BREAKING: Frances Widdowson arrested at University of Victoria
Frances Widdowson, a Mount Royal University professor and author of Dead Wrong, was arrested at the University of Victoria on Tuesday after being told that she was not welcome on the campus.
Frances Widdowson, a Mount Royal University professor and author of Dead Wrong, was arrested at the University of Victoria on Tuesday after being told that she, OneBC interim party leader Dallas Brodie, and former schoolteacher Jim McMurtry were not welcome on the university’s campus.
Widdowson, Brodie, McMurtry and others planned to attend the campus for a peaceful discussion with students, faculty, media and the public about the widely disseminated — and disputed — 2018 claim that the remains of 215 children were discovered in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Residential School.
The group held a similar free-speech event at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops just weeks earlier, which ended in largely productive and civil discourse.
A livestream posted on X by Kris Eriksen showed the group being trespassed from the campus by what appeared to be members of the Saanich Police Department.
Shortly afterwards, multiple posts and images showed Widdowson being directed into a police vehicle.
A letter sent to the group ahead of the event noted that Widdowson, Brodie and McMurtry specifically were not welcome because they had not gone through the “booking process,” and on the grounds that there was not enough time to “ensure adequate safety planning is in place.”
Wyatt Claypool, a OneBC staffer who attended the event, told True North multiple assaults occurred and that one individual suffered damage to their property.
He added Widdowson was held at the Saanich police station, but she has since been released.
This is starting to look more and more like the Germany of the 1930’s. No questioning of the status quo groupthink is permitted, fact based or not. Professors are synchronized to line up with the ideological mythology that underpins the social, and political and academic consensus and its systems. Conform, or lose tenure and be arrested and punished.
"They" come for those who refuse to be silent about the things they don't want openly discussed. The message is, "Stick to the narrative or be silent. If you refuse to stick to the narrative then we will silence you... our way."