IF ONLY APPREHENDED!

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.”

[For complete 1914 original text of the Act, see: http://www.lermuseum.org/en/canadas-military-history/first-world-war/going-to-war/war-measures-act/  ]

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 21^st 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 30^th, 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