Amish community fined $400,000 for failing to download ArriveCan app
Ezra Levant reports from Chatsworth, Ontario, where the Trudeau Liberals' bureaucrats have targeted an Amish community with massive, punitive fines for failing to use the ArriveCan travel app — despite the Amish not using smartphones, let alone application...
Hundreds of churches on fire or vandalized across the country, numerous priests pulled into a cop car and imprisoned, congregations ratted on during covid, and now Amish being put through lawfare. What next, Christian Canadian? When is the time to act?
But....but....but....Jesus said love and stuff.
He also took up a whip and chased merchants and money changers from the temple.
Within a week he was dead.
Yeah, it was sarcasm. The proprietors of the church of weak Jesus loves sin, well I believe their fate was prescribed as it being better to be tied to a millstone and cast in the sea.
I would hope people figured that out by the repetition at the start of your comment but then some miss the point of these things.
someone here mentioned that Roman culture held that slapping with the back of one's hand was reserved for doing to slaves, which means that turning the other cheek would suggest to the Roman to then slap you with the palm, as if you were an equal.
furthermore: in those times a Roman could lawfully force people to carry his gear/whatever for a mile, but any more was illegal and would get him potentially punished. "going the extra mile" isn't just being a pacifist pushover but trying to get said person in trouble.
Jesus told us to be defiant, not doormats. in that case He was speaking to destitute people who couldn't do much more than peaceful protest - in these times, if He spoke to an entire Christian continent, armed and dangerous as we are, i have faith He would tell us to do different things to the evil currently in the world.
They were told to turn the other cheek and be martyred. Der body don matter dey be called to heaven, en raptured and sheeit.
Church culture has been dumbed down in the same way regular culture has.
Yes, because a community that swears off modern technology is going to have a smartphone...
It's pathetic how they pick on a community that CAN be self-sufficient because they can't fully coerce them. They do it with everyone but it a lot more obvious with the Amish.
That's obviously a conspiracy theory. The Amish all died from covid because they didn't get vaxxxxed.
I don't get where these fines were imposed. Were these Amish crossing the border and then an agent said "you don't have the ArriveCan app", and the Amish said "no shit" and then they wrote a fine?
I bit the bullet and watched the first 7 mins of the 26 minute long grifting Ezra Levant video.
Pacifism is just a much slower version of suicide.
Like a lot of ideologies, it only works when everyone is on board.
As soon as one person, from within or out, doesn't want to play then its completely invalid and retarded.
The reason why communism (and libertarianism) doesn't work. The second that somebody realizes that hard work doesn't result in proportional reward, or somebody strong realizes they can form a gang and take what they want, those systems are toast, and it just goes back to might is right (which is how the world really works).
And because we live in a globalized world, its no longer "your neighbor has to be on board" to make your little communes and communities work. Its every fucking country in the world has to agree to play along forever.
Good work.
That don't make no sense.
I have to imagine they would contest some things in court. Otherwise they could be rolled over by anyone with a false accusation.
Maybe they meant that they wouldn't challenge the law or government? One of those Romans 13 interpretations about submitting to authorities?
The example that Levant gave after talking with a Mennonite elder was of a hypothetical young man getting charged with trespassing or a hunting violation after crossing on to signed private property with a rifle hunting rabbits.
Ezra said the community would never have an individual plead Not Guilty to any such charge and would always just pay out whatever financial penalty immediately by a pooled collection.
I could only stomach the first 1/4 of the video. Levant didn't specifically outline how the liens reached 400k.
He did mention that his sham charity, The Democracy Fund that he is constantly crowdfunding for, was already representing at least 3 cases but hoped to take on more.
It also was not specifically mentioned if the community members were served by letter mail over the last 2 years prior to learning of the liens.
The old border ArriveCAN clips I used to see on Twitter had public health & border agents write out tickets outlining the 5 figure fines right there at the Customs office at the land border before citizens were permitted re-entry.
The first 7 minutes of the video did flash on screen a few offense notices outlining amounts owed dating back to May 2022.
It's not made clear whether these were newly learned about with the recent lien or if the individuals or community leaders were served tickets 2 years ago but didn't immediately concede because the penalty amounts were so ridiculous.
Amish community aside, the expectation that everyone has to have a smart phone to function in society is disgusting. In the short span of roughly 15 years we have destroyed our sense of autonomy, freedom, privacy, and so much more.
I bought a Motorola Droid A853 shortly after it was released. I thought it was a very cool, helpful little device. At the time it was still pretty niche, something you didn't need but useful. My younger self could never have imagined the horror these things would bring.
The smart phone and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
As the phones get smarter, the people get dumber.
Flip phones are still an option for those of us who care to seek them out thankfully, but I agree that they've done immense damage to the general populace. If I could erase one technology forever it would be the smart phone.
I choose not to own a smart phone and it’s annoying how many things I’m finding myself locked out of participating in.
It would not surprise me in the least if the mark of the beast turns out to be some type of smartphone that is implemented under the skin. They are already trying to make us use phones to do anything financial. Go shopping do it with the store app. Banking? There's an app for that. Paycheck? I haven't gotten a paper check stub in a decade. Only online.
Using the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of the perfect control group and seize their land. Two birds with one stone.
Imagine being the officials who sign off on this kind of stuff. Forget just Justin, there's compliant minions below him that need to be dealt with as well.
The Twitter clips from these border app confrontation from 2022 were so nutty.
In theory, there was supposed to be a paper declaration form option that could be requested. And many dissenters did.
But instead, either the local health units or the federal Public Health Agency of Canada posted FT inspectors to harang Canadians with right of return and pass out tens of thousands of out of proportion fines on the spot.
The asshole bureaucrats and border guards really reveled in it as well. They absolutely had discretion to actually act like humans instead of despots.
What an extremely petty and uncompromising act in the face of cultural practices for someone who preens about being so welcoming and understanding.
the precedent has been set: it is illegal not to have a smartphone in Canada.
Absolute scumbaggery. Anyone involved needs to lose EVERYTHING
Next level evil if true.. Apps and QR scans are the most devious and evil things known to the modern man
This is Jew news. Ezra is a Zionist.
We all know this already, yet the fact remains that in eternally cucked Canada, a grifting jew is often the only source for certain stories.