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Friday, April 23, 2021

Nightmare in the North

Foreword

This is a special edition of Frederick R. Smith Speaks that covers horrors from up north. A close associate, who lives in Canada, provided your author with an astonishing compendium of news. Prepare yourself for the “Nightmare in the North.”

The major focus of this paper, Covid-19, concerns a real pandemic and sympathy goes out to those who lost loved ones. Just as tragic are those lost because of the lockdowns and not included in the hyperbole. The word “Plandemic” refers to the debased elite (Illuminati) and the debased woke puppets at the end of their strings. Both enjoy the power trip to use Corona-doom (created mostly by manipulation of data) to control the world’s population.

Background

The name of the country “Dominion of Canada” derives from Psalm 72:8. “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” The Canadian Constitution directly references the supremacy of God as the foundation of law. Sadly, such as in the United States, and virtually the rest of the world, the law of the land takes a back seat. The United States Constitution is robust as well but that does not prevent our politicians from ignoring it. The same goes for common people who no longer respect the freedom of speech by engaging in the Caustic Cancel Culture Pogrom (CCCP). Particularly shameful are the big businesses with debased-woke directors and managers who do the dirty work for the crummy-woke-commie politicians.

The Canadian Constitution also assures its citizen’s freedoms, but the Plandemic lockdown overlords ignore these rights. Under the guise of Corona-doom, and as detailed below, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2 and Section 6 take a direct hit:

Section 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: 

(a) freedom of conscience and religion;

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;

(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and

(d) freedom of association.

Section 6. Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada.

The Laundry List

With so many Corona-doom news bytes from our northern correspondent, it seems impossible that other insane things occur. But alas, even more, unearthly things seem to occur in concert with Corona-doom. The news abounds every day and this is just a shortlist. Get ready for a bumpy ride and enjoy(?) your author’s summary of the following news items.  

Covid Camps

The “covid camps” (hotels under government order) are quite wild. Officials remove locks from the doors and multiple sexual assaults have occurred. There are also cases of people deprived of food for days and blocked access from the outside world. The quarters are moldy and unsanitary. The kicker is the fact that everyone must pay $2,000 for this “privilege.” 

It is getting so bad that the opposition in Parliament is calling for a suspension of the camps. The original request for proposal states internment can be needed for “other federal requirements” besides Covid. Travelers coming into Canada go into mandatory hotel quarantines as part of measures designed to keep Canadians at home as the government grows “increasingly concerned” about the risk of new Covid variants. Canadians are subject to quarantine even after testing negative and/or already receiving the vaccine. There are Canadian workers receiving vaccines in the states (due to poor implementation in Canada), specifically Florida, and when they return to Canada, they are still subject to the camps. The vaccines are working just dandy!

Church Closed and Caged

On April 8, 2021, health (cough, cough) officials in Alberta, Canada, decided to “physically close” a local church building. To reopen, the church leaders must agree to finally follow Corona-doom regulations. Police vehicles blocked entrances to the parking lot of GraceLife Church in Edmonton and officials erected fencing around the building. The congregation has met normally since summer 2020, despite requirements that church gatherings limit capacity, require masks, and practice social distancing. Law enforcement arrested its pastor who spent a month in jail refusing the conditions of bail (agree to follow health regulations).

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms that represent GraceLife elders, and the pastor James Coates, said this action prevents citizens from “exercising their Charter freedoms of peaceful assembly, association, and worship.” The church leaders wrote: “We believe love for our neighbor demands that we exercise our civil liberties. We do not see our actions as perpetuating the longevity of Covid-19 or any other virus that will inevitably come along. If anything, we see our actions as contributing to its end—the end of destructive lockdowns and the end of the attempt to institutionalize the debilitating fear of viral infections.” The congregation continues to meet at a secret location for fear of reprisal from authorities.

Covid Overlords Cancel Healthcare

Throughout the Plandemic, hospital “Covid-19 protocols” resulted in the cancellation of many surgeries. One example, from the first stages of the Corona-doom, included the cancellation of a British Columbia man’s surgery. As a result, he died and therefore this simply amounts to murder by bureaucracy. Chris Walcroft, a 50-year-old father of two, passed on April 15, 2020, after the cancellation of surgery, to prepare his kidney for dialysis. According to his wife, the surgery would have given him access to life-saving treatment. The hospital refused to supply an explanation.

