lifesitenews--2020-12-01--FLASHBACK: Dr. Fauci claims masks don’t provide COVID protection, only help people ‘feel…better’

December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A video has resurfaced from nine months ago of U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci stating that masks do not provide the kind of protection against COVID-19 that people think they do and that they may only help in making people “ feel ” safe .
`` There 's no reason to be walking around with a mask , '' Fauci told CBSNews ’ 60 Minutes in a March 8 interview with chief medical correspondent for CBS News Dr. Jon LaPook .
“ When you ’ re in the middle of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet , but it ’ s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is .
And , often , there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face , ” said Fauci at that time .
Dr. Simone Gold of America ’ s Front Line Doctors tweeted on Nov. 30 a video clip of Fauci ’ s March comments , stating that “ for once , I finally agree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group of doctors have been critical of the government ’ s response to the coronavirus outbreak , a response that in the early days of the outbreak was partly fashioned by Dr. Fauci , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , who joined President Trump ’ s Coronavirus Task Force in January .
America ’ s Front Line Doctors have held various press conferences in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. over the past months highlighting what they say should be the proper medically-based response to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a press conference in October , characterized mask-wearing as “ completely irrelevant to blocking the … virus.
” “ The facts are not in dispute : masks are completely irrelevant to blocking the SARS-CoV-2 virus , ” she said .
The doctor encouraged citizens to do their own research about masks , stating that they would “ discover that prior to masks becoming political in March 2020 , there was never even an attempt at a pretense that masks , let alone bandanas , stop a virus .
It ’ s a complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ size of a hair.
” Dr. Gold cited the New England Journal of Medicine which acknowledged that “ masks serve symbolic roles ” and are also viewed as “ talismans that may help increase health care workers ’ perceived sense of safety , ” even though “ such reactions may not be strictly logical.
” Peer-reviewed research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine last month found that wearing a face-mask did not significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 .
“ The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among wearers by more than 50 % in a community with modest infection rates , some degree of social distancing , and uncommon general mask use , ” the study concluded .
Fauci has evolved over the months regarding his position on citizens wearing masks to fight COVID-19 .
He told NPR 's Morning Edition on July 21 that he has “ trust in the American people that if we put a strong emphasis on the importance of wearing masks , that we will come around and do that and get that percentage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people that are using masks.
” By October , Dr. Fauci had completely reversed course on mask-wearing , saying that it may be time to impose a nationwide mask-wearing mandate , something he termed “ universal mask-wearing.
” “ Well , if people are not wearing masks , then maybe we should be mandating it , '' Fauci told CNN 's Erin Burnett Oct. 23 .
“ There 's going to be a difficulty enforcing it , but if everyone agrees that this is something that 's important and they mandate it and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know , we 're going to mandate it but let 's just do it , I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly , ” he added .
Critics to mask-wearing have highlighted the totalitarian aspect of the mask mandates and have sounded the alarm that such mandates may have more to do with controlling people and conditioning them to accept such control than combating a virus from which the vast majority of those infected make an uncomplicated , 100 percent recovery .

PETITION UPDATE (8/27/2020)
Thank you for continuing to SIGN and SHARE this petition, which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse mandatory mask orders within their borders.
Facebook has restored the share link for this petition, saying that the decision to block it was a 'mistake...'
Please share with your Facebook friends, but we should all take heed of this warning: when an organization or individuals have to beg, plead and cajole just to express objective truths, it may be time to start looking for other social networking platforms.
Facebook needs to treat its users with respect, no matter their political persuasion. Moreover, Facebook needs to treat objective reality and facts with more respect.
One-size-fits-all oppressive government mask mandates must stop!
Healthy adults and children should not be forced - by the state - to wear masks when the risk of infection is low and the benefit of wearing a mask is highly questionable.
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PETITION UPDATE (8/25/2020)
Facebook is actively censoring this petition, saying that some people find it 'abusive.'
How anyone could find alternate facts about oppressive mask mandates 'abusive' is incredible...that is, impossible to believe.
This is exactly the kind of censorship which Big Tech is getting a bad reputation for.
The fact that Facebook calls differing opinion and objective reality "abusive" says a lot about Facebook and their agenda to silence reason and logic, not just conservatives and Christians.
But, people are more intelligent than Facebook give them credit for.
And, the more this continues, the more reasonable people will look alternate platforms to share their thoughts and connect with their friends and family. The more that happens, the less revenue Facebook will generate.
All of us have a decision to make, and the time is coming where we might have to tell our Facebook friends that we are moving to another platform.
We are encouraging people to continue SIGNING this petition and SHARING it via other platforms such as Parler and Gab, and to share the link below with your family and friends on Whatsapp, Telegram, Threema and Signal.
Thank you!
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One-size-fits-all oppressive government mask mandates must stop!
Healthy adults and children should not be forced - by the state - to wear masks when the risk of infection is low and the benefit of wearing a mask is highly questionable.
Please SIGN this petition which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse mandatory mask mandates within their borders.
Public health policies should be based on science and logic, not on the type of political posturing and virtue-signaling which led Joe Biden to recently call for a national mask mandate.
And, public health policies certainly shouldn't lead to a situation where more people could become sick.
But, that is exactly what these mandatory mask mandates are doing.
Here are four inconvenient facts about masks:
1) Masks** are largely ineffective at stopping the transmission of viruses.
The vast majority of masks worn by the public are made from material which cannot filter-out viruses because virus particles are too small to catch or obstruct. Wearing cloth masks to stop a virus is like putting a bee in a bird cage to keep it from flying away.
Wearing a mask for long periods of time ensures that the wearer has a warm and moist receptacle around his or her mouth, on which viruses and bacteria can land and accumulate.
Thus, masks are actually likely to have little effect in stopping the spread of COVID-19 acting as a barrier, but could actually make things worse acting as a receptacle.
2) Mandates which call for masks to be worn outdoors are both absurd and oppressive.
3) There are clearly documented hazards of wearing masks for long periods of time.
4) And, since school is on everyone's mind...
Notwithstanding the above information on the ineffectiveness of most masks against viruses, we don't know if asymptomatic children can even transmit the virus.
But, it was a reported in an article in the July 21, 2020 Uk Times that: "There has been no recorded case of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world, according to one of the UK government's leading scientific advisers."
And, we also know that children are extremely unlikely to get seriously ill or die from COVID infections. In any case, children cannot possibly be expected to wear a mask properly in a way that would cut transmission.
There are still a lot of unknowns about COVID-19, but we have grown in our understanding of this disease since the beginning of the crisis.
The knowledge we have gained should allow government and health authorities to make more nuanced policies than the current one-size-fits-all mask mandates.
Where are the legislative hearings in county commissions, and state, provincial or federal legislatures before these drastic actions are mandated? Where are the open and transparent debates among experts that provide our representatives with the necessary information to make good policy decisions?
The real pandemic is the panic and the resulting tyranny that is being caused by dictatorial governors, corporate media and the monopolistic Big Tech.
The truth is that COVID-19 is like a bad cold for most people; this is not ebola or the plague.
Of course, the very elderly and those with serious health conditions should take precautions or be quarantined, but the rest of society should begin the long process of returning to normality.
The frenzy to force everyone to wear a mask, at all times, has gone beyond all comprehension, and goes against science and logic.
Please SIGN this petition which asks policymakers at all levels of government to reverse any mandatory mask order within the borders of their county, state, province, or country.
Thank you!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
'Explosion in mandatory masking isn’t driven by science, but fear', PART I - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/explosion-in-mandatory-masking-isnt-driven-by-science-but-fear
'Explosion in mandatory masking isn’t driven by science, but fear', PART II - https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/explosion-in-mandatory-masking-isnt-driven-by-science-but-fear-part-ii
OSHA Document on Surgical Masks and Respirators stating that surgical masks do NOT prevent airborne particles (e.g. viruses) from being inhaled - https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3219.pdf
'PETER HITCHENS: Face masks turn us into voiceless submissives - and it’s not science forcing us to wear them, it’s politics' - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8537489/PETER-HITCHENS-Face-masks-turn-voiceless-submissives.html
**Here, we are referring to the masks worn by the vast majority of the public, not to specialist masks or respirator-type masks.
***Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com


lifesitenews--2020-12-01--Poland’s pro-life silent majority is encouraging, but there’s still reason for concern

December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Earlier this month , I spoke with Polish pro-life leader Jakub Baltroszewicz , who detailed how radical leftists were using the outrage over the Constitutional Court ’ s decision to ban abortion in the case of fetal defects or abnormalities to launch a progressive political revolution .
Abortion groups worldwide are trumpeting the protests as the fury of a repressed people finally venting in the streets , but there is more to the story .
As it turns out , the masses of protestors swarming churches and packing Poland ’ s major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) , reporting from Warsaw , “ the devout Catholic country is far from turning pro-choice.
