Earlier this
year, folks on the Right pleaded with US House Speaker Mike Johnson not
to pass a $95 billion aid package to support the war in the Ukraine. He ultimately sided with the Swamp’s war
faction, breaking his pledge not to support such funding measures until the
Mexican border had been secured. He and
others sang to us the now-familiar refrain:
The States must support the ‘good’ democracy in the Ukraine in its
battle with the ‘evil’ Russians, who will go on to invade other European
countries if they aren’t stopped in the Ukraine.
Things
haven’t quite worked out like they were presented back in March and April.
The Ukraine
continues its transformation into a completely totalitarian country. On 20 August 2024, Ukraine’s parliament overwhelmingly
passed a hideous bill, No. 8371, to ban outright the Ukrainian Orthodox
Church (UOC), by far the largest body of Christians in the country, because of
made-up connections to Russia, part of the Zelensky regime’s efforts to impose
a demonic, idolatrous nationalism on the Ukrainian people (this project is a
carry-over of Zelensky’s predecessor, President Petro Poroshenko). The fact that this vote took place when many
people in the US were distracted by the clownish spectacle of the Democrats’
Chicago convention is probably not a coincidence.
Up to this
point the UOC had already been facing terrible persecution from the
ultranationalist regime (a recounting of many of these horrors may be read here). The following is just a small sampling of it
that happened in a town called Zadubrivka:
Local authorities initiated the
expropriation process in January 2019, I was told, claiming that a parish
meeting held on January 24 had decided to switch the parish to the OCU. Around
that time, groups of people periodically came to the church premises and
threatened the parishioners gathered inside. Parishioners stayed overnight in
the church to protect it. The threats escalated.
On May 30, 2019, as a dozen parishioners
were praying outside the church, individuals wearing masks invaded the church
premises and began beating people for about 20 minutes and breaking items
inside the church. “The police were not as strong in 2019 and because of this
we could stand and defend our church,” a parishioner told me, pointing to the
lack of trust in law enforcement. A few parishioners were injured and went to
the hospital.
In April 2023, parishioners were violently
expelled from their church. It happened during the funeral of a soldier from
the parish. Attackers in military uniforms and balaclavas broke into the
church, broke doors, and beat parishioners, sending many to the hospital.
Parishioners identified some attackers as being from the village. Others were
not. Police and military people cordoned off the church to prevent parishioners
from returning.
We
repeat: This is far from an isolated
incident. And now that Bill 8371 has
been passed, things will very likely get much worse for the Orthodox in the
Ukraine.
While this
was going on in the ‘good’ Ukraine, ‘evil’ Russia was opening
her doors to the people of the West who are being harassed by their
Leftist, anti-Christian governments:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2024/08/garlington-america-owes-ukraines-christians-a-tremendous-apology/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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