Jerzy Popiełuszko
Posted on 02/22/2022 12:28:07 PM PST by lombardwarrior2
An anti-lockdown Canadian pastor who was arrested earlier this month for preaching to Canadian truckers in Coutts, Alberta, has reportedly been thrown in solitary confinement where he has been on a hunger strike for two weeks.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski was arrested on February 8, before he left his house to perform a church service for the truckers who had set up a blockade on the Alberta-Montana border to protest vaccine passports. He has been charged with mischief over $5,000, aiding and abetting the blocking of critical infrastructure, and for breaching the bail condition for “not keeping the peace,” stemming from a previous arrest.
The pastor, who has been arrested multiple times throughout the pandemic for opposing restrictions, remained quiet for most of the arrest while his brother Dawid hurled blistering invectives at the arresting officers.
“I do not cooperate with Nazis,” Pawlowski said after the cops complained that he wouldn’t stand up.
Pastor Pawlowski called Calgary Chief of Police Mark Neufeld a “disgrace to the uniform” and blasted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in a phone call with the the Christian Post from prison.
“Pawlowski accused Kenney of hypocrisy for not abiding by the coronavirus restrictions he imposed on the people of Alberta,” the outlet reported.
Dawid read a statement from his brother on Feb. 10 describing the abusive conditions of the jail.
“He was strip searched twice and checked for contraband,” Dawid began.
He was forced to go to the bathroom with an officer present and watching. They locked him twice in a small cage resembling a dog kennel with no air circulation, suffocating him for many hours, all without water to drink. After that, he was subjugated to a hard bench three times for hours on end all without any water to drink. When they took him back to his cell, his room was all upside down, flipped and searched for contraband. His bible was confiscated, and his narrated letter that was written to his lawyer was also confiscated.
“The totalitarian regime here in Canada is cracking down on any and all political opposition,” said Pawlowski’s son Nathan said on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast on Monday. The younger Pawlowski said his father has been fasting since he was put in jail two weeks ago.
During a 20 minute speech to the truckers on February 3, Pastor Pawlowski urged them to hold the line and stand their ground without resorting to violence.
“Because of that speech, the government is claiming that he is responsible for the continuation of the trucker blockade down on the border,” Nathan said, going on to explain that his father was arrested at home before he could address the protesters again.
“An undercover minivan staked out our house, and they got him—they arrested him,” Nathan told Bannon. “He has been behind bars, in solitary confinement 23 hours a day with only one hour to contact family and friends and lawyers—for doing his job and practicing his constitutional rights.”
Nathan said his father has been denied bail twice.
Lethbridge Judge Erin Olsen on Feb. 17 agreed with the government’s concerns that the pastor “will re-offend and undermine the public’s confidence in the administration of justice, if he is released,” the Lethbridge Herald reported.
“There is a substantial likelihood that the accused will, if released from custody, commit a criminal offence or interfere with the administration of justice,” Olsen said. “The accused’s pattern of behaviour speaks volumes about his willful commission of offences and/or violations of court and public health orders.”
Indeed, Pawlowski has butted heads with Canadian authorities repeatedly throughout the pandemic. He has been arrested for holding a church services in violation of worship restrictions and for protesting outside the home of Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping.
A video of Pawlowski calling local police Nazis and Gestapo for entering his church on Easter Sunday to enforce coronavirus restrictions went viral last year.
Pawlowski and Dawid were arrested on New Year’s Day 2022 for allegedly breaking a court order. The brothers were arrested on their way home from a protest against COVID rules and jab mandates that was held outside of the house of Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping.
“I guess in a kind of new Iron Curtain of Chinada you’re not allowed to voice your dissatisfaction with the wicked, evil, lying, deceiving, corrupted government official,” Pawlowski told Rebel News from jail after the Jan. 1 arrest. “I was handcuffed, arrested for breach, for mischief, and for obstruction, for whatever reason, I don’t really know, but those are the charges that I am facing.”
