I’m not a reporter. I’m an opinion columnist. But as a man with strong opinions about my rights, I had to poke the Bonnie. Thus, my beloved and I are on the road, visiting family in lieu of their presence at other events as I’ve mentioned before. We’ve passed through small towns, entered places of business when clearly we are from out of town, and stopped along the road to take pictures. All actions forbidden by BC Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and BC Premier John Horgan. The repercussions? Nada..There was one minor delay just south of British Columbia’s Northern capital – the first official fatality of the summer driving season I would suspect, God rest them. But a quick detour on the double access road created by Enbridge to get to one of the stations for the pipeline meant that we were back on the highway shortly. While the conditions were wet until our next stop, no further traffic issues occurred..Indeed, some of the North to Southbound traffic on HWY 97 was obviously curtailed. But as we got into the Cariboo, then Chilcotin, the traffic increased: RV’s, spring black bear hunting parties, young families in minivans, and tree planting convoys were all clearly observable on the road. As for Dr. Bonnie Henry’s fantasy highway men, I saw one ghost car, one marked car, and no “COVID-19 counter-attack” road stops..So the Mounties have voted with their feet – between the gross attack on our civil liberties that would result from randomly stopping traffic without just cause as well as the risk of contracting the virus themselves, members of the RCMP have chosen to say “present” and move on. I’d advise them to keep up not enforcing stupid rules when it comes to churches or businesses, or my preferred highway speed..Those who favor of the restrictions and lockdowns have told me that anyone who has been stopped by the Queen’s Cowboys usually escapes if the word “essential” is used. For once, I’d like to say thank you to the Covid Cultists for giving me the tools necessary to live my best life (on the road)..The joke is still on all of us. I shouldn’t need to use any special code words to get out of jam with the cops – if they don’t have just cause. I should ask for their information in order to make a complaint later, and simply drive away. If we all did that – just like if we all told the inspectors or other enforcers to get out of our churches and businesses – everything would go back to normal in short order..But well over ten months later, all of us are still playing pretend, participating in the collective lie that has become life after the Rona religion took over. In the Soviet Union, the masters pretended to pay and the labourers pretended to work; in covidism, there are always exemptions for the most well connected or signs of fidelity to the new faith that can be made to help make it easier if you get caught..Just see Alberta’s crew of snowbird MLAs that jetted to warm vacations after locking their own people down..We’re all useful idiots doing choreography in a Potemkin village of propaganda..For all the terror our provincial government has sown, it doesn’t appear to be keeping British Columbians from the road..Nathan Giede is the BC Political Columnist for the Western Standard and the Host of Mountain Standard Time
I’m not a reporter. I’m an opinion columnist. But as a man with strong opinions about my rights, I had to poke the Bonnie. Thus, my beloved and I are on the road, visiting family in lieu of their presence at other events as I’ve mentioned before. We’ve passed through small towns, entered places of business when clearly we are from out of town, and stopped along the road to take pictures. All actions forbidden by BC Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and BC Premier John Horgan. The repercussions? Nada..There was one minor delay just south of British Columbia’s Northern capital – the first official fatality of the summer driving season I would suspect, God rest them. But a quick detour on the double access road created by Enbridge to get to one of the stations for the pipeline meant that we were back on the highway shortly. While the conditions were wet until our next stop, no further traffic issues occurred..Indeed, some of the North to Southbound traffic on HWY 97 was obviously curtailed. But as we got into the Cariboo, then Chilcotin, the traffic increased: RV’s, spring black bear hunting parties, young families in minivans, and tree planting convoys were all clearly observable on the road. As for Dr. Bonnie Henry’s fantasy highway men, I saw one ghost car, one marked car, and no “COVID-19 counter-attack” road stops..So the Mounties have voted with their feet – between the gross attack on our civil liberties that would result from randomly stopping traffic without just cause as well as the risk of contracting the virus themselves, members of the RCMP have chosen to say “present” and move on. I’d advise them to keep up not enforcing stupid rules when it comes to churches or businesses, or my preferred highway speed..Those who favor of the restrictions and lockdowns have told me that anyone who has been stopped by the Queen’s Cowboys usually escapes if the word “essential” is used. For once, I’d like to say thank you to the Covid Cultists for giving me the tools necessary to live my best life (on the road)..The joke is still on all of us. I shouldn’t need to use any special code words to get out of jam with the cops – if they don’t have just cause. I should ask for their information in order to make a complaint later, and simply drive away. If we all did that – just like if we all told the inspectors or other enforcers to get out of our churches and businesses – everything would go back to normal in short order..But well over ten months later, all of us are still playing pretend, participating in the collective lie that has become life after the Rona religion took over. In the Soviet Union, the masters pretended to pay and the labourers pretended to work; in covidism, there are always exemptions for the most well connected or signs of fidelity to the new faith that can be made to help make it easier if you get caught..Just see Alberta’s crew of snowbird MLAs that jetted to warm vacations after locking their own people down..We’re all useful idiots doing choreography in a Potemkin village of propaganda..For all the terror our provincial government has sown, it doesn’t appear to be keeping British Columbians from the road..Nathan Giede is the BC Political Columnist for the Western Standard and the Host of Mountain Standard Time