Loading ...This is not something to celebrate
Today I received a couple of communications from well-meaning friends who claimed “you must feel like celebrating about the announcement that travel bans are lifted”
Honestly? I don’t feel anything celebratory about it at all. Here is a quote from Free to Fly that landed in my e-mail this morning. It is beautifully written and sums up the situation better than I could:
“Government’s ugly unquenchable thirst for power has been on full display these past couple years. Even in their just completed press briefing, they made a point to threaten reinstatement and they formally stated their lack of regret for everything they thrust upon us. We feel no gratitude towards an emboldened state for ceasing to violate our God-given freedoms”
A simpler analogy: imagine being bullied in the schoolyard all year. Other children can see what’s happening but they do not speak up or offer any assistance. Near the end of the school term, a teacher finally tells the bully he’d best stop. The bully then sidles up to the victim and sneers “I’ll leave you alone for now, but just wait until school starts up again”
I doubt any community that has ever suffered discrimination, bullying, gaslighting etc feels happy and celebratory when the egregious violations finally stop. Anyone who thinks they do has never been truly amongst them.
The governmental abuses and violations may have stopped, temporarily. But that does not change what happened. Even if the mandates never appear again, this serves as a sobering reminder that the past 2 years have left scars on us purebloods, many of which will never heal. How do we ever trust governments, public health, the media, even our own families? Will the friends who so cruelly abandoned us ever apologise? Hell no.
I cannot speak for all of us on the forum. For myself, I am feeling a mix of very cautious optimism, but overwhelmingly my mood is sombre and reflective. Definitely not happy and celebratory
Agree GMG …well said
Yup.
Those imposing those restrictions should have lost their jobs, one way or another.
And a higher court should have ruled them to be Charter violations, establishing a precedent.
Leave while you can? Or role the dice again?
Good questions Pedro; it’s been suggested by a few that I should up and leave while I can. And I get that. But there is a big house to sell, planned medical appointments, investments to wrap up, a husband and dog that r not wanting to leave, that kind of thing. If uprooting is to happen, fall season would definitely be a better time.
This quandary keeps me awake at night, believe me 🙁
Terrific post, GMG! I wasn’t happy when I heard the news. Neither was I relieved, hopeful, understand or forgiving. I am just as contemptuous of these shameless jailors as I ever was, and just as dismayed that most of our fellow citizens were either unconcerned or supportive of this treachery. None of these people has any idea the degree to which they have sullied both the image and the reality of Canada.
Right on!
I’ll be happy and relieved when these Nazi cretins get their collective asses thrown in jail for life terms. I’d prefer they be paraded around and then shot in the public square, but I seem to get a lot of pushback on that idea. Why, I don’t know…it would be justice served, after all. Since they show no remorse and won’t even admit to wrong-doing, the logical conclusion is put them to death by whatever means at hand.