Ottawa held hostage

My take on the so-called freedom convoy:

Confederate flags

Swastikas

Trump Banners

Don't tread on me banners

Upside down Canadian flags

Swarming the following places unmasked and unvaccinated:

McDonalds

Rideau Mall

The soup kitchen

This bears repeating:

The soup kitchen

Defiling the Terry Fox statue, prompting a news release from the foundation reminding people that Terry was about SCIENCE.

Dancing, drinking, smoking, parking and yelling profanity on the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier. Prompting Veterans Affairs to release a statement.

Throwing a beer can at a reporter

Berating hotel staff

Trucks constantly idling

Horns going 24/7

Blocking fire lanes

Blocking emergency lanes

Trapping people in their homes with no way to get to work or to the hospital

Dressing their 3-5 year old children in Fuck Trudeau clothes and draping them in signs

Putting everyone they come into contact with at risk. EVERYONE.

Conservative MP's passing out coffee and doughnuts, doing interviews in front of the Canadian flag with a swastika drawn on it.

Urinating in public

Calling the PM a coward when he had to get his family somewhere safe. His Kids!

Failing to understand that mandates are PROVINCIAL and not FEDERAL.

The US doesn't want your unvaccinated asses there either.

The candle light vigil planned for the fifth anniversary of the Quebec Mosque shootings cancelled.

I remember them here:

Ibrahima Barry

Mamadou Tanou Barry

Khaled Belkacemi

 Aboubaker Thabti

Abdelkrim Hassane

Azzedine Soufiane

RISP

The Maverick Party

The proud boys

The obfuscating,

Saying that these fringe elements all glommed on and perverted your mission.

I call BULLSHIT, we can all Google who started this and see the call to action and the dog whistle.

You are fighting for my freedoms!? 

Yeah, I don't think so. If you were fighting for my freedoms you'd wear a mask and get a prick instead of being one. 

This isn't a TRUCKER convoy you make up a small 10 to 15%.

If you really want to end this you'd take PPE and Rapid Tests and donate the bloated Go Fund Me scam for respirators and hiring more staff to give our health care workers a break.

To sum up, you are the problem. No one likes to wear masks or have shots but we pull up our adulting pants and do what's required for the greater good. For our families, for your families.

I fervently hope that when you do finally get home and stop holding the good citizens of Ottawa hostage that you don't infect your Granny or your Mum.

Cancel me this

 I've started reading the comments again.

I said I wouldn't,

I promised myself,

I'm a bad promise holder.

I was especially horrified at the comments directed at our Premier. He has throat cancer, newly diagnosed.

The comments are horrific and cruel, I can't believe how many there are. 

I can't believe how easy it's become for people to just spew their own personal brand of ugly on another human being.

Where is the compassion?

Where is the empathy?

Where is the caring?

What would you do if I called you up and said I was glad you had cancer and I hope you suffer before you die? You'd be gutted and angry.

Why is this any different?

 You're typing it so it doesn't count?

He doesn't know you? 

Anonymity?

Yeah not really, you're not anonymous.

I can click on your profile and see stuff.

Where you work.

Your kids/grandkids photos.

Where you live.

Who your friends are.

Even the most buttoned down Facebook page has clues.

I can file your job away in my old brain and the next time I need a roofer/mechanic/plumber/gardener...

You get my drift. 

No biggie in your life I'm sure to lose a maybe customer, but it helps me sleep at night.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who does this.

Be kind.

Dona Nobis Pacem 2021

 I've blogged for peace since its inception. 

I've written about worldwide peace.

I've written about peace in our country.

I've written about peace in politics.

I've written about peace in groups.

I've written about peace in families.

I've written about peace with my body.

I've written about peace during this pandemic.

Am I any wiser?

Are things better?

Is the world all love and snuggles?

Is their no longer any strife or pain?

It's all still there, the war, the poverty, the sickness. Political infighting and all around bat shit crazy behaviour. 

Anti this and anti that.

What have I've come to accept over the years is if you shine a light on some of the injustice, write about it, protest about it, talk to your friends about it, you'll feel better.

You'll feel a little peace, a little sense of accomplishment. A little bit of relief.

Love your chosen family, hug your pets, try to be more understanding.

Be kind.

#Blog4Peace 

Dona Nobis Pacem 2020

Here we are.

Still Upright.

Still fighting for Peace,

Still steadfast in out Faith,

Still Slogging away,

Still Praying,

Still Loving,

Still Involved.

Here we are.

Despite Covid 19,

Despite Global Warming,

Despite Political fanatics,

Despite Poverty,

Despite Loss,

Despite Adversity,

Despite Racism.

Here we are.

Keep Trying,

Keep Believing,

Keep Loving,

Keep Kindness,

Keep Positive,

Keep Blogging,

Keep Friendships.

Here we are, warts and all. Be kind.

 Two years ago he was mocking a rape victim. Now he's in hospital with a left wing hoax illness. AKA the CHINA virus.

Just in time to deflect the tax thing, the debate thing, the 400million debt thing.

Don't get me wrong, I hope he recovers because he needs to be in jail for fraud, tax evasion, RAPE/ASSAUTx30. Just to name a few.

There's 209K dead and 7.36 Million cases of Covid -19 in America. Trump is still trying to take their medical coverage away.

These people don't get flown to a top notch hospital or have a team of doctors. They don't receive experimental treatment or first in queue.

In a fair world he'd get the same treatment as everyone else, and they'd get what he does.

Lucky he isn't treated based on his tax payments, he's get half a Tylenol.

People are hundreds of thousands in debt to pay for their Covid-19 treatment he gets it on the American dime.

All he had to do was wear a mask, but spent all the time in front of people mocking mask wearers.

He knew Hope Hicks was positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday night, and he still went to an indoor fundraiser, mask-less at one of his resorts on Thursday afternoon.

I find it hard to give a shit about him. I hate the way that makes me feel.

He also mocked Hillary Clinton for being sick during the 2016 Presidential race. Google it.

So get well, lose the election, go to jail. That's what I'll *pray* for.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061?fbclid=IwAR3KrUsd1iDFfReQv42-cPwcMZB_ONM-w7U9aDWyQcbeIaTZm8uUxYQvbD0

https://www.everhere.com/ca/obituaries/bc/duncan/john-bradley-hunter-10848529

I'm so fucking tired.

My nephew John has died, not from Covid -19, from a car accident.
He was only 33.

I found out through a cousin, my brother didn't even have the barest hint of decency to tell his family.
I had to tell his twin,
his nephews,
his niece,
his brother's in law.

It took an hour and 4 people before I could get in touch with him.
He lives here.

He broke his family,
he broke our mother,
he broke our dad.
Now me.

I love you John, you and your sister were always a bright spot in my day.
I loved it when you came *for coffee*,
I loved it when you giggled,
I loved getting your school pictures.

I've missed you and now I'll never see you again.
It hurts.

 I hope you know I love you.