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Jail Time for Questioning Covid Crimes in Alberta. Part I
Dave Parker, Take Back Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith and the Politics of the Law
At The Arrival of Accountability event there was an important session on the state of the professional association of lawyers and judges in Alberta. What I saw in this event is evidence that efforts are underway to do to the members of the legal profession damage similar to the assault on the medical profession especially through the dictates of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.
It seems that the professional associations of lawyers and of judges are being pressured to make their policies conform to the woke assertions of the principles of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, DIE. Someone on hight has passed down the verdict the DIE should prevail in how our laws and policies are to be interpreted and enforced. To me this analysis represented the delivery of some very bad news as delivered by Lani Rouillard and Katherine Kowalchuk of Lawyers 4 Truth as well as from Roger Song of the Council of Alberta Lawyers.
Among the politicians invited to hold forth on the main themes of Accountability were Drew Barnes, Rick Strankman, and Art Hanger. Together they wove together a fabric of commentary highlighting interactions between history and contemporary events in the Conservative and conservative politics of Alberta.
For me the final session was by far the richest and most significant component of the of the gathering. The first presenter was Dave Parker who continues to be a very high-profile member of the UCP. Dave Parker was instrumental in getting an organization known as Take Back Alberta (TBA) up and running.
I have heard Parker speak on behalf of TBA about 5 or 6 times. A big part of the story Dave Parker has to tell concerns his role in the events that led to the resignation of Jason Kenney as UCP Premier followed by the induction into the provincial government’s top job of now-Premier Danielle Smith. I recall that in the process of choosing a successor to Kenney, Parker repeatedly referred to Smith as a credible “freedom candidate.”
Parker’s main message is that our political system does make available ample provision for democratic procedures to those that are conscientious enough to show up at meetings and get themselves appointed or elected into positions great and small.
Parker frequently encourages members of his audiences to get positions on, for instance, school boards, library boards, university boards, and all manner of committees. Such committees are often the site of significant decision-making functions that take place outside the limelight.
Parker frequently condemns the majority of citizens who opt not to get involved in politics while they loudly complain about the failures of those in positions of leadership.
Dave Parker and his network of TBA friends and associates definitely got behind the candidacy of Danielle Smith. Smith adeptly took strategic advantage of this and other expressions of spontaneous community organizing by Alberta citizens who joined together in a multiplicity of fashions to lobby for the ascent of common sense over the prevailing Covidian madness.
As happened in many parts of the world, we found like-minded people in order to resist individually and collectively the unjustified masking, lock downs, school closures, jabs and mandated jabs forced on people in awkward spasms of government overreach.
Parker’s message affected me significantly. Beginning in 2020 I helped organize a local group in Lethbridge to resist the overreach. Several in our group heard Parker speak. He helped persuade us to have a look at the candidacy of Danielle Smith. When we did so, Smith established to our satisfaction that she knew what she was talking about when it came to evaluating the scores and scores of Covidian scams.
On Parker’s advice some of us joined the UCP and attended the annual meeting in Calgary in 2023. Wewere far from alone in this respect. At this stage the media was very critical of what Parker described to us as his “friendship” with Smith. In 2024 something changed significantly so that this friendship seemed to cross the line into animosity.
For sometime now, we have been getting news that the people at Elections Alberta have been trying to mire Parker in accusations and court procedures concerning alleged wrongdoing by TBA in and around the provincial election of 2022. See this.
At first Parker indicated this harassment had its origins in what he said was the high level of influence exercised by the provincial NDP in Elections Alberta. At The Arrival of Accountability event, however, Parker announced that he had radically altered his interpretation of his legal difficulties.
Parker accused Premier Smith of using her influence to push for Parker’s criminalization in order to put him in jail and get him out of the way. In his presentation Parker made vague references to other scandalous features of Smith’s premiership. He did not, however, get explicit.
In his presentation Parker dropped the news that he did give up TBA’s mailing list to Elections Alberta, something he had earlier vowed he would not do.
Some might see Parker as a witness and a symbol of the commitments Smith made concerning promised changes to health care on her way to the premier’s job. At the UCP’s AGM on Nov. 1-2, Take Back Alberta passed out a pamphlet emphasizing this theme.
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Next to Dave Parker sat panel member Marco Van Huigenbos. The two of them were quite civil together in spite of their sometime intemperate words when Van Huigenbos was Chief Financial Officer of TBA. Van Huigenbos warmly greeted Parker’s analysis. Van Huigenbos built on the word picture painted by Parker. TBA’s former CFO alleged that Danielle Smith was in the process of setting aside many of the supporters that brought her to power.
