Free Speech has to be fought for.
IN HIS OWN WORDS: Josh Alexander suspended from school and arrested for speech, protest and faith
Josh Alexander, a Grade 11 student suspended and arrested at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario for opposition to transgender ideology, made his statement on the Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson Show on Rumble February 15. She entitled the program, “Canadian Student Kicked Out of School For Stating Biological Fact.”
Alexander appeared with his older brother Nick Alexander and their friend Marty Walker. The three students wore red “Save Canada” hats for the live interview.
Me [Josh Alexander] and Monty here organized student walkouts in solidarity to the freedom convoy in the public board. And after that was over, I had been suspended three or four times, I just decided it’d be best if I moved to the Catholic board.
“And not long into my time there, I was informed … male students were using the female washrooms and they [females] were obviously disturbed and uncomfortable with this. So I decided to speak up about it when it entered a class discussion.”
In the fall of 2022, Alexander pursued the issue with the principal who reportedly told the student, “I’m not going to pursue your personal crusade … I’ll have to hear it from a female student as well.” Alexander persuaded a female student to speak to him, but the principal was not compelled to act. So, Alexander held protests.
“They suspended me two days before the protest started, so they actually had an opportunity to go class to class and intimidate the students… [T]hey threatened with loss of transportation [to school], they said it would ruin their reputations… It wasn’t very professional,” Alexander said.
“They were attempting to make an example of me… [T]he night before my day of scheduled return [to class], I was informed I was now excluded from the high school because they felt … my presence would be ‘detrimental to the physical and mental well being of the pupil… The exclusion had no lawful basis, and I just started to attend. After I got home that day, they gave me a trespassing notice and another suspension for attending class. That trespassing notice went till January 31. And … I believe I’ve lost all four credits from that semester.”
Things did not improve when Alexander started the new semester February 6. He was barred from any class that included the transgender student, which was two of his four classes. He and his lawyer said such conditions were unlawful, and he would not abide by them when he returned to school.
“A few minutes into my time there on February 6, I was brought to the office, and my lawyer was on the phone at the time. And the principal kind of stood in front of the exit of the office and told me there’s some people on the way to see me, and two Ontario Provincial Police officers walked in. They told me I was trespassing. I explained to them the situation that I was merely excluded from the school because of my religious beliefs, and I was going to continue to attend as any other student would. And, yeah, they read me my rights, escorted me out of school, put me in the back of the cop car.”
ht/ KR
Are we in the Twilight Zone, yet?
The “hillbilly” I vote for 9 times said,
” Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. ”
I thought he was right 60 years ago. Today I kNOW HE WAS RIGHT!
I admit to Americans are good bias!
The people who do this sort of thing will be the first to cry and moan when they are in disagreement with those in power.
We are not sorry we left.
That is a courageous young man and I hope he will prevail against the tyrants.
I’ve never commented on any site before.
I’m from Marshall Michigan, my wife and I moved to the country 5 years ago, my old town is falling apart, mega battery plants,
They arrested 76 year old man, at council
Meeting, he’s been here his whole life, nobody wants this, city and township don’t care
Lock him up, spreading gender hate is now a crime against humanity.
Arrested for Trespass.
What he could have done was take the suspension, transfer to a private school & SUE the board for the cost. That’s what i would do if it was my kid.
It would have cost his family the same in lawyer Fees & got the issue into the press. Less exposure though.
I do admire Him & His cause.
FUBAR.
Burn it to the ground.
It’s not like the students are getting any useful education.
They’re only learning about “proper pronouns” and other Leftist garbage.
Oh, and if the LibTard principal is found dead in the ashes, well, no tears shed here.
I don’t know how the woke shit got around to invading the minds of every little corner of the western world. Renfrew (how is it pronounced???) is a town, not even a city, northwest of Ottawa Canada. Are there no conservatives left there anymore?
The kid has real courage, not the kind of “courage” the media talks about. Open a People magazine and you’ll probably read about some “courageous” celebrity who just transgendered. It’s all so much bullshit. Makes me sick.