What you’re about to read you may find shocking or just ridiculous. While I usually don’t follow Canadian global politics, this Spring I became interested following the Maidan riots in Ukraine. A Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish friend gave me a much different perspective than the Canadian or American media was presenting, and as the situation evolved there I set out to educate myself more on Canada’s involvement.
While the media portrayed the Maidan riots as a Ukrainian Spring against a Russian-led government, the truth of the situation is much more complicated. In the more industrialized Western Ukraine, the locals support closer ties with the EU. In the East, which is a more agricultural population, the locals are worried about the new agricultural regulations that will become part of their centralized economy should Ukraine join the EU. The imposition of strict regulations that will determine which crops and livestock they can grow and sell not just to other nations but within their own communities has created a fear that they’re witnessing a repeat of the Holomodor, a recognized Ukrainian genocide brought about by poor agricultural policy directives of the USSR. The Eastern Ukrainians see the EU encroachment as a opening the door to a new Holomodor, where Western Ukraine reaps the benefits of being the industrialized portion of the country. Meanwhile the Eastern Ukrainians are left to deal with the encroachment of corporate agriculture that will strip away land titles and eliminate their way of life. This has lead to them seeking support from Russia, who has traditionally been a large purchaser of Ukrainian agriculture.
Following the Maidan riots and the ousting of President Yanukovych on Feb 21st, 2014, the new government was propped up by the radical groups responsible for his removal. Some of these groups adhere to strict National Socialist ideologies. Large portions of the current government of Ukraine are the ideological descendants of the same Ukrainian National Socialists that were quick to side with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Western Ukraine quickly built concentration camps following their absorption into Greater Germany. Eastern Ukraine, being the road through which Germany invaded Russia, saw more recruitment into the Red Army during the initial invasion and subsequent Russian counter-invasion. However, even up until the end of the war in 1945 there were still atrocities being committed against the Jewish population in the portions of Ukraine controlled by Nazi-Germany. Following the end of the war and the absorption of Ukraine into the USSR, the ultra-nationalist ideologies of National Socialism (Or Social Nationalism as they’ve re-coined it) continued to flourish in Ukraine during the Cold War. Despite Nazism being stamped out of Germany, it had already sown the seeds of its rebirth in Ukraine and we’re seeing that played out today on the global stage.
In the aftermath of the Maidan coup that removed President Yanukovych from power, the Far Right ultra-nationalist groups established a puppet government that was immediately recognized by Western countries who began funnelling funds to the new government. This government immediately adopted an anti-Russian posture, going so far as to outlaw the speaking of Russian in public spaces and government offices. This marginalized a large portion of the Eastern Ukrainian population, especially those in Crimea.
The second consequence of the Maidan coup was the Russian annexation of Crimea. This was largely derided by the West as an aggressive expansionist move. However, this situation requires an understanding of the context how unstable the situation had become. Crimea is home to Russia’s largest Naval base, with over 10,000 citizens stationed there prior to the overthrow of Yanukovych. Although Ukraine itself gave up its nuclear arsenal (3rd largest in the world at the time) when they gained their autonomy in the 90s, Russia would have still kept a nuclear arsenal for the Black Sea Fleet at various military bases on the Crimean peninsula such as Sevastopol. With the fall of Yanukovych and the rise of a new anti-Russian ultra-nationalist government, Russia did the only sane thing possible. They moved to protect their nuclear arsenal by annexing Crimea and expelling the Ukrainian military units under a new leadership that posed a threat to global nuclear security.
The response from the new Ukrainian government to this annexation was to declare Russia an aggressor and demand nuclear weapons from their new allies in the West. This story blew up in Western media very quickly and culminated when Russia took control of Sevastopol and expelled Ukrainian military on March 7th. This loss was met with the loudest call for Ukraine to re-arm itself with nuclear weapons, triggering talk of nuclear war in the media. This media event was then eclipsed the following day, March 8th, by the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The media would spend every day covering the disappearance for the next month and talk of nuclear war and the Crimea situation disappeared from the media.
As Russia solidified its hold on Crimea, the new pro-Western ultra-nationalist government would begin it’s civil war against the Eastern regions of Ukraine that were considering ceding from Ukraine to maintain closer ties with Russia.
During the next few months, Ukraine would elect their a new President to replace Yanukovych, with elections overseen by the Harper government. The end result was a victory for the pro-West, pro-EU billionaire Petro Poroshenko. Assuming office on June 7th, he initially promoted a peaceful solution to the rebellion in the Eastern regions, but his rhetoric eventually turned. He labelled the separatists terrorists and officially resumed hostilities on Canada Day, July 1st.
