Alberta’s Fallen Idol.
Unlike conservatives, I as a libertarian make no excuses for provincial “leaders” who claim to protect constitutional rights and then succumb to the “pressure” (whatever that means) of his executive critics in council.
Where there is centralized lawmaking, there is little transparency. Where there is centralized subordinate legislation(which has not been passed through the legislature, but behind closed doors) there is zero transparency.
The blind faith Conservatives in Alberta have(or had) in Premier Kenney was predicated on the fact that over the months he has been critical of Trudeau’s anti oil scheme(i.e. climate justice/ethical socialism), Covid restrictions(i.e. lockdowns)and most recently the “Great Reset”. Conservatives know of this partly through legislation but mostly through looking at what Kenney says as opposed to what he delivers.
Governments are supposed to(in theory) protect and facilitate liberty, but do they do not provide deliverance. They will protect your rights and freedoms on the condition that they have power to monopolize the services which enforce their laws(i.e. social contract).
As seen with Premier Kenney, it does not matter if so-called “leaders” are benevolent or volatile. Once they succumb to incentives or the “pressure” to produce unlawful laws, there is no stopping the enforcement of those unlawful laws UNLESS the citizens (the governed) itself starts consolidating their self reliance. That is to say, people who know their civil rights and begin strategizing therefrom(i.e. activism, obstructing the police, operating their business covertly, building networks and associations). It is asinine to put faith in a lone representative, such as Premier Kenney.
As for the lockdowns themselves, I have yet to see any of the most articulate of the obedient persons, or pro lockdowners (if there is an articulate one amongst them) crawl out of their safe spaces to justify why lockdowns exist or draw any scholarly links between lockdowns and clinical evidence or even argue why lockdowns are a necessary evil.
The politicians, like Premier Kenney, do not speak of necessary evils or use any type of coercive language that would scare people into believing the police are more harmful than the apparently “smart” or “illusive” virus. A virus that is so “smart” that even the Holy Grail, Mimir’s Well, World Tree or circuit breaker Excalibur of emergency legislation(i.e. lockdowns), which was best weapon to eliminate Covid/flu, turns out to be utterly futile! If no argument can be made for the efficacy of lockdowns then it is a capricious dictatorship. We have now ascended into the study of psychopathy as all our constitutional studies have been exhausted.
If a Lockdown Handbook were to be produced, most of the input would not be from lowly public health officers, but from those who are skilled in policing or criminology. Public Health gremlins may be credited with helping produce the Handbook, but they would not have anything to offer as seen in these press conferences. They merely state number of cases(not deaths), reply to questions made on trivial matters(i.e. how many people can be in the house, while making no connection to germ theory) and end with the slogan/misnomer that ”We are all in this together”. I have to wonder why Dr. Williams(Ontario) would say such a thing in a low pitched, dispassionate and monotone voice? Does apparent tragedy not arouse the passions in getting the “damned” curve flattened? Perhaps, practically speaking, the only way to transcend into post-Covid Nirvana is having a boot of a police officer “flatten the curve” for us. The boot being the symbol which flattens the curve of prosperity.
The Conservative language of Kenney, up to this point, has merely amused Albertans to ensure they don’t anticipate the inevitable. The provincial patriots have based Kenney’s integrity on what he says and not based on what his function is.
The 2018 Doug Ford, like Kenny, was also an idol for change. Yet he eventually had to succumb to his cheery cheese cake sized incentives. Now Ford and Kenny may as well share their lockdown induced scrooge-like stay at home recipes with each other.
All idols fall when the fires of bribery are strong.
