By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--July 2, 2021
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“(An) apology is going to do nothing,” he said. “If I went and took your kids out of school, or anywhere, and abused them in school and in the process, come tell you … ‘I’m sorry,’ what does that do for you?”In some stories to date about the tragedy of indigenous school children, torn away from their families by federal law and brought into into government-run residential schools are accusations of sexual abuse of these children at the hands of Catholic priests and nuns. If the priests and nuns were waiting to sexually abuse these children, then why did Canadian Liberal governments hand them over in the first place, and continue the stream of access to them? Now we’re reading about Roman Catholic churches being burned to the ground:
“Earlier this week, in Gleichen, Alta., which is just east of Calgary, RCMP said they were investigating a potential arson attempt at Siksika Catholic Church that took place just after midnight on Monday, although it had been put out before any serious structural damage took place. “With another plot of unmarked graves found in British Columbia, and a Roman Catholic church burnt to the ground, Wednesday became one more in a series of dark days. “About 30 minutes outside Edmonton, in Morinville, Alta., residents watched in the early morning hours as a century-old Roman Catholic church’s steeple and roof collapsed, surrounded by flames in what Alberta Premier Jason Kenney labelled a potential “hate-crime.”“Hate crime”? What about the potential hate crimes of Canadian government ‘leaders’ against Christian pastors imprisoned for holding services during the Covid-19 pandemic? What about pastors and family men Alberta Pastors Tim Stephens, (set free from imprisonment only yesterday), Artur Pawlowski and James Coates? And that’s just in Alberta, because the same kind of thing is ongoing in democratic Ontario, where Premier Doug Ford registered “shock” about the treatment of children in residential schools.
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“These attacks targeting Christian churches are attempts to destroy the spiritual sites that are important to people of faith across Alberta, including many Indigenous people,” said Kenney. (Toronto Star) “He added that he instructed Alberta’s justice minister to work with police in the province to step up “monitoring and protection of potential target sites.”Are these some of the same sites where Alberta authorities are bullying and arresting Christian pastors? Back to the horrific ongoing church burnings:
“Several hours later, a site believed to contain some 182 sets of human remains in unmarked graves — the third such site revealed over the past month in this country — was flagged near the location of a former residential school in Cranbrook, B.C. (Toronto Star) “Both events come at a moment of tension in Canada where many are facing the realities of the residential school system that existed for most of the 20th century and which claimed the lives of at least 4,000 Indigenous children.”The MSM is reporting that there is no official connection between the string of church burnings and the residential school scandal. Well, there hasn’t been a string of church burnings before.
“Even though speculation has been widespread, no official connection between a string of church burnings that have happened across Canada in recent days and the unmarked grave sites has been made. (Toronto Star) “But for Arthur Noskey, the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta grand chief, churches need protecting, and during a meeting Wednesday, he and other Indigenous leaders discussed having their members appointed as security to do so. (Toronto Star) “Their reasons for offering that security, however, are not simply about protecting buildings, Noskey suggested. “These are potential evidence sites,” he told the Star. “We’ll be talking to our members directly and our elders as well.” “I know everybody’s hurting and the whole nation is in an uproar, but you know, for us, the truth is coming out.”Words spoken from the heart. Whether inadvertently or otherwise, Grand Chief Noskey may have hit on something crucial—the need for evidence. Evidence is sorely needed to prove that it was the Liberal government and not Christian clerics who left thousands of children in residential schools at risk. Evidence is needed to prove whether the Constitutional rights of pastors arrested for holding Christian Church services during an unproven pandemic were denied. Until citizens of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia can see the truth and proof of what the Anti-God Squad is really up to, some in the heartbroken masses will continue to believe that it is government activists in public office who are throwing gasoline on an already live conflagration.
1. Here is a list of the 8 (EIGHT) churches that have been completely burned down or set on fire in Canada in the last 9 days, from coast to coast.
— Michaël Moonen (@WhiteangelBe) July 1, 2021
All but one (the church in Morinville, AB, just north of Edmonton, video attached) were on native reserves. Seven were Catholic pic.twitter.com/e840E1aLDF
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