By Also Anonymous

What a bittersweet experience to have read in the pages of Druthers April 2022, a letter by Anonymous, entitled “How Do I Leave”.

On the one hand, I was encouraged to read my own sentiments validated by a fellow traveler in a news source I respect. On the other hand, I was discouraged because it showed me that I was not imagining the precipitous erosion in the fundamental values of the society around me; values being obliterated that I believed to be iron-clad.

Lately, much of my time has been spent contemplating the disturbing changes around me. I am struggling to explain the separation of my values from the larger society in which I find myself. How did it occur so fast?

Why is it acceptable to have a sitting Deputy PM in this country who also simultaneously sits on the Board of Directors of an odious private entity like the World Economic Forum? More importantly, why is not a single legacy media reporter or outlet interested in pursuing that question?

Why don’t more people care about the recent release of a trove of Pfizer and CDC documents that leave no doubt that both knew in 2021 that the Covid shots could cause real harm to those taking it? At the same time as our governments and health “authorities” were adamant that there was no negative impact of Covid “vaccines” on reproduction/pregnancy/breastfeeding, the Pfizer documents clearly show neither Pfizer nor the CDC had any idea what the medium- to long-term impact on fertility would be.

How did the current Canadian PM know that othering the vaccine skeptical on Quebec television, and rhetorically asking how long their views should be “tolerated”, would cause zero harm to his re-election? Why did most Canadians seem not to object to this most unCanadian example of fomenting societal division?

How was it that most Canadians seemed not to bat an eyelash at the stark hypocrisy of this same PM capering off to the European Parliament to rail against the tyranny of Russia, fresh from his own experiment in the crushing of lawful dissent at our own parliament? Where was the Canadian legacy media when a handful of outspoken EU MPs stood up in the Euro Parliament and lambasted the Canadian PM’s jaw-dropping hypocrisy?

How did Ontario pass Bill 100 and its repugnant powers in the dead of night? When did Canadian democracies so easily turn to such sneaky practices? Why do most Canadians seem to care not a whit?

That happens when healthy, robust debate is sacrificed by self-serving politicians who only pay lip service to core democratic values.

Why are some of the bravest, brightest doctors sidelined and persecuted by their professional medical associations because they counter the government and big pharma narrative about an injection?

Why did the Charter of Rights and Freedoms quietly disappear from the lobby of the Federal Agency where I used to work? It used to stand front and centre as a greeting to the public – and as a reminder to every employee who exercised authority. It was a subtle warning that powers wielded came with the strongest of guardrails. It was there for years, and then one day it was simply gone; replaced by a blank space where it used to hang.

These examples and others from the last 24 months have fundamentally altered the face of the country I have called home. Having served overseas many times, I was always happy and relieved to return home. I no longer feel that way.

I would like to be able to write something that would encourage the anonymous author of the article that prompted me to write this one. I cannot.

I believe that we are in a planned lull. The autumn will bring further variants to scare people, vaccine passports will be replaced by digital IDs; the matrix will descend.

All is not lost, but the battle will be long and hard. And demanding, very demanding. I am not sure I am up to it.

Anonymous, I am looking forward to the day my obligations are done, and I too can leave. My family and I also no longer sense that our fundamental values align with the society or its leadership as they once did.

This democracy feels made up. It feels like a 200-year-old experiment that is out of touch with the much longer history of the human experience – one that teems with despots, ruling families, and tyrants as the natural governance structure.

I hope I am wrong.