Idaho MassResistance: Help Pass H 666 and H 675

 

There are two house bills that are stuck in the Senate State Affairs Committee. We need your help to bring them to a vote!   A bill has passed the Idaho house to remove protections for libraries and schools for displaying indecent, inappropriate and sexually explicit materials to children. Currently Idaho state law prohibits disseminating materials harmful to minors with several exceptions. Among the exceptions are: "The defendant was a bona fide school, college, university, museum or public library, or was acting in his capacity as an employee of such an organization or a retail outlet affiliated with and serving the educational purposes of such an organization."   This exception has been used by schools and libraries to provide sexually explicit books to minors claiming that they are protected by this exception and that the materials are simply biology.   Click here for a video from Representative Heather Scott that explains what this bill is about.   Here are some talking points that you can use in your emails. ·         Some will argue that repeal of the obscenity exemption is “anti-LGBT.” The truth is that repealing this exemption is pro-child and pro-parent. Why are LGBT groups so determined to push sexually explicit images onto children in the schools and in the libraries?   ·         If an adult showed any of these terrible books to children walking on a sidewalk, he or she would be arrested. But because of this terrible exemption, these same adults can show this terrible stuff to children in a school or a library without any consequences. That is wrong! We need to protect children in all settings, including libraries and schools.   So-called free speech activists and libertarians will contend that there is no legal precedent for removing obscene materials from schools or libraries. That is not true:   a.      Evans-Marshall v Board of Education: ·         https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/10a0334p-06.pdf ·         In Evans-Marshall v. Board of Education of the Tipp City Exempted Village School District, the 6th Circuit Court ruled unanimously that "[t]eachers have no First Amendment free-speech protection for curricular decisions they make in the classroom.”   b.      BOARD OF EDUCATION v. PICO(1982) ·         https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/457/853.html ·         Pervasively vulgar books may be excluded from public schools.   c.      Miler v. United States (1971) ·         https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-73   ·         "[t]he basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: ·         whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards' would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest. . . ·         whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and ·         whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."   Email the members of the committee and let them know that you want them to remove this exemption. In the subject line of the email write: Vote YES on House Bill 0666   In addition to this bill, House Bill 0675 which bans transgender surgeries for minors is also stuck in the Senate State Affairs committee. There is no reason what-so-ever for minors to be able to get these surgeries without parental involvement. Here are some talking points that you can use in your emails to the Senators on this bill:   1.      Puberty Blockers and Cross Sex Hormone treatments create irreversible effects on children. Contrary to the talking points of LGBT activists, the damage down to minor’s hormones, physical development, and even their mental health capacities diminish permanently. Sex Change Regret is real. Do not discount the voices of those who have detransitioned:   https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/02/11/transgender-debate-transitioning-sex-gender-column/1894076002/   2.      96% percent of children who struggle with gender dysphoria resolve their issues after the natural course of puberty. Don’t take away from those children the chance to grow up into healthy adults who can start families on their own.   3.      Researchers confirm that transgender treatment does not treat or remove suicidal ideation, but actually makes it worse. In one Swedish longitudinal study, the suicide rate reached 41%, and these staggering numbers occurred in one of the most LGBT friendly countries in the world.   Email the members of the committee and let them know that you want them to protect children from genital mutilation. In the subject line of the email write: Vote YES on House Bill 0675

 

Chair Patti Anne Lodge Vice Chair Jim Guthrie Chuck Winder Kelly Arthur Anthon Mark Harris Abby Lee Lee Heider

PALodge@senate.idaho.gov JGuthrie@senate.idaho.gov CWinder@senate.idaho.gov KAnthon@senate.idaho.gov MHarris@senate.idaho.gov ALee@senate.idaho.gov LHeider@senate.idaho.gov

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More Trouble in Torrance Unified: Shawna Leader

Torrance teachers are turning into a troubling bunch, indeed.

More parents are telling me about another bad teacher, this time at J. H. Hull Middle School:

Shawna Leader.

