UPDATE: Amish persecuted by Trudeau Liberals over ArriveCan will have their day in court
Mark Joseph, a lawyer with The Democracy Fund, joins David Menzies for an update on Amish families who had liens placed on their properties over unpaid ArriveCan fines.
COVID-19 is in the rearview of history, but its ugly history lives on.
Case in point: in the department of “how low can the Justin Trudeau Liberals go?”, the answer is this: the federal government is pursuing a jihad to persecute and prosecute the Amish people.
You see, during the pandemic years, from time to time, the Canadian Amish would go back and forth to the United States to visit their American Amish counterparts.
But when the Canadian Amish families crossed the border back into Canada they’d be hammered with a $6,000 fine!
That’s because they did not have the ArriveCan app on their cellphones. And for good reason: the Amish don’t have cellphones! They don’t even have landlines. They don’t even make use of electricity!
Thus, an app is a completely alien concept for a group of people who go out of their way to shun technology. (Indeed, members of the Amish community won’t even come on camera for interviews.)
The irony is both profound and perverse: some two centuries ago, the Amish immigrated to Ontario before the province was even known as “Ontario.” The Amish were fleeing religious persecution in Europe. But 21st century Canada is lorded over by Justin Trudeau, and so it is that the Amish are once again being persecuted — and being handed an economic death sentence in the process.
Here’s the skinny: every Amish man, woman and child who crossed the border during the ArriveCan period were dinged with a $6,000 ticket. The final tally is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars! All because the Amish did not — and could not — use the so-called “ArriveScam” app (which, incidentally, proved to be absolutely useless in doing anything tangible to protect Canadians from COVID in the first place...)
By the way, isn’t the real criminal act when it comes to ArriveCan the way in which this app was tendered out? But we digress…
Disgustingly, the federal government continues to play hardball with the Amish.
Recently, an Amish farmer went to his bank to get a loan to buy some livestock. Par for the course, he offered his property as security for the loan. Can you imagine his shock when the banker told the Amish farmer that the federal government had put a lien on his property! A lien that would remain until all the ArriveCan fines were paid off in full!
Much to their chagrin, other Amish farmers found themselves in the same boat, that their assets had also been frozen.
Yeah, let’s go after those Amish… meanwhile, the pro-Hamas deplorables chant for the genocide of the Jewish people every weekend and it’s nothing to see here, folks, move along…
But Rebel News is fighting back along with The Democracy Fund. The Democracy Fund is fighting for the Amish in a court of law whereas Rebel News will fight for these good people in the court of public opinion.
And we have some good news to report.
Mark Joseph, a lawyer with The Democracy Fund, was recently successful in having this matter brought before the court (despite the passage of time.) And get this: already some of the Amish families have had the liens removed from their properties. As well, more Amish families have signed up with The Democracy Fund to have their day in court.
Many of the cases are slated to be heard early next year. Hopefully the Crown will do the right thing and dismiss them outright.
David Menzies
Mission Specialist
David “The Menzoid” Menzies is the Rebel News "Mission Specialist." The Menzoid is equal parts outrageous and irreverent as he dares to ask the type of questions those in the Media Party would rather not ponder.
COMMENTS
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Mary Anne Tracy commented 2024-11-19 19:59:59 -0500This content should be blasted all over the media, if enough people hear this even Trudeau will feign shame or blame it on the other guy.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2024-11-19 19:39:38 -0500No wonder people despise bureaucrats. Those poor Amish just want to live their lives in peace. Instead, Dictator Trudeau passes all sorts of rules to make all our lives miserable.