On the Residential Schools and the current situation in Kamloops

The news coming out of Kamloops that over 200 bodies have been found to be buried on the grounds of a Residential School operated by a Catholic Order, the Oblates, (why is it always the Oblates?) has caused more media outrage and inane virtue signalling. While everyone desires to kick the Catholic Church and its Orders for this, and most deservedly so, the Anglicans, Methodists, and Mennonites had their own share.

The issue is complex. The history is ignored by the ignorant and those paid in the media not to be. It is important to understand that this removal of children from the homes of our native peoples was the policy of the Government of Canada. It was wrong by our current standards and any standards then of Catholic teaching and Christian charity. Children belong with their parents, period. They were forcibly removed and not just taught Christianity, Catholic or Protestant, but deprogrammed of their own history, language and culture. A Royal Commission was struck and reported and under our grown-up  Prime Minister Stephen Harper (miss him yet?) a national apology for this dark part of Canadian history was made. The intent may have been good and sensible at the time - to educate and integrate these children into Canadian society, but it went very wrong.  

They will protect you. Eugene de Laestar

The first schools were established in Canada in the early 1600s by Catholics, nuns and priests from France. It is arguable that the experience in Quebec between the French and our native people there was better than elsewhere later. It was in 1883 that the government became involved with funding and expansion and that is likely when the evils began. It became a business and corrupt men and women, isolated, had the children as their prey. As we have seen elsewhere, anytime you have children away from the home, notwithstanding abuse that may happen at home, and put them in an institution, they can become prey to people seeking their own sexual and dominance gratifications. I suspect many of these children were not only physically brutalized, common everywhere, but many were sexually violated, raped and murdered. 

The outrage of the Kamloops case is premature. There are graves, but why? Was every child raped or murdered? Would some not have died from diphtheria, meningitis, influenza or smallpox or other diseases for which they had no natural immunities? Was this a mass grave with bodies dumped indicating "mass murder" or was this a cemetery where they were buried over the century-long history of the school? We just don't know.

Sadly, the Catholic Church is once again slandered for history. More sadly, the filthy perverts and brutes within the Holy Bride of Christ have brought this on and have gotten away with it for centuries because weak, effeminate, unbelieving and corrupt bishops have covered it up. Is it any wonder we are where we are?

This writer knows much about the effects of brutality and psychological abuse having experienced Basilian brutality and abuse as late as 1970. I'm glad to say I held that rotten Congregation of St. Basil and its cabal of filthy sodomites, modernists, brutes and serial litigants, bullies and plagiarists to account in more ways than one.

May Our Blessed Lord comfort the families of all those who suffer from the memory and experiences and grant peace to the deceased and execute His Divine Justice on the perpetrators of all abuse and in particular, those who did it under His Most Holy Name.

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