A number of parents and students have shared with me the following about this lady:

1. She has a GAY Pride flag flying in her classroom--this is abusive, viewpoint discrimination, and promotes a destructive, corrupt set of behaviors in the classroom.
2. She has been pressing students to choose their own gender, and this corrupt identity process has created cliques and conflicts in the classroom.
3. She has made numerous racist remarks, such as: "Most white people are bad, but I am not bad," and "Most black people are good." 
4. She has been promoting gang activity and gang affiliations to students in the classroom. She thinks that that gang membership is acceptable because it's a "cultural thing." 

Why are Torrance teachers getting away with all of this corruption?

Why should Torrance students be forced to put up with this garbage?

This is outrageous conduct coming from Shawna Leader, and I have shared about this abusive conduct from other teachers in the district, as well.

What is it going to take to put an end to this betrayal of trust in Torrance classrooms?

Please contact Hull Middle School Administrators and demand that they remove this teacher right away from the classroom:

Hull Middle School: (310) 533-4516

Principal, Patty Girgis: girgis.patty@tusd.org

Asst. Principal Kimberly Lee: lee.kimberly@tusd.org

Teacher: Shawna Leader: leader.shawna@tusd.org

Superintendet: Tim Stowe: stowe.tim@tusd.org

Director, Secondary Schools, Ben Egan: egan.ben@tusd.org

MassResistance Chapter Leaders Pressure State School Boards Association to Leave NSBA

MassResistance chapters in three states successfully forced their state to exit from odious National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Prompted by NSBA’s infamous letter to Joe Biden labeling concerned parents as “domestic terrorists.”

Grassroots pressure finally pushes hesitant public officials.

March 18, 2022

 Outraged parents organized by California MassResistance at their School Board meeting in Anaheim, CA.

In September 2021, headlines across America spotlighted a letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to Joe Biden.

The letter was a hysterical reaction against parents across the country who had gone to their local School Board meetings to express outrage over “Critical Race Theory” indoctrination, COVID lockdowns, and the “transgender” agenda being pushed into their children’s classrooms.

The NSBA letter labeled the outspoken parents “domestic terrorists.” It accused them of bringing “extremist hate,” “threats,” and “acts of violence” against School Board members at the meetings. The NSBA implored Biden to direct the FBI, US Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies to coordinate and direct their energies against this “crisis affecting America’s public schools.” This grandiose act was clearly meant to intimidate and silence any meaningful dissent.

Background – What was behind this excessive reaction?

Originally, the state school boards associations were set up to lobby state legislatures on behalf of the local school boards – and the public – to fortify the public schools. It was a counter to the lobbying arm of the state teachers’ unions. The National School Boards Association was set up to lobby Congress, countering the national teachers unions’ and the federal Dept. of Education.

But in recent decades, both the state and national school boards associations have become what the American Library Association is to libraries: an organized force to push hard-left ideology. The associations stand in opposition to most parents and propagandize local school board members. They push all the latest leftist ideologies through their recommended policies and training sessions. Their lobbying efforts are now very similar to the teachers’ unions.

State associations pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in dues and other fees to the NSBA each year.

Parents across America react to the NSBA letter

Parents across America were furious about NSBA’s letter and let their local public officials know it. A number of state school associations issued letters distancing themselves from the NSBA letter. Within three months, 19 state organizations broke away from the NSBA entirely.

But after the initial surge of states breaking away, other states dragged their feet on taking any substantive action.

MassResistance gets involved

In December 2021, our Organization Director Arthur Schaper met with chapter leaders of several of our state MassResistance groups. Our Arizona leader said that more needed to be done about the NSBA’s action against parents. The leaders decided to concentrate on eleven states to generate grassroots pressure to force their break from the NSBA.

When first contacted, some of those state school board associations responded positively, some negatively, and some not at all.

We were most surprised when a member of the Texas Association of School Boards had a long (and very disturbing) discussion with Arthur Schaper defending Critical Race Theory and the “need” to push it on young children.

On the other hand, the executive director of the Nebraska Association of School Boards told Arthur, “We want to meet with parents and work this out.” It was a good start.

But we kept pushing hard. By late February – after just two months – our efforts helped get three states to leave the NSBA:

Idaho

On Oct. 13, 2021 (two weeks after the NSBA letter), the Idaho School Boards Association (ISBA) wrote a letter somewhat distancing itself from the NSBA. (But it still echoed the NSBA’s obnoxious rhetoric, called out “the disruptive and – at times, frightening – behavior that has shown up in school board meetings in Idaho and across the country.”)

