Pastor Artur Pawlowski arrested for refusing to shut church tells all
Summary
Pastor Artur Pawlowski is a hero in Canada for standing up for freedom of worship and standing up to the communist regime. Pastor Artur is a Polish-born Canadian who grew up behind the Iron Curtain and saw firsthand the horrors of communist oppression.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, where we are going to be
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speaking with someone who has hit the headlines in a big way.
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He's a Canadian pastor who is one of those pastors who really, really made it to viral
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status by actually defending the faith in his church, by actually defending the freedom
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to worship in Canada, where there's so much obeisance and letting it go, letting everything
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A few pastors have stood up and absolutely rejected the tyranny of discrimination against
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Christians, discrimination of people of faith to stop their worship.
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This is Pastor Artur Pawlowski in his first appearance to most of us, as we saw him telling
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the police officers forcefully to remove themselves from his church.
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And we are going to be speaking with Pastor Artur Pawlowski right now.
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Welcome to this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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It is a great privilege for me to speak with you.
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You should know that in very many ways, you're a hero in Canada.
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You have pointed the way to defense of the freedom of worship in a way that really, for
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most of America, for most of Europe, has been very alien.
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You were forceful, of course, charitable, but you were forceful.
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But first of all, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Well, I grew up in Poland, as you can tell by my accent, behind the Iron Curtain.
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So I have seen firsthand the atrocities that were done to my people in my country, you know,
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When Europe was and the whole world was celebrating the victory over the Nazis, Poland was taken
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And I'm telling you, socialism and communism is like a black plague.
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It destroys everything that touches like a cancer.
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People were depressed, people turned into alcohol for hope and faith.
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Faith was the number one thing that was holding the people together.
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And John Paul II, of course, coming to Poland and praying.
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I had privilege to do a Christian festival, March for Jesus, in the very place where John
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Paul II said, God, the Holy Spirit, come and touch this land, this ground.
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And after many, many years, after decades of Soviets destroying our country, finally,
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But eventually, after a big struggle during the Solidarity Movement, they won their freedom.
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In my town, where I was growing up, was a concentration camp.
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So as kids, we were playing in the bunkers that Germans built to murder people.
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So I've heard from my grandparents about the atrocities of the Germans that they did in Europe and in Poland, of course.
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And then firsthand, I saw what the communists did.
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The police brutality, arrests, beatings, torturing, lawlessness, propaganda machinery, nonstop.
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If you were caught listening to European radio in Poland, you could go to jail for five years.
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But, of course, after you were brutally arrested and tortured and then sentenced.
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If you were caught with something that was outside of the propaganda, so a leaflet or something else that was contrary, a book, for example, that was prohibited under the Soviet era, you could be tortured and sentenced to jail.
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If you were caught with one American dollar, you could go for one year to jail.
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So I've seen a lot of things, but I also have seen good.
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I will never forget this image when tens of thousands of people took it to the streets and they built this huge, huge cross.
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And they marched with that cross and the soldiers were sent and they were ordered to shoot them dead.
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And the people won and they prayed because prayer was illegal.
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Congregating together, just like today, was illegal.
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But people, by the tens of thousands, they did it.
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So what I'm trying to say to you, there is hope.
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Listen from a guy that grew up under craziness, hearing the stories of the Nazism and fascism and then seeing the communism, you know, destroying everything.
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But people rose together. And here we are together.
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I'm feeding thousands of people on the streets of Calgary.
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I escaped on the boat, irony, on a Russian boat to Istanbul, Turkey, and then to Piraeus in Athens, where we actually literally escaped from that boat.
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And we were threatened that we would be arrested.
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But God opened the doors and we went to the other side of the fence, throwing our belongings through the fence.
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And irony again, the Canadian government said, we want people like you to come, sell your business, sell your belongings, come to Canada.
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Why? Because it's the freest country on the planet Earth.
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And we finally decided after many years of living in two countries that were very corrupted, everything was run by bribery and constant fear.
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We came to Canada to start all over again in 1995.
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And I pray the same prayer that John Paul II prayed.
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You lived through a kind of brutal persecution, and yet you find in yourself, despite watching, and I'm sure in the communist times that you lived through, you would have seen families arrested.
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You would have seen children taken from their parents.
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You would have seen, as you said, the brutal torture of people, yet you're still willing to speak out and do so forcefully in defense of freedom.
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I mean, I said quite often, and publicly, and to my congregants, that God had blessed me with amazing people, freedom fighters, lovers of people, lovers of this country.
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But I always tell them, listen, I do not work for you.
