The Sask Party Government Is More Than Happy To Put You In Jail For Not Agreeing With Them

Yes, you. They are already demonstrating adherence to that kind of ideology and ignoring it would be a fool's game.

I’ve written extensively about the transport and incarceration of Jeremy MacKenzie at the behest of the Sask Party government. It was Scott Moe and Bronwyn Eyre’s wholly political decision to put a man with no criminal record in chains, days of rights-violating, humiliating solitary confinement and then months in one of Christine Tell’s jails.

You need to grasp the weight of that: a bankrupt, batshit-crazy Saskatchewan mouthbreather and… whatever Bronwyn’s is these days, seized the power to fully control another Canadian’s physical life with the stroke of a pen. A man with no criminal record, on charges that an illiterate monkey could see aren’t valid (and the laying of which should be, in fact, investigated by a municipal force and Crown prosecutor from another province, IMHO).

Moe and Eyre ordered MacKenzie’s shackling and imprisonment because somewhere another elected politician as useless and corrupt as they are told them to do it.

Many of you just couldn’t get there with Jeremy MacKenzie. I respect that. You may have even felt that due to his politics and opinions on public health protocols, he deserved to be imprisoned, or that Canada was a better place without his voice. I fully admit I kind of felt that way myself initially.

But what if it wasn’t Jeremy MacKenzie?

What if the person imprisoned by Scott Moe was the polar opposite of Jeremy MacKenzie? Someone far more in line with the way you think and feel about certain matters?

Someone like Dr Kyle Anderson, perhaps.

Like Jeremy is now, Kyle is a friend who I care greatly about and respect. An assistant professor of biochemistry, microbiology & immunology at the University of Saskatchewan, Anderson was a passionate and vocal advocate for preventative public health measures. Like many other experts in his field, his public profile soared in the early months of 2020, both on social media and within the mainstream.

Given that within weeks of a global pandemic being declared Scott Moe was babbling about reopening Saskatchewan, Dr. Anderson’s voice wasn’t particularly appreciated in the premier’s office. Disseminating facts and relying on medical science wasn’t top of the Sask Party’s to-do-list.

Maneuvering the rapid expansion of his public profile (which always comes with challenges) and his exuberance for the subject matter, combined with his position on the autism spectrum (which Kyle is very public about) sometimes led him to make mistakes. On occasion he crossed the line - the socially-acceptable line, not a legal or criminal line.

Sound familiar?

Look, I’m not saying Kyle Anderson and Jeremy MacKenzie are the same, at all. I am not comparing one man’s sins or virtues to the other’s, or suggesting one is more or less than the other.

What I am saying is the foundation Jeremy and Kyle share is obvious: both have broad and loyal audiences, meaning influence over voters and both have said things out loud that politicians hated. Each man has done so from a seat of authority on their individual subject matters and have arguably demonstrated far greater leadership capabilities than someone like Scott Moe could ever aspire to achieve.

What it boils down to, indeed for extremely different reasons, is Kyle and Jeremy have publicly questioned or decried the professional capacity of elected officials and both men have had run-ins with police at Scott Moe’s request.

Before I continue a reminder - highlighting his extraordinary likeability, the man who killed someone and got away with it signed you up to pay for his personal security in January 2020.

On April 14, 2021, Kyle put out this Tweet:

I don’t watch Game of Thrones, despite the insistence of my friends that it was worth it. I just couldn’t get past the incest 😂🤷🏻‍♀️.

Point is I didn’t grasp the GOT reference when I saw Kyle’s Tweet.

What I also didn’t grasp was Kyle threatening to kill Scott Moe, presumably because you’d have to be a complete and total moron to even want to get that out of that Tweet.

What’d I just say?

EPU stands for the RCMP’s “Executive Protection Unit”.

Kyle’s Tweet was posted at 1:15PM, as noted on the Tweet itself and as the “Occurrence time” in the above screenshot (taken from the RCMP report Kyle requested over a year ago and finally just received and shared with me).

The “Reported time” was the next morning at 9:06AM, but later in the document we see that someone from the Premier’s office sent the email at 6:45PM the night before.

Within an hour the same morning, by 10:10AM, the RCMP had used one of its analysts to ferret out Kyle and his location.

It surprises me none that Buchanan then reached out to the Saskatoon detachment, despite the fact Kyle lives rurally. My current impression of the RCMP’s F, or Saskatchewan Division is it is corrupt, lazy and useless and the Saskatoon RCMP detachment shines brightly as the central beacon of all three qualities.

I’m not going to get into the legal threshold for uttering threats as per Sec 264.1 of the Criminal Code because this was never about that. I don’t know who these cops are, but I’m embarrassed for their decision-making skills. Buchanan is either willfully carrying out the whims of Scott Moe or his crime-fighting instincts are garbage.