Then on Oct. 26, 35 Idaho state legislators signed a letter urging the state association to break away.

But nothing was happening, so Idaho MassResistance began contacting the ISBA. On Oct. 28, the Deputy Director of the ISBA sent an email responding to one of our Idaho MassResistance activists and Arthur Schaper. He said that the ISBA intended to continue to work with the NSBA – “to make NSBA better and to ensure our national association continues to represent states like ours.”

Idaho MassResistance activists across the state got to work. They appealed to their local School Board members to contact the ISBA and also repeatedly contacted the ISBA themselves – demanding that they sever ties with the national organization.

The pressure worked! On February 21, 2022, the ISBA announced that they were severing ties with the NSBA!

Arizona

In December, at least one Arizona school district voted to leave its state association, the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA), because it continued to be a member of the NSBA. According to news reports, the ASBA had insisted that the NSBA “had apologized” for the letter and so it was not necessary to sever ties.

Our Arizona MassResistance group contacted the fiery parents group in the Vail Unified School District, and together they conducted a vigorous campaign to get the ASBA to change its mind. On Feb. 16, the ASBA announced they were quitting the NSBA.

While ASBA has left the NSBA, the we’re still monitoring them for bad policies disseminated to its local school boards. For instance, see its webinar, The State of LGBTQ Education in Arizona (2019, still posted). Furthermore, much of the content sent onto the local school boards is hidden from the general public; that needs to change.

West Virginia

The West Virginia School Board Association (WVSBA) was dragging its feet, apparently hoping the issue would go away. Starting in December 2021, our West Virginia MassResistance chapter began contacting the WVSBA, demanding that they leave the NSBA.

It definitely got their attention! On February 26, we received this email from our WV Chapter leader:

Yesterday, I received another letter from Gus Penix, who is president-elect of WVSBA. In the letter he wrote, "I am writing in response to your communication dated Jan. 28, regarding the WV School Board Association's (WVSBA) affiliation with the NSBA. On Saturday, Feb. 19, at our Delegate Assembly meeting in Charleston, the WVSBA voted to disaffiliate from the NSBA."

The WVSBA website confirms: “Delegates to the West Virginia School Board Association FY23 Annual Business Meeting (ABM) voted unanimously February 19, 2022, not to join the National School Boards Association in FY23.” 

More to come!

We are still working hard on Nebraska, Delaware, New Jersey, and other states.

Final thoughts

These victories are long overdue – and just the beginning of the work that needs to be done. It’s time for every state school board association to disaffiliate from NSBA, or for local school boards to resign from their state groups if they do not!

But whether or not a state school board association has cut ties with the national association, citizens still need to be closely monitor it. Many of these associations (even in “conservative” states) are still pushing the LGBT and CRT agendas to their local school boards!

In early 2020, MassResistance drafted an expansive exposé on the national and state school board associations, which unfortunately we didn’t get around to publishing. Given the current circumstances, we plan to update it and publish it soon.

   

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"Conservatism" is Dead: Dave Rubin Celebrates Stealing Children, and PragerU Congratulates Them

 We can and must do better than conservatism, if this is what conservatism amounts to?

It’s true. All of it. pic.twitter.com/IV4rUIn13j

— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 16, 2022

Dave Rubin abuses his body with another man. And now these two men are stealing children away from their biological parents so that they can virtue signal what a happy, stable "Gay couple" they are. The truth is that they are a false couple. Two men can never be married, and they cannot be suitable parents as partners. Children need a Mom and a Dad. This surrogacy scam is a deceptive email. This is pre-eminent selfishness at its worst. And to add insult to injury, PragerU celebrated this nonsense!

Congrats @RubinReport! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/ZtOyWYzjN5

— PragerU (@prageru) March 16, 2022

What is there to be congratualtory about? What gives? This is shameful! It is a worthwhile question to start pushing out there: what have these so-called conservative non-profits actually conserved? We need to put a stop to this "Speedbump to Socialism" fecklessness. What is the best way to deal with these fake conservatives, though? Stop giving them money. Stop giving them our time. Stop giving them attention and promotion. Simple as that.

