Posted on 09/27/2024 4:29:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A month ago, news broke that, up in Canada, Justin Trudeau’s government is fining the Amish community $300,000 ($222,660 American dollars). Their crime? They didn’t download the government’s COVID app. The twist, of course, is that the Amish don’t have smartphones. They eschew all modern technology. This story has made almost no headlines, but it’s important because it’s a preview of coming attractions if Kamala becomes president. This is what leftists do. Acting for your own good, they destroy you.
As anyone who has watched either Witness or Weird Al Yankovich’s brilliant Amish Paradise knows, the Amish lifestyle does not embrace modernity. To hark back to another American pop culture moment, the Amish have “no phone, no lights, no motor car, not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, it’s primitive as can be.” This is not because the Amish are victims. They have embraced a lifestyle of pre-modern simplicity because their faith calls upon them to live this way.
However, in Canada, religious beliefs are not a defense against a massively overreaching government. Rebel News reported on the story in August:
The problem began with the Canadian government's enforcement of the ArriveCan app during the COVID-19 pandemic. This app was mandatory for anyone entering Canada, requiring travellers to submit their health information digitally.
The Amish, however, do not use smartphones, let alone apps. They also have religious exemptions from vaccinations, making the use of such technology unnecessary and intrusive for them. Yet, despite these clear exemptions, the government insisted on compliance, leading to severe penalties.
The result? The Amish community in Chatsworth has been slapped with nearly $300,000 in fines for not using the ArriveCan app. This is a community that doesn’t use electricity, let alone digital applications.
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Why would anyone vote for leftists?
They don’t use zippers. Do they use computers?
Trump better help save our former allies from themselves. Fiveyes appears to be a WEF tool, not an agreement between freedom loving western democracies.
The problem is that they have a high fertility rate and are not setting themselves up for replacement by foreign prison populations and cat eaters.
Amish will face the kind of oppression and domination they led so long ago.
The United States will soon have at its northern border the equivalent of a Stalinist Russia. The United States already has at its southern border a country run by terrorists, whom the traitorous Biden regime has allowed to invade the United States and murder its citizens.
You can bet millions didn’t download Justin’s stupid app
Guess what kind of voting machines Canada uses?
Who needs votes, hmmmm...
How can a “community” be fined? Was there a much smaller fine per person which the author added together into a total?
It's not just "government" fining someone, or in this case, placing liens on properties - there's an individual, with a name, who signed off on it.
TDF steps in to support Amish community against unfair COVID-19 fines
Never forget.
Answer:
“The True Pandemic.”
This reeks of a Karen facing the worst possible thing- being ignored. The Amish effectively said, “No you can’t speak with my manager, no I don’t know or care who you are, next customer in line please.”
Bureaucrats and Marxists share the same Karen DNA. I love it when they’re told to sit down, shut up, or go away. It hurts their precious fragile ego.
Good to see the far-left maggot politicians are still using Covid to steal the big bucks.
sarc/
Our office (I am retired) does the tax returns for about 700 Amish farmers. We run into the same thing in the United States.
Had an on farm audit last year. It was hilarious. The agent asked where he could plug in his computer. There were no lights, so we kept the barn door open.
We laugh in the office at how many plastic grocery bags we get with tax records that have horse manure on them.
I had an IRS agent visit a dairy farm after it rained. She had her good shoes and dress on, while the mud and manure slurry was well over the ankles. I asked her why she didn’t bring coveralls and barnyard boots.
It’s hard keeping a straight face, especially when they are using an outhouse for the first time.
Needless to say, the audits are completed quickly with no assessments.
I wonder if they will fine the black community, who, according to liberals, “don’t know how to use computers”?
They also refused “vaccination”. No deaths among the Mennonites where I live.
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