past and he’s a twice married, dirty dicked, philandering slut.
My wife and I were refused even a church blessing twenty years ago despite being from generations of catholics, Catholic school educated and church goers. Our sin? My wife to be had divorced her serially philandering tosser of a husband.
The Catholic Church has all but killed itself in this country with their Bozo love-in.
Bozo is a satanic genocidalist and the antithesis of true Catholicism…oh hang on – correction “marriage made in heaven” (pun intended) given the current Pope’s support for the NWO and Great Reset.
I’m not a god botherer in any sense at all.
But I feel for those who have invested in religion and are betrayed by their hierarchy in a totally egregious way.
As a neutral observer, I wondered idly why Welby was appointed A. of C. He seemed to have nothing to recommend him at all. You could respect Rowan Williams’s integrity and intellect, despite profound disagreements.
Having caught some of Welby’s recent pronouncements, I realise why. Given that the role is essentially one for the establishment, they really have their man in charge now.
Another stitch-up.
“He seemed to have nothing to recommend him at all.” There’s your answer, which you arrived at without me. 🤗
Betrayed by their hierarchy?! Surely there has only ever been one man at the top, since the beginning of time, the big cheese, top dog.
I believe that the Pope claims to have the direct ear of God and is basically his representative on earth?
So if you actually believe that God is in charge of all this then there’s really only one “person” to blame isn’t there? A benevolent being would not allow so much innocent human suffering.
It’s likely that he’s a Common Purpose graduate, as many in the Church are. I see little sign that he’s a man of God, anyway
God bless you, Huxleypiggles!
Thank you Susan.
Freedoms are not given they have to be taken, so what ever is required. A Ceausecu moment is required, with a similar outcome.
I fully agree!
I was on a work Skype call last week listening to some of the senior folk in the company talking about getting people back into the office. They were very pleased with all that had been done to get everything ready – one way system clearly marked, hand sanitiser available everywhere and a booking system for desks so that we have the right number of people in at one time. It’s all so reassuring. And you think to yourself – is no-one able to step back and see how utterly ridiculous is the way of life we are now prepared to accept and expect everyone else to do likewise?
And as well as all the restrictions on normal humanity, we have experimental vaccines being forced on us.
How on earth have we come to this? How is it that people I previously thought to be sane, rational men and women have accepted all of this without any questioning?
I think we need to set up a new, separate country somewhere in the world where we can live as normal human beings and let the rest continue with the madness they seem so comfortable with.
I have said it before and I will say it again: this has not just happened in the last 15 months. We have spent 30+ years accepting a steady erosion of freedom – all supposedly to keep us safe. Just take a look at cops strutting around with assault rifles and baseball caps instead of truncheons (always hidden) and custodian helmets for a stark symbol of what has happened to us. Then consider the deluge of new laws and manipulations (sorry “nudges”) and the splendid initiatives like Community Speed Watch designed to cause conflict and division.
I could go on, and on…
On the whole I agree with you – but Speed Watch? Part of a programme of deliberate social division? Come off it. We’ve had the Speed Watch people for years in my village and surrounding villages, and they succeed (at least while they’re there) in slowing down the traffic – and I have to say, without causing any local infighting! There’s something slightly sad about them – but agents of social unrest? Can’t see it.
The point is that they are dobbing in their neighbours. It stinks. It has set the precedent for doing the same thing in the pandemic. We have enough cops and enough cameras as it is without the cops recruiting useful idiots to do their jobs for them.
There was a time when religious leaders would protect their flocks and stand up for what they knew to be right even if it upset the powers that be. The most famous modern example is Martin Luther King: he paid with his life but inspired people to stand up for themselves.
If priests and ministers won’t stand up to to be counted, who will?
I find it interesting that standing up to the police state and committing acts of civil disobedience is equated with manliness. More and more now it is the women I see out and about who are better at doing this? Perhaps our bravery comes from the sex bias that we are less likely to be physically attacked for this? I do seem to see unmasked men in the media painted as thugs who just wanted to start a fight, and women as crazy and unhinged who must’ve temporarily taken leave of their senses and forgotten they’re supposed to constantly care for everyone else over themselves.
Well, many men have now been to a significant extent feminised by the wokerati, so there is a vacuum to be filled by masculinised women.
I notice there were some Nuns supporting the massive rally in London on the 29th of May. When you see this it makes you think, and that it really is time to stand up to this globalist tyranny, plain and simple.
The Judaeo-Christian West is under attack, spiritually, psychologically and physically. Resistance is not futile and it is now necessary, literally for our children’s sake.
Some months ago on here, I proposed the following: On June 27 the first Sunday after June 21 ALL Christians must attend their local church and do the following: NOT wear a mask NOT use the hand-sanitiser NOT engage in ‘Social Distancing’ DO sing out loud DO hug, kiss, shake hands, or whatever you NORMALLY do during the ‘peace’. This attracted a lot of favourable comment; one lady wrote to me privately and said she would be trying to implement this in churches in her area. I felt at the time (I didn’t believe Johnson’s ‘promise’ by the way, and still don’t) that this was a non-violent, but obvious form of civil disobedience and IF it were done on a mass scale, even the MSM could not ignore it. I proposed this to my Greek and Latin church groups, but the response I received would be charitably described as ‘cool’. In other words, they were NOT prepared to engage in this. Note, incidentally, that these are people studying the scriptures in the original language; they are not dim. I heard recently that Welby (for whom I have nothing but contempt) regretted closing the churches and he said that he regretted… Read more »
I fail to see how a figment of your imagination can do any of the things you expect- there is no god man, try a bit of intelligence as you are being lied to!
An excellent piece of writing.
Thank you huxleypiggles and thanks to the others for their warm remarks. Much appreciated.
I was not brought up in any faith, though I spent much time with quiet Christians & quiet Jews during my late teens. I secretly admired their certainty.
I have recently been giving as many interviews interviews to people with large audiences. These have mostly been in the US. The striking thing is the receptiveness of those of strong Christian faith. I asked why & the straight answer is that many see our current situation as Revelations. Having thought a little, who am I to disagree?
Well said God Bless. Take no notice of M Durans below we all have our beliefs, it’s what life’s all about.
Brits were the people who had and have it easiest to demonstrate their opposition.
The media is more objective/less socialist than elsewhere and critical information is widely available, masks could have been ditched by everyone and dissenters aren’t diffamated blanketly as Nazis as in Germany.
The article suggests “reining in qualified immunity” but does not explain how to do it.
Minecraft the lot of them
We don’t need symbols against communism. We need symbols against the fascist (fusion of corporations and government) war mongering state. Ah but we have those – Assange, Snowden, Manning.