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If you think for a second that you pay me and I work for you, you're delusional.
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I have only one God as boss, and you're not God.
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And when he tells me to do something, I will do it, even if it offends all of you, and you will choose to leave this place.
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You can choose to serve God, or you can choose to serve the enemy.
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When my son was born, Nathaniel, the first one, Nathaniel in Hebrew means gift from God, a gift of God.
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He had a heart on opposite sides, smashed lungs.
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I was in a business realm at that time, and I always thought that you can buy anything you want with money.
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At that moment, 21 years ago, I realized that there are certain things you cannot buy.
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You can be the richest man on the planet Earth, and you can be the most miserable person on Earth.
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You can have all the money, but if something is broken and people cannot fix it, that's it.
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Time is a precious commodity, and you only have one chance on this side of eternity.
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There are some things that you cannot buy, and I could not buy the health of my son.
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I think this was the first time that I really realized there's someone more powerful than money, more powerful than politicians, more powerful than lawyers, judges, and the mighty dollar.
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I have to tell you, that was a moment when I had my big rebellious fight with God.
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You know, we always have this saying, why not the neighbor?
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I did terrible things, but this guy is worse than me.
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And I had a vision, and I would encourage you to watch a documentary that was done on my life.
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A famous movie director came, and he did the documentary.
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And I'm telling you, as a businessman, I did not believe in visions.
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I did not believe in this, you know, hocus pocus, I said.
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Those people are missing something in their brain.
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And we always had this saying as businessmen, show me the money.
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They said even if he survives this time, he's going to be vegetable for the rest of his life.
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So there was a huge amount of people that were praying and visiting the intensive care in the children's hospital here.
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Me, on the other hand, I was just watching this whole thing like what's happening to somebody else.
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After my rage against God, after me calling him names and lifting fists and, oh, you, how terrible you are.
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I ran away from the hospital and I came back the next day and it started again.
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It happened to me three times until I saw the crucifixion.
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And he said, what would you do to save your son?
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I will wipe out half of this hospital if it needs to be so my son can live.
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But he says, but you cannot do anything to save your son.
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And he paused and he says, for you and for the rest of the people.
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I'm telling you, at that moment, I realized how evil, wicked of a person I was.
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I would kill your son so only I don't have to be in pain.
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I would wipe somebody's father or mother just so I can escape the pain.
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But this father, I don't think we fully can understand what he has done.
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And if all the people would understand how much he loves you, how much he appreciates you,
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he created you, he cherishes you, he wants to spend time with you.
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He doesn't want you to just come to him and give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me.
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He wants to take you on his lap and just, hey, tell me how was your day.
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You know, my heart is broken when I see people constantly coming to God and they're just,
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give me, give me, you know, Toonie and a chocolate bar comes out.
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I'm telling you, if you do that, you're going to touch the heart of the father in the most
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I went to the church first time since my son was born dying and I started to cry like
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And every tear was representing something that I've done, all my sins.
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Every tear was representing another sin, another deed that I have done, another words that I
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And I don't know how long I was crying, but when it was over, I had no more tears.
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All my hands were raised towards heaven and my son was like Isaac, like Abraham has given
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I have given my son, Nathaniel, the gift from God on the altar.
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My son was born the same day I was born, March 28, 2000.
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And I have given him on the altar like Abraham, Isaac, and nothing happened.
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And you would think after such a dramatic situation, me seeing what I saw and you would think something
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Someone would speak to me, an earthquake perhaps, or a wind or a fire, nothing, nothing happened.
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I came back to the hospital and behold, everyone was pointing a finger at me saying, that's the
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I reached the intensive care that the same three doctors came and here is what they said.
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Something happened because, you know, I was walking there expecting that my son is dead.
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I said, God, whatever you're going to do, whatever is your answer, if you choose to take him home,
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So this horror, this suffering for me and my wife would end.
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But if you will heal him, I'll be grateful for the rest of my life.
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But nevertheless, I'm giving you my oath right now.
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And if you know anything about me as a businessman, a handshake was a contract, was good enough
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So I said, no matter what you will choose, I'm giving you my oath today.
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And like I said, nothing happened until the next day.
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They take me to another room with x-rays at that time.
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And they said, we can't explain what happened, but your son should not be alive, but is living.
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Your son should not be breathing because all the machinery was doing all of that for him.
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When we opened him up, I have a surgeon's report.
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Every hour is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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We call your son a star baby because it's like a baby that came from the stars.
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It should not be breathing, but it's breathing on his own.
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It looks like your God has answered your prayers.
