“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” How apt are the Bard’s words in this global climate of fear and oppression. Yet courage begets courage, and in Canada, as the persecution of Christians continues, calls to action are being heard from pastors across the provinces. One church in Edmonton, Alberta, is already underground.
On Saturday, April 24, as Pastor Artur Pawlowski was preparing to start services at his church in Calgary, Alberta, a group of armed police officers and a public health inspector arrived to deliver a court order allegedly permitting them to enter the sanctuary and stand at the back “to observe.”
This was the second visit by police to Pawlowski’s church. The first was over the sacred Easter holiday weekend, an incident captured in a video that went viral online. In that recording, Pawlowski expels six police officers and an Alberta Health Services official from his property after they attempt to disrupt services to impose COVID health restrictions. This second go-around, there were more officers in tow, with the same female health official from the first video leading the group.
Pastor Pawlowski, who escaped Communist Poland and has openly protested against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authoritarian government, was not to be intimidated and demanded the “Gestapo” leave his church immediately. Pawlowski is among the few heroic pastors fighting against the despotism sweeping Canadian provincial society, violating citizens’ Charter Rights, which allow them to worship freely.
On Saturday, the pastor posted to Twitter: “They did it again! Today, the Gestapo Attacked our Church Again. History is being repeated in front of our eyes! Another sad day for Freedom and democracy!”
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In a chilling new video (below) of this second encounter with the police, Pawlowski, his voice poignant with an Eastern European accent, speaks directly into the camera: “Well, friends, we have a swat team at our church again, coming, authorities, so I’m going to go out and see what they want.”
One imagines from the boom of his voice that Pawlowski is a towering figure. He opens the door to at least 10 officers stationed at different places on the church property.
The female health official then hands the pastor a court order.
“This is for you,” she says. “It basically outlines that we have the right to enter the church today….”
A male officer next to the health official tells a parishioner, who is holding an iPhone and videoing the exchange, that he is in the health official’s personal space, to which Pawlowski cries, “Well you’re in MY PERSONAL SPACE.”
The health official again tries to explain the “order,” but the pastor stresses that he is “not interested in what she has to say.”
“What we want to do is to make sure that we don’t disrupt any of the service, the idea is that….,” says the health official, who is interrupted by Pawlowski, who is reading the document.
He points out that the name of the organization listed on the paperwork is wrong. “This is not Street Church…. You gotta do your homework first before you come, okay. You have the wrong organization.”
The health official attempts a third time “to explain the order, to serve the order.” “We can stand at the back…,” she says.
“No, no, no,” says Pawlowski. “You can contact my lawyer. I am not interested to listen to any word you have to say. I do not cooperate with Gestapo. I do not talk to the Nazis. You came in your uniforms like thugs. That’s what you are. You are Nazi, Gestapo, Communists, Fascists. I do not cooperate with Nazis … talk to my lawyer. You’re not allowed here. You’re not welcome here. And I’m not going to cooperate with Gestapo like you, okay?”
Again, she tries “to explain the order” but is cut off by Pawlowski, who tells her and the other officers that they have come to the church only “to intimidate and to harass.” He screams, “Lady, listen to me, you can make an appointment another day! You Gestapo! Another Day! NOT THIS DAY! NOT THIS DAY! NOT IN THE CHURCH. YOU UNDERSTAND? MAKE AN APPOINTMENT!
At this point, the officers move to leave the premises.
“You are sick, that’s what you are. And rightfully so you change your uniforms to black because you’re exactly acting like the Gestapo of old. Sickening, what this country came to….,” exclaims Pawlowski, who then turns the camera back on himself.
“They come to a place of worship, with their uniforms, with their guns, again, again, during the time of worship. They could do it another time, they could do it another day. No — they are following the orders of their Fuhrer, Hitler, Communists. Unbelievable. Wicked. Evil. People,” he declares.
A Call to Action, Not Only for Canadians
“If Canadians will stand up and rise up. If they will not come to their senses, while there is still a time, while there’s a time to wake up and push [against] this evil, there will be absolutely no, no rights whatsoever. If they can get away with this, they’re going to come anywhere else. And that’s what people do not understand. They think this is some kind of a game. Do you think they are here for your health? Seriously? They could come any day of the week…. No, they want to do it during the church service because they have a purpose. They have an agenda. If you’re not seeing it then you’re playing either stupid, blind, and deaf.”
Pastor Pawlowski continues:
I have been warning you for 16 years about what’s coming, and it’s here. And it’s up to you. Either you are going to keep pushing as hard as you can, or you’re going to be swollen [sic] by those people. The history is teaching us that those types of people will never stop. They’re going to keep coming, keep coming, keep taking your rights, one after another. Destroying you by thousands of cuts. One cut at a time, and eventually you are going to wake up in a concentration camp like my brother as a soap.
When we were warning Canadians and Westerners of what’s coming, we could smell it for many years. People are laughing at us, “You’re just making this stuff up. You’re blowing this out of proportion. You conspiracy theorists.” However, it’s here, it’s here. And you cannot come and worship God without the interference of the Gestapo, you cannot pray with people. Why? Because the government says so. You will think this will happen in China and Russia but it’s happening here.
What are you going to do about it? Will you stand up, will you fight, will you push, or will you just bow to the medical tyranny — because that’s what it is — and give up everything? Wake up, or else!
I don’t know what they’re pushing for, I think they’re pushing for a revolution. They want a reaction. They want a revolution, and they’re not stopping, that’s the scary part, they’re not slowing down. They are breaking every right, and it looks like they can get away with everything! They are working against the people, and it will be up to the people to rise up and stand up and remove those evil people from places of authority. They should lose their pension and their salaries, and they should be charged with conspiracy. Sickening.
Indeed, “wake up, or else!” Pawlowski’s courage is infectious, may we all catch his bravery! He sums up the “medical” tyranny well — it’s “sickening” — and this from a man who has seen it before, with his own eyes. Only when Americans and Canadians begin to have courage and to stand up to this brutish oppression will this Hell on Earth end.
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