Criminalizing Dissent

Criminalizing Dissent

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Hamilton police accused of political interference over Dominion Society conference

Hamilton police accused of political interference over Dominion Society conference

CALGARY — On the eve of the Dominion Society of Canada’s nationalist conference in Hamilton, Ontario, local police are facing accusations of political interference after releasing an announcement asking venues in the city to report any new bookings for the convention after its original venue backed out.

They’ve disallowed comments for some reason.

WTF?

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Ottawa police detective who accessed files on infant deaths handed 2-year demotion

Ottawa police detective who accessed files on infant deaths handed 2-year demotion

A veteran detective with the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) is being demoted for two years for discreditable conduct after a disciplinary tribunal found her guilty of invading the privacy of families by inappropriately accessing the files of dead children and asking one parent about a mother’s vaccination status.

Const. Helen Grus was suspended in 2022 over allegations that she had engaged in “an unauthorized project” by accessing case files to which she wasn’t assigned.

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Canada’s former Minister of Public Safety is on camera calling the COVID agenda “a cover-up of mammoth proportions.”

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UK police unit refers more than 100 social media posts to local forces

UK police unit refers more than 100 social media posts to local forces

An elite police squad which was set up to monitor social media in the wake of the Southport riots has flagged more than 100 posts to local forces.

The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team was created earlier this year to surveil online platforms for signs of “protest-related activity”.

It was founded by ministers in response to the national unrest following the 2024 Southport murders, which prompted a series of anti-immigrant riots.


Big Brother is a Muslim.

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Edmonton Police Service facing backlash over post calling for individuals to report online ‘hate’

Edmonton Police Service facing backlash over post calling for individuals to report online ‘hate’

EDMONTON — Individuals are criticizing the Edmonton Police Service after the agency made a social media post encouraging individuals to report online “hate” comments and used anti-immigration comments as examples.

“You typed it. Someone lived it,” reads the caption of an EPS post made on Friday. “Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here…”


The goal always is to criminalize dissent.

(Incognito)

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CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

Survivor accounts of residential schools vary — sometimes from the very same person. Nunavut Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell told Nunatsiaq News in 2001 that her time at Akaitcho Hall was “a home-away-from-home” and that “it’s not like what you’re hearing about all the residential school issues today.” In the same piece, she said, “At Akaitcho, we were in a structured environment compared to where we came from. That taught us perseverance and how to discipline ourselves.” “It taught us a lot about doing things in life that we didn’t always want to do, but those things had to be done … We had to learn how to live with people from different cultures who spoke different languages and came from different parts of the NWT,” she continued, adding that those friendships helped her political career.

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MACLEOD: Lich, Barber, and the dangerous criminalization of protest

MACLEOD: Lich, Barber, and the dangerous criminalization of protest

Canada’s justice system has now sent its message, and it is not subtle.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were not murderers, arsonists, violent revolutionaries, or even criminals. They were two Canadians who helped lead a peaceful protest against government mandates during one of the most heavy-handed periods in modern Canadian history. For that, the Crown vigorously pursued them for years, seeking prison terms of seven years for Lich and eight years for Barber.

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They Broke Public Trust. Now They Want to Police Public Speech.

They Broke Public Trust. Now They Want to Police Public Speech.

The crisis in the West is not that people stopped trusting institutions. It’s that the institutions continually give us reasons to stop.

According to a recent access to information memo, the federal government of Canada is now contemplating “legal action” against users on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites suspected of spreading “false and misleading information.” The censored 35-page document said, “This strategy seeks to uphold the integrity of—and public trust in—government information.

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How a shadowy unit of government ‘thought police’ is trying to keep a lid on Britain’s simmering racial tensions

How a shadowy unit of government ‘thought police’ is trying to keep a lid on Britain’s simmering racial tensions

While the streets of Belfast were ablaze with anti-immigration protests last week, behind the scenes a group of spies, spinners and soldiers were deploying the ‘dark arts’ to try to defuse tensions.

The name of the secretive Government propaganda unit trying to manipulate events makes it sound like an innocuous back-office operation – the Research, Information and Communications Unit, or RICU.

But the dull moniker is part of the deliberate camouflage of an outfit which uses deception and skulduggery to try to manage the ‘challenges’ of multiculturalism.

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Germans Want ‘Politician Insult’ Law Scrapped, Poll Finds

Germans Want ‘Politician Insult’ Law Scrapped, Poll Finds

The German Criminal Code’s controversial Section 188, which prohibits social media users from insulting or even criticizing politicians online, has become a hot topic in Germany again after a Facebook user was fined for over €2,000 for calling Chancellor Merz a “liar.”

Pollster INSA conducted a country-wide survey to discover what Germans actually think about the law, and found widespread opposition.

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German Court Punishes Facebook Insult With €2,000 Fine

German Court Punishes Facebook Insult With €2,000 Fine

Germany’s controversial Section 188 of the Criminal Code has come under renewed scrutiny after courts imposed substantial fines on citizens for insulting Chancellor Friedrich Merz online.

According to prosecutors in Heilbronn, a Facebook user was ordered to pay a fine of more than 2,000 euros after referring to Merz as “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) in a comment posted under a police announcement about the chancellor’s visit to the city last year.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Four and a half years — disciplinary tribunal for vaccine-sceptic Ottawa cop nears its end

SPECIAL REPORT: Four and a half years — disciplinary tribunal for vaccine-sceptic Ottawa cop nears its end

OTTAWA — Ottawa Police Service (OPS) officers are effectively being warned against exercising their discretion to inquire about potential criminality related to “controversial” and “political” matters, a lawyer told the Western Standard.

Bath-Sheba van den Berg, a lawyer representing Const. Helen Grus, a detective with the OPS found guilty of discreditable conduct in March of 2025 following an internal professional disciplinary tribunal, said the OPS’s persecution of her client would undermine police officers’ willingness to take initiative with inquiries involving informal orthodoxies of political nature, including those revolving around “COVID-19 vaccines” marketed as “safe and effective” by all levels of Canadian government and ancillary institutions.

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