Pastor Artur Pawlowski, who remains in solitary confinement for 23 hours per day, according to his lawyer, was arrested last Monday after he spoke to members of the trucker blockade along the U.S.-Canada border in Coutts, Alberta, on Feb. 3.During a 20-minute speech to the truckers, the pastor urged them to "hold the line" against government overreach without resorting to violence. They had reportedly reached an agreement to abandon their blockade of the U.S. border and travel to Edmonton until changing their minds following Pawlowski's address.
So, the crime is having given a speech urging continued defiance of the government. It's not even "he incited defiance," because they were already engaged in defiance when he got there. He just persuaded them to keep it up a while longer.
4 comments:
Hopefully they get around to actually prosecuting and not letting him sit in jail ala our Jan 6 political prisoners.
-Stc Michael
"Right to a speedy trial," the Constitution says. Sir Thomas Malory spent a good part of his life sitting in prison, waiting to be tried. He wrote Le Morte Darthur in there, for the good of us all. The last lines of it ask us to pray for him, "Knight-Prisoner." If you have a minute, you might yet.
One of our congregants asked to have Canada put on the prayer list last Sunday and this pastor was mentioned.
Expanding to prayers for nations, the Appeal to Heaven flag is something I've been running into lately based on Locke "…where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment." We appear to be in this place, as evil has seemingly captured so much of our governance.
-Stc Michael
I think prayer for the nation is both wise and appropriate.
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