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You know, it takes me an hour and a half to tell the story.
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It's like the apostles in the book of Acts chapter 4 and 5.
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They say, we have seen, and they have seen mighty things of God.
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And as they say, we must testify on what we have seen.
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I must testify that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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He wants to let the people know that he is interested in your affairs.
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And he loves you so much that he has given himself for you and me.
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So after that, I started to work with the homeless people.
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In 2005, we started a ministry called Street Church.
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And right now, there is 40, 50 churches like this all over different countries and continents.
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I started orphanages, clinics, churches, Africa, Belize, Barbados, you name it.
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I started also a movement that is called March for Jesus.
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I organize marches all over the world and also Christian festivals.
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And I pastor two churches in the city of Calgary.
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We're going to show a clip of your arrest of your, in this most recent incident, which I
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really want to address with you, of your house attempted to be burned down.
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So let's roll those now and then I'll get your reaction to them.
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to pull your nuts, you can stop your psychopaths.
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shame on you guys this is not communist china don't you guys have family and kids
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whatever happened to canada god keep her learning glorious and free
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so pastor artur if you could tell us first of all about the arrest uh you know you were arrested
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what what went through your head at the time and what's your takeaway from that
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you know think about it for every person that is living in a western society you would think that
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you have protection of law we are not living in a country that are lawlessness we have the
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charter of rights and freedoms we have the constitution we have criminal code of canada
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section 176 and it says you know one two three it says that we are protected the clergymen are
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protected you cannot interfere you cannot disturb you cannot harass clergymen going in or coming out
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after he is or before officiating you know incapacity of his duties you cannot disrupt church service i
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mean you think you are living in a in a country that respects the rule of law and preamble to our
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charter rights and freedoms to the fundamental rights the government is giving us that's why i
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came to this country that was the only reason because i was making lots of money in greece and
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that was my el dorado yeah i came to canada for one purpose for freedom that's it i wanted just to be a
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free man living in a country that is uh run by law and order i was sick of bribery i was sick of
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corrupted police officers and politicians i wanted to come here for freedom and security and that's
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being taken away from me so knowing the law knowing that we are fully protected that they cannot do
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what they're doing right now i was of course shocked i was enraged i was upset what is happening we
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are being taken over by some kind of a communist fascist hybrid that's why i called them i called
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them you know i've called them gestapo because they are starting to act like gestapo they they turn
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their uniforms from blue into a dark blue looking like a black and then a swat team coming to the
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church and they look more like ss gestapo then then officers that when you see them you say oh thank god
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there is a police officer over there no they look like uh gangsters working for mafia right now
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there is lawlessness in the land there is total disregard to the rule of law in the preamble it
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says the canada where is canada recognizes the supremacy of god where is supremacy of god god says
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very clearly we are to gather that's what god says we are to lay hands on the sick we are to officiate
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services we are to sing praises to god we are to come together as a family and worship our creator
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it's protected it's given it's a god given but also a state given right that we have and all of that is
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being taken away from us on pretense of some kind of a lie that is circulating right now around the world
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which data doesn't support the statistics are telling totally opposite story however those people
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don't care they don't care that they're lying they don't care they're manipulating they're doing
