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Watch: Dramatic Video Shows Canadian SWAT Team Arresting a Pastor for 'Inciting' People to Attend Church
Red State ^ | 05/08/2021 | Bonchie

Posted on 05/08/2021 8:31:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind


It’s not getting much play right now, but Canada is an absolute mess. In some parts of the country, the tyrannical mitigation measures put in place by the government to supposedly combat COVID-19 are so bad that they’d make New York blush.

A dramatic new video has just been released by independent, conservative journalist Ezra Levant of Rebel News showing the arrest of a Christian pastor for “inciting” people to go to church. Apparently, a SWAT team was used to arrest him after he left his church service. The churchgoers had initially expelled the police from the church building, but they returned in force.

That led to this dramatic encounter, on what looks like a highway, where Pastor Artur Pawlowski and his brother were taken into custody.

(related Watch: Hundreds of Police Storm a Church in Shocking Video After Parishioners Try to Have Service)

A heavily-armed SWAT team just took down a Christian pastor heading home from church. Police say he’s charged with “inciting” people to go to church. This is the second pastor jailed this year. We’re crowdfunding his lawyers at https://t.co/bMwAj1iNfP pic.twitter.com/RZ913cQns3

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) May 8, 2021

The Calgary Police actually bragged about the arrest after it occurred, Levant reported.

Police are boasting about jailing a Christian pastor for "organizing an illegal in-person gathering, including requesting, inciting or inviting others to attend an illegal public gathering, promoting and attending an illegal public gathering."https://t.co/bMwAj1iNfP https://t.co/ARhrLtfkDq

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) May 8, 2021

This is absolutely insane. I’d say this is fascism, but it’s also something you’d expect to see in communist China. Let’s just settle on the fact that it’s tyranny — regardless of what other buzzwords are chosen to describe it.

What’s even scarier is that so many people in the responses to Calgary Police’s tweet are not only supportive but are encouraging more arrests. Canadian citizens seem to be behind the idea of an all-powerful government able to shut down public gatherings on a whim and end religious services.

I also want to note that while police may generally deserve respect, they are not your friends. We’ve seen over and over throughout the pandemic, including in the United States, where police bend the knee to tyrannical regulations from political figures that they have no business enforcing. You can not trust these people, no matter how valiant they may be most of the time in their duties, to ensure your liberties. That’s another reason the Second Amendment is so absolutely crucial to maintain.

Honestly, this is the kind of thing revolutions are fought over. I understand always trying to promote peaceful resolutions in an ostensibly democratic society, but there comes a point where civil disobedience is necessary, and then if the government continues to crush rights and freedom, something past that.



TOPICS: Government; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: arrest; canada; pastorchurch

1 posted on 05/08/2021 8:31:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Where are the “99% good cops” (that Hannity likes to brag about) coming to this man’s defense? These cops are Nazis.


2 posted on 05/08/2021 8:36:33 PM PDT by alstewartfan (The dawn is turning away The ghost of Charlotte Corday. Al Stewart)
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To: SeekAndFind

Horrifying.


3 posted on 05/08/2021 8:38:30 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: alstewartfan

Fox Kool Aid isn’t what I dish out on my blog as in today’s post that covers this story and more.

https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/05/nextrush-unpluged-weekend-jennerally.html


4 posted on 05/08/2021 8:41:01 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Inciting people to go to Church? Sounds serious. If there were any worthy souls in the area, they’d be right there with him. It seems you can get a Antifa/BLM crowd to (Burn, Loot< Murder) pretty easy but get people to go to Church to make their spiritual lives better . . not so much.


5 posted on 05/08/2021 8:43:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm not a thief! I said I'm a cat butler not a cat burglar.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, there are good cops but they are fading out. The a-hole cops are growing to be the enforcers of this new order growing day by day.


6 posted on 05/08/2021 8:49:34 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover
Yes, there are good cops but they are fading out. The a-hole cops are growing to be the enforcers of this new order growing day by day.

Thanks to the "defund" movement and the abuse being heaped on cops by the MSM and the Twitter mob, idealistic young folks who want to serve their fellow citizens will seek other careers, and only bullies, sadists and grifters will want to become cops. Soon police forces will soon be filled Austin Hopps (Google him).

7 posted on 05/08/2021 9:00:07 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: alstewartfan

Three things are happening to policing in America:

Militarization of local police.

4th amendment right are being weakened to the point of uselessness and,

Control of local police is being shifted to the federal level.


8 posted on 05/08/2021 9:17:59 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Baby Comrade” Trudeau has accomplished what his Marxist/Castroite father/mother couldn’t do, make Canada a Marxist dictatorship.

What is worse is that the police are now becoming the Canadian equivalent of the KGB/SVR/Stasi and Red Chinese “Red Guards”.

Time for patriotic Americans to boycott visiting Red Canada and stop buying their goods.

I was in Canada and attended the open field inauguration of John ? Dieffenbaker as the new Prime Minister. That was about 1956. Back in those days, there were no serious communists/threats to that country.

Now that danger, like COVID 19, has taken over the lives of the good people of Canada, and their leader is now called “Comrade Little Fidel”.

Expect more of this iron-fisted govt/police tyranny, thanks to Obama/Biden/Harris/Kerry and other reds in our govt over the past decades.


9 posted on 05/08/2021 9:34:37 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

This will result in serious backlash Watch. He is a HERO OF THE FIRST ORDER


10 posted on 05/08/2021 9:49:04 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! )
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To: Truthoverpower

People will come from far and wide to hear him now preach against TYRANNY! Go pastor. Go !

In CHINA. HE WOULD BE DEAD


11 posted on 05/08/2021 9:50:23 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Worshiping a force greater than the Uniparty is racist.


12 posted on 05/08/2021 11:57:09 PM PDT by _longranger81 (God help us, Every One. )
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A good expose of what Canada is really about — authoritarianism.

FU, Canada.


13 posted on 05/08/2021 11:58:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

He would have had more freedom by staying in Poland rather than going to Fascist Canada.


14 posted on 05/09/2021 12:36:57 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: SeekAndFind

There are at least 3 jackbooted thugs arresting the pastor. The pastor knows what communism and fascism are. He thought he had escaped from them by going to Canada. The biggest tragedy of the century is that Canada, and soon the USA, has become communist/fascist.


15 posted on 05/09/2021 5:17:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Non-binary transnormativity is a construct of intersectionality. Leftist gobbledegook stinks.)
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