Posted on 05/08/2023 6:18:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
'If I was able to give a message to our Premier, I would say, shame on you for not standing for the little man,' Pawlowski said in reaction to the verdict.
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) –– In a shocking court ruling Tuesday afternoon, a judge found Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski guilty of two charges linked to a sermon he gave during a Freedom Convoy-related border protest blockade in February 2022 in Coutts, Alberta.
“I am satisfied Mr. Pawlowski intended to incite the audience to continue the blockade intended to incite protesters to commit mischief,” Court of King’s Bench of Alberta Justice Gordon Krinke ruled.
Krinke found Pawlowski guilty of mischief and breaching a release order.
Pawlowski is also facing a serious criminal charge of “willfully damaging and destroying essential infrastructure,” which will be ruled upon once a constitutional case brought by his lawyers is heard.
Pawlowski is the first Albertan to be charged for violating Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA), which was put in place in 2020 under then-premier Jason Kenney.
The CIDA, however, was not put in place due to COVID mandates but rather after anti-pipeline protesters blockaded key infrastructure points such as railway lines in Alberta a few years ago.
Krinke said his decision focuses on “whether the Crown has proved beyond a reasonable doubt the actus reus (the guilty action) and mens rea (the guilty mind) to the offences which Mr. Pawlowski is charged.”
“If it has, I must convict,” he added.
Of note is that when Krinke released his verdict, Crown attorney Steve Johnson noted that he wanted Pawlowski’s CIDA charge to be stayed.
Pawlowski’s lawyer, Chad Haggerty, shot back and accused Johnson of asking for the charges to be stayed because he does not want CIDA to be overturned.
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Just sickening.
The truth has become an ‘inciting’ crime, in this 1984 upside down world.
Prayers up, for this good man.
We need more brave men like him.
>> Pawlowski is the first Albertan to be charged for violating Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act
The first one charged.
They greatly fear Pastor Pawlowski.
He does not fear them, however.
In Trudeau’s eyes there is no freedom of speech in Canada.
That law was about green protesters stopping pipelines from being built but guess who it ended up being used on.
The oil industry got what they wanted from the politicians they buy in Alberta but notice who pays the price.
They never leave this guy alone. They harass him constantly. He would have been better off going back to Poland.
Trudeau is a nazi.
The Western Legal “System” is lost. It’s totally against Western Civ.
Certainly seems to be :-(
The God denying communists in Alberta are all but begging God to make their wildfires worse.
A Good Man with a Godly message.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
Under Fidel Turdeau, Canada is now an authoritarian state, and Turdeau intends to make it more so. Biden wants to do the same here.
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