Concurrent to the situation in Ukraine, another problem was emerging in the Middle East:
In January of this year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Israel and spoke to the Israeli Knesset. While much of his speech was bland and political, portions of it were specifically tailored to produce a negative emotional response in those listening. He used a very sophisticate language of hate, honed through years of Canadian politics, to incite anger between the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Israel and Palestine. He proclaimed that Israel was a Jewish state, marginalizing the Muslim and Christian population. He also advised abandoning the peace process in favor of military force to settle differences that have been brewing for decades.
The breakdown in the peace process initiated by Harper lead to increased hostilities between Israel and Palestine. This came to a head when 3 Israeli teens were kidnapped and executed by an unknown group. Hamas initially applauded the kidnapping, but came out against the murders, although Israel would use the media to accuse them of planning the entire kidnapping. In response to the murder of the 3 teens, a Palestinian youth was kidnapped, beaten, had gas forced down his throat and was then set on fire. The brutality of this Israeli response triggered an increase in hostilities that resulted in rocket attacks from Gaza. During these attacks, Canadian MPs visiting Israel were forced to take cover. Western media used the attacks to create the perception that Gazans were terrorists attacking Canadians instead of a response to increased hostilities and the violent revenge execution of a Palestinian youth.
Unlike previous years, where an exchange of rocket fire would have led to casualties on both sides, the technological development of the Iron Dome, Israel’s new missile defense shield, allowed Israel to weather the rocket attacks with little to no damage. Gaza has no similar defense shield so the Israeli response of dropping rockets on Gaza while incurring no damage amongst their own population only incensed the people of Gaza further. Israel had the technology to protect themselves and their territory from Gaza’s rudimentary rocket assault with no casualties. By returning fire, they ensured that anger and rage at the indiscriminate deaths of Palestinians would continue unabated, allowing them to commit military ground forces to a campaign bent on destroying Gaza.
On the 16th of July, 2014, as Israeli forces massed on border of Gaza to prepare for a ground invasion after days of rocket attacks, the Israeli Navy targeted 4 children playing soccer on the beach in full public view. Two rockets were fired, one landing near the children and scattering them. They ran, the second landed and killed them all. The response in Gaza raised the level of anger to its highest pitch. Israel initially claimed the shelling of a public beach was purely accidental, then offered a small humanitarian window. They would use this time to finish massing their forces along the Gaza border.
The same day this widely condemned attack occurred, the Conservative Party of Canada released a militaristic propaganda video titled ‘Through Fire and Water’ that made use of key trigger words and phrases from his speech in January, combined with headlines of current events regarding the conflict that reinforced his incitement. It reiterated that Israel was a Jewish nation, and that Palestinians in Gaza were not citizens of a nation, therefore not deserving of equal rights. He advised them that Canada would stand with them as they used military force to settle their differences. This use of quotes and incitement crossed the line from a normal balanced Canadian foreign policy into outright criminal genocidal hate propaganda.
Here’s where these two seemingly isolated stories of nationalist aggression coincide:
- On the 17th of July, as Israel is poised to invade Gaza, MH17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine, killing 1 Canadian.
- Western Media and governments immediately accuse rebels and Russia of downing MH17
- Ukraine quickly releases an audio clip onto social media, claiming to be the voices of rebels taking credit for the downing
- With the media attention now on the situation in Ukraine, Israel initiates their ground offensive within minutes of the downing of MH17.
The common factors in these situations?
- Malaysians are primarily Muslims, just like the Palestinians
- MH17 and MH370 were both involved with directing media attention regarding Ukraine
- The Harper Government was involved in legitimizing the Maidan coup, getting the current President of Ukraine elected, and overseeing their current Parliamentary elections
- The Harper Government was responsible for the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and stoked the fires of hatred using sophisticated language that went undetected to the average uninformed listener
- The Harper Government immediately condemned Russia for the downing of MH17 and supported Israeli aggression
- Media fervor regarding MH17 eclipsed the brutality of the Gaza-Israel conflict
After witnessing these events, I couldn’t sit by and do nothing. The entire situation reeks of collusion to mislead and defraud the Canadian public into supporting ultra-nationalist states and secularist religious interpretations. It flies in the face of everything I’ve been raised to think Canada stood for.
On the 21st of July, I filed charges against Stephen Harper and John Baird with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary in Corner Brook for creation and dissemination of hate propaganda and incitement towards genocide under Canadian Criminal Code section 318 in relation to the video they’d released on the 16th of July titled “Through Fire and Water.”