” In fact , over the past several decades , Poles have become more supportive of restrictive abortion laws rather than less .
As Baltroszewicz explained , Poland adopted a strict abortion regime after the fall of Communism in 1993 , a church-state compromise that banned abortion in all cases except for rape , incest , when the mother ’ s life is in danger , or in the case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those abortions which the top court ruled unconstitutional .
But Adam Szostkiewicz , a political commentator , told AFP that the protests do not represent deep-seated dissatisfaction with a pro-life regime .
“ We ’ re seeing a surprising mobilisation of the younger generation in particular in these protests .
And in that group , support for a more liberal law is growing — but that ’ s not the majority .
The majority had been silent for years , holding the belief that if the Church says so and politicians don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s just how it must be.
” A poll by Kantar pollsters last month , the AFP reported , indicated that a mere 22 percent of Poles favor abortion on demand , while 62 percent believe it should only be legal in certain cases ( 11 percent favor a total ban . )
In part , sociologist Katarzyna Zielinski told the AFP , this is due to the fact that “ there was no sexual revolution in Poland .
On the contrary , we had a religious renewal , because the mobilisation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religion.
” Conversely , abortion rates were high under Communist rule .
Interestingly , in 1992 a full 47 percent of Poles believed that abortion should be illegal for financial reasons , as well — but by 2016 , only 14 percent of Poles still felt that way .
Despite the current narrative that Poland is rapidly becoming pro-abortion , the reverse has been true for a quarter century , with pro-life sentiment steadily growing .
Some commentators believe that the law has shaped these views , but it is difficult to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for new pro-life laws or vice versa .
As encouraging as Poland ’ s pro-life majority is , there is still reason for concern .
Vocal minorities can achieve legislative change through sustained protest due to the fact that silent majorities are just that — silent .
This is precisely how abortion was legalized in many countries around the world , and it is why the massive pro-life protests taking place across Latin and South America pushing back against abortion activists are so encouraging .
Politicians respond to pressure , and when only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get what they want .
Indeed , Poland ’ s panicked president has already promised the protestors that the constitutional court ’ s decision will be vacated .
It is time for the pro-life majority to speak up .
Jonathon ’ s podcast , The Van Maren Show , is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement .
In his latest episode , he is joined by Niamh Uí Bhriain , a national pro-life leader in Ireland and the head of the Life Institute , to discuss horrific new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , two years after the abortion referendum .
You can subscribe here and listen to the episode below :

Vocal minorities can achieve legislative change through sustained protest due to the fact that silent majorities are just that: silent.
December 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Earlier this month, I spoke with Polish pro-life leader Jakub Baltroszewicz, who detailed how radical leftists were using the outrage over the Constitutional Court’s decision to ban abortion in the case of fetal defects or abnormalities to launch a progressive political revolution. Abortion groups worldwide are trumpeting the protests as the fury of a repressed people finally venting in the streets, but there is more to the story.
As it turns out, the masses of protestors swarming churches and packing Poland’s major cities do not represent the silent majority. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), reporting from Warsaw, “the devout Catholic country is far from turning pro-choice.” In fact, over the past several decades, Poles have become more supportive of restrictive abortion laws rather than less.
As Baltroszewicz explained, Poland adopted a strict abortion regime after the fall of Communism in 1993, a church-state compromise that banned abortion in all cases except for rape, incest, when the mother’s life is in danger, or in the case of fetal anomaly — and it was those abortions which the top court ruled unconstitutional.
A poll by Kantar pollsters last month, the AFP reported, indicated that a mere 22 percent of Poles favor abortion on demand, while 62 percent believe it should only be legal in certain cases (11 percent favor a total ban). In part, sociologist Katarzyna Zielinski told the AFP, this is due to the fact that “there was no sexual revolution in Poland. On the contrary, we had a religious renewal, because the mobilisation against the communist regime was associated with religion.” Conversely, abortion rates were high under Communist rule.
Interestingly, in 1992 a full 47 percent of Poles believed that abortion should be illegal for financial reasons, as well — but by 2016, only 14 percent of Poles still felt that way. Despite the current narrative that Poland is rapidly becoming pro-abortion, the reverse has been true for a quarter century, with pro-life sentiment steadily growing. Some commentators believe that the law has shaped these views, but it is difficult to say if pro-life sentiment has been the impetus for new pro-life laws or vice versa.
As encouraging as Poland’s pro-life majority is, there is still reason for concern. Vocal minorities can achieve legislative change through sustained protest due to the fact that silent majorities are just that — silent. This is precisely how abortion was legalized in many countries around the world, and it is why the massive pro-life protests taking place across Latin and South America pushing back against abortion activists are so encouraging. Politicians respond to pressure, and when only one side is pushing, they often get what they want. Indeed, Poland’s panicked president has already promised the protestors that the constitutional court’s decision will be vacated.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: Stand with Poland for defending the unborn and churches against leftist aggression! Show Petition Text 3555 have signed the petition. Let's get to 4000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition Young Poles defending their church against pro-abortion aggression stemming from the decision of the country's Constitutional Court to protect the lives of sick unborn babies. Photo Credit: Polonia Christiana Since the Constitutional Court of Poland's decision on October 22nd to protect and vindicate the right to life of sick preborn children, leftist pro-abort feminists have been attacking churches, government officials and pro-lifers across Poland in a foul display of bloody-minded vulgarity. But, we STAND with Poland. And, we PRAY for Poland. Please WATCH this video which congratulates faithful Catholics in Poland for their pro-life example and for standing up to rioters trying to vandalize statues, churches. We now call on all pro-lifers, faithful Christians (especially in the Polish diaspora) and pro-life organizations to SIGN this petition to encourage pro-lifers in Poland, the Polish Constitutional Court, and especially the Polish Government to remain steadfastly pro-life right now. And we call on all faithful Polish Catholics to defend their churches and patriotic monuments! This is the time to keep faith with generations of Polish heroes and "Be not afraid!" This is not the time for the Government to give-in to demands from the opposition. Stand up against the people who are attacking your churches while baying for the blood of innocent preborn children! And, explain to your people how the Court was RIGHT to have challenged the abortion law allowing the barbaric practice of eugenic abortion. Poland is a republican democracy, and in such a democracy, the Constitutional Court has the last say on matters of national importance. The Polish Court has spoken, and its ruling should be respected and implemented. And, under no circumstances should the Polish Government promise to reverse this decision in law or by granting a referendum on the same. Poland, be courageous and stand fast for Life. Don't give in to the Culture of Death! Thank you for your example, Poland. Now, remain strong! And, thank you for SIGNING and SHARING this petition of support and solidarity with the Constitutional Court of Poland's decision to disallow eugenic abortion. Thank you also for standing with and praying for Polish pro-lifers and government officials to remain steadfastly pro-life during time of leftist, pro-abortion aggression. After you sign and share, could you also take the time to congratulate the Polish pro-life movement for their historic victory in defense of human life, and to offer emotional and spiritual support? Please contact: The Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture Jerzy Kwaśniewski, Esq., President
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It is time for the pro-life majority to speak up.
Jonathon’s podcast, The Van Maren Show, is dedicated to telling the stories of the pro-life and pro-family movement. In his latest episode, he is joined by Niamh Uí Bhriain, a national pro-life leader in Ireland and the head of the Life Institute, to discuss horrific new events in Ireland on feticide and infanticide, two years after the abortion referendum.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-01--Canadian church moves worship to highway after police stop parking lot service

STEINBACH , Manitoba , December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – A CA $ 5,000 fine given for holding in-person church services last weekend did not stop a Canadian church located in central Canada from defying COVID-19 restrictions again Sunday by holding a drive-in service .
The service ultimately had to take place on the road due to police blocking access to the church ’ s parking lot .
Located just on the outskirts of Steinbach in the Canadian province of Manitoba , the Church of God Steinbach ’ s “ illegal ” drive-in church service turned into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the parking lot , the pastor of the church , Tobias Tissen , forged ahead with the planned service , but had to do so from the side of the highway with a loudspeaker in the back of a truck .
He used the church ’ s Facebook page to give updates to his parishioners .
“ The property is now being barricaded by police .
We look forward to your support here shortly , ” wrote Tissen on Facebook .
According to a local CBC media report , over 100 cars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the church .
Tissen said in the CBC report of the event that he and his congregants “ were proud ” to stand for religious freedom , and that “ we ’ re all one human family and we ’ re made to come together to worship.
” “ Being alone at home and watching a virtual service does not replace worship , ” he added .
The Church of God Steinbach in advance had announced their planned Sunday service on Facebook , stating , “ We will be holding a drive-in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ God willing .
Yesterday evening , the Manitoba government deemed drive-in services to be illegal .
This worship service will be held in protest of these tyrannical edicts.
” The Christian community promised their drive-in service would be “ safe ” and not like parking lots at huge stores .
“ Tomorrow morning we will have the safest parking lot in Manitoba .
Keep your windows rolled up and stay in your vehicles.
” “ This won ’ t be like the parking lots of Costco , Walmart , and the government-owned liquor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no mistake , this is not about a virus.
” Sgt .
Paul Manaigre of the local RCMP detachment said that people were given the option of either defying the law to enter the church parking lot for the service , combined with having to pay a hefty CA $ 1,296 fine , or leaving the property .
At least one person was issued a fine after forging ahead to the parking lot .
“ Violating public health orders is an offence .
These orders are in place for everyone ’ s safety @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to congregate , and those directions supersede all other acts at this time .
Please stay safe and stay home , ” said Manaigre as reported in the CBC .
The Steinbach area Church of God was slapped just last week with a CA $ 5,000 fine for defying public health orders after they held an in-person service with over 100 people in attendance .
Tissen himself received two fines of $ 1,296 each for attending a protest and attending his church service , saying to those who ticketed him that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him receiving tickets .
“ Do you all realize that something doesn ’ t make sense here , that we ’ re talking about the constitution and you ’ re completely overriding it , do you realize that ?
Since when [ do ] mandates like these have more power and authority than the constitution that was written for the protection of Canadians ?
” asked Tissen in a video posted to the YouTube page of Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Aylmer Church of God on November 23 .
“ I just hope @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this is said and done , that you think about that , you ’ re enforcing something that goes against the constitution , please think about it.
” Hildebrandt himself was recently issued a ticket for attending an anti-lockdown protest in London , Ontario .
In a press release sent out last week , the Church of God at Steinbach wrote , “ The bible teaches Christians to be good citizens and obey the reasonable demands of our government.
” “ It does not , however , teach blind obedience to the authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedoms , ” the statement continued .
“ In fact , we are guaranteed the right to religious freedom and peaceful assembly in the Canadian Constitution.
” “ Subject only to reasonable limits .
We now find ourselves debating what constitutes a justifiable , reasonable limit.
” On November 12 , the Manitoba government , under Progressive Conservative Premier Brian Pallister , moved the entire province into the red “ critical ” phase of lockdown levels.
, which is currently the most restrictive and severe COVID-19 lockdown in Canada .
The local government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” and only “ provide services virtually.
” Before the “ critical ” lockdown level orders were enacted , regulations allowed churches in Winnipeg to operate at 15 percent capacity , with those in the rest of the province being allowed to be 20 percent full .
All social gatherings in Manitoba are not “ permitted , ” and only businesses listed as “ critical services ” can be open at 25 percent capacity .
This means that gyms , movie theaters , recreation centers , and museums are being ordered to close @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only , but schools remain open .
Today , the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms ( JCCF ) released a “ comprehensive Charter analysis of the Manitoba Government ’ s lockdown measures , ” going on to say that the Pallister government ’ s COVID-19 orders “ violate the Charter freedoms of citizens to move , travel , assemble , associate and worship , all while crippling society and the economy.
” “ The Province seems to have completely ignored the fact that Manitobans have Charter rights that protect their freedoms to assemble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves , ” said Allison Pejovic , a Winnipeg-based lawyer and a member of the Manitoba bar .
“ Manitobans are basically living under draconian restrictions .
They are being told that they can ’ t see their loved ones and friends , buy their children Christmas presents at the stores , and come together in worship during the Christmas season.
” Just recently , police in Winnipeg , which is Manitoba ’ s largest city and capital , put out a call to actively encourage its citizens to make use of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ large private gatherings .
Pejovic told LifeSiteNews at the time that the Winnipeg Police snitching policy is a “ dangerous road ” that could lead to a society where “ regular people are treated like criminals.
” “ It is a concern when the message to society is that individuals should take on a role that is normally reserved for law enforcement , and assist police in reporting their neighbors ’ behaviors , ” Pejovic told LifeSiteNews .
As of today , Manitoba has 9260 active COVID-19 cases and has attributed 312 deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Members of the Legislative Assembly , please CLICK HERE .

‘Being alone at home and watching a virtual service does not replace worship,’ Pastor Tobias Tissen explained.
STEINBACH, Manitoba, December 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – A CA$5,000 fine given for holding in-person church services last weekend did not stop a Canadian church located in central Canada from defying COVID-19 restrictions again Sunday by holding a drive-in service. The service ultimately had to take place on the road due to police blocking access to the church’s parking lot.
Located just on the outskirts of Steinbach in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the Church of God Steinbach’s “illegal” drive-in church service turned into a media spectacle.
Despite the police blockade of the parking lot, the pastor of the church, Tobias Tissen, forged ahead with the planned service, but had to do so from the side of the highway with a loudspeaker in the back of a truck. He used the church’s Facebook page to give updates to his parishioners.
“The property is now being barricaded by police. We look forward to your support here shortly,” wrote Tissen on Facebook.
According to a local CBC media report, over 100 cars were lined up on the highway leading to the church.
Tissen said in the CBC report of the event that he and his congregants “were proud” to stand for religious freedom, and that “we’re all one human family and we’re made to come together to worship.”
“Being alone at home and watching a virtual service does not replace worship,” he added.
The Church of God Steinbach in advance had announced their planned Sunday service on Facebook, stating, “We will be holding a drive-in worship service tomorrow morning at 9:30, God willing. Yesterday evening, the Manitoba government deemed drive-in services to be illegal. This worship service will be held in protest of these tyrannical edicts.”
The Christian community promised their drive-in service would be “safe” and not like parking lots at huge stores. “Tomorrow morning we will have the safest parking lot in Manitoba. Keep your windows rolled up and stay in your vehicles.”
“This won’t be like the parking lots of Costco, Walmart, and the government-owned liquor stores where people freely mingle. Make no mistake, this is not about a virus.”
Sgt. Paul Manaigre of the local RCMP detachment said that people were given the option of either defying the law to enter the church parking lot for the service, combined with having to pay a hefty CA$1,296 fine, or leaving the property. At least one person was issued a fine after forging ahead to the parking lot.
“Violating public health orders is an offence. These orders are in place for everyone’s safety. All citizens of Manitoba are directed not to congregate, and those directions supersede all other acts at this time. Please stay safe and stay home,” said Manaigre as reported in the CBC.
The Steinbach area Church of God was slapped just last week with a CA$5,000 fine for defying public health orders after they held an in-person service with over 100 people in attendance.
Tissen himself received two fines of $1,296 each for attending a protest and attending his church service, saying to those who ticketed him that “something does not make sense” about him receiving tickets.
“Do you all realize that something doesn’t make sense here, that we’re talking about the constitution and you’re completely overriding it, do you realize that? Since when [do] mandates like these have more power and authority than the constitution that was written for the protection of Canadians?” asked Tissen in a video posted to the YouTube page of Pastor Henry Hildebrandt of the Aylmer Church of God on November 23.
“I just hope that when you all leave, once this is said and done, that you think about that, you’re enforcing something that goes against the constitution, please think about it.”
Hildebrandt himself was recently issued a ticket for attending an anti-lockdown protest in London, Ontario.
In a press release sent out last week, the Church of God at Steinbach wrote, “The bible teaches Christians to be good citizens and obey the reasonable demands of our government.”
“It does not, however, teach blind obedience to the authorities when onerous restrictions are placed on our freedoms,” the statement continued. “In fact, we are guaranteed the right to religious freedom and peaceful assembly in the Canadian Constitution.”
“Subject only to reasonable limits. We now find ourselves debating what constitutes a justifiable, reasonable limit.”
On November 12, the Manitoba government, under Progressive Conservative Premier Brian Pallister, moved the entire province into the red “critical” phase of lockdown levels., which is currently the most restrictive and severe COVID-19 lockdown in Canada.
The local government ruled that all churches “must close” and only “provide services virtually.” Before the “critical” lockdown level orders were enacted, regulations allowed churches in Winnipeg to operate at 15 percent capacity, with those in the rest of the province being allowed to be 20 percent full.
All social gatherings in Manitoba are not “permitted,” and only businesses listed as “critical services” can be open at 25 percent capacity. This means that gyms, movie theaters, recreation centers, and museums are being ordered to close. Restaurants are allowed to offer take-out only, but schools remain open.
Today, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) released a “comprehensive Charter analysis of the Manitoba Government’s lockdown measures,” going on to say that the Pallister government’s COVID-19 orders “violate the Charter freedoms of citizens to move, travel, assemble, associate and worship, all while crippling society and the economy.”
“The Province seems to have completely ignored the fact that Manitobans have Charter rights that protect their freedoms to assemble, associate, worship, and express themselves,” said Allison Pejovic, a Winnipeg-based lawyer and a member of the Manitoba bar.
“Manitobans are basically living under draconian restrictions. They are being told that they can’t see their loved ones and friends, buy their children Christmas presents at the stores, and come together in worship during the Christmas season.”
