Posted on 02/15/2022 7:49:50 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Chip off the old block ...
A democracy is rule by the people, not an oligarchy.
The only ones opposing the rule of the people are the oligarchs who are claiming to be a democracy when they won’t even listen to the people.
How can the people themselves undermine themselves?
Clue: The people are speaking. Listen to them and let them decide for themselves and then you will have a democracy.
WOW just WOW, FINALLY someone with courage and damn common sense!! THANK YOU Mr. Ford and Ontario you elected wisely!!!
What do the sonic weapons do?
Always shilling for tyranny, aren’t you?
They wouldn’t starve on my watch.
People can start *Adopt A Trucker*, and help provide for them by giving them jobs, food, clothes, and donating other things they need.
No trucker is going to refuse to work at an income producing job.
They won’t starve.
o save Canadian democracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must first destroy it.
Since the start of the pandemic, Trudeau has acted like COVID entitled him to unlimited power in the name of public safety — sort of like Gov. Andrew Cuomo on amphetamines. Now he claims he is entitled to use an iron fist to crush the trucker protest movement against a vaccine mandate.
Many of the protesters believe the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefit and, more important, that they have the right to control their own bodies. Trudeau responded by vilifying the peaceful protesters: “There is no place in our country for threats, violence or hatred.”
Who’s really the threat?
Except Trudeau seems to be doing most of the threats and hatred. He’s denounced the protesters, baselessly, as “racist” and “misogynistic.” And Monday, he invoked the Emergencies Act, effectively awarding himself martial-law powers to repress resistance. Trudeau said his edict will provide him “the ability to compel” tow-truck companies to remove protesters’ trucks.
Canada protestors
Protesters march in Toronto to voice their opposition to COVID vaccine mandates on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022.
AP
Chrystia Freeland
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland takes part in a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada February 14, 2022.
REUTERS
He’s even designating protesters as “terrorists” in the name of cutting off their funding. Canada’s
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Tuesday: “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use.”
Banks are authorized to freeze the personal accounts of anyone suspected of donating to the truckers. No court order will be necessary to strip people of their property.
Protestors in Canada
Truck drivers and their supporters block streets during an anti-vaccine mandate protest on February 15, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Getty Images
The Canadian government is also cracking down on the use of cryptocurrency.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association condemned Trudeau’s declaration, warning that it “threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.”
Media madness
see also
Justin Trudeau
Canada’s Justin Trudeau just proved the protesting truckers right
The trucker protest is exposing the Canadian media elite’s contempt — right down to perverting the English language. A Toronto Globe and Mail article asserted that “freedom” has become a “code for white-identity politics and the far-right’s weapon of choice in the culture wars” and lamented that politicians “have used the call for ‘freedom’ to promote bigoted, racist and anti-democratic ideas.”
CBC Radio posted an article that struggled to explain “Why the word ‘freedom’ is such a useful rallying cry for protesters.” Naturally, the government radio network tapped an “expert” from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network who asserted that the protesters’ “calls for freedom renders the word meaningless.” Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder, whose work is featured in the Washington Post, portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate.
Of course, Trudeau is not opposed to all protests: He recently boasted of his support for Black Lives Matter. Though he invoked martial law to respond to truckers honking horns, Trudeau had no problem with BLM protests that spun out of control into looting, arson and shootings. In Seattle, rioters allegedly sought to trap cops inside a police building they had set on fire; protesters also set up an “autonomous zone” that became the site of numerous murders. GoFundMe still allows you to donate to that group.
Trudeau claims that his crackdown on truckers is “about restoring confidence in our institutions.” But truckers have already gloriously succeeded in DEMONSTRATING THE TYRANNICAL NATURE OF TRUDEAU’S REGIME.
As Canadian columnist Andrew Lawton quipped Tuesday, “IF YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE YOU’RE NOT TRAMPLING ON THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES, YOU’RE TRAMPLING ON THEIR CIVIL LIBERTIES.”
James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/15/justins-canadian-injustice-naked-grab-for-power/
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has broken its silence to condemn the Trudeau government’s move to restrict personal liberties for protesting truck drivers who participate in traffic blockades.
Government’s call.
If they refuse to allow peaceful protests they are signalling they want violent ones. They WILL NOT like that.
F’n a44holes.
Kinda like a King George from bygone era. Arrogance is not a virtue. Tar and feather is a nice hobby. Indians used to scalp people. Such pretty hair on that one.
Justin sure looks like Fidel, doesn’t he? Probably not a coincidence. Would love to see a DNA test done on him and Fidel.
CNN analyst and Harvard professor Juliette Kayyem agreed with this sick plan by arguing truckers should be blacklisted from working or even operating a motor vehicle ever again.
Coming…….been growing Roosevelt and is now well established.
Freedom is gone here
When you deprive people of their livelihoods, violence will be soon to follow, which is what demonspawn Trudeau would use to his advantage.
“Run through the jungle...
And if that doesn’t work a hellfire missile will blow up your truck with you in it. 😏
Truckers to Canadian fascists: Have fun eating your dog for dinner.
I’ve noticed many of the truckers have bailed.
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