Unsilent Night. A True Christmas Story

I ran out of words from my pulpit after a while, especially the more my children and dead children began to speak. Their voices eventually shook the foundations of our City of Babble and toppled the mumbling rulers from their thrones, as a dirt-poor peasant girl named Mary once predicted would happen as she brought God's beloved one into our world. And one even lower than Mary and closer to home, she called Maisie who was discarded like garbage on a cold basement floor, proved mightier than the child-killing Church and State that have nothing to say, except to those as vacant as them.

Still, the deadly lie persists in a society like ours that is so allergic to life. As Maisie Shaw revealed, upstairs, official Christianity will celebrate itself with dead words this week while downstairs, it continues to kill children in silence. Soon after I had been tossed from the United Church for descending those stairs and learning the truth of what we are, my own children were stolen from me and my life was torn to pieces. And for years, there was nothing to be said that made any difference - there was only a crime to be endured. No protest or petition ever stills the slaughter of the innocents by the King. But neither is the truth ever stopped by any amount of crucifixions or coverups.

Neither my voice nor Maisie's will echo in the official halls of Chrstendom this week, any more than Jesus' will. For he was not the welcomed, iconic Prince of Peace of Christmas carols, but according to scripture a poor and hunted refugee at birth, hiding from state assassins like a terrified aboriginal girl. For Jesus' story, like Maisie's, is a mirror of the world that we have inhabited and profited from at the expense of our souls: an Upstairs, Downstairs society that feeds off the persecution and suffering of the innocent. And so not surprisingly, that evil is blowing back on all of us now, the overtly guilty and the seemingly innocent.

The other day, my Cree street friend Frank Ermineskin summed up our situation succinctly when he remarked, "Now all you white people are on the Indian reservation, too." Special passes to travel, mandatory injections, arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without due process of law: none of these COVID police state measures are new for native people in Canada. Those same Indian Act measures are what murdered Maisie Shaw, and 60,000 other children, many of whom were killed in drug testing experiments by Pfizer and other criminal corporations who now are shoving their experimental toxins into the rest of us with the help of drug-pushing politicians.

And so, the crimes we inflicted on children like Maisie Shaw have blown back on us, which is a hard but inevitable outcome of living in a genocidal regime. None of the Canadians who for years ignored the cries of Maisie and our movement to expose our domestic war crimes should expect justice today, since they have brought down upon themselves the very calamity they now protest.

This is the voice that cannot be denied. And so welcome to the great silence. But who knows? Perhaps in our collective wilderness, a new sound may be heard by something other than ears that can no longer hear.