Just recently, police in Winnipeg, which is Manitoba’s largest city and capital, put out a call to actively encourage its citizens to make use of COVID-19 “snitch lines” to call out large private gatherings.
Pejovic told LifeSiteNews at the time that the Winnipeg Police snitching policy is a “dangerous road” that could lead to a society where “regular people are treated like criminals.”
“It is a concern when the message to society is that individuals should take on a role that is normally reserved for law enforcement, and assist police in reporting their neighbors’ behaviors,” Pejovic told LifeSiteNews.
As of today, Manitoba has 9260 active COVID-19 cases and has attributed 312 deaths to the virus.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-01--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-12-01--Canadians must fight to regain freedoms lost by ‘insane’ govt COVID policies: anti-lockdown speakers

TORONTO , December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Canadians need to push back against “ insane ” government COVID-19 restrictions that are an unjustified suppression of individual rights and doing more harm than good , a number of speakers told a wildly cheering crowd at Queen ’ s Park last week .
As Ontario goes , so Canada goes , and that ’ s why he is spearheading the No More Lockdowns movement and organizing anti-lockdown rallies , which he hopes will catch on across the country , MPP Randy Hillier told the November 26 rally that drew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crowd banged pots and pans , waved signs with slogans such as : “ No mask , no vaccine , no communism ” ; “ We are all essential , ” “ Lockdowns make the rich richer and the poor poorer ” and broke into chants of “ Freedom !
freedom !
” and “ No more lockdowns !
” Hillier , an Independent MPP for the rural southeast riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston , was subsequently charged with violating the province ’ s Reopening Ontario Act for organizing and attending the rally .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order classifying Toronto and surrounding Peel region as of November 23 as “ grey zones , ” which have the most severe restrictions of the province ’ s five zones , including a limit of 10 people at outdoor organized public events or social gatherings .
Hillier is scheduled to appear in court January 7 , 2021 .
The penalty for a conviction runs from a minimum $ 10,000 fine to a maximum $ 100,000 fine and a year in jail .
He told Global News that he is looking forward to challenging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restrictions in court .
As well as Hillier , protest speakers included Lisa Bildy , a lawyer for the Calgary-based Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms ( JCCF ) ; Don Welsh , University of Waterloo professor of physiology and pharmacology ; Simone Jennifer Smith of Toronto Caribbean News , and Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo .
Bildy told the crowd that she was “ delighted to see so many Ontarians standing up for freedom and for democracy … the Charter is being sorely tested right now but you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become “ petty tyrants ” whose goal has moved beyond “ flattening the curve , ” to “ demanding that we lockdown until a virus is completely eradicated , ” she said .
Ontario has 14.4 million people , of which 115,000 die every year .
Since March , 3,500 Ontarians have died from COVID-19 , which is three percent of the province ’ s total annual deaths , said Bildy , noting that the average age of those who succumbed to the virus was 82 , while the life expectancy of Canadians @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3,500 COVID deaths since March more sad , or more tragic , than the other 111,500 deaths this year ?
” she asked .
Moreover , “ many of these 111,500 non-COVID deaths will be caused by lockdowns measures , such as suicides , delayed cancer diagnoses , missed surgeries , drug overdoses.
” At the same time , “ investigative reporting is rare , medical professionals who challenge the prevailing consensus are often be quickly sidelined , their videos taken down , their professional regulators called upon to punish them , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ busy ” and “ inundated with pleas for help and concern about government overreach from across the country since March , ” she told the crowd .
JCCF sued the Ford government on behalf of the Aylmer Church of God after Ontario police threatened to fine it for holding drive-in services .
The government then “ backtracked , ” and when faced with threat of further legal action , amended restrictions to allow churches to open to 30 percent capacity .
“ So they know that they can not justify these measures in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ JCCF has litigation pending in Manitoba and is “ going to branch out to other provinces.
” People need to contact their elected representatives , support the JCCF and “ work to change the hearts and minds of your fellow citizens to change , and to cherish our freedoms , ” Bildy said .
“ I ’ ll just leave you with this thought .
Liberty is easily traded away for safety and comfort , but the cost to buy it back is measured in blood.
” Despite dire predictions that COVID-19 would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flu , “ we learned very quickly that Cov-2 was not that threat but could be managed through standard precautions , ” Don Welsh , professor in physiology and pharmacology from the University of Western Ontario , told the rally .
It was also alleged that the population had no immunity to COVID-19 , a claim that was quickly disproved in “ 200 peer reviewed articles ” which documented that “ COV-2 is really not that special in the viral world .
It is reasonably average and honestly , a little bit uninteresting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laughter .
Also “ highly inaccurate ” was the assertion that “ healthy people were asymptomatic vectors , possibly super-spreading COV-2 to everyone ” and which led government to overly rely on testing “ the non-symptomatic or healthy public , ” using PCR testing that is “ not fit for purpose , ” Welsh said .
“ More distressingly , the public health community is starting to retreat and embrace what we call ‘ COVID-zero ’ policies , ” he commented .
“ This is a fantasy based on the belief that restrictions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ puritanical manner , can eradicate a respiratory virus .
This is simply not possible .
It has never happened in the history of humankind.
” With no “ firm grounding in science and evidence-based medicine , ” the actions of public health officials have become “ increasingly arbitrary ” and have led to the public ’ s loss of confidence in health officials , and to further arbitrary actions by government , which “ eats away at the democratic process , ” he said .
“ It ’ s not uncommon for scientists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangerous group-think , ” and abandon critical thinking for adherence to “ current dogma , ” and this is what is now “ impinging upon an effective COVID-19 response , ” Welsh said .
Ford should “ repopulate his scientific advisory panel ” and engage people outside the “ current narrow bubble , ” he suggested , to cries of “ Fire them !
Fire them !
” from the crowd .
The pandemic will end , but “ we as citizens should demand a full public inquiry into the COVID-19 ” response @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approval .
“ We want facts .
We don ’ t want emotion ” : journalist Simone Jennifer Smith of the Toronto Caribbean News urged the crowd to “ call out ” the mainstream media for uncritically parroting government talking points .
“ All that media pushes out right now is cases that are going up .
All they want to talk about is everything , but not facts , not things like the PCR test gets false positives ” or the danger of adverse effects of a COVID-19 vaccine .
“ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like CTV News … CP24 , Global , CNN , Fox , all of them , ” Smith said to cheers .
“ We want facts .
We don ’ t want emotion .
We want facts .
… We are inundated by news that is not for us , but is against us .
Stop the fear mongering.
” Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo , told the rally-goers that he supports “ every business that would open and defy these orders , ” pointing out that God decreed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and rest on the seventh .
“ You ’ ve got no right to tell people not to work , sir , ” he fired at the Premier Ford .
“ We are living under tyranny , ” Reaume added .
“ And I 'll tell you how we got here .
We as a nation have intentionally rejected the law of God.
” Michael Thiessen , pastor Grace Baptist Church in Alliston said that he and several other pastors attended the rally because “ we deeply believe that the liberties that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our identity in Christ and not connected to the government trying to be our parents.
” He was surprised “ at how many people still aren ’ t here , ” Thiessen told LifeSiteNews .
“ We ’ re nine months into this situation and we desperately need Canadians to be taking responsibility…and not pretending to need a nanny government to overreact for them.
” As for being in violation of “ grey zone ” restrictions , “ I do not see this as full civil disobedience , ” Thiessen observed .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the line for civil disobedience .
By coming together as an assembly , we are not actually breaking the law … we are contravening an order , ” he said .
“ What we are doing is expressing a legal right in a context that is speaking back to a government that is actually creating arbitrary laws.
” Sam Riolo told LifeSiteNews that he attended the rally because lockdowns need to stop.
” “ We ’ re just being suppressed by this government , ” he said .
“ Doug Ford really needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s doing to the people , to the economy and society in general.
” Sister Maria Francis Herrera said she came to the protest “ to show Canada that we are not in favor of all these lies that are going on about this coronavirus , ” she told LifeSiteNews .
“ We know that God is truth , the only truth , ” she said .
“ We are a free people .
We are made free , given this freedom by Almighty God to adore Him , to worship Him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should deprive us of this freedom , or any kind of freedom that we were made for.
” Ford “ is threatening to shut down Christmas , ” Pastor Reaume told the crowd .
“ I have a question for the premier of Ontario ...
If Christ were born in Toronto , and the three wise men came to visit , would that be an illegal gathering ?
Would you send the police after them like you did to that poor guy down in Etobicoke who ’ s serving barbecue ?
” Reaume @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name came up often during the protest .
Skelly was arrested the same day around noon for refusing to vacate his restaurant , Adamson Barbeque in Etobicoke , where hundreds of his supporters had gathered , as had dozens of Toronto police , a number of them on horseback .
The 33-year-old father of two had two days earlier openly offered in-house dining in violation of COVID-19 lockdown measures .
