Complicity

and its sister, complacency

chess.com

They had names, did Boy A and Boy B, though I do not know their names. They had faces, though I fancy their faces were masked much of the time. They will certainly be masked now, for they are dead. And they were manipulated into taking the injections that killed them.

Manipulated by whom? By us! Covid would not have killed them, would not even have troubled them. We killed them. Killed them, as we have killed the many in despair who have resorted to suicide—by our cowardice, by our complicity in a "vaccination" campaign that was as cleverly and callously devised as it was medically and morally ill-advised.

The pope still looks on benignly, having learned from Mr Bourla that he should do so. Princes and prelates continue to pressure the young to get vaccinated, so that Mr Bourla can benefit. “This is not a matter of lack of education,” opines Peter McCullough. “This is a problem of complicity. This will go down in history as the Vatican [being] complicit in the mass loss of life of people by injections.”

Dr McCullough is right, though of course it is not just the Vatican that is complicit. Far from it. Prime Minister Trudeau, for example, is complicit. Authorities everywhere are complicit, where they have coerced or even cajoled. And so are we, when we are obedient to authorities in things that call rather for disobedience.

Bishops, to be sure, must bear a special blame, beginning with the bishop of Rome. For bishops have authority from God to rebuke authorities among men when they do what is wicked. How shall we account for their continued silence on the Freedom Convoy—here at least are men who are not complicit—and on the prime minister's invocation of the Emergencies Act, against which even The New York Times has spoken? Through lawless law, peaceful protests have been made criminal, by a man criminally inclined. And the bishops, who through canonical lawlessness have made it impossible to exchange the peace of Christ in their own churches, have not dared venture any criticism. They turn away even the young who present no passport. Which, being carelessness of the fate of souls, is diabolical complicity.

Do not put their silence down to the fact that they haven’t a daily newspaper at their disposal and can't respond as swiftly as The Times. I have it on good authority that the Canadian bishops have never attempted an official discussion of the international crisis that has enfolded our country. They have had two years to recognize that the gospel of fear being preached to the nations by the magnates of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an anti-gospel. They have had two years to mount a spiritual offensive against the mass psychosis to which so many people have succumbed. Yet they have not done so. Rather they succumbed to the psychosis themselves. Even John Paul II priests, so called, who once echoed with that godly pontiff the bracing words of Jesus, “Be not afraid!”, have without embarrassment substituted the secular refrain, “Be very afraid!”

“That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world, should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt in the cognate sphere of practical economics is not surprising,” wrote Leo XIII at the outset of his famous encyclical, Rerum Novarum. “The elements of the conflict now raging are unmistakable,” he said. But things Leo perceived more than a century ago, even before the rise of communism—things that have reared up under our very noses and pranced naked before our startled eyes, altering not only practical economics but the practice of medicine; and not only the practice of medicine, but the practice of governance; and not only the practice of governance, but the practice of religion—these things the bishops seem not to perceive at all. Neither the old elements nor the new arrangements are within their ken. They do not even detect the spirit of revolutionary change at work in them.

The Spectator speaks of Trudeau’s totalitarian turn. Even the jaundiced eye of the Grey Lady can see that something is amiss here. The blinkered eye of The Globe, which the bishops apparently read, not so much. One of its reporters, I’m told, sent the following unsolicited message yesterday to some private email addresses, addresses illegally obtained and publicized by hackers:

I’m reaching out to people who seem to have donated to the GiveSendGo “freedom convoy” fundraiser. This email address was associated with one of the donations to the campaign, so I wanted to reach out to learn a bit more. I’m hoping you could answer a few questions for me: Can you confirm you donated to the fundraiser? If so, how much did you give? What was your reason for giving? The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act earlier this week, and announced donors could be investigated and face sanctions like frozen bank accounts or the cancellation of business accounts. What do you think of this announcement?

Pity he didn't ask me, for I would certainly have told him what I think. I think the public-private partnerships familiar to The Globe's stakeholders, though not perhaps to its readers, both treacherous and treasonous. I think the Trudeau government, like the Gates empire, a kleptocracy. I think ordinary Canadians (the ones that aren’t psychotic) have begun to see this, if they didn’t already know it. I hope very much that they respond to the truckers' call to ignore official disinformation and intimidation; to persist with those peaceful protests that people around the world, including some mitred people, have found so inspiring.  

That is what we must do, as the game of chess is played out. Yes, some restrictions are being lifted, for which we are all thankful. But a concerted attempt is being made to evict those whose sacrifices largely account for the lifting, and walls are going up around the Hill. Do not forget what a chilling game this is. Children have been treated like sacrificial pawns. The sight of a nimble knight suddenly jumping aside as public revulsion mounts, or of a ponderous rook like Premier Ford beating his retreat across the board, does not mean that the game is over and the good guys have won.

No, the game is far from over. The culture of lies and deceit has not yet been overcome, not even in the Church. Crime, the real crime, has not been yet been punished. Tyranny has not yet been defeated, nor the rumoured end of private banking and private property averted. What C. S. Lewis described in The Abolition of Man and in That Hideous Strength is still unfolding. We must not be complacent. We must not be complicit. We must continue to resist. We must march round Jericho until its walls collapse. We must not lose faith, and we must not forget faces, lest our own faces forever be ashamed.