The real TRUTH about the Komagata Maru in 8 minutes
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Every year, this century-old story is told. The massive steamship, the Komagata Maru, entered Vancouver Bay carrying 376 supposed immigrant families. They were denied entry and sent back to India by racist Canadian border agents. This tall tale is presented as proof that Canada is and always has been a racist country. Justin Trudeau pandered every year during his tenure, taking the spotlight that he loved so much to issue a breathless apology to Sikhs everywhere.
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The Komagata Maru is described as a national shame.
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Every year, this century-old story is told.
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The massive steamship SS Komagata Maru entered Vancouver Bay carrying 376 supposed immigrant families.
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They were denied entry and sent back to India by racist Canadian border agents.
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This tall tale is presented as proof that Canada is and always has been a racist country.
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Justin Trudeau pandered every year during his tenure, taking the spotlight that he loved so much
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to issue a breathless apology to Sikhs everywhere. Jagmeet Singh used it as evidence of systemic
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racism and uses it today to justify modern mass immigration policy. Even Pierre Poliet calls it a
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quote, shameless mark on our history. But what actually happened and what aren't they telling
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you. The year is 1914. Canada, as we know it, is a new country. It hasn't even been 50 years since
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John A. Macdonald laid the groundwork for a confederation. The population is only at 7.9
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million. And the Komagatamaru, chartered by Punjabi businessman Baba Gurdit Singh,
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no relation to Jagmeet Singh, is carrying 376 radical Sikh militants from India,
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almost all adult men. But that raises the next question. What was their actual goal?
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because once you begin to question that, the narrative that we had been told begins to fall
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apart. You see, Canada's border agency at this time refused any immigrant vessel from anywhere
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that did not arrive via a direct route. It was called the Continuous Journey Regulation and
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especially on the eve of World War I, it was an effective strategy for avoiding stowaways
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and extremists from entering the country. The ship intentionally did not sail directly from
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India to Canada in order to contest immigration laws. It stopped repeatedly along the way,
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stopping at Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama, specifically to break the continuous journey
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regulation. Most of the passengers aboard this ship and the organizers of the Komagatomaru journey
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were part of a political extremist organization known as the Gadar Movement. Canada was an easy
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target for the gadar radicals whose goal was to destroy the british empire through canada as a
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young country with limited capacity and limited infrastructure to deal with a floating humanitarian
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crisis they thought we were an easy target now here is what might surprise you to this day
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global communists celebrate this event take this historical archive from the global marxist
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authority who recalls the event with fond red fervor. Many of those aboard the Komagata Maru
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were activists and sympathizers of the revolutionary and anti-colonial Gadar party.
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This was a party organized to wage a national liberation struggle against British domination.
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It was heavily influenced by socialist ideas. When the Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbor
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there was a standoff lasting two months ending with Canada compassionately allowing 24 passengers
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to disembark, mostly women and children, which notably increased the female Sikh population
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in Canada at the time by around 800%. Fun fact, of the 2,342 Sikhs that were counted in the 1911
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census, only three were women. The remaining 352 men stayed on board and were sent back to India.
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Canadian authorities didn't hesitate, they didn't improvise, they enforced the law, and the illegal
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migrants knew this was going to happen. The ship was forced to leave. No mass arrests, no police
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brutality, no violence. Just a return trip back to British India. But the radicals aboard the
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Komagatamaru, they didn't stop there. They began plotting again. This time, an overt terrorist
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assassination of border agents in Vancouver. The one death in the entire Komagatamaru story in
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Canada wasn't even a migrant. It was William Hopkinson, a Canadian immigration official who
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was killed in broad daylight. Last year, your tax money went to the funding of a Punjabi-language
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movie honoring and celebrating the death of William Hopkinson. Interesting. The assassin Muah Singh
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is regarded as a martyr among many Sikhs today. The city of New Westminster, British Columbia
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officially declared that January 11th would be Mewa Singh Day.
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The radicals aboard the Komagata Maru, their goal was never to integrate into Canada.
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The Gadar movement was intentionally trying to undermine the Canadian and British war effort.
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Look no further than the documented evidence of the Hindu-German conspiracy,
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where German authorities worked alongside Gadar movement radicals in Canada and the United States
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to ship arms to radicals in India on behalf of the Germans
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to attack British officials and military personnel.
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While our Canadian boys were over in France and in Western Europe getting slaughtered in the fields,
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we had people from India entering our country,
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working with the enemy to undermine the Allied war effort.
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And we're supposed to honor these people as martyrs.
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However, politicians today will breathlessly tell you
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that the Komagata Maru story was a national shame and that Sikhs built Canada. Now the evidence of
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course says otherwise, but you didn't need me to tell you that. According to the World Sikh
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Organization itself, the population of Sikhs in Canada in the early 1900s was not millions,
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not hundreds of thousands, not tens of thousands, and not a single percent. In 1911 the World Sikh
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Organization reports that the Sikh population was two hundredths of a percent of the national
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population. Just a couple thousand spread across the Canadian frontier. The political leaders in
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our country today intentionally twist the facts of this story into morally blackmailing Canadians
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towards their policies of mass immigration and extreme multicultural policies, leading directly
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to their practice of refugee intakes, student visa extensions, and citizenship pipeline for
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temporary foreign workers who become Liberal Party voters before being replaced at Tim Hortons by
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the next wave of temporary foreign workers. Remembering the Komagata Maru as proof that
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Canada has a racist past with racist laws is not just false, it's immoral. The real tragedy here
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is the lesson that we learned nearly a hundred years after this incident. These laws were
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originally in place to prevent the destruction of social cohesion in Canada, and ironically,
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removing these laws has led to that social cohesion being destroyed. Over the past decade alone,
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Canada has seen a huge increase in the number of Indian separatists.
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And they're doing exactly what the passengers aboard the Koma Gautamaru in 1914 envisioned for themselves.
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Evade the law, exploit Canada for revolutionary purposes,
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manipulate the system, deal and sell illegal drugs and firearms,
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and continuous infighting in our streets over their foreign issues.
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Apologizing for enforcement teaches the public to see borders as something shameful
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and conditions us to accept the erosion of our sovereignty.
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And as we all know, history is rarely as clean as the plaques would suggest.
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There was a permanent Komagatumaru memorial on Vancouver's Coal Harbor,
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one of the most esteemed waterfronts in the country.
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plaques illuminated by gold, a sign where their side of the story is engraved.
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But is there any memorial for William Hopkinson,
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the man who was shot dead in cold blood for enforcing the immigration laws at the time
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against the Gadar movement and the passengers aboard the Komagatamaru?
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Meanwhile, the city of Vancouver also added Komagatamaru Place
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These are permanent moral markers built into the city itself.