Canada Universal Voter ID

A requirement for identification to vote in Canadian Federal elections is a new process and the woke folk supplied the usual resistance. The current government is proposing mail-in ballots as well and this effort is up in the air for the next election. While this is something our Canadian friends work to make right, their voter ID requirement makes the United States look like a third-world country. The Canadian Federal Government manages elections and has voter information stored. So, shall we get on the horn to the Caustic Cancel Culture Program (CCCP) and sic them on Canada? Furthermore, do we insist that Major League Baseball cancel their relationship with the Toronto Blue Jays?

Drug Dispensing Machines

How about $3.5 million for vending machines to dispense medical-grade opioids? The federal government supplied funding for five vending machines that will dispense the “meds” in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. This program will (supposedly) help prevent overdoses.

Father Arrested for Being Father

A British Columbia father faced contempt of court charges concerning the spreading of information about his transgender child. The father breached court orders banning him from revealing the identities of his child, his former wife, and medical professionals engaged in his child’s transgender treatment. It is all about the father’s objection to his child born female at birth but undergoing “gender affirmation treatments.” The mother supported the child’s transition, and the father ended up in jail for calling his daughter his daughter.

All the above problems occurred because some lousy woke judge or judges said to call a girl a girl is illegal. The high court ordered the dad not to stand in the way of the 15-year-old’s hormone therapy. He shall better understand gender dysphoria! The loving officials ordered the dad to stop speaking to the media about the case. They warned that his public attempts to undermine his child’s wishes are a form of “family violence.” More recently, the system sentenced the father to six months of incarceration and subject him to a mandatory $30,000 donation to charity. This makes Orwell’s 1984 seem mild.

Free Speech Fallen

A Canadian activist from Vancouver traveled to Montreal to peacefully show his displeasure about giving puberty blockers to children. Black-clad debased woke folk attacked the man. These commie creeps punched the activist, stole his camera, and broke his arm with a traffic cone. The incident occurred in downtown Montreal, where the Vancouver resident said he was having a peaceful conversation with a local man. Video shows several assailants, including at least one woman. 

Independent Media Not

The pro-government media has been bought out by the Prime Minister via a $30 million bailout package. If they dissent, they lose their funding so everyone in the Canadian media supports lockdowns. On March 20, 2020, the National Observer reported Prime Minister Trudeau’s remarks: “Right now, it is more important than ever that Canadians have access to the latest news and information… To ensure that journalists can continue to do this vital work, our government is announcing new measures to support them.” Let us face it cogent unwoke folk, Plandemic lockdowns cause more problems than they supposedly fix. Just like in the USA, the Canadian Media is a lapdog for the government.

But wait there is more. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a state broadcaster (completely funded by the government) that gets $1.5 billion per year in federal subsidies but only watched by 329,000 people in Canada. There have been calls to defund the state broadcaster altogether. The current policy of the federal opposition is to defund the English portion of the CBC but many people say this does not go far enough.

History Forgotten and Ignored

Our Canadian correspondent spoke to people that immigrated legally to Canada who lived during communist rule in Poland. They are terrified that the same thing is happening in Canada with all the socialist programs implemented under the guise of fighting Covid. Likewise, the better half of the son of your author’s neighbor is from Russia. This lady, and her Russian parents, have the same sentiment about the States as reported by our Canadian correspondent.

Interprovincial Travel Trashed

Interprovincial travel is a way of life, but Québec restricted it last year and it affected many people. Divorced parents with shared custody were not able to see their children. The “Covid Police” forbade the maintenance of cottages and second properties. Also, they prohibited medical help unless a patient already had an appointment. People could not go property shopping. The mayor of Ottawa said that he did not approve of this but had to comply as it was a provincial order. The understaffed police situation results in more crime in trying to enforce these draconian measures.