Following his dramatic November 26 arrest , Skelly was charged with 13 criminal and non-criminal offences , including obstructing police and trespassing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city officials and Toronto police changed the locks on the front door .
Skelly was released on bail Friday after spending a night in jail , reported Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington .
A GoFundMe campaign for a legal defense fund had reached almost $ 286,000 in donations by Monday .
Canadian province issues new COVID-19 guidance calling for ‘ no parties ’ this ‘ holiday season ’

The energized crowd banged pots and pans, waved signs with slogans such as: 'No mask, no vaccine, no communism'
TORONTO, December 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Canadians need to push back against “insane” government COVID-19 restrictions that are an unjustified suppression of individual rights and doing more harm than good, a number of speakers told a wildly cheering crowd at Queen’s Park last week.
As Ontario goes, so Canada goes, and that’s why he is spearheading the No More Lockdowns movement and organizing anti-lockdown rallies, which he hopes will catch on across the country, MPP Randy Hillier told the November 26 rally that drew an estimated 700 people.
The energized crowd banged pots and pans, waved signs with slogans such as: “No mask, no vaccine, no communism”; “We are all essential,” “Lockdowns make the rich richer and the poor poorer” and broke into chants of “Freedom! freedom!” and “No more lockdowns!”
Hillier, an Independent MPP for the rural southeast riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, was subsequently charged with violating the province’s Reopening Ontario Act for organizing and attending the rally.
The protest contravened Premier Doug Ford’s order classifying Toronto and surrounding Peel region as of November 23 as “grey zones,” which have the most severe restrictions of the province’s five zones, including a limit of 10 people at outdoor organized public events or social gatherings.
Hillier is scheduled to appear in court January 7, 2021. The penalty for a conviction runs from a minimum $10,000 fine to a maximum $100,000 fine and a year in jail.
He told Global News that he is looking forward to challenging the constitutionality of Ontario’s COVID-19 restrictions in court.
As well as Hillier, protest speakers included Lisa Bildy, a lawyer for the Calgary-based Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF); Don Welsh, University of Waterloo professor of physiology and pharmacology; Simone Jennifer Smith of Toronto Caribbean News, and Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo.
Authorities “petty tyrants” with “insane” goal: lawyer
Bildy told the crowd that she was “delighted to see so many Ontarians standing up for freedom and for democracy … the Charter is being sorely tested right now but you are giving it life!”
Authorities have become “petty tyrants” whose goal has moved beyond “flattening the curve,” to “demanding that we lockdown until a virus is completely eradicated,” she said.
“It’s insane.”
Ontario has 14.4 million people, of which 115,000 die every year. Since March, 3,500 Ontarians have died from COVID-19, which is three percent of the province’s total annual deaths, said Bildy, noting that the average age of those who succumbed to the virus was 82, while the life expectancy of Canadians is 81.
“So why are 3,500 COVID deaths since March more sad, or more tragic, than the other 111,500 deaths this year?” she asked.
Moreover, “many of these 111,500 non-COVID deaths will be caused by lockdowns measures, such as suicides, delayed cancer diagnoses, missed surgeries, drug overdoses.”
At the same time, “investigative reporting is rare, medical professionals who challenge the prevailing consensus are often be quickly sidelined, their videos taken down, their professional regulators called upon to punish them,” said Bildy.
“This is dangerous to a free society.”
JCCF is “insanely busy” and “inundated with pleas for help and concern about government overreach from across the country since March,” she told the crowd.
JCCF sued the Ford government on behalf of the Aylmer Church of God after Ontario police threatened to fine it for holding drive-in services. The government then “backtracked,” and when faced with threat of further legal action, amended restrictions to allow churches to open to 30 percent capacity.
“So they know that they cannot justify these measures in court,” she said. The JCCF has litigation pending in Manitoba and is “going to branch out to other provinces.”
People need to contact their elected representatives, support the JCCF and “work to change the hearts and minds of your fellow citizens to change, and to cherish our freedoms,” Bildy said.
“I’ll just leave you with this thought. Liberty is easily traded away for safety and comfort, but the cost to buy it back is measured in blood.”
Eradicating a virus “simply not possible”: professor
Despite dire predictions that COVID-19 would be as devastating as the 1918 Spanish flu, “we learned very quickly that Cov-2 was not that threat but could be managed through standard precautions,” Don Welsh, professor in physiology and pharmacology from the University of Western Ontario, told the rally.
It was also alleged that the population had no immunity to COVID-19, a claim that was quickly disproved in “200 peer reviewed articles” which documented that “COV-2 is really not that special in the viral world. It is reasonably average and honestly, a little bit uninteresting to study,” Welsh said to laughter.
Also “highly inaccurate” was the assertion that “healthy people were asymptomatic vectors, possibly super-spreading COV-2 to everyone” and which led government to overly rely on testing “the non-symptomatic or healthy public,” using PCR testing that is “not fit for purpose,” Welsh said.
“More distressingly, the public health community is starting to retreat and embrace what we call ‘COVID-zero’ policies,” he commented.
“This is a fantasy based on the belief that restrictions, if applied in some sort of puritanical manner, can eradicate a respiratory virus. This is simply not possible. It has never happened in the history of humankind.”
With no “firm grounding in science and evidence-based medicine,” the actions of public health officials have become “increasingly arbitrary” and have led to the public’s loss of confidence in health officials, and to further arbitrary actions by government, which “eats away at the democratic process,” he said.
“It’s not uncommon for scientists and health officials to trap themselves into dangerous group-think,” and abandon critical thinking for adherence to “current dogma,” and this is what is now “impinging upon an effective COVID-19 response,” Welsh said.
Ford should “repopulate his scientific advisory panel” and engage people outside the “current narrow bubble,” he suggested, to cries of “Fire them! Fire them!” from the crowd.
The pandemic will end, but “we as citizens should demand a full public inquiry into the COVID-19” response, he said to a roar of approval.
“We want facts. We don’t want emotion”: journalist
Simone Jennifer Smith of the Toronto Caribbean News urged the crowd to “call out” the mainstream media for uncritically parroting government talking points.
“All that media pushes out right now is cases that are going up. All they want to talk about is everything, but not facts, not things like the PCR test gets false positives” or the danger of adverse effects of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“I want us to be calling out places like CTV News … CP24, Global, CNN, Fox, all of them,” Smith said to cheers.
“We want facts. We don’t want emotion. We want facts. … We are inundated by news that is not for us, but is against us. Stop the fear mongering.”
Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, told the rally-goers that he supports “every business that would open and defy these orders,” pointing out that God decreed that man should labor for six days, and rest on the seventh.
“You’ve got no right to tell people not to work, sir,” he fired at the Premier Ford.
“We are living under tyranny,” Reaume added. “And I'll tell you how we got here. We as a nation have intentionally rejected the law of God.”
Michael Thiessen, pastor Grace Baptist Church in Alliston said that he and several other pastors attended the rally because “we deeply believe that the liberties that we have as Canadians are connected to our identity in Christ and not connected to the government trying to be our parents.”
He was surprised “at how many people still aren’t here,” Thiessen told LifeSiteNews.
“We’re nine months into this situation and we desperately need Canadians to be taking responsibility…and not pretending to need a nanny government to overreact for them.”
As for being in violation of “grey zone” restrictions, “I do not see this as full civil disobedience,” Thiessen observed.
“Christians are really struggling with what is the line for civil disobedience. By coming together as an assembly, we are not actually breaking the law … we are contravening an order,” he said.
“What we are doing is expressing a legal right in a context that is speaking back to a government that is actually creating arbitrary laws.”
“We are made free … by Almighty God”: nun
Sam Riolo told LifeSiteNews that he attended the rally because lockdowns need to stop.”
“We’re just being suppressed by this government,” he said. “Doug Ford really needs to wake up and see what he’s doing to the people, to the economy and society in general.”
Sister Maria Francis Herrera said she came to the protest “to show Canada that we are not in favor of all these lies that are going on about this coronavirus,” she told LifeSiteNews.
“We know that God is truth, the only truth,” she said. “We are a free people. We are made free, given this freedom by Almighty God to adore Him, to worship Him, to love Him. No one should deprive us of this freedom, or any kind of freedom that we were made for.”
Ford “is threatening to shut down Christmas,” Pastor Reaume told the crowd.
“I have a question for the premier of Ontario … If Christ were born in Toronto, and the three wise men came to visit, would that be an illegal gathering? Would you send the police after them like you did to that poor guy down in Etobicoke who’s serving barbecue?”
Reaume was referring to Adam Skelly, whose name came up often during the protest.
Skelly was arrested the same day around noon for refusing to vacate his restaurant, Adamson Barbeque in Etobicoke, where hundreds of his supporters had gathered, as had dozens of Toronto police, a number of them on horseback.