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this on purpose destroying the middle class eliminating small and medium-sized businesses
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while at the same time costco superstore ikea they all can do whatever they want and mosques are not
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shut down the imams there's not even one imam that has been ticket forget about arresting not even one
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ticket the muslims got it but christians by the thousands are being hunted down the pastors now arrested so
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we know it's a communistic takeover so what was going through my head i said what happened where
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are canadians where where are the real politicians because what we have right now is some kind of a
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mafia ruling over this country and you know preamble continues the supremacy of god and the rule of law
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where is the rule of law where is actual law right now they're they're acting against the rights they're
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acting against the law and they're using law to do that to take away our our our rights so when they
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showed up at the church they brought swat team and i'm thinking to myself what's wrong what is in the
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head of those people we are non-violent i've never been charged with assault in my life i am not violent
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there is no record of violence whatsoever it's a peaceful assembly it's a peaceful church and they
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bring swat team so why they're doing this they're doing this to suppress to intimidate to harass and
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they have been doing this for the past 15 years taking pictures of our women and and children that's
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what the soviets did that's just what the gestapo did if they cannot get the men they will intimidate the
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men by saying hey we know where your wife works we know where your children go to work we know we can
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hurt them to hurt you be careful and those are the tactics identical to the tactics of gestapo and the
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kgb that's why i call them gestapo and kgb and fascists and communists because they're acting like those old
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boys from the past so when the swat team shows up at the church and i was told of course i was already
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at the front of the church the church was in a full uh you know uh worship and someone yells the swat team
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is coming so i thought i'm going to be arrested at the pulpit but they opened the door and they
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left i was told they left i said oh praise god so maybe today i'm not going to be arrested for my
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horrible crime of opening the church and and preaching the gospel so they've left i was told that they dropped
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something later on after the church was over they dropped something on the ground i said don't touch it
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i don't know what it is i mean this is crazy you know it could be a biological weapon as far as i
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know i don't know no one presented me anything no one talked to me no one sent an email no one notified
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our lawyers we have lawyers for 15 months they know we have lawyers they know uh that we always tell them
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talk to our lawyers because we're not lawyers they have to figure it out what what is really going on
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and the legality of of the things but no they've chosen to drop something on the ground i told the
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people don't touch it um let the lawyers deal with that if they have something to give me let them give
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it to the lawyer so they can figure it out and people left and i started driving home me a driver
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dave hughes and my brother david david palowski and in the middle of a busy highway we were stopped by
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swat team we were uh you know the officer comes to the window says you're under arrest and he turns
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to my brother david says you're under arrest which is which is insanity why my brother was arrested
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i was the pastor i opened the church i officiated the service you know so i broke the law according
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to them why brother because you see again they're acting like gestapo and kgb if they can get to one
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man they're using his family they're like gangsters they are they're no different than the mafia right
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now those politicians jason kenney comes in front of the cameras he's the premier of alberta and this
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is what he says i will crush pavlovskis that's what he said to the media i will crush pavlovskis
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excuse me you're going to crush my daughter you're going to crush my mom you're going to crush my father
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and and and why why are you going to crush me and my family because i opened the church
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that i give hope in this crazy crisis when people are suicidal when people are turning into drugs and
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alcohol you're going to crush my family because i am a pastor in a free and democratic society is this a
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conduct of a premier of a province in the democratic country no he is a mafia boss he's a casa nostra
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and he's using police and the courts as a means to destroy opposition just like the chinese are doing