Christopher Rufo: The War on Innocence

 Christopher Rufo talks about the ongoing War on Innocence across the United States, which is happening beacause of the Critical Racist Theory and LGBT push in the public schools.

Check out his latest report on fighting this Cultural Marxist rot:

THE WAR ON INNOCENCE A Kentucky summer camp teaches "sex liberation," "BDSM," and "self-pleasure," to minors.  The principles of queer theory have escaped from the college campus and made their way into a summer camp for children in rural Kentucky. Last year, a nonprofit coalition called Sexy Sex Ed organized a series of “Sexy Summer Camp” events targeted toward minors that included lessons on “sex liberation,” “gender exploration,” “BDSM,” “being a sex worker,” “self-managed abortions,” and “sexual activity while using licit and illicit drugs.” The program is the brainchild of Tanya Turner, who calls herself a “femme, fat, queer, magical pleasure worker” who was raised by “a host of witchy women” in a “coven-like mountain matriarchy” and uses “crystals,” “sex toys,” and “tarot” in her teaching. She founded Sexy Sex Ed in 2012 and has run dozens of events across the Appalachian region, recruiting LGBTQ youth and working with a number of regional philanthropies, including the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, Southern Power Fund, Chorus Foundation, and Rise Healthy for Life, which is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist church. According to the organization’s promotional materials, the purpose of Sexy Summer Camp is to teach “teenagers and people of all ages to openly discuss personal and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy.” These euphemisms, however, obscure the true mission of the camp’s programming. The agenda for last year’s events, which I have obtained from the organization’s publicly available calendar, reads like the syllabus from a radical queer theory seminar. The sessions included “Sex With Me Self-Pleasure Workshop,” “Gender Diversity,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Sexy Trans Sex Ed,” “The 3 P’s: Pee, Poop, and Pleasure,” “Sex on Drugs,” and “Eugenics in Appalachia.” The biographical details of the instructors reveal even more about the camp’s political orientation: one describes herself as a “radical queer mountain woman” who loves “social justice”; another calls herself a “young, nonbinary queer” who “spends time co-facilitating sex education workshops for fellow Appalachian youth”; a third identifies as a “young, fat, differently-abled, queer community organizer” who is “fighting for inclusivity for people like her.” Such a program would hardly cause a stir on the campuses of Oberlin or Barnard, but Sexy Sex Ed is hosting its programs in a deep-red state and recruiting children as young as 13 to discuss graphic sexual practices with the instructors and adult co-participants in their thirties and forties. The camp organizers have admitted that they target vulnerable youth, including foster children, who are at high risk of sexual abuse. In one video, founder Tanya Turner says, “Masturbation is really healthy, and I recommend it to people of all ages. All ages. As soon as my nephews could talk, they were doing that.” In a saner world, these statements and materials would all be red flags. Yet Sexy Summer Camp has received lavish praise in the media. Yes! magazine told readers that the program “helps rural young people feel more comfortable discussing their bodies, sex, and reproductive health to empower them to advocate for themselves.” CNN reported that Sexy Sex Ed is “what women in Appalachian Kentucky really want,” framing the summer camp as a way to “bring honest conversations to young people to fill the void left behind by homes and schools.” Programs like Sexy Summer Camp are unfortunately becoming more common in the United States. Another organization in Indiana was recently exposed for hosting a camp for children as young as eight that featured an instructor who encourages children to explore “gender identity,” “kink,” and “condom demonstration[s].” Activists have tried to launder this type of material into schools and nonprofit programs through the guise of “comprehensive sex education,” another euphemism that might lull the public into complacency. Parents should proceed with caution: summer camps, which once taught archery, fishing, and hiking, might now be teaching kink, polyamory, and BDSM. Before making summer plans for their children, families should take a close look at the curriculum and make sure it does not look like that of the Sexy Summer Camp in Kentucky. Originally published in City Journal. P.S. My work on critical race theory is shaping the national agenda. Please support it with a $5 or $10 monthly contribution here. Share Tweet

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Why Does Idaho State Senator Patti Anne Lodge Support Child Sex Mutilation and Obscenity in Libraries?