Officials were exempt from the travel restrictions. With churches closed, the Prime Minister was able to cross provincial lines to visit his cottage for Easter.

Military Propaganda Plan

Canadian military leaders developed a propaganda plan to thwart civil disobedience caused by Covid measures. However, the top brass shut it down because of its radical measures of “shaping” and “exploiting” information. Specifically, the program planners wanted to keep civil order during the Plandemic. Cooler heads prevailed because of concerns that the plan could be open to abuse because of the propaganda. Military sources contacted the Canadian media to raise concerns. Issued on April 8, 2020, it was officially halted on May 1, 2020. The top military leader said that as long as he is in charge, these tactics wouldn’t be used in a domestic situation (except in the case of an enemy invasion).

Riots in Canada

On April 11, 2021, scores of protesters set fires and smashed windows in downtown Montreal. This Canadian version of mostly peaceful protests occurred because of an adjustment to a Covid-1984 curfew. With the officials tightening the city-wide curfew from 9:30 to 8:00 PM, the protest erupted and police responded with tear gas. This move, also implemented in other Covid-19 hot spots across the province took effect in Montreal. The protest began in relative calm, with a mostly young crowd dancing to music from loudspeakers while lighting fireworks and chanting, “freedom for the young.”

Saving Ethnic Babies Equals Hate Speech

In October 2020, a Canadian territorial Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), equivalent to a member of a state legislator in the USA, faced removal from his cabinet position of Artic College and Nanavut Housing Corporation. As a reference, Nunavut is a Canadian Territory (the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada). MLA legislator Patterk Netser denounced burn loot & mayhem (BLM) and abortions in the African American community. He posted comments on Facebook criticizing African American women for having abortions and saying that “all lives matter.” Premier Joe Savikataaq said Netser’s comments were “based on racism and gender violence.” So, saving babies is a form of racism.

Unreal Real Estate

Homes in Toronto’s poorest neighborhoods are going for $750,000. Many residents are either leaving the city or applying for social housing. A hut in Toronto sold last year for almost $2 million. A tiny Toronto house that hit the market for $1 million has just sold for $800,000 over its asking price. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom home in “Little Italy” went up for sale in July 2020 and received lots of attention for its high asking price. Meanwhile, a basketball player in Toronto recently sold his house for $5.12 million. When the story made international news, many people could not believe the small size of the house. Five million dollars does not buy much in Toronto anymore. It is exceedingly difficult to build housing due to red tape, so prices have always been artificially high. 

Many people in Canada buy housing as an “investment” instead of stock as the price always increases due to lack of supply. Government intervention also makes the housing industry something “too big to fail.” Corona-doom has merely accelerated this process. Rentals and condominium pricing/capacity in Toronto are dropping drastically but property increases in value throughout Canada in general.

Xenophobia in Canada?

A University of British Columba student from Ontario reported vandalism to her car while enjoying skiing at a ski resort. Because her car has Ontario license plates, she urged others to think twice before judging a car and its driver based on its license plates.  

Along these lines, in a blast from the past, your author traveled to Canada some 30 years ago to do some professional technical consulting. Small measuring instruments in my baggage got the Canadian customs in an uproar. They asked why a US citizen would be doing this work with Canadians out of work. Convincing the officials that this was an incredibly special consult with the Canadian company requesting my services, they let me go on. While irritating back then, I now say good for Canada to take care of their own. Oh Canada!

Your author’s experience at the border is not unique and goes both ways. Canadian NAFTA status workers, when they go to the States, legally get the same resistance at the border. It makes Canadians scratch their head as they are given resistance and accused of “stealing US jobs” while the debased woke swamp creatures let illegal aliens (oops, undocumented visitors) in from Mexico. The Canadian workers worried that NAFTA status would change as Trump re-drafted NAFTA, but nothing changed.

Afterword

By their actions, the Canadian overlords, like many in the States, imply by their unconstitutional and cruel actions that Corona-doom shall only be canceled after zero. We are talking zero sicknesses, zero “cases,” zero hospital admissions, and zero deaths. And let us not forget zero CO2. As a bonus for the overlords (or should it be over-loads), this zero will never occur, thus ushering in the forever new normal. So, therefore it is necessary and convenient to classify so many losses as Covid. In normal times a lot of these same losses would be, well, losses. RIP deceased fellow citizens of the world.