The 33-year-old father of two had two days earlier openly offered in-house dining in violation of COVID-19 lockdown measures.
Following his dramatic November 26 arrest, Skelly was charged with 13 criminal and non-criminal offences, including obstructing police and trespassing in connection with his entering the restaurant after city officials and Toronto police changed the locks on the front door.
Skelly was released on bail Friday after spending a night in jail, reported Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington. A GoFundMe campaign for a legal defense fund had reached almost $286,000 in donations by Monday.
Contact information:
Premier Doug Ford
Room 281
Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON M7A 1A1
Tel. 416-325-1941
Email:[email protected]
Website contact form:
https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/EN/feedback/default.aspx
Ontario MPP Contact information page:
https://www.ola.org/en/members/current/contact-information
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lifesitenews--2020-12-01--Evidence emerges that COVID tests are faulty. FDA and CDC admit as much

December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — “ Something extremely bogus is going on , ” billionaire Elon Musk tweeted two weeks ago , after he had received two negative and two positive coronavirus test results within a day .
In fact , even the U.S. government has admitted on multiple occasions that rapid tests for COVID have serious accuracy problems .
On November 3 , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) released guidelines for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing , acknowledging a high likelihood of incorrect results .
The letter stated that medical professionals “ should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even when very accurate tests are used for screening large populations with a low prevalence of infection.
” According to the FDA , the accuracy of rapid tests depends almost totally on the amount of COVID-19 in the population being tested .
“ As disease prevalence decreases , the percent of test results that are false positives increase , ” the FDA stated .
“ For example , a test with 98 % specificity ” would accurately screen “ just over 80 % in a population with 10 % prevalence.
” More than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be false positives , ” they said .
The FDA added that “ in a population with 1 % prevalence , only 30 % of individuals with positive test results actually have the disease.
” In an area with 0.1 % prevalence , positive results from rapid tests would be right merely 4 % of the time .
“ Health care providers should take the local prevalence into consideration when interpreting diagnostic test results , ” the FDA emphasized .
Prevalence rate of COVID has been recorded as low as between 0.0 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % in Pennsylvania , for example .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) recently estimated the prevalence rate in the New Orleans metropolitan area to be around 7 % .
The FDA detailed additional reasons for rapid testing inaccuracies , including cross-contamination and complications for processing samples in batches .
The federal government committed to the distribution 150 million rapid tests this year .
The CDC has echoed the FDA ’ s recommendations , noting that antigen tests “ are not 100 % accurate and some false positive results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Antibody test results should not be used to determine if someone can return to work ” or “ to group people together in settings such as schools , dormitories , and correctional facilities , ” the CDC stated .
“ People who receive positive results on an antibody test but don ’ t have symptoms of COVID-19 and have not been around someone who may have COVID-19 are not likely to have a current infection ” and should “ continue with normal activities , ” they said .
The CDC had issued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ predictive values are determined by the percentage of truly antibody positive individuals in the tested population ( prevalence , pre-test probability ) and the sensitivity and specificity of the test.
” The same month , a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology determined that rapid tests with 98 % specificity deployed in American schools could yield around 800,000 false positives every week .
In October , the Health Department of Nevada barred rapid tests in nursing homes after finding that at least 58 % of a sample of positive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health official cautioned that defective antigen tests pose particular risks for nursing homes residents , who could be “ in danger of contracting the virus ” by being confined “ to a room full of actual positive residents.
” The Department of Health and Human Services quickly pressured Nevada into rescinding the ban .
Concerns about the effectiveness of COVID tests extend beyond rapid antigen testing .
Another peer-reviewed article from August found that RT-PCR tests result in false negatives in up to 29 % of cases .
The CDC has touted PCR @ @ @ @ @ @ @ samples , as the “ gold standard ” of COVID testing methods .
Nevertheless , on November 17 , the CDC highlighted a study showing that screening for a single PCR test only caught 53 % of all positive cases of COVID in students returning home from college .
The FDA likewise blamed the method of PCR tests when health workers in Vermont discovered that only about 6 % of positive results from a sample of antigen tests were affirmed subsequently by PCR .
A team of American and British scientists also have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 63 % sensitivity , while PCR throat swabs have 32 % sensitivity .
The researchers denied that a “ gold standard ” for coronavirus tests exists .
The main PCR protocol for testing for COVID has come into question since the journal that published the original article failed for ten months to provide a peer-reviewed report .
At the end of November , “ an international consortium of life-science scientists ” submitted a letter demanding retraction of the paper , calling it “ severely flawed with respect to its biomolecular and methodological design.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ deemed PCR testing for the coronavirus to be unreliable .
Other legal challenges are pending in Germany , Italy , Switzerland , and South Africa , according to former Pfizer Vice President Dr. Mike Yeadon .
Writing for Lockdown Skeptics , Yeadon criticized mass PCR testing in the United Kingdom , warning of “ a severe risk of what we call a ‘ PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic.
’ ” Last month , a whistleblower exposed massive contamination risks in a major UK testing facility staffed with employees who had “ no experience with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” New reports of substantial COVID test issues have come as state governments across the country have enacted extreme restrictions on social activities in light of an alleged “ fall surge.
” Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo ( D ) decreed a “ social gathering limit ” two weeks ago , saying , “ you should not be spending time socially with anyone you don ’ t live with — this includes on Thanksgiving.
” Oregon implemented a “ Two-Week Freeze ” on November 18 , limiting at-home gatherings to six people , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” More than a dozen states are pursuing similar policies .
California re-instated a stay-at-home order , banned singing in churches , and recommended that families celebrate Thanksgiving outside .
Governor Gavin Newsom ( D ) energized an ongoing recall campaign against him earlier this month when he was pictured at a party in a high-end restaurant with the CEO of the California Medical Association .
Participants were not wearing masks and not socially distanced .
While governors have cited apparently unprecedented numbers of COVID cases and hospitalizations , the reliability of seemingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Along with the wealth of evidence attesting to failures of COVID testing , other studies have noted that the COVID death rate has dropped by 70 % since March and that total U.S. fatalities only have increased by 11,292 compared to 2018 .

Lockdowns around the world are based on rising numbers of positive test results, many of which are likely to be incorrect.
December 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — “Something extremely bogus is going on,” billionaire Elon Musk tweeted two weeks ago, after he had received two negative and two positive coronavirus test results within a day. In fact, even the U.S. government has admitted on multiple occasions that rapid tests for COVID have serious accuracy problems.
On November 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidelines for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing, acknowledging a high likelihood of incorrect results. The letter stated that medical professionals “should expect some false positive results to occur even when very accurate tests are used for screening large populations with a low prevalence of infection.”
According to the FDA, the accuracy of rapid tests depends almost totally on the amount of COVID-19 in the population being tested. “As disease prevalence decreases, the percent of test results that are false positives increase,” the FDA stated.
“For example, a test with 98% specificity” would accurately screen “just over 80% in a population with 10% prevalence.” More than “20 out of 100 positive results would be false positives,” they said.
The FDA added that “in a population with 1% prevalence, only 30% of individuals with positive test results actually have the disease.” In an area with 0.1% prevalence, positive results from rapid tests would be right merely 4% of the time.
“Health care providers should take the local prevalence into consideration when interpreting diagnostic test results,” the FDA emphasized.
Prevalence rate of COVID has been recorded as low as between 0.0%-1.79% in Idaho and 6.4% in Pennsylvania, for example. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently estimated the prevalence rate in the New Orleans metropolitan area to be around 7%.
The FDA detailed additional reasons for rapid testing inaccuracies, including cross-contamination and complications for processing samples in batches. The federal government committed to the distribution 150 million rapid tests this year.
The CDC has echoed the FDA’s recommendations, noting that antigen tests “are not 100% accurate and some false positive results or false negative results may occur.”
“Antibody test results should not be used to determine if someone can return to work” or “to group people together in settings such as schools, dormitories, and correctional facilities,” the CDC stated.
“People who receive positive results on an antibody test but don’t have symptoms of COVID-19 and have not been around someone who may have COVID-19 are not likely to have a current infection” and should “continue with normal activities,” they said.
The CDC had issued similar guidelines in August, which stated that “predictive values are determined by the percentage of truly antibody positive individuals in the tested population (prevalence, pre-test probability) and the sensitivity and specificity of the test.” The same month, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology determined that rapid tests with 98% specificity deployed in American schools could yield around 800,000 false positives every week.
