COVID-19 Opening The Door To Communism In North America

Yesterday was the first time that I wept sad tears for the country in which I was born. Not just because People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was handcuffed and arrested by the RCMP on his way to a Winnipeg Lockdown Protest; not because the City of Victoria is cancelling out July 1st Canada Day celebrations following the discovery of children's bodies on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, and not even because Ontario Premier Doug Ford is keeping some 15 million residents from getting a haircut by calling all hairdresser and barbers “NON-ESSENTIAL”, but because of where the country in which I was born is inexorably heading.

Canadian politicians are taking the freedom-loving Land of the Maple Leaf into a Communist state

“A day after Victoria cancelled its Canada Day celebrations, B.C. Premier John Horgan says he does not want other cities to follow suit. (CTV News, June 11, 2021)

“The intent, I can understand,” says Horgan. “The 21st of June, National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, would be a more appropriate time for us to collectively focus on how we can redress the wrongs of the past, and build a brighter future together.” “Victoria city council voted unanimously this week to abandon virtual Canada Day festivities, following the discovery of children's bodies on the site of a former residential school in Kamloops. Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says local indigenous groups have since pulled out of participating in this year’s Canada Day events.” “Right now, the Lekwungen nations are grieving, so it’s very difficult for them to come and sing and dance and celebrate," Helps told reporters."

Canadian politicians are taking the freedom-loving Land of the Maple Leaf into a Communist state. They’re doing it incrementally—but DEFINITELY. Yesterday’s onslaught of tears from a sorrowing heart took me back to long ago days when I was being raised in an orphanage run by the then Communist-loathing Sisters of Charity. It was because of those Sisters that I inherited what was to become, a lifelong loathing of all things Communist. At age 9, I was one of their wards asked to sit by the bed of a young Hungarian boy, named Zolt, who woke up, wild-eyed at awakening and screaming in fear at night. The nuns only asked that I try to calm him in a “soothing” voice and to call for them, if he couldn’t be calmed. After several nights of bed sitting Zolt, I found the courage to ask one of the nuns,”Sister, is Zolt crazy?” Her answer was to go on and live with me forever. “No, Judith Anne, Zolt is not crazy. He sometimes awakens from nightmares because he witnessed the massacre of his parents and siblings in Hungary” before caring relatives got him into non-communist Canada.”

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Communism doesn’t always takes lives—but always kills the human soul

Over intervening years, I lost touch with Zolt and the orphanage, but went on to write about the evil of communism as a reporter in the now mostly dead print media. While working for the Toronto Sun, I temporarily adopted a little girl who came to Canada, via the U.S. Andrews Air Force base with shrapnel in her brain during Russia’s occupation of Afghanistan. When I was dispatched as a freelance writer to report on the fight of the Baltic States for freedom from Mother Russia by the Dallas Morning News, I was anxious to see whether or not my revulsion of Communism had been grounded in reality. It didn’t take long. The first time I was on Communist soil, I noticed that no one smiled on Communist turf—where there is never anything to smile about. This is what brought on my sudden cascade of tears yesterday. Communism doesn’t always takes lives—but always kills the human soul. In this Valley of Tears, it is the unprotected masses who pay the biggest price when Communism sets in. Citizen rights are taken away one by one. No more peaceful assembly, no more in-person schooling for little kids in classrooms, no more access to jobs in industries deemed “non-essential” by politicians, many of whom have never worked a day in their lives. COVID-19 may not be communism, but is the means by which Communism is being brought in to the countries of our day. Government leaders who move to discriminate against entire industries as “non-essential” are, in effect really labeling them out of hand as “dispensable". Almost everyone I know in Toronto is either bankrupt or teetering on bankruptcy. One dear Greek family I know has been devastated, thrown to the wolves, as their sons and 80-year-old father working part-time to keep body and soul together, have now been forced out of work. Some Europeans who raised families for generations in Canada, are trying to head back home to their mother countries—their Canadian dream is over. School children are losing a second year of school, and in Ontario are forced to wait until September to get back to their peers and classrooms. Scores of people needing hip and knee replacements are being denied elective surgeries. No government is tabulating the number of people who died waiting for medical care to treat a myriad of other diseases during a virus the media continue to call a “pandemic”. O Canada, when are your people going to demand to know where their politicians are taking us!