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Solidarity


Perhaps many of you do not remember ‘Solidarity.’ Perhaps many of you do not recognize the name, Lech Walesa who brought Solidarity to international acclaim back in the early 1980s. For those of you who have forgotten or who were not alive in the early 1980s, Solidarity is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.[1] Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state.[5] The union’s membership peaked at 10 million in September 1981,[2][3] representing one-third of the country’s working-age population.[6] Solidarity’s leader Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and the union is widely recognised as having played a central role in the end of Communist rule in Poland.

Why bring up Solidarity now? I bring it up because I just watched a video of Artur Polowski giving a speech to a group of truckers inside Smugglers Saloon in Coutts, Alberta, Canada. Many times during his speech, he referred to Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement.

He was talking to the group of truckers because they had just reached a deal to end the blockade of the Coutts US-Canada border crossing and take their trucks and their protest to Edmonton.

Many of you probably remember Polowski as the preacher who kicked the police out of his church service back when the Canadian government forbade indoor church services. At that time he resisted and was arrested … basically because he said the the government could not forbid services nor control the practice of religion. Although his continued protests against the over-extended police-like state in Canada went largely unnoticed here in the U.S., Artur Polowski has not been subdued. He has been arrested multiple times for going against the “Nazi government” in Alberta.

Polowski was then arrested after the truckers in Coutts changed their mind and decided to hold the fort at Coutts. He was arrested for giving the aforementioned impassionate speech. The charge ? … prosecutor Steven Johnston called Pawlowski’s words an “overt threat to violence,” CBC News said. 

Now let’s be clear. I listened to the entire twenty minute speech. There was no threat of violence. Zero! Zip! Nada! During his speech Pawlowski implored the truckers to stay and “hold the line.” And while he did say “if this is our Alamo, then so be it,” the pastor more than once said the truckers should protest peacefully and that their sheer numbers and trucks are enough. He stated, “Bullies will continue to bully unless they’re stood up to.”

Was this a good speech? Indeed, it was. Is a good speech against the law? … Not that I know of, even in Canada.

Was this an impassioned speech? Indeed it was. Is an impassioned speech against the law in Canada? … Not that I know of.

His arrest was solely a vendetta. Making something up, and throwing  Polowski into a dirty solitary confinement cell will “teach that Bastard!”

Sounds to me a lot like Nazi Germany!

1/16/22

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