Rest in Peace, Sir John ...

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Rest in Peace, Sir John ...

Far from sight and memory.

Sad that the so-called "Father of Canada" should get his symbolic comeuppance on Father's Day weekend -- in Kingston at least.

Other cities would like to see the back of him as well: CTV June 2020

• A Guelph University political scientist says Macdonald was directly responsible for atrocities.
• He used “starvation tactics” to kill large numbers of Plains Indigenous people, professor David MacDonald (no relation to Sir John A. Macdonald) told CTV News.
• “There shouldn’t be bridges and schools and all sorts of things named after someone who so blantantly went out to destroy Indigenous nations in this country.” 

 

• Montreal’s Sir John A. statue has been vandalized many times by protesters, including last Halloween, when self-described “anti-colonial zombies” covered much of it in red spray paint.
• But this week, the local protesters are sticking with a petition for now, though its writer says it’s just the beginning.
• “There are many monuments of racist white nationalists in Montréal—and one by one they will ALL see their fate,” the petition says.

In my personal opinion, it's long overdue - and I'm not connected with any organization.

The man was a nasty, cold-blooded, crude, self-aggrandising racist, and a drunken womanizer.

He contaminated the land on which we now dwell with a terrible legacy of bloodshed and unconscionable abuse of her Indigenous Peoples, and his legacy continues today in more subtle, but never-ending ways, despite the Trudeau mystique of non-racist, all-inclusive, "sunny ways".

 CanadaHistory.com: Canada's Father Figure:

• Canada could never become a conventional nation-state because it was composed of three nations — English, French, Aboriginal — and none of them trusted or liked each other. All the logic of geography, commerce, finance, transportation, and even demography made it clear that God, or nature, had intended Canada to be a northern extension of the dynamic, energetic nation south of the border.
• Two forces caused logic never to be fulfilled. One was the odd, near-inexplicable determination of the great majority of Canadians not to become Americans. In a rare instance of pan-Canadian solidarity, this held true for francophones, anglophones, and Aboriginals. 

When Louis Riel tried desperately to negotiate with the government on behalf of his people, Macdonald sent in the brute force of the military and the Mounties.

The Mounties were glorified in movies, such as this one starring Shirley Temple, telling the story of how the big bad "Indians" had the gall not to want railroad trains screaming through their lands -- and how the glorious Mounties rode in to "save the day".

Today, the RCMP can't even figure out how thousands of young Indigenous women have disappeared, and the rest of the population is only now awakening to what happened to Indigenous children at the hands of "Christians" -- despite these words of Christ:

Matthew 18:6: “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Riel was driven almost mad with shock and incredulity that the "white" invaders could be so destructive and so disrespectful of the original dwellers on these lands.

See VIDEO  "I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country."

Where is the statue of the man who cared so much about Canada's first peoples?

I'll never, ever forget Bruno Gerussi on the stage of KCVI retelling/reliving the tragic story of Louis Riel who wanted only justice and peace.

But, as I've said before:

• While I can sympathize with the motivations of the demonstrators, I feel more inclined to say: take down all statues of every kind, everywhere. Monuments are instruments of false ideas designed to control our view of the past and therefore the present.
• ​I thank whatever gods there be that pigeons exist to put matters into perspective.

I don't mean to harsh the mellow of Father's Day, but I like to think there are good, caring fathers out there who would agree.

By the way -- I've never known a Freemason who wasn't addicted to alcohol.

What's that all about, eh?

Image from Masonic Biographies