  The Idaho State House passed two great bills by wide margins two weeks ago:

1. H 666, legislation that would repeal the obscenity exemption in state code, which unscrupulous school staff and library staff have used in order to push pornography and obscene material on children.

2. H 675, legislation that would ban the horrific practice of sexual mutilation of minors, chemical castration and surgical mutilation.

These bills will save children's lives. These bills will preserve children's health and well-being.

No library, no school should be pushing sexually explicit, perverse materials on children. There is no excuse for horrendously explicit materials like the pages in GenderQueer  or This Book is Gay to be available to children--or to anyone!--in public libraries or public schools.

And yet, there is one major roadblock to these bills getting passed into law in the state of Idaho:

Her name is Patti Anne Lodge.

She is the state senator in charge of the State Senate State Affairs Committee.

She has been receiving all kinds of false emails and phone calls from "trans" parents throughout the state for the last two weeks. Most of these "parents" are not really parents, anyway, since LGBT activists have gotten very good at lying to legislators, giving the impression that they are trying to prevent their "trans-kids" from committing suicide.

Two weeks ago, Senator Lodge and her colleagues were ready to host hearings on H 675. Now, all of a sudden, she is getting cold feet? What's going on here?!

Why does Senator Lodge think that mutilation of a child counts as "health care"? Does she really think that hysterical parents getting swept up in social media social contagion have all the answers? And why is she ignoring the numerous testimonies of men and women who have left the whole "transition" cult? March 12th was De-Transition Day around the world. More men and women are coming out of "coming out," and it is time to listen to those voices.

Intellectuals, scholars, entire countries are discourage this horrific practice of "gender modification" of minors. Why is she ignoring the science, and the scientists? It's time for Senator Lodge to put the needs of children first!

She has also been receiving emails from corrupted librarians throughout the state, throughout the country, all of which are telling her not to grant a hearing on H 666.

Why does she think that sexually explicit material should be around children? If any adult were to take vulgar books like the ones mentioned above and show them to children on the sidewalk, they would get arrested. But for some sick reason, the same adult could showcase the same books in a public school or a public library, and nothing would happen to them!

Does this make sense? Shouldn't children, who are a captive audience in most public schools, and who expect some degree of safety in public libraries, be spared from such horrendous smut? It is not just the responsibility of parents to guide their children, but adults with a status of trust in the community must take the lead and keep perverse, damaging materials away from children.

The sad fact is that too many librarians right now have been indoctrinated with "free speech means anything goes" mentality, all of which comes from the krypto-marxist American Library Association. They are committed to pushing all kinds of filth on children, despite their pretenses to the public.

And right now, Senator Lodge is supporting these efforts. Why is Senator Lodge OK with obscenity in public libraries? Why does she think it is OK for library and school staff to push sexual perversion on kids? This is wrong! What kind of legacy is she hoping to leave for her family, for her community?

Contact Senator Lodge NOW and tell her to grant a hearing for H 666 and H 675. There is no excuse for her to be allowing the ongoing and abuse and destruction of children to take place in the Gem State. What kind of woman would want to leave such a horrific legacy for her tenure in Boise?!

PALodge@senate.idaho.gov

District 11

11th term

PO Box 96, Huston, ID, 83630

Home (208) 459-7158

Statehouse (208) 332-1320 (Session Only)

Idaho Governor Brad Little: Big Child Advocate or Big RINO?

Idaho Governor Brad Little is facing a strong primary challenge from the current Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin.

Governor Little has been a part of the Gem State political establishment for years, and it seems that he is more interested in making nice with the party bosses than doing what is best for Idaho's kids.

There are two key bills working their way through the Idaho State Legislature:

H 666: This bill will ban the obscenity exemption which has allowed unscrupulous staffers in schools and libraries to push obscene materials on children, without any consequence. Adults are not allowed to push obscene materials on children in the public square or in other government buildings. Why do adults get away with pushing such harmful, destructive material onto children in locations which are supposed to be a child's safest spaces outside of the home?

This bill is a no-brainer. Seven states, red and blue, do not have an obscenity exemption. Why should Idaho allow children to be harmed in the classroom or the library?

And yet ... Gov. Little says little to nothing about it. What is the matter with this guy?!

The other bill, which is also very important to protect children, is ...

