Whoa! Not so Fast:

 Social media reaction to the announcement of the number of school children's bodies found in a BC residential school's grounds is probably premature.

Before we start comparing this with Nazi slaughters at Buchenwald and Dachau, it might be a good idea to see:

--Over how many years did these bodies accumulate? Is there a chance that this was the local burial site?

--Were there no previous enquiries from families? Why the sudden concern?

--What do the school records show? Did anyone in the mainstream media take the time to check?

This announcement has gone into political mode away too fast.

We know why the government sanctioned these schools for aboriginal kids. It was the most direct way to integrate them into modern society. 

The Catholic church was just one of the organizations that had the means to administer a project designed to give aboriginal children the opportunity to succeed in a rapidly changing society.

Depriving children of their native culture and separating them from their families is the political analysis. And we know by now what political analyses are all about.. 

The announcement prompted immediate drumbeats for apologies from junior-grade diplomats like Trudeau looking for ethnic minority votes. So far, nothing from the Pope.

Nor should there be. The schools were a political undertaking. And it was a good one.

(In)Justice System:

 Isn't there something wrong with a judicial system that allows someone to publicly accuse someone else of behaviour deemed anti-social without revealing who is making the accusation?

Women have been fighting for equality with men in almost every field. They got it. And now it's time to give them equality before the law courts. When a complaint is registered against a male, the person making the complaint should get equal billing.

Any media publicizing such an accusation without including the name of the person making the complaint should be held punishable by the law. Media reporters and editors engaged in such practices should be held to account for it by the courts.

No more media trials. Too many lives have been ruined by the publication of unsubstantiated events alleged to have happened away back in high school. 

Correcting this legal gap is long overdue..

Dismantling Catholicism:

A Catholic school board is being bullied into changing a basic rule in its marriage rituals. That rule recognizes marriage as a contract between man and woman.

The sexually indeterminate groups are busy manipulating media editors into changing the lifestyle of entire communities to fit theirs. 

Their tool is a gaily-colored "rainbow" flag they use to gain the attention of media editors for news coverage. They demand that the schools raise the rainbow flag above all others to show how accepting they are of the LGBTQetc lifestyle. 

Busy editors see such material as handy freebies. It is viewed as filler material for those embarassing program gaps when there is nothing of any actual news value to insert between their advertising messages.

It is reported that the Catholic school board being thus challenged is not exactly ready to give in. It seems some of those board members would stubbornly like to keep things as they are.

Why these special interest groups do not go after civil law unions for their specific needs is the question. Law courts are where even the most difficult criminal cases are successfully dealt with.

The Catholic school board members now find themselves in the position to defend the beliefs of virtually all major religious faiths.

It is a heavy responsibility. Discarding beliefs and regulations that have worked fine for thousands of years needs serious reflection.

What Will it be??

When the corona virus finally finishes its work, allowing humanity to return to normal, what will that new normal be?

Are we going to return to looking for someone to blame for all grievances, be they personal, political, social or historic? 

Or is the virus going to inject a little much-needed perspective into our lives? 

That is what happened during the war years. That is why the post-war years were so productive of positive human effort. There was a big lesson recently learned. People were now ready to accept what was happening to them as much better than fighting for their lives.

Nobody felt automatically entitled to everything within reach.

Mob Rule:

 Should be interesting to watch the US judiciary get out of the hole they dug themselves in by the George Floyd mob scene. Leaving the verdict as it stands validates Mob Rule in the United States of America. 

It's where the jurors respond more to the activists orchestrating an ugly mob scene in the streets than to the evidence as presented before the court.

Also, leaving it as it is makes policing in the US a dangerous, garbage type of occupation, something only an immature gunslinger mentality might aspire to. 

That can lead only to  eventual attempts at mob control using armored vehicles and .50 mm Browning machine gun to keep the peace. Almost certainly not exactly what the US founding fathers had in mind..

Relaxed Vigilance?

 Has the advent of the vaccines relaxed us enough to contribute to the second, and possibly third waves of infections?

The Brits have succeeded in jabbing the largest percentage of their citizens according to the media. How are they doing? Do they have Covid 19 on the ropes yet?

Their numbers ought to be a good measuring stick on what's going to happen here if our salvation army ever gets our act together.

Climate Change Canada??

 So there's a new bureaucracy in Ottawa dedicated to stopping our planet's natural functions. It's called Climate Change Canada.

Wow! Wonder how they plan to do that? It has always been understood that if the weather changes, we adapt. Same goes for climate.

Over millions of years the planet endured ongoing climate change. The dinosaurs endured climate change until an oversized boulder from space relieved them of that responsibility.

Maybe our climatologists on Parliament Hill should take the time to check with the people who specialize in planetary dynamics to see if there is such a thing as a natural mechanism to keep the climate exactly the same all the time.

And if there isn't, why are they making an issue and an expensive bureaucracy out of it?