Despite the presence of e-books and e-readers, paper books remain a favorite. Touching the book does something to my learning and my Kindle simply cannot. Turning a page in a book feels more productive too. The denouement is at hand!

But not all page turns are satisfying. In fiction, the tragedy often comes near an advancement. Turning the page actually ushers in the terror or disaster. Remember that the suicides of Romeo and Juliet come immediately after we are privy of their marital bed!

We reached just such a point in Western government last week when the Prime Minister of Canada decided to take dictatorial power over the truckers of his nation that have had enough of the Covid-era restrictions on their lives. Instead of negotiating or even talking with the leaders of this protest movement, Trudeau unleashed the police on these peaceful protestors. In so doing, a Western “democracy” decided to wield the tyrannical military power of government against people seeking redress of their government through peaceful means.

The page was turned and the disaster appeared…

For the last 150 years, nations in the Western hemisphere inched their way from their roots in freedom, peace, and brotherhood towards the tyranny inherent in oppressive government. The Lincoln administration in 1861 had no problem beginning this era by marching an Army throughout the southern United States to suppress those states’ right to secede, murdering a million people in the process.

In it’s wake, individual municipalities and states used the law to suppress the citizenship rights of citizens born with the wrong skin color. Clubs, dogs, and fire hoses greeted those demanding the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the US Constitution.

In the 1990s, American citizens at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas were killed by federal agents for simply being advocates of their second amendment rights…and pursuing religious lives that seemed odd or strange.

And now, the violence of the State is unleashed on Canadian citizens because they are tired of their federal establishment oppressing them needlessly in the name of health protection.

What is next in this drama?

Citizenry in the West grow tired of government. In the United States, citizens have banded together locally in para-military groups to protect themselves from federal and state oppression as the courts and legislatures do nothing but feed the protected political classes from their constant taxing, regulating, and oppressing the Constitutional rights of the people. In Germany, England, and Sweden, people have ignored their governments as rapists and murderers receive protection in the name of “racial equality.” And in Canada, the truckers refuse to back down and are increasingly supported by the citizenry for their peaceful protests against government oppression.

It boils down to this. Either governments in the West up the level of violence necessary to enforce their tyranny or do nothing and watch their protected safe havens fall apart as the people demand justice and equality. And if they “shoot to kill,” civil war cannot be far behind.

Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail before that page is turned.