Van Huigenbos went further. He said the Premier was trying to downgrade or eliminate altogether the UCP’s grass-roots organizations. In a choice between the health agenda of Dave Parker and the pension and Heritage Fund agenda of Stephen Harper, a former PM and a leader of Alberta’s powerful Christian Zionist constituency, what option would Premier Smith choose?
Marco Van Huigenbos is widely acknowledged as one of the leaders of the protests by Truckers and others at Coutts Alberta in early 2022. This protest ran simultaneously with the Truckers Freedom Convoy’s parking protest that took place in Ottawa. Along with Alex Van Herk and Gerhard Janzen, Marco has been convicted of one count of “mischief over $5,000.”
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The three are to be sentenced on 9-10 of January. It seems that in Justin Trudeau’s Canada, mischief trials can be stretched out over years. Moreover, the penalties can be astronomical with punishments as high as 10 years. The vengeful policies of Trudeau’s completely partisan federal institutions, including the CBC, continues to arouse widespread consternation inside and outside Canada.
The positive reception to the analysis, policies and actions of the Freedom Convoy, especially internationally, contrast dramatically with the current Prime Minister Trudeau’s chronic Covidian dementia which is still being expressed in Canada’s politicized courts.
The mischief trials of Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, and Pat King of the Freedom Convoy have become a disreputable circus events marking the vindictiveness of Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party judicial appointees. The trials mark a new low in the politicization of the tainted criminal justice system in Canada, a pattern of debasement that will probably be replicated in the sentencing of Van Huigenbos, Van Herk and Jensen. See this.
Their mischievous punishment follows the outrageous jail sentencing in the Lethbridge Court House of the Coutts 2. Both Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert received a 6-and-a-half-year criminal sentence from a judge after a jury found the accused NOT guilty of the main charge against them.
At The Arrival of Accountability event, Marco Van Huigenbos and Dave Parker joked together. They pictured Premier Smith’s as if she would be happy getting them both out of the way locked up in prison. The common themes in the experiences of both Van Huigenbos and Dave Parker illustrate the wide breadth of the implications of the government role in the promoting and mandating the clot shots.
In retrospect, those engaged in the activism of Freedom Convoy made a point in trying to get in the way of the high-level Covidian crimes committed by the likes of Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and Anthony Fauci.
Will Anthony Fauci be pardoned by Joe Biden for his COVID crimes while Coutts 4 and then 2 were denied bail so that they were kept in prison for two years without being convicted of anything.
The Coutts 2 were then were sentenced to six-and-a-half year after a jury found them innocent of the main charge.
The Crown’s legal transgressions arising from the Coutts protest are deeply intertwined with the issues facing Premier Smith in her mishandling of public health issues and juridical issues addressed at The Arrival of Accountability event.
The manufactured COVID crisis continues to cast an extremely broad shadow over Alberta and many other jurisdictions. All the crimes against humanity that took place worldwide during the WHO-declared pandemic continues to constitute the systematically-neglected elephant that inhabits a major place in main theatre of global geopolitics.
Those who demonstrated at Coutts and at Ottawa were doing an important public service in a life-and-death situation that to this day is still being criminally misrepresented by most of the big media venues. Already in early 2022 some of the Truckers along with their supporters and allies were pointing to the lethal results that would probably flow from submitting to the injection of the mandated kill shots.
During the period of Danielle’s Smith’s journey to her status as the leader of the Party with the majority of seats in the Alberta Legislature, it is clear she was watching the public health crisis very closely. I was probably doing her own independent research on the subject rather than simply depend on MSM reports as many politicians do.
Danielle Smith had made herself an integral part of Alberta’s freedom movement where there was a broad understanding of the warning signs of the travesty in-the-making. Accordingly, by early 2022 Danielle Smith was likely well aware that the supposed COVID remedy would have lethal and injurious effects far beyond those of the real or imagined impact of the celebrity virus.
Given this background to her premiership, does Premier Smith really believe she can simply pretend not to notice the accumulating complex of unresolved issues integral to the relationship between the AHS, the Alberta Ministry of Justice, and the elected branch of the Alberta government?
The good news is that Dr. Makis has brought his formidable set of talents and skills to monitoring the situation of public health in Alberta. The bad news is that AHS is trying to jail Dr, Makis for his accusations.
If we are to have a trial in Alberta, why not make the subject of the litigation the substance of the accusations being made by Dr. Makis? Isn’t it time for top officials in Alberta in the judiciary, in the government, in the media, and in both political parties to take their heads out of the sand?
Surely such a process of investigation and arbitration would serve Albertans better than simply giving the AHS and the Premier’s Office a license aimed at making Dr. Makis shut up and go away. Are these outcomes being advanced by threatening Dr. Makis with jail time?
Will Dr. William Makis or the Covidian Culprits Go to Jail?
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Dr. Anthony Hall is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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