— Article continues below Petition — PETITION: No to government and corporate penalties for refusing COVID-19 vaccine Show Petition Text 103183 have signed the petition. Let's get to 125000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition **Photo credit: Shutterstock.com Mainstream media sources are promoting offensive suggestions by some doctors that people who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 should be "punished" by the government and by business - effectively coercing them into taking the vaccine. One group of doctors writing in 'USA Today' suggested that the government impose special taxes (i.e., fines) on people who refuse the vaccination and that business simply refuse to serve them. [see story below]
Another doctor writing in an online publication called 'The Conversation' shamelessly suggested that people who refuse a vaccine should be given a psychoactive drug to induce compliance. [see story below] But, these suggestions are plain political posturing, and have nothing to do with science or with the recent trends of the disease. And, in case they haven't noticed, we live in a democracy not a medical dictatorship! Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks policy-makers and business people, at all levels, to pledge to respect the rights of those who, in good conscience, decide not to vaccinate themselves or their children. People should not have to live in fear of governmental or corporate retribution for refusing a vaccine which is being rushed to market by Big Pharma and their fellow-travelers in NGOs, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It would be intolerable and immoral for the government or business to coerce someone, and their family, to take a COVID vaccine against their will to avoid a fine, or just so they can do their weekly grocery shopping. Medical freedom must be respected in principle and also in practice. So, it is now time that our policy-makers listen to all voices involved in this vital conversation, and start to represent those who will not tolerate being punished for refusing a vaccine. Simply put, legislatures must begin to act as legislatures again. Questions must be asked. Hearings and investigations must be held. And, the legislatures of each state and country must return to the business of representing the people who voted for them, assuming their rightful place as the originator of legislation. We can no longer accept the dictates of executive branches without question, especially now that, statistically speaking, the initial brunt of the COVID crisis has passed. Neither can we accept the dictates of doctors who seem detached from reality and from science, and who only seem to be attached to the idea of promoting ideas which contribute to the agrandizement of power and control of political interests, and wealth of those who stand to make a lot of money from the sale of a COVID vaccine. Please SIGN this urgent petition which asks government and business leaders to pledge to respect the rights of those who refuse a COVID vaccine, and not seek to punish them for doing so. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 'Doctors lay out plan to ‘punish’ people who refuse coronavirus vaccine: ‘There is no alternative’' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctors-lay-out-plan-to-punish-people-who-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine-there-is-no-alternative 'US professor: ‘Psychoactive pill’ should be covertly administered to ensure lockdown compliance' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-professor-ensure-lockdown-compliance-by-drugging-dissenters-with-psychoactive-pill Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
In October, the Health Department of Nevada barred rapid tests in nursing homes after finding that at least 58% of a sample of positive results actually were negative. A Nevada health official cautioned that defective antigen tests pose particular risks for nursing homes residents, who could be “in danger of contracting the virus” by being confined “to a room full of actual positive residents.” The Department of Health and Human Services quickly pressured Nevada into rescinding the ban.
Concerns about the effectiveness of COVID tests extend beyond rapid antigen testing. Another peer-reviewed article from August found that RT-PCR tests result in false negatives in up to 29% of cases. The CDC has touted PCR tests, which work by evaluating gene samples, as the “gold standard” of COVID testing methods.
Nevertheless, on November 17, the CDC highlighted a study showing that screening for a single PCR test only caught 53% of all positive cases of COVID in students returning home from college. The FDA likewise blamed the method of PCR tests when health workers in Vermont discovered that only about 6% of positive results from a sample of antigen tests were affirmed subsequently by PCR. A team of American and British scientists also have claimed that PCR nasal swabs have around 63% sensitivity, while PCR throat swabs have 32% sensitivity. The researchers denied that a “gold standard” for coronavirus tests exists.
The main PCR protocol for testing for COVID has come into question since the journal that published the original article failed for ten months to provide a peer-reviewed report. At the end of November, “an international consortium of life-science scientists” submitted a letter demanding retraction of the paper, calling it “severely flawed with respect to its biomolecular and methodological design.”
An appeals court in Portugal recently deemed PCR testing for the coronavirus to be unreliable. Other legal challenges are pending in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and South Africa, according to former Pfizer Vice President Dr. Mike Yeadon. Writing for Lockdown Skeptics, Yeadon criticized mass PCR testing in the United Kingdom, warning of “a severe risk of what we call a ‘PCR false positive pseudo-epidemic.’” Last month, a whistleblower exposed massive
contamination risks in a major UK testing facility staffed with employees who had “no experience with this sort of facility or handling bio-hazardous.”
New reports of substantial COVID test issues have come as state governments across the country have enacted extreme restrictions on social activities in light of an alleged “fall surge.”
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (D) decreed a “social gathering limit” two weeks ago, saying, “you should not be spending time socially with anyone you don’t live with — this includes on Thanksgiving.” Oregon implemented a “Two-Week Freeze” on November 18, limiting at-home gatherings to six people, and fully closing businesses deemed “non-essential.” More than a dozen states are pursuing similar policies.
California re-instated a stay-at-home order, banned singing in churches, and recommended that families celebrate Thanksgiving outside. Governor Gavin Newsom (D) energized an ongoing recall campaign against him earlier this month when he was pictured at a party in a high-end restaurant with the CEO of the California Medical Association. Participants were not wearing masks and not socially distanced.
While governors have cited apparently unprecedented numbers of COVID cases and hospitalizations, the reliability of seemingly rising rates remains a live question. Along with the wealth of evidence attesting to failures of COVID testing, other studies have noted that the COVID death rate has dropped by 70% since March and that total U.S. fatalities only have increased by 11,292 compared to 2018.
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lifesitenews--2020-12-01--America’s survival depends on conservatives uniting to save the Senate in Georgia

December 1 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – To say America ’ s future is in a precarious position would be the understatement of the year .
The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the White House is whether or not Donald Trump ’ s lawyers can convince enough judges that tens of thousands of votes across multiple states were fraudulent and should be tossed .
Should those lawsuits fail , the only thing standing between the Biden administration and generations of national left-wing dominance will be a Republican Senate – control of which rests on David Perdue and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elections .
It ’ s bad enough that giving Biden a Democrat Congress would unleash legislation to codify Roe v. Wade and write transgender conformity into federal law , among countless other horrors .
But the real danger is that if Loeffler and Perdue lose , the vote fraud suspected in last month ’ s elections will be nothing compared with how fully Democrats rig the system against us going forward .
Court-packing will stack the federal judiciary with unelected leftists for life , tying conservatives ’ hands as never before .
Granting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rico would permanently increase Democrats ’ Senate power by four seats .
The legislative filibuster ’ s days would be numbered .
And amnesty for illegal immigrants would transform the electorate such that conservatives would never win another national election in our lifetimes .
Alarmingly , however , there is a vocal minority on the conservative side sowing division about the runoffs , just when conservatives need unity more than ever – a sentiment spreading across social media that turning out to vote in January is futile , unimportant , or even wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so for the same reasons , but they would all lead to the same place : disaster .
One of the main justifications for this stance is perfectly-understandable disdain for the Republican establishment , a desire to punish them for the various betrayals and derelictions that brought the country to this point .
The most prominent representative of this view is American Greatness senior contributor Julie Kelly , who writes that it ’ s “ pure folly to think this Republican Senate will act as a bulwark against a Biden-Harris Administration.
” She @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on down , either siding with or failing to resist the Left .
All of her examples are true , all of them are damning , but none of them demonstrate that any Senate Republican will suddenly support court-packing , ending the legislative filibuster , or adding new states to the Union .
Selling out on any one of those three items would require deliberate action on the part of questionable Republicans ( as opposed to sins such as passivity on the Russia hoax ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and harder to explain away back home , than the deliberate actions she cites ( like pandering to the prevailing narrative about George Floyd ’ s death ) – which may be why Kelly doesn ’ t mention court-packing , the filibuster , or D.C. or Puerto Rican statehood anywhere in the piece .
Granted , she ’ s on stronger footing when she warns Senate Republicans may partner with Democrats on “ more flexible immigration laws , ” which a few swamp Republicans have already hinted at .
But this is far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conservatives have killed amnesty deals before ( with a divided Congress under Barack Obama , and even a fully-Democrat Congress under George W. Bush ) , and there ’ s no reason to preemptively assume we couldn ’ t again .
As famously articulated in the Flight 93 Election argument for Trump , a chance that might still fail is obviously better than preemptively accepting guaranteed failure .
More important , the sins of various GOP senators are largely irrelevant to the task of blocking what needs to be blocked right now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the majority means keeping control of committees and the Senate calendar , through which the most dangerous bills can be stopped from even getting a vote in the first place .
Look , longtime readers know I ’ m no fan of McConnell .
I ’ m not saying he ’ d have the stomach to , for instance , leave vacancies empty for four full years .
But even I think he can at least do this .
Most of his leadership failures have been rooted in his opposition to anything that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ norms , ” particularly anything that ruffled his notions of how the Senate operates .
While that disposition was a hindrance to making the most out of Trump ’ s presidency , it ’ s also obviously a natural enemy to the likes of court-packing or adding two new states .
Related to this distrust is a desire to punish , or at least not reward , the GOP establishment for its failures and betrayals , because they don ’ t deserve our loyalty .