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just like the russians are doing he is no different no rule of law he's a mafia casa nostra guy using
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police as his gangsters to harass intimidate and to rise all right so we were taken to to the police
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custody i was thrown um heads down into the police car uh van i could not fit my feet were sticking out
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so i was threatened i will be charged with assault if i if my feet will not fit into the van but i was
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just the box is very small it's only intended for an in for a prisoner to sit but they threw me
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on my back and i was not fitting i was just like my feet were out so it was insane finally i with my
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help we managed to put my feet up and my head down so that's how i traveled for an hour laying down
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a hundred kilo on my wrists uh handcuffed in extreme pain i was tortured for one hour to this day
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my wrist is damaged and i have tingling in my fingers so that's what 10 days after my arrest more
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11 days you know so they've damaged my wrist intentionally and they took us to the to jail
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where we were in solitary confinement uh not allowed to sleep every half hour there was bang on the door
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uh some officer would come and make sure we cannot sleep the lights were so bright uh you couldn't
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you couldn't even cover your head you know you couldn't sleep and there was concrete we were
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forced to be on the concrete for like 30 hours uh eventually guards changed and some human came
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because the gestapo left and humans showed up and then finally he says this is this is wrong what what
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is happening to you is wrong and he provided us with the mattress however that didn't last that long
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because an hour or two later we were transferred to prison and when we were stripped uh naked search
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our clothes were taken we were thrown into this filthiest jail uh a tank they call it a tank i call it
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fish tank where the fresh fish is arriving i'm thinking i'm telling you the cell looked like someone went
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and peed all over the place it was sticky it was filthy it was dirty and you gotta remember why i'm telling
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the story because we were arrested for endangering people right inciting people to come to church
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not obeying the health so orders so um it's very interesting that we were thrown into a place
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that if there was a serious virus if there was a leprosy or something black like we would all be dead
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20 30 inmates coming in and out into this filth all of us are infected all of us it's a cross
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uh you know transmission and and it's it's it's just sickening i mean i'm here because of health
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and i'm being you know i'm i'm being jeopardized my health is being jeopardized because you have thrown
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into this filthy filthy thing that they look like no one cleans for years and you could see write-ups
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on the wall 1992 so 30 years no one paints this stuff no one cleans it it's insane it's insane so
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however in this ordeal there were some good people there were some good jailers and i promised them
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that i'm going to mention this not all officers are bad not all police officers are evil gestapo there's
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some good police officers and there are some good jailers and we've met those good jailers one
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a staff surgeon cumble he he was so shocked by what is happening uh that he provided us with the
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mattress for for this short time another officer daniels i i asked him he says what can i do for
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you because this is wrong what is happening i said if i can get a cup of coffee please and he went
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himself and he got from his own place a cup of coffee you know so you have some humans over there
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when we were stripped naked searched uh we had to give up our clothes there was one jailer that says
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pastor arthur remember jesus is with you i mean those things are precious while they were mocking us
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the other jailers were lifting their hands praise the lord praise the lord mocking us others were
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seeing what is happening and they were disturbed it was another shift uh gentleman a boss uh supervisor
00:32:53.260
from the shift uh night shift and he comes and he's physically shaken he says this is horrible and
00:33:01.100
you know what he says i am a catholic and what i what i'm seeing here is just wrong what they're doing
00:33:06.880
to use is evil is wrong i'm going to do everything in my power to help you to help you out and to for
00:33:13.200
you to be treated normally i mean we're not asking for extra treatment we're not asking hey treat us
00:33:18.440
better or no just treat us like humans like any other inmate but that was denied to us so for three
00:33:25.260
hours i watched this catholic man with this night shift a supervisor that came with his team three hours
00:33:31.760
he fought with the bosses just to give us a place to sleep because we were all this time on concrete
