Un-Prisons

The post I wrote on Monday ("Woke Acknowledgements") about the invalidity and/or inappropriateness (depending on the individual case) of acknowledging indigenous land claims generated one unsubscribe and lots of positive response from readers.

Author Peter Wright, who was jailed and lost his land due to claims of native land rights (in Africa) wrote to say: "Well said, John. Exceptionally well said in fact. Time to put virtue signalling and pandering to wokeness behind us."

Jennifer emailed: "I have [been] speaking out about all this nonsense for years.  It keeps the Native Indians enslaved."

Pete Toccalinoemailed: "Great piece. I've had to have a number of conversations with [my son and daughter] along similar lines because every morning at their public school there's a protracted indigenous land acknowledgement during announcements and it sounds like most of the kids find it inexplicable and bizarre. It's over the top virtue signalling on the part of administrators and the result of wholly disingenuous government policy, which as we know is systemically geared toward exploitation, mind control and various degrees of genocide."

Boy, you could see how hearing how their school was built on stolen land — every day for fifteen years — might hurt children's self-esteem. If the land is stolen, give it back. Otherwise, what's this really about?

Pete added: "It's literally brainwashing the kids into the ideology that the land does not belong to them, and by extension, private property needs to be abolished."

The Fakeologist agrees, having emailed: "I think it's all a set up for UNDRIP which will take us all off the land and put us in un-prisons."

If you're not familiar with UNDRIP then I recommend you get caught up ASAP. It's a cleverly disguised Marxist plan to convince people to give up all private property (you know, "you will own nothing and the elite will be happy about it") under the pretense of returning the earth to Indigenous stewardship. But you only have to look at the reservation systems to know that's double-speak for government control.

For a quick, one hour summary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples check out Just Right episode #702: UNDRIP and the Perversion of Rights. As host Bob Metz argues, instead of stealing people's private property, we should convert reservations and other justified land claims into private property owned by Indigenous people to help both our economy and pull them out of the wretched third-world conditions many of them live in.

Stay sane, stay real,

John C. A. Manley

PS I had a Métis beta reader from Northern Ontario review Much Ado About Corona and help me make the Indigenous content accurate and balanced. In the end, the story reflects a need to put the past behind us and band together as fellow human beings to fight the great evils confronting us today.

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