H 675: This legislation will ban the horrific practice of so-called "gender modification" of minors, in reality sex mutilation of minors. Children are not allowed to drink alcohol, smoke, drive a vehicle, or enter into a contract.

And yet, there are unscrupulous business interested and disturbed parents who think it is acceptable to forcibly transition, in reality mutilate, children to try to make them the opposite sex. Yes, the LGBT lobby has thrown up a whole host of false sob stories to give the impression that so-called "transgender" children will commit suicide if they are not allowed to have their hormones ruined and their bodies butchered. But the truth is very simple: there are two sexes, and kids grow out of gender confusion naturally if they are allowed to grow up.

It's that simple.

The truth is that the sexual mutilation of minors will scar these poor children for life. They will be rendered sterile, unable to raise a family. They end up suffering renewed mental health issues, and in too many cases, the physiological and anatomical complications which ensue from those invasive surgeries is just too horrific to describe.

And yet ... Governor Little says little to nothing.

Why does Governor Little hate children in the state of Idaho? Why does he not want to do what is best for the kids in his great state? Mothers and fathers across Idaho want to end the corrupted obscenity exemption, which has protected perverts, predators, and pedophiles in public schools and public libraries. Parents across Idaho want to end the life-destroying

Call Governor Little's office and tell him to act like a BIG MAN and do what is best for Idaho's Kids!

We all know that the only reason the Idaho State Senate has even contemplated stalling and killing these bills is that Governor Little does not want to sign them.

Tell Little Brad to support H 666 and H 675 and demand that those bills come to his desk ASAP!

208-334-2100

governor@gov.idaho.gov

For more information, please contact

Idaho MassResistance:

(781) 474-3005

MassResistance Interviews Famed Pastor Art Pawlowski of Canada

 

Stunning MassResistance interview with Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski – internationally known pastor beaten and imprisoned by Canadian authorities

Arrested, fined, and jailed for speaking against government tyranny, and for “illegally” holding church services. Charged with violation of Canada’s infamous Covid restrictions and recent “emergency” acts.

U.S. Senator and others express outrage against his treatment

A long-time friend of MassResistance

March 4, 2022

VIDEO: MassResistance interviews Pastor Artur Pawlowski

This is one of the most insightful political interviews you will hear. During a visit to the U.S. last summer, Pastor Artur Pawlowski (left) described to Arthur Schaper of MassResistance what is happening in Canada – and to him. Since that interview, events have taken an even more sinister turn. He is now in prison in solitary confinement in Canada.

Pastor Artur Pawlowski is not your run-of-the-mill Canadian. He was born and raised in communist Poland and immigrated to Canada as a young man. For many years he has been the pastor of a church in Calgary, Alberta. He is known as an uncompromising Christian who feeds the poor and defends the God-given rights of the Canadian people. He has attracted the ire of the Canadian authorities for his ongoing exposé of totalitarianism as poison to the soul.

Pastor Artur first met up with MassResistance in 2018. In June that year, MassResistance was on the scene to document Pastor Artur joined local activists and MassResistance fiery speech outside of the Calgary Police Station where local activists had come to support pro-family activist Bill Whatcott (who was being taken into custody on the Orwellian charge of “anti-LGBT hate speech”). Later that year Pastor Artur hosted our Canada MassResistance chapter at a conference in his church. Since then, he worked with us to stop a ban on “reparative therapy” in Calgary and similar issues across Canada.

 Pastor Art addressing the crowd outside the Calgary Police Station supporting Bill Whatcott in 2018 [MassResistance video]

 Pastor Art (left) with Bill Whatcott and MassResistance researcher Amy Contrada, on the day Bill turned himself in at the Calgary police station.

Pastor Art gained international notoriety in 2021 when a video of him throwing a group of police out of his church went viral. They had come to halt a Passover service over clearly unconstitutional Covid rules. He also continued to feed the poor and homeless in violation of the Covid mandate. He was later arrested, imprisoned, and fined for keeping his church open and continuing to feed and minister to the poor through his street church. When released, the judge ordered Pastor Artur to include the government’s Covid narrative in his future church sermons! That totalitarian order was later thrown out after widespread outrage.