00:33:38.300
and he couldn't get the authorization they refused they refused to give us a bed eventually three hours
00:33:47.500
later after i watching him fight with his superiors he says they say no they just told me no uh so i don't
00:33:55.040
know what to do i'm going to try to get you a mattress and a blanket because it was extremely cold
00:34:00.120
like i mean extremely shivering cold and we are there um in the name of health being treated like
00:34:07.140
prisoners in siberia and jeopardizing our health and the health of other inmates and finally three
00:34:14.580
in the morning so i was arrested with brother david saturday so we spent saturday night sunday night
00:34:22.560
and finally three in the morning he provided us with the with the blanket and no pillow and um
00:34:28.940
and the mattress and six in the morning we were uh shackled our feet were shackled and we were taken
00:34:35.980
to to court to see the judge three hours waiting to see the lawyers and another interesting part of
00:34:42.900
this is that the lawyers asked to uh ask for the jailers to tell us that they're waiting for our phone
00:34:49.860
call that um they need to contact us that was never three days we are in jail was never passed to us
00:34:56.640
that the lawyers are asking to see to talk to us also we asked a number of times to have access to
00:35:03.420
the lawyer that was denied to us they did not allow us to to call a lawyer in in reman until the night
00:35:11.320
shift uh check you know people came and finally our rights were restored to us uh we were taken to
00:35:19.400
court we saw the judge the judge the judge ordered our release and that didn't happen until seven hours
00:35:25.620
later after we were again thrown in uh you know in this tank uh where when you sat down and you got
00:35:33.320
stuck to the to the bench because it was so filthy i'm talking about mold on the ceiling i'm talking about
00:35:40.260
that look like no one cleans this place ever and that's where we were thrown again watching other
00:35:45.940
inmates coming in and out from that first fish tank where someone looked like someone peed all over
00:35:52.260
the place so about 20 inmates were going to that other cell that we spent the whole night in and
00:36:00.260
then finally 7 p.m three days they released us from jail and that was a beautiful moment also because
00:36:07.580
when we released someone from the jail system from the prison presented us with two red bibles
00:36:15.240
and i just i think was that catholic uh supervisor that just wanted to let us know we're not alone
00:36:21.720
that there are some people like us and that was a beautiful moment you know getting a bible because
00:36:28.160
the bible was denied to us um we were not allowed to read the bible until the human jailers came and
00:36:36.360
finally for an hour or two i was given a bible with that coffee from mr with police officer daniels and
00:36:44.420
um staff sergeant comble so what i'm trying to say is in every department there are humans the good
00:36:53.120
people and there are monsters the gangsters there are evil people and gestapo type of individuals so
00:37:01.640
don't lose hope because uh sometimes we have tendency to to throw all of them and say that's it there is no
00:37:08.380
hope no there is always hope there's always hope and we've seen it we've seen the light in the
00:37:13.100
darkness over there amazing amazing parallels um to to also the suffering of our lord you you spent
00:37:20.180
three days uh and and then we're finally released sort of like our resurrection uh after the three
00:37:25.500
days uh from from good friday to uh easter sunday uh just amazing stuff but this is so disturbing
00:37:32.240
that uh you know you are being persecuted not only by the police but the police are obviously picking up
00:37:40.660
on kind of the threats from politicians and you've been vilified in the media so that you know you're
00:37:48.740
getting the sort of punishment now that also rubs off there's no it's not only the jailers who are
00:37:58.080
going to crush the pavlovskys no no it also rubs off in terms of the public when the politicians when
00:38:06.260
the media go after someone and vilify them uh it is very dangerous because you can create that kind
00:38:14.280
of mob mentality to have people uh do vigilante action and that indeed did happen uh with someone
00:38:21.520
trying to burn down your house with you and your family still in it tell us what happened there
00:38:27.060
you know the media for months for months they're doing those i call them heat uh heat heat pieces
00:38:35.160
on on us and they would write stories uh portraying me as a white supremacist a super spreader
00:38:42.440
portraying me as a racist and you know for the record half of our church goers are colored people
00:38:48.520
i myself am partially colored my grandma was from romania so to say you know when you see my father
00:38:56.560
you think he is arab because you know he has dark skin so to to say that we are white supremacists and
00:39:03.200
racists is unbelievable it's just a pure lie we have people from asia from china we have people
00:39:09.880
from jamaica africa attending our church we have native americans half of the people i feed on the
00:39:17.760
streets are native americans so colored people uh reds blacks yellow and i mean i always say that if
00:39:24.100
martians were healed here i would allow them to come and i would feed them as well and everyone
00:39:29.580
is welcome at the lord's table that's what i say always everyone is welcome to participate at the
00:39:35.560
lord's table those tables are not mine they are his that's god's tables he provides the food for the
00:39:41.320
people i'm not going to say anything you're welcome to come you're homosexual and you're hungry you're
00:39:46.460
welcome to come you're transgender you're hungry you're welcome to come you're a muslim you're hungry
00:39:51.160
you're welcome to come it doesn't matter we don't ask questions what is your political uh you know
00:39:57.120
association where you came from um you know what is your fate what do you believe in are you atheists
00:40:03.640
no we set up tables and we welcome everyone that wants to come everyone that needs to come everyone
00:40:09.880
that is hungry is welcome to come they don't have to listen to our preaching they can grab food and move
00:40:15.220
on with their lives but many people do want to listen and they participate in our church services so
00:40:20.440
the same with the church that i run in the building everyone is welcome to come we have
00:40:25.800
actually a lady that identifies herself as a homosexual and actually she was defending us on
00:40:32.760