Prior to filing the charges, I’d started a petition with the intention of collecting signatures of people who also considered the video to be hate propaganda and incitement towards genocide. The petition had over 2000 signatures from Canadians and citizens of other nations around the world before it was finally delivered to the only leader of a Federal party who didn’t make a genocidal or dehumanizing statement during the Israeli-Gaza war, MP Elizabeth May.
The charges were forwarded from the RNC to the RCMP and I received a response that I’ve been told came from the RCMP War Measures Department. The charges were dismissed without filing paperwork on August 1st. I filed a formal complaint with the Commission for Complaints Against the RCMP on August 5th pertaining to their failure to properly investigate and document the charges. The complaint was mailed out to myself and the RCMP on the 6th of August. The following week an indefinite gag order was issued by the Public Safety Minister for the RCMP Complaints Commission on the 12th, forbidding them from discussing sensitive case material that could impact national security with the general public.
After several months of waiting (and pestering), I met with the RCMP to discuss Formal Complaint on the 22nd of October. The complaint is under review and the initial stage should be complete by this coming week.
I’ve written this to ask for assistance in seeing a wrong identified and corrected. The Harper Government is dragging Canadians and the World through Hell and endangering our lives. They supported the overthrow and establishment of the new Ukrainian government who used the downing of MH17 as a pretext to increase hostilities against those in Eastern Ukraine, killing a Canadian citizen in the process. Their continued hostilities towards Russia, backed by NATO and the West, are pushing the world closer and closer to a new Cold War and new nuclear arms race. They are blatantly supporting violent regimes that are enacting genocidal policies against their neighbors.
Media events are being orchestrated in such a way to distract the public from their actions on the global stage. These are ‘Wag the Dog’ American political tactics at their worst. CBC is being used as a mouthpiece for a very dangerous foreign policy that will strip away the civil liberties of Canadians under the guise of ‘protection from terrorism’.
I realize that many of these issues are outside the awareness of most Canadians. Many receive their information only from CBC, which brings me to another piece of the puzzle. In the Fall of 2010, I started working for Alpha Technologies, a power supply company based out of BC. I was in charge of overseeing projects for their new Field Service division. The first project that I oversaw was the installation of new power systems to support a Rogers optic fiber line in CBC headquarters across the country. I wasn’t made aware of the purpose of the installations until the project was almost completed.
Under the guise of CBC budget cuts to reduce staffing requirements, these fiber lines were being installed to centralize the Master Control of each provincial CBC broadcasting headquarters with a central office in Ottawa. I didn’t think about it at the time, but this centralization took place immediately before the 2011 Elections. Its purpose seems to have been to limit the effectiveness of CBC’s investigative journalism, allowing the Harper government to steal the 2011 Election while minimizing the impact of the Robocall Scandal. I still have all the project documentation from these installations.
There’s also an issue regarding the Conservatives current use of subliminal imagery in their campaign ads to disturb the sensibilities of Canadians. At first, I found it hard to fathom that someone could be using such imagery blatantly, but it appears their intentions are to target mentally unstable Canadians. Their intent is to radicalize these individuals as a pretext for cracking down on dissent. This is a direct attack against the Rights and Freedoms of Canadian citizens.
In the case of the Ottawa shooter, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, media reports mentioned that he’d spoken to friends about being pursued by the Devil. This was at the same time he was being investigated by the RCMP and CSIS under the direction of the Harper government, who had already confiscated his passport. The same Harper government that released the following photo I’ve modified to illustrated the subliminal elements present.
I hope that I haven’t lost you by this point. As I’d mentioned in the beginning, the situation seems either shocking or ridiculous, but as MP Elizabeth May so succinctly put it earlier this year, the PMO appears to be full of “Cutthroat psychopaths.”
As a native son of Newfoundland and Labrador, I don’t think we should be supporting the kind of government who assaults Canadians by imposing their own brand of twisted morality. They’re exposing us to a barrage of imagery meant to degrade and disturb and writing Laws meant to divide us that victimize or marginalize entire classes of society.
Something needs to be done to stop these depredations. If the RCMP have their hands tied and can only do so much to investigate at this time, we don’t have to continue to submit. We should be raising our voices to show that we won’t buckle under pressure from a Federal Government gone mad. Legislature can use the Notwithstanding Clause to impugn the Acts of Parliament being forced on us by our own version of the Christian Taliban. Newfoundland and Labrador can be the first to recognize these psychopaths creating global instability to further their own ultra-nationalist agenda.
Should we choose ignorance and continue to allow our homeland to be used to legitimize these crimes against humanity, we become complicit in those same crimes.
-Andrew
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian 
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