Spec now doxing people?

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Apr 22

RE: Rebel flag at rural home called ‘disturbing’ By Sebastian Bron.  The Hamilton Spectator 28 Apr 22.

RE: Don’t let Canada’s flag be co-opted by angry minority.  Op-ed by Don Sawyer.

What’s disturbing about the page 1 story is that the Red Guards at the People’s Daily are now into doxing people.  Every yahoo in Hamilton was invited to travel to Guyatt Road in Binbrook to harass the owners of the private home, who have already been visited once by the police, by CBC News, and by the Spectator.  This manufactured news story began when Ami Archibald-Varley, a Jamaican immigrant and podcaster who lives near the house, began complaining to the media, police, and everyone else.  “Seeing it makes me angry,” she said of the flag, “and I’m not the only racialized person in the community who feels this way.”  (The busy-body trouble-maker didn't explain how she and her friends became 'racialized.'  But that's a racism story for another day.)

To those who fly it today, that flag represents rebelliousness against authority, without apologies for the profanity used in the emphatic expression of that opinion.  You often see it flown in the United States.  That flag was, in fact, the naval jack of the Confederacy, not a “battle flag” or even one of its national flags.  Historian Shelby Foote has a short video on YouTube on that flag and what it represented to those who created it.

The crass ignorance in the story is incredible.  In the first place, why are all these Jamaicans upset, except through their own ignorance of the matters at issue?  The American Civil War did not affect them.  I’ll bet not one of them can tell you anything of note about the war, or the issues at stake; and slavery wasn’t the primary issue.

The bloated ignorance in the story is incredible, but ignorance is bliss in today’s education.  Collectivize everything, especially thought and opinion.  Destroy a few of those who step out of line, and the rest will be intimidated into compliance!

You can’t even fly the Canadian flag anymore if you hold the wrong opinions, according to the op-ed “Don’t let the Canadian flag be co-opted by angry minority” by Don Sawyer,  (He writes of his being in the anti-War movement of the 1960s, and the he emigrated to Canada in 1970.)  By angry minority, he refers to the Truckers and their sympathizers.

No wonder some rebel!

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UPDATE: Harassment and threats of violence win!

The harassment campaign worked.  On Saturday, the Spectator named the home owner, who was then “contacted” by “anti-racism advocates, faith leaders, Mayor Fred Eisenberger again, and the Spectator admitted it had failed to reach the owner, Robert Pelton, after repeated attempts.  In addition, “about 30 people rallied in Binbrook.” Probably more people than Mr. Pelton had magazine capacity for if they attacked his property.  By Sunday, May 1, the flag was down and everybody was celebrating.

Mr. Pelton was harassed into surrender by the essential assistance of the Spectator and by threats of violence.