“Criminalizing Dissent”

Defame and Punish: How extreme left NGOs the ADL & SPLC mobilize private and public assets to silence critics

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project recently procured a cache of government documents that expose a disturbing pattern: left-wing NGOs seeking to mobilize the state against political opponents on specious accusations of “violent extremism.”

According to the report, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urged Washington State’s “unified counterterrorism” center to investigate me, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, and social-media influencer Libs of TikTok, under the false pretext that our reporting on gender theory in schools and transgender medical interventions constitutes “hate,” “extremism,” and “violence.”

The ADL and the SPLC are evil.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", "The Big Lie", Anti-Defamation League, SPLC - Left Wing Hate Group, SPLC - Southern Poverty Law Center

Where Are the Protagonists of the Emergencies Act Crackdown Two Years Later?

Many public figures became household names around the time of the Freedom Convoy in the winter of 2022, for actions they took or didn’t, or for what they said or perhaps wish they hadn’t.

The Federal Court ruled Jan. 23 that invoking the Emergencies Act was not justified and that it led to violations of charter rights. Here’s a look at the status of key figures involved in the events.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

A verdict on Trudeau’s biggest call, and a millstone around his neck

It didn’t take long for Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to troop out to say the federal government will appeal. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals know what Tuesday’s court decision is: A millstone around their necks.

Invoking the Emergencies Act to shut down convoy protests in February, 2022, had been a popular decision at the time, and one of the biggest calls Mr. Trudeau ever made. Now the Federal Court of Canada has ruled it was illegal. Justice Richard Mosley concluded there was no national emergency, as defined by the law.

In 2024, now that Mr. Trudeau is much less popular, it’s a stiff blow to his credibility, and a kick at a government’s that’s already down.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s trucker ruling is a victory for civil liberties

For those who have watched or, worse, lived through the onslaught on civil liberties in Canada since the pandemic, there was little sign that the tide would turn. But finally, a major and unambiguous win has been delivered. Yesterday, the country’s Federal Court ruled against the government in a case challenging its February 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act. The judge hearing the case brought by civil liberties groups and two individuals declared that the government overstepped constitutional boundaries in annulling foundational rights, including freedom of expression.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Ottawa Police Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart Likens Detective Helen Grus to Serial Rapist-Murderer Russell Williams

Every time we think that the internal hearing against Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus can’t get any wilder – Prosecutor Vanessa Stewart yells “HOLD MY BEER!” and once again proves us wrong.

Accompanying her outrageous courtroom behaviour with fashion statements and hi-heeled boots that rival anything seen on Ottawa’s Gladstone Strip, Prosecutor Stewart seems to have little sense of decorum and propriety. Every day she makes the hearing into a theatre of the absurd where the audience can’t even guess at her next act.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

‘Freedom Convoy’ supporters and haters now have fresh ammunition

It is a perfect court decision for a polarizing issue — the 2022 convey protests — and for polarizing times.

If you believed that the convoy protest and occupation of Ottawa two years ago was a national emergency, you have had almost 12 months to feel vindicated by Justice Paul Rouleau’s commission finding that Justin Trudeau’s government was right to use extraordinary powers to shut down the demonstrations.

But if you believed the convoy protests were all about freedom of speech and massive overreach by Trudeau’s government, there is now a judge’s ruling for that, too: the Federal Court of Canada’s finding this week that the prime minister was wrong to invoke a national emergency.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

John Ivison: Emergencies Act karma comes back to bite the Liberals

It is not surprising that judges often disagree after witnessing the same evidence. They are, after all, simply lawyers in robes.

Federal Court Justice Richard Moseley ruled on Tuesday that the Liberal government did not have reasonable grounds to use the Emergencies Act to clear Freedom Convoy protestors in 2022, and doing so was an unreasonable overreach that infringed Canadians’ Charter rights

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Christine Van Geyn: Emergencies Act was clearly unjustified — Liberals face steep path to appeal

Two years to the day of the beginning of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, the Federal Court has declared the Trudeau government’s response to that protest unreasonable and unconstitutional. On Tuesday, Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court issued a decision in a group of cases challenging the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the convoy. The cases were brought by public interest organizations, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, as well as individual protesters who had been directly impacted by the emergency orders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Deputy Prime Minister Freeland Says Ottawa Will Appeal Federal Judge’s Decision on Emergencies Act

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Liberal government will be appealing the decision of a federal judge who found that the invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the Freedom Convoy was “unreasonable.”

