Posted on 10/23/2021 7:09:22 PM PDT by george76
The pastor spent 45 hours in prison for alleged violations of a provincial health order..
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Pastor Tobias Tissen of Steinbach, Manitoba, was imprisoned for .. a provincial public health order banning outdoor gatherings of more than five people.
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"They had these conditions that I wasn't allowed to attend any gatherings that were in contravention of COVID-19," Tissen said. "And that would automatically prohibit me from going to church and preaching. And I could not agree with that."
Tissen had been in hiding for months before his arrest Monday, for some time only making public appearances at his Church of God Restoration in Steinbach, Manitoba, which is about an hour's drive north of the Minnesota border.
Church of God Restoration and its congregation of less than 200 people have repeatedly made headlines during the pandemic for clashing with authorities over church gatherings. Tissen and the church have racked up tens of thousands in fines. In November 2020, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) blocked the church's parking lot to prevent parishioners from attending a drive-in service.
Tissen, whose family left Germany to escape its ban on homeschooling, said he was not thinking about his warrant when he and his family went to spend time together at a park in Steinbach before his mother moved to Austria the next morning.
Tissen speculated that someone had seen him at the park and reported him to police, who pulled him over on his way home and informed him he was under arrest.
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Tissen's church was one of seven rural congregations that sued Manitoba over the lockdown orders, which a judge ruled Thursday did not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Which is ludicrous.
Covid is virtually untransmissible outside and banning gatherings of more than five people is NOT about health or science.
It's about tyranny, communism, and power grabs, plain and simple.
Yep!
Oh Canada!
This country is an “ally” of the United States.
Canadian government authorities that are doing this must be dealt with through tough sanctions by the US government when the US government is in the hands of people like President Trump.
I will stand for nothing less than that.
If its good enough for Russia and China and Iran its good enough for Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK they all deserve them for things they have done in connection with COVID and maybe even other matters.
Canada is due for a bloody and violent coup to restore civil liberties.
How do the Mounties like doing the devil’s work ?
Indeed.
Its getting pretty bad when Russia looks like a better bastion for freedom than North America
Ain’t it the truth!
" Which is ludicrous. Covid is virtually untransmissible outside and banning gatherings of more than five people is NOT about health or science."
It is indeed absurd, and not "following the science." An Oct 29, 2020 Massachusetts report on clusters found that household transmission was at the center of the vast majority (almost 94 percent: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/24/nation/what-does-it-mean-when-youve-got-covid-19-you-dont-know-where-or-how/?p1=Article_Feed_ContentQuery) And the rate of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent,
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