The latest international outrage

Pastor Art’s persecution by the government has continued. The latest outrage came in early February. He delivered a forceful speech and held a church service for the truckers who were protesting vaccine mandates and Covid restrictions with a blockade at the Coutts, Alberta border. In his speech, he told the truckers to “hold the line” and continue peacefully protesting.

 Pastor Art on a podium speaking to the truckers protesting at the border crossing.

The following day, police raided his home and arrested him. He was charged with “interfering with critical infrastructure” and “aiding and abetting mischief” under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act.

According to reports, he’s the only person ever arrested under that act! Rebel News noted on Feb. 28:

[T]hree additional charges stemming from incidents over the previous two years were piled onto the existing, and now nearly innumerable, charges that Artur is facing in what is quite possibly the most glaring legal witch hunt in Canadian History… Sadly, the courts are being wielded as political weapons instead of doing their jobs, which is to uphold the laws of the land, first and foremost being the Criminal Code of Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Here in the US, American Spectator observed:

Like a verdict from a Soviet show trial, the judge asserted out of thin air that Pawlowski’s blameless exercise of free speech “contributed to enormous economic harm to the local, provincial and national economy and substantial community harm to ordinary Canadians.”

Pastor Artur has been denied bail and held in solitary confinement since then at the Calgary Remand Centre, a holding prison for dangerous and violent criminals. (Largely ignored by Canada’s mainstream media, this incident was reported Canada’s alternative Rebel News.) And making matters worse, on March 2 his brother Dawid Pawlowski was arrested for charges that are yet unclear!

Pastor Artur being arrested at his home the day after speaking to the truckers.

U.S. Senator makes statement

This has shocked and outraged many people in the United States who fear that the Canadian government’s extremist approach to dissenters and Christians could come here. On Feb. 27, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) was asked for his reaction to Pastor Pawlowski’s arrest. He said,

The United States keeps a designation of nations that are religious liberty violators. I've called for Canada to be put on that list. And I think we should consider all of the options that are available for that.

 U.S. Senator Josh Hawley talking with Rebel News reporter about his reaction to the Pastor Artur Pawlowski situation.

Pastor Artur interviewed by MassResistance

Last June, Pastor Artur visited the U.S. for several weeks to warn Americans of the danger of creeping totalitarianism. He met with General Michael Flynn, Senator Josh Hawley, former Trump advisors, and various DC political leaders. He spoke at many churches and political gatherings. On June 26 when in Los Angeles, he sat down with Arthur Schaper of MassResistance.

It was a fascinating interview. (See video at top.) Pastor Artur talks about what has happened to him personally, what is happening to Canada, how things are changing for the worse, and why the world needs to pay attention.

He reminds us: The truth is like a pillar; it can stand on its own. But the lie needs to be supported by more lies, misinformation, disinformation, and tyranny – tyranny and fear –because it cannot stand on its own.

A few of Artur’s points in the interview:

• The leftists attacking us constantly have no substance; they don’t have any reasoning. So the only thing they can do is hate. Those people who talk about tolerance are the most intolerant people on earth.
• We are not dealing with officials who respect law and order. We are dealing with gangsters in uniform – like the Nazis and the Communists – who do whatever they want. The tactics they are using now are virtually identical to the tactics used back then [under the Nazis and Soviets].
• Why are Canadian people so “sheep-like”? The Canadian government has been implementing this repression for a very long time. They have been attacking the minds of the people for decades. The tactics are just like with the Hitler Youth: brainwashing; taking over universities and schools; taking over mainstream media; and the political arena. What they accomplished is to create an apathetic, uninterested, selfish, self-centered generation of people that don’t really know what’s going on. It’s easier to do this in Canada because we have a smaller population with many different ethnicities, and are more naturally divided.
• When my brother and I were recently imprisoned, the Calgary police were particularly brutal to us. We were in put in solitary confinement. We had to sleep on a concrete floor. Every half hour they would wake us up so we couldn’t get sleep. We were often stripped naked and searched. They would mock Christianity. They would steal my belongings and throw them into the garbage in front of me. They threw me against the wall, and said they would charge me with assaulting them. When we finally went to court they put chains on our legs.

Pastor Artur Pawlowski is an inspiration to all of us. If more clergymen were as principled, bold, and fearless as he, this would be a much better world.

   

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