No Justice, No peace, no Brains in the Least

Vincent J. Curtis

13 June 20

Newton’s Third Law is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  That law of physics seems to have an equivalent in society.  The Black Lives Matter and Antifa movements are fomenting a powerful and as yet unfelt reaction.

Canada isn’t the United States, and Hamilton isn’t Minneapolis.  Seattle, Washington, isn’t Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1963.  You wouldn’t know that from the rhetoric of BLM, from the talk of the Prime Minister, or any of the other race hustlers on both sides of the border.

The curious thing about the BLM demonstrations in Canada is the proportion of white people in them.  There’s an awful lot of virtue-signalling going on in these demonstrations, of people trying to prove to themselves that they aren’t racists, it’s other people who must be.  There’s a hard core of Marxists-Anarchists-Nihilists who are there to fill an emptiness in their souls by destroying western civilization a little at a time.

The accusation of racist has been an epithet of choice on the progressive left for decades. It has been used both to intimidate and as a means of discrediting political opponents.  The demonstrations long after any emotion should have worn off are acts of political intimidation, and are a show of strength to an unorganized citizenry.

In Innisfail, population 7,800, a town the middle of rural Alberta, a BLM rally of 350 white people was held to teach the residents about systemic racism.  This was an effort at intimidation, and to show that even remote countryside wasn’t safe from the cultural revolution.

Between these demonstrations and the enforcement of the lockdown (now discredited by the demonstrations), the lessons being taught are: that the government will selectively withhold its power to provide security to unorganized civil society; that it’s going to select certain categories of people for punishment for their “sins”; that it’s going to pick aggrieved groups and comply with their demands; and that certain people are going to be singled out for humiliation.

I’ve seen intimidation used as a sales tactic, and it’s probably an effective tactic in electoral politics also.  It may be that Prime Minister Trudeau sees another majority government through dark hints of systemic racism and the cataclysm that would ensue if he weren’t re-elected.  However, an unexpected reaction against government intrusiveness and weakness would have him turfed.
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