Posted on 02/10/2022 7:09:09 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
At the top of the list of accusers is the head of the radical leftist New Democratic Party, Fidel Castro sympathizer Jagmeet Singh, who has attributed the popularity and success of the “Freedom Convoy” to “Trumpism” and “foreign actors,” without evidence.
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Writing at the Globe and Mail on Tuesday, columnist Gary Mason adopted Singh’s terminology and branded the Canadian civil rights protesters with the 2016 terminology “alt-right,” describing the entire concept of “freedom” as having been hijacked by extremists and no longer legitimate.
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The concept of freedom is no longer legitimate?
Fricking parasites.
The only thing that surprises me about this is that it took them this long to blame Trump.
And they are right! But it is good that people stand against evil. Trump helped do that!
Best elections, best POTUS, evah!
“... describing the entire concept of “freedom” as having been hijacked by extremists and no longer legitimate”.
They cannot tolerate anything that even remotely threatens their totalitarian mindset and agenda.
Never thought about it much but I wonder what the larger implications of the Boston Tea Party were?
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.[1] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights.
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The Boston Tea Party was a significant event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Intolerable Acts, or Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston’s commerce. Colonists up and down the Thirteen Colonies in turn responded to the Intolerable Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
Has NOTHING to do with the very wide streak of totalitarianism that runs down the back of the left . . . no . . . couldn’t be that. /sarc
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
― George Orwell, 1984
One reason behind the tea act was to help save the floundering East India Company, whose tea sales dwindled after the colonists began boycotting British tea.
Another reason behind the tea act was that, since the tea tax was still in place, selling the colonists discounted British tea could be a subtle way to persuade them to comply with the unpopular tax.
The colonists, though, opposed the tax on a matter of principle, not financial cost, so they refused to comply.
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-boston-tea-party/
When will it dawn on the left that they’ve become the Dark Side.
When will it dawn on the left that they’ve become the Dark Side.
Honk if you love freedom!
I blame all those moronic communists.
It is written by the winners.
If I were Trudeau, I’d be more worried that his people are more concerned with US than Canadian politics.
The proper word is “credit”, not “blame”.
The New Democratic Party was the Communist Party
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
What does history teach us?
It is written by the winners.
And it does reveal that many here on FR just want to complain, instead of be the winners.
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