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REBEL NEWS: Jason Kenney LIED about vaccine passports
This time, the truck featured video of Kenney’s broken promises on loop, and we drove it into downtown Calgary during Saturday’s World Wide Rally for Freedom.
Despite giving Albertans — including me personally when I asked him about it — his repeated assurance that vaccine passports would never find a home in the strong and free province of Alberta, Jason Kenney seems to have set aside his promise without a second thought. Kenney had also committed to fighting any federal attempt to implement a vaccine passport on behalf of Albertans; instead, he implemented his own.
Perhaps most despicably, Kenney and then Health Minister Tyler Shandro dubbed their vaccine passport a “restriction exemption program,” in a thinly veiled attempt to act as though they had not completely gone back on their word. They also effectively sought to put the responsibility for upholding their vaccine passports on the shoulders of businesses, in yet another ploy to avoid the appearance of direct involvement with vaccine passports. No one was buying it, neither on the right or the left.
As a final insult, Kenney and Shandro were reportedly going back through old tweets that talked about being ‘open for good,’ or denouncing vaccine passports, and deleting them, as though Albertans would simply forget…
We wanted to make sure that nobody forgets these broken promises, so we brought out the billboard truck that we used for our ShameOnShandro.com campaign. This time, the truck featured video of Kenney’s broken promises on loop, and we drove it into downtown Calgary during Saturday’s World Wide Rally for Freedom. While we are sure Kenney was not a fan of the truck, the thousands in attendance at the protest made it clear that they loved it.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity ... the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This immaturity is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the [European] Enlightenment.
"Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor. If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet [or vaccine], and so on--then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me. Those guardians who have kindly taken supervision upon themselves see to it that the overwhelming majority of mankind ... should consider the step to maturity, not only as hard, but as extremely dangerous. First, these guardians make their domestic cattle stupid and carefully prevent the docile creatures from taking a single step without the leading-strings to which they have fastened them. Then they show them the danger that would threaten them if they should try to walk by themselves. Now this danger is really not very great; after stumbling a few times they would, at last, learn to walk. However, examples of such failures intimidate and generally discourage all further attempts.
"Thus it is very difficult for the individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost second nature to him. He has even grown to like it, and is at first really incapable of using his own understanding because he has never been permitted to try it. Dogmas and formulas [e.g., Leftist ideology, identity politics] these mechanical tools designed for reasonable use--or rather abuse--of his natural gifts, are the fetters of an everlasting immaturity. The man who casts them off would make an uncertain leap over the narrowest ditch, because he is not used to such free movement. That is why there are only a few men who walk firmly, and who have emerged from immaturity by cultivating their own minds." - Kant, "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment"
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In defense of human freedom 