"Let's not politicize this," said politicians of all stripes as they cried on cue for the victims of Tuesday's school shooting at Tumbler Ridge BC that left nine people dead, including the killer, and 27 injured.
Among those weeping was Marni Panas, a "trans activist" based in Edmonton, who says her heart broke when she saw the news. When rumours (confirmed much later by the RCMP) began to circulate that the suspect, at first described as "a woman in a brown coat" was actually a biological male, Jesse Strang, who "identified as a woman", Ms Panas watched in horror what she says has become a predictable pattern emerge online.
Within minutes, she says some people began to leverage the tragedy to "advance hate" against the trans community.
"This will just get uglier now for us and for our community as a whole, when our attention should be on the care of these victims and to support communities," she said.
This post is based on a report published this morning on... wait for it... CBC News.
Puzzled footnote: Agent 3 reports that Canada's Notional Pestoops, National Post, the least left of the lickspittle Canadian meeja, has turned off comments on all articles and columns related to this story. Wonder why... But you can still comment on the social media!
Our post "Beginning of the end for Castro Communist Cuba?" (WWW 10/2/26) brought more reaction than usual, not all of it positive. Agent 2, who used to be a regular visitor to Cuba and has friends there, thinks it wrong of Agent 10 to advocate a boycott of Cuba as a tourist destination. 2 writes:
I understand that she wants change in Cuba.... She is telling people not to go and support a dictatorship. But what is happening right now is extremely hurtful to the residents. No tourists mean some resorts are closing, no jobs for the workers, no transportation because of the fuel.
How are they to shop, go to doctors or hospitals, visit friends or sick relatives? Only some of them have decent bicycles. The tourists give tips, clothes, medicines not only to the workers but they walk off the resorts to the villages to distribute money and meds and clothes.
Lack of fuel for the tourists to take a cab and guess what, the cab driver has a family. Schools are closed and for how long?... I am on WhatsApp constantly with my Cuban friends who are hurting. They are living with this mess.
The next few months will be very difficult for them. The big solution here is which country will bring their tankers not overthrowing the government. That is for another time.
In this video, Ezra Levant interviews Alexa Lavoie, who he sent to Havana on a mission to document how things are on the ground. Ms Lavoie describes poverty, shortages and surveillance seen in Havana and how its reality clashes with Cuba's tourist image.
She reports many of the same things Agent 2 said, especially the part about jobs at hotels and resorts being the best jobs. As you'll see, things are not so good if you're a teacher or... just about anything else. Watch the video and decide for yourself whether it's right for the US of A to be trying to depose the Castro Communists.
And here's another one, an ARTE documentary published last October. Like the first video, it shows how, for foreign tourists, Cuba is a corner of paradise in the heart of the Caribbean. But for Cubans life is not easy. A rolling economic crisis means food shortages and poverty as buildings and infrastructure crumble. How can we fail to understand how much the poor people of Cuba -- that includes everyone except the Castro cronies and their military -- want change and wants it now!
What follows appeared on Canada's Global TV News website 46 minutes after Walt's last post on the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge BC.
"BC RCMP have identified the shooter as 18-year-old female Jesse Van Rootselaar, who is a resident of Tumbler Ridge. [A spokesthingy] said they do have a history of police calls to the family residence involving Van Rootselaar, including some mental health calls."
Ed. was unable to find any photos -- male or female -- of "Jesse Van Rootselaar", but did find the photos above in which the subject is identified as 17-year-old "Jesse Strang". Could they be related? The Mounties later said that the two Jesses were one and the same. "Jesse Van Rootselaar" is the name that "Jesse Strang" adopted when he changed his "gender identity".
Jesse's mother, Jennifer, and sibling, Emmett, were among the eight (8) victims of his actions. After killing them and wounding over two dozen others (see previous posts), he turned the gun, for which he had an expired licence, on himself. Total body count: 9.
The massacre at Tumbler Ridge BC occurred at about 1300 PST yesterday. As I write, 21 hours later, Canada's lickspittle mainstream media are hushing up the identity and sexual orientation of the murderer -- Jesse "Jess" Strang. On the noon (EST) news, CTV News went with the liberal party line, as laid down by the state-owned CBC, to wit:
"RCMP Supt. Ken Floyd told reporters that investigators had identified a suspect, but would not immediately release a name. He also said the shooter's motive remained unclear, adding that police are still investigating how the victims are connected to the shooter.
"Police said they believe the suspected shooter found dead at the school is the same person described in the active shooter alert sent to phones in the area earlier today.
In an earlier alert Tuesday, police had described the suspect as 'female in a dress with brown hair.'"
Why the radio silence? Because, you see, Mr/Ms/Whatever Strang was a transsexual or at least a transsexual wannabe. That doesn't fit the woke wisdom which prevails in Canada, that there's nothing wrong with people who wish to change their birth sexuality, or should we say the sexuality imposed on them by their parents..
They "act out", the wokesters say, only because they're being deprived of their "right" to decide their gender identity for themselves. To suggest that people like Strang might be dangerous to themselves and others because of a form of mental illness is (of course) "unacceptable".
...in Canada, this time. Nine people have been killed, two seriously wounded, and 25 others injured in attacks at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and a home in Tumbler Ridge, about 415 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Al Jazeera reports.
Six victims were found dead inside the school. A seventh died on the way to hospital
Two more people were found dead in a home nearby. The Mounties won't say "definitively" that the shootings at the school are connected with those at the home. In fact, they're reluctant to divulge any information that would confirm our suspicions, because (Walt believes) it reflects badly on the sick state of woke Western society.
The suspect's body, reportedly clad in a dress -- you can see where this is going -- was found at the school with a self-inflicted injury. Inspector Knacker says the cops know the attacker's identity but have not revealed their name and gender.
But hold on! Thanks to @reddux on Twitter, the identity of the shooter can now be confirmed as Jesse "Jess" Strang, a biological male who started to "identify as a girl" around 2023.
There's a more revealing (in a way) photo on Reddux's thread but you can check that for yourself.
In 2021, Mr/Ms/Whatever Strang launched a YouTube channel which was promoted by his mother (aha!) on her Facebook account. The channel was dedicated to "hunting, self-reliance, guns" and his... errr... other interests.
[Let's forget about pronouns and call Strang by his surname. Ed.] OK. Strang was raised in a family that valued hunting, and began learning how to shoot rifles when he was just a child. Many guns were kept in the family's residence.
Strang's mother's Facebook posts indicate Strang may have struggled with behavioral issues, including violent tendencies, from a very young age.
Strang fatally shot 9 people (at last count) prior to taking his own life.
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