Time for Canadian Christians to dust off the playbook used for centuries when persecuted. Meet in secret places at secret times. Tyrants can physically prevent the use of a know building, but they cannot stop people from secretly meeting.
I don’t think so. Fighting back is the answer. If 200 riot police show up, two thousand citizens need to respond. Erect barricades around politician’s homes. Fight fire with fire.
I know it’s easy for me to armchair from afar, and people will get hurt, but governments, particularly western ones, cannot withstand that kind of pushback. It takes great courage but Solzhenitsyn showed the way.
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?…”