the news she says like this is unbelievable what you're doing this is a lie this is just not what it
00:40:38.340
is so what they're doing for months they're vilifying us vilifying me telling people untrue
00:40:45.260
uh things that i hate people that i hate colored people that i i am just this evil monster that needs
00:40:53.400
to be stopped and the politicians did the same thing uh jason kenny the premier of alberta that's
00:40:58.680
not the first time he goes in front of cameras vilifying me calling me white supremacist and racist
00:41:04.360
this is not the first time now he says i'll crush pavlovskis so that sends a message to
00:41:10.740
really evil people to hurt us and that's exactly what happened i blame the media and the politicians
00:41:16.660
to what happened to us someone set our garage on fire and it was not for the neighbor caught you know
00:41:24.920
the caught this very early we would die in fire a chief firefighter came and he said to me you know
00:41:33.120
we were extremely blessed not to die today because just just few weeks before the garage caught fire
00:41:40.460
and the whole house went in flames you know so this is not a joke we're not talking about ah someone
00:41:47.740
doesn't like me no this is it's a next step they want my children dead they want my wife to die they
00:41:55.440
want me to be murdered i mean this is sickening if you really think about it and excuse me for what
00:42:00.800
what have i done my people are healthy i'm healthy we are happy people we have peace in this crisis we
00:42:10.360
come together we are family people come on their free will they're healthy people uh you know if if
00:42:17.900
you don't feel good you stay at home you can go and quarantine yourself that's okay but this is the
00:42:25.260
first time in the history of mankind when the healthy people are commanded to quarantine
00:42:30.060
you're always historically speaking always has been the other way around if you're sick you
00:42:35.740
stay away from the healthy population but this is a reverse situation right now it's it's absolutely
00:42:41.240
sickening what they're doing and they're doing this on purpose they're doing this to destroy
00:42:45.980
our lives so um i feed the homeless people like i said and and then for that deed i'm not charging a
00:42:55.560
penny from the government everything we do is uh is run by volunteers i do not receive a salary i have
00:43:02.120
not received the salary for seven years and now i'm being targeted by the politicians by the mainstream
00:43:08.180
media and now i'm suffering tens of thousands of dollars loss because why excuse me because i opened
00:43:16.060
the church don't come you don't want to come don't come you don't want to be fed don't come go to
00:43:21.100
mcdonald's go to restaurants i you know that's your choice but there's a lots of people thousands
00:43:25.720
of them actually that are relying on our services and for that i'm being targeted for that you want
00:43:33.220
me murdered unbelievable all right so arthur if you could pastor arthur if you could give us uh your
00:43:41.900
is really thoughts on what canadians should do right now we're all in this boat most of us are
00:43:49.240
prevented from going to church going to mass even going in sometimes uh but and and then they're
00:43:55.960
trying to suggest that we do it all virtually um what's your message of encouragement for canadians
00:44:01.040
you know when um when i became a christian i remember the times where i was a very comfortable
00:44:10.760
christian i was a businessman and and pretty much what i wanted from god is and that's the truth is just
00:44:16.340
god bless my business bless my company okay just make me a very very you know wealthy person and
00:44:22.760
and then i will give you a little bit out of that world so i was a lukewarm really uninterested in his
00:44:28.640
kingdom selfish self-centered me i am myself and i think most of the christians unfortunately are right
00:44:35.520
like that like i was before most of the clergymen it's all about them they're hired guns they're not
00:44:41.500
real shepherds of god's people because jesus says when a real shepherd is attacked or his flock is
00:44:47.860
attacked he stands up and fight he fends off the wolves what we have right now is hired guns the wolves
00:44:53.660
showed up and they jumped through the windows and left the flock left the sheep to be devoured
00:44:59.460
by the wolves so what i did chasing those nazis those hyenas away i just defended the people inside you
00:45:06.660
don't have right to intimidate and harass people while they are on their knees and praying and crying
00:45:11.320
and talking to god and worshiping him it is just pure evil even the communists didn't do it
00:45:16.640
so get out and if every pastor if every clergyman would do stuff like this this whole fight would be
00:45:23.100
over we would win within a day that's how powerful we are so my message to you is this lions never bow
00:45:30.200
before hyenas we do not cooperate with hyenas we do not work with the gestapo we oppose evil it's
00:45:37.380
always the right thing to do the right thing we have to push evil the light has to keep shining if the
00:45:44.800
salt loses its saltiness it will be useless good for nothing it will be trampled by men right now the
00:45:51.540
church is being trampled by men we have been called unessential services we are being called we don't want
00:45:57.760
you we don't need you shut your doors and disappear while walmart is being celebrated as the new god
00:46:04.880
of the land so we have a choice we can be like joshua and say ask for me and my household we shall serve
00:46:10.880
the lord or we can say okay we're going to serve idols of the land the government is more powerful than
00:46:17.540
god so therefore we're going to bow before that golden image let me remind you about shadrach michigan
00:46:23.300
abendigo they were told by the law you have to bow and they said no they end up in a fiery furnace
00:46:30.220
and jesus shows up let me remind you about daniel law said you cannot pray just like the law says we cannot
00:46:36.540
gather we cannot do stuff today what did daniel do he opens the windows and he prays let's go to mordecai
00:46:42.600
and haman the law said you have to bow before haman mordecai chooses not to he breaks the law for the glory of god
00:46:49.220
because you should not bow before elected officials you are only to worship and bow before the living
00:46:54.860
god esther goes before the king against the law the book of acts chapter 4 and 5 apostles are saying to
00:47:02.300
the authorities we must obey god rather than men the bible is filled with rebellious people but
00:47:08.400
rebellious not towards god because the rebellion is like a spirit of divinations like a witchcraft when
