It was May of 2020, when I started seeing through the rhetoric, and came to the conclusion that we were better off taking our chances with the COVID bug, than living with the consequences of government overreach and the resulting lockstep fall into totalitarian control over our lives.
One of the first things a malevolent government does is take control of the media. Soviet Russia did it, Nazi Germany did it, Maoist China did it, Communist China does it, Venezuela does it, North Korea does it, and the list goes on.
On the same bent, Trudeau and the Canadian government is doing it right now. Why else is CBC and so called mainstream media so heavily funded by the government? My assertion is because the above mentioned media can feed the unsuspecting masses of people whatever rhetoric it deems necessary and appropriate to maintain power.
Dave Adsett, I am horrified to read your editorial of Feb. 3, using the rhetoric of a government desperate to vilify and denounce people who will historically prove to be every bit as heroic as the people who fought and died to preserve our democracy when it was last threatened in the early 1940s.
Why not focus on the millions of dollars raised to help those on the front lines trying to restore our democracy? Why not communicate the good such as feeding and employing the homeless, the garbage being picked up, the truckers who witnessed and reported illegal acts, the overwhelming goodwill and willingness to share and help out wherever and whenever necessary?
Wayne Baker,
Wellington North