“Criminalizing Dissent” – Page 20

Why didn’t the West condemn Trudeau for debanking his citizens?

The outrage at the Coutts/NatWest debanking scandal in the United Kingdom does not align with the complete disinterest in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s debanking of an entire political caste.

It was entirely appropriate for people to express their horror upon discovering banks were routinely passing moral judgment on the politics of their customers. It was correct for the British government to panic and swear to fix the problem (even though they low-key endorsed ESG practices for years). If restrictions are placed on banks in the future, especially relating to their licences, this will mark progress in the protection of citizen rights.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2023August 13, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Denial of Bail for ‘Coutts Four’ Raises Concerns, Say Legal Experts

As the court trial continues for four men arrested in Coutts, Alberta, for allegedly conspiring to kill RCMP officers during the 2022 convoy protests, some law enforcement and legal experts claim that the denial of bail to the men is unusual, suggesting that the case is being “politically influenced.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 13, 2023August 12, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

The Ruling Class’s Two-Tier System Will Drive Ordinary People To Radicalization

The echelons of power within the government, the media, and throughout society appear to be wittingly or unwittingly nurturing the seeds of another Timothy McVeigh as they continue to target their political opponents. They are crafting the playbook for the very forces they claim to counter.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2023August 10, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Ottawa Police Wiretapped ‘Sudden Infant Deaths’ Detective Helen Grus – And Her Family

“The wiretap was calculated to intimidate Detective Grus and her family – but all these ‘Urgent Emergency’ wiretaps during the Freedom Convoy backfired.

The wiretaps served only to galvanize Canadians and strengthen the legitimacy of protest against governments that overstepped their authority and power.”

Rob Stocki – former Ottawa Police Sergeant

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2023August 8, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

BMJ pulls its punches over Trudeau’s war on the truckers

THE truckers lost the battle but not the war. The senseless Covid-19 regime and the authoritarian and often nasty misrule by Justin Trudeau will have lasting impact on Canadian society. Unlike other prominent pandemic performers including Mark Rutte, Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon, Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin, Trudeau remains in post, but he is heckled whenever seen in public. His days are surely numbered.

by Blazingcatfur•August 3, 2023August 3, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

Canadian Pastor Convicted of Inciting Mischief in Trucker Protests Facing Up to 10 Years Prison

Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s troubles with the Canadian authorities began long before his sermon to commercial truckers encouraging their peaceful defiance against what he thought were “oppressive” public health mandates for COVID-19.

In 2005, he began serving and ministering to downtown Calgary—Alberta’s poor and downtrodden. “In other words, feeding the homeless and praying for them, which is now illegal,” he described to The Epoch Times in a telephone interview while under house arrest in Calgary following his court conviction in May for inciting mischief and violating his release conditions.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2023July 30, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent"

Convoy organizers try to quash $300 million lawsuit

The people facing a $300 million class-action lawsuit for organizing the 2022 convoy protests in Ottawa are attempting to have the case quashed altogether, or moved out of Canada’s capital.

Lawyers representing convoy organizers Tamara Lich, Chris Barber and 10 other parties are preparing to argue the lawsuit should be dismissed because the legal action against them unduly limits their freedom of expression in a matter of public interest.

The lawyer representing Pat King, another convoy organizer, in the proceedings is intending on supporting the motion to have the case tossed.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2023July 29, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Digital oligarchs have weaponised the banks

Corporate behemoths have given up on the pretence of neutrality

The debanking of Nigel Farage demonstrates the power of a law that is already being enforced without having been formalised. Found guilty of crimes by state censors, secret committees of bureaucrats, or inscrutable algorithms, individuals can be disconnected and de-personed by institutions that they didn’t realise possessed such powers. Today it is banks terminating customers for their beliefs; tomorrow it may be primary schools and hospitals. The powerful consensus that once upheld the neutrality of key institutions as essential to maintaining peace in liberal societies is collapsing.

by Blazingcatfur•July 28, 2023July 28, 2023•0•"Cancel Culture", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society"

Stay-at-home mom fined $37K for organizing anti-restrictions protests

The COVID-19 public health crisis may be over, but a stay-at-home mom who organized two large anti-restriction protests in Aylmer in 2020 found out there’s still a hefty cost to thumbing her nose at pandemic emergency measures.

by Blazingcatfur•July 27, 2023July 26, 2023•0•"China eats weird animals disease", "Criminalizing Dissent", Canada

FBI Hands Over Documents Relating to Targeting of Catholics

On Tuesday, the FBI handed over requested documents on its efforts to target Catholic Americans after another threat from Congress to hold director Christopher Wray in contempt.

As reported by the New York Post, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, had subpoenaed the files in question and threatened to hold Wray in contempt of Congress if the documents were not delivered by the deadline of July 25th.

by Blazingcatfur•July 26, 2023July 26, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent", "Surveillance Society", Christian Persecution, FBI, WTF?

Tamara Lich Defence: Crown Agrees to Provide Evidence, Witness List Prior to Criminal Trial

The charity organizing Tamara Lich’s criminal defence has won the first round, albeit a procedural one, in the ongoing charges Mrs. Lich faces for her participation in the Freedom Convoy protests in 2022.

The lawyer representing Mrs. Lich on various mischief-related charges was in the Ontario Court of Justice to obtain evidence and a witness list the Crown prosecutors intend to present at her three-week trial, scheduled to begin on Ottawa on Sept. 5. The trial was originally scheduled to run for four weeks, but that was dependent on the number of witnesses.

by Blazingcatfur•July 24, 2023July 24, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

David Krayden: If Pastor Pawlowski Goes to Jail, All Canadians Are at Risk of Losing Freedom of Religion and Speech

On Aug. 9 an Alberta judge will decide the fate of Calgary Pastor Artur Pawlowski, a man who has become both a lightning rod and a litmus test for freedom of religion and speech in Canada.

What did Pawlowski do to receive the opprobrium of the justice system and the Alberta provincial government? Did he misuse church finances or defraud his parishioners?

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2023July 22, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Tamara Lich’s case not a trial of ’Freedom Convoy,’ her lawyer says

OTTAWA — The lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich warned the court Tuesday that the upcoming trial on her criminal charges should not put the entire convoy on trial.

Lich was a figurehead of the demonstrations that gridlocked downtown Ottawa for three weeks in early 2022 in protest against COVID-19 public health restrictions and the federal Liberal government.

by Blazingcatfur•July 22, 2023July 21, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Senator’s pro-Freedom Convoy rant breached ethics code and apology not enough, watchdog says

‘It’s not your goddamned city just because you have a six-figure salary and you work 20 hours a week,’ Sen. Michael MacDonald said of Ottawa residents

That was the best rant of the entire protest. A brass plaque quoting the rant should be installed at the site and granted World heritage status.

h/t TT

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2023July 19, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"

Why Moms for Liberty Frightens the Democrats

The group leads a movement that threatens the power of their teacher union paymasters.

For most Americans, “Mom” evokes images of kindness, courage, sympathy and love. Likewise, “liberty” calls up concepts like individual rights, freedom of expression, equality and justice. Yet, the perversity of the current political environment is such that a parental rights group whose name combines these two words has been demonized by Democrats, the corporate media and the reactionary left. Just recently, a New Hampshire Democrat denounced the group as “Assholes with casseroles,” the Hill ran a story titled, “Six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization,” and the Southern Poverty Law Center added them to its Hate Map.

Why so much animus for an organization whose goal is merely to give parents a voice in the education of their children?

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2023July 17, 2023•0•"Criminalizing Dissent"