00:47:13.440
you rebel against god but you must you must rebel against evil you have to you have to oppose the
00:47:20.980
darkness you have to stand against the devil and his minions because if you don't the bible in revelation
00:47:27.680
says the cowardly the fearful will not will not inherit the kingdom of god so you're risking your salvation
00:47:35.340
when you say to god i don't trust you enough i don't believe that you can take me out of the speckle
00:47:41.460
i have more faith in the government than in you god you're not powerful enough your hand is too short
00:47:47.420
you i don't have faith i don't think you can rescue me i am more afraid of men than i am afraid of god
00:47:54.680
this is the tragedy that we're witnessing right now so my message is very clear rise up stand up be
00:48:02.000
courageous push the darkness away bring your light be sold that penetrates every aspect political
00:48:08.900
mainstream media educational system health system you know justice system we all should penetrate
00:48:16.720
all of those departments for the glory of god who is this devil don't you understand that god holds
00:48:25.040
our enemies in the palm of his hands they are only alive because he allows them to be alive don't we
00:48:30.860
understand that greater is he that is in us than the one that is in them don't we know that the story ends
00:48:36.500
victoriously we know how the story ends we know that jesus wins and when you stand with jesus you win
00:48:44.040
also you have to stand you have to obey you have to have faith the bible says that without faith you
00:48:50.380
cannot please god jesus says when i come back will i find faith on earth looks like the church lost faith
00:48:56.760
it looks like the church rather obeys the government than their god that they say they are serving
00:49:04.360
and where are the leaders we are leaderless generation we have no leaders in the political
00:49:08.680
arena now because they are they should be charged with treason the traitors to the people they work
00:49:14.880
against the people also we have no leaders in the churches because they run away they jumped from
00:49:21.040
the ship and ship and they left us to die to be devoured by hyenas and wolves so lions rise up
00:49:29.960
stand up the bible says one can do a thousand but two can do ten thousand so my call is this rise up
00:49:36.300
people church rise up this is our time to shine the people are desperate the people are suicidal people
00:49:43.280
are dying they're turning to drugs and alcohol now it's our time to shine jesus said this is the time for
00:49:49.640
the last harvest he wants his last harvest jesus is coming back he is coming back to judge the living
00:49:57.340
and the dead rise up bring him those souls that he died on that cross for
00:50:03.140
wow pastor paulowski thank you for your defense of canada of freedom to worship one last question for
00:50:13.320
you especially for our listeners your journey uh you you mentioned you were going to be a priest you were
00:50:19.760
in a monastery and then you ended up in in a way and and then away from the church uh and then
00:50:26.900
didn't uh stay with the catholic church at all how did you get there and uh and what's your take
00:50:32.340
right now in the catholic church well here's my you know i love history right i was to become a priest
00:50:40.680
i unfortunately i saw a huge corruption uh in a organized religion a huge corruption and i had to
00:50:48.560
make a choice my older friends that were already um taken they you know parties girls and and just
00:50:56.060
wardliness and i said if i am to live a lifestyle like this i can't i would be a hypocrite for the
00:51:01.800
rest of my life so i went to the other side of the fence i started to do business i became a smuggler
00:51:07.760
a businessman and i met my wife my what my wife was a christian and she was always telling me about this
00:51:13.240
jesus she was telling me about this god of the bible and i didn't want to have anything to do
00:51:18.040
with this but you know the power of women slowly slowly she asked me to take to take her to church
00:51:24.680
so i started to listen i started to read the bible people read the bible god hates evil he hates
00:51:31.740
corruption he hates organized religion that is not serving jesus and that is catholic protestant
00:51:42.020
baptist it doesn't matter when in every organized religion they are corrupted people but god is not
00:51:49.580
corrupted god he is a holy god he's a pure god so i my take is this read the bible worship god serve him
00:52:00.180
and serve him only do not allow corruption into your heart have a pure heart and a clean hands before god
00:52:09.280
and worship him wherever you can if you want to come to the catholic church and go over there and
00:52:16.020
worship god with truth and in spirit do that if you want to go to a protestant church and worship god
00:52:23.000
with truth and in spirit worship you know sometimes we are bound by tradition and where we grew up and i work
00:52:31.080
with the catholic church we that we've done marches for jesus together in poland and other other places you
00:52:38.500
know my take on all of this is is very simple read the bible worship your god worship your god bow to him
00:52:47.360
only yes well i would uh pray for you because i think uh the lord has in store for you another chapter in
00:52:56.600
your life you are so faithful to defending our lord to showing what true christians should do with regard
00:53:06.360
to freedom of worship and maintaining that despite anything the world would throw at you
00:53:11.500
when you left the catholic church you also left the john chapter 6 uh you know body blood soul and
00:53:25.320
divinity of our lord and holy communion and you might not be there yet or think about that much but
00:53:29.380
i would encourage you uh because i would be remiss in in not doing so for a brother whom i so admire
00:53:36.680
uh what you're doing is incredible for the faith for canada i would hope one day you would reconsider
00:53:43.960
on with regard to particularly look at john 6 where our lord promises himself in holy communion
00:53:49.500
uh it's repeated over and over again in the scriptures and i hope you take that to heart
00:53:54.400
not as a as a means to browbeat you but just in love as a brother in christ um you're doing amazing
00:54:01.740
work and if a horrible sinner a coward like me uh gets to receive our lord um you should too
00:54:10.020
my goodness it's been a great honor for me to speak with you pastor pavlosky god bless you and thank you
00:54:19.440
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00:54:29.200
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