Currently, Canada’s leaders are the Western Hemisphere’s Covid worshipping poster children. The crème de la crème is the Province of Ontario with its Covid Police State. My good Canadian friends and other citizens are in shock. Meanwhile, our woke governors in the States look on with envy.

The masked virtue-signaling marches on. Just listen (it hurts) to the Fauchi worshippers who go along with wearing a mask after vaccination. We are equals now, the Church of Covid, just like Animal Farm. Too bad our leaders do not just man up (uh oh, hate speech) and say the truth: the crummy experimental injections are as worthless as a tit on a bullfrog. On the other hand, it just may be the ticket to cull the population in the long run. That is good for Mother Gaia.

Out of bad comes some good news. Many Canadian leaders have stood up, but they have been ostracized by the media or kicked out of their respective parties. So many politicians have been kicked out, they have started an anti-lockdown caucus.

And, last but not least, check out this gem: Canada’s disturbing censorship conversation.

Sources

Covid Camps

Church Closed and Caged

Covid Overlords Cancel Healthcare

Canada Universal Voter ID

Drug Dispensing Machines

Father Arrested for Being Father

Free Speech Fallen

Independent Media Not

History Forgotten and Ignored

  • Your author and Canadian correspondent’s personal experience.

Interprovincial Travel Trashed

Military Propaganda Plan

Missing Mental Health Measures

Riots in Canada

Saving Ethnic Babies Equals Hate Speech

Unreal Real Estate

Xenophobia in Canada?

Afterword

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Cogent Author and Publisher, Frederick R. Smith
Cogent Correspondent, anonymous Canadian
Cogent Editor, Sean Tinney

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    Monday, March 22, 2021

    USS Belleau Wood I CV-24


    Frederick R Smith has moved to Frederick R. Smith Speaks (substack.com)

    Foreword

    Your Author Frederick R. Smith (FRS), the son of Frank G. (FGS), had a vivid dream on March 21, 2021. In this dream, my father (10/03/1920 – 08/01/2002) appeared and spoke about something from his past that was both good and bad. We talked about sharing this story. Upon waking up, a light bulb that went off in my mind. In 1988, my Father wrote about this story, and here it is for your reading pleasure.

    The Story

    “I WAS THERE”

    OCTOBER 30, 1944

    ABOARD THE U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD

    This “Mutt” will begin a story starting on July 7th, 1942. On this day, I enlisted in the Navy. To say the least, a memorial day because as I embarked on the train to Great Lakes, the temperature in Chicago was 107 degrees, an all-time high.

    As usual, after arriving at Great Lakes, the B.S. began. Clothes that don’t fit and a hell of a time finding a pair of 12D shoes. What an ordeal! The first day at camp I fell out of my hammock about six times; I finally got to sleep. The next day the usual; oops there goes my curly hair! Yikes! Hated the 5:30 uptime, then on sloppy joes -- you know the rest of this bit.

    After qualification exams, I got my answer soon. Now off to Purdue University for a ninety-day wonder program. Turned out a 3rd class electrician. This changed the rest of my life.

    So on to Norfolk, VA. I was assigned to the “Charger,” a training ship -- yuck! What a bathtub! After seven days of this, I was shipped to Philadelphia Naval Center and assigned to the U.S.S. Belleau Woods. Since it was in the final stages of construction, I had time to “footsie.” A note of interest -- time to meet my wife of now forty-four years.

    As our ship was completed, a call to a “shakedown.” So off to Trinidad Isle. Nothing could go wrong -- everything ship-shape. On the way back from Trinidad, the Captain let her loose zig-zag at 24 knots. Yikes! I thought it would shake her apart. Back to Philadelphia again to load up to the gunnels with supplies.

