Today, I did pretty much nothing other than sleeping, eating, swimming and chatting with the neighbors. However, that was really interesting.
My neighbor Jerry from Southern Alberta had seen me arriving with my bike yesterday and was curious. He invited me over for a coffee and scrambled eggs with bacon in the morning and wanted to hear my story while he was grinding some Marihuana for his morning joint.
He told me that he had been part of the freedom convoy in the January 2022 when a couple of thousand truckers were heading towards Ottawa holding the city in a kind of siege for several days.
It started as a peaceful protest against mandatory vaccinations for truckers who had to cross the border to the US but then became much bigger and was used by mostly right-winged groups to make a statement of their protest against the overall COVID policy of their government.
Here is some background:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22926134/canada-trucker-freedom-convoy-protest-ottawa
Jerry had been sentenced for two years in prison for conspiracy for murder and unlicensed possession of dangerous weapons.
He had served together with murder convicts and had just come out of prison 5 months ago. He considered himself to be political prisoner.
What a story! All accusations were totally falls, he claimed. The weapons had been planted by the police and the entire trial had been a farce performed by a corrupt legal system.
Later his wife Jaqueline joined the conversation. She was originally from New Brunswick but was working in Alberta since many years.
She was giving me a tour de force through their political belief system which resembled a Canadian version of the German “Reichsbürger” mindset:
- The UN, governed by the British Crown and King Charles in person, were trying to reduce the amount and influence of white people with strong morals and ethics in the world, so that they could govern the people more easily.
- Therefore, a global migration movement had been established to exchange the white against people from other ethnicities which would be easier to govern because of their value system, like people from Asian countries.
- Inside the UN all countries like the US, Russia, China, Canada and Europe were conspiring together to make this happen.
- Even the war in Ukraine was just a charade and part of that bigger plan.
- Canada was still a monarchy under der British Crown and there were no true democratic rights for the people.
- The entire political system was designed in a way so that the leading class could steal money from the hardworking people.
- Behind the UN and the British Crown was a group of German Jews who influenced the British King.
- These Zionistic Jews had been responsible for everything including the last two world wars, the rise of Nazi Germany and even the Holocaust.
Ok, that was hard to stomach. It was presented so forcefully and eloquently that I hardly found words other than “ok, that’s interesting”.
The sheer belief that there was one strong hidden force which was consistently pulling the strings in the dark since many dozens of years was so outlandish. I mean, King Charles leading the entire UN? Really?
But it was a closed belief system that I had encountered already several times since cycling through Canada. Only the notion with the British Crown was new to me.
Apparently, King Charles only pretended to not be so forceful to deceive everyone else.
When the opportunity presented itself, I thanked them for their hospitality and wished them a great day.
On a lighter note, I reached out to many Warmshowers hosts along the rest of my way to Newfoundland and had gotten several positive responses already.
Finally this also was starting to work out.
I went for dinner early and was looking forward to hitting the road again tomorrow.