Artur and his brother Dawid emigrated to Canada from Poland, and the pastor become known for comparing the actions of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to what he saw growing up behind the Iron Curtain.
Rebel News publisher Ezra Levant said on his talk show that the latest arrest of the Christian pastor was an example of how “authoritarian Canada” has become a virtual police state. “This was clearly an attempt to stop him from expressing himself politically to these truckers,” Levant said.
Nathan Pawlowski told Bannon that Trudeau’s government now has a “vendetta” against his father and he’s become a “political prisoner.”
“They keep denying him bail because I believe the charges are trumped up—they’re made up charges, and they know they’re not going to stick,” Nathan said. “So the only way they can get revenge on him—because he embarrassed them and exposed them on a global level—is by keeping him behind bars and denying him bail.”
Cindy Chafian, the executive director of Moms For America Action, said told Bannon that Pastor Pawlowski has been an inspiration to Canadians throughout the pandemic, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, and because of this, Trudeau’s government has “imprisoned him to keep him silent.”
Canadians are socialists. I have many friends, relatives in Canada. They are very passive. The politicians they voted in just extended their PM’s lawless martial law extension. The majority will never uprise and defend patriots or nationalism.
They can sing “Oh Canada” all day long but they will never put the words into action.
We must support everyone of our Canadian brothers and sisters against tryanny and slavery.
Trudeau is the definition of treason against Canada.
Ottawa police love to strip search , must be trained by Communists
If there was ever a government begging for a revolution...
Thought the same thing.
The true face of the Canadian government is exposed.
Just a precursor to the end times’ NWO and Tribulation with a capital T. Jesus is the ONLY answer to this mess and more more, people just don’t get the times in which we live.
https://youtu.be/j8wRKf2mJ5o
Used to think Canada was ok.
No more.
Three dynamic tyrants.....
Justin: If only I had at least average testosterone levels I would love to grow a moustache like my heroes. But if I did maybe my tight lacy silk underwear would pinch at the crotch when I moved around. No problems there now. And I only have to shave once a month.
We by all rights should be sanctioning Canada over their human rights violations
I don’t see Canada doing anything but cowing down. You are right they are socialist and as long as der fuhrer hands out goodies he can obliterate his political opposition with jail terms.
Their parliament voted to support this dictatorship. They will rue the day because Castro Jr. will turn the emergency order on his political opposition in parliament just as he does to his opposition in the streets.
From Perth in the western Pacific, across the America’s to the gates of Vienna a new iron curtain has descended as old western democracies die off or commit suicide in the name of progressive/Marxist ideology and security in the name of covid. Unfortunately there is no USA out there as a beacon of freedom and support. We are teetering on the brink as well. The next twelve-twenty four months will decide the fate of freedom in the world for a generation.
If this crap keeps up I’m afraid somebody is going to freak out.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Salt and Light
13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Northern Cuba.
It hasn’t arrived yet but a new book I’ve ordered by the conservative Catholic author and media guy Deal W. Hudson The Desecrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God was discussed recently.
Hudson has already been banned and canceled all over the place for disagreeing strongly with BLM (not that!) in the past couple of years. Along with boosting Trump’s views.
The new book will say that the Dems and other Leftists need an enemy. They will be tired of bashing Trump and us so they have started plans for fighting the enemy of religion. “Science” that proves the vax jabs protect us and other nonsense is uplifted while churches and synagogues were totally locked down. Then they say the “intolerance” and “racism” is found in religion so it should be shunned. Anything said about politics is met with “Hey, no church and state crossover.” But the abortion issue is part of religion and politics if people have faith.
Remember a Dem operative said that if the Bishops condemned Biden for abortion and euthanasia the Dems would take steps to end religion’s non profit and tax exempt status. Bishops shied away and backed down, with the Pope’s stern warning to lay off his pal Joe.
Idiots. You’re giving a Christian a chance to be a martyr. That really worked well in history. Riiiiight.
The sound of goosestepping jackboots is growing louder and louder.
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