    Our new Captain “McBride” (later to become Rear Admiral) was assigned to the ship. Now we knew we had to be ready. Time to leaver down the Pike to the Panama Canal Zone and on to San Francisco. We unloaded a lot there and took on planes. Little time wasted. Now off into the sunset and finally “Pearl Harbor.” Lucky for me my buddy from the U.S.S. Idaho was there. Somehow it made me feel it was all worthwhile, knowing he and I were fighting the same war. I liked liberty but was anxious to get out to sea. January 1943 -- now we were off, south to “Baker Island.” We circled that little island about twenty-three times (I think). No Japs there so an airstrip was set up as a stepping stone to the West. At this point, a little humor. I got a kick out of the chickens who crapped out on the “Polywog” ceremony. This includes “yours truly.” Big deal “going around the equator.” At least it created a lot of good laughs.

    Now we’re going on to more serious sea areas. We headed for the “Gilbert Islands.” Talk about a “cakewalk.” This was it! While we lost the U.S.S. Independence (CVL-21) in a freak encounter with a Jap submarine, we plastered these islands like you wouldn’t believe. Little or no Jap resistance was evident. Clean up like “washing the dishes.” With this out of the way, we headed toward the Marianas group. It didn’t take long until we met some stiff resistance. The Japs said, “Oh oh, here comes more trouble.” You betcha -- I can still see the “Micky Mouse” planes that tried to get to us. What a laffer! None reached us and all were shot down. Another four-star performance!  Kwajalein was a gift to us as it was a future home base for supplies. Time for more supplies -- back to our new base in the Gilberts, Majuro, recently captured from the Japs. Set foot on land for the first time in four months. Yuk! Warm beer was lousy. I sold mine for 50 cents a bottle to the suckers.

    After loaded fully, we started our voyage to “Truk Islands.” Things seemed to slow down; plenty of time to shoot crap and for card games. I was a loser as usual. I can still hear the dice banging on the bulkhead. Fun for the time being. When we approached “Truk Islands,” more action. We and other task forces “plastered” the Japs, sinking most of their vessels in the Truk Islands Harbors by our air power -- this was a key offense to our eventual victory. They lost more than 600 vessels. Our losses next to none.

    At Truk, we teamed up with another task force. Now we had the U.S.S. New Jersey, U.S.S. Franklin, U.S.S. Wichita and lots of “cans” with us. Northbound for all of us. We had two objectives -- Guam and Saipan. Can’t remember which came first, but I'll never forget the “turkey shoot” we fired at Saipan. We saw many Jap planes in the sky around us. The Japs were desperate to control the corridor to the Hawaiian Islands and Midway. This “turkey shoot” was something else. Jap planes dropping all over the area. Our fighters picked them off like flies. One Jap came close to hitting us. As Belleau Wood’s 20MMs were blasting away, we caught a Jap trying to make a run on us. This damned thing refused to go down or blow up. This Jap was already dead-headed directly towards us, but the Jap's timing was off. His burning plane missed us by only 50 feet above our aft elevator. The Jap hit the water about 200 feet from us. Close call. It didn't take long to get everything under control. The Japs lost over 600 planes to our 27. They were inexperienced pilots. Most of them were under 18 years of age! Two days later all seemed to be “A-OK.” Intelligence must have had some kind of insight.

    After Saipan and Guam, we headed southwest toward the “Carolinas.” We took supplies aboard at sea. Other task forces joined us. The U.S.S. Idaho was in sight but not to be our partner, so there goes my buddy.

    On the way to the Carolinas, our radar picked up three bleeps at nineteen miles. After sitting at general quarters for an hour, I could see my perspiration rolling down my leg. No ventilation and no freshwater. My perspiration rolled from one bulkhead and back to me as the ship rolled. How! If hell is this hot, from now on I’m going to be a good boy! Anyway, we shot down the three boogies. So, all’s well now.

    No more encounter as we finally got to New Hebrides off the Australian coast for supplies. Talk about surprises; this was it. Natives were black with almost red hair. No liberty? time was precious. We didn’t stay long; we had other things to do.

