Media-10, Society-0:

 

People are warned not to leave their homes to wander about the streets described as plague-infested by the medical community. 

The Covid-inspired lockdowns have put people right where the media wants them--firmly seated before their TV screens. They cannot miss the commercial messages.

Instead of attending to civic duties of keeping the commercial structures humming, the politicians go along with this. Spooked by the threat of a fall vote, where they are going to need all the media exposure they can get, they tread lightly.

Only clear winners are the mainstream media..

Logical Solution:

I grew up in the West. On my way to school each day I passed a small cemetery with poplar fence-post grave markers with cross-members either skewed by time and neglect, or rotted off. 

No evidence at all of who they were. It was said they were from the cattle ranching culture that gave way to farms.

When I migrated to Toronto, I noticed small cenotaphs with grave markers grouped around in tight circles. They marked the old cemeteries that got in the way of new highway traffic ramps. The markers were tightly grouped to mark the site within the space available. I did not dare ask what they did with the bones.

Hey, what a neat way to cover up for the progress of urbanization, I thought.

So, how difficult would it be for people concerned with those evil Indian schools to go and get the names of the children at each site who did not make it through the plagues and pandemics? 

They could be chiselled on a slate or granite slab and mounted in full view on each site. They could even be done like the petroglyphs, uniquely representative of native cultures.

Such memorials could be more appropriate than the few markers afforded for the kids, both aboriginal and immigrant, who died at home over the same period and of the same causes.

Their mostly anonymous remains populate the old cemeteries all across the land. 

Preparing for Election:

The left-wing media is preparing for a fall vote.

It's obvious. CTV managed to exhibit full frontal and profile shots of our young PM's handsome features at least a dozen times in the course of a half hour news cast Friday nite. No doubt CBC is doing the same. Exposure wins elections.

No shots of O'Toole.

On the provincial scene, every shot of Doug Ford was with full face mask while Andrea Horwath was shown posturing relaxed full length while delivering her message with teeth in full view.

Maybe we should stop complaining. This sort of partisan bias is less boring than still more Covid 19 infection statistics that fail to tell us if the few casualties were vulnerable elders or members of the general public. 

If they were of the vulnerable category, the decline in infections would be due not so much to the vaccinations, but because the virus has run out of vulnerable elders and has gone back into a dormant state until it is once again needed.

This leaves the medical community with the need to give up star status in the media and the media with the need to once again dig for real news to insert between their commercials. 

Who knows--they might even interview people who were in charge of some of those evil aboriginal schools to see if there are simple explanations or some logical perspective on what actually happened. 

This would allow readers to draw fewer media-hyped conclusions and implications of atrocities comparable only with Nazi population control.

Anti-Education:

 How dare anybody attempt to bring aboriginal children up to speed in a rapidly evolving society?

Why should they be deprived of the right to go back to the status of hunter/gatherers even though that lifestyle has been abandoned even by the Head hunters of Borneo?

Why aren't we hearing about the successful graduates of Indian schools? 

Surely they weren't all of the mental equivalent of those "students" who had nothing better to do with their education than to topple bronze statues of people significant to past generations.

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.