Another media story invented out of whole cloth. A couple of years back, we were treated to lurid stories about indigenous children being murdered and buried in mass graves at residential schools in Canada. The claim was based on results from ground-penetrating radar at these sites. How much of these stories turned out to have any basis in fact. None!
Dr. Tom Woods has done a follow-up on this story:
Justin Trudeau seized on the opportunity to denounce another alleged case of the wickedness of Western civilization (in fairness, Pope Francis was all too eager to do the same thing). Scores of churches were burned. That elicited precisely zero concern from Trudeau, whose attitude (the burnings were “understandable”) seems to have been that turnabout is fair play.
In fact, the executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Union demanded, “Burn it all down!”
(In case you had some doubt, it is not your rights the British Columbia Civil Liberties Union is concerned with, dear reader.)
Let’s remember that Marxists/communists must always try to destroy religion. Marxism and communism cannot flourish where religion is present particularly Christianity. Any opportunity to demonize, denigrate and otherwise diminish religion will be seized regardless of any underlying truth to the matter at hand.
This reminds one of the church burnings in the South during the Jim Crow era. These were designed to terrorize the population into submission. The same is true here. And has the same trappings of governmental interference in support of these terrorist acts.
Well, guess what.
Two years and many excavations later, no human remains have been found.
Writing in The American Conservative, Sohrab Ahmari writes:
Other sites almost certainly hold bodies, but these aren’t mass graves of murdered children. Remember the prime minister’s photo-op that showed him holding a teddy bear near a residential school in Cowessess First Nation? The local chief has made clear that that site merely contained unmarked graves, as less-than-sturdy grave markers at the local Catholic cemetery gradually deteriorated under weather.
In fact, that became a pattern: it was generally the indigenous leaders who were the most precise and least hysterical, trying to explain that what was happening was not the discovery of previously unknown “mass graves.” Crosses and headstones had gone missing over time, and radar was brought in to pinpoint the precise location of each of the people buried there.
A Cowessess elder said, “We’ve always known these were there.… It’s just the fact that the media picked up on unmarked graves, and the story actually created itself from there because that’s how it happens.”
Former attorney general for Manitoba James C. McCrae said in December 2022, “The evidence does not support the overall gruesome narrative put forward around the world for several years, a narrative for which verifiable evidence has been scarce, or non-existent.”
McCrae resigned after hysteria surrounding his remarks, even though those remarks were accurate.
What McCrae didn’t realize was that he was in the middle of a war. The first casualty of any war is the truth. McCrae could have paraded out a legion of experts. It would not have mattered. Big Media had incited the mob to a fever pitch. Trudeau and others had played along for their own political reasons. There was almost no chance that the mob would listen to the truth.
If you can believe it, in Canada if you point out that some indigenous people describe their time at these schools as the happiest of their lives or if you think the residential school system had both good and bad qualities, you are called — I’m not kidding — a “residential schools denialist.”
Had any of this been about truth rather than demonization, everyone involved would have welcomed robust debate, but academics who tried to point out that the story was false or lacked evidence were savaged.
At this point, what legitimate choice do we have except to assume that the ruling classes and their adjuncts in the universities and among the “activist” community are telling us the opposite of the truth?
The next time they tell us something that isn’t a lie will be the first.
These people who promote these lies need to be called out for what they do every single time.