This impulse , prevalent on social media , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For one thing , it wouldn ’ t actually punish those who ’ ve betrayed us .
Swamp Republican senators like Mitt Romney would be just as happy in the minority .
The only people who would suffer would be the millions of Americans affected by the laws coming out of a united Democrat Congress and White House .
Besides , NeverTrumpers are the ones who spent the past five years arguing that we should let the most harmful candidate take power over our fellow Americans because the alternative did n't “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speaking personally , if I voted on the basis of who “ deserves ” what , I 'd never vote at all ) .
No , the Republicans establishment doesn ’ t deserve to be rewarded .
But our families also do n't deserve to suffer under generations of national leftist dominance – and protecting our families should trump punishing our enemies every time .
Lastly , there ’ s one more faction that doesn ’ t oppose the Georgia GOP duo and isn ’ t out for payback at all ; they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of putting much effort toward an election they think will just be stolen anyway .
Obviously , this is a very real danger , and the Right needs to do all it can to pressure Georgia to adopt stronger protections for January : real signature verification , complete access for poll watchers and counting observers , the works .
But that ’ s only half the solution .
The other half – the half most within the grassroots ’ power to influence – is to drive turnout outside the margin of fraud .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ one vote fewer the Left has to steal .
As disastrous as a Biden presidency would be , conservatives are well positioned to build off Trump ’ s gains and come back stronger than ever with a new standard-bearer in 2024 ( like , say , Florida Gov .
Ron DeSantis ) … but only if they hold the line in Georgia next month and deny the Left the power to enact their endgame .
The stakes have never been higher , and the margin for error has never been narrower .

If Loeffler and Perdue lose, the vote fraud suspected in last month’s elections will be nothing compared to how fully Democrats rig the system against us going forward.
December 1, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – To say America’s future is in a precarious position would be the understatement of the year. The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the White House is whether or not Donald Trump’s lawyers can convince enough judges that tens of thousands of votes across multiple states were fraudulent and should be tossed. Should those lawsuits fail, the only thing standing between the Biden administration and generations of national left-wing dominance will be a Republican Senate – control of which rests on David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler winning the January 5 runoff elections.
It’s bad enough that giving Biden a Democrat Congress would unleash legislation to codify Roe v. Wade and write transgender conformity into federal law, among countless other horrors. But the real danger is that if Loeffler and Perdue lose, the vote fraud suspected in last month’s elections will be nothing compared with how fully Democrats rig the system against us going forward.
Court-packing will stack the federal judiciary with unelected leftists for life, tying conservatives’ hands as never before. Granting statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico would permanently increase Democrats’ Senate power by four seats. The legislative filibuster’s days would be numbered. And amnesty for illegal immigrants would transform the electorate such that conservatives would never win another national election in our lifetimes.
Alarmingly, however, there is a vocal minority on the conservative side sowing division about the runoffs, just when conservatives need unity more than ever – a sentiment spreading across social media that turning out to vote in January is futile, unimportant, or even wrong. Not everyone pushing this sentiment does so for the same reasons, but they would all lead to the same place: disaster.
One of the main justifications for this stance is perfectly-understandable disdain for the Republican establishment, a desire to punish them for the various betrayals and derelictions that brought the country to this point. The most prominent representative of this view is American Greatness senior contributor Julie Kelly, who writes that it’s “pure folly to think this Republican Senate will act as a bulwark against a Biden-Harris Administration.”
She details various examples of various Senate Republicans, from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on down, either siding with or failing to resist the Left. All of her examples are true, all of them are damning, but none of them demonstrate that any Senate Republican will suddenly support court-packing, ending the legislative filibuster, or adding new states to the Union.
Selling out on any one of those three items would require deliberate action on the part of questionable Republicans (as opposed to sins such as passivity on the Russia hoax), and would be far more radical, and harder to explain away back home, than the deliberate actions she cites (like pandering to the prevailing narrative about George Floyd’s death) – which may be why Kelly doesn’t mention court-packing, the filibuster, or D.C. or Puerto Rican statehood anywhere in the piece.
Granted, she’s on stronger footing when she warns Senate Republicans may partner with Democrats on “more flexible immigration laws,” which a few swamp Republicans have already hinted at. But this is far from the foregone conclusion she depicts. Conservatives have killed amnesty deals before (with a divided Congress under Barack Obama, and even a fully-Democrat Congress under George W. Bush), and there’s no reason to preemptively assume we couldn’t again. As famously articulated in the Flight 93 Election argument for Trump, a chance that might still fail is obviously better than preemptively accepting guaranteed failure.
More important, the sins of various GOP senators are largely irrelevant to the task of blocking what needs to be blocked right now, for one simple reason: because keeping the majority means keeping control of committees and the Senate calendar, through which the most dangerous bills can be stopped from even getting a vote in the first place.
Look, longtime readers know I’m no fan of McConnell. I’m not saying he’d have the stomach to, for instance, leave vacancies empty for four full years. But even I think he can at least do this. Most of his leadership failures have been rooted in his opposition to anything that violates his personal sense of governmental “norms,” particularly anything that ruffled his notions of how the Senate operates. While that disposition was a hindrance to making the most out of Trump’s presidency, it’s also obviously a natural enemy to the likes of court-packing or adding two new states.
Related to this distrust is a desire to punish, or at least not reward, the GOP establishment for its failures and betrayals, because they don’t deserve our loyalty. This impulse, prevalent on social media, is eminently understandable, but woefully shortsighted.
For one thing, it wouldn’t actually punish those who’ve betrayed us. Swamp Republican senators like Mitt Romney would be just as happy in the minority. The only people who would suffer would be the millions of Americans affected by the laws coming out of a united Democrat Congress and White House.
Besides, NeverTrumpers are the ones who spent the past five years arguing that we should let the most harmful candidate take power over our fellow Americans because the alternative didn't “deserve” office, not us (speaking personally, if I voted on the basis of who “deserves” what, I'd never vote at all). No, the Republicans establishment doesn’t deserve to be rewarded. But our families also don't deserve to suffer under generations of national leftist dominance – and protecting our families should trump punishing our enemies every time.
Lastly, there’s one more faction that doesn’t oppose the Georgia GOP duo and isn’t out for payback at all; they just don’t see the point of putting much effort toward an election they think will just be stolen anyway.
Obviously, this is a very real danger, and the Right needs to do all it can to pressure Georgia to adopt stronger protections for January: real signature verification, complete access for poll watchers and counting observers, the works. But that’s only half the solution. The other half – the half most within the grassroots’ power to influence – is to drive turnout outside the margin of fraud. Every conservative who fails to vote is one vote fewer the Left has to steal.
As disastrous as a Biden presidency would be, conservatives are well positioned to build off Trump’s gains and come back stronger than ever with a new standard-bearer in 2024 (like, say, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis) … but only if they hold the line in Georgia next month and deny the Left the power to enact their endgame. The stakes have never been higher, and the margin for error has never been narrower.
— Article continues below Petition — STATES: Stop election certification while fraud investigations continue Show Petition Text 30673 have signed the petition. Let's get to 35000 ! Thank you for signing this petition! Add your signature: Show Petition Text Country... State... Sign this Petition In a bombshell press conference, President Trump's legal team has revealed evidence of alleged massive voter fraud in several constituencies key to election victory in 2020. Appealing to every American, Rudy Giuliani, Team Trump's lead counsel, said: "Joe Biden is in the lead because of invalid and illegal ballots. Give us an opportunity to prove it in court, and we will." Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition asking state legislators, IN EVERY U.S. STATE, not to allow election certification of their state until all of the evidence has been ruled on and every legal challenge exhausted. This is not about President Trump or former Vice President Biden...at this stage, our republic and the integrity of our elections literally hang in the balance. The claims of voter fraud made by Team Trump were very alarming, but here are some of the worst: The lack of oversight and security of mail-in ballots;
Direction by some election officials to election workers to violate election statutes;
The eviction of Republican observers who were kept away from inspecting ballots in some cities;
Instances of 'overvoting', where more ballots were cast in some precincts than registered voters;
The arrival of thousands of ballots - all marked for Biden - at one count center, in the middle of the night And, all of the these claims are backed-up by sworn affidavits of people who allegedly witnessed these fraudulent actions take place. Please CLICK HERE to read LifeSiteNews' article detailing the evidence of alleged voter fraud brought to light by Team Trump. And please CLICK HERE to see an example of overvoting, also alluded to by Giuiliani as having occurred in Michigan. Then, please SIGN and SHARE this petition asking ALL 50 STATE LEGISLATURES to wait till all claims of voter fraud have been investigated and litigated before certifying the election results for their states. Thank you for helping to see that justice is served and that all alleged wrongdoing can be brought to light. Thank you for helping to secure our republic. **Photo Credit: Screen capture from live press conference streamed on LifeSite Hide Petition Text Sign this Petition
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