IF ONLY APPREHENDED!
Do you see the Reichstag
burning, Pierre?
Are the
flames those that Hitler saw
When his War
Measures Act filled the air
With smoke
and mirrors spewing forth the raw
Skeleton of hate, this,
the first empowering
Of the
unmeasured war, no act; real blood?
Shall we now await the
great drenching
Imposition of
Gleichschaltung, the flood
Of fascist intrusion
any-everywhere? Now
Does our Brampton Brick need the
night
Shift to keep up with
coming ovens? How
Shall you
select the chosen kind of right
People? My liberty I forced bequeath
As you grin through your rose in teeth.
NOTES:
This
sonnet was written on November 6, 1970; about three weeks after Prime Minister
Trudeau had proclaimed the War Measures
Act. It became the first in a series
of poems published in South of Tuk by
the Kangaroo City poets who were known as the
triplets.
[Sydney
Barak Lynt, Bernhardt Schmidt and K’lakokum were born within 19 hours of each
other, geographically from east to west, such that they have absolutely
identical horoscopes, with many of the events of their lives being precisely
parallel (all three had their first son born on August 28, 1968, for example).
The three poets are Librans, an astrological characteristic which they shared
with Trudeau. All three found Mr. Trudeau’s personality to be charismatic and
felt some form of affinity to him because they shared so many traits and
interests with him – but all three detested Mr. Trudeau’s politics.] The triplets felt that declaration of War Measures was a false flag operation.
This
sonnet opens with a reference to the Reichstag
fire which was the false flag which was used to bring Hitler to power in Germany
in 1932. The poem expresses fears that Canada
will see similar Gleichschaltung and
other consequences of fascist power: “my
liberty I forced bequeath”. [footnote on
Gleichschaltung pending]
The
word ‘apprehended’ in the title is intended to convey the two meanings:
to be apprehensive is to fear;
to apprehend is to understand;
knowledge casts out fear.
The
War Measures Act suspended Common Law
and all civil rights and permitted (quote from the law):
(a) censorship and the control and suppression of
publications, writings, maps, plans, photographs, communications and means of
communication;
(b) arrest, detention, exclusion and deportation;
(c) control of the harbours, ports and territorial waters
of Canada
and the movements of vessels;
(d) transportation by land, air, or water and the control
of the transport of persons and things;
(e) trading, exportation, importation, production and
manufacture;
(f) appropriation, control, forfeiture and disposition of
property and of the use thereof.
Section
Five of the law included a provision that any action initiated under the law
could continue even after the emergency had officially ended:
any and all proceedings instituted or commenced by or under
the authority of the Governor in Council before the issue of such last
mentioned proclamation, the continuance of which he may authorize, may be
carried on and concluded as if the said proclamation had not issued.
Section
Three of the law specified that “the
provisions of sections 6, 10, 11 and 13 of this Act shall only be in force
during war, invasion, or insurrection, real or apprehended.” In other words, the other sections could
continue indefinitely – even after the War
Measures Act was repealed in 1988.
Section
Two of the law specified that any illegal action prior to proclamation of the
Act was now retroactively legitimized: “All acts and things done or omitted to be done
prior to the passing of this Act... which, had they been done or omitted after
the passing of this Act, would have been authorized by this Act or by orders or
regulations hereunder, shall be deemed to have been done or omitted under the
authority of this Act, and are hereby declared to have been lawfully done or
omitted.”
The
law was officially in effect from proclamation on October 16, 1970 until it was
replaced by the
Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act on November 27, 1970. The Public
Order Act expired on April 30, 1971, thereby re-instating all but four sections
of the War Measures Act.
The War Measures Act allowed
the issuance of regulations which are still in effect. Surveillance
of known or suspected extremists including search and seizure without
warrant by Canada’s
secret police was permitted by regulation.
This surveillance is a process which
has no conclusion as specified in Section Five, therefore the
authorization continues even though the Act itself has long since been
repealed!
One example: In the summer of 1970, 55 participants and 5
instructors, all staunch anti-communists, met at Rice
Lake (near Peterborough) for a guerrilla/survival
training camp. The 37 Canadian
participants and 2 Canadian instructors all brought their weapons, but
attendees with American passports (from USA
and France), and attendees
with British passports (from UK,
Rhodesia, South Africa, Chile
and Sikkim)
brought nothing across the border which might attract attention. Somebody took attendance records for the
secret police, it turned out later (I personally now suspect the Canadian
instructor who was an on-furlough high-ranking military officer). On October 6, 1971, (my 21st
birthday!!) two weeks before Soviet Premier Kosygin was due to visit Canada,
these 39 Canadian participants were visited by Canadian secret police, had
their premises searched without warrant, and their guns confiscated, never to
be returned, although all confiscated weapons were properly registered. This was authorized by Section Five based on
information legitimized by Section Two [-- “unmeasured war” in the poem
above]. Most of the Canadian population
was under the delusion that the crisis was officially over as of the April 30th,
1971 expiry of Public Order (Temporary Measures) Act. It was a wise move by police -- Geza Matrai had no weapon when he assaulted
Kosygin in Ottawa [see South of Tuk #3 OR http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19711221&id=MJA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Xu0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4087,2344434
OR: http://colinkenny.ca/en/Throwing-Shoes-Wrestling-a-Russian-Rude-Protests-Yes-But-At-Least-No-Shots-Were-Fired
and the five anti-communists
(including two Kangaroo poets) who got inside police lines within 30
feet of Kosygin at the Ontario Science Centre via a storm sewer entrance two
blocks away on St. Denis Drive, were unable to do anything more than shout
slogans.
Any ongoing project which was
initiated by regulations issued between October 16, 1970 and April 30, 1971, or
which had commenced prior but was retroactively legitimized by regulation
issued during that period, can lawfully continue to violate Common Law, even
though the Act which authorized it was repealed 24 years ago.
TAGS: Reichstag,
false flag, Gleichschaltung, War Measures Act, Kosygin, Geza Matrai,
Public Order Act, surveillance, apprehended
