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Anonymous ID: 0d34be July 23, 2022, 5:06 a.m. No.16787296   🗄️.is đź”—kun

A Canadian court has awarded a major legal win to Artur Pawlowski, the pastor who was arrested and jailed for holding a church service during Alberta’s lockdown.

Pawlowski, the minister of Calgary Street Church, was arrested by Calgary police in dramatic fashion in the middle of a busy highway on May 8 last year as he was driving home from church, where his congregation had gathered without masks in violation of public health orders.

Both Pawlowski and his brother Dawid Pawlowski were charged with organizing an illegal in-person gathering, as well as “requesting, inciting or inviting others” to participate with them.

Later in October, a judge found them in contempt of Alberta’s May 6 health order. That judge also slapped a sanction on the pastor, mandating that whenever he publicly spoke about Alberta’s pandemic restrictions, Pawlowski must add a government-approved statement saying that most medical experts support social distancing, face masks, and vaccines.

However, on Friday, an Alberta appeals court panel ruled that the Alberta health agency’s order restraining “illegal public gatherings” was “not sufficiently clear and unambiguous” as to apply to the Pawlowskis.

“The Pawlowskis’ appeals are allowed. The finding of contempt and the sanction order are set aside. The fines that have been paid by them are to be reimbursed,” the three-member panel wrote in their 16-page ruling.

The court ordered Alberta Health Services, the province’s health agency, to reimburse Pawlowski for his legal costs, as well as the fines levied against him.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pastor-jailed-for-holding-church-service-during-canadas-lockdown-wins-legal-victory

Anonymous ID: 0d34be July 23, 2022, 5:10 a.m. No.16787306   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7320

By John Solomon

Updated: July 22, 2022 - 11:40pm

The iconic half of the Big and Rich country duo — unabashedly conservative and weary of woke record labels and group station owners — decided to bypass the traditional industry machinery and release his latest song "Progress" on Friday via two fledgling free-speech social media platforms, Truth Social owned by former President Donald Trump and the Rumble video community.

Within hours, he soared up the Apple iTunes song chart to number one in the world, supplanting such megastars as Billie Eilish, Kate Bush and Lizzo with lyrics that directly challenge the political notion that progressive ideology has brought "progress" for America.

Rich told Just the News on Friday night that the outcome of his experiment could be industry-changing.

"Here I am with no record label, no publisher, no marketing deal," he said. "I just got a song that speaks to a lot of people, and Truth and Rumble pushed it out there. And man, I'm really proud of what we did today."

Rich said that while most country fans and artists have remained true to the roots of country music and its values, the marketing and distribution machines have increasingly become woke. So he suspected that traditional radio station groups, record labels and social media like Twitter would shun or shadowban his new song and its conservative-friendly theme.

That's when the idea of trying Truth Social and Rumble as an experiment was born.

"When I'm talking about them shutting down our voices, I'm talking about Twitter and YouTube and Facebook," Rich said. "And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna reach out to Truth Social and reach out to Rumble because they still allow free speech over there. Why would I launch this song on the platforms that I'm railing against in the lyrics?"

The payoff from Friday's experiment, he said, could inspire other artists like him.

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/country-star-john-rich-bypasses-woke-labels-releases-song-truth-social-and-soars-no