    A quick notice, back to the sea north to the Philippines. All hell broke loose! We cut off the Jap fleet including the prize Jap “Yamamoto” and many others. Our air support and the U.S.S. Enterprise plastered the Japs. Getting the “Yamamoto” was a real moral victory for us. What a delight it was to have the U.S.S. New Jersey with us. What a magnificent ship! Like having “Babe Ruth” play with teenagers. I can’t say enough to describe my delight at seeing her at our side.

    To other places now. Oh boy! Here comes a typhoon -- yikes! Talk about tossing and rolling, listing to 25 degrees from one side to the other. Good thing I had good sea legs.  I wish we had that rain now.

    Now we begin in earnest. October of 1944. Our float with all of the “goodies” -- U.S.S. New Jersey, U.S.S. Franklin, U.S.S. Wichita and many “cans” -- steamed to the North. About 1:30 PM on October 30, 1944 -- Surprise! “Here come the Japs!” Our radar picked up the bleeps and to G.Q.  we go. I was stationed on the hangar deck and watched out on the port blister when I saw a Jap plane make a run on the U.S.S. Franklin. The Jap dove down, dropped an “egg” on her. Clear as can be; it couldn’t miss. As it hit, the Jap “peeled off" and headed directly toward us. Oh boy! Jap was determined to hit us. As he approached I ran into the hangar yelling “fire on the hangar deck.” I only assumed it was a crash. Damned if I wasn't right! The Jap hit us on the aft elevator, plane, and all. Talk about confusion, this was it! Being very graceful about my language (I didn't swear or use vulgar language), now it's time to calm the crew. A boatswain above my rank had to get the planes on deck in order. Screaming and all pulling in different directions, I called down to the crew, “shut up you bastards and listen to the boatswain.” Shocked by my harsh language, they all pulled together and the planes were pushed to a safer place. The aft elevator pit was flooded from conflagration to a depth of four feet. As the injured come from the flight deck end down the rear ladder, I assisted them through the elevator to other help on the hanger deck.

    I remember one of my favorite officers staggering through the elevator pit asking me, “Please, help me, I'm burned badly.” I got him to the hanger deck where others could help. Shame, I never did find out if he recovered or not. Sickbay was bulging with the injured. No time for crying -- now on to dumping “the inflammables.” Wow! What waste -- barrels and barrels of oil went over the side. I couldn’t keep my mind off having watched my buddy “Poxy” go over the side in flames as the Jap hit us. It’s now time to get the fire out, but the hangar deck did little good since the fire was on the flight deck. It’s now about 2:30 P.M. and the fire is still burning on the flight deck. A stubborn flame due to the gas from all the planes still aboard. We did our part on the hangar deck. It’s now about 3 P.M. and orders from “Comsat” to abandon the ship. Our Captain McBride asked permission for one more hour to put out the fire. Permission granted. Boy! What a relief.

    About 4 P.M. the fire was under control. Since only about three hours of daylight was left, a rescue was almost impossible if we had to abandon ship. We got it done like seamen should. Fire out and off to safer places. The next day we were ordered back to Pearl Harbor. After reaching there, an evaluation of the damage was done. We were ordered to San Francisco for damage repairs. Now we are ready for an extensive leave -- much needed to say the least! Not much else in this “ditty.” A thirty-day leave and on to marry my sweetie pie of now 44 years.

    A footnote at this point. September 3rd is a real bell. It’s the day I entered Purdue University. For days I kept dreaming the war would end on September 3rd. In 1944 on September 3rd, I entered the Radio Shack to ask what happened today? Was the war over? “No,” was the reply, “but the Italians surrendered today.” Dreams of September 3rd went on. I just couldn’t get it off my mind. Guess what? The Japs surrendered on September 3rd, 1945, Tokyo time.

    Not to forget the day I went into business, September 3rd, 1947. In 1950 on September 3rd my first son was born. Coincidence? Maybe, but other notables happened on September 3rd. Goofy? Not to me, it isn’t.

    The war is over, and now it’s time to goof off!

    With my best regards to all my shipmates of the U.S.S. Belleau Wood, I am

    FGS

    Postscript

    The following videos show the action from October 30, 1944.

    Naval History and Heritage Command have an excellent write-up about the Belleau Wood. 

    https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/belleau-wood-cv-24-i.html

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