On Labour Day weekend at Queenston Heights, this happend

Queenston Heights, located in Niagara-on-the-Lake ON, is known to pure laine Canadians (American's don't like to talk about it) as the site of the defeat by British soldiers and Canadian patriots (including Indians First Nations) of American invaders at the start of the War of 1812. A tower honouring General Sir Isaac Brock, who led the counter-attack, dominates the land scape.

What better setting, then, for a public rally -- not a "mostly peaceful protest" but a totally peaceful show of strength -- by Second Sons Canada, one of many white nationalist groups emerging in the Great No-longer-white North in response to the plans of the Liberal governments of Blackie McBlackface and his successor Marx Carnage to make Canada over into a veritable Canuckistan.

More than 50 men, many wearing sunglasses echoing the outfits of the Patriot Front, one of the largest white nationalist groups in the United States, lined up at the Brock monument chanting the group’s slogan, "All thy sons."

The public gathering was the first known by the group in Niagara, though a report by CBC' visual investigations team in July into white nationalist "active clubs" found the group was present in the area and had training in a gym in Welland ON.

Second Sons Canada's first known sighting was reported by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (known haters of all things and people who resist the Great Replacement) after the group gathered at a cenotaph for Canadian soldiers in Dartmouth NS in March.

Prof. Kawser Ahmed, an obviously unbiased professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg, said choosing the Brock monument was symbolic. He said the site has symbolism of British imperialism, settler nationalism and military defence. "This is something very common in white supremacist groups throughout the Western world, Europe, the US, Australia and here. This is the symbolism they often pick up, because they think that these countries were founded by Anglo-Saxons and there’s no place for the immigrants to come here."

Indeed. One video showing scenes from the Niagara rally was posted on Second Sons Canada’s X site, formerly Twitter, with the statement, "Canadian Nationalism is inevitable. Remigration is coming." Many Canadians will share their sympathies. What to do next should be obvious.

Thanks and a tip o' the touque to Agent 3 for the lead.

Lest we forget

Some call it by its old name: Armistice Day. Others call it Remembrance Day. Still others know it only as November 11th. No matter what you call it, November 11th is, or should be more than just a date. It's a day to remember those who gave their lives for our countries in a number of wars.

The exact number of wars is debatable. Depends which country you're talking about, and who's counting. But they were all "good wars"... "just wars"... right? They all needed to be fought, right? To preserve freedom and democracy and equality and all those other Good Things. Right? Maybe it's all debatable.

The "Armistice" in Armistice Day refers to the truce proclaimed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 -- the armistice that ended the Great War, the war that would end all wars. But, as "The Ballad of Willie McBride" (aka "The Green Fields of France") says, it all happened again... And again... And again.

It all happened before, too. Remembrance Day 2017 is close enough to being the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights, fought on the west side of the Niagara River near the beginning of the War of 1812. One side was fighting for freedom and democracy. The other side was fighting for, errr, freedom and democracy.

Remembrance Day 2017 is also about seven weeks past the 155th anniversary of the Battle of Sharpsburg (aka Antietam), in which more Americans died than in any other single engagement in any other war... ever. 12,000 Union troops died that day, as did 10,500 Confederate soldiers. They were all fighting for freedom and democracy. They just had different ideas of what those words meant.

The Battle of Sharpsburg preceded by not quite three months the Battle of Fredericksburg, which was just about as bloody. As they surveyed the carnage, General Robert E. Lee said to General James Longstreet, "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."

But it seems we have grown too fond of it. Perhaps it's because advances in technology have reduced the body counts. On "our side", at least. Or maybe it's the advances in medicine and hygiene which means that, nowadays, more soldiers and sailors and airmen die of wounds than of disease and starvation.

Whatever it is, we seem to scarcely finish one war before starting another. Sometimes we don't even wait for the first war to end, so we can fight two or three or four wars all at the same time. All for freedom, democracy, equality, human rights, and generally to make the world a better place. For "our side", at least.

Not all of the thousands upon thousands who died fighting our "good wars" did so for the sake of freedom and all that. Some of them did, sure, but some of them died because they obeyed orders and went unflinchingly to the death to which they were sent. It is those men and women -- the ones who didn't want to be there and shouldn't have been there in the first place -- whom Walt and Poor Len [and Ed.] remember today.

November 11th - a day to remember

Some call it by its old name: Armistice Day. Others call it Remembrance Day. Still others know it only as November 11th. No matter what you call it, November 11th is, or should be more than just a date. It's a day to remember those who gave their lives for our countries in a number of wars.

The exact number of wars is debatable. Depends which country you're talking about, and who's counting. But they were all "good wars"... "just wars"... right? They all needed to be fought, right? To preserve freedom and democracy and equality and all those other Good Things. Right? Maybe it's all debatable.

The "Armistice" in Armistice Day refers to the truce proclaimed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 -- the armistice that ended the Great War, the war that would end all wars. But, as "The Ballad of Willie McBride" says, it all happened again... And again... And again.

It all happened before, too. Remembrance Day 2012 is close enough to being the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights, fought on the west side of the Niagara River near the beginning of the War of 1812. One side was fighting for freedom and democracy. The other side was fighting for, errr, freedom and democracy.

Remembrance Day 2012 is also about seven weeks past the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, in which more Americans died than in any other single engagement in any other war... ever. 12,000 Union troops died that day, as did 10,500 Confederate soldiers. They were all fighting for freedom and democracy. They just had different ideas of what those words meant.

The Battle of Antietam preceded by not quite three months the Battle of Fredericksburg, which was just about as bloody. As they surveyed the carnage, General Robert E. Lee said to General James Longstreet, "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."

But it seems we have grown too fond of it. Perhaps it's because advances in technology have reduced the body counts. On "our side", at least. Or maybe it's the advances in medicine and hygiene which means that, nowadays, more soldiers and sailors and airmen die of wounds than of disease and starvation.

Whatever it is, we seem to scarcely finish one war before starting another. Sometimes we don't even wait for the first war to end, so we can fight two or three or four wars all at the same time. All for freedom, democracy, equality, human rights, and generally to make the world a better place. For "our side", at least.

Not all of the thousands upon thousands who died fighting our "good wars" did so for the sake of freedom and all that. Some of them did, sure, but some of them died because they obeyed orders and went unflinchingly to the death to which they were sent. It is those men and women -- the ones who didn't want to be there and shouldn't have been there in the first place -- whom Walt wishes to remember today.

Footnote: If you've never heard "The Ballad of Willie McBride", also known as "No Man's Land" or "The Green Fields of France", click here. This version, by John McDermott, is the best.