Anyway, the Saskatoon RCMP’s shakedown of Anderson went about as expected:

For the record, the Mad King of Westeros in GOT is described as charming and promising early on, but becomes a “paranoid lunatic” who brutalized and tortured the land he ruled and saw plots to assassinate him everywhere. Eventually his cruelty reached a breaking point and his underlings - his lords - plotted to rebel and get rid of him.

Sorry Scooter, but even if the shoe fcking fits you don’t get to arrest people.

We’ve established that I don’t watch GOT, but I do know it includes dragons. If Moe is such a paranoid lunatic that he believes a reference to a show about dragons literally applies to him in real life, well I’m not surprised, but he still should not get to use cops to abate his fears.

Someone with common sense might have looked at Kyle’s Tweet with “fantasy fiction” in mind, together with the political context and ratcheted emotion and recognized hyperbole when they saw it.

Instead, the RCMP assigned at least half a dozen officers to this file, as detailed in the report provided to Kyle. Six different officers including security analysts and members of various rank and file.

Further, Anderson was wrong and absolutely nothing happened. The cowardly silence of pathetic Sask Party MLAs and hacks continued unabated. There was no rebellion from his underlings. This just adds insult to injury because it highlights the inanity and the gross waste of RCMP resources.

In total, Kyle Anderson’s RCMP file was a whopping thirty-three pages, including the security report they wrote about him after they conducted a full investigation and visited him at home less than 24 hours after he posted the Tweet.

Remind me again - for how many months did the Saskatchewan RCMP do nothing while Myles Sanderson was outstanding on a warrant?

How many days were these dead loved ones underwater before their family members had to find their bodies because the Saskatchewan RCMP refused to get off its ass and do its job?

Yet in one day the RCMP are out to visit a nerd who referenced Game of Thrones and Scott Moe’s job security on Twitter?!

This is exactly what it looks and sounds like - police enforcing political adherence to the government.

Despite the report being clear that the RCMP continued to monitor Kyle’s Twitter feed even after the GOT Tweet, there was absolutely no reference to the Tweet he put out just a few hours afterwards - about an hour before the Premier’s office decided it needed to report him to the RCMP:

So the RCMP is super concerned that Kyle is threatening to kill the Premier, but doesn’t bother considering the fact he was organizing a terrifying telephone protest of the Premier’s office a few days later?

It’s bullshit. You know it and I know it. Instead of investigating real crime running rampant in Saskatchewan - god forbid we try to do something about the copious amounts of drugs killing people here every day - this is all the RCMP is good for.

Political games.

I fully believe that the Saskatchewan RCMP’s seeming willingness to participate in this nonsense is connected to the constant RCMP funding (or defunding) threats from the Sask Party.

That’s bad enough but tell me, won’t you please, what’s going to go down when the Sask Party orders one of their “Marshals”, the ones answering to them directly, to go visit a Saskatchewan resident who dares opine on Moe’s political future?

Who will see the “security reports” compiled by the Sask Party on Saskatchewan people?

This province is already a fortress of suppression and oppression if you don’t wholly support the Sask Party. It is a place where speaking out against what they are doing, which is stunningly corrupt, will destroy your life.

Just ask me.

Do you know who we need to talk about the most? The extraordinarily powerful, litigious and stinking rich and greedy political operative who owns the Sask Party’s current so-called “security” force company used in the Legislature and the cybersecurity company that was supposedly protecting SLGA.

I’ve been thinking about it all year, cause it’s utterly appalling and so wrong, but I’m not going to do it. Why should I? All Saskatchewan newsrooms know about it and won’t touch it because of a massive lawsuit this clown levelled against Postmedia and the Leader Post when they dared publish his name in relation to his machinations. These newsrooms aren’t scared, they just don’t want to deal with it so you don’t get to know.

This is normally the part where I tell you that you should be worried and we need to do something because this is really bad. I’m not doing that anymore either. Instead I’m making definitive plans to move away from Saskatchewan - the first in my family to do so after four generations. What’s happening here is obvious, frightening and barrelling ahead unabated.

I’ll keep writing because I’ve got a few years left here to go thanks to my kids, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that Saskatchewan has become too dangerous of a place for dissent and I won’t be able to live here much longer.

I have absolutely no doubt that exercising the basics of democracy in Saskatchewan will soon begin to result in criminal detention and deterrence - because it already is. Jeremy MacKenzie and Kyle Anderson both walk free today, but the messages sent by their treatment and that of others with similar tenacity have been loud and clear.

If I don’t speak to you before then, I hope you have a very merry Christmas. It’s been a hard year and you deserve it.