“We have discussed it with the prime minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts,” she told reporters in Montreal on Jan. 23. “We respect very much Canada’s independent judiciary. However, we do not agree with this decision. And respectfully, we will be appealing it.”

WE respect our independent judiciary except for this one time. And that other time. Plus the other times.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Federal government’s decision to invoke Emergencies Act against convoy protests was unreasonable, court rules

A federal judge says the Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act in early 2022 to clear convoy protesters was unreasonable.

The case was brought forward by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation and individuals who argued Ottawa did not meet the legal threshold when it invoked the legislation, which had never been used before.

The two groups shared copies of the decision online.

Trudeau still got away with it.

h/t Mauser

Of course they send out the Nazi to announce the appeal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

CDU State Minister-President: It’s “Democratic” to Ban the AfD

“We must not tolerate” millions of Germans voting for the AfD, the CDU party leader said.

Daniel Guenther -CDU Communist

Schleswig-Holstein Minister-President Daniel Günther of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) supports banning the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)—Germany’s second most popular party and the CDU’s principal competitor—declaring that allowing citizens to vote for the party must not be tolerated.

The comments, from the executive who has governed Germany’s northernmost state since 2017 alongside the left-liberal Green party, came during an interview with Cicero, a Berlin-based political and cultural magazine, that was published over the weekend.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Germany, Germany - AfD party, WTF?

The shameless campaign to silence Jordan Peterson

Writer and psychologist Jordan Peterson has lost his battle with Canada’s woke moralists. After a two-year legal fight, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that the Ontario College of Psychologists has the right to send him for mandatory ‘social-media training’ – or to a ‘re-education camp’ as Peterson puts it. If he refuses, Peterson will lose his licence to practise clinical psychology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", Jordan Peterson

Lich calls Ottawa police ‘corrupt’ in return to social media, convoy leaders’ trial delayed until March

Already beset with lengthy court delays, the trial of accused convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber will now extend into March — and likely beyond — before reaching its much-anticipated conclusion.

Lawyers for Lich and Barber met earlier in January with Crown prosecutors Tim Radcliffe and Siobhain Wetscher, along with the trial’s presiding judge, Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, to schedule dates in March for the trial to continue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Don’t be like Germany …

Muslim religious leaders trained in Germany

Osman Soyer is a religious affairs officer who was sworn into office this month in the Sehitlik Mosque in Berlin’s Neukölln district. He is one of 28 young men and women who have been trained as “religious representatives” by DITIB, Germany’s largest Islamic organization. They are involved in a variety of pastoral duties; this can also include acting as imams, but the job description is broader.

Soyer has been working as an Islamic religious representative in Alfter, a town near Bonn in western Germany, for a few months now. Community outreach, he says, is his top priority. It includes a wide range of activities: “I teach pupils, I’m a prayer leader, preacher and pastor. We also go to weddings, I do funerals.”

The German left is so terrified of the AfD’s rise that there are calls to ban the party much like Hitler banned the opposition because it’s the AfD who are the fascists and these are entirely spontaneous demonstrations.

Germany sees second day of large anti far-right protests

After two days of mass protests, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of German cities on Sunday to demonstrate against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and its anti-immigration agenda.

From Friday through the weekend, demonstrations were called in about 100 locations across Germany. On Sunday, rallies were held in major cities such as Cologne, Munich and Berlin. Several other German cities, including Cottbus, Dresden and Chemnitz in the east, also planned to hold demonstrations.

Police in Munich said that some 80,000 people participated in the march, while organizers put the figure at 200,000. The march had to be called off due to overcrowding.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", "Islamophobia", Germany, Germany - AfD party, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Jordan Peterson on his fight with college of psychologists: ‘This country is in rough shape’

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed a court challenge by Jordan Peterson that sought to prevent the College of Psychologists of Ontario from forcing him to do remedial social media training, at risk of losing his licence to practise psychology.

The Canadian psychologist, who’s become an internationally renowned self-help author and right-wing intellectual, was subject to numerous complaints about his online conduct, which led to a college investigation in 2022. According to court documents filed by Peterson’s legal team, it concluded that his “public statements may reasonably be regarded by members of the profession as disgraceful, dishonourable and/or unprofessional.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent"