Jim McMurtry is a former Abbotsford school teacher running for OneBC. One of his main positions is ending land acknowledgements. This isn't some crazy extreme idea. The land acknowledgements are crazy and extreme. They are hateful and have a very dark agenda tied to the UN's New World Order.
A few years ago I attended some Hong Kong protests in Vancouver. They did not want to become Communist when China took over. Sadly I think the writing was on the wall. The term for England's lease was up.
The Hong Kongers who grew up with freedom were fun and feisty. At one of their protests they had a local university activist start off with a long and painful land acknowledgment denouncing Canada's sovereignty. I guess that was the first time I realized how offensive and how extreme that land acknowledgment had become. Instead of a pledge of allegiance it was a defiant pledge denouncing Canada's sovereignty.
I mentioned it to my friend from Hong Kong who invited me to the rally and tried to explain my concerns. He just wanted to be inclusive. I said I'm sorry, but I not going back if she's there. What I found so ironic was the fact that here we had a group of fun loving activists passionately denouncing the atrocities of Communism, who had been infiltrated by the same Communists they were protesting against.
Now I'm not saying if you support Aboriginal rights or Aboriginal privilege, you are a Communist but I am saying Communists are trying to con Aboriginals and Aboriginal supporters into denouncing Canada's sovereignty with the intent of replacing it with Communism. I kid you not.
At virtually every protest I ever attended in Vancouver growing up, there was always someone who came waving a Communist flag. I remember at the Occupy protest there was a guy with a Communist flag and there were several 9/11 truthers. Then one day the guy with the Communist flag told one of the guys from the 9/11 truthers that he wasn't allowed to talk about 9/11 at the open mic. The truther said it's an open mic. The Communist said 9/11 doesn't have anything to do with the occupy protest to which the truther replied, Communism doesn't have anything to do with the Occupy protest.
Over the years I distinctly remember names on ballots in various local elections of someone representing the Communist party. They were always fringe but they were always there. In a democratic society, everyone has their say. Sadly, it doesn't go both ways.
When Godzilla was trying to build a LRT down 104th Avenue in Surrey, I formed Green Justice which became a third party sponsor. I ended up supporting Doug McCallum because he supported Skytrain over LRT.
At that time, I attended and spoke at a grass roots forum discussing politics in Surrey. After I spoke, a young girl from Kwantlen college sitting next to me spoke. She started going off about defunding the police so I looked down trying to withhold my shock and rolled my eyes. This was before Black Lives Matters. It was the first time I had heard such an insane doctrine.
After she spoke, a plant from the audience objected to me rolling my eyes during her speech. I didn't say a word. I was in shock. I looked down and was trying to hide my concerns. The reason why I was so socked was because this young lady was from Cambodia. Her parents were killed in the Cambodian Communist genocide. When it was my turn to speak I said it was shocking that someone who had survived a Communist genocide in Cambodia would repeat Communist talking points designed to undermined law and order.
Then another activist who I had come to know blurted out I think it's outrageous that someone would claim that a survivor of a genocide was somehow complacent in that very genocide. After the debate I congratulated him. I said you nailed it. That's exactly what I was saying. I'm not coming back to one of these events.
My father always used to say Communism works in theory but it doesn't work in practice. I was too young to understand what that meant. Now I do. I did inherit a copy of the Communist manifesto from my father. It's important to understand exactly what you are disagreeing with.
My point here is that in both those cases, Hong Kong and Cambodia, we had groups speaking out against the atrocities of Communism being infiltrated by the very Communists they were objecting to. The same with Aboriginals in Canada. There are no aboriginal rights in Communism becuase in Communism no one has any rights. Just ask the Uyghurs.
Now they're telling us we have to give up property rights and Canadian sovereignty so we can relace that with Communism? Not on my watch.
The Hong Kongers realize they were better off under British rule than Communism. As I previously said, England and France fought battles over this land. Spain and England almost fought a war over Western Canada.
In the end, Spain thought it through and decided against it just like Chief Seattle. They both cut deals. In 1812 when America tried to invade Canada, the Mohawks fought beside the French and the British. Without the French and the British the Mohawks would have been defeated and conquered by the Americans. We need to remember that before we rewrite history and replace it with Communism. Civil liberty matters.
